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2. A tailor cuts two equal semicircular pieces from a rectangular cloth of dimensions 80m x 40m. What is the minimum possible area (in sq m) of the cloth that is left?
(a)3200 – 400π (b) 3200 – 625π (c) 3200 – 484π (d) 3200 – 900π
3. How many integer values of x satisfy |x – 2| + |x + 3| + |5 – x| + |x – 8| < 16? (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) Infinite
4. Dhurandhar deposits some money in Lena Bank at the rate of 20% p.a. simple interest. He withdraws the money after one year, deposits it in Parajaya Bank at the rate of R% p.a. compound interest (with annual compounding) for two years and gets Rs 2880 as the total interest from Parajaya Bank. If the first year's interest at Parajaya Bank was Rs 1200, then what amount (in Rs) had Dhurandhar deposited in Lena Bank?
(a) 10000 (b) 5000 (c) 2500 (d) 4000
5. In a vocational college, the number of students registered for courses A, B, C and D are 108, 120, 72 and 96 respectively. The students of three of the four courses are divided into batches of equal size (across these three courses) and each of these divisions is assigned a separate classroom. All the students of the fourth course are made to sit in a single classroom. What is the minimum number of classrooms that are required?
(a) 13 (b) 24 (c) 9 (d) 26
Directions for questions 41 to 44: The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. There is something irksome about a recent story in the New York Times that declared that "E-Books Make Readers Feel Less Isolated". Being a bookworm is uncool, the story alleges, but carrying around an ereader makes reading seem chic. "Strangers constantly ask about it," Michael Hughes, a communications associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said of his iPad, which he uses to read a mix of novels and nonfiction. "It's almost like having a new baby." The problem here is not with the e-book. I'm in favour of any mode of literature delivery. If the only way I could consume Tolstoy was by having a trail of ants marching across my desk, each hoisting a piece of rice inscribed with the relevant word, that would be grand. Also, amazing. Also, impractical. Rather, I'm intrigued by the notion that e-readers make reading less antisocial. Doesn't reading necessitate not socialising? Indeed, isn't that part of the appeal? I was always under the impression that books served a dual purpose: not only do they offer a world to enter, but also they offer an affordable means of escape from the world we're in. What a nice cloak a book can be on the subway or the train, or while sitting at a bar, enjoying the buzz of humanity while absorbed in something else. I'm reminded of Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist", in which books are recommended as props for travellers who would rather avoid idle chatter with strangers. Jonathan Franzen had something powerful to say about this in Lev Grossman's cover story about him in Time. Though few would hold Mr Franzen up as a beacon of joyful, social living (the man describes writing as "miserable work" and counts bird-watching as one of his few indulgences), he is convincing in his case for the importance of the sustained concentration demanded by reading. "We are so distracted by and engulfed by the technologies we've created, and by the constant barrage of so-called information that comes our way, that more than ever to immerse yourself in an involving book seems socially useful... The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world." Books require a certain quiet, a solitude that is all the more valuable for the way it can be achieved in public. The constant barrage of information Mr Franzen describes makes the insularity of a good book all the more valuable, like an antidote. Still, few may be inspired to follow Mr Franzen's approach for keeping the siren song of the internet at bay. "What you have to do," he explained, "is you plug in an Ethernet cable with superglue, and then you saw off the little head of it."
41. According to the passage, which of the following cannot be inferred as a role/function of books?
(a) Providing solitude even in the middle of a crowd.
(b) Allowing an individual to escape the world.
(c) Providing access to information and ideas.
(d) Creating a space for introspection and engagement with the world.
42. Why does the author mention the instance of reading Tolstoy through a trail of ants?
(a) To highlight the fact that the mode of delivery of literature is not important.
(b) To prove that e-books can be equally effective as a mode of literature delivery.
(c) To demonstrate an impractical mode of literature delivery.
(d) To give an example of a mode of literature delivery that the author considers grand.
43. Which one of these best expresses the central theme of the passage?
(a) The impact of technological innovations on reading.
(b) New forms of reading books.
(c) The nature of the process of reading.
(d) The importance of reading.
44. The author calls a good book, an antidote. What is it an antidote to?
(a) Distracting technology
(b) Too much information
(c) The public
(d) Insularity
45. Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C and D. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. A Welsh boy named Billy Williams turns 13 and begins his wretched life as a coal miner.
B. King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
C. A lot happens on the first page of Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants."
D. And Mr. Follett, who was once a Welsh boy himself but grew up to become his generation's most vaunted writer of colorless historical epics, kicks off a whopping new trilogy.
(a) ADCB (b) ABCD (c) CBAD (d) CDAB
46. Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. We're still a closely divided nation; it's just that we're angrier about it.
B. One of the oddities of the current moment is that the country wants a radical change in government but not a radical change in policy.
C. On the other hand, they have not changed their fundamental views on the issues.
D. There has been some shift to the right over the past two years, but the policy landscape looks mostly the way it did over the last few decades.
E. On the one hand, voters are completely disgusted with Washington.
(a) BECDA (b) AECDB (c) DECBA (d) ECBAD
47. The word given below has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
Close
(a) That comment hit close to home and made him uncomfortable.
(b) The police managed to close in to the suspect in a few days.
(c) The bank was forced to close down during the depression.
(d) The workers decided to close ranks and confront the manager
57. Given below is a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Observant viewers of Sunday night's 82nd Academy Awards broadcast might have noticed something even more surprising than The Hurt Locker's near sweep of awards. For the first time since 1988, winners were back. Rather than the politically correct, nonjudgmental phrase that has been foisted on presenters for more than two decades — "And the Oscar goes to ..." — presenters this year introduced each winner with the blunt, old-fashioned but perfectly accurate phrase "And the winner is ..."
(a) Why the switch? No one at the Motion Picture Academy would give any explanation.
(b) Officials acknowledged that it was a decision made by producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, with an O.K. from the Academy.
(c) Whether the new format will stay is a decision for the producers who are in charge next year.
(d) The benefit of the earlier format was twofold: it plugged the award continuously, and it didn't make losers feel any worse than they already did.
59. In the question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A. Last June I shared a cab with Grayson Perry, one of Britain's best-known artist.
B. He had just returned from the Basel art fair, where he had been struck by something.
C. "Everything is now happening all at once," he told me with a roll of the eyes.
D. At the fair, there is no longer a ruling style or taste, no common agreement on what is avant-garde and what is retrograde.
(a) A and C (b) Only A (c) B and C (d) A and D
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