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i knew we were right, Neil Simon thought to himself as the steward
brought him a glass of Cardhu single malt.
A. Simon, the Director in charge of international franchise operations
at Smith & Robin, a $8-billion marquee garment retailer, had arrived
in India exactly seven days back with mixed feelings.
B. The whiskey felt good after a week when he was allowed to drink
nothing but champagne by his hosts in India.
C. Simon signaled to the steward that hed like a refill he planned to
take his time over the second one and thought about the week that had
been.
D. Ah, but then they had had a reason to celebrate.
E. Hed been at S & R less than eight months he had been hired when the
company decided to abandon its twenty-year-old strategy of expanding
geographically through owned outlets as against franchised ones but he
knew the India trip was one of those things that could make or break
his
career.

1] ABCDE 2] CDAEB 3] ECBDA 4] BDCAE

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Whats a jarwal?
B. The jarwal stared at her malevolently; saliva dripping from its
gaping jaws, making its fearsome teeth glistens in the harsh winter
sunlight.
C. I dont know.
D. A bit like in Alien, only more like the maggot.
E. Something fierce and nasty.
F. A huge maggot-like beastie with a ferocious temper and huge teeth.

1] ACEBDF 2] AECBDE 2] BACEDF 4] BACEFD

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They soon learnt the sad inadequacy of bow and arrow and examples of
successful resistance are rare.
B. They were too close to the main communications between North and South
C. Over the centuries the fringes of tribal territory have steadily receded.
D. On their western extremities in Maharashtra and Rajasthan the Bhil
people still occasionally waylay travelers though they are now largely
settled and Hinduised.
E. The sensitive, good-natured and gentle tribals were no match for
the crusading incursions of Rajputs, Muslims and Marathas.

1) DCAEB 2) CEADB 3) CAEDB 4) CBDEA

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A) And this because it doesnt want to be dubbed a spoilsport in the region.
(B) If you stop griming and bearing it, you would be declared a loser,
says a source, throwing up his hands in absolute exasperation.
(C) There are many takers for this line of argument.
(D) But, ironically, say many government sources, the very political
class that lambastes Pakistan for sponsoring
terrorism is shying away from matching its rhetoric with act.
(E) It is like being in a popularity contest.
(1) DCAEB (2) ADAEB (3) CBADE (4) EBCDA


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A) Malignancies were diagnosed in three family members on the basis of
this abnormality and then surgically removed.
B) It appears to be the first instance in which this specific
abnormality - in this case an exchange of material between the
chromosomes number three and eight in all cells of the person's body -
has been traced from generation to generation and thus permitted
identification of cancer patients before they had any symptoms.
C) An inherited genetic abnormality has been linked to a specific type
of kidney cancer in a family in which ten members were affected over
three generations.
D) The discovery by scientists at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, USA,
provides a
potentially important clue to the origin of at least some cancers.

1) DCAB 2) CBDA 3) ABCD 4) DABC