71-80 : Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below || ADRE 1.0 SLRC 2022 PAPER-IV SOLVED QUESTIONS
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71-80 : Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
At last the bomb was made. The site chosen for the test explosion was the desert region north of Almogordo, two hundred miles from Los Alamos. The bomb was taken by road and placed on a gaunt tower, one hundred feet high and weighing thirty-two tons, erected on the top of a hill. The code name for it was Zero Hill. Zero hour was 5:30 a.m. on Monday, July 16, 1945.
Oppenheimer himself was at the control centre about nine miles from Zero Hill. There were a thousand spectators including scientists, government officials and a strong security force. All not on duty were told to lie down flat, face and eyes directed towards the ground and with the head away from zero.
At forty-five seconds to zero hour Dr. Joseph L. Mckibban of California University set in motion a weird master robot which set other robots in motion. More than five hundred miles of wiring were used to start the bomb. Electronic impulses were set in motion and relayed messages; electrons moved into position. Observers stood with coloured film over their eyes and heads averted.
Overhead two B-29 super fortresses hovered, equipped with recording instruments to test reactions in the atmosphere. Ten seconds before zero hour a green flare warned the spectators to keep down. Then came the blinding flash.
The whole area was suddenly brighter than the brightest day light, and the bomb was a ball of fire. Even at nine miles, the heat was scorching. Then came the tremendous roar and the heavy pressure wave, which knocked down two men outside the control centre. And then came the cloud – the mushroom cloud, all the colours of the rainbow, ironically beautiful surging upto over 40,000 feet, over 10,000 feet higher than Everest. The great steel tower had gone. Lead lined Sherman tanks took scientists towards the huge sloping crater where it had stood, to see the effects of radiation on the surface of the earth.
71. Zero Hill was located in
(A) Desert region of Almogordo
(B) Desert region of Los Alamos
(C) Desert region north of Almogordo
(D) Desert region south of Almogordo
72. Hover means
(A) To remain in the air at one place
(B) To move to and fro
(C) To circle around
(D) To move up and down
73.The bomb exploded
(A) emitting heat, sound and heavy pressure wave
(B) emitting cloud and cloudburst
(C) without creating much physical disturbances
(D) creating a lot of physical and mental disturbances
74. Electronic impulses
(A) were not effective
(B) relayed messages
(C) warned the spectators
(D) greeted the spectators
75. The spectators included
(A) scientists, government officials and a strong security force.
(B) scientists, artists and a strong security force.
(C) scientists, a strong security force and footballers.
(D) scientists, technicians and a strong security force.
76. Who was at the control tower?
(A) Oppenheimer
(B) McKibbon
(C) both Oppenheimer and McKibbon
(D) Government officials
77. It is implied in the passage that the spectators were told to
(A) lie down flat, face and eyes directed towards the ground and with the head away from zero.
(B) cover their eyes with coloured films and keep their head averted.
(C) lie down flat, face and eyes directed towards the ground and with the head towards zero.
(D) cover their heads with coloured films and eyes closed.
78. B-29 superfortresses and Sherman tanks are used to
(A) check the effect of the bomb on the ground and air respectively.
(B) check effect of radiation on the ground and air respectively.
(C) check effect of radiation in the air and ground respectively.
(D) check the effect of the bomb on the great steel tower.
79. The beauty of the mushroom cloud is ironical because
(A) It knocked down two men outside the control centre.
(B) Of the devastating nature of the bomb.
(C) The bomb destroyed the steel tower.
(D) Clouds are not devastating.
80. A synonym and antonym for the word Scorching would be
(A) Searing, Soothing
(B) Searing, Burning
(C) Soothing, Cooling
(D) Soothing, Heating
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