Q1 to 13 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D from a logical sequence between sentences 1 and 6.
1.
1. India's experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly independent developing country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without development.
(a) CDAB
(b) DCBA
(c) CABD
(d) BACD
2.
1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BADC
(b) DBAC
(c) ABCD
(d) DCBA
3.
1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is blind.
A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are not equal and there is
indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to get what and one where
it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some universal standard and one where individuals' shares are determined by chance of goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.
(a) CDBA
(b) DCBA
(c) ABCD
(d) BADC
4.
1. The fragile Yugoslav state has an uncertain future.
A. Thus, there will surely be chaos and uncertainty if the people fail to settle their differences.
B. Sharp ideological differences already exist in the country.
C. Ethnic, regional, linguistic and material disparities are profound.
D. The country will also lose the excellent reputation it enjoyed in the international arena.
6. At worst, it will once more become vulnerable to international conspiracy and intrigue.
(a) BCAD
(b) ADCB
(c) ACBD
(d) DBCA
5.
1. The New Economic Policy comprises the various policy measures and changes introduced since July 1991.
A. There is a common thread running through all these measures.
B. The objective is simple to improve the efficiency of the system.
C. The regulator mechanism involving multitude of controls has fragmented the capacity and reduced competition even in the private sector.
D. The thrust of the new policy is towards creating a more competitive environment as a means to improving the productivity and efficiency of the economy.
6. This is to be achieved by removing the banners and restrictions on the entry and growth of firms.
(a) DCAB
(b) ABCD
(c) BDAC
(d) CDBA
6.
1. Commercial energy consumption shows an increasing trend and poses the major challenge for the future.
A. The demand, for petroleum, during 1996 – 97 and 2006 – 07 is anticipated to be 81 million tonnes and 125 million tonnes respectively.
B. According to the projections of the 14th Power Survey Committee Report, the electricity generation requirements from utilities will be about 416 billion units by 1996 – 97 and 825 billion units by 2006 – 07.
C. The production of coal should reach 303 million tonnes by 1996 – 97 to achieve Plan targets and 460 million tonnes by 2006 – 07.
D. The demand for petroleum products has already outstripped indigenous production.
6. Electricity is going to play a major role in the development of infrastructural facilities.
(a) DACB
(b) CADB
(c) BADC
(d) ABCD
7.
1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last 45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particular India and Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington's military alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered the military junta of that country to stuff out the civilian government and destroy democracy in Pakistan.
(a) ACBD
(b) ABDC
(c) CBAD
(d) DCAB
8.
1. The success of any unit in a competitive environment depends on prudent management sources.
A. In this context it would have been more appropriate if the concept of accelerated depreciation, together with additional incentives towards capital allowances for recouping a portion of the cost of replacements out of the current generations, had been accepted.
B. Added to this are negligible retention of profits because of inadequate capital allowances and artificial disallowance's of genuine outflows.
C. One significant cause for poor generation of surpluses is the high cost of capital and its servicing cost.
D. The lack of a mechanism in India tax laws for quick recovery of capital costs has not received its due attention.
6. While this may apparently look costly from the point of view of the exchequer, the ultimate cost of the Government and the community in the form of losses suffered through poor viability will be prohibitive.
(a) ADBC
(b) BCDA
(c) CBDA
(d) DBAC
9.
1. Count Rumford is perhaps best known for his observations on the nature of heat.
A. He undertook several experiments in order to test the theories of the origin of frictional heat.
B. According to the calorists, the heat was produced by the "caloric" squeezed out of he chips in the process of separating them from the larger pieces of metal.
C. Lavoisier had introduced the term "caloric" for the weightless substance heat, and had included it among the chemical elements, along with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
D. In the munitions factory in Munich, Rumford noticed that a considerable degree of heat developed in a brass gun while it was being bored.
6. Rumford could not believe that the big amount of heat generated could have come from the small amount of dust created.
(a) ABCD
(b) CBDA
(c) ADCB
(d) CDAB
10.
1. Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving of memories.
A. Psychologists of the Gestalt School maintain that objects are recognised as a whole in a procedure.
B. Neural activity, triggered by the eye, forms an image in the brain's memory system that constitutes an internal representation of the viewed object.
C. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a single one-step procedure or a serial step-by-step one.
D. When an object is encountered again, it is matched with its internal recognition and thereby recognised.
6. The internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation.
(a) DBAC
(b) DCAB
(c) BDCA
(d) CABD
11.
1. The idea of sea-floor spreading actually preceded the theory of plate tectonics.
A. The hypothesis was soon substantiated by the discovery that periodic reversals of the earth's magnetic field are recorded in the oceanic crust.
B. In its original version, it described the creation and destruction of ocean floor, but it did not specify rigid lithospheric plates.
C. An explanation of this process devised by F.J. Vine and D.H. Mathews of Princeton is now generally accepted.
D. The sea-floor spreading hypothesis was formulated chiefly by Harry H. Hess of Princeton University in the early 1960's.
6. As magma rises under the mid-ocean, ferromagnetic minerals in the magma become magnetised in the direction of the geomagnetic field.
(a) DCBA
(b) ABDC
(c) CBDA
(d) DBAC
12.
1. The history of mammals dates back at least to Triassic time.
A. Miocene and Pliocene time was marked by culmination of several groups and continued approach towards modern characters.
B. Development was retarded, however, until the sudden acceleration of evolutional change that occurred in the oldest Paleocene.
C. In the Oligocene Epoch, there was further improvement, with appearance of some new lines and extinction of others.
D. This led in Eocene time to increase in average size, larger mental capacity, and special adaptations for different modes of life.
6. The peak of the career of mammals in variety and average large size was attained in this epoch.
(a) BDCA
(b) ACDB
(c) BCDA
(d) ACBD
13.
1. The death of cinema has been predicted annually.
A. It hasn't happened.
B. It was said that the television would kill it off and indeed audiences plummeted reaching a low in 1984.
C. Film has enjoyed a renaissance, and audiences are now roughly double of what they were a decade ago.
D. Then the home computer became the projected nemesis, followed by satellite television.
6. Why? Probably because, even in the most atomized of societies, we human beings feel the need to share our fantasies and our excitement.
(a) CADB
(b) BDAC
(c) ABDC
(d) DABC
Q14 to 19: A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, from a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentence from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
14.
A. In emission trading, the government fixes the total amount of pollution that is acceptable to maintain a desired level of air quality.
B. Economists argue this approach makes air pollution control more cost – effective than the current practice of fixing air
pollution standards and expecting all companies to pollute below these standards.
C. USA uses emission trading to control air pollution.
D. It then distributes emission permits to all companies in the region, which add up to the overall acceptable level of emission.
(a) BADC
(b) ACDB
(c) CADB
(d) DBAC
15.
A. Realists believe that there is an objective reality "out there" independent of ourselves.
B. This reality exists solely by virtue of how the world is, and it is in principle discoverable by application of the methods of science.
C. They believe in the possibility of determining whether or not a theory is indeed really true or false.
D. I think it is fair to say that this is the position to which most working scientists subscribe.
(a) ABCD
(b) CDBA
(c) DCBA
(d) BCAD
16.
A. All levels of demand, whether individual, aggregate, local, national, or international are subject to change.
B. At the same time, science and technology add new dimensions to products, their uses, and the methods used to market them.
C. Aggregate demand fluctuates with changes in the level of business activity, GNP, and national income.
D. The demands of individuals tend to vary with changing needs and rising income.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) BCAD
(d) ADCB
17.
A. There is a strong manufacturing base for a variety of products.
B. India has come a long way on the technology front.
C. But the technology adopted has been largely of foreign origin.
D. There are however areas such as atomic energy, space, agriculture, and defense where significant strides have been made in evolving relevant technologies within the country.
(a) ADCB
(b) DBAC
(c) BACD
(d) CBAD
18.
A. Secret persons shall strike with weapons, fire or poison.
B. Clans mutually supporting each other shall be made to strike at the weak points.
C. He shall destroy their caravans, herds, forests and troop reinforcements.
D. The conqueror shall cause enemy kingdom to be destroyed by neighboring kings, jungle tribes, pretenders or unjustly treated princes.
(a) DCBA
(b) ABCD
(c) BDCA
(d) ADCB
19.
A. The individual companies vary in size, from the corner grocery to the industrial giant.
B. Policies and management methods within firms range from formal well-planned organization and controls to slipshod day-to-day operations.
C. Various industries offer a wide array of products or services through millions of firms largely independent of each other.
D. Variation in the form of ownership contributes to diversity in capital investment, volume of business, and financial structure.
(a) DBCA
(b) CADB
(c) BADC
(d) ADCB
Q20 to 23: Read the text and the numbered statements carefully and answer the questions given at the end.
Four people of different nationalities live on the same side of a street in four houses each of different color. Each person has a different favorite drink. The following additional information is also known:
The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Italian drinks tea.
The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left.
In the second house from the right they drink milk.
The Norwegian lives adjacent to the blue house.
The Spaniard drinks fruit juice.
Tea is drunk in the blue house.
The white house is to the right of the red house.
20. The color of the Norwegian's house is
(a) yellow
(b) white
(c) blue
(d) red
21. Milk is drunk by
(a) Norwegian
(b) English
(c) Italian
(d) None of the above
22. The Norwegian drinks
(a) milk
(b) cocoa
(c) tea
(d) fruit juice.
23. Which of he following is not true?
(a) Milk is drunk in the red house.
(b) The Italian lives in the blue house.
(c) The Spaniard lives in a corner house.
(d) The Italian lives next to the Spania
Q24 to 27 : Refer to the following information and answer the questions that follow.
"Kya – Kya" is an island in the South Pacific. The inhabitants of "Kya – Kya" always answer any question with two sentences, one of which is always true and the other always false.
24. You find that your boat is stolen. You question three inhabitants of the island and they reply as follows:
John says, "I didn't do it. Mathew didn't do it."
Mathew says. "I didn't do it. Krishna didn't do it."
Krishna says. "I didn't do it. I don't know who did it."
Who stole your boat?
(a) John
(b) Mathew
(c) Krishna
(d) None of them
25. There is only one pilot on the island. You interview three men, Koik, Lony and Mirna. You also notice that Koik is wearing a cap.
Mirna says, "Lony's father is the pilot. Lony is not the priest's son."
Koik says, "I am the priest. On this island, only priests can wear caps."
Lony says says, I am the priest's son. Koik is not the priest."
Which of the following is true?
(a) Lony is not Koik's son.
(b) Koik is the pilot.
(c) Mirna is the pilot.
(d) Lony is the priest.
26. You are walking on the road and come to a fork. You ask the inhabitants Ram, Laxman and Lila. "which road will take me to the village?"
Ram says, "I never speak to strangers, I am new to these parts."
Laxman says, "I am married to Lila. Take the left road."
Lila says, "I am married to Ram, He is not new to this place."
Which of the following is true?
(a) Left road takes you to the village.
(b) Right road takes you to the village.
(c) Lila is married to Laxman.
(d) None of these.
27. You want to speak to the chief of the village. You question three inhabitants. Amar, Bobby and Charles. Only Bobby's is wearing a red shirt."
Amar says. "I am not Bobby's son. The chief wears a red shirt."
Bobby says, "I am Amar's father, Charles is the chief."
Charles says, "The chief is one among us. I am the chief."
Who is the chief?
(a) Amar
(b) Bobby
(c) Charles
(d) None of them
Q28 to 31: Each question is a logical sequence of statements with a missing link, the location of which is shown parenthetically. From the four choices available you are required to choose the one which best fits the sequence logically.
28. Many of us live one-eyed lives. We rely largely on the eye of the mind to form our images of reality. It is a mechanical world based on fact and reason. (_______). So today more and more of us are opening the other eye, the eye of the heart, looking for realities to which the mind's eye is blind. This is a world warmed and transformed by the power of love, a vision of community beyond the mind's capacity to see. Either eye alone is not enough. We need "wholesight", a vision of the world in which mind and heart unite.
(a) It had lead to unprecedented scientific growth and material well – being.
(b) In the nuclear age, our mind-made world has been found flawed and dangerous, even lethal,
(c) The question is irrelevant, whether or not they can be seen and reasoned.
(d) We have built our lives based on it because it seemed predictable and safe.
29. People arguing for a position have been known to cast the opposite in an unnecessarily feeble light. (______). People who indulge in this fallacy may be fearful or ignorant of a strong counter argument. Detecting this fallacy often depends on having already heard a better refutation, or having information with which to construct one.
(a) Casting the opposite as weaker than it really is, is a very effective strategy.
(b) This portrayal of a refutation as weaker than it really is, is a sure way of proving your point.
(c) Casting the opposite as weaker than it really is, is not a very effective strategy.
(d) This portrayal of refutation as weaker than it really is, is unwarranted.
30. The question of what rights animals should enjoy is a vexatious one, Hundreds of millions of animals are put to death for human use each year. Contrariwise, it can be argued that slowing down scientific research would retard discovery of antidotes to diseases such as cancer which kill humans and animals alike. (_________). What if super intelligent beings from Alpha Centauri landed on earth and decided to use us for their experiments, arguing that they could save far more of their and our lives by so doing?
(a) It will benefit both in the long run.
(b) Is the argument truly fair to animals?
(c) But the progress of human civilization cannot be made contingent on some hypothetical rights of animals.
(d) There is no question of equating human rights with those of animals.
31. A deliberation is a form of discussion in which two people begin on different sides of an issue. (_______) Then each decides, in the light of the other argument whether to adopt the other position, to change his or her position somewhat, or to maintain the same position. Both sides realize that to modify one's position is not to lose; the point is to get closer to the truth of the matter.
(a) Each person argues his or her position most sincerely.
(b) The prerequisite for deliberation to be productive is that persons involved must keep an open mind.
(c) The purpose is to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of both parties.
(d) The trick is to state your viewpoint from a position of strength.
Q32 to 41: Each of these questions has a pair of CAPITALIZED words followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalized pair.
32. BRAND : PRODUCT
(a) Dalda : Rath
(b) Aircraft : Flying Machine
(c) Shoes : Reebok
(d) Sports car : Automobiles
33. FOOD : GOURMET
(a) Book : Critic
(b) Art : Connoisseur
(c) Sports : Fans
(d) Craft : Skill
34. NORTH : SOUTH
(a) Black : White
(b) Yellow : orange
(c) Red : Maroon
(d) Red : Indigo
35. DROUGHT : FAMINE
(a) Poverty : Plenty
(b) Drip : Fluid
(c) Camera : Film
(d) Training : Skill
36. NUTS : BOLTS
(a) Nitty : Gritty
(b) Bare : Feet
(c) Naked : Clothes
(d) Hard : Soft
37. SALT : SALTY
(a) Sweet : Sugar
(b) Cow : Bovine
(c) Bitter : Sour
(d) Taste : Flavor
38. JUST : ARBITRARY
(a) Order : Chaos
(b) Bare : Clothed
(c) Hope : Surprise
(d) Proper : Impropr
39. CRIME : PUNISHMENT
(a) Lawyer : Judge
(b) Court : Room
(b) Accused : Defendant
(d) Homicide : Penalty
40. ATMOSPHERE : STRATOSPHERE
(a) Nimbus : Cloud
(b) Instrument : Calibration
(c) Aircraft : Jet
(d) Climate : Rain
41. DIVIDE : UNITE
(a) Split : Apart
(b) Marriage : Divorce
(b) Fission : Fusion
(d) Chasm : Gap
Q42 to 46: Each of the following questions has four items. Mark the one that does not belong to this group.
42.
(a) Invoice
(b) Sales Tax
(c) Octroi
(d) Quotation
43.
(a) Equestrian
(b) Neigh
(c) Derby
(d) Bark
44
(a) Apt
(b) Relevant
(c) Appropriate
(d) Adept
45.
(a) Ring
(b) Shoulder
(c) Finger
(d) Write
46.
(a) Abstract
(b) Conceptual
(c) Material
(d) Idealist
Q47 to 50 : Each question is a sentence broken into four parts. Select that part which has an error.
47.
(a) You did not wait
(b) for us before you
(c) went to meet him.
(d) Isn't it?
48.
(a) The police have prevented
(b) Rajan in leaving the
(c) city without informing them
(d) two days in advance.
49.
(a) I would have
(b) given you the
(c) documents yesterday if
(d) you had asked for it.
50.
(a) Who have you
(b) invited for the lecture
(c) on astrophysics
(d) this evening?
