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The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate. The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily. Resting on H-shaped steel racks called 'bents', long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen ground). A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil. One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8 major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today, despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortage, equipment breakdowns, labour disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is operating.

What is the capacity of the Alaskan pipeline?

• 2 million gallons of crude oil

• 4 million barrels of crude oil

• 84 million gallons of crude oil

• 84 billion barrels of crude oil

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A guest speaker was addressing the faculty and the students in the college auditorium. I had joined the faculty the year before, and was already drawing attention. I was 27, full of assumptions about myself, quick with a comment on everything, and expected people to pay attention to all that I had said.
I listened to the talk for the first five minutes. By the seventh, I was looking around to check if others were listening. By the tenth, I had glanced at my watch three times, and yawned once. After twenty minutes I was thoroughly bored, and telling myself that it was difficult to sit through such an insipid talk.
I wanted to share some of my expert comments with my neighbour. But he was completely sold out to the speaker and looked liked it was the greatest day of his life. I was disgusted. I tried to catch a word or phrase from the talk, only to convince myself that his should be his last talk ever.
The one-hour talk took ages to end and before the thanks were said, I jumped to my feet with a sigh of relief. My neighbour smiled at me and said, 'The talk was wonderful, wasn't it?' I retorted, 'it almost killed me with kindness.'

What do you understand about the narrator from the description in the first paragraph?

• He was a genius

• He was knowledgeable

• He was self conceited

• He was charismatic

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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, one of the greatest of modern scientists, graduated from St.Xavier's College, Kolkata. He then obtained Tripos of Cambridge University and joined the Presidency College, Kolkata, as Professor of Physics.He was a pioneer in the discovery of the wireless and radio and the Microwave. He made remarkable contribution to the science of Botany by proving with the help of an instrument of his own invention that not only do trees and plants have life, but feel pleasure and pain as we do. He was perhaps the first scientist to suggest the possibility of gathering and utilizing energy from solar rays. Last but not least was the Bose Institute which he founded in 1917. It has now become a world-famous Research Laboratory doing Yeoman's service to various branches of science.

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, one of the greatest of modern scientists, graduated from which college?

• St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

• Cambridge University

• Presidency College, Kolkata

• Bose Institute

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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, one of the greatest of modern scientists, graduated from St.Xavier's College, Kolkata. He then obtained Tripos of Cambridge University and joined the Presidency College, Kolkata, as Professor of Physics.He was a pioneer in the discovery of the wireless and radio and the Microwave. He made remarkable contribution to the science of Botany by proving with the help of an instrument of his own invention that not only do trees and plants have life, but feel pleasure and pain as we do. He was perhaps the first scientist to suggest the possibility of gathering and utilizing energy from solar rays. Last but not least was the Bose Institute which he founded in 1917. It has now become a world-famous Research Laboratory doing Yeoman's service to various branches of science.

What is meant by yeoman service?

• Minimal

• Invaluable

• Discreet

• Sporadic

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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, one of the greatest of modern scientists, graduated from St.Xavier's College, Kolkata. He then obtained Tripos of Cambridge University and joined the Presidency College, Kolkata, as Professor of Physics.He was a pioneer in the discovery of the wireless and radio and the Microwave. He made remarkable contribution to the science of Botany by proving with the help of an instrument of his own invention that not only do trees and plants have life, but feel pleasure and pain as we do. He was perhaps the first scientist to suggest the possibility of gathering and utilizing energy from solar rays. Last but not least was the Bose Institute which he founded in 1917. It has now become a world-famous Research Laboratory doing Yeoman's service to various branches of science.

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose was a pioneer in the discovery of the wireless, radio and the ........

• Toaster

• Oven

• Microwave

• Radio