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Solved Paper of IMS Examination, 2001
Directions for questions 1 to 5 :
Choose the odd word out.
1. (1) Impressionist
(2) Surrealist
(3) Cubist
(4) Norwick
2. (1) Mast
(2) Quay
(3) Hull
(4) Anchor
3. (1) Burrow
(2) Excavate
(3) Investigate
(4) Lair
4. (1) Seismograph
(2) Stanza
(3) Metaphor
(4) Limerick
5. (1) Burden
(2) Weight
(3) Oppress
(4) Encumber
Directions for questions 6 to 10 :
Choose the pair of words that has a
similar relationship as that of the
capitalized pair.
6. CURATE
: PARISH
(1) Hairdresser : Bouffant
(2) Valet
: Wardrobe
(3) Laureate
: Prize
(4) Chauffeur
: Two-wheelers
7. FORD
: CROSS
(1) Fuel
: Fake
(2) Bridge
: Span
(3) Drum
: Beat
(4) Drug
: Perplex
8. RIPARIAN : BANK
(1) Sartorial
: Clothes
(2) Porcine
: Sty
(3) Valetudinarian : Placebo
(4) Sectarian
: Philosophy
9. HAMMER : TOOL
(1) Needle
: Pin
(2) Fork
: Cutlery
(3) Forcep
: Weapon
(4) Knife
: Instrument
10. FLAMB
: CAKE
(1) Fry
: Curry
(2) Knead
: Flour
(3) Saut
: Vegetables
(4) Cook
: Bread
Directions for questions 11 to 20 :
Choose the option which is
grammatically correct and precise.
11. Toasted bread and eggs are my
favourite breakfast.
(1) Toast bread and egg are my
favourite breakfast.
(2) Toast and eggs is my favourite
breakfast.
(3) Toast and eggs are my favourite
breakfast.
(4) Toasted bread and eggs are my
favourite breakfast.
12. Your best bet is passes for the
sellout show.
(1) Your best bet are passes.
(2) Your best bet would be to obtain
passes.
(3) Your best bet is to get passes.
(4) Your best bet is passes.
13. She lives up that end of town.
(1) She lives up on that end of town.
(2) She lives at that end of the town.
(3) She lives up in that end of town.
(4) She lives up that end of town.
14. Youll find it difficult to cut
clean with those blunt scissors.
(1) cut the cloth with those blunt
scissors.
(2) cut straight with those blunt
scissors.
(3) cut cleanly with those blunt
scissors.
(4) cut clean with those blunt
scissors.
15. She pleaded to be innocence but
the jury remained unconvinced.
(1) She pleaded innocence
(2) She claimed to be innocent
(3) She staked innocence
(4) She pleaded to be innocence
16. Of the two books that she has
authored, the second is the best.
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uncontested if he dies suddenly
or in an accident.
(4) If the tycoon were to die
suddenly, as in an accident, his
will would be uncontested.
Directions for questions 21 to 30 :
Fill in the blanks with the correct
words.
21. Gardening
becomes
more____with each____yearnew
fertilisers, new varieties, new
equipment.
(1) stressful; coming
(2) fanciful; passed
(3) complicated; passing
(4) exciting; renovated
22. So whether its forty____of iron
ore or a single, highly____microchip, we
can get there with the least fuss, in the
least time, and with absolute security.
(1) smelts; advanced
(2) tons; sensitive
(3) weights; volatile
(4) grams; crystallized
23. Many apparently____people
were____from the restrictions in the
club.
(1) well-heeled; kept
(2) sensitive; engaged
(3) warm; segregated
(4) unsuitable; exempted
24. ____it carefully and you will see
how_____it really is.
(1) handle; petite
(2) study; impossible
(3) analyse; misleading
(4) answer; astonishing
25. Unless you are very confident
of____dont
risk
such
mischievous____with language.
(1) strinting it up; grappling
(2) standing it down; simpering
(3) bringing it off; juggling
(4) taking it up; indulging
26. His____presence was____in the
otherwise calm and sophisticated
gathering.
(1) benign; amusing
(2) beatific; surprising
(3) unctuous; jarring
(4) somnolent; charming
27. As she____about the room in
righteous____, her secretary looked
amused.
(1) strutted; pride
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38. INGESTED
(1) Eaten
(2) Absorbed
(3) Studded
(4) Noted
39. EFFUSIONS
(1) Complimentary chatter
(2) Gushing utterances
(3) Rambling banter
(4) Unveiled sarcasm
40. SKEIN
(1) Segment
(2) Nich
(3) Haven
(4) Cliqu
Directions for questions 41 to 50:
Read the passages given below and
answer the questions that follow.
PASSAGE
Descartess rationalism ushered in
the Age of Enlightenment, the
intellectual renaissance that set Europe
and North America aglow in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Enlightenment challenged the
theology-based social order by
establishing reason as the most
important source and test of truth. It was
not long, however, before a new school
of thought, empiricism, arose to
downplay the importance of reason as
the final arbiter of truth, especially in
science. Truth, empiricism argued,
should be sought only in sensory
experience and tested against sensory
experience. Only if a supposed fact
could be verified by perception could it
actually be true.
The empiricistsmost notably the
British empiricists John Locke, George
Berkeley, and David Hume
functioned, each in his turn, as an engine
of destruction bent on razing Cartesian
rationalism, just as Descartes himself
had pulled down his own generations
towers of accepted knowledge. In fact,
as the first of the British empiricists, John
Locke fancied himself an under-laborer
in clearing the ground a little, and
removing some of the rubbish that lies
in the way of knowledge. Locke
acknowledges the master builders
whose mighty designs in advancing the
sciences will leave lasting monuments
to the admiration of posterity. But he is
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hoped would attract the attention of the
world fell dead born from the press
amid a flurry of unfavorable reviews.
But readers who ignored the reviews
and took a chance on Hume discovered
in his book a bold new philosophy that
rejected the Physics of Plato, Thomas
Aquinas, and Descartes as rash
arrogance and dismissed Cartesian
substance as a chimera. Moreover,
Hume did for the mind what Berkeley
had done for matter, denying the
existence of a soul as thoroughly as his
empiricist predecessor had denied the
reality of the body. In its place, Hume
argued what has come to be called the
bundle conceptthe belief that minds
are nothing but a bundle or collection
of different perceptions, which succeed
each other with an inconceivable
rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and
movement.
41. When the author says that the
intellectual renaissance set Europe and
North America aglow, he means that:
(1) the renaissance gave the two
continents the light of reason.
(2) the renaissance removed the era
of the dark ages in Europe and
America.
(3) the renaissance caused much
excitement in the two continents
and rendered them interesting.
(4) the renaissance caused the
mood of intellectualism to
develop freely.
42. Rationalism was succeeded by:
(1) the Age of Enlightenment
(2) Immaterialism
(3) Empericism
(4) Renaissance
43. Which of the following cannot
be inferred about the empiricists?
(1) They wanted to test every
truth against sensory
experience.
(2) Truth to them was an action
that was independent of causal
explanation.
(3) They treated only their own
experience or any verified fact
as the basis of knowledge.
(4) They regarded earlier theories
with skepticism.
44. Which of the following, if true,
empiricists?
(1) The importance of verifying
facts.
(2) Sensory experience.
(3) The soul.
(4) The existence of perceptions.
49. Hutcheson regarded morality as:
(1) an aftermath of a religious
belief.
(2) the imposition of society.
(3) the natural desire of mankind
to lead a reasonable life with
others.
(4) the reason for religious
extremism.
50. Which of the following
philosophers do not find their theories
negated by Hume?
(1) George Berkeley
(2) Thomas Aquinas
(3) Descartes
(4) John Locke
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