Wipro NTH Sample Aptitude Questions and Answers

Q1 Find the theme or central idea of the following passage.

A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation, preservation, and display of a wide range of plants labeled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shade houses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants.

Q2 Fill in the blanks with the best suitable words from the options.

In meteorology, a ..……….is a large-scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure.

Q3 Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.

For a long time I………………………… not decide whether I …………………………… eat meat or not.

Q4 Find out the words which have the similar meaning of the bold words among the following options:

By next year, I settled in Singapore for 10 years.

Q5 Read each of the short passages given below and choose the option best representing the theme of the passage.

Radiation is the energy released from the atom as the element disintegrates from one element to another. There are many types of radiation, including light and microwaves. When radioactive elements release their energy, the radiation is called ionizing radiation, which includes charged particles. These charged particles are the harmful radiation that is dangerous to live organisms. However, not all radiation emitted from the elements is harmful to humans and are classed as alpha and beta ray radiation.

Q6 Direction (Q6 - Q7):
Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

The Stratosphere specifically, the lower Stratosphere has. It seems, been drying out. Water vapor Is a greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth's climate due to this desiccation may account for a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years. The Stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest densest layer of the atmosphere.

The boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18 km above your head. If you are in the tropics, and a few kilometers lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain). In the Troposphere, the air at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world's weather. In the Stratosphere,the air gets warmer at higher altitudes, which provides stability.

The Stratosphere-which extends up to about 55km, where the Mesosphere begins, Is made even less weather-prone by the absence of water vapor, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water vapor to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere.

A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case previously. Plugging the changes in water vapor into a climate model that looks at the way different substances absorb and emit Infrared radiation, they conclude that between 2000 and 2009 a drop in the Stratospheric water vapor of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the Earth's surface by about 25%.

What is the order of layers in the atmosphere starting from the lowermost and going to the topmost?

Q7 Choose the correct answer based on the passage.

Why is the situation in the troposphere defined as unstable?

Q8 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

CREDULITY

Q9 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Many employees feel that the economic situation should not be a ______ to the performance management system of any organization.

Q10 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

PROFUSE

Q11 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Mentally he _____ not been the same after his near fatal accident.

Q12 Select the option that is most nearly opposite to the given word.

FUTILE (OPPOSITE)

Q13 Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is “D’. (ignore - the errors of punctuation, if any)

Q14 In the question, a part of the sentence is italicized. Alternatives to the italicized part are given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative.

The appropriate atmospheric conditions made it feasible for the astronomers to see the stars and they could even distinguish the sizes.

Q15 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Everyone improves ____ standards but this is a complete overhaul of the erstwhile superb.

Q16 Direction (Q16 to Q19):
Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly--our food, our friends, our lovers--in order to preserve their intensity, and the moment of coming back to them. For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once, and so did hunters, I suppose. Part of the weariness of modern life may be that we live too much on top of each other, and are entertained and fed too regularly.

Once we were separated by hunger both from our food and families, and then we learned to value both. The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye. The cave was empty of men for days on end; nobody ate, or knew what to do. The women crouched by the fire, the wet smoke in their eyes; the children wailed; everybody was hungry. Then one night there were shouts and the barking of dogs from the hills, and the men came back loaded with meat. This was the great reunion, and everybody gorged themselves silly, and appetite came into its own;

the long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life. Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice,but too much of it, too easy and regular, served up without effort or wanting. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don’t know the pleasure of being hungry any more.

What is the author’s main argument in the passage?

Q17 Direction (Q16 to Q19):
Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly--our food, our friends, our lovers--in order to preserve their intensity, and the moment of coming back to them. For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once, and so did hunters, I suppose. Part of the weariness of modern life may be that we live too much on top of each other, and are entertained and fed too regularly.

Once we were separated by hunger both from our food and families, and then we learned to value both. The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye. The cave was empty of men for days on end; nobody ate, or knew what to do. The women crouched by the fire, the wet smoke in their eyes; the children wailed; everybody was hungry. Then one night there were shouts and the barking of dogs from the hills, and the men came back loaded with meat. This was the great reunion, and everybody gorged themselves silly, and appetite came into its own;

the long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life. Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice,but too much of it, too easy and regular, served up without effort or wanting. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don’t know the pleasure of being hungry any more.
What are the benefits of fasting?

Q18 Direction (Q16 to Q19):
Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly--our food, our friends, our lovers--in order to preserve their intensity, and the moment of coming back to them. For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once, and so did hunters, I suppose. Part of the weariness of modern life may be that we live too much on top of each other, and are entertained and fed too regularly.

Once we were separated by hunger both from our food and families, and then we learned to value both. The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye. The cave was empty of men for days on end; nobody ate, or knew what to do. The women crouched by the fire, the wet smoke in their eyes; the children wailed; everybody was hungry. Then one night there were shouts and the barking of dogs from the hills, and the men came back loaded with meat. This was the great reunion, and everybody gorged themselves silly, and appetite came into its own;

the long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life. Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice,but too much of it, too easy and regular, served up without effort or wanting. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don’t know the pleasure of being hungry any more.
‘The long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life’,
what does this line imply?

Q19 Direction (Q16 to Q19):
Read the given passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly--our food, our friends, our lovers--in order to preserve their intensity, and the moment of coming back to them. For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once, and so did hunters, I suppose. Part of the weariness of modern life may be that we live too much on top of each other, and are entertained and fed too regularly.

Once we were separated by hunger both from our food and families, and then we learned to value both. The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye. The cave was empty of men for days on end; nobody ate, or knew what to do. The women crouched by the fire, the wet smoke in their eyes; the children wailed; everybody was hungry. Then one night there were shouts and the barking of dogs from the hills, and the men came back loaded with meat. This was the great reunion, and everybody gorged themselves silly, and appetite came into its own;

the long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life. Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice,but too much of it, too easy and regular, served up without effort or wanting. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don’t know the pleasure of being hungry any more.
What commonality has been highlighted between the sailors and hunters?

Q20 Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.

Q21 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the MEANING of the given word.

Arid

Q22 Select the option that is most nearly opposite to the given word.

ADVENT(OPPOSITE)

Q23 In the following questions, a pair of numbers that have a certain relationship is given. One of the pairs given in four options made (1) to (4) bears the same relationship, find that pair.

36:1290

Q24 In the following questions, the alphabets bear a Random Sequence Numbering. Find the Numerals that would be represented by the following words.

If STREAM is written as 23 -24 -22 -9 -5 -17, how would you write BROOK?

Q25 If the numbers of the clock are substituted by letters starting from 3 in an anticlockwise direction. 3 is substituted by C, 2 by E,1 by H, 12 by L and so on. Therefore by which letter will 10 be substituted?

Q26 In each of the following questions, the terms follow a definite pattern.

However, one term is wrong. Find the wrong term out of given options:

3,2, 8, 9, 13, 22, 18, 32, 23, 42

Q27 The terms given in the following questions follow a definite pattern and thus make a series. Find the missing number from the series out of the given options:

20,19, 17, (--------)

Q28 Five cars are parked in a row facing Eastward. E is parked to the left of A, B and C, B, C and A are parked to the left of D. C is parked between A and B. If B is parked fourth from the left, how far is A parked from the right?

Q29 From the given choices select the odd one out.

Q30 From the given choices select the odd one out.