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Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

 The drainage systems of India are mainly controlled by the broad relief features of the subcontinent. Accordingly, the Indian rivers are divided into two major groups: the Himalayan rivers; and the Peninsular rivers. Apart from originating from the two major physiographic regions of India, the Himalayan and the Peninsular rivers are different from each other in many ways. Most of the Himalayan rivers are perennial. It means that they have water throughout the year. These rivers receive water from rain as well as from melted snow from the lofty mountains. The major Himalayan rivers are the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. These rivers are long, and are joined by many large and important tributaries. A river along with its tributaries may be called a river system. The two major Himalayan rivers, the Indus and the Brahmaputra originate from the north of the mountain ranges. They cut through the mountains making gorges in the upper course. The perennial Himalayan rivers have long courses from their source to the sea. They perform intensive erosional activity in their upper courses and carry huge loads of silt and sand with their swift current. In the middle and the lower courses, these rivers form meanders, oxbow lakes, levees and many other depositional features in their floodplains as their speed slackens. They also have well developed deltas. A large number of the Peninsular rivers like the Godavari, Kaveri and Krishna are seasonal, as their flow is dependent on rainfall. During the dry season when it doesn’t rain, even the large rivers have reduced flow of water in their channels. The Peninsular rivers have shorter and shallower courses as compared to their Himalayan counterparts. However, some of them originate in the central highlands and flow towards the west. Most of the rivers of peninsular India originate in the Western Ghats and flow towards the Bay of Bengal.

21)

Which of these is NOT a depositional feature found in the lower course of a river?

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A)

levee

B)

Gorge

C)

Oxbow lake

D)

Meander

22)

‘Perennial’ rivers mean:

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receiving water from the rains

B)

those that originate in the mountains

C)

rivers with a long course

D)

full of water throughout the year

23)

Erosional activity takes place in the upper course of the river because of:

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A)

the reduced flow of water

B)

huge loads of silt and sand

C)

the great speed of water

D)

the presence of flood plains

24)

A river along with its tributaries may be called a:

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A)

highland

B)

river system

C)

peninsula

D)

flood plain

25)

Which of these statements is NOT true about perennial rivers?

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A)

They have a very short dry season.

B)

They cover very long distances till they reach the sea.

C)

Most of them originate in the Himalayas.

D)

They have well developed deltas.

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. 

Cambridge was my metaphor for England, and it was strange that when I left it had become altogether something else, because I had met Stephen Hawking there. It was on a walking tour through Cambridge that the guide mentioned Stephen Hawking, ‘poor man, who is quite disabled now, though he is a worthy successor to Isaac Newton, whose chair he has at the university.’ And I started, because I had quite forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, (scholar of astrophysics — branch of physics dealing with stars, planets, etc.) the author of A Brief History of Time, one of the biggest best-sellers ever, lived here. When the walking tour was done, I rushed to a phone booth and, almost tearing the cord so it could reach me outside, phoned Stephen Hawking’s house. There was his assistant on the line and I told him I had come in a wheelchair from India (perhaps he thought I had propelled myself all the way) to write about my travels in Britain. I had to see Professor Hawking — even ten minutes would do. “Half an hour,” he said. “From three-thirty to four.” And suddenly I felt weak all over. Growing up disabled, you get fed up with people asking you to be brave, as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque. The only thing that makes you stronger is seeing somebody like you, achieving something huge. Then you know how much is possible and you reach out further than you ever thought you could. “I haven’t been brave,” said his disembodied computer-voice, the next afternoon. “I’ve had no choice.” Surely, I wanted to say, living creatively with the reality of his disintegrating body was a choice? But I kept quiet, because I felt guilty every time I spoke to him, forcing him to respond. There he was, tapping at the little switch in his hand, trying to find the words on his computer with the only bit of movement left to him, his long, pale fingers. Every so often, his eyes would shut in frustrated exhaustion. And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish, the mind buoyant with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff as corpses.

26)

Which of these facts is NOT true about Stephen Hawking?

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A)

A worthy contemporary of Newton

B)

A professor at Cambridge

C)

A brilliant astrophysicist

D)

A paralysed man

27)

The narrator pulled the telephone cord outside the phone booth because he was:

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A)

not able to hear clearly in the booth

B)

desperate to get an appointment with Stephen Hawking

C)

unable to enter the booth on a wheelchair

D)

eager to call Stephen Hawking’s home

28)

Complete the sentence to make it true. The narrator:

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A)

is the author of A Brief History of Time

B)

dislikes people asking him to be brave

C)

came to Britain to study astrophysics

D)

met Stephen Hawking accidently

29)

The narrator felt the professor’s anguish in:

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his effort to put up a brave front

B)

the extreme exhaustion in his face

C)

the loss of movement in his legs

D)

his inability to express his thoughts in words

30)

Astrophysics deals with:

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A)

stars and planets

B)

creative writing

C)

computers

D)

diseases

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