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961

RC:


OEL manga is a highly divisive subject among those who are fundamentally concerned with the semantic particulars of what makes manga and what gets called manga or not. I had not formalized my thoughts on the matter yet, but I think some of them began to crystallize when Naughty Ninja brought up Offbeat tonight, citing its excellence yet, still hesitant to call it manga, let alone be comfortable with the existence of the term 'OEL manga'.

But for the most part, I believe that OEL manga should be an aspirational ideal and not a marketing/publishing conceit; that ideal being that non-Japanese creators or 'gaijin' choose to write comics using the forms and conventions of manga as a 'narrative style' rather than just its visual tropes.

For example, manga makes use of a lot of temporal decompression across multiple panels that spread beyond the confines of one page. For dramatic effect, an author can have one spoken line of dialogue running across two pages to preserve the emotional gravitas of that moment, as can be seen in 'the holy cow moment' when Darth Vader reveals to a wide-eyed, drop-jawed Luke that he is Luke's father.

Hechinger goes on to elaborate that it is this sort of "Da...da...DOM" pacing, that may be spread across multiple pages at the author's whim, which is in stark contrast to the use of end-chapter cliffhangers that the Western media favors. In a Mark Millar comic, the same line would be an entire page on its own with a glamour shot of Vader as if he's wearing a smug grin under his mask.

Naughty Ninja pointed out that the lack of manga-narrative style in Offbeat is in stark contrast to Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon which occasionally utilizes some of the 'anti-grid' busted panels that characterizes 'shoujo'. But, having not read Offbeat, the issue of whether or not it is manga is hardly my point.

To reiterate my point about using the forms and conventions of manga as a 'narrative style' rather than just its visual tropes, to talk of OEL manga is not to talk of big eyes, exaggerated hairstyles and other surface visual hallmarks, but rather to talk of a world where even a gaijin can draw a manga! That, to me, is what OEL should be from a theoretical perspective.

In any case, manga is not just an art-style, but a specific cultural reaction in Japan. Quite honestly, having a gaijin replicate that without being born of the same cultural circumstance is simply impossible.

Which of the following statements best brings out the central idea of the passage?

a.OEL manga is a lost cause, as non-Japanese creators can never emulate the distinctive cultural style that is characteristic of original Japanese manga.  

b.The unique narrative style that manga employs cannot be perfectly captured by non-Japanese works due to the different cultures that the gaijin creators of such works come from.  

c.Contemporary comic makers are hesitant to use the term 'manga' or even 'OEL manga' for their creations, citing that there is a huge cultural and stylistic divide between modern-day work and classical manga.  

d.There is no point of a gaijin crafting OEL manga given that Westerners tend to use exaggerated visuals and graphics instead of focusing on jaw-dropping narrative.

The author uses the example of 'Darth Vader' in the third paragraph to reiterate which of the following points?

a.The dramatic style that manga authors utilize to pull a reader into the emotional gravitas of a storyline is dissimilar to the style used by their Western counterparts.  

b.It would be impossible for an OEL-creating gaijin to do justice to the emotionally charged meeting between Darth Vader and his son Luke.  

c.OEL fails to bring to life the depth of emotions which Japanese creators are able to achieve in original manga comics.  

d.A Mark Miller rendering of 'Darth Vader meets Luke' would have been more glamorous and hence, awe-inspiring than the original manga, which had a single dialogue cut across two pages.


Which of the following scenes in a comic definitely match/matches the author's conception of the ideal OEL manga?

a.A flurry of hard-written dialogues across panels that show Leon wrestling an alien warlord to the ground as his lavish, neon-colored hair flutters behind him.  

b.Overly cute Minions gather around Gru, puppy love in their big eyes, as he is sketched holding out his arms and picking each one in turn.  

c.Surface visuals are played upon heavily in a two-page, animated dialogue between Garfield and his anthropomorphic pet cat, Jon.  

d.None of the above

-CL Proc

962

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow

963

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964

In the eighteenth century, Japan's feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves under financial stress. In part, this stress can be attributed to the overlords' failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlords' control. Concentration of the samurai in castle-towns had acted as a stimulus to trade. Commercial efficiency, in turn, had put temptations in the way of buyers. Since most samurai had been reduced to idleness by years of peace, encouraged to engage in scholarship and martial exercises or to perform administrative tasks that took little time, it is not surprising that their tastes and habits grew expensive. Overlords' income, despite the increase in rice production among their tenant farmers, failed to keep pace with their expenses. Although shortfalls in overlords' income resulted almost as much from laxity among their tax collectors (the nearly inevitable outcome of hereditary office-holding) as from their higher standards of living, a misfortune like a fire or flood, bringing an increase in expenses or a drop in revenue, could put a domain in debt to the city rice-brokers who handled its finances. Once in debt, neither the individual samurai nor the shogun himself found it easy to recover. It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited, and since the income of Japan's central government consisted in part of taxes collected by the shogun from his huge domain, the government too was constrained. Therefore, the Tokugawa shoguns began to look to other sources for revenue. Cash profits from government-owned mines were already on the decline because the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold had been exhausted, although debasement of the coinage had compensated for the loss. Opening up new farmland was a possibility, but most of what was suitable had already been exploited and further reclamation was technically unfeasible. Direct taxation of the samurai themselves would be politically dangerous. This left the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income. Most of the country's wealth, or so it seemed, was finding its way into the hands of city merchants. It appeared reasonable that they should contribute part of that revenue to ease the shogun's burden of financing the state. A means of obtaining such revenue was soon found by levying forced loans, known as goyo-kin; although these were not taxes in the strict sense, since they were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amount, they were high in yield. Unfortunately, they pushed up prices. Thus, regrettably, the Tokugawa shoguns' search for solvency for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who lived on fixed stipends to make ends meet.

1. The passage is most probably an excerpt from

(A) an economic history of Japan

(B) the memoirs of a samurai warrior

(C) a modern novel about eighteenth-century Japan

(D) an essay contrasting Japanese feudalism with its Western counterpart

(E) an introduction to a collection of Japanese folktales

2. Which of the following financial situations is most analogous to the financial situation in which Japan's Tokugawa shoguns found themselves in the eighteenth century?

(A) A small business borrows heavily to invest in new equipment, but is able to pay off its debt early when it is awarded a lucrative government contract.

(B) Fire destroys a small business, but insurance covers the cost of rebuilding.

(C) A small business is turned down for a loan at a local bank because the owners have no credit history.

(D) A small business has to struggle to meet operating expenses when its profits decrease.

(E) A small business is able to cut back sharply on spending through greater commercial efficiency and thereby compensate for a loss of revenue.

3. Which of the following best describes the attitude of the author toward the samurai discussed in lines 11-16?

(A) Warmly approving

(B) Mildly sympathetic

(C) Bitterly disappointed

(D) Harshly disdainful

(E) Profoundly shocked

4. According to the passage, the major reason for the financial problems experienced by Japan's feudal overlords in the eighteenth century was that

(A) spending had outdistanced income

(B) trade had fallen off

(C) profits from mining had declined

(D) the coinage had been sharply debased

(E) the samurai had concentrated in castle-towns

5. The passage implies that individual samurai did not find it easy to recover from debt for which of the following reasons?

(A) Agricultural production had increased.

(B) Taxes were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amount.

(C) The Japanese government had failed to adjust to the needs of a changing economy.

(D) The domains of samurai overlords were becoming smaller and poorer as government revenues increased.

(E) There was a limit to the amount in taxes that farmers could be made to pay

. 6. The passage suggests that, in eighteenth-century Japan, the office of tax collector

(A) was a source of personal profit to the officeholder

(B) was regarded with derision by many Japanese

(C) remained within families

(D) existed only in castle-towns


965


Could someone please share some links for practising Parajumbles ?


966


Cells are the ultimate multitaskers: they can switch on genus and carry out their order, talk to each other, divide in two, and much more, all at the same time, But they could not do any of these without a power source to generate movement. The inside of a cell bustles with more traffic than Delhi roads, and like all vehicles, the cell's moving parts need engines. Physicists and biologists have looked 'under the hood' of the cell and laid out the nuts and bolts of molecular engines.

The ability of such engines to convert chemical energy into motion is the envy of the nanotechnology researchers looking for ways to power molecule-sized devices. Medical researchers also want to understand how these engines work. Because these molecules are essential for cell division, scientists hope to shut down the rampant growth of the cancer cells by deactivating certain motors. Improving motor-driven transport in nerve cells may also be helpful for treating diseases such as Alzheimer's, Pakinson's or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

We wouldn't make it far in life without motor proteins. Our muscles wouldn't contract. We couldn't grow because the growth process requires cells to duplicate their machinery and pull the copies apart. And our genes would be silent without the services of messenger RNA, which carries genetic instructions over to the cell's protein-making factories. The movements that make these cellular activities possible occur along a complex network of threadlike fibers, or polymers, along which bundles of molecules travel like trams. The engines that power the cell's freight are three families of proteins, called myosin, kinesin and dynein. For fuel, these proteins burn molecules, of ATP, which cells make when they breakdown the carbohydrates and fats from the foods we eat. The energy from burning ATP causes changes in the proteins' shape that allow them to heave themselves along the polymer track. The results are impressive : In one second, these molecules can travel between 50 and 100 times their own diameter. If a car with 5-foot-wide engine were as efficient, it would travel 170 to 340 Kmph.

Ronald Vale, researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California at SanFrancisco, and Ronal Milligan of the Scripps Research Institute have realised a long-awaited goal by reconstructing the process by which myosin and kinesin move, almost down to the atom. The dynein motor, on the other hand, is still poorly understood. Myosin molecules, best known for their role in muscle contraction, form chains that lie between filaments of another protein called action. Each myosin molecule has a tiny head that pokes out from the chain like oars from a canoe. Just as rowers propel their boat by stroking their oars through the water, the myosin molecules stick their heads into the action and hoist themselves forward along the filament. While myosin moves along in short strokes, it cousin Kinesin walks steadily along a different type of filament called a microtubule. Instead of using a projecting head as lever, kinesin walks on two 'legs'. Based on these differences, researchers used to think that myosin and kinesin were virtually unrelated. But newly discovered similarities in the motors' ATP processing machinery now suggest that they share a common ancestor-molecule. At this point, scientists can only speculate as to what type of primitive cell-like structure this ancestor occupied as it learned to burn ATP and use the energy to change shape. "We'll never really know, because we can't dig up the remains of ancient proteins, but that was probably a big evolutionary leap", says Vale.

On a slightly larger scale, loner cells like sperm or infectious bacteria are prime movers that resolutely push their way through to other cells. As L. Mahadevan and Paul Matsudaira of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explain, the engines in this case are springs or ratchets that are clusters of molecules, rather than single protein like myosin and kinesin. Researchers don't yet fully understand these engines' fueling process or the details of how they move, but the result is a force to be reckoned with. For example, one such engine is a spring likes stall connecting a single-celled organism called a vorticellid to the leaf fragment it calls home. When exposed to calcium, the spring contracts, yanking the vorticellid down at speeds approaching 3 inches (8 centimetres) per second.

Springs like this coiled bundles of filaments that expand or contract in response to chemical cues. A wave of positively charged calcium ions, for example, neutralizes the negative charges that keep the filaments extended. Some sperm use spring like engines made of acting filaments to shoot out a barb that penetrates the layers that surround an egg. And certain viruses use a similar apparatus to shoot their DNA into the host's cell. Ratchets are also useful for moving whole cells, including some other sperms and pathogens. These engines are filaments that simply grow at one end, attracting chemical building blocks from nearby. Because the other end is anchored in place, the growing end pushes against any barrier that gets in its way.

Both springs and ratchets are made up of small units that each move just slightly, but collectively produce a powerful movement. Ultimately, Mahadevan and Matsudaira hope to better understand just how these particles create an effect that seems to be so much more than the sum of its parts. Might such an understanding provide inspiration for ways to power artificial nano-sized devices in the future? "The short answer is absolutely," says Mahadevan. "Biology has had a lot more time to evolve enormous richness in design for different organisms. Hopefully, studying these structures will not only improve our understanding of the biological world, it will also enable us to copy them, take apart their components and re-create them for other purposes."

1

The author has used several analogies to illustrate his arguments in the article. Which of the following pairs of words are examples of the analogies used? (1) Cell activity and vehicular traffic (2) Polymers and tram tracks (3) Genes and canoes (4) Vorticellids and ratchets.

(1) and (2)

(2) and (3)

(1) and (4)

(1) and (3)

2.

Read the five statements below: (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). From the options given, select the one, which includes a statement that is NOT representative of an argument presented in the passage. (1) Sperms use spring like engines made of action filament. (2) Myosin and kinesin are unrelated. (3) Nanotechnology researchers look for ways to power molecule-sized devices. (4) Motor proteins help muscle contraction. (5) The dynein motor is still poorly understood.

(1), (2) and (3)

(3), (4) and (5)

(1), (4) and (5)

(1), (3) and (4)

3.

Read the four statements below: (1), (2), (3) and (4). From the options given, select the one, which includes statements(s) that are (is) representative of arguments presented in the passage. (1) Myosin, kinesin and action are three types of proteins. (2) Growth processes involve a routine in a cell that duplicates their machinery and pulls the copies apart. (3) Myosin molecules can generate vibrations in muscles. (4) Ronald and Mahadevan are researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(1) and (2) but not (3) and (4)

(2) and (3) but not (1)

(2) and (4) but not (1) and (3)

(1), (2) and (3) but not (4


967

In which all exams are phrasal verbs questions asked?

968

Hi All,

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of phrasal verbs, idioms, confused & mispelled words list? Please let me know if it can be shared with me! Thanks in advance!

969

Please suggest some tips on how to tackle RC "Tone questions", and also general tips for RC.

970


Mile Durkheim, the first person to be formally recognized as a sociologist and the most scientific of the pioneers, conducted a study that stands as a research model for sociologists today. His investigation of suicide was, in fact, the first sociological study to use statistics. In Suicide (1964, originally published in 1897) Durkheim documented his contention that some aspects of human behaviour even something as allegedly invidualistic as suicide-can be explained without reference to individuals.

Like all of Durkheim's work, suicide must be viewed in the context of his concern for social integration. Durkheim wanted to see if suicide rates within a social entity (for example, a group, organisation, or society) are related to the degree to which individuals are socially involved (integrated and regulated). Durkheim described three types of suicide: egoistic, altruistic and anomic. Egoistic suicide is promoted when individuals do not have sufficient social ties: Since single (never married) adults, for example, are not heavily involved with family life, they are more likely to commit suicide than the married adults. Altruistic suicide, on the other hand, is more likely to occur when social integration is too strong. The ritual suicide of Hindu widows on their husbands funeral pyres is one example. Military personnel, trained to lay down their lives for their country, provide another illustration.

Durkheim's third type of suicide-anomic suicide-increases when the social regulation of individuals is disrupted. For example, suicide rates increase during economic depression. People who suddenly find themselves without a job or without hope of finding one are more prone to kill themselves. Suicides may also increase during periods of prosperity. People may loosen their social ties by taking new jobs, moving to new communities, or finding new mates.

Using data from the government population reports of several countries (much of it from the French Government Statistical Office), Durkheim found strong support for his line of reasoning. Suicide rates were higher among single than married people, among military personnel than civilians, among divorced than married people, and among people involved in nation wide economic crises.

It is important to realise that Durkheim's primary interest was not in the empirical (observable) indicators he used, such as suicide rates among military personnel, married people, and so forth. Rather, Durkheim used the following indicators to support several of his contentions. (a) Social behaviour, can be explained by social rather than psychological factors. (b) Suicide is affected by the degree of integration and regulation within social entities; and (c) Since society can be studied scientifically, sociology is worthy of recognition in the academic world. Durkheim was successful on all three counts.

Q

Basing himself on his own indicators, Durkheim was:

A.Right on some counts not others

B. Vindicated on all counts

C. Wrong but did not realise that he was right

D. Substantially correct but formally wrong


971


________________ investors, skeptical of the Federal Reserve's program of quantitative easing expect a surge in inflation and a _______________ explosion in interest rates.

972

How to prepare for grammer. please suggest some good books or resources

973

A relation R(x) is defined on set S where S = {1, 2, 3............50}. How many ordered pairs (x, R(x)) satisfy the equation [R(x) - (5x + 1)] [R(x) - (x - 4)] [R(x) - 2x] = 0?


974


________________ investors, skeptical of the Federal Reserve's program of quantitative easing expect a surge in inflation and a _______________ explosion in interest rates.


A. Wry . . . synchronous

B. Sardonic . . . coeval

C. Thrifty . . . supernal

D. Chary . . . concomitant

975


My performance is stagnant.I always solve 11-13 q in qa di and get all of them correct but in VA whatever method I employ my attempt hangs around 15-17 with 65% accuracy.Anyone plz help how can i increase my overall attempts in QADI and Increase accuracy in VA?

976

1. Posterity will remember Jayaprakash Narayan- if at all- as the apostle of one more revolution that never was.

A. Like Gandhi he declined to seek or hold public office.

B. The wits even claimed there were three centres of authority during Moraji Desai's troubled prime ministership- the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and Jaslok Sabha, the last named after the Mumbai hospital where JP spent much of his time.

C. The faithful regard him as the best prime minister India never had.

D. Others saw him as an extra-constitutional centre of power like Sanjay Gandhi.

6. He was heir to an ancient and formidable legacy.

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RC:

However, the point should not be lost. The conflict in the North of Ireland, which was also played out on the British mainland, was a consequence of the failure of successive British governments to deal with the political and civil rights denied to Catholics in a Protestant-loyalist controlled partitioned statelet. Implicit in the peace process, which finally brought the conflict to an end with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, was the acknowledgement and recognition that it had been a political conflict, in which those involved were motivated by political and not criminal aims.

A particularly sore point for the political establishment is the right to justice of the families of the victims of paramilitary violence. It was pressure on this issue that British Prime Minister David Cameron was responding to when he immediately announced a judicial review into the letters and the entire government policy with respect to On-the-Runs.

It is undoubtedly a hard pill to swallow for any family member or loved one of someone killed by paramilitary violence to see his or her killer or killers escape justice. But, innocent civilians were killed by all sides during the conflict - by republican and loyalist paramilitaries and by the British army and other crown forces. 

Though it may be hard for many to accept, members of the IRA and other republican paramilitary groups believed that the conflict was a legitimate war of national liberation to free six counties in the North of Ireland from what they called foreign occupation. And even though they have abandoned violence in favour of a political process, they continue to believe the same.

This is why we have witnessed in recent years a concerted and relentless attempt by the unionist political establishment to criminalise the republican movement. Revisiting the history of the conflict, painting those involved on the republican/nationalist side as terrorists who were engaged in acts of mass murder and wholesale criminality, we see unionists increasingly targeting nationalists and republicans.


Q.1.It can be inferred that the fallout of the Good Friday Agreement was

a.that the violence was termed a political conflict and hence, even those who were criminals were placed under political protection.  

b.that it lead to a controversial situation for the British government and forced a review of the Agreement itself.  

c.that the families of those who had fallen prey to paramilitary violence could not hope for justice.  

d.None of the above.

Q2.Which of the following options best explains why there are still attempts to criminalise the republican movement?

a.There is the possibility that, despite causing the end of the conflict, the Good Friday Agreement will soon lose its effectiveness.  

b.Despite giving up a violent path, members of the paramilitary groups involved in the conflict still believe in the legitimacy of the war they fought in.  

c.The move will help pave the way for a system of justice that was ignored by the Agreement.  

d.There is a growing understanding that the communities that were involved in the conflict have benefited at the expense of the government.

Q3.Which of the following options best explains the tone of the passage?

a.argumentative  b.subjective  c.narrative  d.expository

-CL Mock

978

Hello ... (to anyone who has a slight predilection to read this) 

after taking numerous mocks and comapring my performances vis-a-vis to both the sections , here is something which I noticed .

I generally get good scores in section 2 , though I am not that bad at quants . The thing to note here is unlike VA and RC wherein if you read sufficient stuff from blogs , editorials , sample passages etc you perform good even if you lose your touch for a week or say 5 days ...

But this is not the case with Quants . It's all about that confidence which you get when you solve problems on a daily basis ... An example case is .. I scored 95 in section 1 in a new patten CAT (ICAT ) and today I scored a paltry 53 in section 1 ...while i consistently maintain good VA scores ..say +60 . 

So the bottom-line is keep practicing quants on a daily basis ...as this confidence only will help you in mocks . Quants=Confidence  ..

Noticed this late but just in time ! 

Hope this helps . 


979


Compared with other experimental sciences, astronomy has certain limitations. First, apart from meteorites, the noon, and the nearer planets, the objects of study are inaccessible and cannot be manipulated, although nature sometimes provides special conditions, such as eclipses and other temporary effects. The astronomer must content himself with studying radiation emitted or reflected from celestial bodies.

Second, from the earth's surface these are viewed through a thick atmosphere that completely absorbs most radiation except within certain 'windows', wavelength regions in which the radiation can pass through the atmosphere relatively freely in the optical, near-infrared, and radio bands of the electromagnetic spectrum; and even in these windows the atmosphere has considerable effect. For light, these atmospheric effects are as follows : (a) some absorption that dims the radiation somewhat, even in a clear sky; (b) refraction, which causes slight shift in the direction so that the object appears in a slightly different place; (c) scintillation (twinkling); i.e. fluctuations in brightness of effectively point-like sources such as stars, fluctuations that are, however, averaged out for objects with larger images, such as planets (the ionosphere, an ionized layer high in the atmosphere, and interplanetary medium have similar effects on radio sources); (d) image movement because of atmospheric turbulence ('bad seeing') spreads the image of tiny point over an angle of nearly on arc second or more on the celestial sphere (one arc second equals 1/3, 600 degrees); and (5) background light from the night sky. The obscuring effects of the atmosphere and its clouds are reduced by placing observing stations on mountains, preferably in desert regions (e.g. Southern California and Chile), and away from city lights. The effects are eliminated by observing from high-altitude aircraft, balloons, rockets, space probes, and artificial satellites. From stations all or most of the atmosphere, gamma rays and X-rays that is, high-energy radiation at extremely short wavelengths and far-ultraviolet rays and far-infrared radiation, all completely absorbed by the atmosphere at ground level observatories can be measured. At ratio wavelengths between about one centimeter and 20 metres, the atmosphere (even when cloudy) has little effect, and man-made radio signals are the chief interference.

Third, the earth is a spinning, shifting, and wobbling platform. Spin on its axis causes alternation of day and night and an apparent rotation of the celestial sphere with stars moving from east to west. Ground-based telescopes use a mounting that makes it possible to neutralize the rotation of earth relative to the stars; with an equatorial mounting driven at a proper speed, the direction of the telescope tube can be kept constant for hours while the earth turns under the mounting. Large radio telescopes usually have vertical and horizontal axes (altazimuth mounting), with their pointing continuously controlled by a computer.

In addition to the daily spin, there are much more gradual effects, called precession and nutation. Gravitational action of the sun and moon on the earth's equatorial bulge cause the earth's axis to process like a top or gyroscope, gradually tracing out a circle on the celestial motion provide the basic standard directions of stars, so that uncertainties in the rate of these motions can lead to quite small but important uncertainties in measurements of stellar movements.

ques1

One of the type of radiations that cannot pass through the atmospheric 'windows' without distortion:

a.near infrared spectrum

b.far-ultraviolet spectrum

c.optical band in the spectrum

d.radio band in the spectrum


Question 2

One of the atmospheric effects of earth-based experiments that is not mentioned in the passage is:

a.twinkling

b.refraction

c.image movement

d.clouds from volcano eruptions


Question 3

The purpose of telescope mounting is to neutralize:

a.atmospheric interference

b.the effect of precession

c.the effect of nutation

d.the effect of diurnal spinning


Question 4

The precession period of earth is:

a.24 hours.

b.365.25 days

c.18.6 years

d. 26,000 years


Question 5


Gravitational action of the sun and the moon on earth causes: 1. diurnal 2. spinning. 3. precession. 4. nutation.

a.1

b. 1 and 2

c.2 and 3

d.1, 2 & 3


Question 6

The orbital motion of the earth.

a.is partly caused by the moon

b.can have uncertain rates

c.has a periodicity of 18.6 years

d. is neutralized by telescope mounting


Question 7.The man-made radio signals have wavelengths of:

a. more than 20 metres

b.less than one centimeter

c. between one centimetre and 20 metres

d.gamma rays



980


The other delegates and him immediately accepted the resolution drafted by the neutral states.

  • (A) The other delegates and him
  • (B) The other delegates and he
  • (C) He and the other delegates
  • (D) The other delegates and his

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