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1. Paradoxically, the Northeast's power problem is a saga of shortage
amid plenty – a report puts the region's identified potential at
59,000 MW. Both Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya are hydel power
storehouses and yet these states suffer from shortages. The
construction of hydel projects has a long gestation period, not to
forget that these are now being opposed by environmentalists
._______________
a) The emphasis should obviously be on thermal, mini or microprojects
which can produce quick results. Correct Answer
b) Assam's decision to throw open power generation is welcome.
c) Assam's problems will ease once the 500 MW Bangaigaon thermal power
project is commissioned.
d) This, therefore, calls for exploring alternative sources of energy
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2. Uncontrolled and unorganised information is no longer a resource in
an information society. Instead, it becomes the enemy of the
information worker. Scientists who are overwhelmed with technical data
complain of information pollution and charge that it takes less time
to do an experiment than to find out whether or not it has already
been done. Information technology brings order to the chaos of
information pollution and therefore gives value to data that would
otherwise be useless. If users can locate the information they need,
they will pay for it. ________
a) The new businesses are selling a medium, not information as such.
b) The emphasis of the whole information society shifts, then, from
supply to selection.
c) This level of information is clearly impossible to handle by present means.
d) The online information selection business has already become a $
1.5 billionayear enterprise.
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3.American output of maize based ethanol is raising by 30% a year.
Brazil, long the world leader, is pushing ahead as fast as the sugar
crop from which its ethanol is made will allow. China, though late to
start, has already built the world's biggest ethanol plant, and plans
another as big. Germany, the big producer of biodiesel, is raising
output 40-50% a year. France aims to triple output of the two fuels
together. Even in backward Britain a smallish biodiesel plant has just
come on stream, and another as big as Europe's biggest is being built.
And after a long research, a Canadian firm has plans for a full-scale
ethanol plant that will replace today's grain or sugar feedstock with
straw. Output is still tiny compared with that of mineral fuels. _____
a)
In America's corn states, locally produced ethanol is close to being
competitive even without subsidy.
b)
But what the future holds is anybody's guess.
c)
The new fuels are new only in their rampant growth.
d)
But the day of the biofuel has arrived.
4.Osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative disease of joint cartilage
affects around one in four Indians. Further, in India, OA of the knee
is more prevalent than that of the hip.
Which of the following offers the best explanation for the above statement?
a)
Compared to previous generations, Indians now exercise a lot more and
for a greater number of years putting long term stress on joints.
b)
Indians have a couch potato lifestyle that sprouts weight problems.
c)
Indians squat and sit cross-legged more frequently.
d)
Middle aged Indians now have high expectations of how physically
active they can be.
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5.Apparently, two days after the serial-blasts in Mumbai trains,
following the advice of the security agencies, the Department of
Telecommunication decided to block access to certain websites which
were allegedly peddling communal hatred and antinational vitriol.
Which among the following, if true, would seriously undermine the above action?
a)
The true test of democracy is that even in the face of adversities it
should not succumb to pressure and compromise with its democratic
values.
b)
Any government worth its salt has the right to take stringent measures
for the sake of internal security of the country which may cause
temporary inconvience to some citizens.
c)
Technology-savvy netizens have the ability to foil attempts to block
access to websites.
d)
The basic theory of law is that the guilty may escape justice but it
must be ensured that an innocent is not punished.
6.When in 1991, we found it necessary to undertake a paradigm shift in
favour of 'economic reforms' and 'globalisation', the country was not
confident of its political and bureaucratic leadership's ability and
integrity to resist the allurement of foreign enterprises.
Which, among the following, if true, means that the country's lack of
confidence was unfounded?
a)
The economic sovereignty of the country has remained unscathed despite
several onslaughts.
b)
The chief minister of one of the most backward states in India was
able to get a former president of United Statesto put in an appearance
in the state capital.
c)
India's trade with the other countries after the economic reforms were
introduced has increased substantially.
d)
The advent of multinational companies in the country has spelt doom
for several domestic industries.
7.Many Indians now have high paying jobs and the retail industry needs
to focus and break down barriers. Single working women have the most
purchasing power in the market, yet retailers target the youth in the
17-22 year age-group,
Which, among the following, can be said to concur with the above statements?
a)
Retailers should break the barriers in treating the market as men or
women-oriented and reach out to both.
b)
The youth in the 17-22 year age group should not be treated as a
potential market.
c)
Retailers should cater to the requirements of working women.
d)
Today's children are tomorrow's consumers, if not today's
8.1. Rarely in modern times has a novelist found the voice to tell his
people the daring stories about themselves that they crave.
a. This is all the more remarkable because Pamuk is not an easy writer.
b. In Turkey, Pamuk has become as famous as a Flintoff or a Warne, and
his books are best sellers.
c. His literary instincts are post-modern, with strong affiliations to Borgas.
d. The result has been the adulation of the younger generation.
6. But he is also a master storyteller drawn to an imaginative no
man's land between local Turkish culture, on the one hand, and the
Western literary traditions on the other.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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9.1. The Sahitya Academy has from the outset included English in the
list of languages it recognises.
a. As the English language spreads around the world, innovations and
transformations are bound to creep in.
b. Chaman Nahal is a solid defender of the wisdom of this policy.
c. There is no standard variety of English even in England now, he
asserts in his recently published autobiography.
d. He joins issue with those who speak snootily about 'Indian English'.
6. We should have the freedom to adopt them as well as to mould our English.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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10.1. Delhi had started bursting at its seams around two decades ago.
a. Gurgaon and Faridabad both small and under developed towns at the
southern periphery of Delhi in the neighbouring state of Haryana had
many similarities.
b. It was around that time that Governments started exploring the
potential of developing the neighbouring towns of Gurgaon and
Faridabad as an alternative for the working population in Delhi who
wished to stay close to the metropolitan city.
c. Both had huge, unused real estate and quite a big chunk of land was
in use for agricultural purposes.
d. Both were situated on the national highways.
6. No wonder the planners saw huge potential and a series of
development activity was planned for the two towns.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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11.1. The movie tells the tale of a quiet but determined boy who
overcomes poverty and snide remarks.
a. Prithvi runs away from home – his jhola has only his easel, a few
paints and 50 paise.
b. What is moving though is the attempt of a naïve village boy to
discover the whereabouts of an art school where he can get enrolled.
c. An old man at a store informs him of an art school, Shantiniketan.
d. Prithvi finally finds support in his elder brother.
6. There are gaps – how Prithvi re-establishes contact with his
siblings is not explained.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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12.1. Copyright was once a means to guarantee articles a decent income.
a. Aside from the question as to whether it actually functioned as
such, we have to admit that copyright serves an altogether different
purpose.
b. These industries decide whether the materials they have laid their
hands on may be used by others.
c. It is now the tool that conglomerates in the music, publishing,
imaging and movie industries use to control their markets.
d. If they allow it, under what conditions and at what price is also
decided by them.
6. Europeans and Americans legislation extends them that privilege.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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TITA PJ
1 But then I read the other pieces, mostly essays, out there that use
this quote and realized that it was actually the perfect opportunity
to illustrate how what virtually everyone else means by failure is
different from what it means in science
2 Since starting it I have learned that the quote has become a staple
of self-help and business books, headlined by one of the ubiquitous
Timothy Ferriss manuals on how to be fabulous in no time at all with
little or no effort.
3 Then I found that, thanks to an article in Slate magazine, it has
become the darling phrase of Silicon Valley and the so-called
entrepreneurial set
4 I wrote this after being reminded, by English novelist Marina
Lewycka, of this quote from one of Samuel Beckett's lesser known,
later short stories
5 My first thought was to accept having been scooped and jettison the chapter.
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1 What he hadn't bargained for was the cost of deploying youth so tactically.
2 Decades later, Capote was still bothered by his treatment, still
keen to reveal the hard labour behind the self-created façade of
effortlessness.
3 His reputation for precocity was enhanced by the extraordinary
youthfulness of his appearance.
4 That young man knew precisely how advantageous this kind of thing
could be: the illusion of having emerged fully formed, as mature in
talent and sophisticated in wit as he was juvenile in appearance.
5 When Other Voices was published that year, it was a critically
acclaimed bestseller but it was also repeatedly dismissed as "a
freakish accident", its success too closely tied to the adorably dewy,
twinkish person of its author, reclining provocatively on the back
jacket.
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(1) French toys: one could not find a better illustration of the fact
that the adult Frenchman sees the child as another self.
(2) All the toys one commonly sees are reduced copies of human
objects, as if in the eyes of the public the child is nothing but a
smaller man.
(3) Forms that stimulate creativity are very rare : a few sets of
blocks, which appeal to the spirit of do-it-yourself, are the only
ones which offer dynamic forms.
(4) All machine-made French toys always mean something, and this
something is always entirely socialized, constituted by the myths or
the techniques of modern adult life.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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(1). The journey to Nako was nothing short of an adventure.
(2). The serpentine national highway ZZ meandered through the
mountains, the occasional drizzle and the mud on the road making the
drive all the more risky.
(3). Add to that the fear of a landslide!
(4). Down below in the valley, I could see the swollen Sutlej.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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(1). Marh does not have schemes like the MNREGS, but there is a
tradition which works almost the same way.
(2). An entire village works together to prepare a family's field for
sowing or to build a house for them.
(3). Once the job is done, the family will organize a three-day feast
called leor java.
(4). Huge vats of pork curry and copious amounts of sulfi are the
staple of every leor java.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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