English (Part – B) (General studies) NDA/NA SOLVED PAPER 2019 (II) (101 to 150)

The First Continental Congress held in Philadelphia in September, 1774 is a major landmark in the history of USA. It was attended by representatives of 12 out of 13 British Colonies in USA, at the Carpenter’s Hall. It was held in response to British impasses over the historic Boston Tea Party of December, 1773. The major outcomes of this Congress were
● Rejection of Union of colonies under British Crown.
● Scheme for boycott of trade between the colonies and the Britishers.
● Mechanism of grievance discussion. Hence, all the statements are correct.

Java island is located to the South of equator at around 5°S latitude in a West to East orientation, so Java is not touched by the equator. However, equator passes through the Sumatra, Sulawesi and Kalimantan portion of Borneo island in Indonesia.

Organically formed sedimentary rocks are formed from the remains of living organisms such as corals & shell fish (calcareous rock); or from vegetative remains like forests & swamps (carbonaceous rocks). Some examples of organically formed sedimentary rocks are chalk, limestone, peat, lignite & coal. Shale is a mechanically formed sedimentary rock. Halite & chert are chemically formed sedimentary rocks.

Koeppen’s climate classification is based on annual & monthy average temperatures and precipitation. According to this classification Cfa denotes Humid subtropical climate.
This type of climate is characterised by warm summer and absence of dry season. Tropical wet climate is denoted by Af; Tundra climate is denoted by ET and Tropical wet & dry climate is denoted by Aw.

In recumbent fold, aecial plane found to be horizontal. The axial plane of a fold is the plane or surface that divides the fold as symmetrically as possible.
In Isoclinal fold, the axial surface and limbs slope in the same direction and at approximately the same angle.
An Anticlinal fold is an arch like fold which is convex upward.
Monoclinal fold is a step-like fold consisting of a zone of steeper dip within or otherwise horizontal topography.

Has 27 Ramsar sites like Dal lake, Pong Dam, Harike Wetland, Chilika lake etc.
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is an international treaty on conservation and sustainable use of Wetlands. It was signed in Ramsar, a city in Iran in 1971. India Chilika lake was first to be designated as a Ramsar site in India.

Munda language belongs to the Austroasiatic or Austric group of language. It is a group of language with more than 9 million user from central and eastern India.
Dravidian languages are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malyalam. Sion-Tibetan languages includes chinese and the Tibeto-Busman languages. Indo-European languages are dialects in Asia and Europe.

Option, (c) is not the correct statement about the Suez Canal because. It has no lock system as the water level in Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea through Gulf of Suez is nearly same. The Suez Canal in Egypt connects the Red Sea with Mediterranean Sea. It was constructed between 1859 to 1869 and officially opened in 1869.
It gives Europe a new gateway to the Indian Ocean allowing huge trade and cargo movement between the Europe and Asian Countries.

Reign of Terror was the period in French revolution in 1793 to 1794, marked by widespread violence and executions by the Jacobins, in association with the Sans-Culottes. The Jacobins wre in league with the French clergy.
Jacobins dashed out Girondists with help of Sans–Culottes and were actively conspiring against Aristocracy. The laws for arresting were not limited to political class instead it was vaguely defined and  anyone could be arrested. Hence, option (c) is not correct about the Reign of Terror. The reign came to an end on 27th July, 1794 with the execution of Robespierre by guillotine. Hence, option (c) is incorrect

Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was selected in 1863 and posted in Bombay Presidency as a Civil Servant.