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E. Tom decided to chase the Lion and

took out his gun.
Q1- In each of the following questions, 4.
rearrange the given sentences A, B, C and D
and E(if any) indicate the correct sequence in A. Absence of other parental figures
which these sentences must appear so as to in the family has worsened the
make a meaningful paragraph. situation.
B. Drug abuse among youngsters
1. seems to be on the increase.
A. By increasing these connections the C. The need for many mothers to
intelligence is also increased. work has put an additional claim
B. Classical music has been proved to be on the time available for the
very helpful in child development. children.
C. Many doctors now-a-days use it for D. Breakdown of the extended family
therapeutic purpose which is based has put a lot of burden on the
upon the findings of this research. parents.
D. The research has demonstrated that E. Psychologists attribute this to the
listening to classical music increases growing alienation of the new
the rate of nervous connections in generation from their parents.
brain.
I. BDCA 5.
II. DBAC A. Therefore large scale construction
III. ACBD program has to be launched.
IV. BDAC B. Construction has not kept with it
V. BCAD and the shortage of accommodation
2. has been accentuated.
A. This right however comes along with C. But high cost of materials and
the responsibility which the press is labor makes housing an
forced to work with. unprofitable proposition.
B. It means that the pressmen have every D. The census figures show that the
right to expose matters related to population of our cities has
public and national interest. increased immensely in the recent
C. Such responsibilities include not years.
broadcasting matters related to national E. This shortage must be overcome in
security and other sensitive issues. a reasonably short time.
D. Freedom of press is symbolic of
democracy. 6.
I. DBCA A. A study of this effect suggests that
II. DBAC the average white-collar worker
III. ABCD demonstrates only about twenty-
IV. BDAC five percent listening efficiency.
V. BCDA B. However, for trained and good
3. listeners it is not unusual to see all
A. As he got up, a frightened native the three approaches during a
told him about the man eater. setting, thus improving listening
B. When he approached the thick efficiency.
bush, he saw the lion running C. There are three approaches to
towards him. listening: listening for
C. Tom was awakened by the fearful comprehension, listening for
screams of the villagers. empathy and listening for
D. In a stage of fright, a shot was fired evaluation.
accidentally by Tom, but it hit the
Lion.
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D. Although we spend nearly half of (a) DECBF (b) BCDEF (c) DCEFB
each communication interaction (d) DEBFC (e) CBEFD
listening, we do not listen well.
E. Each approach has a particular Question 3:
emphasis that may help us to
2. A. In other words, instead of more
receive and process information in
“reservations”, with the resentment that
different settings.
breeds, let us make it easier for minorities
to join the police.
Q2-Rearrange the following sentences in the
B. Unless young people from minorities see
proper sequence to form a meaningful
that the police service offers real career
paragraph. The first line [A] of each question is
opportunities and a good quality of life in
fixed. Arrange the other four lines in a logical
the workplace; they will not overcome
sequence.
their negative perceptions.
Question 1:
C. In India, the promotion of minority police
1. A. As the recession deepens, people across personnel at senior and middle levels and
the ideological spectrum declare that using them as visible symbols of the police
capitalism has failed. force would constitute a powerful model to
B. Yet, recessions are not aberrations of the minority community.
capitalism but an intrinsic part of it. D. The fact that, in many Western countries,
C. A bust is an occasion for cleaning out there are several officers from the visible
deadwood and failed experiments, and re- minorities now at senior officer rank,
inventing capitalism. sends a powerful message to these
D. Almost every economic news report communities.
carries Countries in recession words like E. But let’s not stop with recruitment; we also
‘crisis’ and ‘disaster’. need to focus on the retention and
E. E. Markets create boom and bust cycles, progression of minority officers.
arising from human tendencies to swing
(a) EBCD (b) EBDC (c) DCEB
from euphoria to fear and back.
(d) DBCE (e) ECDB
(a) ECDB (b) EDCB (c)DBEC
Question 4:
(d) BECD (e) DCEB
A. So when fear happens, just become totally
2.
aware and don’t get identified with that thought.
A. Building new towns is the key to raising
B. You feel insecure because you have a concept
productivity of the Indian economy as well.
of what is security and from that concept you are
B. Expensive real estate makes education and seeing life.
health care costly as well.
C. Anything that does not fit that concept makes
C. This jacks up the cost of quality healthcare
you insecure.
and education, and these higher costs feed
into business costs, affecting India’s D. With wordless awareness, just watch.
competitiveness in the global marketplace.
D. Right now, artificial shortage of urban E. This is called objective watching.
land has put a premium on the cost of real
estate. F. This watching will not allow the previous fears
E. Office rentals, hotel accommodation, land to have a snowballing effect.
for factories, all these cost the earth and (a) DFECB (b) DFCBE (c)DFEBC
add to the cost of the goods and services (d) CDEFB (e) CDBFE
emerging from these expensive sites of
production. Question 5:
F. Hospitals and schools in urban areas will
find that upwards of 50 per cent of their A. I’m a huge fan of Vikas Swarup’s novel, one of
capital cost is accounted for by real estate. the most delightful reads I’ve enjoyed in years.

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B. He’s rescued by a female lawyer who gets him A. US President Barack Obama made a significant
to tell his life story and explain how he, an commitment to reversing the previous president’s
uneducated slum kid, knew the answers to such attitude towards combating climate change earlier
difficult questions. this week.
C. But he has retained the novel’s structure and B. The California regulations would force
premise, and Danny Boyle has brought its spirit automakers to reduce vehicle emissions by a third
alive in a way that i believe even Swarup would by 2016, four years before new federal standards
appreciate. take effect.
D. Screenwriter Simon has changed pretty much C. The move would increase fuel efficiency by as
all of Swarup’s stories, introduced a romantic much as eight miles per gallon.
element and even re-baptised the hero.
D. If, as expected, California receives permission
E. It’s about an orphan boy called Ram from the EPA to move ahead, it would mean that
Mohammed Thomas who is about to win a TV both US and other automakers would have to
quiz show based on Kaun Banega Crorepati and is produce cars that are more fuel-efficient than
arrested on suspicion of having got that far by current models.
cheating.
E. He directed the Environmental Protection
F. Ram then tells a number of stories, each of Agency (EPA) to reconsider allowing the state of
which explains how he knew what he happened to California to set stricter fuel-emission standards
know. on vehicles than federal limits.
(a) EBFDC (b) EDEBC (c) CEDBF (a) BCDE (b) EDCB (c) EDBC (d)
(d) FEBCD (e) ECDFB ECBD (e) CDEB
Question 6:
A. Over a span of less than two years, some have Q3.The first line[A] and last line [F] of each
been displaced at least a dozen times and are question are fixed. Arrange the other four lines
haunted by memories of sleepless nights spent in in a logical sequence.
bunkers, constant bombardment and an uncertain Question 1:
future.
A. First, take five minutes to meditate for peace.
B. The worst nightmare for them was the
B. Allow them to radiate from your stillness out
possibility of forcible recruitment of their young
into your body.
boys and girls by the Tigers as the military began
to corner them from mid-2008. C. Bring into your mind anyone against whom
you have a grievance and let it go.
C. Reporters who visited the village heard horror
tales of innocent citizens caught in the crossfire. D. Close your eyes.
D. Every one of the 500-odd families in the E. Put your attention on your heart and inwardly
village has gone through more or less the same repeat the words: peace, harmony, laughter, love.
trauma.
F. Then introduce the intention of peace in your
E. The choice before them was the known devil, thoughts. After a few moments of silence, repeat
the Tigers, and the unknown deep sea, the this prayer: let me be loved, happy and peaceful;
military. let my friends, my perceived enemies, all
(a) CEBD (b) CEDB (c) CBED beings in the world be happy, loved, and peaceful
(d) CDBE (e) CBDE too.
Question 7: (a) CBED (b) CDEB (c) EBDC (d)
DEBC (e) DBEC

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Question 2: F. The visiting journalists were taken to the school

after they insisted on looking at least one other
A. India is fast losing its low-cost position. In facility. Each classroom in the school is packed
Mumbai, executive compensation levels for the with at least 40 persons. Their belongings are kept
financial sector are higher than in London, rental on benches along the walls.
costs are above those in New York and electricity
is dearer than in Tokyo. (a) BCDE (b) EDBC (c) BCED (d) DEBC (e)
EDCB
B. The software sector will have to aspire to be
the poet, not just the scribe. Indian exports of its Question 4:
own software, or licensing of its own intellectual
property (IP), amounted to only about $450 A. Given that the Indian armed forces have an
million in the year ending March 31, 2007. overwhelming dependence on Russian defence
equipment, the news that Russia has grounded its
C. Increasingly, Indian companies will have to do entire fleet of MiG-29 aircraft due to structural
more with their intellectual resources. defects and subsequently found a large percentage
unsafe to fly is ominous.
D. As Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro,
mentioned, in the crucial IT sector, cost arbitrage B. And in a larger context, this is the latest in a
is one entry point but the continued growth of the series of developments over the past few years
sector will have to be based on quality. that suggest it is time for India to diversify its
sources of defence equipment.
E. Indian companies will need to evolve from
their low-cost position. C. Russia’s defence manufacturing base is facing
shortfalls in capabilities and capacities, leading to
F. This is a tiny fraction of India’s IT service contract deadline overruns and increased costs, as
exports. India’s IT sector must go beyond “renting seen repeatedly in the case of the Gorshkov.
out IQ and start creating IP” if it is to compete in
the face of ever-rising costs. D. The immediate implications for India are
worrying. The IAF operates over 60 of the aircraft
(a) BDCE (b) EDCB (c) DBCE (d) and is in the midst of procuring 45 more to fly off
ECDB (e) BCDE the much-delayed Admiral Gorshkov and
indigenous Cochin-built carriers.
Question 3:
E. Poor quality and a lack of spare parts only
A. However, the ground realities are far from
worsen the situation, as do its moribund R&D
satisfactory.
facilities which compel it to rely on technology
B. However, at the moment only one camp, which dating back to the 1970s and 1980s
can accommodate 500 families, is ready. The rest
F. India’s ambitious plans to upgrade its military
are housed in schools and other public buildings.
technology and the changing profile of its
C. To give one example, minutes away from the requirements mean that it can no longer afford to
model village, several hundred people are housed persist with a strategy that depends on Russia as
in a school. its primary supplier.

D. The government has been talking for months (a) CEBD (b) DBCE (c) BDCE (d) CEDB (e)
about its preparedness to accommodate the DBEC
displaced in temporary camps.
Question 5:
E. A group of foreign and local media personnel
A. Embryonic stem cells are controversial because
who were flown in to the government “model
the embryos are discarded once the cells are
village” on the outskirts of Vavuniya returned
extracted from them. Critics object to creation of
with the impression that the government was
embryos for the purpose of harvesting their cells.
simply not geared to meet the gigantic task.

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B. Researchers are sourcing these to-be-discarded C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and
embryos for stem cells, and not creating new ones the potential victim use resources to gain or
for the purpose. maintain control over property.
C. The other objection is that the technology could D. These costs may escalate as a type of
be used in human reproductive cloning. technological arms race unfolds.
D. However, given the growth of infertility E. A bank may purchase more and more
treatments and with more people opting for complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing
assisted reproductive techniques, fertility clinics safecrackers to invest further in safecracking
end up with more embryos than they require. equipment.
E. Fears of reproductive cloning—as opposed to A. ABCDE B. CABED C. ACBED D.
therapeutic cloning—are unfounded, too, since the CBEDA E. EDCBA
US, like most countries, expressly prohibits it.
F. The Indian Council of Medical Research has 3. A. If caught in the act, they were punished, not
laid down guidelines on stem cell research, for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be
following a proposal to set up a national apex caught another lash of the whip.
committee for this purpose.
B. The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer
(a) DBCE (b) BDCE (c) CEDB (d) CEBD things in life for military expertise.
(e) DBEC
C. Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood
Directions for Questions 1 to 7: The sentences were taken away from their mothers at the age of
given in each question, when properly seven to undergo rigorous military training.
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the D. This consisted mainly of beatings and
most logical order of sentences from among the deprivations of all kinds like going around
given choices to construct a coherent barefoot in winter, and worse, starvation so that
paragraph. they would be forced to steal food to survive.

1. A. It also gives rise to a feeling of animosity E. Male children were examined at birth by the
among the different sections of the society. city council and those deemed too weak to
become soldiers were left to die of exposure.
B. In a democratic system, frequent use of power
is never desirable, be it on the part of government A. BECDA B. ECADB C. BCDAE D.
or the people. ECDAB E. ABCDE

C. Therefore, citizens should never resort to 4. A. Although there are large regional variations,
violent ways and means in democracy, though it is not infrequent to find a large number of
they have the right to oppose the government. people sitting here and there and doing nothing.

D. It destroys the stability and security in public B. Once in office, they receive friends and
life. relatives who feel free to call any time without
prior appointment.
A. DBAC B. BDCA C. BDAC D.
DACB E. DCBA C. While working, one is struck by the slow and
clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes,
2. A. Both parties use capital and labour in the procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the
struggle to secure property rights. lack of consideration for others.

B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt D. Even those who are employed often come late
to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate to the office and leave early unless they are forced
property owner expends resources to prevent the to be punctual.
theft (he buys locks).

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E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India. A. CABDE B. ABCDE C. DAEBC D.

BECDA E. EBDCA
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and
relatives or go out of their way to help them in 7. A. This feeling of an extensive group gives rise
their personal matters even during office hours. to a fellow feeling, a feeling of brotherhood
amongst the citizens.
A. DCAEBF B. EADCFB C. EADBFC D.
BAFCDE E. BACDEF B. This feeling takes up beyond the bounds of
family, caste, religion as well as region and helps
5. A. Since then, intelligence tests have been us develop a broad perspective that all of us
mostly used to separate dull children in school together constitute an extensive group called ‘the
from average or bright children, so that special nation’.
education can be provided to the dull.
C. National integration is the feeling among all the
B. In other words, intelligence tests give us a citizens of a country that they all are part of one
norm for each age. nation.

C. Intelligence is expressed as intelligence D. We do not, then, limit our thinking to our own
quotient, and tests are developed to indicate what caste or religion but think about all our fellow
an average child of a certain age can do: what a 5- citizens.
year-old can answer, but a 4-year-old cannot, for
instance. A. CDAB B. CABD C. CDBA D.
CBDA E. CBAD
D. Binet developed the first set of such tests in the
early 1900s to find out which children in school 8. A. The peasant, the shoemaker, the sweeper and
needed special attention. such other lower classes of India have much
greater capacity for work and self-reliance than
E. Intelligence can be measured bytests. you.

A. CDABE B. DECAB C. ECDAB D. B. Remember that the nation lives in the cottage.
CBADE E. ABCDE
C. They are producing the entire wealth of the
land without a word of complaint.

6. A. Similarly, turning to caste, even though D. This process of production is going through
being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause long ages.
of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the
lower-caste families also happen to be poor. A. BDAC B. BDCA C. DCBA
D.BACD E.ADCB
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help a
woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct
women from less thriving classes.

C. It is the interactive presence of these two kinds

of deprivation—being low class and being female
—that massively impoverishes women from the
less privileged classes.

D. A congruence of class deprivation and gender

discrimination can blight the lives of poorer
women very severely.

E. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal

inequality, but it does not act independently of
class.

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