UGC NET Paper1 Previous Year Solved Papers - 20th June 2019 Evening Shift
(a) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
(b) Improve maternal health.
(c) Responsible consumption and production.
(d) Reduce child mortality.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- Option : C
- Explanation : The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the eight goals set by the 189 UN member states in September 2000 and agreed to be achieved by the year 2015. The MDGs are derived from this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators. The Eight Millennium Development Goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to promote gender equality and empower women, to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV / AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability and to develop a global partnership for development.
37. Why would BCC: be used in an e-mail?
- A
BCC: allows the recipient to identify all the other recipients in the list when a group email address is used.
- B
BCC: allows the sender to indicate who the email is for if there is more than one recipient.
- C
BCC: allows the sender of a message to conceal the recipient entered in the BCC: field from the other recipients.
- D
BCC: allows recipients to be visible to all other recipients of the message.
- Option : C
- Explanation : Bcc in e-mails stands for 'Blind carbon copy'. It is functionality available in most email programs through which the sender can distribute an email to one or more individuals beyond the ones to whom the email is addressed. Unlike simple carbon (Cc) copy, blind carbon copy is said to be blind because it sends a copy of the email in transit to the defined email address(s) without letting any of the recipients know about it.
Reason (R): Radiation losses over the urban areas are less than that over the rural areas.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- Option : A
- Explanation : In cities, the air, surface and soil temperatures are almost always warmer than in rural areas. This effect is known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI). UHI is usually strongest at night, as street surfaces and the adjacent air cool slowly. Above the roof level, the contributions of streets and building roofs together warm the overlying urban atmosphere.
39. Which of the following disasters belongs to the category of nuclear disasters?
(a) Fukushima disaster
(b) Chernobyl disaster
(c) Three mile Island incident
(d) The love canal disaster
Choose your answer from the options given below:
- Option : A
- Explanation : Fukushima accident, also called Fukushima nuclear accident was a nuclear accident took place in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northern Japan. It is the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. The Chernobyl disaster was a also a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Three Mile Island accident was a meltdown at a nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. It occurred on March 28, 1979. The Love Canal refers to one of the most tragic environmental manmade disasters in the world>s history. The catastrophe of Love Canal exemplifies the dangers of unrestricted dumping of chemicals.
40. Jatin’s laptop bas a LCD screen. The acronym LCD stands for:
- Option : D
- Explanation : The acronym 'LCD' stands for Liquid Crystal Display. LCD is a type of flat panel display which uses liquid crystals in its primary form of operation. LCDs were a big leap in terms of the technology they replaced, which include light-emitting diode (LED) and gas- plasma displays. LCDs allowed displays to be much thinner than cathode ray tube (CRT) technology.
