Civil Engineering GATE 2014 Set-2 Questions with Answer

Ques 27 General Aptitude

Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the sentence below?
“As a woman, I have no country.”

Ques 28 General Aptitude

In any given year, the probability of an earthquake greater than Magnitude 6 occurring in the Garhwal Himalayas is 0.04. The average time between successive occurrences of such earthquakes is ______ years.

Ques 29 General Aptitude

The population of a new city is 5 million and is growing at 20% annually. How many years would it take to double at this growth rate?

Ques 30 General Aptitude

In a group of four children, Som is younger to Riaz. Shiv is elder to Ansu. Ansu is youngest in the group. Which of the following statements is/are required to find the eldest child in the group?
Statements:

1. Shiv is younger to Riaz.
2. Shiv is elder to Som.

Ques 31 General Aptitude

Moving into a world of big data will require us to change our thinking about the merits of exactitude. To apply the conventional mindset of measurement to the digital, connected world of the twenty-first century is to miss a crucial point. As mentioned earlier, the obsession with exactness is an artefact of the information-deprived analog era. When data was sparse, every data point was critical, and thus great care was taken to avoid letting any point bias the analysis.
From "BIG DATA" Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
The main point of the paragraph is:

Ques 32 General Aptitude

The total exports and revenues from the exports of a country are given in the two pie charts below. The pie chart for exports shows the quantity of each item as a percentage of the total quantity of exports. The pie chart for the revenues shows the percentage of the total revenue generated through export of each item. The total quantity of exports of all the items is 5 lakh tonnes and the total revenues are 250 crore rupees. What is the ratio of the revenue generated through export of Item 1 per kilogram to the revenue generated through export of Item 4 per kilogram?

Ques 33 General Aptitude

X is 1 km northeast of Y. Y is 1 km southeast of Z. W is 1 km west of Z. P is 1 km south of W. Q is 1 km east of P. What is the distance between X and Q in km?

Ques 34 General Aptitude

10% of the population in a town is HIV+. A new diagnostic kit for HIV detection is available; this kit correctly identifies HIV+ individuals 95% of the time, and HIV- individuals 89% of the time. A particular patient is tested using this kit and is found to be positive. The probability that the individual is actually positive is ______.

Ques 35 Geomatics Engineering

The survey carried out to delineate natural features, such as hills, rivers, forests and man-made features, such as towns, villages, buildings, roads, transmission lines and canals is classified as

Ques 36 Geotechnical Engineering

As per Indian Standard Soil Classification System (IS: 1498 - 1970), an expression for A-line is

Ques 37 Geotechnical Engineering

The clay mineral primarily governing the swelling behavior of Black Cotton soil is

Ques 38 Geotechnical Engineering

The contact pressure for a rigid footing resting on clay at the centre and the edges are respectively

Ques 39 Geotechnical Engineering

A certain soil has the following properties: G_s = 2.71, n = 40% and w = 20%. The degree of saturation of the soil (rounded off to the nearest percent) is ______.