English Language Quiz For IBPS | RBI | SBI | NABARD | 20-06-2022

 

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Q1-10 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

A glass of water has no colour. But a deep sea with the same water is a brilliant blue. Why is this so? This was the question that C.V. Raman asked himself in 1921 on seeing the colour of the Mediterranean sea from a ship. He immediately began to conduct experiments on board the ship using some simple instruments he had with him. At that time, scientists believed the sea was blue because it reflected the colour of the sky, but Raman found that it was the water itself that caused blue light to scatter more than other colours in light.

At that time Raman was a professor at the University of Calcutta. He returned from his visit of England and Europe and started experiments to study how light behaved when it passed through various substances. On February 28, 1928, one of the experiments gave a clear result. Light of only one colour was passed through a liquid, but the light that emerged had small traces of another colour. This meant that the molecules in the liquid were changing the colour of some of the light passing through it. The discovery created a sensation around the world and was named the Raman Effect. In 1930, C.V. Raman became the first person from Asia to be awarded a Nobel prize in any field of science. The date of the discovery, February 28, is now celebrated as National Science Day in India.

The Raman effect has been very useful in many areas of science. It was found that when light was passed through a substance, a series of colours were seen that could be thought of as a fingerprint of the substance. This idea has been used in chemistry, medicine, biology and many other areas of science to find out what a substance is made of. Recently, people have used the idea to make a device called a Raman Scanner. It can be pointed at a substance to tell what it is. Police have begun to use this scanner to find out if people are carrying any banned substances.

Not all of us will be as brilliant as C.V. Raman. But on the occasion of National Science Day we must remember that we can all be just as curious about the world as he was.

Raman was a man of extraordinary ability. He passed his Std. X when he was just 11 years old. At 15 he had a degree, with gold medals in Physics and English. By the time he was 19 he had an MA. Professors at college used to allow him to skip science classes because they knew he didn’t need them. In addition to being brilliant, Raman was also intensely curious about the world around him. We saw how his curiosity about the colour of the sea led to the discovery of the Raman Effect. Similarly, his curiosity led to a wide range of scientific work. On his 1921 trip to England he was taken to see St. Paul’s Cathedral. Raman became so excited by the whispering gallery there that he performed some experiments and wrote scientific papers about it. As a child, Raman had seen his father play the violin. Much of his life’s research work was about the science behind music. He also investigated the effect of sound on light and the structure of crystals. His collection of crystals is preserved at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore.

Q1 Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Extraordinary

01. Amaze

02. Surprised

03. Credible

04. Exceptional

05. Unfamiliar

Q2 Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Preserved

01. Shelter

02. Protection

03. Kept safe

04. Ruin

05. Evaporate

Q3 Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Banned

01. Limitation

02. Prohibited

03. Permission

04. Refusal

05. Stoppage

Q4 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Caused

01. Generated

02. Motivated

03. Compel

04. Originated

05. Resulted

Q5 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Intensely

01. Slightly

02. Strongly

03. Genuinely

04. Seriously

05. Quickly

Q6 What did Raman find about the scientist’s belief about the colour of the sea?

01. He discovered that Sea had no color

02. Scientist’s belief was proved wrong

03. Scientist’s belief was proved right

04. Raman’s findings matched with that of the scientists

05. None of these

Q7 C.V Raman received gold medals in-

01. Physics and Chemistry

02. Chemistry and Maths

03. Physics and Biology

04. Physics and English

05. None of these

Q8 What is the function of a Raman Scanner?

01. It is used to detect radiation

02. To find out if a person is suffering from any serious disease

03. To figure out what a substance is

04. To take print-outs of a text

05. None of these

Q9 Why is February 28 celebrated as National Science Day?

01. Most of the inventions in the field of science took place on this day

02. On this day , the concept of Raman effect was given.

03. Raman was born on this day.

04. Raman got a degree on this day.

05. None of these.

Q10 Why did professors at the college allow Raman to skip science classes?

01. Raman could not spend much time in college

02. Raman knew more than the professors

03. Raman was not wise enough to understand science

04. Raman did not want to make a career in science

05. Raman had good knowledge of science

Answers:-

Q.1 (4)

Q.2 (3)

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Q.7 (4)

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