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In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage
1. (A) In 2009, when James Cameron made "Avatar", he set his colonial
allegory not in an alien planet but in the moon of such a planet.
(B) Perhaps he felt that exoplanets themselves were passé as settings
for fiction, since in fact so many had being discovered.
(C) If so, he got in just in time, for reality may soon imitate art in
the matter of both moons as well as planets.
(D) That is because few astronomers are indeed beginning the search
for satellites around
(E) some of the thousands of known and suspected exoplanets.
2
(A) Shortly after returning to being the firm's chief executive in
2011, Larry Page said he wanted it to develop more services that
everyone would use at least twice a day, like a toothbrush.
(B) Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated
thermostats and smoke detectors and Google has made an announcement
that it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm.
(C) Now, with a string of recent acquisitions, Google seems to be
planning to become as big in hardware as it is in software, developing
"toothbrush" products in a variety of areas from robots to cars to
domestic-heating controls.
(D) At Google they call it the toothbrush test.
(E) Its search engine and its Android operating system for mobile
devices pass that test.
Three out of four sentences in the paragraph given below, when
correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which of the following
sentences does not fit into the context?
3.
a)
The former will play a lot of video games and the like; the latter
will be deprived and left far behind.
b)
Many of the underlying causes of the growing gap between rich and poor
− fast technological change and the rapid globalization of the economy
− are deep-seated and likely to persist.
c)
Inequality is not impervious to government policy, but higher marginal
tax rates are not the only or the best way to address it.
d)
It is thought that the population will soon be divided into two
groups: those who are good at working with intelligent machines and
those who can be replaced by them.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
4.Traditionally, a "belief" is a state of mind of a certain sort. But
the behaviourists deny that there are states of mind, or at least that
they can be known; they therefore avoid the word "belief", and, if
they used it, would mean by it a characteristic of bodily behaviour.
There are cases in which this usage would be quite in accordance with
common sense. Suppose you set out to visit a friend whom you have
often visited before, but on arriving at your destination you find
that he has moved, you would say "I thought he was still living at his
old house." Yet it is highly probable that you did not think about it
at all, but merely pursued the usual route from habit. A "thought" or
"belief" may, therefore, in the view of common sense, be shown by
behaviour, without any corresponding "mental" occurrence. And even if
you use a form of words such as is supposed to express belief, you are
still engaged in bodily behaviour, provided you pronounce the words
out loud or to yourself. Shall we say, in such cases, that you have a
belief? Or is something further required?
a)
There is nothing called mind − it is all a complex interplay of
neurons which are physical in nature.
b)
Some of the behavioural traits in humans can be attributed to body
rather than mind.
c)
Behaviour acts at two different levels − body and mind and both are
significant in contributing to a man's actions.
d)
A belief is just a state of mind; and might be different from actions.
Our knowledge of human body and mind is limited and it needs further
research.
5.(A) Nowhere has captivated the minds of Western mapmakers as much as
fabled Cathay, finding a sea route to China inspired many of the great
explorers.
(B) In November last year they issued a map showing a new Chinese "air
defence identification zone" that includes the airspace around some
disputed islands, owned by Japan which calls them the Senkakus and
claimed by China which named them the Diaoyus.
(C) In the 19th century the navigators finally succeeded and Chinese
leaders are now flexing their own cartographic muscles.
(D) Maps can be tools for trade, but they can also be weapons of war;
for centuries cartographers have embraced both aims.
(E) European maps of the past 400 years tell the story of empire and
the efforts to prise China open for trade.
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage,
6. (A) The SugarHouse Casino on Delaware river in Philadelphia was
packed on a recent federal holiday.
(B) The slot machines were all almost occupied. The betting tables
were busy. The car park was nearly full.
(C) SugarHouse, along with Pennsylvania's ten other casinos, have been
siphoning much of Atlantic City's gambling business.
(D) As much as, that Pennsylvania, which did not open a casino until
2006, is now the second-largest gambling market in America
(E) after Las Vegas, bypassing the "City by the Sea", which held a
monopoly on gambling in the north-east for nearly 30 years
7.(A) On top of this, atmospheric drag often brings them back to Earth
in an untimely fashion.
(B) Nanosatellites are spacecraft, little larger than a smartphone,
that can fly cheaply into orbit by piggybacking on rockets carrying
bigger payloads.
(C) Fitting them with their own rocket motors would give them
directional autonomy, and would also let them boost their orbits every
so often, to escape the atmosphere's clutches.
(D) But their dependence on other people's goodwill for their launch
means that their orbits are not completely under their owners'
control, which restricts their usefulness.
(E) The power of modern electronics means that such tiny vessels can
be equipped with lots of useful kits, including GPS trackers, cameras
and radios.
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage,
8. (A) The two more popular words in the business lexicon are probably
"global" and "leadership".
(B) Put them together and people in a suit start to salivate.
(C) That is perhaps more than 1,000 corporate bosses are flocking to
Davos, a Swiss ski resort, this week.
(D) There, at the annual bash of the World Economic Forum (WEF), they
sip cocktails with some 50 heads of state and 300 cabinet ministers.
(E) Whatever the topic, between deficits to deadly diseases, the talk
is all of providing "global leadership".
9.(a) They make fundamentally differing assumptions about what exists
and about what constitutes secure knowledge.
(b) Philosophy sometimes is thought to offer the vantage point, but it
can only help to clarify the issues; naturalism can do at least as
well as religion in satisfying human needs for coherence and meaning.
(c) Stephen J. Gould takes the position that science and religion
cannot be in conflict, since they deal with separate domains.
(d) However, there may not be a higher vantage point from which to
answer the question of what system is best.
(e) This seems doubtful, since science and religion both make strong,
incompatible claims about the world we inhabit.
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10.
a)
Saturday morning had arrived, and all the summer world was bright and
fresh, and brimming with life.
b)
He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy
settled down upon his spirit.
c)
Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high; life to him seemed hollow,
and existence but a burden.
d)
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a
long-handled brush.
11.The reality is that most newly privatized companies need dominant,
experienced shareholders to compensate for the weaknesses of managers
never before exposed to best business practice. Without the support
and prodding of such shareholders, Eastern companies tend to operate
very much along the lines learned in the days of central planning,
insider control, and relentless focus on production. Old-guard
managers simply lack the skills and experience to convert a company
from its old communist predilections to a genuine market orientation.
But when these same enterprises receive support from strong, capable −
most often Western − shareholders, they have shown that they can
perform to international standards and even outperform some leading
Western competitors.
Which of these statements cannot be inferred from the passage?
a)
The capability to adapt to market conditions is largely lacking in the
newly privatised companies in the East which tend to adhere strongly
to age-old practices like insider control and central planning.
b)
Dominant shareholders can turn around the fortune of a company.
c)
Eastern companies need to be pushed to perform to international
standards by shareholders.
d)
Western companies do not need to be prodded by shareholders into
outperforming competitors.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
12.A propeller is a machine that moves you forward through a fluid (a
liquid or gas) when you turn it. Since a ship propeller works in
water, the ship speed will normally be less than the theoretical
speed. The difference between the two speeds is known as the apparent
slip and is usually expressed as a ratio or percentage of the
theoretical speed. If the ship speed is measured relative to the
surrounding water, i.e. by means of a log line, the theoretical speed
will invariably exceed the ship speed, giving a positive apparent
slip. If, however, the ship speed is measured relative to the land,
then any movement of water will affect the apparent slip, and should
the vessel be travelling in a flowing current, the ship speed may
exceed the theoretical speed, resulting in a negative apparent slip.
a)
All the propellers work in water as a result of which the ship speed
is usually less than the theoretical speed. This means there is a
negative apparent slip as the apparent slip is the difference between
two speeds.
b)
Apparent slip is relative to how the ship speed is measured. Even the
movement of water will affect the apparent slip.
c)
The speed of a propeller driven vessel can be measured in different
ways, ship speed or theoretical speed, relative to surrounding water,
land, or flowing current. Apparent slip, the difference between the
theoretical speed and the actual ship speed, may be positive or
negative depending on the parameters and mode of measurement.
d)
Apparent slip is calculated by the difference between ship speed and
the theoretical speed. However, it varies with the method of measuring
the ship speed.
Three out of four sentences in the paragraph given below, when
correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which of the following
sentences does not fit into the context?
13.
a)
But now the situation may have changed, and it is time to zero-base it again.
b)
Whenever you are involved in something that, knowing what you now
know, you wouldn't get into again, you experience ongoing stress,
aggravation, irritation and anger.
c)
Many decisions that you make will turn out to be wrong in the fullness of time.
d)
When you made the decision or commitment, it was probably a good idea,
based on the circumstances of the moment.
14.No archaeological excavation has ever excited so general and so
lasting an interest as that which brought to light the tomb of the
Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The tomb's importance was due, first and
foremost, to the amazing number of beautiful things which it contained
--an unparalleled contribution to the world's treasury of art which
the public was right to appreciate. On the other hand it must be
admitted that the discovery added nothing to what was known about the
history of Egypt. The tomb yielded no written documents other than the
stereotyped funerary inscriptions. The brief reign of this
insignificant boy Pharaoh (he was only eighteen years old when he
died) was not marked by any event of note -- that he renounced the
Aten worship proclaimed by his father-in-law Akhenaton and that under
his rule the priests of Amen at Thebes regained their old power were
facts already familiar to historians. Of course the tomb, the only
Egyptian royal tomb found virtually intact, did illustrate with
unsurpassed splendour the ritual of a Pharaoh's burial, but the ritual
was already known, too, from written documents, wall-paintings and
reliefs, and objects surviving in plundered graves; it was indeed
satisfactory to have the actual furniture instead of pictures of it,
but it taught us nothing new.
All of the following have resulted in stimulating or prompting a
general and lasting interest in Tutankhamun's tomb EXCEPT?
a)
Structure and opulence of the tomb.
b)
The presence of an amazing number of beautiful objects that
contributed to the world treasury of art.
c)
The tomb was found intact with actual furniture and pieces of art and
illustrated with unsurpassed splendour the ritual of a Pharaoh's
burial.
d)
Funerary inscriptions and written documents about the history of Egypt.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
15.There's a large body of medical literature showing that married
people tend to be healthier and live longer than singles. But newer
research adds an important caveat: the quality of the marriage
matters. Surveys show that couples that enjoy good marital
relationships are likely to share common interests when these shared
interests have existed in the individual prior to the marriage. One
should look for a spouse who shares common interests because marital
stress, logically enough, is not good for one's health. Other studies
have shown that happily married women have fewer blockages in their
aortas, and that happily married couples are less likely than unhappy
couples to suffer from heart disease.
a)
It is important to have a healthy and happy married life so as to have
a healthy body and life. The relationship between couples affects an
individual's health and stress between them can lead to problems,
especially where the heart is concerned. Hence, marital relation is a
factor important enough to be considered in case of heart disease.
b)
Most heart diseases are due to stress and most of the stress is due to
problems between spouses. Marital stress needs to be controlled and
considered in case of any heart disease. Couples who are happily
married are less prone to heart disease. All couples that share common
interests will enjoy good marital relationships.
c)
While we've often been told that married life prompts healthy life,
new research shows that happiness in marriage matters. Marital stress
can lead to heart disease, with those who are happy in their marriage
being healthier than those who aren't. Sharing of common interests
when these interests have existed prior to marriage helps in building
happy marriages.
d)
It is important to be happy to stay healthy. Relationship between the
spouses is a major factor governing the stress levels in individuals.
Happy married life is important. A couple that doesn't start with
common interests could develop them and have a happy relationship.
16.Outsourcing of services to India has become a major campaign issue
in the US. The future of US workers is said to be at stake. A lot of
economic nonsense has been peddled by presidential candidates. There
is an echo of the protests against globalization that we heard in
India ten years ago. Indian industry, it was said, would be crushed by
multinationals in the 1990s after the economy opened up to the world.
And what happened? I wouldn't even bother to answer.
It can be inferred from the passage that?
a)
Typically presidential campaigns in the US are high on rhetoric.
b)
American industry is facing the same crisis that Indian industry
faced, 10 years ago.
c)
Indian companies have done well since lowering of trade barriers in the 1990s.
d)
America does not practice free trade.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
17.There is no trick to motivating others. It requires a clear,
unbiased understanding of the situation at hand, deep insight into the
vagaries of human nature at both the individual and the group levels,
the establishment of appropriate and reasonable expectations and
goals, and the construction of a balanced set of tangible and
intangible incentives. It requires, in other words, hard thinking and
hard work. And when an organization is under strain or is in crisis,
the challenges-and the stakes-become that much higher. The questions
that managers have to grapple with as they try to inspire their people
are many and complex: How do you deal with individuals or groups at
different motivation levels that vary in different ways? How can you
influence the behavior of a single individual, let alone an
organization of hundreds or thousands? How can you help people feel
enthusiastic and committed, especially in difficult times?
a)
During periods of organization crisis, the challenges faced by
managers in corporates are magnified by issues of employee motivation.
b)
Employee motivation is the single most challenge that managers face.
c)
For organizations to succeed, it is critical to align goals of
individual employees with organizational goals.
d)
Due to heterogeneity in employee populations, large organizations are
difficult to manage.
Three out of four sentences in the paragraph given below, when
correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which of the following
sentences does not fit into the context?
18.
a)
For there comes a time when choice, rather than freeing the
individual, becomes so complex, difficult and costly, that it turns
into its opposite.
b)
And technology, far from restricting our individuality, will multiply
our choices and our freedom exponentially.
c)
There comes a time, in short, when choice turns into overchoice and
freedom into un-freedom.
d)
Whether man is prepared to cope with the increased choice of material
and cultural wares available to him is, however, a totally different
question.
Do you have the emotional intelligence of a truly great professional?
Job seekers tend to focus only on their professional experience.
However, employers are constantly on the lookout for smart people who
are not only experts in their fields, but also have the emotional
intelligence to become a well-rounded worker and a fit within the
company's culture. Employees with emotional intelligence can instantly
take the temperature of the room and adjust to different
personalities. These are the people who find it easy to get along with
coworkers and who work well as part of integrated teams. According to
Goleman, great leaders are often distinguished by emotional
intelligence (E.I.), which includes "soft skills" like self-awareness,
self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.
Staying flexible is also important to one's overall emotional
intelligence. Flexibility may mean different things to different
employers, from working cross-departmentally to completing tasks
remotely. In a job interview, one should show employers that one has
the ability to adapt to new environments and work with a wide variety
of people in order to communicate the flexibility of one's emotional
intelligence. Employers want to know whether one can adapt to anything
thrown one's way, and high levels of emotional intelligence can help
one succeed in a variety of situations. In a global marketplace, this
can be the difference between "You're hired!" and unemployment.
There are some widespread misunderstandings about emotional
intelligence. Emotional intelligence does not mean giving free rein to
feelings--"letting it all hang out" Rather, it means managing feelings
so that they are expressed appropriately, enabling people to work
together smoothly toward their common goals.
Also, women are not "smarter" than men when it comes to emotional
intelligence, nor are men superior to women. Each of us has a personal
profile of strengths and weaknesses in these capacities. Some of us
may be highly empathic but lack some abilities to handle our own
distress; others may be quite aware of the subtlest shift in our own
moods, yet be inept socially.
It is true that men and women as groups tend to have a shared,
gender-specific profile of strong and weak points. An analysis of
emotional intelligence in thousands of men and women found that women,
on average, are more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and
are more adept interpersonally. Men, on the other hand, are more
self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress
better.
In general, however, there are far more similarities than differences.
Some men are as empathic as the most interpersonally sensitive women,
while some women are every bit as able to withstand stress as the most
emotionally resilient men. Indeed, on average, looking at the overall
ratings for men and women, the strengths and weaknesses average out,
so that in terms of total emotional intelligence, there are no sex
differences.
Finally, our level of emotional intelligence is not fixed genetically,
nor does it develop only in early childhood. Unlike IQ, which changes
little after our teen years, emotional intelligence seems to be
largely learned, and it continues to develop as we go through life and
learn from our experiences--our competence in it can keep growing. In
fact, studies that have tracked people's level of emotional
intelligence through the years show that people get better and better
in these capabilities as they grow more adept at handling their own
emotions and impulses, at motivating themselves, and at honing their
empathy and social adroitness.
In the new, stripped-down, every-job-counts business climate; the need
for connection, for empathy, for open communication will matter more
than ever. Massive change is a constant; technical innovations, global
competition, and the pressures of institutional investors are
ever-escalating forces for flux.
Another reality makes emotional intelligence ever more crucial: As
organizations shrink through waves of downsizing, those people who
remain are more accountable--and more visible. Where earlier a
midlevel employee might easily hide a hot temper or shyness, now
competencies such as managing one's emotions, handling encounters
well, teamwork, and leadership, show--and count--more than ever.
19. DIRECTIONS for question 85: Type in your answer in the input box
provided below the question.
Which of the following statements can be deduced from the passage?
(A) Tests for emotional intelligence would assess the cognitive and
social abilities of individuals.
(B) The ability to work effectively with other people and resolve
conflicts can be an indicator of one's emotional intelligence.
(C) While emotional intelligence may not seem to be as important of a
skill as, say, technical expertise, it can be the key you need to
stand out in a competitive job market.
(D) None of the above
Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding letters in the
input box given below. You must enter your answer in alphabetical
order only. For example, if you think (A) and (B) apply, then enter AB
(but not BA) in the input box.
20. According to the author, unlike Emotional quotient, Intelligence
Quotient develops
a)
little in teens.
b)
mainly in early childhood.
c)
throughout teen years.
d)
continuously through life span.
21. As regards emotional intelligence, the author suggests that
a)
differences between men and women are negligible.
b)
there are absolutely no differences between men and women.
c)
there are more similarities than differences between men and women.
d)
none of the above.
22. All of the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT:
a)
E.I. is learned behaviour that can only be measured quantitatively.
b)
E.I. is invaluable for efficient workplace management today.
c)
E.I. is an ever growing dynamic competency.
d)
E.I. is learned behaviour that can be measured qualitatively.
It is a general weakness of men dealing with reason and delivering
ideas that they are able to convince themselves that their words
represent a break with the past and a new beginning. In the early
stages of a revolution, history is at its most malleable. Disorder and
optimism combine to wipe out those truths artificially manufactured by
the preceding regimes. At the same time, they usually wipe out the
memory of any inconvenient real event.
We have great difficulty dealing with philosophy in the context of
real events. These two categories seem to live on separate planets. We
are still convinced that violence is the product of fear and fear the
product of ignorance. And yet, since the beginning of the Age of
reason, there has been a parallel growth in both knowledge and
violence, culminating in the slaughters of the 20th century.
Also, revolutions do not begin on dates, although we constantly search
for that kind of reassuring touch point. An argument is sometimes made
that the assumptions and methods of applied reason where all the key
elements of modern intellectual thought can be found were first
developed by the Inquisition. The Inquisitors were the first to
formalize the idea that to every question there is a right answer. The
answer is known, but the question must be asked and correctly
answered. Relativism, humanism, common sense and moral beliefs were
all irrelevant to this process because they assume doubt. Since the
Inquisitors knew the answer, doubt was impossible. Process, however,
was essential for efficient governance and process required that
questions be asked in order to produce the correct answer.
When the Inquisition was created in the thirteenth century, no one,
least of all Pope Gregory, understood what was being set in motion.
Issuing a bull which made the persecution of heresy the special
function of the Dominicans hardly seemed a revolutionary step. The
Inquisitors' definition of truth was arrived at slowly, as was the
process which permitted them to establish it. But as each detail of
that process emerged, so the assumptions involved became clear.
Everything the Inquisition did -- except the execution, of the guilty
-- took place in secret. Public silence surrounded the work of the
travelling Inquisitors. Unlike judges, magistrates, nobles and kings,
who have always worn some symbolic costume, the Inquisitors wore the
simplest, most anonymous black, like the proverbial accountant. And
while their power permitted them to do their work on the basis of
accusations and denunciations, what they really wanted were complete
inquisitions. Being already in possession of the truth, they were
interested in the rational demonstration of it by each victim. Perhaps
the most telling detail was that each of these secret tribunals
included a notary. His job was to record every word of every question
and answer. These notarised manuscripts became the perpetual records
of truth. But again, the purpose of such exactitude was to glorify the
methodology, not the outcome. The notary was there to confirm the
relationship between a priori truth and assembled fact. On the surface
the Inquisitors were torturers and monsters. On a more profound level
they were moral auditors.
23. From the passage, one can understand that the revolutionary
aspects of the Inquisition involved
a)
asking questions and providing clear answers.
b)
the persecution of heresy and the execution of unbelievers and other
people found guilty.
c)
exploring the constitution of questions, answers and the truth.
d)
preserving certified and attested manuscripts which became the
perpetual record of truth.
24. Which of the following describes the key elements of the thought
developed during the Inquisition?
a)
Moral auditing, order and reason.
b)
Impossibility of dubiousness.
c)
Humanism, common sense and relationism.
d)
Process for efficient administration and control or exercise of authority.
25. After reading the passage, one can understand, from it, all of the
following sentences EXCEPT?
a)
The inquisitors executed their victims overtly.
b)
A likely consequence of correct answers would be the desired truth,
arrived at through the desired process.
c)
The Inquisitors promoted violence by feeding on fear and ignorance in
people's minds. The victims were tortured and thus revealed the truth
but were executed anyway.
d)
The notary was a bridge between the theoretical deduction and the
constructed actuality.
26. The word "exactitude" in the context of the passage means
a)
certainty of judgement and rational demonstration.
b)
the slow but steady details of the process by which the exact truth
was defined and established.
c)
notarizing word by word to achieve the end result.
d)
preciseness of the methodology involving framing questions, seeking
answers and establishing the truth.
For more than three millennia, human beings have invested some of
their best cognitive and affective resources in the spiritual and the
religious. That investment, in retrospect, might not have been
uniformly wise and uniformly creative. But it has not been uniformly
forgettable either. The investment in secular statecraft and secular
public life, on the other hand, has been relatively recent and, though
it has also often been immensely creative, it has been spectacularly
destructive, too. In any case, the second set of investments can never
compare with the three millennia of human achievement in the sphere of
religion. Civilisation, as we know it, is largely the achievement of
the religious way of life, though we try hard to forget that part of
the story. I say this as a non-believer who has invested some years of
life in the study of the psychological and cultural sources of human
creativity.
Can we ignore or bypass these achievements for the sake of a theory of
progress that seeks to wipe clean the pre-Enlightenment world or
freeze it as a museum piece? If the answer is 'no', how can we
acknowledge the achievements of a part of our self that the
Enlightenment vision has declared terra incognita? I leave the reader
with these questions in the hope that they will help me find an answer
to one of the most persistent puzzles of our times: why do we so
frequently and enthusiastically forget the secular world's capacity to
endorse evil, while at the same time being so fearful of religion and
its capacity to endorse evil? Is it because the secular world is more
transparent to us? Or, is it because we belong to the secular world
and read all accusations of its complicity with evil as moral
indictments of us? (Such defensive denial of complicity has become an
inescapable part of the career graph of many contemporary ideologies.
Despite the shoddy record of nationalism in the last century, there
are millions of nationalists all over the world, even in Europe and
Japan, who have paid an enormous price for their nationalist fervour.
Even today, there are more Stalinists in India than in the former
Soviet Union, even though these inane ad-mirers of the Georgian
psychopath have no need to defend his record of oppression and
genocide.) One suspects that the evil that grows out of religion is
alien territory to us and looks eerily like witchcraft and blood
sacrifice, while the death of millions in the hands of secular states
and secular despots look like necessary costs to pay for lofty ideals
such as nation-building, state formation, progress, development,
scientific rationality and history. Indeed, the emphasis on the
blood-thirstiness associated with religions helps the non-believers to
wipe clean the record of their own kind.
Perhaps things are not as simple as these questions suggest. The
secular study of religion, at one level, is the other side of the
secular use of religion in which many politicians specialise. Part of
the bitterness towards the political versions of Islam, Judaism,
Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity come from a vague but threatening
awareness that those who deploy religion for personal or political
gains have the same instrumental concept of religion and use the same
set of psychological mechanisms that we use when we study religion
from outside, to produce a good ethnography or social history or to
write an acceptable doctoral dissertation.
31. The author uses the phrase 'in retrospect' (para 1) to refer to (?) .......
a)
the ability to look inwards.
b)
the expectation(s) in future based on an analysis of past.
c)
a comparison of the past and the present to resolve contentious issues.
d)
the review or the contemplation of the past from a different perspective.
32. All of the following can be deduced from the passage EXCEPT:
a)
There are more evils arising from religion than from secularism.
b)
Religion as object of research is often approached superficially.
c)
Secularism is not as blemish free and blame free as it is made out to be.
d)
Certain destructive acts are carried out in the name of high sounding ideals.
33. The author feels that the uneasiness with which people view evil
that appears to be endorsed by religion arises from?
a)
an attitude that denies that one is an accomplice of evil.
b)
the impression that these are not necessarily evils.
c)
short-sightedness and obeisance to transient fashions based on lofty
ideals like progress, nation-building, state formation and development
of a whole civilization.
d)
the fact that religion is not as transparent as secularism but is
synonymous to witchcraft, blood sacrifice and psychopathic violence.
34. Which of the following can be understood from the passage?
a)
Due to progress made by secularism, it is good to wipe clean the
contributions of religion to civilization.
b)
Terra incognita means known or discovered or explored territory.
c)
Ethno-religious nationalists who use religion as a pathway to power
would use the same religious concepts or psychological processes that
ethnographers or ardent secular nationalists would use.
d)
The investment of human cognitive and affective resources in secular
public life has always been wise and creative.
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Monday, 15 February 2016
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(a) Arrogance breeds mistakes: look at all the empire-building bosses
who attempt ambitious mergers despite ample evidence that such mergers
usually fail.
(b) Abraham Lincoln observed that nearly all men can stand adversity
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
(c) Clever businesspeople have a tendency to be arrogant at the best
of the times; telling them that they are masters of the universe can
only magnify it.
(d) If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility; a
humble boss understands that there are things he doesn't know and he
listens to other bigwigs as well as his customers.
(e) Similar temptations afflict those who are given the title of
"young global leader."
(f) But there is still a flaw with the very notion of global leadership.
a)
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b)
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c)
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d)
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5
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage, including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency, and
enter the letters corresponding to the sentence(s) or fragments of
sentence(s) in the input box provided below the question. You must
enter your answer in alphabetical order only. For example, if you
think that statements (D) and (E) are correct, then enter DE (but not
ED)
6. (A) Flies live short lives than elephants.
(B) That there is no doubt.
(C) But from a fly's point of view, does it's life actually seem that
much shorter?
(D) This in essence was the question asked by Kevin Healy of Trinity
College, Dublin, in a paper just published in the reputed journal
"Animal Behaviour".
(E) His answer is, possibly not.
6
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage, including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency, and
enter the letters corresponding to the sentence(s) or fragments of
sentence(s) in the input box provided below the question. You must
enter your answer in alphabetical order only. For example, if you
think that statements (D) and (E) are correct, then enter DE (but not
ED) in the input box.
6.(A) Flies live short lives than elephants.
(B) That there is no doubt.
(C) But from a fly's point of view, does it's life actually seem that
much shorter?
(D) This in essence was the question asked by Kevin Healy of Trinity
College, Dublin, in a paper just published in the reputed journal
"Animal Behaviour".
(E) His answer is, possibly not.
7
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage, including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency, and
enter the letters corresponding to the sentence(s) or fragments of
sentence(s) in the input box provided below the question. You must
enter your answer in alphabetical order only. For example, if you
think that statements (D) and (E) are correct, then enter DE (but not
ED) in the input box.
7.(A) Of all the great novelists, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has less
interest in the real world.
(B) Unencumbered with gravitas, he describes a Britain that never
existed, one where there was no violence
(C) or death, except in passing and the tumultous history of the early
20th century gets barely a look-in.
(D) The gravest threat is being forced to marry someone you don't like.
(E) His style walks a tightrope on patchwork and perfection.
Three out of four sentences in each of the paragraphs given below,
when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence
does not fit into the context?
8.
a)
A stream of headlines about bail-outs, teetering banks and high
unemployment has repelled investors from Europe's struggling
periphery.
b)
Investindustrial's approach had been to not tar the whole of southern
Europe with the same brush.
c)
That did not stop Investindustrial, a private-equity group with a
focus on Spain and Italy, from this week buying the 50% stake it did
not already own in PortAventura, an amusement park near Barcelona and
it is now looking for other investments there.
d)
Perhaps the only thing more spine-tingling than riding a
roller-coaster is to buy one, particularly if it sits in a theme park
in Spain.
Three out of four sentences in each of the paragraphs given below,
when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence
does not fit into the context?
10.
a)
Feathered dinosaurs did not go away just because they had spun off the
birds, though.
b)
And well before that, in a part of the Cretaceous called the Aptian,
120 million years ago, the whole thing happened again, in the form of
Microraptor.
c)
They persisted right up until the end of the Cretaceous period, 65
million years ago, when all non-avian dinosaurs met their ends.
d)
It is tempting to think of evolution as a process of continuous
stately progress towards better designed organisms but it is full of
blind alleys – as a fossil called Microraptor shows.
Three out of four sentences in each of the paragraphs given below,
when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence
does not fit into the context?
11.
a)
Indeed, digital technologies may prove to be more ephemeral than their
predecessors.
b)
Surely, though, the more modest goal of the carbon-paperless office is
within the reach of mankind?
c)
The "paperless office" has earned a proud place on lists of
technological promises that did not come to pass.
d)
Carbon paper allows two copies of a document to be made at once but
nowadays, a couple of keystrokes can do the same thing without a lot
of fuss.
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it.
The term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory
input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and
used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in
the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations.
Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is
involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every
psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. But although
cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than
some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view.
Other viewpoints are equally legitimate and necessary. Dynamic
psychology, which begins with motives rather than with sensory input,
is a case in point. Instead of asking how a man's actions and
experiences result from what he saw, remembered, or believed, the
dynamic psychologist asks how they follow from the subject's goals,
needs, or instincts.
The brain is a vital organ which plays a special role in cognition.
From an evolutionary-biological point of view, the function of the
brain is to exert centralized control over the other organs of the
body. The brain acts on the rest of the body either by generating
patterns of muscle activity or by driving secretion of chemicals
called hormones. This centralized control allows rapid and coordinated
responses to changes in the environment. Some basic types of
responsiveness such as reflexes can be mediated by the spinal cord or
peripheral ganglia, but sophisticated purposeful control of behavior
based on complex sensory input requires the information-integrating
capabilities of a centralized brain.
From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in
comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure
that generates the mind. As Hippocrates put it: "Men ought to know
that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and
sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations." The
mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and
thought have been very challenging to understand: despite rapid
scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.
The operations of individual brain cells are now understood in
considerable detail, but the way they cooperate in ensembles of
millions has been very difficult to decipher. The most promising
approaches treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in
mechanism from electronic computers, but similar in the sense that it
acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and
processes it in a variety of ways.
12. All of the following statements can be deduced from the first
paragraph EXCEPT?
(A) Men cannot do anything without cognition.
(B) All psychology is essentially cognitive.
(C) Cognitive psychology encompasses all other forms of psychology.
(D) The processes relating to our senses are covered under the broad
umbrella of cognition.
Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding letters in the
input box given below.
13.Which of the following statements could be considered logically
inconsistent with the information provided in the above passage?
a)
The philosophical point of view contradicts the
evolutionary-biological point of view.
b)
The philosophical point of view complements the
evolutionary-biological point of view.
c)
The best way to understand the functioning of the brain is to treat it
as a computer.
d)
Processing of information and generating responses is one of the
primary functions of the brain.
Few institutions have offered themselves as less promising for the
novelist than the modern office. Work of any kind is a tricky subject
for representation; office work – gray, gnomic, and unknowable – even
more so. Few people love the work they do.
In following much of the left-wing inspired (though often liberal)
social thought of the time, there was a growing fear in many of the
midcentury office novels that the very basis of American character was
being eroded, as the self-directing entrepreneurial spirit was
transmuted into the extroverted soul that sought only to be esteemed
in the eyes of society. Like The Lonely Crowd, The Organization Man,
and White Collar, the office novels of the midcentury told the story
of a new middle-class ethos of suave team-playing, which masked an
obscure panic over dwindling independence.
Some novels took up the problem by blithely showing how it wasn't so
bad after all. Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit has
been taken up in the popular imagination as a warning against the
conformist pressures of corporate life. But its actual narrative
discloses how the corporation is a flexible, caring organization that
responds well to assertions of independent-mindedness. It is perhaps
the closest the novel has ever come to being a variant of management
theory. Every attempt the eponymous "Man" makes to buck the system
rewards him: when Tom Rath refuses to take a personality test for his
job application, he gets hired; when he refuses to praise a draft
speech by his boss, he gets promoted; when he refuses a final
promotion that would make him deputy to his boss, he earns the respect
of his boss and gets more hours to spend with his family. This
medium-sized ambition threatens to diminish his (still sizable)
salary, but at the end of the novel, Rath's fortune is assured when he
manages to convince a judge to convert his grandmother's suburban
property into subdivisions, which he proceeds to sell for a tremendous
sum. In the flurry of dei ex machina at the novel's end, the notion
that any serious antagonism could exist between the individual free
spirit and the corporation is extinguished. In the end, Rath retains
his independence; in fact, it is through successfully managing his
relationship with the corporation that he earns it.
But many other midcentury novels depict a different narrative. Richard
Yates's Revolutionary Road, for example, arrives at a less happy
conclusion: corporate life can't be escaped. Assuming right from the
start that its protagonist, Frank Wheeler, is doomed to pursue an
empty and wasteful path, seeking consolations from the corporation
that he despises rather than pursuing a riskier, artistic life in
Paris (itself registered by Yates as a supreme cliché), Yates instead
intimates that one's independence can only come from writing, from
Yates's own justly famous lyricism taught in writing programs and
emulated by writers everywhere and which he contrasts with cynical
corporate plainspeak. In one passage, Yates reproduces the act of
speaking into a Dictaphone, including the directed punctuation marks,
as if to emphasize the sheer artificiality of the unadorned tone of
marketing:
After putting a new belt in the Dictaphone machine, he said, "Copy for
Veritype. Heading: Speaking of Production control, dot, dot, dot.
Paragraph. Production control is, comma, after all, comma, nothing
more or less than the job of putting the right materials in the right
place at the right time, comma, according to a varying schedule.
Period, paragraph. This is simple arithmetic, period. Given all the
variables, comma, a man can do it with a pencil and paper, period. But
the Knox '500' Electronic Computer can do it – dash – literally – dash
– thousands of times faster, period."
16. The objective of the author while writing the above passage was
most likely to
a)
explore the lost freedom in white-collar novels and expound new
mediums of office communication.
b)
counter the notion that any serious antagonism could exist between the
individual free spirit and the corporation.
c)
unmask a latent fear of dwindling independence in corporate life.
d)
denigrate small-minded, self-satisfied midcentury corporate life.
17. The author's arguments suggest all of the following conclusions EXCEPT?
a)
It's really difficult escaping from office work and one's family life
can be ruined by overwork.
b)
The American individual had lost some degree of agency in the workplace.
c)
Corporate jargon does not set limits on the literary imagination.
d)
The eponymous "Man" in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit successfully
manages his relationship with the corporation.
18. Which of the following does the author not disapprove of?
(A) The evolving middle-class ethos of suave team-playing and the
general lust for conformity all over America.
(B) The literary effort that would redeem white-collar life from its emptiness.
(C) The desperate clinging to safety and security at any price.
(D) Identifying with a mundane job and being left a hollow shell.
Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding letters in the
input box given below. You must enter your answer in alphabetical
order only. For example, if you think (A) and (B) apply, then enter AB
(but not BA) in the input box.
19. The literary works mentioned in the passage were most likely
written during the
a)
1850s.
b)
1920s.
c)
1950s.
d)
1980s.
28.The tendency toward extreme, negative, unhealthy competition has
been termed hypercompetitiveness. This concept originated in Karen
Horney's theories on neurosis; specifically, the highly aggressive
personality type which is characterized as "moving against people". In
her view, some people have a need to compete and win at all costs as a
means of maintaining their self-worth. These individuals are likely to
turn any activity into a competition, and they will feel threatened if
they find themselves losing. Researchers have found that men and women
who score high on the trait of hypercompetitiveness are more
narcissistic and less psychologically healthy than those who score low
on the trait. Hypercompetitive individuals generally believe, to the
detriment of their future performance, that "winning isn't everything;
it's the only thing".
Which of the following contradicts the ideas expressed in the paragraph?
a)
As one ascends the evolutionary hierarchy, competitiveness (the
survival instinct) becomes less innate, and more a learned behaviour.
b)
Typically, individuals who are hypercompetitive and those who are
completely averse to any sort of competition form just a small
percentage of a representative populace.
c)
Hypercompetitive individuals tend to provide extremely tough
challenges to those they seek to challenge and hence make great
sportspersons.
d)
Hypercompetiveness is not as much as a negative trait as it is
portrayed. In fact, a strong desire to compete can cause a
considerable improvement in an individual's performance in a short
time period.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
29.Environmental protection should not be the prime consideration
while allowing for the expansion and diversification of industry. Any
modern human activity, irrespective of whether it uses paper or
chemicals, nuclear power or electronics chips, is bound to and always
does end up degrading the environment. Therefore in the future world,
one must look at ways to combating environmental change, rather than
preventing it. One must, impliedly, look at ways to exist and prosper
in a world with no trees, little oxygen and little animal life. This
may sound ghastly, but it is the only feasible way out. And the human
being, with his infinite intelligence and an unparalleled inherent
skill-set, along with the fact that many of the Universe's secrets
remain unrevealed to him, is equipped to deal efficiently with this
situation. We just need to shed the excessively magnanimous and
so-called humanistic approach to the world around us.
a)
Environmental degradation and human progress go hand in hand.
b)
Jeopardising natural balance for the sake of human development may
seem suicidal in the short run, but it can be overcome in the long
run.
c)
Man should not focus too much on the inevitable effects of
environmental degradation and should let go of the cloak of humanism.
He should look at ways to efficiently improve his future since
irreversible natural changes are bound to occur.
d)
Just like numerous changes have occurred on the Earth's surface since
time immemorial without wiping out life, so will the environmental
changes leave human existence unaffected. Therefore one must concern
oneself only with the future and not look at the past or present.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
31."Our thinking about growth and decay is dominated by the image of a
single life-span, animal or vegetable: seedling, full flower, and
death. "The flower that once has bloomed forever dies". But for an
ever-renewing society, the appropriate image is a total garden, a
balanced aquarium or other ecological system. Some things are being
born, other things are flourishing, still other things are dying --
but the system lives on. Only an exceptional organization manages to
sustain growth when its core business matures. Businesses like the
metaphorical garden are born, flourish and wither. But the fact that a
company's business blossoms and then fades does not mean that the
company must die. Successful companies can and must outlive their
individual businesses.
a)
Companies need to be nurtured like gardens. Else, they, like flowers,
wither and die. Successful companies are those that have businesses
that go on forever, unlike the flowers, which bloom once and then die
forever.
b)
An individual life is subject to eventual termination but a life
system lives on. Similarly, a successful company should outlive
individual businesses by constantly reinventing itself.
c)
A society whose maturing consists simply of acquiring more firmly
established ways of doing things is headed for the graveyard – even if
it learns to do these things with greater and greater skill. In the
ever-renewing society what matures is a system or framework within
which continuous innovation, renewal and rebirth can occur.
d)
We need to change our thinking regarding growth and decay; only then
will we be able to create sustainable systems. A company should
recruit managers who can help the company to sustain growth when its
main business flourishes.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question given below it.
32.Utopia will be impossible if we hold on to our traditional vision
of perfection. In accord with this antiquated vision, Utopia in the
past has generally been conceived as an isolated commune carved out
within an otherwise imperfect world. Assets are held communally so
that members are all economically equal. While members work, the
communal culture is antibusiness. There is no hierarchy, and
consequently, no one is ever fired or excommunicated. The rules are so
effective that the society is not only stable but unchanging. Although
these rules may be considered to be divinely inspired, once in place,
there is no longer any role for God to play, any need for further
divine intervention. There are no surprises and people need not
struggle with each other towards a better future. Civility has been
legislated; hence, it is not an ongoing process but an effortless,
painless static state.
According to the paragraph, which of the following statements is not
descriptive of Utopia?
a)
There are no religious or class barriers in Utopia and there is no
movement in society. Utopia is a state arrived at and not a state of
becoming.
b)
Everything functions like clockwork and there is no need for a divine saviour.
c)
There is no competition and vying for the bigger slice of the cake.
d)
People of Utopia believe in dynamism and progress and constantly
strive for perfection.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
33.Science apart, the major division in Western thought today, which
affects philosophy, literature, religion, architecture, even history,
is between the post-modernists who are happy with the fragmented
disparate, 'carnival' of culture and those traditionalists who
genuinely feel this sells us short, that this approach involves an
ethical betrayal, avoids judging what is better and what is less good
in human achievement, and, in so doing, hinders people in raising
their game. Postmodernism and relativism are still in the ascendant,
but for how much longer? While the cultures of Africa, Bali and other
third world countries have been recovered, to an extent, and given a
much needed boost, none has so far found the widespread resonance that
the classical civilizations of the Middle East once enjoyed. No one
doubts that jewels of art, learning and science have occured in all
places and at all times, and the identification and extension of this
wide range has been a major achievement of twentieth century
scholarship.
a)
Science is the cause of a major schism in Western thought as it is
supplementing literature, religion, architecture and even history.
Post modernists and traditionalists are divided on the impact of
science on culture.
b)
The revival of the cultures of various third world countries has given
a new lease of life to the traditionalists who were losing out to the
post-modernists.
c)
While postmodernism is on the rise and has favoured the revival of
fragmented, disparate cultures; major achievements in art and science
have occured at all times, especially in classical civilizations.
d)
The culture today is fragmented unlike the culture of yesteryear and
old civilizations. The older cultures were far-reaching and richer.
But post-modernism and relativism are the cultures most likely to
survive in the coming years.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question given below it.
34.R. Spitz has found that infants deprived of handling over a long
period will tend at length to sink into an irreversible decline and
are prone to succumb eventually to disease. In effect, this means that
what he calls emotional deprivation can have a fatal outcome. These
observations give rise to the idea of 'stimulus hunger' and indicate
that the most favoured forms of stimuli are those provided by physical
intimacy, a conclusion not hard to accept on the basis of everyday
experience. An allied phenomenon is seen in grownups subjected to
sensory deprivation – in the past, social and sensory deprivation is
noted to have produced temporary mental disturbances in individuals
condemned to long periods of solitary imprisonment.
Which of the following choices can be inferred from the paragraph?
a)
Stimulus hunger definitely leads to death; only infants deprived of
physical intimacy are affected adversely.
b)
Handling of infants, and its symbolic equivalent in grown-ups, social
interaction, have a survival value.
c)
Physical intimacy may be an intrinsic necessity for the mental and
physical health of humans and in everyday social interaction, some
form of physical intimacy exists.
d)
Solitary confinement may turn a person into a lunatic.
(a) Arrogance breeds mistakes: look at all the empire-building bosses
who attempt ambitious mergers despite ample evidence that such mergers
usually fail.
(b) Abraham Lincoln observed that nearly all men can stand adversity
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
(c) Clever businesspeople have a tendency to be arrogant at the best
of the times; telling them that they are masters of the universe can
only magnify it.
(d) If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility; a
humble boss understands that there are things he doesn't know and he
listens to other bigwigs as well as his customers.
(e) Similar temptations afflict those who are given the title of
"young global leader."
(f) But there is still a flaw with the very notion of global leadership.
a)
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b)
dfcabe
c)
fcabed
d)
fbecad
5
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage, including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency, and
enter the letters corresponding to the sentence(s) or fragments of
sentence(s) in the input box provided below the question. You must
enter your answer in alphabetical order only. For example, if you
think that statements (D) and (E) are correct, then enter DE (but not
ED)
6. (A) Flies live short lives than elephants.
(B) That there is no doubt.
(C) But from a fly's point of view, does it's life actually seem that
much shorter?
(D) This in essence was the question asked by Kevin Healy of Trinity
College, Dublin, in a paper just published in the reputed journal
"Animal Behaviour".
(E) His answer is, possibly not.
6
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage, including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency, and
enter the letters corresponding to the sentence(s) or fragments of
sentence(s) in the input box provided below the question. You must
enter your answer in alphabetical order only. For example, if you
think that statements (D) and (E) are correct, then enter DE (but not
ED) in the input box.
6.(A) Flies live short lives than elephants.
(B) That there is no doubt.
(C) But from a fly's point of view, does it's life actually seem that
much shorter?
(D) This in essence was the question asked by Kevin Healy of Trinity
College, Dublin, in a paper just published in the reputed journal
"Animal Behaviour".
(E) His answer is, possibly not.
7
In each of the following questions, there are sentences or fragments
of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
fragments of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and
usage, including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency, and
enter the letters corresponding to the sentence(s) or fragments of
sentence(s) in the input box provided below the question. You must
enter your answer in alphabetical order only. For example, if you
think that statements (D) and (E) are correct, then enter DE (but not
ED) in the input box.
7.(A) Of all the great novelists, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has less
interest in the real world.
(B) Unencumbered with gravitas, he describes a Britain that never
existed, one where there was no violence
(C) or death, except in passing and the tumultous history of the early
20th century gets barely a look-in.
(D) The gravest threat is being forced to marry someone you don't like.
(E) His style walks a tightrope on patchwork and perfection.
Three out of four sentences in each of the paragraphs given below,
when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence
does not fit into the context?
8.
a)
A stream of headlines about bail-outs, teetering banks and high
unemployment has repelled investors from Europe's struggling
periphery.
b)
Investindustrial's approach had been to not tar the whole of southern
Europe with the same brush.
c)
That did not stop Investindustrial, a private-equity group with a
focus on Spain and Italy, from this week buying the 50% stake it did
not already own in PortAventura, an amusement park near Barcelona and
it is now looking for other investments there.
d)
Perhaps the only thing more spine-tingling than riding a
roller-coaster is to buy one, particularly if it sits in a theme park
in Spain.
Three out of four sentences in each of the paragraphs given below,
when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence
does not fit into the context?
10.
a)
Feathered dinosaurs did not go away just because they had spun off the
birds, though.
b)
And well before that, in a part of the Cretaceous called the Aptian,
120 million years ago, the whole thing happened again, in the form of
Microraptor.
c)
They persisted right up until the end of the Cretaceous period, 65
million years ago, when all non-avian dinosaurs met their ends.
d)
It is tempting to think of evolution as a process of continuous
stately progress towards better designed organisms but it is full of
blind alleys – as a fossil called Microraptor shows.
Three out of four sentences in each of the paragraphs given below,
when correctly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Which sentence
does not fit into the context?
11.
a)
Indeed, digital technologies may prove to be more ephemeral than their
predecessors.
b)
Surely, though, the more modest goal of the carbon-paperless office is
within the reach of mankind?
c)
The "paperless office" has earned a proud place on lists of
technological promises that did not come to pass.
d)
Carbon paper allows two copies of a document to be made at once but
nowadays, a couple of keystrokes can do the same thing without a lot
of fuss.
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it.
The term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory
input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and
used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in
the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations.
Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is
involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every
psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. But although
cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than
some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view.
Other viewpoints are equally legitimate and necessary. Dynamic
psychology, which begins with motives rather than with sensory input,
is a case in point. Instead of asking how a man's actions and
experiences result from what he saw, remembered, or believed, the
dynamic psychologist asks how they follow from the subject's goals,
needs, or instincts.
The brain is a vital organ which plays a special role in cognition.
From an evolutionary-biological point of view, the function of the
brain is to exert centralized control over the other organs of the
body. The brain acts on the rest of the body either by generating
patterns of muscle activity or by driving secretion of chemicals
called hormones. This centralized control allows rapid and coordinated
responses to changes in the environment. Some basic types of
responsiveness such as reflexes can be mediated by the spinal cord or
peripheral ganglia, but sophisticated purposeful control of behavior
based on complex sensory input requires the information-integrating
capabilities of a centralized brain.
From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in
comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure
that generates the mind. As Hippocrates put it: "Men ought to know
that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and
sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations." The
mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and
thought have been very challenging to understand: despite rapid
scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.
The operations of individual brain cells are now understood in
considerable detail, but the way they cooperate in ensembles of
millions has been very difficult to decipher. The most promising
approaches treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in
mechanism from electronic computers, but similar in the sense that it
acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and
processes it in a variety of ways.
12. All of the following statements can be deduced from the first
paragraph EXCEPT?
(A) Men cannot do anything without cognition.
(B) All psychology is essentially cognitive.
(C) Cognitive psychology encompasses all other forms of psychology.
(D) The processes relating to our senses are covered under the broad
umbrella of cognition.
Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding letters in the
input box given below.
13.Which of the following statements could be considered logically
inconsistent with the information provided in the above passage?
a)
The philosophical point of view contradicts the
evolutionary-biological point of view.
b)
The philosophical point of view complements the
evolutionary-biological point of view.
c)
The best way to understand the functioning of the brain is to treat it
as a computer.
d)
Processing of information and generating responses is one of the
primary functions of the brain.
Few institutions have offered themselves as less promising for the
novelist than the modern office. Work of any kind is a tricky subject
for representation; office work – gray, gnomic, and unknowable – even
more so. Few people love the work they do.
In following much of the left-wing inspired (though often liberal)
social thought of the time, there was a growing fear in many of the
midcentury office novels that the very basis of American character was
being eroded, as the self-directing entrepreneurial spirit was
transmuted into the extroverted soul that sought only to be esteemed
in the eyes of society. Like The Lonely Crowd, The Organization Man,
and White Collar, the office novels of the midcentury told the story
of a new middle-class ethos of suave team-playing, which masked an
obscure panic over dwindling independence.
Some novels took up the problem by blithely showing how it wasn't so
bad after all. Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit has
been taken up in the popular imagination as a warning against the
conformist pressures of corporate life. But its actual narrative
discloses how the corporation is a flexible, caring organization that
responds well to assertions of independent-mindedness. It is perhaps
the closest the novel has ever come to being a variant of management
theory. Every attempt the eponymous "Man" makes to buck the system
rewards him: when Tom Rath refuses to take a personality test for his
job application, he gets hired; when he refuses to praise a draft
speech by his boss, he gets promoted; when he refuses a final
promotion that would make him deputy to his boss, he earns the respect
of his boss and gets more hours to spend with his family. This
medium-sized ambition threatens to diminish his (still sizable)
salary, but at the end of the novel, Rath's fortune is assured when he
manages to convince a judge to convert his grandmother's suburban
property into subdivisions, which he proceeds to sell for a tremendous
sum. In the flurry of dei ex machina at the novel's end, the notion
that any serious antagonism could exist between the individual free
spirit and the corporation is extinguished. In the end, Rath retains
his independence; in fact, it is through successfully managing his
relationship with the corporation that he earns it.
But many other midcentury novels depict a different narrative. Richard
Yates's Revolutionary Road, for example, arrives at a less happy
conclusion: corporate life can't be escaped. Assuming right from the
start that its protagonist, Frank Wheeler, is doomed to pursue an
empty and wasteful path, seeking consolations from the corporation
that he despises rather than pursuing a riskier, artistic life in
Paris (itself registered by Yates as a supreme cliché), Yates instead
intimates that one's independence can only come from writing, from
Yates's own justly famous lyricism taught in writing programs and
emulated by writers everywhere and which he contrasts with cynical
corporate plainspeak. In one passage, Yates reproduces the act of
speaking into a Dictaphone, including the directed punctuation marks,
as if to emphasize the sheer artificiality of the unadorned tone of
marketing:
After putting a new belt in the Dictaphone machine, he said, "Copy for
Veritype. Heading: Speaking of Production control, dot, dot, dot.
Paragraph. Production control is, comma, after all, comma, nothing
more or less than the job of putting the right materials in the right
place at the right time, comma, according to a varying schedule.
Period, paragraph. This is simple arithmetic, period. Given all the
variables, comma, a man can do it with a pencil and paper, period. But
the Knox '500' Electronic Computer can do it – dash – literally – dash
– thousands of times faster, period."
16. The objective of the author while writing the above passage was
most likely to
a)
explore the lost freedom in white-collar novels and expound new
mediums of office communication.
b)
counter the notion that any serious antagonism could exist between the
individual free spirit and the corporation.
c)
unmask a latent fear of dwindling independence in corporate life.
d)
denigrate small-minded, self-satisfied midcentury corporate life.
17. The author's arguments suggest all of the following conclusions EXCEPT?
a)
It's really difficult escaping from office work and one's family life
can be ruined by overwork.
b)
The American individual had lost some degree of agency in the workplace.
c)
Corporate jargon does not set limits on the literary imagination.
d)
The eponymous "Man" in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit successfully
manages his relationship with the corporation.
18. Which of the following does the author not disapprove of?
(A) The evolving middle-class ethos of suave team-playing and the
general lust for conformity all over America.
(B) The literary effort that would redeem white-collar life from its emptiness.
(C) The desperate clinging to safety and security at any price.
(D) Identifying with a mundane job and being left a hollow shell.
Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding letters in the
input box given below. You must enter your answer in alphabetical
order only. For example, if you think (A) and (B) apply, then enter AB
(but not BA) in the input box.
19. The literary works mentioned in the passage were most likely
written during the
a)
1850s.
b)
1920s.
c)
1950s.
d)
1980s.
28.The tendency toward extreme, negative, unhealthy competition has
been termed hypercompetitiveness. This concept originated in Karen
Horney's theories on neurosis; specifically, the highly aggressive
personality type which is characterized as "moving against people". In
her view, some people have a need to compete and win at all costs as a
means of maintaining their self-worth. These individuals are likely to
turn any activity into a competition, and they will feel threatened if
they find themselves losing. Researchers have found that men and women
who score high on the trait of hypercompetitiveness are more
narcissistic and less psychologically healthy than those who score low
on the trait. Hypercompetitive individuals generally believe, to the
detriment of their future performance, that "winning isn't everything;
it's the only thing".
Which of the following contradicts the ideas expressed in the paragraph?
a)
As one ascends the evolutionary hierarchy, competitiveness (the
survival instinct) becomes less innate, and more a learned behaviour.
b)
Typically, individuals who are hypercompetitive and those who are
completely averse to any sort of competition form just a small
percentage of a representative populace.
c)
Hypercompetitive individuals tend to provide extremely tough
challenges to those they seek to challenge and hence make great
sportspersons.
d)
Hypercompetiveness is not as much as a negative trait as it is
portrayed. In fact, a strong desire to compete can cause a
considerable improvement in an individual's performance in a short
time period.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
29.Environmental protection should not be the prime consideration
while allowing for the expansion and diversification of industry. Any
modern human activity, irrespective of whether it uses paper or
chemicals, nuclear power or electronics chips, is bound to and always
does end up degrading the environment. Therefore in the future world,
one must look at ways to combating environmental change, rather than
preventing it. One must, impliedly, look at ways to exist and prosper
in a world with no trees, little oxygen and little animal life. This
may sound ghastly, but it is the only feasible way out. And the human
being, with his infinite intelligence and an unparalleled inherent
skill-set, along with the fact that many of the Universe's secrets
remain unrevealed to him, is equipped to deal efficiently with this
situation. We just need to shed the excessively magnanimous and
so-called humanistic approach to the world around us.
a)
Environmental degradation and human progress go hand in hand.
b)
Jeopardising natural balance for the sake of human development may
seem suicidal in the short run, but it can be overcome in the long
run.
c)
Man should not focus too much on the inevitable effects of
environmental degradation and should let go of the cloak of humanism.
He should look at ways to efficiently improve his future since
irreversible natural changes are bound to occur.
d)
Just like numerous changes have occurred on the Earth's surface since
time immemorial without wiping out life, so will the environmental
changes leave human existence unaffected. Therefore one must concern
oneself only with the future and not look at the past or present.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
31."Our thinking about growth and decay is dominated by the image of a
single life-span, animal or vegetable: seedling, full flower, and
death. "The flower that once has bloomed forever dies". But for an
ever-renewing society, the appropriate image is a total garden, a
balanced aquarium or other ecological system. Some things are being
born, other things are flourishing, still other things are dying --
but the system lives on. Only an exceptional organization manages to
sustain growth when its core business matures. Businesses like the
metaphorical garden are born, flourish and wither. But the fact that a
company's business blossoms and then fades does not mean that the
company must die. Successful companies can and must outlive their
individual businesses.
a)
Companies need to be nurtured like gardens. Else, they, like flowers,
wither and die. Successful companies are those that have businesses
that go on forever, unlike the flowers, which bloom once and then die
forever.
b)
An individual life is subject to eventual termination but a life
system lives on. Similarly, a successful company should outlive
individual businesses by constantly reinventing itself.
c)
A society whose maturing consists simply of acquiring more firmly
established ways of doing things is headed for the graveyard – even if
it learns to do these things with greater and greater skill. In the
ever-renewing society what matures is a system or framework within
which continuous innovation, renewal and rebirth can occur.
d)
We need to change our thinking regarding growth and decay; only then
will we be able to create sustainable systems. A company should
recruit managers who can help the company to sustain growth when its
main business flourishes.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question given below it.
32.Utopia will be impossible if we hold on to our traditional vision
of perfection. In accord with this antiquated vision, Utopia in the
past has generally been conceived as an isolated commune carved out
within an otherwise imperfect world. Assets are held communally so
that members are all economically equal. While members work, the
communal culture is antibusiness. There is no hierarchy, and
consequently, no one is ever fired or excommunicated. The rules are so
effective that the society is not only stable but unchanging. Although
these rules may be considered to be divinely inspired, once in place,
there is no longer any role for God to play, any need for further
divine intervention. There are no surprises and people need not
struggle with each other towards a better future. Civility has been
legislated; hence, it is not an ongoing process but an effortless,
painless static state.
According to the paragraph, which of the following statements is not
descriptive of Utopia?
a)
There are no religious or class barriers in Utopia and there is no
movement in society. Utopia is a state arrived at and not a state of
becoming.
b)
Everything functions like clockwork and there is no need for a divine saviour.
c)
There is no competition and vying for the bigger slice of the cake.
d)
People of Utopia believe in dynamism and progress and constantly
strive for perfection.
Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Which of the
options best captures the essence of the text?
33.Science apart, the major division in Western thought today, which
affects philosophy, literature, religion, architecture, even history,
is between the post-modernists who are happy with the fragmented
disparate, 'carnival' of culture and those traditionalists who
genuinely feel this sells us short, that this approach involves an
ethical betrayal, avoids judging what is better and what is less good
in human achievement, and, in so doing, hinders people in raising
their game. Postmodernism and relativism are still in the ascendant,
but for how much longer? While the cultures of Africa, Bali and other
third world countries have been recovered, to an extent, and given a
much needed boost, none has so far found the widespread resonance that
the classical civilizations of the Middle East once enjoyed. No one
doubts that jewels of art, learning and science have occured in all
places and at all times, and the identification and extension of this
wide range has been a major achievement of twentieth century
scholarship.
a)
Science is the cause of a major schism in Western thought as it is
supplementing literature, religion, architecture and even history.
Post modernists and traditionalists are divided on the impact of
science on culture.
b)
The revival of the cultures of various third world countries has given
a new lease of life to the traditionalists who were losing out to the
post-modernists.
c)
While postmodernism is on the rise and has favoured the revival of
fragmented, disparate cultures; major achievements in art and science
have occured at all times, especially in classical civilizations.
d)
The culture today is fragmented unlike the culture of yesteryear and
old civilizations. The older cultures were far-reaching and richer.
But post-modernism and relativism are the cultures most likely to
survive in the coming years.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question given below it.
34.R. Spitz has found that infants deprived of handling over a long
period will tend at length to sink into an irreversible decline and
are prone to succumb eventually to disease. In effect, this means that
what he calls emotional deprivation can have a fatal outcome. These
observations give rise to the idea of 'stimulus hunger' and indicate
that the most favoured forms of stimuli are those provided by physical
intimacy, a conclusion not hard to accept on the basis of everyday
experience. An allied phenomenon is seen in grownups subjected to
sensory deprivation – in the past, social and sensory deprivation is
noted to have produced temporary mental disturbances in individuals
condemned to long periods of solitary imprisonment.
Which of the following choices can be inferred from the paragraph?
a)
Stimulus hunger definitely leads to death; only infants deprived of
physical intimacy are affected adversely.
b)
Handling of infants, and its symbolic equivalent in grown-ups, social
interaction, have a survival value.
c)
Physical intimacy may be an intrinsic necessity for the mental and
physical health of humans and in everyday social interaction, some
form of physical intimacy exists.
d)
Solitary confinement may turn a person into a lunatic.
Saturday, 13 February 2016
TANSEN TEST
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the
most appropriate answer to each question.
We should appreciate natural language and the messy qualities that
give it so much flexibility and power, and that make it so much more
than a simple communication device. Its ambiguity and lack of
precision allow it to serve as an instrument of thought formulation,
of
experimentation and discovery. We don't have to know exactly what we
mean before we speak; we can figure it out as we go along. Or
not. We can talk just to talk, to be social, to feel connected, to
participate. At the same time natural language still works as an
instrument
of thought transmission, one that can be made extremely precise and
reliable when we need it to be, or left loose and sloppy when we
can't spare the time or effort.
When it is important that misunderstandings be avoided, we have access
to something that artificial language inventors have typically
disregarded or even disdained: 'mere' conventional agreement, a shared
culture in which definitions have been established by habit. It is
convention that allows us to approach a high level of precision in
academic and scientific papers or legal documents. Of course, to
benefit
from the precision, you must be 'in on' the conventional agreements on
which those modes of communication depend. That's why when
specialists want to communicate with a general or lay audience – those
who don't know the conventions – they have to rely on techniques
such as slowing down, answering questions, explaining terms,
illustrating with examples. Convention is a faster, more efficient
instrument
of meaning transmission, as long as you take the trouble to learn the
conventions.
When inventors of artificial languages try to bypass convention – to
make a language that is 'self-explanatory' or 'universal' – they
either
make a less efficient communication tool, or take away too much
flexibility by over-determining meaning. When they try to take away
culture, the place where linguistic conventions are made, they have to
substitute something else – like thousands of grammar rules.
There are types of communication, such as the 'language' of music,
that may allow us to access some kind of universal meaning or
emotion, but give us no way to say, 'I left my purse in the car.'
There are unambiguous systems, such as computer programming
languages, that allow us to instruct a machine to perform a certain
task, but we must be so explicit about meanings we can normally trust
to inference or common sense that it can take hours or days of
programming work to achieve even the simplest results. Natural
languages
may be less universal than music and less precise than programming
languages, but they are far more versatile, and useful in our
everyday lives, than either.
Ambiguity, or fuzziness of meaning, is not a flaw of natural language
but a feature that gives it flexibility and that, for whatever reason,
suits our minds and the way we think. Likewise, the fact that
languages depend on arbitrary convention or cultural habit is not a
flaw but a
feature that allows us to rein in the fuzziness by establishing
agreed-upon meanings at different levels of precision. Language needs
its
'flaws' in order to do the enormous range of things we use it for.
1
Choose the combinations that correctly match the type of language with
one of its features.
i] The language of music – universal
ii] Artificial language – thousands of grammar rules
iii] Computer programming languages – based on common sense
1) [i] and [ii]
2) [i] and [iii]
3) [ii] and [iii]
4) [i], [ii] and [iii]
2
According to the passage, the inventors of artificial languages would
agree with which of the following statements?
1) Culture is vital as a basis for language.
2) It is important for language not to be universally understood.
3) Conventional agreement is useful as it allows a high degree of
precision in language.
4) None of the above
3
Choose a suitable title for this passage.
1) Natural vs. Artificial Language
2) Conventions in Natural Language
3) The Requisite Flaws of Natural Language
4) Ambiguity and Convention: Flaws or Features?
The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose
the most appropriate answer to each question.
Science and a painter's vision agree: the human eye must reinvent
reality for itself every single moment. But what reality?
Early on, Monet alternated between city parks and streets. Before
long, in collaborations with Pierre-Auguste Renoir that forged a new
style, he painted weekend getaways. Later, with more time, fame, and
cash, he became the perfect tourist, traveling up the Seine and to
London. Eventually he just bought and lavishly transformed whatever
land he wished to paint.
One can easily identify Monet with the middle class on holiday, just
as a century before flower painting graced another leisure class, the
aristocracy. At best, like Manet, he may force viewers' attention on
their own guilty pleasures. At worst, he may succumb to them.
I think that either concern is correct-but largely beside the point.
Monet does focus art on pleasure, but distinct from the pleasures of
everyday life. He neither glorifies nor assaults the property owner;
he sets himself apart. When he paints an urban train station, a cloud
of smoke hides equally the power of the engine and the fatigue of the
commuter or crew. His indifference and his immersion in modernity
assert the artist's independence, even superiority.
One of my favorite early works shows men unloading a ship. Lean,
graceful silhouettes, poised at intervals on thin black ramps, appear
to move back and forth in a steady rhythm. Faced with the same scene,
a wealthy tourist might have tuned them out entirely. A more overt
social critic could actually have missed the dark, poignant beauty of
their endless labor. Monet is interested in the preconditions of any
critical perception.
Ordinary consumers hardly ever put in an appearance in Monet's
paintings. Except for the infamous tongue lickings, his increasingly
rare human subjects are his motley friends. The Art Institute reunites
the surviving fragments of an early Luncheon on the Grass. Like a more
aggressive rendition by Manet, this one takes on Titian. In place of
the mythical figures of the Renaissance, Monet stuck the Impressionist
circle. He makes the artist an emblem of modern life.
The avant-garde was not about criticism so much as abstention. The
Salon des Refusés, the exhibition that launched it all, was a refusal
on both sides. The artist stood apart from society, sharing some of
its values, violating others, searching for the origins of all values.
Such idealism makes less and less sense for Postmodernism, but it was
a judgment to be feared.
Monet combined self-assertion, generalization, and escapism. In the
process, he defined a new, powerful avant-garde. In this full career
retrospective, we can see it emerge step by step. The very first room
documents the discovery of the Impressionist brushstroke.
Four rooms later comes the turn from single scenes to the
underpinnings of human vision. Black paint and people all but vanish,
while even subject matter loses its uniqueness. A station or a rock
face must be seen in a series, for all different weathers and times of
day. Monet abandons the pretense of taking it all in within an
instant. He begins a dozen canvases at once, returning to each one
when the light strikes.
Finally, the act of observation subsumes even the observer. Water and
sky extend to the painting's edge. Accuracy of vision remains, but a
viewer has nowhere at all to stand. A cryptic, incomplete horizon
keeps one from interpreting the scene apart from the seeing. Now too,
Monet owns all the property he paints.
4
Through this passage, the author attempts to do which of the following?
a The author attempts to show that Monet evokes a world of color
from themes that never before existed within it.
b The author attempts to show Monet's development, increasingly
isolated from the avant-garde he helped so to create.
c The author attempts to show that in Monet, for the first time, the
artist became independent of worldly forms.
d The author attempts to show that Monet did copy appearances, but he
transformed both copying and seeing into a creative act.
5
According to the author, which of the following describes an activity
that Monet indulged in?
a Of being an avid traveler
b Of transcribing what one sees
c Of being only in the company of one's friends
d Of doing whatever one wishes to do
6
The author would agree with which of the following?
a Monet's each painting offers a new technical challenge,
startlingly overcome.
b Good art should stress the conjunction of visual imagining with the
artist's original vision.
c Monet elevated subject and canvas together above everyday things.
d Artistic vision should mean imagining rather than mirroring.
7
The passage has most likely been taken from?
a An article on postmodernist artists
b A review of an art show
c An essay on Monet
d A critical analysis of Monet
8
Three out of four sentences in the options, when correctly sequenced,
form a coherent paragraph. Which of the following sentences does
not fit into the context?
1] Two songs can have the same tempo but feel very different.
2] Songs with fast tempos tend to be regarded as happy, and songs with
slow tempos as sad.
3] Although this is an oversimplification about the complex effect of
music, it holds true in a remarkable range of circumstances and across
many cultures.
4] The tempo of music is a major factor in conveying emotion.
9
In the following question, there are sentences that form a paragraph.
Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct
in
terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and
logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A.It was not so long ago that we got around by using maps that folded.
B.Occasionally, if we wanted a truly global picture of our place in the world,
C.we would have pulled shoulder-dislocating atlases from shelves.
D.The world was bigger back then. Experience and cheaper travel have
rendered it small,
E.but nothing has shrinked the world more than digital mapping.
1) A, B & D
2) A, B & C
3) B, D & E
4) C, D & E
10
Each question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that
completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
The notion that each story has a natural length has long been
championed by writers and ignored by publishers. In traditional
publishing,
certain lengths are commercially viable. If a draft of a book exceeds
these limits, the author will more than likely be asked to cut it. The
flip
side of the coin is worse, where elegantly crafted stories are puffed
up to meet a page count. Good luck getting that perfect 30,000-word
novella published unless you're highly valued by your publisher, and
even then it's difficult.
1) When it comes to traditional publishing, size matters.
2) There is no place for quality short fiction in the cut-throat world
of publication.
3) Fortunately, the ebooks industry is set to remove the burden of
length from writing.
4) Even excellent work finds itself on the chopping block, just
because it runs over a predetermined length
11
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. The task may be harder than she imagines.
B. It is the Marmite of the meat counter - dark, salty and you either
love it or hate it.
C. But black pudding is gaining in popularity, with a little help from
celebrity chefs, manufacturers and even government ministers.
D. I love the stuff, but my children are squeamish eaters and the very
notion of a "blood sausage" brings about their swift exit from the
kitchen.
E. The environment minister, Liz Truss, recently listed the culinary
concoction of blood, salt and rusk among the "must-eat" British foods
that a new generation should be introduced to.
a BCEAD
b CEADB
c EADBC
d ADBCE
12
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. That said, understanding and doing aren't the same thing.
B. "I've a lot of available options as a playwright and that comes
from knowing a lot of plays," he says.
C. Theatre academic and playwright Dan Rebellato believes seeing a
wide range of work opens up one's possibilities.
D. Even seeing the breadth of playwrights' work encourages him to experiment.
E. You can see why a critic, so accustomed to judging, might struggle to start.
a CBADE
b ECDBA
c EBCDA
d CBDAE
13
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. Amani Yahya - billed as Yemen's first female rapper - is still
thousands of miles away.
B. On top of this, her visa to attend the UK festival has been denied.
C. With her homeland on the brink of civil war, Yahya, along with her
family, has had to flee to Saudi Arabia, where the kingdom's strict
rules mean her fledging musical career has come to an abrupt halt.
D. "I was so excited to be coming to the UK," says the 22-year-old,
who started rapping in her bedroom while at high school.
E. It's day three of the Liverpool Arab Arts festival, but one of its
performers hasn't yet been to a single event.
a ACDBE
b EACBD
c EACDB
d ACBDE
14
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. But under the Public Order Act 1986 the home secretary has no power
to ban static demonstrations.
B. The small New Dawn party has planned a protest in Golders Green for 4 July.
C. The Golders Green Together campaign, launched on Monday by the
London Jewish Forum and the anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate,
plans to spark feelings of solidarity in the area.
D. It will take place on a Saturday - the Jewish sabbath - in an area
where about 40% of the population are Jewish.
E. Tessa Jowell, one of the contenders to become Labour's London
mayoral candidate, has asked Theresa May to prevent the march from
going ahead and 11,000 people have signed an online petition to that
effect.
a BDCEA
b BDEAC
c EACBD
d CDBAE
15
Four sentences are given below, labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of
these, three sentences need to be arranged in a logical order to form
a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the one
that does not fit the sequence.
a The victims, crammed into a sealed, coffin-like wooden case,
squawked as they struggled to breathe.
b The hiss of gas, released by a red lever turned by Arie den Hertog
in the back of his white van, signaled the start of the massacre.
c This is the most effective method of goose control.
d Then, after barely two minutes, they fell silent.
most appropriate answer to each question.
We should appreciate natural language and the messy qualities that
give it so much flexibility and power, and that make it so much more
than a simple communication device. Its ambiguity and lack of
precision allow it to serve as an instrument of thought formulation,
of
experimentation and discovery. We don't have to know exactly what we
mean before we speak; we can figure it out as we go along. Or
not. We can talk just to talk, to be social, to feel connected, to
participate. At the same time natural language still works as an
instrument
of thought transmission, one that can be made extremely precise and
reliable when we need it to be, or left loose and sloppy when we
can't spare the time or effort.
When it is important that misunderstandings be avoided, we have access
to something that artificial language inventors have typically
disregarded or even disdained: 'mere' conventional agreement, a shared
culture in which definitions have been established by habit. It is
convention that allows us to approach a high level of precision in
academic and scientific papers or legal documents. Of course, to
benefit
from the precision, you must be 'in on' the conventional agreements on
which those modes of communication depend. That's why when
specialists want to communicate with a general or lay audience – those
who don't know the conventions – they have to rely on techniques
such as slowing down, answering questions, explaining terms,
illustrating with examples. Convention is a faster, more efficient
instrument
of meaning transmission, as long as you take the trouble to learn the
conventions.
When inventors of artificial languages try to bypass convention – to
make a language that is 'self-explanatory' or 'universal' – they
either
make a less efficient communication tool, or take away too much
flexibility by over-determining meaning. When they try to take away
culture, the place where linguistic conventions are made, they have to
substitute something else – like thousands of grammar rules.
There are types of communication, such as the 'language' of music,
that may allow us to access some kind of universal meaning or
emotion, but give us no way to say, 'I left my purse in the car.'
There are unambiguous systems, such as computer programming
languages, that allow us to instruct a machine to perform a certain
task, but we must be so explicit about meanings we can normally trust
to inference or common sense that it can take hours or days of
programming work to achieve even the simplest results. Natural
languages
may be less universal than music and less precise than programming
languages, but they are far more versatile, and useful in our
everyday lives, than either.
Ambiguity, or fuzziness of meaning, is not a flaw of natural language
but a feature that gives it flexibility and that, for whatever reason,
suits our minds and the way we think. Likewise, the fact that
languages depend on arbitrary convention or cultural habit is not a
flaw but a
feature that allows us to rein in the fuzziness by establishing
agreed-upon meanings at different levels of precision. Language needs
its
'flaws' in order to do the enormous range of things we use it for.
1
Choose the combinations that correctly match the type of language with
one of its features.
i] The language of music – universal
ii] Artificial language – thousands of grammar rules
iii] Computer programming languages – based on common sense
1) [i] and [ii]
2) [i] and [iii]
3) [ii] and [iii]
4) [i], [ii] and [iii]
2
According to the passage, the inventors of artificial languages would
agree with which of the following statements?
1) Culture is vital as a basis for language.
2) It is important for language not to be universally understood.
3) Conventional agreement is useful as it allows a high degree of
precision in language.
4) None of the above
3
Choose a suitable title for this passage.
1) Natural vs. Artificial Language
2) Conventions in Natural Language
3) The Requisite Flaws of Natural Language
4) Ambiguity and Convention: Flaws or Features?
The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose
the most appropriate answer to each question.
Science and a painter's vision agree: the human eye must reinvent
reality for itself every single moment. But what reality?
Early on, Monet alternated between city parks and streets. Before
long, in collaborations with Pierre-Auguste Renoir that forged a new
style, he painted weekend getaways. Later, with more time, fame, and
cash, he became the perfect tourist, traveling up the Seine and to
London. Eventually he just bought and lavishly transformed whatever
land he wished to paint.
One can easily identify Monet with the middle class on holiday, just
as a century before flower painting graced another leisure class, the
aristocracy. At best, like Manet, he may force viewers' attention on
their own guilty pleasures. At worst, he may succumb to them.
I think that either concern is correct-but largely beside the point.
Monet does focus art on pleasure, but distinct from the pleasures of
everyday life. He neither glorifies nor assaults the property owner;
he sets himself apart. When he paints an urban train station, a cloud
of smoke hides equally the power of the engine and the fatigue of the
commuter or crew. His indifference and his immersion in modernity
assert the artist's independence, even superiority.
One of my favorite early works shows men unloading a ship. Lean,
graceful silhouettes, poised at intervals on thin black ramps, appear
to move back and forth in a steady rhythm. Faced with the same scene,
a wealthy tourist might have tuned them out entirely. A more overt
social critic could actually have missed the dark, poignant beauty of
their endless labor. Monet is interested in the preconditions of any
critical perception.
Ordinary consumers hardly ever put in an appearance in Monet's
paintings. Except for the infamous tongue lickings, his increasingly
rare human subjects are his motley friends. The Art Institute reunites
the surviving fragments of an early Luncheon on the Grass. Like a more
aggressive rendition by Manet, this one takes on Titian. In place of
the mythical figures of the Renaissance, Monet stuck the Impressionist
circle. He makes the artist an emblem of modern life.
The avant-garde was not about criticism so much as abstention. The
Salon des Refusés, the exhibition that launched it all, was a refusal
on both sides. The artist stood apart from society, sharing some of
its values, violating others, searching for the origins of all values.
Such idealism makes less and less sense for Postmodernism, but it was
a judgment to be feared.
Monet combined self-assertion, generalization, and escapism. In the
process, he defined a new, powerful avant-garde. In this full career
retrospective, we can see it emerge step by step. The very first room
documents the discovery of the Impressionist brushstroke.
Four rooms later comes the turn from single scenes to the
underpinnings of human vision. Black paint and people all but vanish,
while even subject matter loses its uniqueness. A station or a rock
face must be seen in a series, for all different weathers and times of
day. Monet abandons the pretense of taking it all in within an
instant. He begins a dozen canvases at once, returning to each one
when the light strikes.
Finally, the act of observation subsumes even the observer. Water and
sky extend to the painting's edge. Accuracy of vision remains, but a
viewer has nowhere at all to stand. A cryptic, incomplete horizon
keeps one from interpreting the scene apart from the seeing. Now too,
Monet owns all the property he paints.
4
Through this passage, the author attempts to do which of the following?
a The author attempts to show that Monet evokes a world of color
from themes that never before existed within it.
b The author attempts to show Monet's development, increasingly
isolated from the avant-garde he helped so to create.
c The author attempts to show that in Monet, for the first time, the
artist became independent of worldly forms.
d The author attempts to show that Monet did copy appearances, but he
transformed both copying and seeing into a creative act.
5
According to the author, which of the following describes an activity
that Monet indulged in?
a Of being an avid traveler
b Of transcribing what one sees
c Of being only in the company of one's friends
d Of doing whatever one wishes to do
6
The author would agree with which of the following?
a Monet's each painting offers a new technical challenge,
startlingly overcome.
b Good art should stress the conjunction of visual imagining with the
artist's original vision.
c Monet elevated subject and canvas together above everyday things.
d Artistic vision should mean imagining rather than mirroring.
7
The passage has most likely been taken from?
a An article on postmodernist artists
b A review of an art show
c An essay on Monet
d A critical analysis of Monet
8
Three out of four sentences in the options, when correctly sequenced,
form a coherent paragraph. Which of the following sentences does
not fit into the context?
1] Two songs can have the same tempo but feel very different.
2] Songs with fast tempos tend to be regarded as happy, and songs with
slow tempos as sad.
3] Although this is an oversimplification about the complex effect of
music, it holds true in a remarkable range of circumstances and across
many cultures.
4] The tempo of music is a major factor in conveying emotion.
9
In the following question, there are sentences that form a paragraph.
Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct
in
terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and
logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.
A.It was not so long ago that we got around by using maps that folded.
B.Occasionally, if we wanted a truly global picture of our place in the world,
C.we would have pulled shoulder-dislocating atlases from shelves.
D.The world was bigger back then. Experience and cheaper travel have
rendered it small,
E.but nothing has shrinked the world more than digital mapping.
1) A, B & D
2) A, B & C
3) B, D & E
4) C, D & E
10
Each question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been
deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that
completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
The notion that each story has a natural length has long been
championed by writers and ignored by publishers. In traditional
publishing,
certain lengths are commercially viable. If a draft of a book exceeds
these limits, the author will more than likely be asked to cut it. The
flip
side of the coin is worse, where elegantly crafted stories are puffed
up to meet a page count. Good luck getting that perfect 30,000-word
novella published unless you're highly valued by your publisher, and
even then it's difficult.
1) When it comes to traditional publishing, size matters.
2) There is no place for quality short fiction in the cut-throat world
of publication.
3) Fortunately, the ebooks industry is set to remove the burden of
length from writing.
4) Even excellent work finds itself on the chopping block, just
because it runs over a predetermined length
11
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. The task may be harder than she imagines.
B. It is the Marmite of the meat counter - dark, salty and you either
love it or hate it.
C. But black pudding is gaining in popularity, with a little help from
celebrity chefs, manufacturers and even government ministers.
D. I love the stuff, but my children are squeamish eaters and the very
notion of a "blood sausage" brings about their swift exit from the
kitchen.
E. The environment minister, Liz Truss, recently listed the culinary
concoction of blood, salt and rusk among the "must-eat" British foods
that a new generation should be introduced to.
a BCEAD
b CEADB
c EADBC
d ADBCE
12
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. That said, understanding and doing aren't the same thing.
B. "I've a lot of available options as a playwright and that comes
from knowing a lot of plays," he says.
C. Theatre academic and playwright Dan Rebellato believes seeing a
wide range of work opens up one's possibilities.
D. Even seeing the breadth of playwrights' work encourages him to experiment.
E. You can see why a critic, so accustomed to judging, might struggle to start.
a CBADE
b ECDBA
c EBCDA
d CBDAE
13
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. Amani Yahya - billed as Yemen's first female rapper - is still
thousands of miles away.
B. On top of this, her visa to attend the UK festival has been denied.
C. With her homeland on the brink of civil war, Yahya, along with her
family, has had to flee to Saudi Arabia, where the kingdom's strict
rules mean her fledging musical career has come to an abrupt halt.
D. "I was so excited to be coming to the UK," says the 22-year-old,
who started rapping in her bedroom while at high school.
E. It's day three of the Liverpool Arab Arts festival, but one of its
performers hasn't yet been to a single event.
a ACDBE
b EACBD
c EACDB
d ACBDE
14
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to
be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the
given options, choose the most appropriate one.
A. But under the Public Order Act 1986 the home secretary has no power
to ban static demonstrations.
B. The small New Dawn party has planned a protest in Golders Green for 4 July.
C. The Golders Green Together campaign, launched on Monday by the
London Jewish Forum and the anti-fascist organisation Hope Not Hate,
plans to spark feelings of solidarity in the area.
D. It will take place on a Saturday - the Jewish sabbath - in an area
where about 40% of the population are Jewish.
E. Tessa Jowell, one of the contenders to become Labour's London
mayoral candidate, has asked Theresa May to prevent the march from
going ahead and 11,000 people have signed an online petition to that
effect.
a BDCEA
b BDEAC
c EACBD
d CDBAE
15
Four sentences are given below, labelled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of
these, three sentences need to be arranged in a logical order to form
a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the one
that does not fit the sequence.
a The victims, crammed into a sealed, coffin-like wooden case,
squawked as they struggled to breathe.
b The hiss of gas, released by a red lever turned by Arie den Hertog
in the back of his white van, signaled the start of the massacre.
c This is the most effective method of goose control.
d Then, after barely two minutes, they fell silent.
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
TDS QUIZ
1.Busses start from a bus terminal with a speed of 20 km/hr at
intervals of 10 minutes. What is the speed of a man coming from the
opposite direction towards the bus terminal if he meets the buses at
intervals of 8 minutes?
a.3 km/hr
b.4 km/hr
c.5 km/hr
d.7 km/hr
e.None of these
2.The distance between two cities A and B is 330km. A train starts
from A at 8 (a)m. and travels towards B at 60 km/hr. Another train
starts from B at 9 (a)m. and travels towards A at 75 km/hr. At what
time do they meet?
a.10 am.
b.10 : 30 am.
c.11 am.
d.11 : 30 am.
e.None of these
3.Two trains are moving on two parallel tracks but in opposite
directions. A person sitting in the train moving at the speed of 80
km/hr passes the second train in 18 seconds. If the length of the
second train is 1000 m, its speed is?
a.100 km/hr
b.120 km/hr
c.140 km/hr
d.150 km/hr
e.None of these
4.In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than
Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less
than Sameer. Abhay's speed is?
a.5 kmph
b.6 kmph
c.6.25 kmph
d.7.5 kmph
e.None of these
5.It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by
train and the rest by car. It takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done
by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed of the train to
that of the cars is?
a. 2 : 3
b. 3: 2
c. 3 : 4
d. 4 : 3
e. None of these
Answers with Explanation:-
1.(c)
Distance covered in 10 minutes at 20 kmph = distance covered in 8
minutes at (20+x) kmph
20× 10/60=8/60(20+x)
200 = 160 + 8x
8x = 40
x=40/8=5 kmph
2.(c) Distance travelled by first train in one hour
= 60 x 1 = 60 km
Therefore, distance between two train at 9 a.m.
= 330 – 60 = 270 km
Now, Relative speed of two trains = 60 + 75 = 135 km/hr
Time of meeting of two trains =270/135=2 hrs.
Therefore, both the trains will meet at 9 + 2 = 11 A.M.
3.(b) Let the speed of second train be x m/s.
80 km/h = (80×5)/18 m/s
According to the question 1000/(x+(80×5)/18)=18
100 – 18x + 400
x=666/18 m/s
= 600/18×18/5 km/h = 120 km/h
4.(a)
Let Abhay's speed be x km/hr.
Then, 30/x-30/2x= 3
6x = 30
x = 5 km/hr.
5.(c)
Let the speed of the train be x km/hr and that of the car be y km/hr.
Then, 120/x+480/y= 8 1/x+4/y=1/15 ....(i)
And, 200/x+400/y=25/3 1/x+2/y=1/24 ....(ii)
Solving (i) and (ii), we get: x = 60 and y = 80.
Ratio of speeds = 60 : 80 = 3 : 4.
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intervals of 10 minutes. What is the speed of a man coming from the
opposite direction towards the bus terminal if he meets the buses at
intervals of 8 minutes?
a.3 km/hr
b.4 km/hr
c.5 km/hr
d.7 km/hr
e.None of these
2.The distance between two cities A and B is 330km. A train starts
from A at 8 (a)m. and travels towards B at 60 km/hr. Another train
starts from B at 9 (a)m. and travels towards A at 75 km/hr. At what
time do they meet?
a.10 am.
b.10 : 30 am.
c.11 am.
d.11 : 30 am.
e.None of these
3.Two trains are moving on two parallel tracks but in opposite
directions. A person sitting in the train moving at the speed of 80
km/hr passes the second train in 18 seconds. If the length of the
second train is 1000 m, its speed is?
a.100 km/hr
b.120 km/hr
c.140 km/hr
d.150 km/hr
e.None of these
4.In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than
Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less
than Sameer. Abhay's speed is?
a.5 kmph
b.6 kmph
c.6.25 kmph
d.7.5 kmph
e.None of these
5.It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by
train and the rest by car. It takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done
by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed of the train to
that of the cars is?
a. 2 : 3
b. 3: 2
c. 3 : 4
d. 4 : 3
e. None of these
Answers with Explanation:-
1.(c)
Distance covered in 10 minutes at 20 kmph = distance covered in 8
minutes at (20+x) kmph
20× 10/60=8/60(20+x)
200 = 160 + 8x
8x = 40
x=40/8=5 kmph
2.(c) Distance travelled by first train in one hour
= 60 x 1 = 60 km
Therefore, distance between two train at 9 a.m.
= 330 – 60 = 270 km
Now, Relative speed of two trains = 60 + 75 = 135 km/hr
Time of meeting of two trains =270/135=2 hrs.
Therefore, both the trains will meet at 9 + 2 = 11 A.M.
3.(b) Let the speed of second train be x m/s.
80 km/h = (80×5)/18 m/s
According to the question 1000/(x+(80×5)/18)=18
100 – 18x + 400
x=666/18 m/s
= 600/18×18/5 km/h = 120 km/h
4.(a)
Let Abhay's speed be x km/hr.
Then, 30/x-30/2x= 3
6x = 30
x = 5 km/hr.
5.(c)
Let the speed of the train be x km/hr and that of the car be y km/hr.
Then, 120/x+480/y= 8 1/x+4/y=1/15 ....(i)
And, 200/x+400/y=25/3 1/x+2/y=1/24 ....(ii)
Solving (i) and (ii), we get: x = 60 and y = 80.
Ratio of speeds = 60 : 80 = 3 : 4.
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Tuesday, 2 February 2016
QA Quiz
1. The average temperature of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
was 38∘ and that of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 40∘.
If the temperature on Monday was 30∘, the temperature of Friday was :
a. 40∘
b. 39∘
c. 38∘
d. 30∘
e. 42∘
2. The average of weight of three men A,B and C is 84 kg. Another man
D joins the group and the average now becomes 80 kg. If another man E,
whose weight is 3 kg.more than that of D, replaces A, then the average
weight of B,C,D and E becomes 79 kg. The weight of A is :
a. 70 kg
b. 72 kg
c. 75 kg
d. 80 kg
e. 78 kg
3. The average age of 30 students in a class is 12 years. The average
age of a group of 5 of the students is 10 years and that of another
group of 5 of them is 14 years. The average of the remaining students
is :
a. 8 years
b. 10 years
c. 12 years
d. 14 years
e. 15 years
4.A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction
in which the train is going, at the rate of 2 kmph and 4 kmph and
passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. The length of
the train is :
a. 72 metres
b. 54 metres
c. 55 metres
d. 45 metres
e. 50 meters
5. A train travelling at 36 kmph completely crosses another train
having half its length and travelling in the opposite direction at 54
kmph, in 12 seconds. If it also passes a railway platform in 112
minutes, the length of the platform is :
a. 560 metres
b. 620 metres
c. 700 meres
d. 750 metres
e. 720 meters
6.A man travels 35 km partly at 4 km/hr and at 5 km/hr. If he covers
former distance at 5 km/hr and later distance at 4 km/hr, he could
cover 2 km more in the same time. The time taken to cover the whole
distance at original rate is
a. 9 hours
b. 7 hours
c. 9/2 hours
d. 8 hours
e. 10 hours
7. A train leaves Delhi at 6 a.m and reaches chandigarh at 10 a.m.
Another train leaves chandigarh at 8 a.m and reaches Delhi at 11.30
a.m. At what time do the two trains cross one another ?
a. 9.26 a.m
b. 9 a.m
c. 8.36 a.m
d. 8.56 a.m
e. 9.56 a.m
8.Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and 16 minutes
respectively. Simultaneously both the pipes are opened together, then
after how much time Q should be closed so that the tank is full in 9
min ?
a. 3.5 min.
b. 4 min.
c. 4.5 min.
d. 4.75 min.
e. 5.00 min
9.A leak in the lower portion of a tank can empty the full tank in 9
hrs. An inlet pipe fills water at the rtae of 10 lit. a minute. When
the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to leak, the tank is
empty in 16 hrs. How many litres does the cistern hold ?
a. 17,580
b. 17,960
c. 18,290
d. 12,342
e. 13,500
10.8 children and 12 men complete a certain piece of work in 9 days.
If each child takes twice the time taken by a man to finish the work,
in how many days will 12 men finish the same work ?
a. 8
b. 15
c. 9
d. 12
e. 14
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was 38∘ and that of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was 40∘.
If the temperature on Monday was 30∘, the temperature of Friday was :
a. 40∘
b. 39∘
c. 38∘
d. 30∘
e. 42∘
2. The average of weight of three men A,B and C is 84 kg. Another man
D joins the group and the average now becomes 80 kg. If another man E,
whose weight is 3 kg.more than that of D, replaces A, then the average
weight of B,C,D and E becomes 79 kg. The weight of A is :
a. 70 kg
b. 72 kg
c. 75 kg
d. 80 kg
e. 78 kg
3. The average age of 30 students in a class is 12 years. The average
age of a group of 5 of the students is 10 years and that of another
group of 5 of them is 14 years. The average of the remaining students
is :
a. 8 years
b. 10 years
c. 12 years
d. 14 years
e. 15 years
4.A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction
in which the train is going, at the rate of 2 kmph and 4 kmph and
passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. The length of
the train is :
a. 72 metres
b. 54 metres
c. 55 metres
d. 45 metres
e. 50 meters
5. A train travelling at 36 kmph completely crosses another train
having half its length and travelling in the opposite direction at 54
kmph, in 12 seconds. If it also passes a railway platform in 112
minutes, the length of the platform is :
a. 560 metres
b. 620 metres
c. 700 meres
d. 750 metres
e. 720 meters
6.A man travels 35 km partly at 4 km/hr and at 5 km/hr. If he covers
former distance at 5 km/hr and later distance at 4 km/hr, he could
cover 2 km more in the same time. The time taken to cover the whole
distance at original rate is
a. 9 hours
b. 7 hours
c. 9/2 hours
d. 8 hours
e. 10 hours
7. A train leaves Delhi at 6 a.m and reaches chandigarh at 10 a.m.
Another train leaves chandigarh at 8 a.m and reaches Delhi at 11.30
a.m. At what time do the two trains cross one another ?
a. 9.26 a.m
b. 9 a.m
c. 8.36 a.m
d. 8.56 a.m
e. 9.56 a.m
8.Two pipes P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and 16 minutes
respectively. Simultaneously both the pipes are opened together, then
after how much time Q should be closed so that the tank is full in 9
min ?
a. 3.5 min.
b. 4 min.
c. 4.5 min.
d. 4.75 min.
e. 5.00 min
9.A leak in the lower portion of a tank can empty the full tank in 9
hrs. An inlet pipe fills water at the rtae of 10 lit. a minute. When
the tank is full, the inlet is opened and due to leak, the tank is
empty in 16 hrs. How many litres does the cistern hold ?
a. 17,580
b. 17,960
c. 18,290
d. 12,342
e. 13,500
10.8 children and 12 men complete a certain piece of work in 9 days.
If each child takes twice the time taken by a man to finish the work,
in how many days will 12 men finish the same work ?
a. 8
b. 15
c. 9
d. 12
e. 14
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Friday, 1 January 2016
CP 0102161212
Which of the following is not a term of disapproval
Infantile
Charlatan
Imbecile
Childlike ...
In the space provided for pasting your photograph in admit card, should the photograph be similar as before or we should paste recent photograph?
feeling positive.Q. What is the probability of Cat 15 results being announced before 15 January 2016 ?
How will you rate :
Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai?
Genuine ratings pls! ...
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Answer can be given by 1 only 2 only or both wla question h.
Train A leaves New York for Boston at 3 PM and travels at the constant speed of 100 mph. An hour later, it passes Train B, which is making the trip from Boston to New York at a constant speed. If Train B left Boston at 3:50 PM and if the combined travel time of the two trains is 2 hours, what time did Train B arrive in New York?
(1) Train B arrived in New York before Train A arrived in Boston.
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in a number system the product of 44 and 11 is 3414.The number 3111 of this system ,when converted to decimal system is?
All no from 1 to 1000 are converted in base 6. How many of them will not contain any 0
If mth term of AP is 1/n and nth term is 1/m then find the sum to mn terms ??
A (mn-1)/4
B (mn+1)/4
C (mn+1)/2
D (mn-1)/2
Anybody have proper elaboration on Inductive reasoning., deductive reasoning, premise, assumption, question, Proposition?? Facing difficulty in identifying these in passages..
#cat_16
No from 1 to 1000 r converted in base 6 and 7. How many of them will have non zero unit digit in both base 6 and 7.
There are three different sets of parallel lines,5 in the first set, 6 in second set & 4 in third set. If no three lines intersect at one point, then how many triangles can be formed? No two lines of any different set are parallel to each other .
By selling 56 toffees a rupee, a vendor losses 30%. how many toffees for a rupee must he sell in order to
make a profit of 40%?
Which of the following is true?
1) (2.1)^84>(5.0)^36>(10.9)^24
2) (5.0)^36>(10.9)^24>(2.1)^84
3) (10.9)^24>(2.1)^84>(5.0)^36...
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Pray for and stand with indian army . Yar . Black day . jai hind .
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#PathankotAttack: Two IAF personnel martyred and 6 security men injured.
Four terrorists killed in the ensuing encounter.
In a tight angle triangle ABC, right angled at B, AB=4 cm and BC=8 cm. Q is a point on BC such that BQ=QC=1:3, R is a point on AC and QR which divides the triangle ABC into two parts of equal area. What is the length of QR?
A) 8√2/3
B) 10√2/3
C) 2√2
D) 3√2...
My XAT admit card has my signature but it is not visible clearly. Is it necessary to go to the centre tomorrow as I would have to travel more than 100 km?
OLDER
#dm #doubt sorry guys ! Revised post with a non -tilted picture !! tongue emoticonShubham Dahale Saptorshi Mukherjee Rhyni Karakoti Debarun BhuyanSaurav Fedex Sidhant Acharya Raj Thakkar and others ....
let a,b,c be distinct digits.such that (ab)^2=ccb>300..(defined under dec imal system) where ab denotes two digit number..same ccb denotes 3 digit..find a,b,c?
#pi
really good one
Name the most recent year in
which New Year's came before
Christmas.
#GD Government should stop funding IITs and IIMs and Divert the funds to improve Primary education in india .
A dishonest retailer cheats his wholesaler and customer both. He purchases 19% more from the wholesaler and sells 15% less while selling to its customer. What is profit percentage by selling the goods at cost price?
What is the approach in such kind of questions?
Souradipta Sen Saurav Nath Amiya sir
The tide produced as a consequence of the moon and the sun pulling the earth in the same direction is called
A. ebb tide
B. high tide
C. spring tide
D. neap tide
#GD
"Public display of affection" should be allowed or not in a country like ours ?
Serious thoughts please.
Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed Indrajeet Singh Atreya Roy Anuj Kumar Sinha
So what's the new year resolution ?
Accomplishing what you couldn't do last year which you planned last to last year ? tongue emoticon
Or fresh year follows a fresh routine / goal !!
Ok guys. . Happy new Year to all. Party time.
Let's leave This year with a positive note.
So let's mention the best thing happened to you in 2015.
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I have completed my GIM form vid late fees unsure emoticon extra 1000 rs was not worth it . But wat I noticed was that GIM asked both cmat login id as well as XAT id .. wat I am assuming is dat in the 3400 rs dat i have paid i have registered GIM both from XAT and CMAT .
dats because when i left XAT id space black they asked it . Its mandatory to fill both cmat nd xat credential .
Can anyone please clear my doubt ??
please?
Kuch din phle NITIN Sir ne XAT 2015 2014 2013 ke scorecards dale the..
Hai kisi ke pass??
Rishi Shrivastava 
feeling fed up.
YE CAT ka result date b announce nhi kia ab tak, roz roz anxiety ho ri hai colonthree emoticon colonthree emoticon colonthree emoticon fatt b rhi hai unsure emoticon
Q. The minimum value of |3x+6| + |x| + |x-2| is ? And occurs at what value ?
feeling hopeful.
My signature on the admit card is not clear though it is printed. I have my college exam tomorrow. I can't go to the center as well (not to forget the distance is roughly 100 kms) to get a provisional admit card. Are they that strict regarding signature? Any senior who has taken XAT before could help maybe...
Bank ki coaching sufficient hai kya central university ya state level pe jo MBA entrance exam hota hai usko clear krne ke liye ya kuch reference books bhi follow krni pdegi??
I'm not talking about CAT or MAT
Sipahiyo tongue emoticon
Hey i am looking for some FREE FREE websites for GK(covering static¤t) i know people here are too jugadu and great.
Anybody can suggest,though i have sourced out gktoday,onlinetayari, (please do prefer that is quiz type)
Thanks
Hey guys ! Do you know from where to study for the GK section in IIFT and Snap ? Thanks in advance smile emoticon
Life is tough . first grammar and then add to misery , the resolutions tongue emoticon
4 Men or 11 Women can do a piece of work in 20 days. In how many days 6 Men and 11 Women can do the same work ?
Everyone knows that New Year's Day follows
Christmas Day by a week. For example this year,
when Christmas Day is on a friday, which it was
a couple of years ago, New Year's Day will be on
a friday, too, seven days later, right?...
#pi
I found the question interesting...
How can you drop a raw egg onto a
concrete floor without cracking it?
#LR
#IBSAT
In a natural fruit store there was an interesting measuring machine which was made to weigh just cherries and strawberries as they were valued the same. Others fruits like water melons or mango had different machines as they were quite expensive.
A man effectively purchases water melons at the cost of fruits....
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Which of the following if true most seriously undermines the author's contention?
Aise questions mein kya karna hota hai?
#newyear 1) find no of ways in which a batsmen can score 17 runs in an over, while scoring 0,1,2,3,4,5 and 6 on a particular ball .
The largest n sided regular polygon for which the interior angles are integral is ?
If p, q, r are non-negative variables such that p + q + r = s (a constant) and pqr + 2(pq + qr + rp) + 4(p + q + r) = 208, what is the minimum possible value of s?
Approach pls?
Who started ganpati and shivaji utsav ?
1 = arvind gosh
2 = mahatama gandhi
3 = jawahar lal nehru
4 = bal ganga dhar tilak
A person has 5 tickets of luckydraw for which a total of 12 tickets are sold and exactly 6 prices are to be given what is proabilty that person will win atleast one price?
Conside 5 positive numbers say a,b,c,d,e where a>b>c>d>e,,
Now these numbers are added with each other,so a total of 10 summations are formed.The highest summation number can b found out by a+b and the least by d+e....My questions is that,Is the 2nd highest number =a+c and the 2nd least=e+c?what can be said about other possible summations?
A palindrome is a positive integer whose digits are the same when read forwards or backwards. For example, 2882 is a four-digit palindrome and 49194 is a five-digit palindrome. There are pairs of four digit palindromes whose sum is a five-digit palindrome. One such pair is 2882 and 9339. How many such pairs are there?
(A) 28
(B) 32
(C) 36
(D) 40
(E) 44
An ascending series of numbers satisfies the following conditions:
1) When divided by 4,5 or 6, the numbers leave the remainders of 1,2 and 3 respectively.
2) The numbers are divisible by 13
What will be the 8th number in this series?
1) 2397
2) 4797
3) 6357
4) 5577
5) None of the above
#ds_IMS_XAT
The median of 9 different positive integers is 20 and five of those 9 integers are 13, 8, 24, 17 and 5.
Which of the following statements would be sufficient to find the largest integer of these numbers?
1) The difference between the average of four largest and four smallest integers is 12.75
2) The average of all 9 integers is 157/9
Just thought of sharing this..
We may fail to clear nmat iift cat xat tiss ...but this new year just try once more... u may get isb(#1)... for all those who feel last year was their last attempt....
#XAT #DM what do you think guys should be the answer ? Shubham Dahale Saurav Fedex Ashmait Singh Bagga Indrajeet Singh Debarun Bhuyan Sidhant Acharya Anuj Kumar Sinha and others ... Have a look .
Any suggestions for self study for CAT 2016?
Please suggest some books as well
Thanks in advance smile emoticon
Anybody PlZ...suggst me which books are better for High Level Reasoning and High level Quantitative Aptitude ...PLZZZZZZZZZ
KJ somaiya last date....??Atreya Roy...they will accept CAT scores or CMAT scores??
Must watch and share your views !!
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That's the real reason I keep motivating people to learn ,read English. tongue emoticon
Please suggest some good books for verbal and non-verbal reasoning..
Credits to Ashmit Singh Bagga: Sharing with you guys couple of links for Decision making section of XAT:
These are links of various coaching institutes books, videos, online materials and questions. I do not seek to advertise them or earn any sort of revenue from this. This is just to help you guys.Please do not make commercial use of these as they are available free on internet smile emoticon tongue emoticon
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOpwEc-O3wc
2. http://cetking.com/cat/free-material/decision-making-xat/
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alpEqC0J46c
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF5ye5ilgo0
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ey7fDo9Qmw
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHg9EmhycM
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOyWPtjcmls
8. http://www.careerlauncher.com/…/download/XAT%20Decision%20M…
9. http://media.careerlauncher.com.s3.amazonaws.com/…/XAT%20Su…
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzK_tTpIzhs
Could find only these links... Hope they come of some help to you guys.
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Let's go even more digital!
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A dilemma of my friend .
At present , she is pursuing her MBA from XIMB . But, since she had a lot of confidence , she attempted CAT and is expecting 99.2 % ile according to CL. Now , my query is should she leave this college if she converts the best IIMs ( the K,I,or new too ).
P.S. She is not posting herself because she has some of her friends in this group too who might create problematic situation for her .
Indrajeet Singh shared his event.
New year gift for you guys !!
A basic starter event on Verbal Analysis for CAT 2016 by I Quanta . Join here and invite your friends as well. like emoticon
What are the formulae for calculating the number of triangles(scalene,right angled,isosceles and equilateral) when perimeter is given?
I am working in IT and have 2.5 years of experience... I have appeared for CAT and expecting a decent percentile. Today is the last date for Goa Institute of management. I am confused whether i should fill it or not.. Kindly give genuine advice.
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Resolutions you should keep but you probably won't.
A coinciement of 50 record players containing 4 defectives the record player are selected one by one at random and examined the one examined are not put back in lot what is the probability that 9th one examined is the last defective?
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