CAM 16

A to C

A.  Para -based practice

1)Throughout much of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, European chemists almost universally believed
that the elementary atoms of which all chemical species consisted were held together by forces of mutual affinity.
Thus a lump of silver cohered because of the forces of affinity between silver corpuscles. On the same theory silver
dissolved in acid because the particles of acid attracted those of silver more strongly than particles of these solutes
attracted each other. Or again, copper would dissolve in the silver solution and precipitate silver, because the
copper-acid affinity was greater than the affinity of acid for silver.

Which of the following is a correct inference to be drawn from the passage?

(A) Salt dissolves in water because the particles of water are attracted to those of salt more strongly than they
are to themselves.

(B) Salt dissolves in water because the particles of salt are more attracted to themselves than to particles of
water.

(C) Salt dissolves in water because particles of water are equally attracted to themselves and salt particles

(D) Salt particles and water particles share mutual affinity

2) In 1971, the psychologist B.F. Skinner expressed the hope that the vast, humanly created problems defacing our
beautiful planet (famines, wars, the threat of a nuclear holocaust) could all be solved by new "technologies of
behavior." The psychological school of behaviorism sought to replace the idea of human beings as autonomous
agents with the "scientific" view of them as biological organisms, responding to external stimuli, whose behavior could
be modified by altering their environment. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in 1964 Skinner's claims about potential behavior
modification had attracted funding from the CIA via a grant-making body called the Human Ecology Society.

Which of the following about Skinner is not supported by the paragraph above? .

(A) Skinner thought our images of ourselves as free men had contributed to global ecological catastrophes.

(B) In Skinner's view of learning a person, or an animal for that matter, must first emit or demonstrate a specific
behavior that is subsequently reinforced and thus becomes learned.

(C) Skinner stressed the primacy of environmental influences on human behavior.

(D) Skinner was interested in understanding the human mind and its mental processes.

3) When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the
scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular
biology and other fields gradually established evolution’s truth beyond reasonable doubt. Today that battle has been
won everywhere except in the public imagination.

Which of the following is the author least likely to agree with?

(A) Most people in the world today believe in the theory of evolution.

(B) The theory of evolution has gained widespread acceptance in may fields.
(C) The theory of evolution was controversial when it was first proposed.

(D) Evolution is an accepted truth among the cognoscenti today.

4) Rice paddies rarely get mentioned in climate change discussions. Nevertheless, their impact on the atmosphere
can be surprisingly large, releasing between 25 and 100 million tonnes of methane annually — potentially as much as
17 percent of global methane emissions. With rice production likely to escalate over the coming decades to feed
growing populations, and methane up to 20 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, that adds up to
a significant amount of warming from a simple bowl of rice.

Which of the following, if true, strengthens the above argument?

(A) The production of SUSIBA2, dubbed the world's first 'climate-friendly rice' has led to dramatically reduced
quantities of methane emitted by the paddies where it is grown.

(B) Rice is grown very widely and the warm, waterlogged soil of rice paddies provides ideal conditions for
methanogenesis.

(C) Methane breaks down in a brief eight years (unlike carbon dioxide, which takes more than 100).

(D) Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels
and various industrial and agricultural processes.

5) Myth is a story that can be retold by anyone. with infinite variation, and still be recognisable as itself. The outline of
surviving myth is re-recognised in the lives of each generation. It's an instrument by which people simplify. rationalise
and retell social complexities. It's a means to haul the abstract, the global and the relative into the realm of the
concrete. the local and the absolute. It's a way to lay claim to faith in certain values. If those who attempt to interpret
the world do so only through the prism of professional thinkers, and ignore the persistence of myth in everyday
thought and speech, the interpretations will be deficient.

Which of the following statements is best supported by the passage?

(A) The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest. but the myth,
persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

(B) People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

(C) Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

(D) Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of
others.

6) Americans who don't believe in global warming should visit the Miami Beach neighbourhood at high tide. when
Biscagne Bay surges through the storm drains and swamps the streets. The New York Times ran a photo of
sunny-day flooding outside the local drugstore, above an article headlined. -Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate
Change Debate: Really. the debate should be over. Scientists have already documented 13 cm to 20 an of sea-level
nse around South Florida over the past 50 years. But a new global survey conducted about attitudes toward energy
and conservation illustrates that many Americans don't believe that climate change is not some distant problem of the
future but is a problem affecting Americans right now.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the conclusion of the survey?

(A) Global warming has the potential to singe us, but it could roast our kids and grandkids

(B) Americans have got bigger headaches than the monthly flooding in the nearby .grocery-store parking lot

(C) Americans were less concerned than the global average about higher sea levels and almost every other
climate change problem the pollsters asked except higher gas prices.
(D) Compared with citizens in other countries. Americans were among the least likely to turn off the lights when
leaving a room or power down their computer at night and by tar the least likely to walk or take public transit instead
of driving.

7) The refugees coming by boat to Italy have already set a record this year. and it's only halfway through the season
of calm summer waters. The surge has resulted partly from the civil war in Syria. which has forced 3 million people to
flee their homeland. Europe. peaceful, affluent and comparatively close — is a natural destination. It's where the
desperate meets the developed. Often with the aid of reckless human traffickers, refugees attempt to cross these
waters in rubber dinghies or crumbling fishing boats that can capsize. plunging the occupants Into the sea. Which of
the following, if true, provides sufficient grounds to support the claim that asylum-seekers' lives are jeopardized at
sea''

(A) Italy cannot deal with the human tide of refugees alone.

(B) Hundreds of migrants have drowned at Europe's doorstep in the past year alone.

(C) The Italian navy sometimes rescues hundreds of refugees per day on the seas of the Mediterranean.

(D) European coastal patrols have started resorting to push-back operations. in which refugees are forced to
turn around before their boats leave international waters.

8) There are few things as awesome as a U.S. aircraft Carrier — 100.000 tons of nuclear-powered steel towering 20
stories above the waterline and crammed with nearly 70 warplanes ready to do its nation's bidding. A carrier
reassures allies while giving pause to global trouble-makers. For more than a half-century. These 300-m flattops and
their 5.000-sailor crews have patrolled the seas with impunity. The Navy apparently believes they have a future too. It
is building two new ones. at a cost of nearly $15 billion each, with a third in the pipeline. Admirals like to call a carner
'4 V.1 acres of sovereign American territory.' But these mighty fighting machines may be losing some of their
invincibility.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest grounds for the prediction above?

(A) It is the U.S. - provided security that has nurtured economic growth and relative stability in weaker parts of
the world.

(B) The said carrier is a marriage of several existing military technologies that together could transform war.

(C) China has deployed a new kind of ballistic missile with the potential to change the balance of power in the
world.

(D) The U.S. Military has treated global oceans as its private pond since the end of World War 11

9) Russia's most obvious retaliation against Western sanctions would be to choke off energy supplies. particularly gas
It provides about a quarter of the gas burned in the European Union. Europe had a taste of gas wars in 2006, and
again in 2009. when Russia shut the pipelines to Ukraine, leaving many downstream countries, mostly in
south-eastern Europe. to shiver in the winter cold. So. what if Russia decides to cut off gas to the whole of Europe?
Through a combination of finding alternative suppliers. switching of fuels and rationing, most countries, but not all,
should get through six months or eo. The more acute problems would begin in winter, when demand for heating rises
sharply. Yet most Europeans think Russia would never dare to go so far.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest grounds for the Europeans' prediction?

(A) Europe is reliant on Russia as its main gas supplier.

(B) Russia has an extensive Europe-bound pipeline network.

(C) Europe accounts for about half of Russia's gas exports.

(D) The advent of shale gas has transformed the global gas market.

10) The great inventions of the 19th century, from electric power to the internal-combustion engine, transformed the
human condition. Yet for workers who lived through the upheaval, the experience of industrialization was harsh, full of
hard toil in crowded conditions. disease-ridden cities. The modern digital revolution—with its hallmarks of computer
power, connectivity and data ubiquity—has brought 'Phones and the internet(, not crowded tenements and cholera.
But it is disrupting and dividing the vvctrld of work on a scale not seen for more than a century.

Which of the following, if true, backs up the claim in the argument above?

(A) Today's virtual companies employ fewer people directly and buy so much more of their output from other
businesses.

(B) The digital revolution is bringing sweeping change to labour markets in both rich and poor worlds.

(C) Technological revolutions are best appreciated from a distance.

(D) Vast wealth is being created without many workers, and for all but an elite few. work 'no longer guarantees a
rising income.
B. Quantitative Aptitude

Q.1. The price of sugar in the market decreased by 25%, as a result Mrs. Reddy got 5 kg more spending the same
180, which she allocated for purchasing sugar, every month. Find how many kilograms less she would have got for
the same money, had the price increased by 25% instead of decreasing.

(A) 2 kg (B) 3 kg (C) 4 kg (D) 5 kg

Q.2. John, Jack and Jill start simultaneously from A to B. John reaches B, turns back and meets Jack at a distance 11
km from B. Jack reaches B, turns back and meets Jill at a distance of 9 km from B. If the ratio of the speeds of John
and Jill is 3 : 2, what is distance (in km) between A and B?

(A) 11 (B) 99 (C) 100 (D) 198

3. P, Q and R are paid ₹6300 for doing a piece of work together. P and Q start the work and continue to work together
for 10 days. After that P quits while R joins Q and they complete the remaining work. How much does Q receive for
his work, given that P can do the work in 30 days, Q in 60 days and R in 90 days?

(A) 2940 (B) 3000 (C) 3500 (D) 4000

Q.4. Rana, Sona and Tina participate in a running competition. Each of them takes below 30 seconds to complete the
race. Rana, who is the winner, takes between 5 to 10 seconds to complete the race. The product of the timing of all
three (in seconds) is multiple of 77 and 161. Find the time taken by Tina, who finished last.

(A) 21 s (B) 23 s (C) 24 s (D) 27 s

Q.5. Rakesh has a set of 3-digit numbers. He divided all those numbers by 6, 3, 2 successively and found that all
numbers left the same remainder of 4, 2, 1. Find the sum of all such possible 3-digit numbers which Rakesh can
have.

(A) 13,556 (B) 13,520 (C) 13,450 (D) 13,350

Q.6. Triangle PQR is equilateral and PO, QM and RL are the altitudes LR2+
QM2 + PO2 = 51√3 cm? , find the area of ∆PQR.

(A) 17 cm2 (B) 17√3 cm2

(C) 21√3 cm² (D) 34√3 cm2

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(A) 21/4 (B) 9/2 (C) 11/2 (D) 5/4

Q.8. 40 different books are to be distributed among three persons A, B and C such that A receives twice as many
books as B and B receives thrice as many books as C. The number of ways of distributing the 40 books among the
three persons is ---------

(A)
40!
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Directions for questions 9 and 10: These questions are based on the information given below.

A water tank has enough water reserves, for a locality, for 90 days. But, 150 kilolitres of water gets wasted (due to a
leak) every day and the total store lasts for only 60 days.

9. What is the water consumption (in kilolitres) of the locality per day?

(A) 60 (B) 15 (C) 300 (D) 270

10. If after 30 days the wastage is stopped, for how many days will the remaining water last?

(A) 15 (B) 45 (C) 60 (D) 75

C. DILR 

Directions for questions 1 to 5: Answer these questions on the basis of the information given below.

The pie-chart gives the break-up of the runs scored in a match by all the five players who batted for a team in the
tournament. The table gives the share (as a percentage of the total number of 4's & 6's scored) of the number of
fours (4's) and sixes (6's) scored by five batsmen.

The team's score was the minimum possible score which satisfied all these values.

1. How many fours (4's) did the team score in total?

(A) 10 (В) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18

2. How many runs did player B score?

(A) 24 (В) 36 (C) 42 (D) None of these

3. Who among the given players scored the maximum percentage of his runs through 4s or 6s?

(A) B (B) С (C) A (D) E

4. How many runs did the five players together score?

(A) 150 (B) 200 (C) 220 (D) 250

5. If C scored runs in 1’s, 2’s or 4’s & 6’s, find the minimum number of balls he could face?

(A) 10 (В) 12 (C) 11 (D) 8

Direction for Q.6 to 8

There are 100 whatsapp users in a colony. Each of them is a member of at least one of the 5 WhatsApp groups-A, B,
C, ID arid E. Each of those who is a member in group C is a member of either group D or group E but is not a
member of any other group. The number of people who are members of exactly one group is equal to those who are
members of exactly four groups which in turn is equal to 10. The number of people who are members of each
possible pair of exactly two groups is 5.

-The number of people who are members of the groups-C,D and E is 10 only.

-Twenty people are members of E only.

-Ten persons are members only.

of the groups-A, D and

the groups-B, D and E

6. How many people are members of exactly two groups?

A. 20 B. 40 C. 30 D. 50

7. How many people are members of exactly three groups?

A. 20 B. 30 C. 40 D. 50

8. How many people are members of Group D. If 10 people are members of only group A?

A. 40 B. 50 C. 60 D. 70