ibps-so 2016 · Question 269 of 394

A watershed proposal has come to the branch with a hydrological note which uses four separate terms for four di erent movements of water in and through the soil, and the eld o cer must read the note correctly before he can judge whether the contour bunds and the percolation tank provided in the estimate will do what the promoter claims for them. The note distinguishes the entry of water into the soil across its surface, the downward movement of that water through the pro le below the root zone, the lateral escape of water through the bund itself, and the upward movement of water from a shallow water table. The o cer notes that the whole purpose of the contour bunds is to hold the rainfall on the surface for longer so that more of it may enter the soil across that surface instead of running o the slope, and that the term for the process so favoured must be entered correctly in his appraisal note. The entry of water into the soil through its surface is called

1. APercolation
2. BCapillary rise
3. CIn ltrationCorrect
4. DSeepage through the bund
5. ESurface runo Directions (Q75–Q79) : The clearing department of a bank works a machine for the arrangement of words and numbers which takes in a single line made up partly of words and partly of numbers, works upon that line by a rule xed once for all, and prints out a fresh line at every step until the work is done. At each step precisely one word and precisely one number are lifted from the places they occupied, the one being carried away to the left end of the line and the other to the right end of it, while whatever is left untouched at that step holds, as among themselves, the very order the untouched elements already had. Set out below is one such line as it was fed in, together with every line that the machine printed upon it. Input : 27 tureen 53 gasket 41 lagoon 36 pigeon 68 sandal Step I : tureen 27 53 gasket 41 lagoon 36 pigeon sandal 68 Step II : tureen sandal 27 gasket 41 lagoon 36 pigeon 53 68 Step III : tureen sandal pigeon 27 gasket lagoon 36 41 53 68 Step IV : tureen sandal pigeon lagoon 27 gasket 36 41 53 68 Step V : tureen sandal pigeon lagoon gasket 27 36 41 53 68 Nothing further was printed after Step V, the work upon that line being nished there. Take the rule to be one and the same throughout, and upon that footing deal with the questions framed upon the second line printed below. Input : 34 mosaic 72 kernel 19 bugle 58 ferret 45 thistle