INTRODUCTION

WHAT ARE PARAJUMBLES?

Parajumbles are jumbled paragraphs. Basically, you are given a paragraph but
the sentences are not in the right order. Its up to you to untie this knot and
rearrange the sentences so that they logically make sense. Normally instructions
for this type of questions will read "Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph". Given below
would be 4 or 5 perplexing sentences which he would need to sort and arrange
like a jigsaw puzzle. Sounds fun? It is. If one knows how to go about it, that is.
Solving jumbled paragraphs is a science. It is so much of a science that you can
obtain an accuracy of 100% even if you are not a good reader.

ESTABLISH LINK BETWEEN TWO SENTENCES AND

THEN EXAMINE THE OPTIONS

Suppose you establish the link 'BA'. The given options are:

(a) DABC

(b) ACDB

(c) CBAD

(d) DBAC.

Now you are left with option (c) and (d) to examine. You read the sentences in the
order given by these two options and use your methods again to determine which
one is correct.
Is establishing links between two sentences easy?
Not ALWAYS!!! However, easy or not, you can certainly establish links between
two or more sentences with the help of some friends found in the sentences.
These friends are:

TRANSITION WORDS

Transition words make the shift from one idea to another very smooth. They
organize and connect the sentences logically. Observing the transition words
found in a sentence can often give you a clue about the sentence that will come
before/after that particular sentence. Given below are some commonly used
transition words:

also, again, as well as, besides, furthermore, in addition, likewise, moreover,

similarly, consequently, hence, otherwise, subsequently, therefore, thus, as a rule,
generally, for instance, for example, for one thing, above all, aside from, barring,
besides, in other words, in short, instead, likewise, on one hand, on the other
hand, rather, similarly, yet, but, however, still, nevertheless, first of all, to begin
with, at the same time, for now, for the time being, in time, later on, meanwhile,
next, then, soon, the meantime, later, while, earlier, simultaneously, afterward, in
conclusion, with this in mind, after all, all in all to sum-up.

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Transition Words: Example from CAT

So how does knowledge of transition words helps us in parajumbles? Try out this
CAT question:
(CAT 2001)
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means
bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity,
what you want to do is bum his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means
destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the
economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and
be prepared to do battle with its enemy.

1. FDEBAC

2. FCABED

3. DEBACF

4. DFEBAC

Answer:
Look at the transition word "but" in the first sentence. It signifies that the
sentence is expressing an idea contrary to an idea expressed in some previous
sentence. Now we need to find that previous sentence. If we further look at the
beginning of the first sentence, it says "but in the industrial era..." which suggests
that the contrariness is with respect to eras. Looking further, we see that sentence
B and C are also starting with statement about eras. But the transition word at the
start of C is "now" which expresses present era and hence it cannot
chronologically come before any other past era. That is, if information era is the
present era, talk about any other era will come before this. So sentence B is the
correct sentence to come before the first sentence.
Likewise, sentence C is the correct sentence to come after the first sentence
(sentence C is continuing the idea). Therefore, we have the link BAC.
We see that option 1, 3 and 4 all have the link BAC. Furthermore, all the three
options have the link EBAC. Therefore, we only need to arrange D and F. The
sentence F states that "The purpose is...to battle with the enemy" and D questions
"how do you battle with the enemy?" Therefore, D will come after F.
Hence FDEBAC is the correct arrangement.

PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Personal pronouns are he, she, it, him, her, they, you, your etc. Remember that personal
pronouns always refer to a person, place or thing etc. Therefore, if a sentence
contains a personal pronoun without mentioning the person, place or object it is referring
to, the person, place or object must have come in the previous sentence. Often, this is
a good lead to identify a link.

Personal Pronouns: Example from CAT: 1

(CAT 2001)
A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large
number of people sitting here and there and doing nothing.
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time
without prior appointment.
C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions,
indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of
consideration for others.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave early
unless they are forced to be punctual.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help
them in their personal matters even during office hours.

1. ECADBF

2. EADCFB

3. EADBFC

4. ABFCBE

Answer:
Look at the personal pronoun "they" in sentence B: Once in office, they receive
friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment. This
they must be referring to some people. The reference to some people only comes
in sentences A, D, and F. Therefore, one of the sentences will come before
sentence B. Let's see the link AB, DB, and FB;

Link AB- Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a
large number of people sitting here and there and doing nothing. Once in office,
they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior
appointment.

Link DB- Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave
early unless they are forced to be punctual. Once in office, they receive friends and
relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment.
Link FB- Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way
to help them in their personal matters even during office hours. Once in office,
they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior
appointment.
Which of these links makes sense? Only link DB seems coherent. Now, we examine
the options with link DB. We see that options 1 and 3 have link DB in them. Also,
both the options have link ADBF. Therefore, ADBF is a link. Now we only need to
place sentences E and C. We can do that by reading the sentences in the order
given in options 1 and 3.
Option 1: Link ECADBF- Work is not intrinsically valued in India. While working,
one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes,
procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for
others. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a
large number of people sitting here and there and doing nothing. Even those who
are employed often come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced
to be punctual. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to
call any time without prior appointment. Quite often people visit ailing friends and
relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal matters even during
office hours.
Option 3: Link EADBFC- Work is not intrinsically valued in India. Although there
are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people
sitting here and there and doing nothing. Even those who are employed often
come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual. Once
in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without
prior appointment. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of
their way to help them in their personal matters even during office hours. While
working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent
attitudes, procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of
consideration for others.
Both the options seem plausible. We have to determine which one of the links EC
and EA is better. Here is the thumb rule when trying to determine plausibility of a
link

THE FLOW OF AUTHORS IDEA SHOULD BE COMPLETELY

LOGICAL; THE AUTHOR DOES NOT JUMP FROM ONE IDEA
TO OTHER SUDDENLY.
In link EC, sentence E is talking about work not being valued whereas sentence C
is talking about people being clumsy, indifferent, inconsiderate etc. Sentence C is

NOT talking about value of work. It is talking about people's behavior. Therefore,
EC cannot be a logical flow.
In link EA, sentence E is talking about work not being valued and sentence A is
talking about people sitting idle. This certainly says that people do not value work.
Therefore, EA is the correct link. Hence, option 3 is correct.

Personal Pronouns: Example from CAT: 2

Here is another CAT question that seems tough but can be solved in a matter of
seconds. See if you can do it:
(CAT 2001)
A.

Passivity is not, of course, universal.

B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men
go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different.
C.

So indeed it may be on the fringe of the un-submissive.

D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to
be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another.
E.

This depends on an assessment of the political situation.

1. EDAC

2. CDABE

3. EDBAC

4. ABCDE

Answer:
It cannot get easier than this. Look at the personal pronoun "it" in sentence C: So
indeed it may be on the fringe of the un-submissive. What is "it" here referring to?
And it says that "it may be... un-submissive." What can be un-submissive? It
cannot be "political situation" (sentence E), "passivity" (sentence A), or
"problem" (sentence D). Only "attitude" (sentence B) can be un-submissive.
Therefore, BC is a link.
The link BC is only present in option 4 and we need not look any further.

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DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS

The demonstrative pronouns are "this," "that," "these," and "those." "This" and "that" are
used to refer to singular nouns or noun phrases and "these" and "those" are used to refer to
plural nouns and noun phrases. Whenever a sentence contains a demonstrative
pronoun without mentioning the noun or the noun phrase, it means that the
previous sentence must be mentioning that noun or noun phrase. Finding that noun
or noun phrase helps us connect two sentences.

Demonstrative Pronouns: Example from CAT

(CAT 2001)
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval
or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too "in fact he returns to the point often " that best
translators of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere
near nurses and street-cleaners.

1. EACDB

2. ADEBC

3. EACBD

4. DCEAB

Answer:
Again an easy one. Notice the demonstrative pronoun "this" in sentence A: Michael
Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or
complaint. Also note that sentence A is introducing Michael Hofman (Michael
Hofman, a poet and translator,...) and will thereby come before every sentence
containing the personal pronoun he or him. So which sorry fact is sentence A
referring to? It can only be the fact found in sentence E. Also, other sentences
contain "he" or "him".
Therefore, EA is a link. Link EA is contained in option 1, 3 and 4. But in 4, sentence
D is coming before sentence A, and this cannot happen because sentence A should
be before any other sentence referring to Hofman as sentence A is introducing
Hofman. Therefore, we are left with options 1 and 3. The difference between
options 1 and 3 is the order of sentence D and B. Let's examine the link DB:
Option 1: Link DB- Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear
from his writings. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.

Does this sound like a plausible flow? Certainly NOT. Therefore, link DB is incorrect
and the correct answer is option 3.

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COMBINING IT ALL WITH LOGIC

Sometimes using logic to decide the order of sentences can yield high dividends. In the
previous example, we had used logic to determine that sentence A would come before any
other sentence referring Hofman. Keep your eyes open for clues such as these. Here's is the
last CAT question that I cracked, using logic; see if you can do the same:

Example from CAT

(CAT 2001)
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends
to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman's question:
"Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?"
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is
calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social
superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in
mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or
outsider is killed.

1. DABC

2. ACDB

3. CBAD

4. DBAC

Answer:
The clue to this question came to me from the word "calculable" in sentence B: So
the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is
calculable. How does something become "calculable"? Then I noticed sentence A
and the phrase "clearly defined in theory..." Something becomes calculable when
it is clearly defined in theory. No other sentence could give answers to
"calculable". Therefore, the link AB was clearly marked. The link AB was present in
option 1 only. Easy, no?
Notice that I have been going to the option again and again to eliminate one or
two options. Form this habit sedulously. It will pay you rich dividends.

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ACRONYM APPROACH

Full form vs. short form: In PJ we encounter full and short names sometimes acronyms of
some term or institution.

Ex-World Trade Organization WTO

Dr. Manmohan Singh - Dr. Singh
Karl Marx Marx
President George W. Bush - President bush or the president

The rule is that if both full form as well as short form is

present in different sentences, then the sentence
containing full form will come before the sentence
containing short form.

Example:
1. If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind
never develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting
2. Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people's pain and
suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion
3. If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the
people.
4. Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of
their addictive tendencies.
A. 2134

B. 1423

C. 2431

D. 3241

Answer:
Sentence 2 has Marx (short Form) and sentence 3 has Karl Marx (Full form). So 3
will come before 2. Now look at the options. In A, B and C, 2 is placed before C3hence rejected. D is the right answer.

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TIME SEQUENCE APPROACH (TSA)

Either dates or time sequence indicating words: Be aware

of the time indication either by giving years - or by using
time indicating words. Arrange the sentences using their
proper time sequence. Here are a few time sequence
indicating words -Before after later when
Example 1:
1. Then two astronomersthe German, Johannes Kepler, and the Italian, Galileo
Galilei-started publicly to support the Copernican theory, despite the fact that the
orbits it predicted did not quite match the ones observed.
2. His idea was that the sun was stationary at the centre and that the earth and
the planets move in circular orbits around the sun.
3. A simple model was proposed in 1514 by a Polish priest, Nicholas Copernicus.
4. Nearly a century passed before this idea was taken seriously.
A. 3421

B. 3241

C. 2314

D. 3142

Solution:
Answer is 3241
The 3rd sentence talks about the time event and other time vents follow it in a
chronological order. So option A is Best choice

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Example 2:
1. By the time he got to Linjeflug four years later, he had learned many lessons; in
fact, he began his second stint as top dog by calling the entire company together
in a hanger and asking for help, a far cry from his barking out commands just
48months back.
2. At SAS, he arrived at a time crisis.
3. This book is chock-a-block full of intrusive stories and practical advice,
describing Carton's activities at Vingresor (where he assumed his first presidency
at age 32), Linjeflug, and SAS in particular.
4. He began at Vingresor as an order giver, not a listener - neither to his people
nor to his customers and made every mistake in the book.
A. 2143

B. 2134

C. 3214

D. 3412

Solution:
4 will come before 1 and 2. Hence 3412.
Alternate: In 3, order is given - Vingressor, Linjeflug, SAS - arrange according to
this.
Alternate: 3 will be the opening sentence because only 3 has noun (NAME) for he.

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HYPOTHESIS OR THEORY APPROACH

If any sentence is working as an example - place it after

the sentence for which it is working as an example, not
necessarily just after because one has to explain the
idea, it is hypothesis/ theory. It should not be before the
idea that it explains.

Example:
1. The potential exchanges between the officials of IBBF and the Maharashtra
Body-Building Association has all the trappings of a drama we are accustomed to.
2. In the case of sports persons, there is room for some sympathy, but the apathy
of the administrators, which has even led to sanctions from international bodies, is
unpardonable.
3. A case in the point is the hefty penalty of US $10,000 slapped on the Indian
Body-Building Federation for not fulfilling its commitment for holding the Asian
Championships in Mumbai in October.
4. It is a matter of deep regret and concern that the sports administrators often
cause more harm to the image of the country than sportsmen and sportswomen do
through their dismal performances.
A. CABD

B. DBCA

C. DABC

D. CDBA

Solution:
Here sentence 3 is an example of sentence 4. So it will come after 4. So now only
option B and C remain. Now go by ACRONYM Method discussed earlier. (IBBF in 1
and Indian Body-Building Federation in 3) 3 will come before 1.
So only option B remains, which is the right option.

ARTICLES APPROACH

Articles can be divided into two categories

1. Definite (the) and
2. Indefinite (a and an).
When the author uses 'a / an' - he wants to make a general statement - wants to
introduce the noun followed by a/an for the first time but when he uses 'the' he
wants to refer back to some previously discussed noun. It means having 'the' is
very unlikely in the opening sentence. If 'a/an' and 'the' both are used for the
same noun then the sentence containing 'the' will come after the sentence
containing a/an.

NOUN, PRONOUN AND ADJECTIVE (NPA) APPROACH

1. Pronoun Whenever pronoun comes it will come in the immediate sentence

containing the respective noun.
i. e. A sequence can be like this
Noun
Pronoun
Pronoun
Pronoun
or
like
Noun Pronoun
.............. no pronoun
Noun
Pronoun
i.e. the pronoun sequence will continue till it is halted by a break (i.e. a sentence
containing no pronoun) then if necessary it will start with the noun again. We
can't write pronoun after a break. It is not a correct form of writing.

OPENING CLOSING SENTENCE (OCS) APPROACH

Supported or free, general or need previous explanation

OCS is particularly useful in 4 sentence parajumble (where opening sentence is
not given)
Let's see the characteristics of an opening sentence
It will introduce an idea in the first hand.
In most of the cases it will use indefinite article a/an. i.e. if both definite and
indefinite articles are used for the same noun then the sentence containing noun
with indefinite article a/an will come first (may be opening sentence).
The sentence can stand alone
It will not have pronouns (exception: if respective noun is not mentioned
anywhere). It will not have contrast words/or words indicating continuation/or
words like - hence , therefore, so- etc.

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KEY WORDS APPROACH - KWA

Some words will be repeated in two consecutive sentences.

In most of the cases we repeat some important words of one sentence in the
sentence that follows.
Hence if you are seeing any important (not like he, she, that, is, are type) then
chances are that these two sentences will be consecutive. Remember it gives you
an idea that which sentences can be consecutive for example 23 or 32 but for
exact order you have to look for some other clue or meaning.

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STRUCTURE APPROACH - SA

Link the sentences logically i.e. see what is the role played by a specific sentence
Premise
Conclusion
Support
Example
Continuation
and then search for some proper sentence that should come before or the one
which will follow.

INDICATING WORDS APPROACH - IWA

Take care of words that indicate something helpful to decide sequence.

Some words indicates some specific nature of sentences that will come before or
that will follow.
Look for the words like
But
So
Therefore
And
However
think what they are indicating.

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SIGNAL/INDICATING WORD LIST

Writers use transitions to link their ideas logically. These transitions or signal
words are clues that can help you figure out what the sentence actually means and
its sequence. Para-jumble sentences often contain several signal words,
combining them in complex ways.
NOTE: The list given below is not a comprehensive list. You must collect the signal
words while reading.

Cause and Effect Signals

Look for words or phrases explicitly indicating that one thing causes another or
logically determines another.
Accordingly
in order to
because
so...that
consequently
therefore
given
thus
hence
when...then
if...then

Support Signal Words

Look for the words or phrases supporting a given sentences. These words
containing sentences will not be the opening sentence. These sentences will follow
immediately the sentence supported.
Furthermore
Additionally
Also
And

Too
as well
besides
indeed
likewise
moreover

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Contrast Signals (Explicit)

Precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to
implication.
Look for function words or phrases (conjunctions, sentence adverbs, etc.) that
explicitly indicate a contrast between one idea and another, setting up a reversal
of a thought.
Albeit
Nevertheless
Although
Nonetheless
But
Notwithstanding
Despite
on the contrary
even though
on the other hand
however
rather than
In contrast
Still
In spite of

While
Instead of
yet

Contrast Signals (Implicit)

Implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
Look out for words which indicate contrast or turn a situation or something
unexpected possibly even unwanted, has occurred.
Anomaly
Anomalous
Anomalously
Illogic
Illogical
Illogically
Incongruity
Incongruous
Incongruously
Irony
Ironic
Ironically
Paradox
Paradoxical
Paradoxically
Surprise
Surprising
Surprisingly
Unexpected
Unexpectedly

TIME SEQUENCE INDICATING WORDS

Before
After
Later
When

ALL THE RULES IN BRIEF

The approaches for PARAJUMBLE

Acronym Approach full form vs. short form
Time Sequence Approach TSA either dates or time sequence
indicating words
Examples Approach EA after an hypothesis or theory
Articles definite and indefinite
Noun, Pronoun, and Demonstrative Adjective NPDA Approach
limited to not just noun
Opening Closing Sentence Approach OCSA supported or free,
general or need previous explanation
Key Words Approach KWA words repeated in two consecutive
sentences
Structure Approach SA link sentences logically.
Indicating Words Approach IWA take care of words that indicate
something helpful to decide the sequence.

AUG 21
1) difficult
A.The principal contradiction of human life is that between the individual and the society
B.In order to achieve the ideal state, one must understand the causes of the downfall of the colonized
world
C. Highle developed production and self material well-being cannot by themselves make men happy if
their 'spiritual civilization' is low.
D. Down the centuries, the rulers and dominant caste neglected the interests of the simple people and
that was one of the greatest social evils and without support of the lower class, there should be no
question of serious reference.
E.The law for humanity is to pursue its upward evolution towards the expression of the 'divine' in
mankind.
1. EABCD
2.ECBDA
3.AEBDC

4.DCEBA
5.ACBDE

2) ds plato should come before all other platos

1)
A. The chief modern challenge to myth has come not from ethics but from science.
B. Where Plato bemoans myths for presenting the gods as practitioners of immoral behaviour,
modern critics dismiss myth for explaining the world unscientifically.
C. It was above all the Stoics who defended myth against this charge by reinterpreting it allegorically.
D. In the West the challenge to myth goes back at least to Plato, who rejected Homeric myth on,
especially, ethical grounds.
E. Here myth is assumed to explain how gods control the physical world rather than, as for Plato,
how they behave among themselves.
(a) ABCDE (b) AEDCB (c) DCAEB (d) BDCAE
2) read carefully or leave it
A. Classical music, by contrast, encodes maturity and, by extension, the demands of responsibility
to family and to society.
B. The meaning of the commercial emerges out of this odd juxtaposition of the music you see and
the music you hear.
C. What the commercial is saying (though not in so many words, of course) is that you can begin
responsible financial planning without selling out on your youth, freedom, and spontaneity.
D. Rock stands for youth, freedom, being true to yourself; in a word, authenticity.
E. Through music, the commercial accomplishes a kind of conjuring trick, combining both sets of
values and in this way selling the advertisers message (you need to start planning for your old
age now) to a segment of society that might be expected to be resistant to it.
(a) BDAEC (b) EDABC (c) ECBDA (d) BECDA

3)
1) A. To house this event a huge temporary exhibition hall (Joseph Paxtons steel and glass Crystal
Palace) was built on Hyde Park in central London.
B. Although the birth of dinosaurs was relatively inauspicious (first appearing as an afterthought in
the published report of the 11th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science),
they were soon to become the centre of worldwide attention.
C. At the time of Owens review, he was working on a surprisingly meagre collection of fossil bones
and teeth that had been discovered up to that time and were scattered around the British Isles.
D. To celebrate such influence and achievement, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was devised.
E. The reason for this was simple. Owen worked in London, at the Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons, at a time when the British Empire was probably at its greatest extent.

(a) CBEDA (b) BDACE (c) BDAEC (d) ECBDA

2) in D it clears what is their refering to. cofee or bestseller

A. Like other ephemera of past times, bestsellers (even Orwells despised Deeping) offer the charm
of antiquarian quaintness.
B. Any study of bestsellers confronts the same question as does the decaf, no-fat latte drinker in
Starbucks: Why bother?
C. And, so short is their lifespan, that todays bestsellers become yesterdays fiction almost as
soon as one has read them.
D. One justification, and the easiest demonstrated, is their (that is, bestsellers) interesting
peculiarity.
E. Where else would one encounter a line such as: I say, you are a sport, pater [Son addressing
Sorrell, on having been given a tenner tip in Deepings Sorrell and Son].
(a) ACBDE (b) BDAEC (c) BEADC (d) BDEAC

4)
1. Operating a small motel, i tried to avoid answering the doorbell before 6:30 am
a) One morning at about 5, the doorbell rang.
b) So i had a box put up nest to the door and placed a sign on it saying, Deposit keys here.
c) But some guests continued to summon me as early as 4:30 am.
d) Customers were told to leave their keys in the rooms when checking out.
6. When i opened the office door, a smiling guest greeted me with: I just wanted you to know, i put
my key in the box.
a) DCBA
b) DACB
c) BADC
d) ABDC

5)
1.
A. On the other hand, a creative artist cannot do the work of a critic because he has
neither the time nor the inclination to master the necessary critical apparatus.
B. Hence critical work seldom or never satisfied the artist, and the artist's ideal of
what critical work ought to be is an impossible dream.
C. There is a one-sided feud between artists and critics.---> general
D. Artists expect from critics an imaginative comprehension, which in the nature of
the case only a creative artist can possess.
E. The finest, and the only first-rate, criticism is produced when, by an exceptional
accident, a creative artist of balanced and powerful temperament is moved to deal

exhaustively with a subject.

1) ECDAB 2) CDABE
3) CDAEB 4) EBCDA

2.
A. Instead of interrogating their inner worlds through talking and writing, they are using numbers.
B. From the languor of the analyst's couch to the chatty inquisitiveness of a selfhelp
questionnaire, the dominant forms of self-exploration assume that the road to knowledge lies through
words.
C. They are constructing a quantified self.
D. Even as therapeutic concepts of the self spread widely in simplified, easily accessible form, they
retained something of the prolix, literary humanism of their inventors.
E. Trackers are exploring an alternate route.
1) BDAEC 2) EABCD
3) BDEAC 4) DBEAC

3.
A. The poem asks the reader to work at it, refusing easy answers, and even Eliots
own explanatory notes raised further questions.
B. In its 434 lines, T.S. Eliot assembled Arthurian legend, Jacobean tragedy, Buddhist scripture,
Roman lyric and street slang into a puzzle to be worked out by pale and interesting types the world
over.
C. Published in 1922, The Waste Land soon became a landmark of Western literature.
D. And that is precisely why it wouldnt be published now; in becoming consumers of culture,
were losing the ability to engage with it.
E. Some interpreted it as the private jottings of a depressive polymath; others as the
vision of a civilization which God had forsaken.
1) CABED 2) CBAED
3) CBEAD 4) CAEBD

6)
A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough tradeoffs in choosing
what not to do.
D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly improving and
extending its distinctive positioning.
F. When a companys activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to

imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.

7)
1-(A) This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe - up to a point.
(B) It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
(C) Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
(D) The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can
describe their fluctuations.
(E) This is how what business schools now call modem finance was born.

1. ADCBE 2. EBDCA 3. ABDCE 4. DCBEA

2A. Passivity is not, of course, universal.

B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude
of the peasantry may well be different.
C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or
active, but when to pass from one state to another.
( a) BDAC (b) CDAB( c) DBAC ( d) ABCD

8)
A) By breaking the implicit cycle of anger decisively, a new beginning was made possible.
B) Grace has always been beautiful, but beneath its delicate charms lurks a steely power.
C) Not a bad way to remember Gandhi on his 143rd birthday.
D) By recognising the legitimacy of the other's right to hold an opinion, and by acknowledging that
anyone can make mistake, it is possible to dismantle the reciprocal exchange of distrust that feeds
on itself.

1) CBAD. 2) CBDA. 3)ADBC. 4)DABC.

9) The first sentences hogs media attention is the antecedant pronoun referal for
its in B
1. It's the success story of the Indian expatriate in the US which today hogs much of the media
coverage in India.
A. East and West, the twain have met quite comfortably in their person, thank you.
B. Especially in its more recent romancing-the-NRI phase.
C. Seldom does the price of getting there - more like not getting there - or what's going on behind

those sunny smiles get so much media hype.

D. Well groomed, with their perfect Colgate smiles, and hair in place, they appear the picture of
confidence which comes from having arrived.
6. The festival of feature films and documentaries made by Americans of Indian descent being
screened this fortnight goes a long way in filling those gaps.

[1] ACBD [2] DABC [3] BDAC [4] ABCD

2. 6th sentence When very close, it began .. when very close refers to lightening not thunder
as it just a sound. So ends with D
1. The wind had savage allies.
A. If it had not been for my closely fitted helmet, the explosions might have shattered my eardrums.
B. The first clap of thunder came as a deafening explosion that literally shook my teeth.
C. I didn't hear the thunder; I actually felt it -- an almost unbearable physical experience.
D. I saw lightning all around me in every shape imaginable.
6. When very close, it began raining so torrentially that I thought I would drown in mid-air.

[1] BCAD [2] CADB [3] CBDA [4] ACDB

3. AD have same active present tense form voice while others are passive voice using past tense
forms.
A)Investment banking income -- primarily fees from putting together initial public offerings and
other deals -- is very volatile.
B)Like many financial-services companies, Merrill has long wrestled with the cyclical nature of
revenues.
C)One reason, says Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegal , "is the fact that the large brokerage
firms have not done well. Anyone who objectively looks at them sees that very few have done well.
The fees are high and the performance is extremely mediocre."
D)Trading on the firm's own account creates gains in some years, losses in others. Commission
revenue depends on investors' eagerness to trade, which varies as the market goes up or down.
E)The specialists, such as free-standing mutual fund companies like Fidelity and Vanguard,
have done far better at attracting fund investors than the multi-function firms like Merrill, which
has actually suffered net reductions in fund assets since the late 1990s.

A)ABDCE B)EBDCA C)BADEC D)ECBDA

10) but not whether it does the needful. -> For example, will? nice question to follow and
then other question.
1. Of course, what has not won much attention so far is the fact that the proposed legislation posits
wages for housework rather than employment for women as a long-term solution.

A. Indeed, questions have been raised whether the proposed legislation is implementable, but not
whether it does the needful.
B. Will the number of family members she rears determine whether she is entitled to greater
compensation?
C. How exactly is the value of womens household work to be calculated, or simply put, how many
bais will equal a wife?
D. For example, will the government be able to put in place the required administrative machinery?
6.And what of widowed women who do not have a husbands salary to draw on?

1. ADCB 2. BCDA 3. CDBA 4. DBCA

AUG 22

11) Easy the personal pronouns she and he gives the clue
A. My father's Christian faith did not extend to embracing the birth of the welfare state.

B. It was not until I was eight that her greatest burden, the loss of her hair, was shared with me.

C. But my relationship with her was of an altogether different texture and I enjoyed her
femininity, her Blue Grass scent, her pearls, tweed skirts and Jacqmar scarves.

D. My mother never dissented from my father's view; if anything, she was more conservative.

E. His type of Anglicanism was the Tory party at prayer.

F. Consequently, she was reserved, and never let me clamber about her or run my fingers through
what I still thought of as her hair.

1. AEDCBF 2. ADEBCF 3. ABEDCF 4. ACEDBF

12) C is an obvious opener E is too general statement to end a sentence. Such

media refers to C
A. No one would think to commit a deep thought or a long argument to a pebble or a potsherd.
B. They had the advantages of being cheap and plentiful but the disadvantages of being small,
irregular in shape, and easily lost, broken or otherwise damaged.
C. When people first began writing things down, they'd scratch their marks on anything that happened
to be lying around - smooth-faced rocks, scraps of wood, strips of bark, bits of cloth, pieces of bone,
chunks of broken pottery.
D. They were suitable for inscriptions and labels, perhaps a brief note or notice, but not much else.

E. Such ephemera were the original media for the written word.
1) CDABE
2) CEBDA
3) CDBAE
4) CEDAB

13) B has to be before C and D as they have personal pronouns in them. Also A has that
which is not refering to any of nouns in BCD. so should be in front.

A] I spent months in that hospital bed.

B] Sadly, the plane crash had claimed many lives including those of Jack and Ross,
my business parteners - a loss that devasted me.
C] The three of us had experienced so much together over the previous few years,
and I had no interest in running the company without them.
D] They were not simply the co-founders of Bravelife.com Jack and Ross had
become my best friends.
1. 1) DCBA
2. 2) ABCD
3. 3) DCAB
4. 4) CBDA
5. 5) ADCB
14) No idea got confused.

A] There is much to be done

B] Outside in the sunrise garden roses are already awake, clematis climb like a
growing child and all the border marigolds are on fire.
C] Climbing painfully from a sore mattress, standing in striped pyjams by the
window, Jim stares garden wards.
D] These days it's all weed killing, backache and wishes.
1. 1) ABCD
2. 2) DCBA
3. 3) CADB
4. 4) BCDA
5. 5) ACBD
15) CD is an obvious pair. and also looks like it is opener. since AB is not in the flow, it is
BA. CDBA
A. "The iPod Nano was optimized for short-form video like TV shows, music
videos," said Michael Gartenberg, analyst with Jupiter Research

B. But in order to play movies, the player will require a Beverly-Hills-caliber

makeover.
C. The iTunes music store has sold over one billion songs through the service and
has successfully offered downloads of TV shows since last year.
D. That success is due in no small part to the iPod's ubiquity and ease of use.
1. 1) CDAB
2. 2) BACD
3. 3) BADC
4. 4) CDBA
16) They in A refers to experts in D. DA is a pair. Hence OA 2
A]They argue that it is this, which has led to the bankruptcy in many states.
B] Here was a commission whose members worked very hard, did exemplary
research and homework, before coming up with a list of recommendations that
balanced economic efficiency with safety nets for disadvantaged labor.
C] It reminds us of the political shenanigans during the implementation of the Fifth
Pay Commission.
D] How many times have you heard experts, politicians and the finance ministers
refer to the implementation of the pay hikes following the commissions report as
the singular cause for the increase in governments expenditure?
E] Barring P. Chidambaram, who was then the finance minister, every single
political party and politician opposed the implementation of the recommendations
and are directly responsible for the current fiscal crises in the Centre and the
states.
1. 1) DEBAC
2. 2) CDABE
3. 3) BEADC
4. 4) BAECD
17) AD and BE are good pairs. C is last line looking at options. But C talks
about changes and these changes liberalization of economy.
A. A feature of the boom in 1980s was the sensitivity of the stock markets to
government policies.
B. Companies, especially in the IT sector, are often more dependent n foreign
markets than on what happens at home.
C. These changes have made Indian stock markets less sensitive to
government policy.

D. Since then economy has been substantially liberalized.

E. And the attitude of the foreign institutional investors is quite heavily influenced
by trends in global stock markets.
1. 1) BEADC
2. 2) ADECB
3. 3) ADBEC
4. 4) AEBCD
18) RS is obvious pair. Thought P is a good opener giving into about
economy of pak. Turns out that Q is opener !
P. Gloom is writ large not just on the face of Pakistan's polity, but on
its economy as well.
Q. According to a report published in this newspaper on Monday, the
Pakistani economy may have reached its lowest point since the country
was divided in 1971."
R. The immediate worry is the ballooning external debt.
S. With massive debt repayments due and foreign exchange reserves low,
Pakistan appears on the threshold of a major crisis on the external debt
front.
(1) PQRS (2) QRSP (3) QSRP (4) QPRS
19) They B refers to sections in D. Hence BD. Also, Expectations of A
matches with C. A is a good opener.
(a) A cut in the interest rates is high on the agenda of expectations of both
banks and companies for the credit policy for the busy season.
(b) They also expect a relaxation of the 5 percent limit of incremental deposits
that can be invested in corporate shares and debentures.
(c) There are also expectations that the number of interest rate slabs will be
reduced to two from the present three.
(d) Sections of the market expect a relaxation in the lending norms against
shares.
1. 1) A)abcd
2. 2) B)abdc
3. 3) C)dbac
4. 4) D)acdb
20)

22) Shockingly wrong and confusing connection of sentences. B is

obvious opener. This in D is referring to criticism in B. Derision is also
referring to disdain and criticism.
A. Even to suggest, in the recent climate, that an artwork might be good
because it is pleasurable, as opposed to cognitively, morally or politically beneficial,
is to court derision.
B. Much of the discourse about beauty since the Eighteenth century had deployed
a notion of the 'aesthetic', and so that notion in particular came in for criticism.
C. The twentieth century has not been kind to the notions of beauty or the
aesthetic.
D. This disdain for the aesthetic may have roots in a broader cultural Puritanism,
which fears the connection between the aesthetic and pleasure.
(a) BCAD
(b) BDAC
(c) BDCA
(d) ABCD
23) IT in B refers to Society in D. And only OA b has it. Dont know y i
marked 4
A) That progress doesn't just depend on people setting new and higher
standards, but that just as often as progress is a matter of attaining existing
standards consistently.
B) It forgets that people have needs other than wanting to be unequal.
C) The others nothing.
D) Society encourages that kind of behaviour by emphasizing that the people who
end up fastest or smartest get everything.
E) Some groups and types of people say that every body at certain times in his
life, wants very much to be like, not unlike, other types or groups of people.
(a) ABCDE (b) DBCAE (c) BCDEA (d) ABDEC
AUG 23
166. CEA is a definite link( Stamps and the commemoration is coordinated effort). DB are not good openers as they are becoming more
specific about warning systems etc
A) This is part of a co-ordinated international effort to reduce the damage

caused by natural disasters.

B) To mitigate the threat an early warning system is required.
C) On 31 July 1990, the Belize Postal Services released a set of four stamps to
commemorate the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
D) In Belize hurricanes pose the greatest threat.
E) The new stamps depict pictures of one of the worst hurricanes to strike Belize
and three aspects of the protective warning system against similar storms.
(a) CEDAB (b) DBCEA (c) CEADB (d) ABCED
167. DE(A blue rose -> It) and AC are definite links. Went wrong in
placement of B
A) With the speed and enthusiasm with which scientists are working, blue roses
will soon be the pride of every florist's show-window.
B) I have often wondered why a blue coloured rose is the rarest of rarities.
C) In the spirit of the 90's the rose to express ardent affections could well be the
cool blue, replacing the warm glowing red.
D) A blue rose need not be an artist's fancy any longer.
E) It is on the way of becoming a glowing reality.
(a) DEACB (b) BDEAC (c) DEBAC (d) CDEAB
168. Very Easy. Sequencing.
A) Ask the driver to bring you to my address given here.
B) I will make sure that you are taken back to your hotel afterwards.
C) Please come home for lunch on Friday, the day you arrive.
D) The number of the taxi is WB-04 1702.
E) I have arranged for a taxi to meet you at the station.
(a) CEDAB (b) ABCED (c) BCDEA (d) EDCBA
169. EC definite link( Acid rain -> It)
A) This is so because smoke from slash and burn agriculture too generates acid
rain.
B) The 'bitter wind' is no respecter of international frontiers.
C) It is killing forests and making lakes lifeless.

D) Some of the regions that suffer most pay for the sins of others.
E) Acid rain is corroding masonry and ancient artistic treasures all over the world.
(a) ABCDE (b) BCDEA (c) BCEAD (d) ECBDA
170. Very easy sequencing
A) I would be grateful if you could tell me what subjects the children are to be
taught and what salary you intend to pay.
B) I am a trained secondary school teacher with nearly ten years experience.
C) I am writing this in connection with the advertisement which has appeared today
in The Telegraph for a resident tutor.
D) I would be interested in knowing further details about the post.
E) I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
(a) ABCED (b) CBDAE (c) ABDCE (d) BCADE
171. A is definite opener as it has personal noun. B Follows A as it
describes him as foreigner. C follows by looking at option. Went wrong in
DE.
A) It begins all wrong with Robert Jordon acting like an ideological prig.
B) He is a foreigner, tells these people who are fighting for their lives, that they
should not be kidding around.
C) Everyone should be a serious comrade, he is no communist, at every moment,
and only a serious comrade.
D) When teased about his politics, he hastens to deny it.
E) Though he insists on using the communist term comrade, he is no communist,
he is something else, something more general, more ambiguous an antifascist.
(a) ABCED (b) BCDAE (c) ABCDE (d) ACBDE
172. B definite starter. So OA d
A) He is obsessed with his father's cowardice, which was in sharp contrast to his
grand father's courage.
B) Robert Jordon cuts off the conversation because it has gone too far, it is
becoming too painful.
C) The parallel with Jake Barnes is close. Robert Jordon carries an invisible wound

not physical impotence but the fear of lack of manliness, the fear of giving into fear
as his father did.
D) He has reached perilous ground his unconscious.
E) His grandfather had been a leader of cavalry in the American Civil War.
(a) DACBE (b) CDBEA (c) EABDC (d) BDCAE
173.A starter. BD definite link.
A) Subhas Parura is a handsome young man from Akrani village Near
Dhadgaon.
B) When I visited the village, he showed me with great pride the school texts he
teaches in the school.
C) He is deeply concerned with the happiness of his community.
D) They were all in the Marathi language.
E) He said, but the children must learn Marathi. Since they need jobs.
(a) ABCDE (b) EDCAB (c) ACBDE (d) ABEDC
174. DE definite link. A being little general starts the para. B follows
looking at the options. Went wrong in the placement of C
A) Fifty years after the Independence, building adequate infrastructure to meet
the needs of our society, continues to pose a great challenge.
B) Looking at the inadequacies of infrastructure service provisions today, it is
easy to underestimate how much has been achieved, not just in terms of physical
assets, but of execution capabilities also.
C) Most of what we have today has been the outcome of decades of centralised
state sector.
D) In most circumstances, it is natural to expect the future course of action to be
evolved by a dispassionate assessment.
E) However, this apparently proved to be too daunting.
(a) CDEBA (b) ABDEC (c) CDEAB (d) ABCDE
24) CE definite pair and opener. A should end. In placement of B and D
should have checked what should come before A
A. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither

know victory nor defeat.

B. Who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do
the deeds.
C. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
D. Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
E. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood.
1. 1) EBDAC
2. 2) CEDBA
3. 3) DBAEC
4. 4) CEBDA
5. 5) NE
25) B definite opener and CA a definite link. Cs it refers to Europe in B.
A. The greatest turbulence never destroyed all elements of the old order.
B. Unlike America or Australasia, Europe is an old continent, in the sense that it
has a long and continuous history of some two thousand years.
C. Even when it suffered severe changes and considerable disintegration, as
during the barbarian invasion of the fifth century, enough of its past always
survived to provide real continuity.
D. Beneath the patchwork suggested by a political map showing the division of
Europe into states, there was a vast substratum of historical heritage and
continuity.
1. 1) BDCA
2. 2) DABC
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) BCAD
26) Easy
1). The potential exchanges between the officials of IBBF and the Maharashtra
Body-Building Association has all the trappings of a drama we are accustomed to.
2). In the case of sports persons, there is room for some sympathy, but the

apathy of the administrators, which has even led to sanctions from international
bodies, is unpardonable.
3). A case in the point is the hefty penalty of US $10,000 slapped on the
Indian Body-Building Federation for not fulfilling its commitment for holding the
Asian Championships in Mumbai in October
4). It is a matter of deep regret and concern that the sports administrators often
cause more harm to the image of the country than sportsmen and sportswomen do
through their dismal performances.
1. 1) 3124
2. 2) 4231
3. 3) 4123
4. 4) 3421
27) CE and DA pair a must. B opener as given. CE is better explanation for
DA hence comes before it.
A. Still, both Houses of Parliament went through all the stages of the
passageSecond Reading, Committee, Report, Third Reading.
B. Once the British Parliament was against a deadline.
C. The Judiciary had said certain foreign terrorists could not be held in prison any
longer because the law was discriminatory as they were not able to hold British
terrorists as well.
D. Parliament had to pass a new law within four weeks.
E. Thus, there was a human rights violation.
1. 1) BDACE
2. 2) BCDEA
3. 3) BCEDA
4. 4) BDCEA
Aug 23 II
29)
A. Thus, employee and manager alike may resist attempts to uproot established
company traditions or fiddle with untried, risky procedures.
B. The truth is if you want to learn to do it better, you've got to try a lot of
things, many of which won't work.
C. Their responses to creativity initiatives may in fact take shape vigorously,
adamantly and fearfully.

D. With society officially downgrading the idea of creativity so strongly, it

becomes problematic for businesses to get their managers and other employees
thinking truly freely and out of the box.
E. Also, genuine creativity, by definition, subverts the status quo by facing down
long-held assumptions and uncorking new ways of approaching things.
1. 1) DEBAC
2. 2) DEACB
3. 3) DBEAC
4. 4) ACBED
30)
A. But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians' only preoccupation.
B. Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.
C. Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are
monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.
D. Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when
most people died they were buried in simple graves.
E. We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about
the ordinary people, as most monuments were made for the rich.
1. 1) CDBEA
2. 2) ECDAB
3. 3) EDCBA
4. 4) DECAB
31)
A.The age of pragmatism is here, whether we like it or not.
B.The staple rhetoric that was for so long dished out also belongs to the bipolar
world of yesterday.
C.The old equations, based on the cold war and on non-alignment no longer
holds good.
D.But contrary to much of what is being said and written, it is a multipolar
rather than unipolar world that appears to be emerging out of recent events.
(a) ABCD
(b) ACBD
(c) ADBC
(d) ADCB

A.By intelligence we mean a style of life, a way of behaving in various situations,

and particularly in new, strange and perplexing situations.
B. When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get a good
score on a certain kind of test, or even the ability to do well at school.
C.The true test of intelligence is not how to do, but how we behave when we
don't know what to do.
D.These are at best only indicators of something large, deeper and far more
important.
(a) BDAC
(b) CDBA
(c) ABCD
(d) CABD
32)
A. The architect, Daniel Libeskind who won the competition to rebuild on New
York's Ground Zero has revealed how the process degenerated into bitter feuds and
childish squabbles among rival designers - though he rejects the notion that the
new plan for the site is an uninspiring compromise.
B. Childs is the favoured architect of the World Trade Centre site's developer,
Larry Silverstein.
C. One of the components is a Freedom Tower, a centerpiece which would be
1,776 feet high, to represent the date of the American Declaration of
Independence.
D. In a candid new book, Breaking Ground, Libeskind recounts what he calls his
forced marriage to David Childs.
E. He portrays Mr Childs as patronising and overbearing, and intent on eliminating
as much of Libeskind's vision as possible from the eventual design.
F. According to Libeskind, Mr Childs tried to first reject the idea of the tower and
when the committee rejected that, he tried to shift its position to the periphery.
1. ADBECF 2. AEDCBF 3. ADCEBF 4. ABCDEF

33)
A. The Royal Academy of Music's sweeping facade bears down on the
Marylebone Road in London with a not unjustified air of superiority.
B. The exterior is in no way dulled when compared to the interior with its new
20m York Gate extension, which contains a priceless collection of Strads, and a
piano, once played by Chopin.
C. Another leading conservatoire, the Royal College of Music, managed only
45%, leading to widespread criticism.
D. This is one of the great conservatoires of the world, a powerhouse that has
produced the great and the famous from Sir Simon Rattle to Sir Elton John.
E. But this famous institution is facing allegations of class bias after official
figures revealed it managed to admit just over half of entrants from the state
sector, against a government-set benchmark of almost 88%.
F. Both of them are now under a parliamentary enquiry, which will determine
whether the reasons for this abysmal admission are based on class bias.
1. AEDBCF 2. ACEDBF 3. ABEDCF 4. ABDECF
34)
A. With a clean, no-nonsense interface and existing search engine traffic, Google
News didn't take long to attract a loyal following and elbow its way into the
top-10 news sites, pulling in some 6 million unique visitors a month.
B. It can't make money from Google News.
C. Of course, executives at rival online news publishers couldn't help but wonder
why they shouldn't just imitate Google's model and pare their budgets to the
bone.
D. As it turns out, however, Google has a problem that is nearly as complex as
its algorithms.

E. So while other online publishers like Yahoo News and MSNBC earn tens of
millions of dollars in revenue each year and continue to grow, Google News remains
in limbo.
F. Three years after it launched and long after most of the bugs have been excised,
it cannot get people to pay and access news on its site.
1. AEDBCF 2. ACDBEF 3. ADECBF 4. ACBEDF
35)
A. At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known
as the driest place on Earth.
B. The desert may be a heartless killer, but it's a sympathetic conservator.
C. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded,
at least as long as humans have measured it.
D. This has an obvious impact on the flora and fauna of the landscape and you
won't see a blade of grass or cactus stump, not a lizard, not a gnat.
E. But you will see the remains of almost everything left behind.
F. Without moisture, nothing rots and everything turns into artifacts.
1. AEDCBF 2. ACEDBF 3. ACDEBF 4. ABEDCF
36)
A.The estimate on the number of civilians has been a matter of debate for over
six months.
B. The government contested both these figures as vastly exaggerated and
estimated the number to be 75,000.
C. Neutral observers are now veering round to the view that the government
figure appears more reliable.
D.The United Nations and other International agencies projected a figure of 2.5
lakhs.
E. The LTTE has consistently maintained that the figure is above 4 lakhs.

F. It is improbable for more than a lakh people to be present in LTTE -controlled

territory ,which is shrinking with every passing day.
1. 1) a)EDCB
2. 2) b)EDBC
3. 3) c)BCED
4. 4) d)DEBC
5. 5) e)BEDC
AUG-24
37)
1. It doesn't take a high esteemed medical expert to conclude that women handle
pain better than men.
A. First the men would give birth and then take six months to recover.
B. As for labour pains the human species would become extinct if men had to
give birth.
C. They do, however, make life hell for everyone else with their non-stop
complaining about how bad they feel.
D. The men in my life including my husband and my father would not take a
Tylenol for pain even if their lives depend on it.
6. And by the time they finish sharing their excruciating experience with their
buddies all reproduction would come to a halt.
1. 1) DCBA
2. 2) CDBA
3. 3) BACD
4. 4) ABDC
38)
A. The seeds of fascism, however, were planted in Italy. Fascism is reaction,
said Mussolini, but reaction to what?
B. The progeny of these theories are sometimes called Modernism or Modernity
because they challenged social theories generally accepted since the days of
Machiavelli.
C. It was Rousseau who is best known for crystallizing these modern social
theories in.
D. The response to the French Revolution and Rousseau, by Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche,
and others, poured into an intellectual stew which served up Marxism, socialism,
national socialism, fascism, modern liberalism, modern conservatism, communism,

and a variety of forms of capitalist participatory democracy.

E. The reactionary movement following World War I was based on a rejection of
the social theories that formed the basis of the 1789 French Revolution, and
whose early formulations in this country had a major influence on our Declaration
of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights
1. 1) DECB
2. 2) EDBC
3. 3) EDCB
4. 4) ECBD
39)
1.

A few years ago, hostility towards Japanese-Americans was so strong

that I thought they were going to reopen the detention camps here in Kolkata.
A.

Today Asians are a success story.

B.

I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi

Germany when Jewish people were successful in business.

C.

But do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with

Asia?
D.

Now, talk about the 'Arkansas-Asia Connection' is broadening that hatred to

include all Asian-Americans.

6.

No, blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian-Americans who

are reaping the wealth.

1. 1) DBAC
2. 2) ABDC
3. 3) DABC
4. 4) ACBD
5. 5) DCAB
40)
a) whatever he is offering, should be clear to BJP, and eventually to the
electorate.
b) what can you do for India, is more important than what was done for Gujrat.
c) the focus on job creation can be another area where youth will respond well.
d) also, the constant references to Gujrat need to stop.
1. ABCD 2. BDAC 3. CADB 4. DBAC

41)
A) Four years on, the Islamic Republic appears more politically unified and
ready to engage with the rest of the world.
B) Mr. Rouhani's victory following an electoral landslide, brushing aside his
supposedly favoured conservative rivals, has demonstrated that the expression
of popular will and its capacity to breathe fresh life into the system is far from
extinguished.
C) These elections are also important for another reason: they impart a sense
of closure by healing the wounds left behind by the 2009 presidential elections,
which had triggered unprecedented street protests after many Iranians suspected
those polls had been rigged to give Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term.
D) The vibrant elections that have unexpectedly thrown up Hassan Rouhani
a moderate cleric as Iran's next President have once again exposed those
quick to label Iranian democracy a sham.
1. 1) ABDC
2. 2) DBCA
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) DABC
42)
A. The broken politics in New Delhi means that it's almost impossible for Manmohan
Singh's government to take coherent policy decisions.
B. Beijing's sweet reasonableness in 2012 is therefore welcome.
C. China anticipates this year to be a rough ride with bumps on the economy
and a leadership transition.
D. For India too, it's important to not build an adversarial position vis-a-vis China.
E. India must remember though, that sweetness is not their default position.
1. 1) DABCE
2. 2) CABDE
3. 3) BCEDA
4. 4) CBEAD
43)
A. This, of course, is a classical contraposition - Jorge Luis Borges, brings it up
in his book using as an example the historical meeting between the Bactrian King
Menander and the Buddhist sage Nagasena.
B. The self-conquest recipe seemed to me too extreme, given that striving for

better life is so central to human nature.

C. Is there a middle way to happiness that avoids conquest of any kind?
D. Moreover, I could not help thinking of it as a kind of cop-out: giving up worldly
life is only meaningful if you can first show that you're capable of living it.
E. At the same time, the all-out world conquest idea is too extreme in another,
obvious sense.
1. 1) ABDEC
2. 2) CBEDA
3. 3) ACBDE
4. 4) BEDAC
44)
1. As officials their vision of a country shouldn't run too far beyond that of the
local people with whom they have to deal.
2. Ambassadors have to choose their words.
3. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring
part of what they know.
4. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears
at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.
5. They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to live ceremonial lives
1. 1) 25143
2. 2) 23451
3. 3) 23541
4. 4) 25314
5. 5) 21534
45)
A. It is said that India has always been in a hurry to conform to the western
thought especially the American.
B. Even the smaller countries have the guts to take a firm contrarian stand if
they feel the policies happen to compromise their country' s interest.
C. It' one thing to sprout theories on liberalization, and entirely another to
barter the interests of the nation in its name.
D. In this case too, while a large number of countries are yet to ratify the GATT,
India has not only ratified the treaty, but is also preparing to amend the patents
Act.
1. 1) CABD

2. 2) DCAB
3. 3) CBDA
4. 4) BDCA
Aug 26-I
46)
1). Electronic transactions are happening in closed group networks and Internet.
Electronic commerce is one of the most important aspects of Internet to
emerge.
2). Cash transactions offer both privacy and anonymity as it does not contain
information that can be used to identify the parties nor the transaction history.
3). To support e-commerce, we need effective payment systems and secure
communication channels and data integrity.
4). The whole structure of traditional money is built on faith and so will
electronic money have to be.
5). Moreover, money is worth what it is because we have come to accept it.
1. 1) A. 25413
2. 2) B. 12534
3. 3) C. 45123
4. 4) D. 43521
47)
1). If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind
never develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting
2). Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people's pain and
suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion
3). If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the
people.
4). Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of
their addictive tendencies.
1. 1) A. 2134
2. 2) B. 1423
3. 3) C. 2431
4. 4) D. 3241
48)
1. A May 1 paper in The Lancet clearly brings out the complexity of H7N9's origin.
2. Scientists are yet to confirm with certainty the host that harbours the virus,

and the infected birds show no visible signs of illness.

3. Twenty-six people have recovered and a few asymptomatic cases have also
been found.
4. Though the virus has been detected in a small number of poultry and a
link found between poultry and four patients who had occupational exposure
to poultry, over 20 per cent of those infected have had no contact with poultry.
5. While sustained human-to-human transmission has not been seen, there have
been proven clusters of such a spread.
6. Though recovery from infection is good news, the presence of asymptomatic
cases does not augur well.
1. 1) 623451
2. 2) 362451
3. 3) 162453
4. 4) 453612
49)
1). Ignorance is the opposite of knowledge, i.e., want of knowledge.
2). To deal with uncertainty and ignorance economists have recognized the
entrepreneur as possessing this non-rational form of knowledge.
3). Like some ancient priest-king, the entrepreneur knows the future and leads
his people.
4). Entrepreneurial knowledge is essentially intuitive.
5). It involves seeing and realizing a vision of future markets, products and/or
other opportunities.
1. 1) 23541
2. 2) 45123
3. 3) 12453
4. 4) 43125
5. 5) 32145
50)
A. There is a fairly widespread belief that these trends are likely to continue for at
least another several years, but then conventional lithography starts to reach its
limits
.B. Its worth pointing out that the word nanotechnology has become very
popular and is used to describe many types of research where the characteristic
dimensions are less than about 1,000 nanometers.

C. Many of the exponentially improving trends in computer hardware capability

have remained steady for the last 50 years.
D. For example, continued improvements in lithography have resulted in line
widths that are less than one micron: this work is often called nanotechnology.
1. 1) DCBA
2. 2) BACD
3. 3) BDCA
4. 4) ACDB
5. 5) ACBD
51)
1.A. Speech contains nonverbal elements known as paralanguage, including
voice quality, rate, pitch, volume, and speaking style, as well prosodic features
such as rhythm, intonation, and stress.
B. Nonverbal messages could also be communicated through material
exponential; meaning, objects or artifacts (such as clothing, hairstyles or
architecture).
C. Likewise, written texts have nonverbal elements such as handwriting style,
spatial arrangement of words, or the physical layout of a page.
D. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch, by body
language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact.
E. Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of
communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual)
messages between people.
(a) EDBAC (b) ABCDE (c) EACDB (d) ECADB
2.
A. The entire system of things that is the Universe encompasses the very
large and the very small the astronomical scale of stars and galaxies and the
microscopic world of elementary particles.
B. Cosmology is everything that exists.
C. This is an ambitious goal, and significant gaps in our knowledge still remain.
D. Nevertheless, there has been such rapid progress that many cosmologists
regard this as something of a Golden Age.
E. The aim of cosmology is to place all known physical phenomena within a single
coherent framework.

(a) BEACD (b) ADBCE (c) BECAD (d) BAECD

3.
A. Most writers have no trouble compiling a list of legal or other definitions
running into dozens, and then adding their own to it.
B. Both political and academic efforts to get to grips with terrorism have
repeatedly been hung up on the issue of definition, of distinguishing terrorism
from criminal violence or military action.
C. Why the difficulty?
D. It is applied to them by others, first and foremost by the governments of the
states they attack.
E. In a word, it is labeling, because terrorist is a description that has almost
never been voluntarily adopted by any individual or group.
(a) CBADE (b) BEDCA (c) ABDCE (d) BACED
52)
1. Some of the maharajas, like the one at Kapurthala, had exquisite taste.
A. In 1902, the Maharaja of Kapurthala gave his civil engineer photographs of
the Versailles Palace and asked him to replicate it, right down to the gargoyles.
B. Yeshwantrao Holkar of Indore brought in Bauhaus aesthetics and even works
of modern artists like Brancusi and Duchamp.
C. Kitsch is the most polite way to describe them.
D. But many of them, as the available light photographs show, had execrable
taste.
6. Like Ali Baba's caves, some of the palaces were like warehouses with the
downright ugly next to the sublimely aesthetic.
a BACD b BDCA c ABCD d ABDC e BCAD

AUG-26 II
53) PM Their in 4 refers to schools and colleges which is mentioned again
in 5. Anachronism( out of place and time) in 1 refers to 3. 3 2 54
1] What passes for education today, even in our 'best' schools and colleges, is a
hopeless anachronism.
[2] Government ministries, churches, the mass media all exhort young people to
stay in school, insisting that now, as never before, one's future is almost
wholly dependent upon education.
[3] Parents look to education to fit their children for life in the future; teachers

warn that the lack of an education will cripple a child's chances in the world of
tomorrow.
[4] Their vast energies are applied to cranking out Industrial Men people
tooled for survival in a system that will be dead before they are.
[5] Yet, for all this rhetoric about our future, our schools face backward
towards a dying system, rather than forward to the emerging new society.
A. 3245
B. 2354
C. 2345
D. 3254
54) LE BD is link as B talks about struggles and D gives explanation to it. E
is a good opener. Stats usually open the line as most of the explanation
will be based on it(analysis).
A. The celebrations of economic recovery in Washington may be as premature
as that Mission Accomplished banner hung on the USS Abraham Lincoln to hail
the end of the Iraq war.
B. Meanwhile, in the real world, the struggles of families and communities
continue unabated.
C. Washington responded to the favorable turn in economic news with
enthusiasm.
D. The celebrations and high-fives up and down Pennsylvania Avenue are not to
be found beyond the Beltway.
E. When the third quarter GDP showed growth of 7.2% and the monthly
unemployment rate dipped to 6%, euphoria gripped the US capital.
1. 1) ACEDB
2. 2) CEDAB
3. 3) ECABD
4. 4) ECBDA
55)
56) GE AC is a pair as ambitious affair refers to the work by the trios which
accommodates everything... B is opener. The piece in D refers to the work
in A continued in C.
A.Those unquiet waters have recently been agitated by an extensive overview of
the topic published in the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, a widely used online

reference source, by Michael Weisberg, Paul Needham and Robin Hendry, all three
respected philosophers of science.
B.The philosophy of chemistry excites lively, often impassioned debate.
C.It's an ambitious affair, accommodating everything from the evolution since
ancient times of theories of matter to the nature of the chemical bond and
interpretations of quantum theory.
D.The piece has proved controversial because the authors have presented points of
view on several of these issues that are not universally shared.
1. 1) BADC
2. 2) BCAD
3. 3) DACB
4. 4) DCAB
5. 5) BACD
57)
58) OE AB is a good pair as the legend refers to the unproved story in A.
Got confused between CD and DC.
A. It has been suggested that bored shepherds tending flocks of sheep near St.
Andrews became adept at hitting rounded stones into rabbit's holes with their
wooden crooks.
B. And so a legend that persists to this day was born!
C. We know that golf has existed for at least 500 years because James II of
Scotland had golf and football banned because archery practice was being
neglected.
D. There is general agreement that the Scots were the earliest of golf addicts
but who actually invented the game is open to debate.
1. 1) BCDA
2. 2) BCAD
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) DCAB
5. 5) CADB
59) 13 is a pair. If word study is used again then it means it broke off from
chain P by some other sentence not containing study ( 4 & 2).
P). The study reveals that teens have an indirect impact on spending too.
1). The study goes on to profile Indian teens, segments them on their mind-set,

media preferences, attitudes and how they behave in the market place.
2). Thus, the presence of a teen in the home accelerate and influences purchase of
entertainment durables.
3). To a large extent, it also fulfils the need for an substitutionalized system of
gathering information on the dynamic market segment on a regular basis.
4). Teen personal durable ownership is up.
Q). There is a lot of justification in making the NFO-Coke Teen perspective
report an annual exercise.
1. 1) 4213
2. 2) 4312
3. 3) 3142
4. 4) 1423
60) OE Went wrong in placement of 4.
1). Behaviour is just the evidence for mind, not its very nature.
2). The view that a mind can be reduced to patterns in behaviour is a
hypothesis long abandoned.
3). Thus you can act as if you are in pain and not really be in pain.
4). The turning test, one may say, is seriously flawed.
1. 1) 1324
2. 2) 2134
3. 3) 4213
4. 4) 4123
61) LE Definitely starts with B. AD are linked
A. It is an irony, where the part makes more sense than the whole.
B. Dead and alive at the same time, is inconceivable, an impossible oxymoron
that paralyses the intellect into a shutdown.
C. The sharp edge of reason coupled with a perceptive bias cleaves this
integrative intangible 'superposition into fragmented tangibility.
D. A jigsaw puzzle, that becomes incomprehensible when complete.
1)BCAD
2)ADBC
3)ABCD
4)BDAC

AUG-27

61)
A. Local, state and national government expenditures for goods and services
rose from 13% of the GNP in 1950 to 23% in 1970.
B. New target areas of government spending include the physical sciences, the
social sciences and the arts.
C. One of the most rapidly expanding sectors in American life since World War II
has been the government.
D. The expansion was not limited to traditional domains such as defence and
welfare.
a. ADBC b. BADC c. CADB d. CABD
62.
A. The next category is the electromagnetic force, which interacts with electrically
charged particles like electrons and quarks, but not with uncharged particles like
gravitons.
B. A large body, such as the earth or the sun, contains nearly equal numbers of
positive and negative charges.
C. The force between two positive charges is repulsive, as is the force
between two negative charges, but the force is attractive between a positive
and a negative charge.
D. It is much stronger than the gravitational force: the electromagnetic force
between two electrons is about a million times bigger than the gravitational force.
E. However, there are two kinds of electric charge, positive and negative.
F. Thus the attractive and repulsive forces between the individual particles
nearly cancel each other out, and there is very little net electromagnetic force.
a. ADECBF b. AECDBF c. AEDCBF d. BAEDCF
63.
A. The three-tiered glass box that belongs to Melissa O Neill and her husband
Jeremy Eng has no name.
B. It is a Modernist building, in which they plan to live for the rest of their lives.
C. In Ireland, O Neill explains, house names evolve over time.
D. The house, which is the shape of a wedding cake, stands alone in 50 acres of
the hilly countryside east of Cork.
E. We designed the layout bearing in mind that we could live on the ground floor
and basement when we are too old to walk upstairs, she says.

F. It is an unusual but stunning sight to come across, considering the suburban

bungalows common to the area.
a. ADCBEF b. AECDBF c. AEDCBF d. ACDBEF
64.
A. Certainly, in so far as Gregorys case is concerned, there are enough of her
medical notes included in the book to substantiate her interpretation of the past.
B. Critics maintain that Munchausen has been created by society to explain the
unexplainable and that, at worst, it has recently been used as a catch-all diagnosis
to convict innocent mothers, guilty only of passionate interest in their childs wellbeing or worried about mysterious symptoms.
C. A British doctor first introduced the term Munchausen syndrome in 1951.
D. It has since been recognized by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child
Health, which prefers to call it Factitious Illness.
E. Believers such as Julie Gregory maintain that wider recognition of the risks
and general acceptance of the risks in general rather than the existing polarity
could save childrens lives, even if it means a careful scrutiny of childrens medical
records.
a. CEADB b. ABEDC c. CDBEA d. ABECD
65.
A. And because they like intervening in the material world, we need never be
shy in asking for their assistance, or worry that our request is too trivial or
unimportant.
B. While the fierce and sometimes baleful beings have been transformed into
flimsy Christmas decorations and trashy New Age knick-knacks, an enduring
residue of belief in their power and magic remains.
C. Her angels are sweetly helpful types, apparently as willing to do human bidding
as carrying the messages of God: she describes angels who will find lost pets or
assist with weight loss: angels to help with shopping or mending the plumbing.
D. The angels intervene in our material world with great joy, she writes in her
bestselling book, Healing with the Angels.
E. It is because of this belief that Americas leading angel author, Doreen
Virtue, has sold more than two million books; a success that has spread to this
country, where her angel workshops and lectures are fully booked for months in

advance.
a. BECDA b. ABCDE c. AEDCB d. BCDEA
67)
A. Experts such as Larry Bums, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a
full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorisation
that will one day come to China or India.
B. But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from
underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the
way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole
system.
C. In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver
better total fuel economy than any existing engines.
D. That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five
percentage points better than a diesel hybrid.
E. Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil,
coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30%.
1. CEDBA 2. CEBDA 3. AEDBC 4. ACEBD
69)
A. The inner self provides us with a touchstone to evaluate our interface in
nature.
B. There is heirarchy of consciousness.
C. Stones, Planets, fish and human beings represent consecutively higher levels of
consciousness.
D. Interface with nature, which leads to the growth of higher consciousness, is
desirable.
a) DABC b) BCAD c) DBCA d) ABCD
70)
A. The shift in the governments stance may have been necessitated by a
growing evidence of public disagreement.
B. At the inauguration of the Calcutta Book Fair, the Chief Minister hinted that
there may be a rethink in favour of English and that it may be introduced at the
Class III stage instead of the present Class VI.
C. Jyoti Basu, whose Marxist governments dogmatic insistence on primary

education in the mother tongue has rendered a generation of Bengalis

uncompetitive, almost admitted to another historical blunder recently.
D. No English please, we are Marxists.
1)ABCD
2)CDAB
3)CADB
4)DCBA
71)
1] There is a special absurdity in applying racial theories to the various
populations of Europe.
A. The English are perhaps the most mixed of all.
B. The purest races now in existence are the Pygmies, the Hottentots, and the
Australian aborigines.
C. There is no evidence that there is an advantage in belonging to a pure race.
D. There is not, in Europe, any such thing as a pure race.
6] They were not the bearers of a brilliant culture.
1)BCAD
2)ADCB
3)CADB
4)DACB
74)
(A) Mr. Churchill, the then Secretary for War, had called the incident an
outrage.
(B) In April 1919, several hundreds were killed and more than 1,200 injured at
Jallianwala Bagh when British troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald
Dyer fired on a peaceful gathering.
(C) Mr. Cameron later said that the incident had happened 40 years before he
was born and it will not be the right thing to reach back into history and to seek
out things you can apologise for.
(D) For many who had hoped for a full and formal apology for the Jallianwalla
Bagh massacre, UK Prime Minister David Camerons floral tributes at the
martyrs memorial and his comments in the visitors book did not go far

enough.(
E) Staying close to the position that Winston Churchill took, Mr. Cameron
said that Jallianwala Bagh was a deeply shameful event in British history.
1.) DEACB 2.) DEABC 3.) BDEAC 4.) DECBA 5.) BDAEC

AUG 28
72) Its in C refers to Silver Pavilion in 1. Also, At that time in D refers to
Heian period as it cannot refer B because it will have to howevers.
1] The highest expression of restrained aesthetic in Yoshimasha's era was
the Silver Pavilion.
A. Gardens had always held an important place in the nation's soul, as we know
from The Tale of Genji and other court fiction of the Heian period.
B. In Yoshimasha's era, however, gardens moved towards a Zen aesthetic.
C. One of its key innovations was the central importance of it's gardens, a
design approach that became basic to Japanese architecture.
D. At that time, however gardens were seasonal, emphasizing spring and autumn
to illustrate the perishabillty of beauty, the concept of the "pity and things".
6] They favoured the use of symbols of eternity such as rocks and sand over the
transient beauty of flowers.
1)CADB
2)DBCA
3)BADC
4)ABCD
73) Did not understand.
1. In a bold new initiative to attract, recruit and keep teachers, London
schools are set to offer long-term contracts to thousands of Indians for the
new term beginning in September.
A.

A recruitment agency that will soon be advertising an unlimited number

of vacancies in India told a newspaper that specific requirements of the schools

had led them to turn to countries such as India, Jamaica and those in Eastern
Europe.
B.

A British educationist was of the view that the developments might even

refocus Indias gaze away from IT and towards education.

C.

More than 200 London schools have asked recruitment agencies to

search for teachers willing to undertake long-term work commitments.

D.

The new recruitment strategy is seen as significant in moving away from

short-terminism.
6.

The news that thousands of permanent jobs are up for grabs to Indians

who speak perfect English, have basic teachers qualification and no police record
has come even as British schools have been facing an acute shortage of teachers.
1)ADCB
2)CDBA
3)CABD
4)ACBD
75) C is more general that is why considered as opener. BA is a pair as
Round Zero is introduced in B.
A) Dexter Wimberly, curator of Round Zero, called it a primal, atavistic
presentation of figurative painting, steeped in pain and sacrifice.
B) At the Art Directors Club in New York in May, Round Zero showcased
the work of four artistsJerome Lagarrigue, Joe Adolphe, Tim Okamura, and
Taha Claytoninspired by boxing.
C) Boxing, like painting, is made up of both small jabs and broad strokes.
D) In Jerome Lagarrigue's close ups, the paint seems to drip off of the canvas
like sweat, evoking the intensity of a gaze or the strain of a muscle.
1. 1) CABD
2. 2) BDAC
3. 3) CBAD
4. 4) BDCA
76)Did not understand where to place B. DAC is a good pair. B talks about
a topic discussed earlier. So when line is out of context(Conversation here)
then place it first or last and check if order is right.
A) Yet many black people are indeed angrier at one George Zimmerman for
killing Trayvon Martin than at the thousands of black boys who murder one
another year after year.
B) The "conversation" illusion is also why black America is more disturbed by
whites killing blacks than by blacks killing blacks.
C) This is because we have been taught that our main task is uncovering
racism rather than concretely addressing the things that make life hardest for the

most blacks.
D) Commentators who claim that black leaders ignore black-on-black crime
miss the fact that black communities have long organized Stop the
Violence forums to get citizens involved in stopping crime in their neighborhoods.
1. 1) BCDA
2. 2) BDAC
3. 3) DBAC
4. 4) DACB
77)ABC is a pair. D cannot be in first because of chronology of years.
A) For many, the most important addition was Title VII, which prohibited
employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion,
national origin and sex.
B) The ban on sex discrimination was itself a further amendment, introduced in
January 1964 by Southern Democrats who hoped it would impede the bill's
progress through Congress.
C) Their plan backfired: not only did they fail to scuttle the bill, but their
amendment also provided a critical legal tool in the fight for women's equality.
D) The message of the march still resonated in 1965, when Congress passed
the Voting Rights Act, Medicare and Medicaid, key features of President Lyndon B.
Johnson's proposal to bring an end to poverty and racial injustice.
1. 1) ABCD
2. 2) ACBD
3. 3) DCAB
4. 4) DABC
78)CB is link as Australia in C and As the continent are connected. DE is
also linked as the pair is explaining how it has evolved eventually and
adapted to different forest.
a) Scientist believe that tree-kangaroo are product of a peculiar observation of
natural history known as ping-pong evolution.
b)As the continent dried and the forests retreated , its descendants adapted
to life on the ground, diversifying into an array of terrestrial wallabies,
kangaroos, over 70 species of which are known to exist today.
c)The ancestor of all kangaroos was a cat-sized- tree dweller that lived more
than 24 million years ago , when much of Australia was cloaked in rainforest.
d)Fossils suggest that about 4.5 million years ago , a rock wallaby-like

creature began to spend more and more time clambering up sloping tree trunks.
Though it retained the tree-kangaroo's powerful hind legs, it eventually became a
good enough climber to live permanently on trees.
e) Then it diversified quickly , adapting to many different forest habitats.
1. 1) bcde
2. 2) dbce
3. 3) cbde
4. 4) cdeb

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79)
A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to the
Equator and to Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the
earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the
exact nature of the shape of the earth.
C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes
than at the poles.
D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen
longitude or meridian at one degree latitude separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an 'oblate
spheroid' more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of 'how
much more' was yet to be established.
1. 1) BECAD
2. 2) BEDCA
3. 3) BDACE
4. 4) EBDCA
80)
A. As the government prepares for its home-run dash leading up to next year's
parliamentary elections, India's key financial administrators and macromanagers are stuck with major headaches.
B. There is no gainsaying the fact of the significance of prices in an election
year.
C. The same amount of money buys fewer goods.
D. Economic theory calls this phenomenon a fall in real income.

E. Inflation may have moderated a tad in the last few months, but there have
been very few periods in India's contemporary history when prices have
remained so stubbornly high for such a long period.
a AECDB
b EDCAB
c ECDAB
d ABECD
81)*
P). The one major cause for the current weakened state of Indian banks is
the level and volume of non-performing assets.
1). Yet, the fact remains that the banks allowed themselves to be pressurized
into lowering their guard in the one area of business that is and should be their
bread and butter of existence- risk assessment.
2). Description such as 'deceased portfolio' and figures running into thousands
of crores have all led to treating the problem as a major one-time aberration
requiring emergency treatment.
3). The causal explanations - political interference, wilful defaults, targeted
lending and even fraudulent behaviours by banks - have some grain of truth in
them.
4). The problem has not been looked at in its proper perspective.
Q). The response from the banks is to concentrate on somehow reducing the
amount and number of accounts in this category.
1. 1) 4312
2. 2) 4231
3. 3) 2431
4. 4) 1432
82)
A. The government was claiming that the citys air was cleaner for the
Olympics than it had been in a decade.
B. But stench from a waste-disposal plant was smothering their homes.
C. After a lull, news of protests around China about all sorts of issues is again
trickling out.
D. Freed from Olympic constraints, they felt it was time to protest.
E. They were not alone.

a BEDC
b CDEB
c BDEC
d DEBC
e BCED
83)
A. The paintings, sculptures, and balloons of Takashi Murakami are colourful
and attractive, and accessible in their reference to lovable cartoon characters.
B. Not stopping with the production of artworks, Murakami shocked the
world with his entrepreneurial collaboration with Louis Vuitton, when he
challenged the divide between art and commerce.
C. As a curator, Murakami challenges our notions of history and culture.
D. Murakami uses his deep understanding of Western art to integrate his
work into its structure; working from the inside to portray Japanese-ness as a
tool to bring about revolution in the world of art.
E. As an artist, Murakami questions the lines drawn between East and West, past
and present, high art and popular culture.
a.BDEC b.CBDE c.CEBD d.DEBC e.BCDE

84)
A. In art, essentialism is the idea that certain concepts may be expressed
organically in certain media.
B. Each medium has its own particular strengths and weaknesses, contingent
on its mode of communication.
C. This idea may be further refined and it may be said that the haiku is a poor
vehicle for describing a lovers affection as opposed to the more organically
correct sonnet.
D. Essentialism is attractive to artists because it not only delineates the
role of art and media but also prescribes a method for evaluating art.
E. A chase scene may be appropriate for motion pictures, but poorly realised in
poetry because the essential components of the poetic medium are ill suited to
convey the information of a chase scene.
a DCEBA

b BDACE
c DABEC
d ABEDC
e ABECD
85)
A. Given the atrocities perpetrated with impunity by state forces, it is a moral
imperative that the negotiations scheduled to resume at the United Nations
this month on a comprehensive treaty to regulate the sale of conventional
arms should succeed.
B. Its recent report calls on countries to codify the so-called golden rule not
to allow the transfer of arms to states where there is a threat of grave abuses
of human rights and humanitarian law.
C. Every year, over 300,000 people are killed by conventional weapons and
millions injured, forcibly displaced, and bereaved because of armed violence,
according to Amnesty International.
D. The consensus that has emerged, since the 2006 Resolution for a global
pact, on underwriting provisions related to protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms in the proposed treaty is also a tacit recognition of the
brutalities committed systematically against innocent civilians in the
conflict zones.
E. However, opposition by the United States, Russia, China and India, besides
others, to link the trade in arms to the observance of human rights and
humanitarian law by recipient countries threatens to block progress.
a DECB
b DEBC
c EDBC
d ECBD
e None of these

86)
A. Nevertheless, we do think that certain aesthetic, evaluative conceptions do
relate to specific experiences in a non-trivial way, especially that of

aesthetic excellence.
B. This is so because, typically, we think that the experience of beauty is such
that we cannot leave it to others to be had.
C. It is rather intriguing that we will often try to persuade people of what
we find beautiful, even though we do not believe that they may subsequently
base their judgment of taste on our testimony.
D. Moreover, we are often aware of the contingency of our own judgments'
foundation in our own experience.
E. Now the discussion within analytical aesthetics concerning the question of what
kinds of truth- values adhere to aesthetic judgments of various kinds has evident
bearing on the problem of aesthetic experience's relevance for evaluation.
a CEBAD
b CEDAB
c EADCB
d CBDAE
e None of these

AUG-30
87)DC is a link because of chronology. BA is a pair because they talk about
the specifics of the boat.
A. In average winds, sailors typically "fly" one of its two hulls, reduce drag and
make it possible to attain speeds of 30-knots on a reach and 18 knots upwind.
B. The boat is for advanced sailors who relish speed and competitive one-design
racing.
C. Featuring a crew of two, the Tornado first raced in the Olympics in 1976.
D. The Tornado is a one-design racing catamaran which was designed in 1967 for
the specific purpose of becoming the Olympic catamaran.
a> ACBD
b> DCBA
c> BCDA
d> CBDA
e> BDCA
88) DC is a link as they talk about a consequences and how to avoid those.
ADC forms a pair. B cannot come after C as B is more general opinion and C

is more specific.
A. Renunciation was the catchword, poverty the goal and austerity the norm of
the day.
B. Wealth, claimed the pundits of yore, was a sin if it was not accumulated for a
'godly' purpose.
C. There was, however, an easy way out, just keep donating money to religious
institutions and God would turn a blind eye to how you earn your wealth.
D. If you did not practice these, you were a sinner, decreed to being either
reborn as a lower animal of a Hindu, or to be barbecued in the fires of hell, if a
Christian.
a> ADCB
b> DBAC
c> CABD
d> DACB
e> BADC
89)
A) The tax director fills at least three roles.
B) Since tax directors are rarely among the top five highest paid
executives, information about their annual compensation and equity holdings is
not available in annual proxy (Form DEF 14A) filings.
C) Although tax directors are responsible for one of the firm's largest outflows of
cash and one of the largest expenses on the income statement, little is known
about how these executives are compensated.
D) Therefore, researchers are typically unable to directly observe the
parameters of tax director incentive pay.
1. 1) ABCD
2. 2) CBDA
3. 3) BCDA
4. 4) BCAD
90) BC is the link. D is the answer to C and A gives example of being slack.
A. The Steel Development Fund established by the government of India played
only a limited role in developing core competitive strength in the Indian steel
industry.
B. When India built the Rourkela steel plant with German technology, its

quality and cost competitiveness at that time, was one of the best in the world.
C. Did we build upon that strength on the strength of many technologists,
technicians & administrative personnel that made it happen?
D. We were running between America and the then Soviet Union to build Bokaro;
even after that, we were generally slack.
1.BCDA 2.ABCD 3.DABC 4.CBDA 5.CDBA
91) Thought DA will be a pair. But looking more carefully 3 OA is better
than 1
A. TIFAC studied the ideas of several Indian visionaries in the field of
technology & the plans of various organizations, suggesting what India should
do and undertake constant attempts to make stakeholders take action.
B. A few major government supported technology missions with strong industry
participation were an outcome of these activities.
C. Its major task was to look ahead at the technologies emerging worldwide, and
pick those technology trajectories which were relevant for India and should be
promoted.
D. Faced with the unusual combination of growing dependency with a few bold
successes, a unique institution called the Technology Information, Forecasting
and Assessment Council (TIFAC) was born in 1988.
DACB
ACDB
DCAB
CDAB
ABDC
92) The passage is about Greek philosophy in indian writings and CB
introduces it well.
A. In Greek writings we hear about the Gymnosophists (of India) who used to
go around and debate on philosophical, religious and moral issues.
B. Yet there is an uncomfortable affinity between many problems discussed
by Aristotle (and Greek philosophers in general) and those discussed by the
Classical Indian thinkers.
C. Unlike the Arabic tradition in Philosophy, Indian philosophic tradition
was never directly or indirectly influenced by either Aristotle's writings or

Aristotelianism.
D. But in Sanskrit or Pali writing we seldom hear about Greek philosophy;
and never about a Greek philosopher.
CBAD ABCD ADBC CDAB ADCB
93)
A. Salikanatha concedes that under this theory each cognition will be of the
nature of perception insofar as the cognition apprehends itself.
B. This would imply that revelation of any object is impossible, and
consequently, ourvyavahara (verbal behaviour) with regard to an object or reality
would be impossible.
C. Salikanatha argues that if cognition is not admitted to be self revelatory,
then it should not be credited with the revealing of objects.
D. Thus, the classification of cognition into perception, inference, and so on,
operates only with regard to the objects (prameya).
CDAB CBAD ABCD ADCB CADB
94) D has to start as it introduces elenchus.
A. The Platonic idea of an elenchus, the one that he approved, was a contest in
which both sides openly recognize that the questioner was trying to refute and the
answerer was trying not to be refuted.
B. In the wider sense it means examining a person's statement by asking him
questions and then further questions in the hope that the person giving answer will
finally feel that he must agree to a position that entails the falsehood of his original
assertion.
C. An elenchus, according to R. Robinson, is, in the narrower sense, a form of
crossexamination or refutation.
D. The most pervasive form of refutation practiced by Socrates is called
elenchus.
1. DCBA 2. ABCD 3. ADCB 4. CBDA 5. BADC
95) C has to come after 1.
1. By importing nonstrategic systems for defence, a nation will not be able
to defend both its economic freedom and security.
A. A country's strength to protect its security is dependent on the degree of
selfreliance in defence and defence systems.

B. Through our sustained efforts for growth of corecompetence and self

reliance in critical technologies, we can transform our nation.
C. This will only perpetuate the dependence on other nations.
D. India's core competence in certain technological areas and scientific
technological manpower has to be harnessed.
6. Technology is the tool that brings faster economic growth and needed inputs for
national security.
1. ABCD 2. ABDC 3. CADB 4. DCAB 5. ADCB
96) A has to come after B as it talks about time and money relation in B. D
then gives a conclusion about it. C talks about development of the
hypotheses.
A) Because how time is used is inextricably linked with an individual's
personal identity and values (Mogilner & Aaker, in press; Reed, Aquino, & Levy,
2007), the way someone evaluates his or her time is likely to influence the
very criteria used to assesses happiness.
B) We argue that one factor often overlooked in the literature exploring the
relationship between income and happiness are the organizational
arrangements that make the connection between time and money and the
monetary opportunity costs of time more or less salient.
C) To develop the logic for this hypothesis, we first review literature in
organizational behavior that shows that organizational practices can cause people
to become economic
D) Therefore, organizational arrangements, such as being paid by the hour
(DeVoe & Pfeffer, 2007a) or billing one's time on a timesheet (Yakura, 2001) can
be psychologically important for understanding whether and to what extent
individuals are likely to rely on income in evaluating their happiness.
1. 1) BADC
2. 2) BACD
3. 3) BCAD
4. 4) BDCA
97) D has to start the discussion.
A) A first-order complication arises as observed correlation in the data between
outcome variables and marketing activities is driven both by any causal effects of
marketing and by the targeting rule, leading to an endogeneity problem in
estimation.

B) The measurement of the causal effects of such targeted marketing is

however tricky.
C) The advent of database marketing has made it possible for firms to tailor
prices, advertising and other elements of the marketing mix to consumers based on
their type (e.g., Rossi, McCullogh and Allenby 1996).
D) Targeting is a ubiquitous element of firms' marketing strategies.
1. 1) CDAB
2. 2) DCBA
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) BADC

AUG-31
98)*
a)A special significance of plant insecticides is that they do not pollute our
environment, they are bio-degradable and eco-friendly.
b)The latest trend in agricultural farming is the usage of plant based products
as insect repellants or insecticides.
c)Plant breeding programmes throughout the world , including our country , during
the last few decades have resulted in significant increase in the crop yields.
d)To combat this menace chemical pesticides were widely used but they
gave rise to serious environmental hazards as they are not bio-degradable.
e)The fields were drastically affected by the insects pests feeding on the crops.
1. BAEDC
2. CEDAB
3. CEDBA
4. CDEAB
99)
(a) We must leave room within our planning of industry, agriculture, forestry, and
water usage and in our construction of dams, factories, and housing development
for nature's unpredictable events.
(b) Because ecological and social systems are open, interacting and
unpredictable, we must allow for the possibility of surprise.
(c) We cannot dam every wild river, cut every old-growth forest, irrigate
every desert, or build homes in every flood plain.

(d) The work of post-modern scientists on unpredictability implies that

human beings must give up the possibility of totally dominating and controlling
nature.
(e) Global weather patterns that include hurricanes and tornados;
geological changes, such as earthquakes and volcanoes; and ecological and
evolutionary processes cannot be predicted with sufficient certainty to give
human beings complete control over non-human nature.
1. dbeac
2. caebd
3. ecabd
4. decba
100) DA is the link. Also D should be ahead of most of others sentences as
it is transitioning the para from general to specific. B is general so OA 3.
(a) Such changes will take time, but as has become increasingly clear over the
past decades, women are a tremendous social resource which no society can
afford, any longer, to undervalue or under use.
(b) Involving women at all levels of development thinking, planning and
implementation will make a world of difference not merely to women but
to the capacity of society to envisage and carry out planned social change which
will permit humankind to live in harmony with nature and itself.
(c) Planners have a great responsibility: both to listen to women and to build
their vision into planning strategies.
(d) To bring women to centrestage, however, will require profound
changes in the way that societies conceive of relations between the genders
and the dismantling of centuries-old structures of thought and practice.
(e) But women will no longer accept being treated as workhorses for development
strategies planned by others; they require to be treated as partners.
1. cbeda
2. bacde
3. bdaec
4. cebad
101) Close look at pronouns and its antecedents will reveal that these
doctrines in A refers to traditional doctrines in B so BA is the link.out of
OA 2 and 3 C is good opener.
(a) As the changed environment became not a novelty but an established fact,

these doctrines had to be modified.

(b) Since the new forces had been bewildering and often shocking to
conservative consciences, moralists and religious teachers met them at first by a
re-affirmation of the traditional doctrines by which, it seemed, these excesses
might be restrained and their abuses corrected.
(c) It is commonplace that modern economic history begins with a series of
revolutionary changes in the direction and organisation of commerce, in finance,
in prices and in agriculture.
(d) As the effects of the reformation developed, different churches produced
characteristic differences of social opinion.
(e) To the new economic situation, men brought a body of doctrine, law and
tradition hammered out during the preceding three centuries.
1. dbeac
2. cebad
3. ecdba
4. cbdea
102)
A) It was a staple of the virtually nonexistent Chicago craft beer scene when
it first appeared in 1989.
B) In a period when options were mostly limited to American adjunct lagers,
the more European-style Baderbru provided an alternative to please the palates
of beer drinkers in Chicagoland.
C) But then, at the height of its popularity, it disappeared.
D) The beer became so popular that George H. W. Bush ordered cases to
the White House.
1. ACDB
2. ADBC
3. BACD
4. BADC
103) Now when i look DC is the link. when he is outside outside what? BA
is the link
A) I've been before, in my first quarter at the College, but I'm looking forward
to a different experience this time: during the summer meditation is not
guided, but open.
B) During the academic year, community members gather in Rockefeller every

weekday morning for guided meditation.

C) I'm outsideFriday morning, 8 a.m. sharpfor the mediation series Twenty
Minutes Still.
D) In the soft morning light, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel looks more intimate
than imposing.
1. BACD
2. CDBA
3. DCBA
4. ADBC
104) 52 is the link
1). In 1979, Grenada witnessed the establishment of a socialist
government by Maurice Bishop, which survived four years of US-engineered
incursions.
2) This was duly appreciated, with some 7, 000 US servicemen being designated
as heroes and given decorations.
3). This government was overthrown in an internal power struggle among left-wing
groups and, within three weeks of the Bishop's ouster and assassination,
Reagan launched Operation Urgent Fury against Grenada, claiming that the
invasion was "forced on us by events that have no precedent in the eastern
Caribbean."
4). In the end Grenada, just like Cuba and Nicaragua, was no more than the
Chomskian "threat of a good example" to other Third World countries in
the region.
5). Around 2,000 US Marines "fought" for a week, destroying a mental hospital,
killing 84 Cubans building an airstrip, and 400 Grenadians.
1. 13425
2. 13524
3. 34512
4. 12345
105) C is good starter. D follows it as it still general w.r.t leadership in
various fields. Now For example in B is for A or D is the question. In B
picture of leader coloured as military commander shows that it is being
made far less important. So, AB.
A) It is sometimes contented that modern war has become so highly technical
in character that the role of the army,with its demands for leadership at

levels,has become far less important.

B) Let us take an example,exercise of leadership in war,the most obvious field
in which it is required-in deed,so obvious that the reactions of many people towards
the whole subject are coloured by the picture of leader as a military
commander.
C) The very fact that many of the problems that arise in the technical world are
necessarily very complex in character,sometimes divert attention from the fact
that they require leadership to solve them.
D) But though the fields in which leadership has to be exercised have
changed,most of its essential qualities remain as necessary as ever.
1. CDBA
2. CADB
3. ADCB
4. CDAB
5. DABC
SEPT-01
107)
A. The correct sequence of events comes up in the case of typhoid, where the
bacilli actually show up in tests as late as 15 days after the patient reports the
symptoms.
B. Nature cure says that bacteria or viruses do not cause the disease; instead
they appear when the disease-causing toxins and impurities have accumulated in
the body.
C. Worse, for as long as two months after the patient has recovered the
typhoid bacilli stay in the blood, if they had caused the disease, they can strike
again.
D. They are scavengers, just like flies and mosquitoes which hover over a pile of
garbage.
a> BDAC b> DCBA c> CBDA d> ADCB e> BCDA
108)
A. Further, Irigaray believes that all women have historically been associated
with the role of "mother" such that, her identity is always defined according to that
role.

B. Luce Irigaray argues that, since ancient times, mothers have been associated
with nature and unthinking matter.
C. While excluded from culture and subjectivity, women serve as their
unacknowledged support.
D. This is in contrast to men who are associated with culture and subjectivity.
a> DCBA b> CDBA c> ABCD d> ACDB e> BADC
109) two structure words never come in consecutive sentences.
An established business which is able and willing to invest in its development
into mail order trading will usually engage the services of a suitable
advertising agency.
A. Unfortunately, however, too often the newcomer is left to his own creative
devices, which are likely to be few and underdeveloped.
B. But should a suitable agency be persuaded to accept the account, life
should be much easier for the new business.
C. But an individual beginner with limited financial resources will be
extremely fortunate to find such an agency.
D. There are few agencies with the real depth of experience in the mail
order field and even fewer that will be prepared to invest their time and money in
nursing a beginner without the inducement of a substantial fee.
a. DCBA b. CDBA c. CADB d. ACDB
110)
A) At a stroke, the sale made clear that the rich are back in their rightful
place at the apex of the world.
B) Not only does it signal that the plutocracy believes it successfully eluded
financial Armageddon.
C)Aesthetic choices are social makers with which the powerful signal their
power and set themselves apart from other, inferior group
D)That's why the record set by Giacometti's 'Walking Man I ' is so significant.
1. ADBC 2. DABC 3. CDBA 4. CDAB
111)
A. We now live with ironical nostalgia about unconditonal systems for artistic
creativity.
B.In fact, support for creativity could have hit an all time low.

C.The state cultural organisations are steadfastly bureaucratic and te private

sector is not forthcoming.
D.Infrastructure and support for creativity are probably a thing of te past.
E.And there is very little else in terms of support except for a handful of
modestly endowed private and quasi-government organisations and languishing
universities dedicated to arts and culture.
1.ABCED 2.DCEBA 3.DACEB 4.CEBAD
112)
A. It is demanding that any party it backs should establish a working group on
violence against women and children in the assembly.
B. In the run-up to the January 28 polls, for instance, members of Women
Action for Development (WAD) are organising camps in all constituencies.
C. Ironically, Manipur has many activist groups led by women.
D. True empowerment will only happen when women enter the assembly in
good numbers.
E. Conflict Widows Forum is a group made up of women who have lost their
husbands to civil violence in the state.
(a) DBCEA (b) CBADE (c) BDCEA (d) CBEAD
113)
A. This made me think again about my own cynicism about Web activism.
B. Dodd said that he believes that some sort of compromise on the content of
the film will be reached so that young people can see the film without seeking
their parents permission.
C. I called Christopher Dodd, the former senator who now runs the motion
picture association.
D. Sure hash tags come and go but they probably make the world, the one beyond
the keyboard, a better place.
E. I expected him to suggest that all the online petitioners have failed to grasp the
nuance and importance of the rating system.
(a) DCBEA (b) ADCEB (c) DCEBA (d) CEBAD
114)
A. These are not art galleries or the studio of an art lover, but restaurants

that believe that a dash of artwork can do-up their interiors, simultaneously
promoting the works of an artist.
B. For over two years now, Tangerine restaurant has been promoting works of
artists who are looking for a platform or budding artists who needs to add to their
collection.
C. Restaurants in the city are converting their walls into an exhibition space,
displaying the works of different budding artists periodically.
D. The once plain walls here have a new aura as frames holding different
colours, themes and mediums adorn them.
E. The works are exhibited on a no-cost basis, but the select works do go
through some amount of objective judging, by Illangos Artspace.
(a) DACBE (b) BCEDA (c) ABCDE (d) ADCBE
115)
1. Although the govt. of India has been urging the Royal Bhutan Govt. to
clamp down on the militant champ located in Southern Bhutan, the
Himalayan kingdom has not done anything in this regard- sans lip service.
A. Till date, however the camps run by the ULFA and NDFB continue to
exist in Southern Bhutan, which share a common border with Assam.
B. in fact, the NDFB has been involved in the killing of a number of
Bhutanese nationals inside Assam three to four years ago when authorities in
Thimpu tried to clamp down on the Bodo outfit activities inside Bhutan.
C. The issue was taken up again by India with the Bhutanese authorities
during the separate visits of Prime Minister's security advisor Brajesh Mishra and
chief of Army staff Gen. N.C Vij to Thimpu recently.
D. The main reason for the Royal Bhutan Govt. failure to dismantle the
militants will retaliate by targeting the Bhutanese nationals who mostly rely on the
highways in Assam.
6. The other main concern of the Bhutanese authorities is that, apart from
targeting the Bhutanese nationals, the militants will cut off the main supply
routes leading to the Himalayan kingdom from Assam which are used extensively
by nationals of the neighbouring land locked countries everyday.
1) DCAB 2) BCDA 3) CADB 4) ADCB
116)
A. A healthy argument can help to clear the air and clarify different points of view.
B. Even in the strongest relationships, it isnt usually possible or

healthy to try to avoid all disagreements.

C. Since its impossible to avoid all arguments, it is important to deal
constructively with your differences.
D. A desire to avoid conflict can lead couples to ignore problems until they become
too big to handle.
E. This means avoiding personal attacks during arguments or discussions, which
can destroy your trust in each other or chip away at your feelings of being loved
and valued.
1. 1) DBAEC
2. 2) ACBDE
3. 3) BDACE
4. 4) ADCEB
SEPT-2ND
117)
A) Christians believe that reconciliation between God and humankind took
place through the sacrificial life and death of Jesus Christ.
B) Humankind being too far sunk in sin and misery,and too restricted by the
limitations of the human conditions,to initiate reconciliation from the human
side,the death of Christ was necessary to transform human awareness,to jolt
humankind out of the consequence of sin,to vanquish death and to assuage God's
wrath.
C) Atonement('at-one-ment),originally a legal term for the reconciliation of two
parties,has been annexed-almost exclusively for theological use.
D) In Buddhism and Jainism,atonement is thought to be initiated by the
divine party,acting out of compassion and love,and despite the alienation caused
by human sin and weakness.
1. 1) CDAB
2. 2) ABDC
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) CABD
5. 5) BDCA
118)
1.Clearly belief in miracles is already plausible if our enquiry may presume this
view of things.

2.By "nature" they mean the totality of things that can be known by means of
observation and experiment, or more generally, through the methods proper to the
natural sciences.
3.The outcome of any discussion of miracles seems to depend greatly on our
worldview.
4.Those who would defend supernaturalism sometimes do this through a
commitment to ontology of entities that exist in some sense outside of nature.
5.The usual theistic view of the world is one that presumes the existence of
an omnipotent God who, while transcending nature, is nevertheless able to act,
or to express his will, within the natural world.
6.The usual way of making this out might be described as
supernaturalistic.
1. 1) 1)FDBCEA
2. 2) 2)AFDBEC
3. 3) 3)CEAFDB
4. 4) 4)ACFEBD
5. 5) 5)EFCADB
119)
A. Which is why Indian software suddenly look ready to conquer the whole
world
B. All major INdian software companies are already MNCs
C. All of them have branches abroad, All do most of their high end work abroad
using foreign employees
D. Everybody expects some slowdown , but few software companies
anywhere in the world can match this growth .
1. 1) ABCD
2. 2) DACB
3. 3) DABC
4. 4) ADBC
5. 5) DCAB
120)
1) I think even more urgent than privatizing existing state-owned firms is to
allow the entry of private firms into sectors earlier reserved for the state.
2). Indian thinking has traditionally been encumbered by a zero-sum view of
the economy.

3). In reality, economic life is full of complementarities.

4). A government that facilitated private business was assumed to be working
against the interest of the workers and the public sector.
1. 1) 4312
2. 2) 1432
3. 3) 4123
4. 4) 2431
121)
1). The trade union declared a strike.
2). Unemployment touched 20 per cent.
3). The finance minister put a cap of $ 2000 a month on cash withdrawals.
4). The Argentines withdrew 2.3$ billion from their bank accounts.
1. 1) 3214
2. 2) 4312
3. 3) 3421
4. 4) 4321
122)
123)
1). Of course, sitting out in the country I possessed less information than
anyone else at headquarters about was going on, but they called me anyway.
2). But as soon I arrived at my country house, the telephone began ringing.
3). And it kept right on ringing with questions from people back at the office
about the most mundane matters.
4). In the summer of 1992, the first year I became president of XYZ, I decided
to take a two-week vacation.
1. 1) 4213
2. 2) 4312
3. 3) 4123
4. 4) 4231
124)
P). Employees need to follow a meaningful set of guidelines designed to
minimize risks while encouraging creativity.
1). They must establish a meaningful corporate culture that encourages a sense
of entrepreneurship.

2). Seniors managers have a large role to play in this balancing act.
3). They have to find ways of encouraging mass experiments while limiting
possible threats to the company's existence.
4). They need to make sure the workers they hire have the skills necessary to
drive the company forward.
Q). If all goes well, natural leaders will 'emerge' to move the organization
forward.
1. 1) 2431
2. 2) 3421
3. 3) 2314
4. 4) 2134
125)
a)As Churchill's mother, Jennie Jerome, was born in Brooklyn, Americans
understandably regard Churchill's extraordinary life as an almost semidetached telling of their own national story.
b)That much has been obvious since even before 1963, when President
Kennedy gave him the only honorary US citizenship ever awarded to a living
person
c)Americans love Sir Winston Churchill.
d)Yet, in the half-century since then, that admiration and affection hasn't
abated; he is one of the only non-Americans to have a US warship (USS
Winston Churchill) named after him, and as many books are published about him in
America as in Britain.
e)Indeed, the only bookshop in the world dedicated solely to selling his
books, articles and memorabilia is the splendid Chartwell Books on Madison
Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan.
1. 1) CBDEA
2. 2) ABDEC
3. 3) ACBDE
4. 4) ACBED
126)
A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire
cages; this 'war' has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a

phenomenon as war?
C. The phrase 'war against terror', which has passed into the common lexicon, is
a huge misnomer.
D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has
codified the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity-either State or non-State.
1. 1) (1) ECDBA
2. 2) (2) BECDA
3. 3) (3) EBCAD
4. 4) (4) CEBDA
127)
A. Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of Damon for Pythias, of David
for Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar?
B. Similarly with men.
C. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability
that can only be compared with the age old association of ham and eggs.
D. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so.
E. No one can say, what the mutual magnetism was that brought about the
deathless partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs.
1. 1) (1) ACBED
2. 2) (2) CEDBA
3. 3) (3) ACEBD
4. 4) (4) CEABD
SEPT 4 (9/9)
128)
A. To, much of the Labour movement, it symbolises the brutality of the upper
classes.
B. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolises the
government's weakness.
C. To foxhunting's supporters, Labour's 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it
symbolises the party's metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.
D. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
E. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes,
foxhunting symbolises the ancient roots of rural lives.

1. 1) (1) DEACB
2. 2) (2) ECDBA
3. 3) (3) CEADB
4. 4) (4) DBAEC
129)
130)
A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as
Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany's military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of
northern Europe had been completed.
D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
1. 1) (1) EDACB
2. 2) (2) BEDAC
3. 3) (3) BDECA
4. 4) (4) CEDAB
131)
1.

Until the MBA arrived on the scene the IIT graduate was king.

A.

A degree from one of the five IITs was a passport to a well-paying job, great

prospects abroad and, for some, a decent dowry to boot.

B.

From the day he or she cracked the Joint Entrance Examination, the IIT

student commanded the awe of neighbours and close relatives.

C.

IIT students had, meanwhile, also developed their own special culture,

complete with lingo and attitude, which they passed down.

D.

True, the success stories of IIT graduates are legion and they now constitute

the cream of the Indian diaspora.

6.

But not many alumni would agree that the IIT undergraduate mindset merits

a serious psychological study, let alone an interactive one.

1. 1) BACD
2. 2) ADCB
3. 3) BADC
4. 4) ABCD
5. 5) ABDC
132)

(a)Far from fastening the grip of bureaucracy on civilization more tightly than
before, automation leads to its overthrow.
b)For bureaucracies are well suited to tasks that require masses of
moderately educated men to perform routine operations, and, no doubt, some
such operations will continue to be performed by men in the future.
c)It will be a long time before the last bureaucratic hierarchy is obliterated.
d)Yet it is precisely such tasks that the computer and automated equipment do
far better than men.
e) It is clear that in super-industrial society many such tasks will be performed
by great self-regulating systems of machines, doing away with the need for
bureaucratic organization.
1. 1) cbdea
2. 2) abdce
3. 3) cabde
4. 4) acbde
133)
1. Horses and communism were, on the whole, a poor match.
A. Fine horses bespoke the nobility the party was supposed to despise.
B. Communist leaders, when they visited villages, preferred to see cows and
pigs.
C. Although a working horse was just about tolerable, the communists were
right to be wary.
D. Peasants from Poland to the Hungarian Pustza preferred their horses to party
dogma.
6. A farmer's pride is his horse; his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat,
went a Slovak saying.
1. 1) ACDB
2. 2) DBCA
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) DCBA
134)
P). The study reveals that teens have an indirect impact on spending too.
1). The study goes on to profile Indian teens, segments them on their mind-set,
media preferences, attitudes and how they behave in the market place.
2). Thus, the presence of a teen in the home accelerate and influences purchase of

entertainment durables.
3). To a large extent, it also fulfils the need for an substitutionalized system
of gathering information on the dynamic market segment on a regular basis.
4). Teen personal durable ownership is up.
Q). There is a lot of justification in making the NFO-Coke Teen perspective report
an annual exercise.
1. 1) 4213
2. 2) 4312
3. 3) 3142
4. 4) 1423
135)
A- The last election to yield a parliamentary majority to any party was in
1984.
B- Instability came much later.
C- Does India need to change its electoral cycle so as to give itself a new
political rhythm, which will cut short the lives of lame duck administrations ?
D- The five subsequent elections have led to coalition or minority governments.
E- India experienced remarkable political stability in its initial years with
only three prime ministers in the first three decades.
a) CEBAD (b) EDABC c) ABCDE d) EACBD e) CDBEA
136)
A- The concept of market efficiency is a fundamental premise in 'mainstream'
financial economics.
B- Portfolio managers who claim to do this are either misrepresenting their
case or are very lucky.
C- If, for example, a stock market is efficient, price of individual shares will not
display anything more than short-lived derivations from their fundamental values
which are based on all available information about the business prospects of the
concerned company.
D- A crucial implication of this premise is that no investor can hope to
systematically outperform the market if he is trading on publicly available
information.
E- Simply put, an efficient market is one in which prices reflect all available
information.

a) EDBCA b) EABCD c) AECDB d) ACDEB e) ABECD

137)
A. Spinning was a metaphor for all village crafts.
B. At the time of Gandhi, Ahmedabad was India's most famous textile town,
where cotton mills were taking away the livelihood of spinners and
weavers.
C. And now in spite of the fact that the Indian govt treats handicrafts as a
poor relation, crafts people in India are rising to claim their rightful place in
Indian life.
D. His spinning wheel became the symbol of the independence movement and
was on the flag of the National Congress Party.
E. Like William Blake and William Morris, Gandhi was against those "Satanic
mills"
1) ABCED 2) BEDAC 3) EDABC 4) CBADE
138)
A. The number of slums in the cities is on the rise due to this migration
more so in the peripheral housing colonies.
B. While addressing the issue, the govt should look into the social and human
development aspect of these labourers by refining their status and requirements
and resettle them in a distinct, demarcated area in the city.
C. If the govt does not take any step, the urban poor will impede urban
development.
D. There has been an unprecedented migration to the cities, especially due to
drought.
E. This creates a number of social legal and health problems, apart from
encroachment and increase in the population of urban poor.
1) CAEBD 2) DAECB 3) BCDEA 4) ADECB
SEPT-6 (5/9)
140)
A. But music was not articulate.
B. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!
C. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel!
One could not escape from them.

D. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us.
E. Music had stirred him like that and had troubled him many times.
1. 1) EDACB
2. 2) EADCB
3. 3) CDBEA
4. 4) CBDAE
141)
A.

The most popular green set is the trio of Shalimar Bagh, Nishat Bagh and

Chasham-e-Shahi, which collectively are called Mughal Gardens.

B.

The tulip haven is yet another pearl in Srinagar's string of beautifully

landscaped gardens.
C.

The first Mughal garden, Shalimar Bagh, was envisaged by him in honour

of his queen Nur Jehan, about 400 years back.

D.

As is apparent, the gardens are a bequest of the Mughals, particularly

Emperor Jehangir, who legend says was completely captivated by Kashmir's

beauty.
1. 1) DBAC
2. 2) BDAC
3. 3) BADC
4. 4) ABDC
5. 5) CDBA
142)
A. Now I find hidden somewhere in my nature something that tells me that
nothing in the whole world is meaningless, and suffering the least of all.
B. It is the last thing left in me, and the best: the ultimate discovery at which I
have arrived, the starting point for a fresh development.
C. But while there were times when I rejoiced the idea that my sufferings
were to be endless, I could not bear them to be without meaning.
D. That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, is
Humility.
E. It has come to me right out of myself, so I know that it has come at the
proper time.
1. 1) 1) AEDBC
2. 2) 2) ADBEC
3. 3) 3) CAEDB

4. 4) 4) ADECB
5. 5) 5) CADBE
143)
1) A) Long yers of house arrest and isolation from the outside world, including
from her own family, have transformed SUu Kyi into a seasoned politician
2) B)She is conscious of the lack of national capacity to transform Myanmar into a
democratic state in the near future.
3) C)Her pragmatism made things easy for the reformist president to take the next
step-allowing her and her party Natinal league for democracy(NLD) to take pasrt
in the electoral process.
4) D)When the regime showed signs of reconciliation, she came to realise that a
rigid and a confrontational stance with the regime could not just reverse the
limited reforms the government had initiated under its road map to democracy,
but could even make her politically irrelevant.

144)
1). Nonetheless, Tocqueville was only one of the first of a long line of
thinkers to worry whether such rough equality could survive in the face of a
growing factory system that threatened to create divisions between industrial
workers and a new business elite.
2)."The government of democracy brings the nation of political rights to the level of
the humblest citizens. He wrote ," Just as the dissemination of wealth brings the
notion of property within the reach of all the members of the community".
3). Tocqueville was far too shrewd an observer to be uncritical about the US,
but his verdict was fundamentally positive.
4). No visitor to the US left a more enduring record of his travels and
observations than the French writer and political theorist Alexis de
Tocqueville, whose 'Democracy in America', first published in 1835, remains one
of the most trenchant and insightful analyses of American social and political
practises
1. 1) 4132
2. 2) 2134
3. 3) 4321
4. 4) 4213
145)
146)

1. India's experience of industrialization is characteristics of the difficulties

faced by a newly-independent developing country.
(A) In 1947 India was undoubtedly as underdeveloped country with one of
the lowest per capita incomes in the world.
(B) Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of
growth by indigenous political elite.
(C) Today India ranks fifth in the international community of nations if
measured in terms of purchasing power.
(D) Even today, however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since
independence have not reached the masses.
6. In India, there have been limited successes; one more example of growth
without development.
1. 1) CDAB
2. 2) DCBA
3. 3) CABD
4. 4) BACD
147)
148)
(a)To the degree to which we align ourselves with correct principles, divine
endowments will be released within our nature in enabling us to fulfill the measure
of our creation
(b)I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they
will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not
rise above the animal plane
(c)As Teilhard de Chardin, "We are not human beings having a spiritual
experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
(d)I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator
and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our
conscience.
(e)I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by
either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with; as
human beings, we cannot perfect ourselves.
1. 1) bdeac
2. 2) edbac
3. 3) dbeac

4. 4) adbec
150)
a) Under the pressure of unavoidable necessities resulting from the conflict
of the old and new tendencies, it had finally become the leader of the
revolutionary action and had won political power, in order to use it immediately
after the victory for the erection of the bourgeois state and social order.
b)In all countries with a formerly feudal economy and absolutist form of
government the bourgeois revolution has fulfilled this task.
c)While in the feudal epoch the nobility forms this class, supported
fundamentally by private property, holding dominion in the despotically
administered patriarchal state, organised by estates with the monarch at its head,
in the capitalist era the bourgeoisie -- as private possessor of goods and
money -- takes over the government, which is established in the constitutional
state with Parliament and Cabinet, at its most ideal in the form of the parliamentary
republic.
d)It is the historical task of the bourgeois revolution to overcome the
absolutism of the feudal era and to procure for capitalism, as the new
economic system, legal recognition and social acceptance in the framework of the
bourgeois-liberal state order.
e)It never had the aim and function of infringing or even suspending the principle of
the economic basis and the social order dependent on it, that is private property in
the means of production. It only changed, for the time being, the class which
exercised authority over the whole as the representative of this principle.
f)The bourgeois revolution, everywhere it has manifested itself, brought the
bourgeois class to the fore. This class was more or less conscious of its
historical mission. It had also prepared the revolutionary movement, at least
economically, often ideologically too.
1. 1) dbecfa
2. 2) fdbeca
3. 3) debfca
4. 4) fedcba
151)
A. In May, BlackBerry stated that it would sell its Z10 and Curve 9220 model on
easy monthly instalments.
B. Samsung immediately followed suit and aggressively started marketing the

staggered payment scheme on selected products.

C. For example, you need to make a down payment of Rs. 16,990 upfront for a 16
GB iPhone 5 that costs Rs. 45,500.
D. The deal mania started with Apple's EMI scheme on its iPhone 5 in
December.
E. The schemes vary for each model and brand, but the essential feature is a
staggered payment plan wherein you pay for the phone over a period of months
rather than at one go.
1. 1) DBAEC
2. 2) DECAB
152)
153)
A. He was always draped in modest but decent suit.
B. Lean and intense, Menon was endowed with a remarkable presence.
C. His eyes piercing and his forehead broad, merging into the disheveled,
silvery lock of hair.
D. His hawked nose, sensuous lips, heavy voice, tapering fingers, always busy
explaining ideas, and moods supplemented his extraordinary mind.
1. 1) BACD
2. 2) ADCB
3. 3) ACDB
4. 4) BCDA
154)
A. Ofcourse, they have not made the blunders that some others have made,
but neither did they grow.
B. The Chief Executive had done an excellent job in welding a group of motley
and successful companies into one profitable company.
C. It is not surprising that the company had been sitting on a cash hoard of about
$24 billion years after years without any attempt to use it for growth or
developement.
D. The Chief Executive of the General Electric Company in England once told
me that he was very happy when there were no problems in any of his
divisions.
1. 1) DBAC
2. 2) CBDA

3. 3) DCAB
4. 4) DABC
155)
A. From the moment he arrived there its citizens resented him and his
Martians and his youth and his talent.
B. Hollywood claimed Welles never would make the grade.
C. At announcements that his first two productions had been called off, the town
nodded knowingly.
D. He was just a big bag of publicity.
E. When he grew a beard for his first film, a sporty press agent sent him a
bearded ham for Christmas; columnists dubbed him with nicknames like Little
Orson Annie.
1. 1) CBEAD
2. 2) BAECD
3. 3) CBEDA
4. 4) BDAEC
SEPT 10 (3/5)
156)
A. Limited because utility is usually restricted to the materially useful because
most people live for material things.
B. Limiting because by deeming the non-material or spiritual level of reality
irrelevant, it ends up limiting people to lives of unidimensional materialism.
C. Utilitarianism is today's dominant belief system if something is useful,
then that makes it good.
D. Anything that is not materially useful is discarded as a waste of time.
E. Utility has its value, no doubt, but as a lighthouse for living, it is limited and
limiting.
F. Utility is today's god, the arbiter of good and bad, desirable and undesirable,
even right and wrong.
a.) CFEADB b.) FEADBC c.) FCEABD d.) CFEABD
157)
A. Logic suggests that Japanese food should not do well in North Indian fishhating markets.
B. But sushi is all the rage because teenagers love it.

C. Over the last decade, new restaurants have opened and turned the
conventional wisdom on its head.
D. Similarly, the fast food chains which survive on wheat (pizzas, pasta,
hamburger buns, etc.) should all flop in the rice-loving South.
E. My guess is that the differences will be ironed out as the new generation
comes of age.
1. 1) ECABD
2. 2) ABDEC
3. 3) CABED
4. 4) EABDC
158)
A. Few occupations were open to a middle-class woman who had to earn her
own living, other than a poorly paid position as a governess, even though she had
probably been skimpily educated herself.
B. And there was still no way out for a woman who found herself unhappily
married.
C. It was, in part, a reaction against what seemed to be a narrowing definition
of 'femininity' and an increasingly conventional and constricting notion of a proper
'womanly sphere'.
D. Some of the issues tackled were women's urgent need for better education
and for increased possibilities of employment, as well as the improvement of the
legal position of married women.
E. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that anything like a
true women's 'movement' began to emerge in England.
1. 1) ECDAB
2. 2) ABECD
3. 3) EDACB
4. 4) EDABC
159)
A. Of those species occurring on several continents (such as lions and grizzly
bears), it is not the case that individuals from one continent visit one another.
B. Most animal species occupy a geographic range confined to a small fraction
of the Earth's surface.
C. But while they do commute seasonally between continents, it is only
along a traditional path, and both the summer breeding range and the winter non-

breeding range of a given population of birds tend to be quite circumscribed.

D. Instead, each continent, and usually each small part of a continent, has its own
distinctive population that maintains contact with close neighbours but not
with distant members of the same species.
E. Migratory songbirds constitute an apparently glaring exception.
1. 1) BECAD
2. 2) BCADE
3. 3) BDACE
4. 4) BADEC
160)
1). In the US about 12 million people are homeless, one-third of the people cannot
afford primary health care, 20 percent of the children live below the poverty line,
and about 23 percent of the people are illiterate with no security of either job or
life.
2). In capitalism, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.
3). In the West, men are only capable of seeing the external aspects of things.
4). The resultant deprivations are variable even in the developed countries.
5). The domination of the capitalist class today is justified in the name of
economic growth and population efficiency.
1. 1) 13452
2. 2) 24135
3. 3) 52314
4. 4) 32541
161)
A.

There are some who call it an art.

B.

But for all of us, it is a skill that needs to be inculcated.

C.

It is supposed to be what people fear the most.

D.

Speaking in public according to most is a nightmare.

1. 1) DABC
2. 2) CBAD
3. 3) CDAB
4. 4) ABDC
5. 5) BADC

162)
A. At the critical moment, a canopy conceals the act of anointment, by a priest

not a civil official.

B. The conferring of state headship is an exclusive Anglican ritual, steeped in
the Henrician Reformation.
C. The Queen is serene and vulnerable, flanked by fussing bishops and ranks of
hereditary peers, symbolising the legitimacy of inherited office.
D. Succession is sanctioned and blessed by God, with a staged cry of assent
from the congregation.
E. The Queen's 1953 coronation, to be reprised many times on television this
weekend, now seems medieval in its costumes and ritual.
1. 1) BDACE
2. 2) EBCAD
3. 3) BECAD
4. 4) ECBAD
163)
164)
1). Ignorance is the opposite of knowledge, i.e., want of knowledge.
2). To deal with uncertainty and ignorance economists have recognized the
entrepreneur as possessing this non-rational form of knowledge.
3). Like some ancient priest-king, the entrepreneur 'knows' the future and leads
his people.
4). Entrepreneurial knowledge is essentially intuitive.
5). It involves seeing and realizing a vision of future markets, products and/or
other opportunities.
1. 1) 32145
2. 2) 43125
3. 3) 12453
4. 4) 45123
5. 5) 23541
165)
SEPT 13 (4/8)
166)
A. India's postal system, the largest in the world, is facing challenges on many
counts.
B. And, the growing usage of electronic communication has meant that there is an

incursion into what, till some years ago, was its monopoly: the mail delivery
system.
C. It is against this backdrop that the hike in the postal system is on the
track towards becoming a self-financing system, though to a limited extent.
D. Its revenues which have been steadily decreasing over the years, show no
signs of restraint.
E. The hike in rates for a host of inland services encompasses those that have
high subsidies.
1. 1) ABEDC
2. 2) ABDCE
3. 3) ADBCE(M)
4. 4) ADEBC
167)
a] It is possible, as it begins with the desire to center our lives on correct
principles, to break out of the paradigms created by other centers and the
comfort zones of unworthy habits.
[b] Building a character of total integrity and living the life of love and service
that creates unity isn't easy.
[c] Sometimes we make mistakes, we feel awkward, but if we plant the seed
and patiently weed and nourish it, we begin to feel the excitement of real
growth and eventually taste the incomparably delicious fruits of a
congruent effective life.
[d] Achieving unity oneness with ourselves, with our loved ones, with our
friends and working associates, is the highest and best and most delicious
fruit of the Seven Habits of highly effective people.
[e] Most of us have tasted the fruit of true unity from time to time in the
past, as we have also tasted the bitter, lonely fruit of disunity and we know how
precious and fragile unity is.
1. 1) bcdea
2. 2) bacde
3. 3) decab
4. 4) debac(M)
168)
A. Now I find hidden somewhere in my nature something that tells me that
nothing in the whole world is meaningless, and suffering the least of all.

B. It is the last thing left in me, and the best: the ultimate discovery at
which I have arrived, the starting point for a fresh development.
C. But while there were times when I rejoiced the idea that my sufferings
were to be endless, I could not bear them to be without meaning.
D. That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, is
Humility.
E. It has come to me right out of myself, so I know that it has come at the proper
time.
1. 1) 1) AEDBC
2. 2) 2) ADBEC
3. 3) 3) CAEDB
4. 4) 4) ADECB
5. 5) 5) CADBE(2M)
169)
1.

Whenever technology has flowered, it has put man's language

developing skills into overdrive.

A. Technical terms are spilling into mainstream language almost as fast as junk
mail is slapped into e-mail boxes.
B.

The era of computers is no less.

C.

From the wheel with its axle to the spinning wheel with its bobbins, to the

compact disc and its jewel box, inventions have trailed new words in their
wake.
D.

"Cyberslang is huge, but it's parochial, and we don't know what will filter into

the large culture," said Tom Dalzell, who wrote the slang dictionary Flappers 2
Rappers.
6.

Some slangs already have a pedigree.

1. 1) BCAD
2. 2) CBAD (M)
3. 3) ABCD
4. 4) DBCA
5. 5) DBAC

170) SM
1. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be one of the major
threats to the survival of the Beluga whales.
A.

With these, hunters could approach Belugas within hunting range and profit

from its inner skin and blubber.

B.

To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learnt to dive to the

ocean bottom and stay there for up to 20 min, by which time the confused
predator has left.
C.

Today, however, even with much more powerful engines, it is difficult

to come close, because the whales seem to disappear suddenly just when you
thought you had them in your sights.
D. When the first outboard engines arrived in the early 1930s, one came across 4
HP and 8 HP motors.
6. Belugas seem to have used their well-known sensitivity to noise to evolve
an 'avoidance' strategy to outsmart hunters and their powerful technologies.
1. 1) DCBA
2. 2) ACDB
3. 3) ADCB
4. 4) DBAC
5. 5) DACB (M)
171)
1. The reconstruction of history by post-revolutionary science texts involves
more than a multiplication of historical misconstructions.
A.

Because they aim quickly to acquaint the student with what the

contemporary scientific community thinks it knows, textbooks treat the various

experiments, concepts, laws and theories of the current normal science as
separately and as nearly seriatim as possible.
B.

Those misconstructions render revolutions invisible; the arrangement of

the still visible material in science texts implies a process that, if it existed, would
deny revolutions a function.
C.

But when combined with the generally unhistorical air of science

writing and with the occasional systematic misconstruction, one

impression is likely to follow.
D.

As pedagogy, this technique of presentation is unexceptionable.

6.

Science has reached its present state by a series of individual

discoveries and inventions that, when gathered together, constitute the modern
body of technical knowledge.
1. 1) BADC(M)
2. 2) ADCB

3. 3) DACB
4. 4) CBDA
5. 5) BACD
172) MISTAKE IN OPTIONS
1). Despite posting healthy profits, Volkswagen shares trade at a discount to
peers due to bad reputation among investors.
2). A disastrous capital hike, an expensive foray into truck business and uncertainty
about the reason for a share buyback have in recent years left investors
bewildered.
3). The main problem with Volkswagen is the past.
4). Many investors have been disappointed and frightened away.
5). Volkswagen shares trade at about nine times the 2002 estimated earnings,
compared to BMW's 19 and are the second cheapest in the sector.
1. 1) 52134
2. 2) 13425
3. 3) 32451
4. 4) 13524
173)
Brace yourself.. I stumbled upon the Novel excerpt of which is given. It is quite
challenging
A) not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac
B)while they went doublin their mumper all the time nor avoice from afire
bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick
C) Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passencore rearrived
from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielder
fight his penisolate war
D) not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone
nathandjoe
E) nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to
Laurens County's gorgios
1. 1) DABCE
2. 2) CBEDA
3. 3) EBACD
4. 4) CEBAD
5. 5) ABCDE

6. 6) CBAEC
174)
P). That truth is the first casualty in a war is an old story.
1). The media age, however, has given it a new twist.
2). News management techniques can now make half-lies more plausible.
3). And the television camera age can make them more entertaining.
4). The US led war on terrorism, even as it has created new dilemmas for allies
used to nurturing militant outfits for waging proxy wars, also produced new
opportunities for cover-ups, double-speak and double-cross.
Q). The suave public persona the war coalition leader presents can be quite
different in this situation from the stern face he shows in private.
1. 1) 2413
2. 2) 3214
3. 3) 2314
4. 4) 1234
SEPT 18
175)
1). The credit rating agencies use legions of high trained analyst with access to
top management.
2). Their meticulous reports giving ratings for corporate bonds are designed to
give an accurate picture of the bonds riskiness and ultimately the probability of
default.
3). Lately, the credit-rating agencies have struggled to keep up.
4). It seems a bond rating tells you even less about the price that investors are
willing to pay.
5). In 1999 two-third of the debt rated triple B by standard and poor was priced
within 20 basis points of the average bond with the same rating.
1. 1) 45123
2. 2) 34215
3. 3) 12345
4. 4) 23415
176)
A.

The headlong economic development of China and the steady growth

in India over the past decades suggest that the two Asian giants will join Japan

among the top five national economies in the world.

B.

Their triple coexistence as major powers represents a historical novelty.

C.

The mass of recent literature on the 'rise of Asia' largely focuses on the

implications of this development for the West; it rarely stops to consider the
impact on inter-relations between the Asian states themselves.
D.

The interaction between China, India and Japan will decisively influence

the shape of the coming world order.

E.

In 1820, when China and India between them accounted for almost

half of world output, Japan remained a relative backwater, its modernizing

drive of the Meiji period lying decades in the future; by the 1930s, when Japan had
become a full-fledged industrial and military power, China was impoverished and
riven by warlordism, while India groaned under the British yoke.
1. 1) ACBED
2. 2) CABED
3. 3) DECAB
4. 4) CDBEA
177)
A. A Roman soldier killed him and the mathematicians retired again into their
ivory tower.
B. People understood it to be a 'gentlemanly pursuit', valued for its own sake
as giving eternal truth, and a super-sensible standard by which the visible word was
condemned as second rate.
C. Only Archimedes foreshadowed the modern use of mathematics by inventing
engines of war for the defence of Syracuse against the Romans.
D. Mathematics was not used by the Greeks as it is by the moderns to facilitate
industrial processes.
E. Some Greeks used their emancipation from tradition in the pursuit of
mathematics and astronomy.
1. 1) DCAEB
2. 2) DCAEB
3. 3) EDBCA
4. 4) DBECA
178)
A. After doing so, the heart of your cash flow will be strong and healthy.

B. Cash is your businesss lifeblood.

C. If managed poorly, then your company could go into cardiac arrest.
D. To prevent your business from suffering heart attacks, you should learn to
manage cash flow in a well thought-out manner.
E. Several ways to do this is by generating a project rate of returns as well as
determining possible problems with liquidity.
a) ABECD b) CBADE c) BCDEA d) ABDEC
179)
A. This factor is exclusion access to these technologies remains excluded by
class, race and gender.
B. In comparing these two things, we must realize that there is one important
factor for the limitation the former.
C. The rise of digital technologies has the potential to open new directions in
ethnography.
D. Despite the ubiquity of these technologies, their infiltration into popular
research methods is still limited compared to the number of online scholarly
research portals.
a) CDBA b) BACD c) CDAB d) BCDA
180)
A. Adam Smith is often described as the founding father of economics.
B. One prominent book he wrote was Theory of Moral Sentiments.
C. A great deal of what is now considered standard theory about markets was
developed by Adam Smith.
D. It is a very important text in the history of moral and political thought
because he talks about individual freedom.
E. According to Smith, this freedom is rooted in self-reliance and the ability of an
individual to pursue his self-interest.
a) EDACB b) ACBED c) ACBDE d) EBADE
181)
A. Today, the study of the fruit fly has expanded to research for human

diseases.
B. This is because the fruit flys robust genetic system makes it an invaluable
tool for scientists studying current inheritance diseases.
C. These diseases include Alzheimers, Parkinsons and Huntingtons disease.
D. In past decades, scientists have used the fruit fly as a model organism for
examining biological systems.
a) DACB b) DABC c) BACD d) CBAD
182)
A. It is one of a group of disorders known as parasomnias: unusual activities
that occur during sleep.
B. Sleepwalking occurs in the deep stage of sleep when slow brain waves
begin to appear.
C. These range from teeth grinding and restless leg syndrome to eating while
asleep.
D. Our bodies function according to a 24 hour cycle called a circadian
rhythm.
E. Some researchers believe that slight differences in this cycle could be linked
to sleepwalking.
a) BACED b) CDBAE c) EBACD d) BACDE
183)
a) Ptolemy-I laid the foundation for the ancient library in Alexandria in 288 b.c
b) The new library of alexandria in egypt ,known as 'bibliotheca alexandria
' is dedicated to recapturing the spirit of the ancient library of alexandria .
c) The ancient library in its first centuries served as a cultural centre and
meeting place for scholars ,scientist ,men of letters ,philosiphers and
intellectuals from all over the world
d) It was a melting pot of different civilisations and cultures ,hellenistic
roman and egyptions.
e) Alexander of macedonia conqured egypt in 332 b.c and established the
ptolemic rule .
1)cbead
2)beadc

3)eabdc
4)eacbd
184)
A.

It may be used for dark purposes or malevolent acts that deliberately

cause harm in some way.

B.

Black magic or dark magic is a form of sorcery that draws on assumed

malevolent powers.
C.

In fiction it refers to evil magic, in modern times, people who practice

magic use the term to describe power utilized for means of gaining power and
wealth or taking revenge.
D.

It is alternatively spelt with a 'k', this term is also known as the dark arts of

magic and dark side magic.

a. BACD
b. CDBA
c. ACDB
d. ABCD
e. CBAD
185)
A.

In contrast to a still camera, which captures a single snapshot at a time,

the movie camera takes a series of images, each called a "frame".

B.

This is accomplished through an intermittent mechanism.

C.

The frames are later played back in a movie projector at a specific

speed, called the "frame rate" (number of frames per second).

D.

The movie camera is a type of photographic camera which takes a rapid

sequence of photographs on strips of film.

a ADBC
b CABD
c DABC
d BACD
e ABDC
186)
A.

Consumers are also at a loss because malls offer a 40 % discount which

results in an inflated MRP.

B.

The thinking of big malls is to keep inferior products which can sell by

hook or crook, thereby giving good return for the space it occupies.
C.

The mall culture is not helpful to customers, at the same time it is

killing small manufacturer and retailers.

D.

So, good things do not find a place on the mall shelf.

a DCBA
b BCDA
c ACBD
d CBDA
e BACD
187)
A)This subsidiary will operate as a holding company.
B)Piaggio and co. will set up a 100 per cent owned subsidiary in India.
C)It will route all Piaggio investments in India.
D)The company got its approval in March to do the same.
1)DBCA2)BDAC3)BCDA4)BDCA5)DCBA
188)
1. The grass is always greener on the other side, but in this case, it is not only
just green but packed with all the frills that spell fun and excitement, the haven
that having a job entails for a youngster.
A. The thrill of working seems to excite many a youngster.
B. Then life on the other side entices the switch from boring classroom to
glitzy life style of earning in the part time jobs.
C. This is a syndrome thats currently rocking India, students cant seem to
wait to leave college and then plunge headlong into the chaotic world of big
business/jobs.
D. Many of the students attend college and have a part-time job bcoz they arent
waiting for their dad to pull a few strings for them.
6. They see that things are within their reach, that they can control their own
destiny.

a) DACB b) BCAD c) CDAB d) ACDB

189)
1. The uniqueness of Indian culture is its composite and pluralistic nature.
A. Shaias and Sunnis in India do not kill each as their counterparts do in their
neighbourhood.
B. Sikhism and Sufi mysticism witness the synergy of Hinduism and Islam.
C. In no other part of the world has religious and cultural plurality co-existed and
cross-fertilized each other so creatively.
D. While christians fought their denominational wars in the western hemisphere,
Indian Christianity remained free from confessional conflicts and sectarian tensions.
6. These and not the communal outbursts of Hindutva are the authentic signs of the
vitality and creativity of Indian culture.
a) DBAC b) CADB c) CDAB d) BADC
190)
A. Out of this rather mundane arrangement was born the sandwich.
B. John Montague, the 4th earl of sandwich was the man who was addicted to
the gambling table and certainly did not like to be disturbed while he was at hid
favorite pastime.
C. He would simply carry a couple of slices of meat and a dash of vegetables
placed between them to the gambling.
D. The snack, which takes its name from the Earl who lived in the 18th
century has now become an eatable popular across all frontiers.
E. Realising that he had to solve the problem of hunger in the midst of furious,
unchecked gambling Montague hit upon what was then a novel idea.
a) ABCED b) BDCAE c) EDBCA d) BECAD

191)
A. About 1500 years ago, Bankadgah was a prosperous, pulsating capital of ruling
Sailodbhavas.
B. Historians date the civilization of Bankadagah to the 6th and 7th century
when the Sailodbhavas ruled Orissa.
C. Today, the fort stands desolate and ruined.
D. Not many have heard of Bankadgah, a place that lies about 140 km south of

Bhuvaneshwar.
E. It was unearthed in the 1970s under the hillrocks in Niladi Prasad and
Malapunjyama villages in Banpur.
a) ADCBE b) DACEB c) EDBCA d) ACEDB
192)
A. In what is seen as a major reversal of its policy, the International Monetary
Fund in a recent paper has said that capital controls are sometimes justified
"as part of the policy tool kit" for an economy dealing with surging flows. Its
recognition of the need for controls comes at a time when many emerging
economies, including India, are having inflows at such high level as to pose a
challenge to their macroeconomic management.
B. For the recipient countries, the consequences of such large flows have been
mixed.
C. With the global economy recovering from the recession, capital from the
developed world has been turning to the emerging markets for better returns.
D. In India, foreign institutional investors and portfolio managers have returned to
see share markets in a strength after a lull.
E. Historically low interest rates in the rich countries and a greater tolerance to
risks have aided and abetted this trend.
1) ECBD 2) DCEB 3) CEBD 4) DECB 5) BCED

SEPT 23
193)
[a] Everyone knows what science is about: it is about knowledge, the 'objective'
and perhaps 'true' representation of the world as it really is.
[b] The notion of epistemic culture is designed to capture the interiorized
processes of knowledge creation.
[c] Epistemic cultures create and warrant knowledge.
[d] The problem is that no one is quite sure how scientists and other experts
arrive at this knowledge.
[e] It refers to those sets of practices, arrangements and mechanisms bound
together by necessity, affinity and historical coincidence which, in a given area of
professional expertise, make up how we know what we know.

1. 1) adebc
2. 2) ceabd
3. 3) cadbe
4. 4) adbec
194)
[a] Yet even as we speed closer, evidence mounts that one of our most critical
sub-systems education is dangerously malfunctioning.
[b] We are rapidly accelerating our approach.
[c] The craggy outlines of the new society are emerging from the mists of
tomorrow.
[d] Today one billion human beings, the total population of the technology-rich
nations, are speeding towards a rendezvous with super-industrialism.
[e] Must we experience mass future shock? Or can we, too, achieve a soft landing?
1. 1) dbcae
2. 2) debca
3. 3) dbcea
4. 4) dabce
195)
1). Since independence, every political party has played communal card
whenever election time draws near.
2). In fact, the caste and communal cards have been fine-tuned to an art
form in the political games that are played in this country.
3). This was seen when the Youth Congress(I) goons were given a free hand to
terrorise Sikhs all over the country after Indira Gandhi's assassination.
4). When each party carefully selects political candidates on the basis of religion or
caste, it is encouraging and continuing the divide-and-rule tactics of its
colonial masters.
5). And no political party can absolve itself on this count; worse, political parties
take on board hoodlums and gangsters who use their clout in political circles to
settle scores and extract money.
1. 1) 32514
2. 2) 13254
3. 3) 14253
4. 4) 14235
196)

1. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug

stores.
2. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that
brand elsewhere.
3. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price
sensitive since it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
4. So, the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price
sensitive.
5. For instance, only SavOn Drug stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
6. Then, stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private-label
diapers.
1. 1) 123456
2. 2) 123546
3. 3) 154236
4. 4) 142356
197)
The concept of a 'nation-state' assumes a complete correspondence between
the boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a
specific state.
1. Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries,
making a mockery of the concept.
2. There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be
(and often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation.
3. Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided
across several states.
4. This, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually
everywhere a fiction.
However, the fiction has been, and continues to be, at the basis of nationalist
ideologies.
1. 1) 4213
2. 2) 1234
3. 3) 4132
4. 4) 2134
199)
1. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolizes the brutality of the upper

classes.
2. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolizes
the government's weakness.
3. To foxhunting's supporters, Labour's 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it
symbolizes the party's metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.
4. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
5. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes,
foxhunting symbolizes the ancient roots of rural lives.
1. 1) 45132
2. 2) 53421
3. 3) 42153
4. 4) 35142
200)
1. Passivity is not, of course, universal.
2. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go
armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different.
3. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
4. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether
to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another.
5. This depends on an assessment of the political situation
1. 1) 25413
2. 2) 34125
3. 3) 54213
4. 4) 12345
SEPT 25
201)
1. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without
approval or complaint.
2. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
3. He acknowledges too in fact he returns to the point often that best
translators of poetry always fail at Home level.
4. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings
5. In terms of the gap between worth and reward, translators come

somewhere near nurses and street cleaners.

1. 1) 51342
2. 2) 14523
3. 3) 51324
4. 4) 43512
202)
A. In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour
market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other
groups.
B. Some works supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict
it.
C. And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
D. But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard
to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors
using conventional approaches.
E. Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the
validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.
(1) BCDE (2) DBEC(3) BDCE (4) ECBD(5) EBCD
203)
A. Toohey is correct when he argues that chronic boredom can bring about
agitation, anger, and depression, but that boredom and depression are not the
same.
B. One must discriminate and make distinctions when trying to define
boredom.
C. Boredom is chiefly an emotion of a secondary kind, like shame, guilt, envy,
admiration, embarrassment, contempt, and others.
D. Ennui, apathy, depression, accidie, melancholia, mal de vivrethese are all
aspects of boredom, but they do not quite define it.
E. Depression is a mental illness, and much more serious.
F. Perhaps the most serious distinction that needs to be made is that between
boredom and depression.
1. 1) BDFACE
2. 2) ABCDEF

3. 3) DBCFEA
4. 4) FECABD
204)
(A) Opinions differ but I am convinced this is a good thing.
(B) Your government may not prosecute you for the crimes you have
committed but if your offences are serious enough, the chances are that some
court in some other country might.
(C) Every country that values the rule of law must ensure that no
individual, regardless of official affiliation, enjoys impunity.
(D) Even if legal concepts like universal jurisdiction remain controversial, the
globalization of economic and family life means individuals who violate human
rights can no longer count on being shielded forever by the walls of
national sovereignty.
(E) As Israeli officers and politicians are today discovering, and as the late Chilean
dictator Augusto Pinochet realized in 2000, international journeys are an indulgence
to be undertaken with extreme caution if your curriculum vitae includes the
commission of war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity.
1. 1) DCBEA
2. 2) CDAEB
3. 3) CABED
4. 4) DBEAC
5. 5) BEDCA
205) lesson learnt: always examine the close options lesson learnt
(A) Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire
cages; this 'war' has a dubious legality.
(B) How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as
war?
(C) The phrase 'war against terror', which has passed into the common
lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
(D) Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has
confided the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
(E) Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity either State or non-State.
1. 1) ECDBA
2. 2) BECDA

3. 3) CEBDA
4. 4) CBDEA
5. 5) EBCAD
206) lesson learnt: always examine the close options lesson learnt
(1) J.R.D. Tata was a visionary far ahead of his time
(a) He headed the country's largest industrial empire whose destiny he
guided for over half a century.
(b) Leaders raise the aspirations of their people to achieve what was previously
thought impossible.
(c) An industry leader with a deep commitment to India's development, his
pioneering efforts in combining nation building with business growth were
instrumental in conditioning the thinking of Indian businesses.
(d) In this, JRD was a true leader.
(6) Under his leadership, the Tata group's assets climbed from 620 million in
1939 to over 100000 million in 1990.
1. 1) abcd
2. 2) cbda
3. 3) adcb
4. 4) cbad
210) lesson learnt: always examine the close options lesson learnt
A. Such information not only can elucidate its origins and history, including
its occasional reworking, but also can be instrumental in the identification of
modern forgeries.
B. Yet for the productions of many cultures such larger knowledge can be
shown to be of central importance.
C. An understanding of the means by which a carved ivory statuette, box, or plaque
comes into being is normally not considered integral to its aesthetic
appreciation or the comprehension of its intellectual content.
D. If the aim of our studies is the fullest possible awareness of an object's
achievement and effect, then both the nature of the material and the ways
in which it was worked are essential parts of the equipment that
retrospectively needs to be brought to bear on it.
1. 1) DCBA

2. 2) CBAD
3. 3) DACB
4. 4) CBDA
211) difficult
A. The repercussions of that 1967 conflict set the backdrop for the seemingly neverending Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
B. In other words, peace could ultimately be kept only if those on either side of the
conflict found it in their interest.
C. Moreover, the blue-helmeted soldiers who were stationed on the western part of the
Sinai Peninsula could be told to leave by their host country, Egypt, at any moment.
D. Its job was not to resolve the deeper sources of the conflict or enforce a permanent
settlement.
E. A decade after the Suez conflict the Egyptians asked UNEF peacekeepers to
leave on the eve of the Six-Day War
1.

1) ABCDE

2.

2) EABCD

3.

3) DCBEA

4.

4) BCDEA

212)
A. A smattering of do-gooders plead for reform.
B. But it is hard to figure out exactly what sets them into motion or brings them to
success.
C. Vast moral revolutions do take place once in a while.
D. A high-minded prophet in some part of the world denounces an old and dreadful social
custom.
E. The reform in question appears, at a glance, to be impractical, unpopular, and unlikely.
1.

1) CBDAE

2.

2) ABDEC

3.

3) DACBE

4.

4) ABCDE

213) lesson learnt: look at the linking of sentences carefully. if not able to
find out then leave the question immediately
1). Teacher preparation must ensure development of commitment amongst teachers.
2). With all the limitations and deficiencies inherent in our educational system has to be
achieved only through combined effort of teachers and community.

3). It is tough proposition when most of the other sectors are influenced by self-interests
and material pursuits everywhere.
4). A value based approach must form the backbone of educational system and also
the teacher education system.
5). However, teacher education needs to emphasise that teachers alone can kindle
the value-based growth.
1.

1) 23154

2.

2) 24135

3.

3) 24315

4.

4) 13245

214)
A. As a recent New York Times op-ed notes: "Plain-vanilla Top 40, once the
chief vehicle for hit songs, is now the format for only 5 percent of the
nation's 10,000-plus stations."
B. To some extent, the feeling of marginalization may be the result of the
very real process of cultural fragmentation.
C. A few crossover hits notwithstanding, a young singer who wants to
incorporate her faith into her music is now likely to narrowcast to a
Christian rock audience because, well, she can.
D. But it's perceived as niche culture, in large part because cultural products
are increasingly tailored to niches.
E. There is probably now as rich and varied a marketplace of Christian
media-from Veggie Tales cartoons to the apocalyptic fantasy of the Left Behind
series and its spinoffs-as there's ever been.
1. 1) BCDEA
2. 2) ABCDE
3. 3) BEDAC
4. 4) CEABD
215)
A. The human capacity for free choice is another cornerstone of liberal
thought that seems threatened by a thoroughly naturalized conception of
persons.
B. But an exercise of free will is also supposed to be something that the agent
does, not merely something that happens.

C. When I make a genuinely free decision, no set of antecedent causes

predetermines what I must do.
D. It would not count as an act of free will if some nondeterministic quantum
fluctuation in my brain caused me to do good rather than evil.
E. Real choices are supposed to be undetermined by what came before.
1. 1) AECBD
2. 2) ECBDA
3. 3) ABCDE
4. 4) EDCBA
216)
A. After September 11, he recognized right away that long-standing American
policy for the Arab world was obsolete.
B. Refusing to choose between unacceptable alternatives, he shifts the
paradigm instead.
C. In the Middle East, when told he had to accept unending conflict or bestow
a state upon the likes of Yasir Arafat, he chose neither, instead linking
Palestinian statehood to Palestinian democratization.
D. At his best, Bush in the past has shown an unusual facility for finding new
ways out of old boxes.
E. It was this Bush who promised, for a while, the most creative and generative
presidency since the days of FDR and Truman-so much so, that I called him "the
accidental radical" in these pages.
1. 1) EDCBA
2. 2) DCBAE
3. 3) DBACE
4. 4) DABCE
OCT 5 (6/12)
217)
A. By reasoning we mean the mental process of drawing an inference from two or more
statements or going from the inference to the statements, which yield that inference.
B. So logical reasoning covers those types of questions, which imply drawing an inference
from the problems.
C. Logic means, if we take its original meaning, the science of valid reasoning.
D. Clearly, for understanding arguments and for drawing the inference correctly, it is

necessary that we should understand the statements first.

1. (a) ACBD
2. (b) CABD
3.

(c) ABCD

4.

(d) DBCA

218)
X. Cholesterol is a waxy fat-like substance.
A. It is used by the body to build cell walls and essential harmones.
B. Cholesterol is carried through the blood by particles called lipoproteins.
C. The body absorbs it from the animal fats one eats.
D. It is produced by liver.
Y. Lipoproteins are of two types Low density and High density Lipoproteins.
1.

1) BACD

2.

2) DCAB

3.

3) CDAB

4.

4) ACDB

219)
a)Many relationship problems between the boss and the subordinate occur because
the boss fails to make clear how he plans to use his authority.
b)Problems may also occur when the boss uses a democratic facade to conceal the fact
that he has already made a decision which he hopes the group will accept as its own.
c)If, for example, he actually intends to make a certain decision himself, but the
subordinate groups get the impression that he has delegated this authority, considerable
confusion and resentment will follow
d)We believe that it is highly important for the manager to be honest and clear in
describing what authority he is keeping and what role he is asking his subordinate to
assume in showing a particular problem.
1.

1) abcd

2.

2) acbd

3.

3) dabc

4.

4) dbca

220)avoid such questions where the sentences are not coherent and
continues when compared with original article.
A. The broken politics in New Delhi means that it's almost impossible for Manmohan Singh's
government to take coherent policy decisions.

B. Beijing's sweet reasonableness in 2012 is therefore welcome.

C. China anticipates this year to be a rough ride with bumps on the economy and a
leadership transition.
D. For India too, it's important to not build an adversarial position vis-a-vis China.
E. India must remember though, that sweetness is not their default position.
(a) DABCE (b) CABDE (c) BCEDA (d) CBEAD

222) Noun Germany should preferably be together

A. Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from overbranding.
B. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
C. But reunification and the federal government's move to Berlin have prompted
Germany to think again about its image.
D. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook
in 1855.
E. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself
abroad.
1.

1) ACEBD

2.

2) DECAB

3.

3) BDAEC

4.

4) DBAEC

223) avoid such questions where the sentences are not coherent and
continues when compared with original article. Here quote unquotes are
missing.
A. It is demanding that any party it backs should establish a working group on violence
against women and children in the assembly.
B. In the run-up to the January 28 polls, for instance, members of Women Action for
Development (WAD) are organising camps in all constituencies.
C. Ironically, Manipur has many activist groups led by women.
D. True empowerment will only happen when women enter the assembly in good
numbers.
E. Conflict Widows' Forum is a group made up of women who have lost their husbands
to civil violence in the state.
(a) DBCEA (b) CBADE (c) BDCEA (d) CBEAD
224)

(A) But over the years, as clients turned the screws on their advertising budgets,
expecting an ever-increasing bang from their ad buck, the person who is helping put the
most effective advertising together is the researcher.
(B) And when screw-ups happen, it's usually because the consumer has not been
researched adequately.
(C) For instance, at her employer WPP Media World Wide, where Byfield heads consumer
insight, there's more than $16 billion (Rs.76,464 crore) of advertising spend at stake each
year.
(D) Says, Byfield : We have enough of data, but sometimes we may be lacking in,
insights.
(E) When Sheila Byfield began researching media 12 years ago, it was a job that got the
smallest and the remotest cabin in the offices of major advertising agencies.
(1) EACBD (2) DEACB (3) ECABD (4) DAECB

225)
A. It seems from reading the report that journalists are not just having difficulty
understanding their business, but that the business itself is so fundamentally changed
that commercial departments are equally disoriented.
B. "Journalists just don't understand their business."
C. In the report the authors Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave and Lucas Graves have conducted
dozens of interviews in newsrooms and in the online journalism business across the US, and
while there are some bright patches of optimism, the overall picture should be troubling
to many news executives.
D. This is a line which leaps out from a new report we are publishing today from the
Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, entitled, The Story So Far:
What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism.
E. It is an uncomfortable insight but an important one.
F. "Here's the problem," says Randall Rothenberg, head of the US Interactive Advertising
Bureau.
1.

1) CAFDBE

2.

2) FBDECA

3.

3) ACEDBF

4.

4) FBCADE

226)

A. The educational system in India had kept pace with the changing times.
B. But the biggest turnaround came when the British came to India.
C. The history of education in India is as old as India itself.
D. We have a great legacy of the Gurukul system of education.
1.

1) CDAB

2.

2) CDBA

3.

3) CBAD

4.

4) DABC

228)
a. It is almost necessary, in studying systems of psychology, to inquire into their past.
b. The very fact that they appear late in human thought means that the problems
they represent have had long years in which they were unsupervised by the watchful care
of science.
c. Ideally and in its finished form a system of psychology is an envisagement of the total
field of psychology as a consistent and unified whole.
d. Its path is anything but a straight line; it is always being pulled this way and that by
the attraction of some body of knowledge or opinion of which it may hardly be aware. Often
the turns of its thought and the very context of its concepts are determined by historical
accidents that occurred hundreds of years ago.
e. The young science of psychology is continually discovering that its favourite problems
have histories; that its very terms have implications and that its conclusions are often
determined by custom and association.
1.

1) cbde

2.

2) bedc

3.

3) ebcd

4.

4) dceb

229) if a link is present in more than one OA then weigh the OA. Check if
other sentences fit properly wid the link.
A. This may mean breaking up old relationships to create more positive and
productive ones.
B. Relationships can be developed from and determined by politics.
C. Any assessment performed to change an organization's environment should include
possible political ramifications of transformation.
D. Individual and organizational performance can be affected by myriad political
influences, which can come from both internal and external sources.

E. Changing an organization's environment should coincide with changing problematic

political practices.
1.

1) EABDC

2.

2) DBEAC

3.

3) BADCE

4.

4) BEACD

230)
a) Planet earth is in urgent need of a healing touch to save it from the impending
environmental disaster.
b) Which is why the 'Earth Day', celebrated on April 2 every year , assumes such
special significance.
c) The world over ambient standards of air and water pollution are likely to exceed the
limits prescribed by the WHO and the impact of air pollution on cities could result in
hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and millions of cases of hospitalization.
d) In India alone, the cost of pollution when computed in health terms could exceed Rs.
5000 crore per annum to cure health problems caused by it.
1.

1) cdab

2.

2) abdc

3.

3) dbac

4.

4) cdba

231)
1.It was doubtless a very old custom of Middle Ages to display the insane.
(a) Thus they constituted a spectacle at the city gates.
(b)As late as 1815,if a report presented in the House of Commons is to be believed, the
hospital of Bethlehem exhibited lunatics for a penny, every Sunday.
(c)The strange fact is that this custom did not disappear once the doors of the asylum
closed, but on the contrary it then developed almost an institutional character.
(d)In Germany, barred windows had been installed which permitted those outside to
observe madmen chained within.
(e)The annual revenue from these exhibitions amounted to almost four hundred pounds.
1.

1) dacbe

2.

2) cbeda

3.

3) becad

4.

4) dcaeb

232)

A. During his visit to Johannesburg, the Indian President announced an ambitious

$50 million programme to connect all the 53 countries of the African Union by a
satellite fibre network.
B. India has decided to provide seamless and integrated satellite, fibre optics and
wireless network connecting 53 African countries for distance education,
telemedicine and eservices.
C. India's offer of a connectivity mission among the African nations was unveiled
by Hon'ble President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in his landmark address to PanAfrican
Parliament on September 16, 2004.
D. Buoyed up by the communication revolution at home, India is prepared to share
its knowhow with other countries, more particularly the developing countries.
1. 1) DACB
2. 2) ACDB
3. 3) CBDA
4. 4) CABD
5. 5) ACBD
233)
A. A healthy argument can help to clear the air and clarify different points of view.
B. Even in the strongest relationships, it isnt usually possible or
healthy to try to avoid all disagreements.
C. Since its impossible to avoid all arguments, it is important to deal
constructively with your differences.
D. A desire to avoid conflict can lead couples to ignore problems until they become
too big to handle.
E. This means avoiding personal attacks during arguments or discussions, which
can destroy your trust in each other or chip away at your feelings of being loved
and valued.
1. 1) DBAEC
2. 2) ACBDE
3. 3) BDACE
4. 4) ADCEB
234)
A. Thus, employee and manager alike may resist attempts to uproot established
company traditions or fiddle with untried, risky procedures.

B. The truth is if you want to learn to do it better, you've got to try a lot of things,
many of which won't work.
C. Their responses to creativity initiatives may in fact take shape vigorously,
adamantly and fearfully.
D. With society officially downgrading the idea of creativity so strongly, it becomes
problematic for businesses to get their managers and other employees thinking
truly freely and out of the box.
E. Also, genuine creativity, by definition, subverts the status quo by facing down
long-held assumptions and uncorking new ways of approaching things.
1. 1) DEACB
2. 2) DACBE
3. 3) BDACE
4. 4) BDEAC
5. 5) DBEAC

237)
P). Most investors feel they lose out when the market rallies.
1). There are times when one is not sure of the direction in which a sector will
move.
2). Everytime such a thing happens you wish to include in your portfolio some of
the stocks scaling the new highs every day.
3). While the index and several scripts may be running with each passing day, the
investor may find that the specific shares in his portfolio are hardly moving.
4). All this can lead to rash decisions.
Q). Picking a winner even within a booming sector is tough.
1. 1) 3124
2. 2) 2134
3. 3) 3241
4. 4) 1342
238)
1). The credit rating agencies use legions of high trained analyst with access to top
management.
2). Their meticulous reports giving ratings for corporate bonds are designed to give

an accurate picture of the bonds riskiness and ultimately the probability of default.
3). Lately, the credit-rating agencies have struggled to keep up.
4). It seems a bond rating tells you even less about the price that investors are
willing to pay.
5). In 1999 two-third of the debt rated triple B by standard and poor was priced
within 20 basis points of the average bond with the same rating.
1. 1) 45123
2. 2) 34215
3. 3) 12345
4. 4) 12435
239)
1). In his second book 'Manage yourself', Dishu explained how the expectancy
theory convinced managers and employees that managing the individual works
better than treating everyone the same.
2). Earlier on, Dishu had applied his expectancy theory in a step by step process
used mainly as a one-on-one approach between the manager and the employees.
3). Everyone was flabbergasted by his success.
4). Nevertheless, Dishu organized a team and implemented, tested and gathered
data to measure results in the corporate environment.
5). It was not designed for the entire organizations.
1. 1) 25431
2. 2) 12534
3. 3) 13254
4. 4) 54321
240)
A)The government has now announced that it wants to consolidate flagship
programmes for employment, education, health, rural infrastructure and urban
renewal.
B)A beginning was made in this direction way back in 2005-06 when the
government brought all programmes for building infrastructure, especially in rural
India, under Bharat Nirman.
C) It has also plans to introduce flagship programmes for food security and skill
development.

D)As rightly pointed out by the President in her address to the joint session of
Parliament, such consolidation will require re-energizing government and improving
governance.
The intention is good, but it must be politically driven. For there will be resistance
from various ministries and bureaucracy to moves to consolidate programmes.
1. 1) BADC
2. 2) DACB
3. 3) DBAC
4. 4) BACD
242)A) The sum of all tangible and intangible traits- beliefs , values
prejudices,interests , features and ancestry - make a unique personality.
B) People's personalities are largely determined through values and beliefs they
have and the personality characteristics they develope.
C) A brand personality visually and and collectively represents all internal and
external characteristics of the product.
D) The world's most powerful brands are invested with a distinct personality
because people make judgements about product and companies in personality
terms.
E) The closer the brand personality is to the customer personality the greater will
be the willingness to buy the brand and deeper the brand loyalty.
1. 1) DBACE
2. 2) BADCE
3. 3) CDEAB
4. 4) AEBCD
5. 5) DBECA
243)
A.

Buddhism is a path of practice and spiritual development leading to Insight

into the true nature of life.

B.

The experience developed within the Buddhist tradition over thousands of

years has created an incomparable resource for all those who wish to follow a path
a path which ultimately culminates in Enlightenment or Buddhahood.

C.

Buddhist practices such as meditation are means of changing oneself in order

to develop the qualities of awareness, kindness, and wisdom.

D.

Because Buddhism does not include the idea of worshipping a creator god,

some people do not see it as a religion in the normal, Western sense.

E.

The basic tenets of Buddhist teaching are straightforward and practical:

nothing is fixed or permanent; actions have consequences; change is possible. to

realise and utilise its teachings in order to transform their experience, to be fully
responsible for their lives and to develop the qualities of Wisdom and Compassion.
1. 1) a. BCDE
2. 2) b. CBED
3. 3) c. CBDE
4. 4) d. BEDC
5. 5) e. ECDB