1

NCERT SCIENCE TEST - 11

Q. 1. Which of the following could be a cause Q. 8. Choose the wrong statement:

for developing a disease? (a) High blood pressure is caused by excessive
(a) Exercising properly weight and lack of exercise
(b) Having a balanced diet (b) Cancers can be caused by genetic
(c) Poor personal hygiene abnormalities
(d) Getting enough sleep (c) Peptic ulcers are caused by eating acidic
food
Q. 2. Sleeping sickness is caused by _____, a
(d) Acne is caused by Staphylococci
protozoan.
(a) Trypanosoma (b) Euglena Q. 9. What is the importance of childhood
(c) Plasmodium (d) Amoeba immunisation programmes?
(a) These programmes give protection only
Q. 3. Identify the group among the following,
when the child reaches adult stage.
which contains all bacterial diseases :
(b) These programmes give lifelong protection
(a) Typhoid, tuberculosis, anthrax
against several infectious diseases
(b) Malaria, anthrax, typhoid
(c) These progremmes give temporary
(c) Kala-azar, influenza, tuberculosis
protection against diseases
(d) Tuberculosis, anthrax, dengue
(d) These programmes improve the health of
Q. 4. Which is not a contributory cause of a some children
person acquiring a water borne disease?
Q. 10. The vector for Yellow fever is:
(a) Lack of sufficient food
(a) Mosquito (b) Flea
(b) Attack by bacteria
(c) Housefly (d) Rat
(c) Genetic susceptibility to the disease
(d) Lack of clean drinking water Q. 11. Which of the following is the literal
meaning of disease?
Q. 5. Suzan’s grandfather is suffering from
(a) Being happy
tuberculosis. In which category will you put
(b) Being unaware
his disease?
(c) Being uncomfortable
(a) Chronic and acute both
(d) Being uncomplicated
(b) She cannot predict anything from this
information. Q. 12. Rejection of transplanted organ is
(c) Chronic prevented by regular use of
(d) Acute (a) Cyclosporin (b) Calcitonin
(c) Thrombin (d) Pyroxin
Q. 6. We should not allow mosquitoes to
breed in our surroundings because they Q. 13. Which one of the following is not a
(a) multiply very fast and cause pollution viral disease?
(b) are vectors for many diseases (a) Dengue (b) AIDS
(c) bite and cause skin diseases (c) Typhoid (d) Influenza
(d) are not important insects
Q. 14. The diseases where microbes are the
Q. 7. The process in which the active immune immediate causes, are called
system employs many cells to the affected (a) infectious diseases
tissue, is called (b) non-infectious diseases
(a) infection (c) chronic diseases
(b) infestation (d) acute diseases
(c) invasion
(d) inflammation

B1, Near Mahalaxmi Sweet House, 18, Puraniya Chauraha, Sector-H, Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
226024/Mob. +91-8318600261, 8299369582/ Website-www.coachupias.com
 2

Q. 15. Antibiotics used in treatment of Q. 22. Vectors can be defined as

bacterial and fungal diseases are (a) animals carry the infecting agents from sick
(a) the names of useful bacteria person to another healthy person
(b) toxins produced by bacteria (b) microorganisms which cause many diseases
(c) drugs manufactured to kill viruses (c) infected person
(d) products of metabolism in some bacteria (d) diseased plants
Q. 16. Acute diseases last for: Q. 23. It was found that milkmaids who had
(a) Long period of time cowpox did not suffer from smallpox later?
(b) Only few hours (a) Since small pox virus is closely related to
(c) Short period of time cowpox virus.
(d) Life long (b) Scientists have not yet worked out the reason
for this.
Q. 17. Antibiotics do not work against viral
(c) Since cowpox is more deadly than smallpox.
infections because
(d) Since smallpox is more deadly than cowpox.
(a) viruses live only inside host cells.
(b) viruses do not have metabolic pathways of Q. 24. Viruses, which cause hepatitis, are
their own, transmitted through
(c) viruses are resistant to antibiotics. (a) air (b) personal contact
(d) the protein coat of viruses acts as a barrier to (c) food (d) water
the antibiotics
Q. 25. Jaundice is a disease of
Q. 18. ‘Public cleanliness is important for (a) kidney (b) liver
individual health’. Which of the following is (c) pancreas (d) duodenum
an example of this statement?
Q. 26. How does penicillin kill bacteria?
(a) Brushing our teeth and taking bath everyday
(a) Penicillin makes holes in the cell membrane.
keeps our body clean
(b) Penicillin interferes with the bacterial
(b) Collecting and cleaning of garbage cans on
metabolism.
the street regularly helps to prevent the spread
(c) Penicillin inhibits protein synthesis.
of diseases
(d) Penicillin prevents cell wall formation.
(c) Clean rooms in our houses are essential for
healthy living Q. 27. Which one of the following has a long-
(d) Cutting nails regularly prevents dirt term effect on the health of an individual?
accumulation and infection in the nails (a) Common cold
(b) Chicken pox
Q. 19. The organisms which carry the
(c) Chewing tobacco
infectious agents from a sick person to
(d) Stress
another potential host are known as
(a) Fomites (b) Causative agents Q. 28. AIDS cannot be transmitted by
(c) Vectors (d) Vehicles (a) sexual contact (b) hugs
(c) breast feeding (d) blood transfusion
Q. 20. Which one of the following is not a
bacterial disease? Q. 29. A condition of failure of function of
(a) Cholera (b) Tuberculosis kidney to form urine is
(c) Anthrax (d) Influenza (a) Creatinine (b) Hematuria
(c) Alkaptoneuria (d) Anuria
Q. 21. Which of the following bacteria cause
peptic ulcer? Q. 30. The set of diseases which spread
(a) Helicobactor chlolecystus through sexual contact as well as through
(b) Helicobactor salomonis placenta to the foetus are
(c) Helicobactor pylori (a) Malaria and AIDS
(d) Helicobactor hepaticus (b) AIDS and Syphili
(c) Syphilis and Malaria
(d) AIDS and Cancer

B1, Near Mahalaxmi Sweet House, 18, Puraniya Chauraha, Sector-H, Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
226024/Mob. +91-8318600261, 8299369582/ Website-www.coachupias.com