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44. Based on the passage, which of the following cannot be inferred as a possible consequence of the
advent of the information age?
(a) Flat organizations with few levels between the junior employees and senior managers.
(b) Rising unemployment level for educated workers.
(c) Redefining of market boundaries and increased innovation by companies.
(d) A heightened nostalgia for earlier ages.
45. Which of the following could be a possible topic for the paragraph immediately following the last para
in the passage?
(a) The construction of a new social order in the information age by the decentralized individual.
(b) The industrial age and social organization in that age.
(c) 'Creative destruction' in the marketplace in the information age.
(d) Cynicism about institutions in the post-industrial age.
46. The author is least likely to agree with which of the following statements about the 'Great Disruption'?
(a) The roots of the Great Disruption can be traced to events that occurred even before the advent of the
Internet age.
(b) Even though the Great Disruption coincided with the process of economies transitioning from the
industrial to the information age the two cannot be clearly linked.
(c) The Great Disruption was an indirect outcome of two things people valued in the information
age- freedom and equality.
(d) The changes that characterized the Great Disruption were neither gradual nor restricted to certain
parts of the world.
51. What is the author attempting to illustrate through this passage?
(a) The fact that books like 'The Affluent Society', end up promoting the cause of the author more than
finding real solutions to the issues they deal with.
(b) The disparity in the development of utilities and services between the private sector and the state
sector in the United States
(c) The trend of bipolar disparities in economic endowments observed by him from the time of the first
publication of 'The Affluent Society'.
(d) That human nature and not economic factors are responsible for the gap between the rich and the
poor
52. The author is likely to agree with which of the following?
(a) Contrived consumption in today's world leads to unfair competitive practices among sellers of
private goods.
(b) The environmental impact of consumer sovereignty is best addressed by bodies like the United
Nations rather than by individual countries in the developing world
(c) The family (quoted in the passage) which went for a holiday liked commercial art because commercial
art is one of the features of the affluent society
(d) A disregard for the public good is one of the hallmarks of the 'affluent society
'.
53. Which of the following terms corresponds best to the definition of 'consumer sovereignty'?
(a) Buyer's market
(b) Consumerist culture
(c) Consumer Goods
(d) Perfect competition among seller
58 According to the passage the technology of climate change is not a simple field because
(a) It is governed by spreadsheet-wielding engineers.
(b) It is too complicated and too vital to succumb to governance.
(c) It is susceptible to zealotry and taboos.
(d) It requires a global agreement on emissions.
59. According to the passage, why are the hydrogen-powered fuel cells no longer the green future?
(a) Because billions of dollars were spent on the technology.
(b) Because there is the chicken-and-egg problem.
(c) Because there are no hydrogen cars.
(d) Because there are three problems with the technology.
60. Which of the following is not a reason for the debacle of the fuel cells in the passage?
(a) The fuel cell technology combats climate change.
(b) Producing hydrogen from natural gas creates a lot of carbon dioxide.
(c) There are virtually no hydrogen filling-stations and cars.
(d) The cost of hydrogen-based vehicles is high.
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