PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENT: MOCK AMCAT ENGLISH QUESTIONS

ENGLISH
PAPER 1

1. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word-ALTRUISM

A. conservative B. repugnant C. combativeness D. selfishness

2. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word-AGRARIAN

A. suburban B. cosmic C. areal D. urban

3. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the MEANING of the word-OUTLIVE
A. survive B. outstay C. banish D. outspend

4. Select the correct option that fills the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
But it would not be the first time when politicians tried to ______ religious symbols to win votes.
A. adopt B. invite C. adapt D. maintain

5. Select the correct option that fills the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
There was a lot of cheating ______ the test in the class.
A. in B. at C. around D. during

6. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word-TREACHEROUS
A. faithful B. fake C. unsurpassable D.true

7. Select the correct option that fills the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
I would like to _______ a reservation for next Wednesday.
A. seek B. keep C. make D. book

8. Select the correct option that fills the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
It was time for him to take the _______ and bring the protest to an end.
A. initiative B. remark C. mishap D. abuse

9. In the question, a part of the sentence is italicised. Alternatives to the italicised part are given below,which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative
Singers from all over the world gathered there to paying tribute to a legend of music, Elvis Presley.
A. Gathered there to paying tribute for the
B. Gathered there for paying tribute for the
C. Gathered there to pay tribute to the
D. No improvement needed

10. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Inflation can be ______only if people limit their consumption, which will in turn reduce the demand of products.
A. Reduce B. Reduces C. Reduced D. Reduction

11. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error,if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(1) farmfare was the lastest rage (2) on social networking sites these days and (3) has a big fan following.
A. (1) B. (2) C. (3) D. No error

12. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word- SEMBLANCE
A. resemblance B. pretense C. appearance D. aura E. dissimilarity

13. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word -IGNITE
A. EXTINGUISH B. WET C. SOAK D. DRENCH

14. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete
A gathering was planned as a protest against the _______ for the use of plastic bags.
A. sanction B. dismissal C. derivation D. accusation

15. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error,if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(A) they all had dinner, but I don't (B) since I had been waiting to eat (C) the chocolate dessert first.
A. (A) B.(B) C. (C) D. No error

16. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Funds are scarce, so ______ are needed to re-build homes destroyed by the flood.
a. patience b. volunteers c. workers d. materials

17. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete
He worked really hard and thus _____ to be promoted.
A. warranted B. deserve C. deserves D. merit

18. In the question there is a sentence, some parts of which have been jumbled up. Re-arrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
It is easy to excuse
P: but it is hard
Q: in a boy of fourteen
R: the mischief of early childhood
S: to tolerate even unavoidable faults
A. RPQS B. QRSP C. QRPS D. RPSQ

19. What is the OPPOSITE of word LEGITIMATE?
A. illegible B. remissible C. illicit D. logical

20. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word -UNIVERSAL
A. earthly B. ethereal C. cosmic D. local

21. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. Select the correct alternative that is similar in meaning to the word in italics.
As per the weather prediction, it will rain heavily for the next one week.
a. observation b. report c. news d. forecast

22. We need to call this ____, Monika demanded.

a. Out

b. At

c. Off

d. Away

23. Their car ___ near the gas station.

a. Broke in

b. Broke up

c. Broke down

d. Broke into

24. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error,if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(1) She always offer her (2) food to the poor (3) and needy

a. (1)

b. (2)

c. (3)

d. No error

25. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error,if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(1) Despite an effort to boost competitive , (2) fewer than half of the high school students (3) would have been ready for college by next year

a. (1)

b. (2)

c. (3)

d. No error

26. Find the word which closest to the meaning of the word -Luminous

a. Transparent

b. Dull

c. Glowing

d. Lame

27. The opposite of Profession is-

a. Pastime

b. Idleness

c. Subordinate

d. Joblessness

28. The opposite of Vanity is-

a. Pride

b. Humility

c. Conceit

d. Indifference

29. Find the word that most closely means the same as the word INDISCREET
A. reliable
B. honest
C. prudent
D. stupid

30. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. Select the correct alternative that is similar in meaning to the word in italics.
It is preposterous on your part to look for a job without first completing your education.
A. Wise
B. Imperative
C. Advisable
D. Most admirable
E. Very absurd

31. Vinod took his meals after he . . . .
A. Had completed his work
B. Had been completing his work
C. Was completing his work
D. Had been completed his work
E. Had got completed his work

32. We urgently need to recruit a counselor _______ the vacant position
A. On
B. For
C. At
D. In

33. What is the similar meaning of word HATE
A. Abuse
B. Abhor
C. Nasty
D. Tardy

34. What is the opposite meaning of ARCHANIC?
A. Ancient
B. Modern
C. Fresh
D. Present

Passage

Read the passage and answer the questions 35- 37 given below-.

Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology to run smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling and problem-solving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles. This distinction is absolutely crucial for our purposes here: Successful transformation is 70 to 90 per cent leadership and only 10 to 30 percent management. Yet for historical reasons, many organizations today don't have much leadership. And almost everyone thinks about the problem here as one of managing change. For most of this century, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first time in human history, we didn't have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies functioning. Many companies and universities developed management programs, and hundreds and thousands of people were encouraged to learn management on the job. And they did. But, people were taught little about leadership. To some degree, management was emphasized because it's easier to preach than leadership. But even more so, management was the main item on the twentieth century agenda because that's what was needed. For every entrepreneur or business builder who was a leader, we needed hundreds of managers to run their ever-growing enterprises. Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often been institutionalized in corporate cultures that discourage employees from learning how to lead. Ironically, past success is usually the key ingredient in producing this outcome. The syndrome, as I have observed it on many occasions, goes like this: Success creates some degree of marked dominance which in turn produces much growth. After a while, keeping the ever-larger organization under control becomes the primary challenge. So, attention turns inward and managerial competencies are nurtured. With a strong emphasis on management, but not leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus takeover. But with continued success, the result mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes unaddressed and an unhealthy arrogance begins to evolve. All of these characteristics then make any transformation effort much more difficult. Arrogant managers can over-evaluate their current performance and competitive position, listen poorly and learn slowly. Inwardly focused employees can have difficulty seeing the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those who want to respond to shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside these organizations to break out of the morass.

35. Why did companies and universities develop programs to prepare managers in such large numbers?
A. Companies and universities wanted to generate funds through these programs.
B. The large number of organizations were created as they needed managers in good number.
C. Organizations did not want to spend their scarce resources in training managers.
D. Organizations wanted to create communication network through trained managers.

36. Which of the following characteristics helps an organization in its efforts to transform?
A. Emphasis on leadership and not management
B. Strong and dogmatic culture
C. Bureaucratic and inward-looking approach
D. Failing to acknowledge the value of customers and shareholders

37. Find the word that most closely means the same as the word 'smother'.
A. Suppress
B. Encourage
C. Instigate
D. Soft

Read the passage and answer the questions 38-40 given below-.

The economic transformation of India is one of the great business stories of our time. As stifling government regulations have been lifted, entrepreneurship has flourished, and the country has become a high-powered center for information technology and pharmaceuticals. Indian companies like Infosys and Wipro are powerful global players, while Western firms like G.E. and I.B.M. now have major research facilities in India employing thousands. India's seemingly endless flow of young, motivated engineers, scientists, and managers offering developed-world skills at developing-world wages is held to be putting American jobs at risk, and the country is frequently heralded as "the next economic superpower"

But India has run into a surprising hitch on its way to superpower status: its inexhaustible supply of workers is becoming exhausted. Although India has one of the youngest workforces on the planet, the head of lnfosys said recently that there was an "acute shortage of skilled manpower and a study projects that this year salaries for skilled workers will rise fourteen and a half per cent, a sure sign that demand for skilled labor is outstripping supply.

How is this possible in a country that every year produces two and a half million college graduates and four hundred thousand engineers? Start with the fact that just ten per cent of Indians get any kind of post-secondary education, compared with some fifty per cent who do in the U.S. Moreover, of that ten per cent, the vast majority go to one of India's seventeen thousand colleges, many of which are closer to community colleges than to four-year institutions. India does have more than three hundred universities, but a recent survey by the London Times Higher Education Supplement put only two of them among the top hundred in the world. Many Indian graduates therefore enter the workforce with a low level of skills. A current study led by Vivek Wadhwa, of Duke University, has found that if you define "engineer' by U.S. standards, India produces just a hundred and seventy thousand engineers a year, not four hundred thousand. Infosys says that, of 1.3 million applicants for jobs last year, it found only two per cent acceptable.

India has taken tentative steps to remedy its skills famine-the current government has made noises about doubling spending on education, and a host of new colleges and universities have sprung up since the mid-nineties. But India's impressive economic performance has made the problem seem less urgent than it actually is, and allowed the government to defer difficult choices. (In a country where more than three hundred million people live on a dollar a day, producing college graduates can seem like a low priority.) Ultimately, the Indian government has to pull off a very tough trick, making serious changes at a time when things seem to be going very well. It needs, in other words, a clear sense of everything that can still go wrong. The paradox of the Indian economy today is that the more certain it’s glowing future seems to be, the less likely that future becomes.

38. Which of these could you infer according to the passage?

a. Wages in the developing countries are less as compared to wages in the developed countries

b. Wages in the developing countries are more as compared to wages in the developed countries

c. Wages in the developing countries are same as wages in the developed countries

d. None of these

39. What can you infer as the meaning of stifling from the passage ?

a. Democratic

b. Liberal

c. Impacting

d. Undemocratic

40. Why India has extra skilled labour ?

a. The total amount of young population is low

b. The total number of colleges are insufficient

c. Students do not want study

d. Maximum universities and colleges do not match global standards

Read the passage and answer the questions 41-43 given below-.

Living in the open and working 10 hours a day, volunteers from all over Scandinavia led by 30 experts, built the first village in the ancient encampment in a matter of months. The house walls were of clay, the roofs of hay - all based on original designs. Then came the second stage - getting back to the basics of living. Families were invited to stay in the 'prehistoric village' for a week or two at a time and rough it Iron Age-style.

Initially, this experiment proved none too easy for modern Danes accustomed to central heating. But it convinced the centre that there was something to the Lejre project. Little by little. The modern Iron Agers learnt that their huts were, after all, habitable. The problems were numerous - smoke belching out from the rough-and-ready fireplaces into the rooms and so on. These problems, however, have led to some discoveries: domed smoke ovens made of clay, for example.Give out more heat and consume less fuel than an open fire, and when correctly stoked. They are practically smokeless.

41. What is the main purpose of building the Iron Age experimental center?

a. Prehistoric village where people can stay for a week or two to get away from modern living

b. Replicate the Iron Age to get a better understanding of the time and people of that era

c. To discover the differences between a doomed smoke oven and an open fire to identify the more efficient of the two

d. Revive activities of ancient women such as weaving, pottery, dyeing, cooking and baking

42. What can be the title of the passage ?

a. Modern techniques find their way into pre-historic villages

b. Co – existence of ancient and modern times

c. Glad to be living in the 21ist century

d. Turning back home

Read the passage and answer the questions 43-45 given below-.

When it came to promoting its new video-game console, the Wii, in America, Nintendo recruited a handful of carefully chosen suburban mothers in the hope that they would spread the word among their friends that the Wii was a gaming console the whole family could enjoy together. Nintendo thus became the latest company to use "word-of-mouth" marketing. Nestle, Sony and Philips have all launched similar campaigns in recent months to promote everything from bottled water to electric toothbrushes. As the power of traditional advertising declines, what was once an experimental marketing approach is becoming more popular.

After all, no form of advertising carries as much weight as an endorsement from a friend. "Amway and Tupperware know you can blend the social and economic to business advantage," says Walter Carl, a marketing guru at Northeastern University The difference now, he says, is that the internet can magnify the effect of such endorsements.

The difficulty for marketers is creating the right kind of buzz and learning to control it. Negative views spread just as quickly as positive ones, so if a product has flaws, people will soon find out. And Peter Kim of Forrester, a consultancy, points out that when Microsoft sent laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista software to influential bloggers in an effort to get them to write about it, the resulting online discussion ignored Vista and focused instead on the morality of accepting gifts and the ethics of word-of-mouth marketing. Bad buzz, in short.

Demand for all kinds of consumer products is about to surge, in short And although restrictions on foreign investment prevent retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Tesco from entering India directly, different rules apply to companies that sell their own products under a single brand, as luxury-goods firms tend to. Since January 2006 they have been allowed to take up to 51% in Indian joint ventures. India is also an attractive market for luxury goods because, unlike China, it does not have a flourishing counterfeit industry. Credit is becoming more easily available.

43. What is the experimental approach being discussed in the first paragraph ?

a. Word of mouth marketing

b. Selling of video game consoles , bottled water and electric toothbrushes

c. Traditional advertising

d. None of these

44. What is the tone of passage?

a. Neutral

b. Biased

c. Celebratory

d. Critical

45. What can we infer from Walter Carls statement ?

A. Amway and Tupperware are products where word of mouth marketing could be used

B. Amway and Tupperware are the consumers who appreciated word of mouth marketing

C. Amway and Tupperware are companies who use wor of marketing

D. none of these

English

Paper 2

1. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word.
RESERVE (OPPOSITE)
A. maintain B. waste C. possess D. delay

2. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. select the correct alternative that is similar in meaning to the word in italics.
The company laid down a set of explicit guidelines for the employees to follow.
A. specific B. vague C. exposed D. valuable

3. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one the sentence. the letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(1) Yauhan do not understand (2) the importance of money as (3) he never had to earn himself
A. (1) B. (2) C. (3) D. no error

4. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. Select the correct alternative to the part in italics that may improve the sentence construction.
What enabled him to finally took part in the opening ceremony?
A. take part B. had taken C. taking part D. no improvement needed

5. What is the opposite of the word STIMULATE?
A. inspire B. offend C. bore D. excuse

6. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word
SET OFF
A. set out B. set in C. get on D. get back

7. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. Select the correct alternative to the part in italics that may improve the sentence construction
Surprisingly, Manipur received scanty rainfall this year.
A. rare B. heavy C. little D. scattered

8. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(1) According to the survey, families (2) were expected to spend more money at eating (3) and shopping as compared to travelling.
A. (1) B.(2) C.(3) D. no error

9. In the question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The remaining four sentences have been jumbled up. These are labeled P, 0, R and S. Select the proper order for the four sentences.
S1: He is a famous novelist.
S6: But I doubt he would ever stop writing novels, as he makes a tremendous profit out of these.

P: I think he would be more successful as a columnist.
Q: I prefer reading his magazines editorials.
R: However, I am not fond of his books.
S: All his books have been completely sold out.
A. PORS B. SQPR C. PSRQ D. SRQP

10. Select the correct option that fills the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
I think I know _______ he finished his assignment early.
A. until B. by when C. how D. who

11. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The movie can be categorized as average _______ the thrilling and unexpected ending
A. apart B. except C. in spite D. despite

12. What is the opposite of the word PRELIMINARY?
A. disorderly B. lucid C. irrational D. concluding

13. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the word typed in bold.
True religion does not require one to proselytize through guile or force.
A. translate B. hypnotise c. attack D. convert

14. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the word- Monotonous
A. Assorted B. Spirited C. Mixed D. Tedious

15. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete
Salim could not make it to the party as he ______ to finish his assignment.
a. has b. had c. have d. want

16. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error , if any, will be in one the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
(1) Last year, during the entire campaign (2) he makes it a point to appear (3) at every single event in the city.
A. (1) B. (2) C. (3) D. no error

17. In the question, a part of the sentence is italicized. Alternatives to the italicized part are given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative.
Get out of the building! It sound like the generator is going to explode.
A. It is sounding like the generator is going to explode
B. It sounds like the generator is going to explode
C. It sounds like generator exploded
D. No change

18. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete
He had no interest in ______ obligatory dinners and social events.
a. attend b. attending c. attends d. attend to

19. What is the opposite of word FICKLE
A. fiddle B. stable C. volatile D. lame

20. What is the meaning of the word ACCOMPLISH?
A. achieve B. begin C. combine D. coordinate

21. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The efforts put in the top management to retain him went in ________ as he decided to shift to a competitor company.
A. failure B. futility C. waste D. vain

22. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any
(a) Freshmen is (b) spotted catching fish on (c) the bank of the river

a. (a)

b. (b)

c. (c)

d. No error

23. Fill the blank with options given below-

We were thinking ____ it _____ something like a requiem for our age

a. For, because

b. for, as

c. of, since

d. of, as

24. Fill the blank from the options given below-

Do not move towards the car ______ you’ve finished your milk.

a. As

b. While

c. Until

d. Inspite

25. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. Select the correct alternative that is similar in meaning to the word in italics
He informed them that they were likely to promote their idea at the next year convention.

a. Access

b. Protect

c. Publicise

d. Block

26. Fill the blank from the options given below-

All the history books belonging to the period have been _____ from Sanskrit to English.

a. Transferred

b. Dictated

c. Translated

d. Dubbed

27. What is the opposite of GRATIFY?

a. Oblige

b. Humor

c. Indulge

d. Upset

28. Select the option that is most nearly opposite in the meaning to the word given in bold.
I don’t want you to regret your decision

a. Apologize for

b. Be happy about

c. Disregard

d. Forgo

29. Find the word that most closely means the same as the word SOLICITUDE
A. insouciance
B. ingenuity
C. propriety
D. austerity

310. Fill the blank with options given below-

The success that he has gained, though striking enough, does not, however, commensurate . . . . the efforts made by him.
A. About
B. From
C. With
D. Beside
E. Over

31. In the question, a part of the sentence is given in italics. Select the correct alternative to the part in italics that may improve the sentence construction.
But which director from Bollywood would remake this film, will be made secret for the time being.
A. Is being kept a secret
B. Is being secret
C. Can be secret
D. Will be kept in secret

32. The protracted illness has reduced him ______ skeleton

A. Till

B. Round

C. Through

D. To

E. From

33. Fill the blank with options given below-

He _____ his chances at the university interview by wearing a pair of jeans and t-shirt.
A. Lowered
B. Improved
C. Jeopardized
D. Enhanced

34. What is the similar meaning of INSIDIOUS
A. Insightful
B. Sinister
C. Sincere
D. Naïve

35. What is the similar meaning of word CONSISTENT?
A. Together
B. Steady
C. Thick
D. Deceptive

Read the passage and solve the questions given below-

Passage 1

The most avid users of social-networking websites may be exhibitionist teenagers, but when it comes to more grown-up use by business people, such sites have a surprisingly long pedigree. LinkedIn, an online network for professionals that signed up its ten-millionth user this week was launched in 2003, a few months before MySpace, the biggest of the social sites. Consumer adoption of social networking has grabbed most attention since then. But interest in the business uses of the technology is rising.

Many companies are attracted by the marketing opportunities offered by community sites. But the results can be painful. Pizza Hut has a profile on MySpace devoted to a pizza-delivery driver called Ted, who helpfully lets friends in on the chain's latest promotional offers (―Dude, I just heard some scoop from the Hut, ran one recent post). Wal-Mart started up and rapidly closed down a much-derided teenage site called The Hub last year. Reuters hopes to do better with its forthcoming site for those in the financial-services industry.

Social networking has proved to be of greatest value to companies in recruitment. Unlike a simple jobs board, social networks enable members to pass suitable vacancies on to people they know, and to refer potential candidates back to the recruiter. So employers reach not only active jobseekers but also a much larger pool of passive candidates through referrals. Having lots of people in a network increases its value in a ―super-linear fashion, says Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's founder. He says corporate use of his service is now spreading beyond recruiters: hedge funds use it to identify and contact experts, for example.

This technique is also gathering momentum in “knowledge management”. IBM recently unveiled a social-software platform called Lotus Connections, due out in the next few weeks, that lets company employees post detailed profiles of themselves, team up on projects and share bookmarks. One manufacturer testing the software is using it to put inexperienced members of its customer-services team in touch with the right engineers. It can also be used to identify in-house experts. Software firms will probably start bundling social features of this kind into all sorts of business software.

To work well in the business world, social networking has to clear some big hurdles. Incentives to participate in a network have to be symmetrical, for one thing. The interests of MySpace members—and of jobseekers and employers—may be aligned, but it is not clear why commission-hungry salespeople would want to share their best leads with colleagues. Limiting the size of the network can reduce its value for companies, yet confidentiality is another obvious concern for companies that invite outsiders into their online communities. “Social networking sounds great in theory, but the business benefits are still unproven,” says Paul Jackson of Forrester, a consultancy. But if who you know really does matter more than what you know, it has obvious potential.

36. What meaning of avid could you infer from the passage?

a. Dormant

b. Unprincipled

c. Unwanted

d. Enthusiastic

37. What is the most probable context in which the author is talking about talking about Pizza Hut?

a. Social networking did not benefit it

b. Social networking was a big success for it

c. Social network created problems for it

d. None of these

38. Why does the author call Lotus Connections a social software platform?

a. Because its uses by knowledge management

b. It has a feature to allow employees to interact and cooperate with each other

c. Because IMB developed it

d. Because service team can get in touch with the right engineers using it

Passage 2

Sixty years ago, on the evening of August 14, 1947, a few hours before Britain's Indian Empire was formally divided into the nation-states of India and Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, sat down in the viceregal mansion in New Delhi to watch the latest Bob Hope movie, "My Favorite Brunette." Large parts of the subcontinent were descending into chaos, as the implications of partitioning the Indian Empire along religious lines became clear to the millions of Hindus, Muslims. and Sikhs caught on the wrong side of the border. In the next few months, some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as a million murdered. But on that night in mid-August the bloodbath-and the fuller consequences of hasty imperial retreat-still lay in the future, and the Mountbattens probably felt they had earned their evening's entertainment.

While the Mountbattens were sitting down to their Bob Hope movie, India's constituent assembly was convening in New Delhi. The moment demanded grandiloquence, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's closest disciple and soon to be India's first Prime Minister, provided it. "Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny,' he said. "At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends. and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed. finds utterance."

Posterity has enshrined this speech, as Nehru clearly intended. But today his quaint phrase "tryst with destiny" resonates ominously, so enduring have been the political and psychological scars of partition. The souls of the two new nation-states immediately found utterance in brutal enmity. In Punjab, armed vigilante groups, organized along religious lines and incited by local politicians, murdered countless j, people. abducting and raping thousands of women. Soon, India and Pakistan were fighting a war-the first of three-over the disputed territory of kashmir. Gandhi, reduced to despair by the seemingly endless cycle of retaliatory mass murders and' displacement, was shot dead in January, 1948, by a Hindu extremist who believed that the father of the Indian nation was too soft on Muslims. Jinnah, racked with tuberculosis and overwork died a few months later, his dream of a secular Pakistan apparently buried with him.

39. In the view of the author, what does Nehru's phrase "tryst with destiny" symbolise today?

a. A celebration of Indian independence

b. An inspirational quote

c. A reminder of Gandhi's assassination

d. A symbol of the ills of the partition

40. What does the author imply about the future of Pakistan ?

a. It becomes a secular country

b. It becomes unsecular

c. It is unprosperous

d. It becomes a rogue state

41. The author persists on talking about the Bob Hope movie in the article, why ?

a. Because movie was a classic of 1947

b. He thinks it caused the partition of sub continent

c. He uses it to show the apathy of the Britishers towards the sub continent

d. It was Mountbatters favorite movie

42. Why was Gandhi assaaanited?

a. Because he was favoring muslims

b. His assassin thought he was partial to muslims

c. He got killed in the violence after partition

d. None of these

Passage 3

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Somehow we manage to progress and regress simultaneously. As a nation, we age by pushing outward from the middle—adding a few centuries on either end of the extraordinary CV. We greaten like the maturing head of a hammerhead shark with eyes looking in diametrically opposite directions

I don't mean to put a simplistic value judgment on this peculiar form of"progress" by suggesting that Modern is Good and Traditional is Bad—or vice versa. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it. That applies not just to the ancient/modern conundrum but to the utter illogic of what appears to be the current national enterprise. In the lane behind my house, every night I walk past road gangs of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber-optic cables to speed up our digital revolution. In the bitter winter cold, they work by the light of a few candles.

It's as though the people of India have been rounded up and loaded onto two convoys of trucks (a huge big one and a tiny little one) that have set off resolutely in opposite directions. The tiny convoy is on its way to a glittering destination somewhere near the top of the world. The other convoy just melts into the darkness and disappears. A cursory survey that tallies the caste, class and religion of who gets to be on which convoy would make a good Lazy Person's concise Guide to the History of India. For some of us, life in India is like being suspended between two of gets to be on which convoy would make a good Lazy Person's concise Guide to the History of India. For some of us, life in India is like being suspended between two of the trucks, one leg in each convoy, and being neatly dismembered as they move apart, not bodily, but emotionally and intellectually.

Sixty years after independence, India is still struggling with the legacy of colonialism, still flinching from the "cultural insult." As citizens we're still caught up in the business of "disproving" the white world's definition of us. Intellectually and emotionally. we have just begun to grapple with communal and caste politics that threaten to tear our society apart. But meanwhile, something new looms on our horizon. On the face of it, it's just ordinary, day-to-day business. It lacks the drama, the large-format, epic magnificence of war or genocide or famine. It's dull in comparison. It makes bad TV. It has to do with boring things like jobs, money, water supply, electricity, irrigation. But it also has to do with a process of barbaric dispossession on a scale that has few parallels in history. You may have guessed by now that I'm talking about the modern version of globalization.

What is globalization? Who is it for? What is it going to do to a country like India, in whi6h social inequality has been institutionalized in the caste system for centuries? Is the corporatization and globalization of agriculture, water supply, electricity and essential commodities going to pull India out of the stagnant morass of poverty, illiteracy and religious bigotry? Is the dismantling and auctioning off of elaborate public sector infrastructure, developed with public money over the past sixty years, really the way forward? Is globalization going to close the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged, between the upper castes and the lower castes. between the educated and the illiterate? Or is it going to give those who already have a centuries-old head start a friendly helping hand? These are huge, contentious questions. The answers vary depending on whether they come from the villages and fields of rural India, from the slums and shantytowns of urban India. from the living rooms of the burgeoning middle class or from the boardrooms of the big business houses.

43. What do you understand infer from the sentence in context of the passage “India lives in several centuries at the same time “

a. We are progressing In some areas and regressing in the other

b. People from different countries are living in India

c. India has a diverse culture

d. Some people are modern while the others are traditional in approach

44. Why does the response towards globalization in India differ in different parts of India?

a. Due to different literacy levels

b. Due to religious diversity in India

c. It will not benefit at sections of the society

d. It may not have all the answer all the answer to India’s current problems

45. What does the phrase culture insult imply

a. People from one culture do not respect people from other cultures

b. Disrespect of British towards Indian culture

c. White people’s definition for us

d. Ill – treatment at hands of British

46. What do you infer from the following lines in the lane behind my house every night I walk past road gangs of emaciated labourers digging a trend to lay fiber – optic cables to speed up your digital revolution in the bitter winter cold, they work by the light of a few candles?

a. India has a balanced mixture of both traditional and modern people

b. Progress in unbalanced

c. Digital revolution is very important for our economic growth

d. There is shortage of electricity

ENGLISH
PAPER 3

Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.

1. A] The phrase 'Be the change you want / B] to see in the world' was / C] said through Mahatma Gandhi.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

2. A] A salesman of that / B] company tried to / C] cheated a naive lady_
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

Fill in the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete

3. Aspirations of minorities cannot be kept in check …………. the gun.

A] With B] From C] By D] Through
E] Under

4. There are many textile producing mills in the market that compete with each ………… to gain the largest share of the market.
A] Person B] Other C] Contestants D] Individual

5. A] Yauhan do not understand / B] the importance of money as / C] he never had to earn himself.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

6. A] Harish likes to play cricket / B] and riding bicycle besides / C] playing videogames.

A] A B] B C] C D] No error

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully Complete.

7. The interview panel asked her to wait ………….. Friday for the final decision.

A] upto B] till C] for D] since

E] to

8. A] Another major indication of / B] the disorder are injury / C] to the nervous system and anxiety.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

In the question, a part of the sentence is italicised. Alternatives to the italicised part are given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative.

9. People working in high positions in companies tend to shifting their work burden by delegating tasks to their subordinates

A] Tend for shifting their work B] Tend to shift their work

C] Tend as to shifting their work D] No improvement

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

10. The efforts put in by the top management to retain him went in ………. as he decided to shift to a competitor company.

A] failure B] futility C] waste D] vain

11. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word

Reign

A] Yield B] Restrain C] Regime D] Enjoy

Improve the sentence by selecting the correct alternative to the italicized part of the sentence

12. The election verdict was quite surprising as the ruling party was re-elected for the first time in fifty years.

A] Judgement B] Decision C] Order D] Chaos

13. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the MEANING of the given word

Absorption –

A] Suction B] Disconnection C] Separation D] Filtration

14. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word

UNIVERSAL [OPPOSITE] -

A] Earthly B] Ethereal C] Cosmic D] Local

15. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word

PERENNIAL [OPPOSITE] –

A] Frequent B] Regular C] Lasting D] Rare

16. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word

Agrarian [OPPOSITE]

A] Subarban B] Cosmic C] Areal D] Urban

17. In the question each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, 0, R and S Select the proper order for the four sentences.

S1. Sameer has not been coming to office since last week.

S6. Since his plaster will be removed after 30 days

P: Doctors have advised him complete bed rest for 15 days.

Q: He had six fractures and was rushed to the hospital.

R: He met with a serious accident a few days ago.

S: I think he would be on leave for this whole month.

A] RQPS B] PSQR C] SPRQ D] QPRS

Read the passage and answer the questions with correct answer option-

Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some will use their position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a country's development. For most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their country's GDP growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small. And for all the evidence that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively clean, attitudes towards corruption, and even the language describing bribery, is remarkably similar around the world.

In a testament to most people's basic decency, bribe-takers and bribe-payers have developed an elaborate theatre of dissimulation. This is not just to avoid detection. Even in countries where corruption is so common as to be unremarkable and unprosecutable—and even when the transaction happens far from snooping eyes—a bribe is almost always dressed up as some other kind of exchange. Though most of the world is plagued by corruption, even serial offenders try to conceal it.

One manifestation of this is linguistic. Surprisingly few people say: “You are going to have to pay me if you want to get that done.” Instead, they use a wide variety of euphemisms. One type is quasi-official terminology. The term widely used at border crossings is “expediting fee”. For a euphemism it is surprisingly accurate: paying it it will keep your bags, and perhaps your contraband, from being dumped onto a floor and sifted through at a leisurely pace. (A related term, used in India, is “speed money”: paying it can get essential business permits issued considerably faster.)

A second type of euphemism dresses up a dodgy payment as a friendly favour done by the bribe-payer. There is plenty of creative scope. Nigerian policemen are known to ask for “a little something for the weekend”. Mexican traffic police will suggest that you buy them a refresco, a soft drink, as will Angolan and Mozambican petty officials, who call it a gazoso in Portuguese.

Double meaning can help soothe the awkwardness of bribe-paying. Baksheesh, originally a Persian word now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean “tip”, “alms” and “bribe”. In Kenya a machine-gun-wielding guard suggested to a terrified Canadian aid worker: “Perhaps you would like to discuss this over chai?” The young Canadian was relieved: the difficulty could be resolved with some chai.

Along with the obscurantist language, bribe-taking culture around the world often involves the avoidance of physically handing the money from one person to another. One obvious reason is to avoid detection, which is why bribes are known as “envelopes” in countries from China to Greece.

Select the correct answer option based on the passage

18. What is the author likely to agree to in the following ?

A] Some cultures suffer corruptions while others do not

B] Social factors incline a society towards corruption

C] Bribery is not a cultural phenomena

D] None of these

19. What is bribe generally called in China?

A] Haand-over B] Refresco C] Envelopes D] Bakhsheesh

20. In summary, what does the passage primarily suggest and provide evidence for?

A] Corruption is always concealed in some way, both linguistically and in the process

B] Corruption exists only in developing economies

C] Corruption is an unethical practice

D] Corruption slows down GDP growth

21. Which of the following the author does not identify as linguistic manifestation of corruption?

A] Asking for a favor B] Use of double meanings

C] Use of quasi-official terminology D] Relate to food item

Read the passage and answer the questions with correct answer option-

The unique Iron Age Experimental Centre at Lejre, about 40 km west of Copenhagen, serves as a museum, a classroom and a place to get away from it all. How did people live during the Iron Age? How did they support themselves? What did they eat and how did they cultivate the land? These and a myriad of other questions prodded the pioneers of the Lejre experiment.

Living in the open and working 10 hours a day, volunteers from all over Scandinavia led by 30 experts, built the first village in the ancient encampment in a matter of months. The house walls were of clay, the roofs of hay - all based on original designs. Then came the second stage - getting back to the basics of living. Families were invited to stay in the 'prehistoric village' for a week or two at a time and rough it Iron Age-style.

Initially, this experiment proved none too easy for modern Danes accustomed to central heating, but it convinced the centre that there was something to the Lejre project. Little by little, the modern Iron Agers learnt that their huts were, after all, habitable. The problems were numerous - smoke belching out from the rough-and-ready fireplaces into the rooms and so on. These problems, however, have led to some discoveries: domed smoke ovens made of clay, for example, give out more heat and consume less fuel than an open fire, and when correctly stoked, they are practically smokeless.

By contacting other museums, the Lejre team has been able to reconstruct ancient weaving looms and pottery kilns. Iron Age dyeing techniques, using local natural vegetation, have also been revived, as have ancient baking and cooking methods.

22. What is the main purpose of building the Iron Age experimental center?

A] Prehistoric village where people can stay for a week or two to get away from modern living

B] Replicate the Iron Age to get better understanding of the time and people of that era

C] To discover the differences between a doomed smoke oven and an open fire to identify the more efficient of the two

D] Revive activities of ancient women such as weaving, pottery, dyeing, cooking and baking

23. From the passage, what can be inferred to be the centre’s initial outlook towards the Lejre project?

A] It initiated the project B] It eagerly supported it

C] It felt the project was very unique D] It was apprehensive about it

24. What can be the title of the passage ?

A] Modern techniques find their way into pre-historic villages

B] Co-existence of ancient and modern times

C] Glad to be living in the 21^st Century

D] Turning back time

25. What is the meaning of the sentence, “Initially, this experiment proved none too easy for modern Danes accustomed to central heating, but it convinced the centre that there was something to the Lejre project.”?

A] Even though staying in the huts wasn’t easy for the modern people, the centre saw merit in the simple living within huts compared to expensive apartments

B] Staying in the huts was quite easy for the modern people and the centre also saw merit in the simple living within huts compared to expensive apartments

C] The way of living of the Iron Age proved difficult for the people of the modern age who are used to living in luxury

D] The way of living of the Iron Age proved very easy for the people of the modern age since it was hot inside the huts, and they were anyway used to heated rooms

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

26. “We need to call this ……….” Monika demanded.

A] Out B] At C] Off D] Away

27. His recent success ………….. him more arrogant than what he used to be.

A] Make B] Have make him C] Has made D] Was making

28. A] Guilt and self-pleasure are / B] two most strong drivers / C] of any human act.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

29. A] We’ve been saying it separately up till / B] now, but we thought it would be / C] better if we spoke in one voice.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

30.   The teacher stopped teaching class VII as there were many ______ students in the class.
A] Indisciplined                                                                                                 B] Undisciplined
C] Misdisciplined                                                                              D] Non disciplined

31. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
PREAMBLE
A] Rules B]Law C]Rights D]Introduction

32. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
CONCEITED
A] Arrogant B]False C]Deceive D]Misconception

33. Improve the sentence by choosing correct alternative to the italicized part
The shipment should not be dispatched if there are any quality issues.
A]Packed B]Received C]Opened D] Sent

34. Select the option most nearly Opposite to the word
NEGLECTED
A] Shabby B] Nurtured C]Unlike D] Pleasant

35. Select the option most nearly Opposite to the word
AMEND
A]Worsen B] Enhance C]Repair D] Finish

36. Select the option most nearly Opposite to the word
AVAILABLE
A] Short B] Lack C]Cheap D] Interested

37. In question each passage has six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The

middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up.These are labeled as P, Q, R and S. Select the proper order for the four sentences .
S1: A lot of kids were complaining of stomach ache.
S6: However the authorities are not ready to take any responsibility.
P: They also have asked school authorities to close down the school.
Q: Parents have asked food samples to be tested.
R: The problem started after their mid day meal was served.
S: Thus, it had to be something in the food they had eaten.
A] SRQP B] RSQP C] PRQS D] QSPR

38. Select the correct option that fills the blank to complete the sentence meaningfully.
It was a see-saw battle but Manpreet ______ ahead in third round for the win.
A] Flowed B] Ebbed C] Perched D] Surged
E] Receded

39. Select the correct option that fills the blank to complete the sentence meaningfully.
In the first ten years after the ______of the UGC Act, eight institutions were granted deemed university status.
A] Implification B] Enactment C] Statement D] Issue

40. Select the correct option that fills the blank to complete the sentence meaningfully.
It is sad, the way she has______ a ‘once a lifetime’ opportunity.
A] Utilized B] Squandered C] Developed D] Extended

41. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore punctuation error, if any.
A)Harish likes to play cricket B) and riding bicycles besides C) playing videogames
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

42.   Improve the sentence by choosing correct alternative to the italicized part
What have we got for dinner?
A] We got for the dinner                                                              B] We got for a dinner
C] we gotten for dinner                                                                D] No change

43. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore punctuation error, if any.
A)Christmas give us a opportunity to B) rekindle our friendship with friends and relatives C) who are otherwise forgotten in our daily chores.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

44. Select the correct option that fills the blank to complete the sentence meaningfully.
The magazine is all style and little ______
A] Readability B] Substance C] Worth D] Meaning

45. Select the correct option that fills the blank to complete the sentence meaningfully.
Our bright and beautiful environment is being systematically destroyed under the pressure of a ______ population.
A] Proliferating B] Expanding C] Widening D] Enlarging

46. Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

______ Negligence of the transport company, lot of our goods were damaged in transit.
A] Since the B] Reason being C] Due to D] Despite of

47. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
UNYOKE
A] Merge B] Split C] Federate D] Amalgamate

48. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word
CONCISE
A] Verbiage B] Compact C] Correct D] Short

49. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
INSIDIOUS
A] Insightful B] Sincere C] Sinister D] Naïve

50. STERN (OPPOSITE)
A] Lenient B] Crabby C] Unreasonable D] Tenant

51. FIGURATIVE (OPPOSITE)
A]Symbolic B] Illustrative C]Literal D] Pictoral

52. The sentences given in the question when property sequenced form a coherent paragraph Each sentence is labelled with a number Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph

1) A study to this effect suggests that the average white-collar worker demonstrates only about twenty-five per cent listening efficiency
2 ) However for trained and good listeners It is not unusual to use all the three approaches during a selling thus Improving listening efficiency
3) There are three approaches to listening listening for comprehension. listening for empathy and listening for evaluation
4) Although we spend nearly half of each communication interaction listening, we do not listen well.
5) Each approach has a particular emphasis that may help us to receive and process information In different settings
A]15432 B]35241 C] 23451 D] 43215

PASSAGE

Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly-our food, our friends, our lovers- in order to preserve their intensity, and the moment of coming back to them. For this is the moment that renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once, and so did hunters, I suppose. Part of the weariness of modern life may be that we live too much on top of each other, and are entertained and fed too regularly.

Once we were separated by hunger both from our food and families, and then we learned to value both. The men went off hunting, and the dogs went with them; the women and children waved goodbye. The cave was empty of men for days on end; nobody ate, or knew what to do. The women crouched by the fire, the wet smoke in their eyes; the children wailed; everybody was hungry. Then one night there were shouts and the barking of dogs from the hills, and the men came back loaded with meat.

This was the great reunion, and everybody gorged themselves silly, and appetite came into its own; the long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life. Now we go off to the office and come home in the evenings to cheap chicken and frozen peas. Very nice, but too much of it, too easy and regular, served up without effort or wanting. We eat, we are lucky, our faces are shining with fat, but we don't know the pleasure of being hungry any more.

Too much of anything-too much music, entertainment, happy snacks, or time spent with one's friends- creates a kind of impotence of living by which one can no longer hear, or taste, or see, or love, or remember. Life is short and precious, and appetite is one of its guardians, and loss of appetite is a sort of death. So if we are to enjoy this short life we should respect the divinity of appetite, and keep it eager and not too much blunted.

Select the correct answer option based on the passage.

53. What is the author's main argument in the passage?
A] The olden times, when the roles of men and women were clearly divided, were far more enjoyable than the present time
B] There is not enough effort required anymore to obtain food and hence the pleasure derived is not the same
C] People who don't have enough to eat enjoy life much more than those who have plentiful
D] We should deny ourselves pleasures once in a while in order to whet our desires and feel more alive

54. Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
What are the benefits of fasting?
A] It is an act against the drawbacks of appetite
B] It brings joy in eating, and one learns to appreciate food
C] It is the method to understand how civilization evolved
D] It is a punishment for the greedy and unkind.

55. What commonality has been highlighted between the sailors and hunters?
A] Neither were fed nor entertained regularly
B]They renew and refresh themselves regularly
C]They were regularly separated from their loved ones and things they liked
D] The roles of men and women were clearly divided for both professions.

56. 'The long-awaited meal became a feast to remember and an almost sacred celebration of life', what does this line imply?
A] After so many days of being hungry, the cave men and women felt alive once again after eating the food
B] People respected and were thankful for getting food after days of being hungry and also of being united with their loved ones
C] Cave men and women ate and celebrated together with the entire community making the feast really enjoyable
D] Cave men and women enjoyed themselves in the feast and performed a ceremony to thank the Gods for their safe return back home

57.   . In the question, a part of sentence is italicized. Alternative to the italicized part are given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative.
What have we got for dinner?
A] We got for the dinner                                              B] We got for a dinner
C] We gotten for dinner                                                D] No change.

58.   Select the correct option that fills the blank [s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
We were thinking ……………………..it…………………..something like a requiem for our age.
A] For, because                                                B] For, as
C] For, since                                                                       D] Of, as

59. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
[A]I feel that Mary will going/[B] for the closing ceremony of/[C] Commonwealth Games.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

60. Fill in the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
If Mr. Sharma didn’t stop hunting…………….better deals now, he would lose the opportunity……….……buy this attractive mobile phone.
A] For, to B] In, to C] To, for D] For, that

ENGLISH
PAPER 4

1.       Arrange the fragments A, B, C and D in order to form a meaningful sentence.
A. Nor Raj
B. Is going
C. To attend the class
D. Neither Rahul
A] DBCA                        B] ABCD                        C] DABC                              D] ADBC                        E] CDAB

2. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
TAMPER
A] Attach B] Timing C] Interfere D] Build

3. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
All the history books belonging to the Mughal period have been…………………from Sanskrit to English.
A] Transferred B] Dictated C] Translated D] Dubbed

4. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
CONCEITED
A] Arrogant B] False C] Deceive D] Misconception

5. Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
PARTIAL
A] Equitable B] Unbiased C] Half D] Incomplete

6. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word.
MINOR [OPPOSITE]
A] Big B] Major C] Tall D] Heavy

7. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word.
GIGANTIC
A] Huge B] Invisible C] Zero D] Tiny

8. Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word.
SPLENDID
A] Unimpressive B] Bad C] Ugly D] Radiant

9. In the question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the six sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R and S. Select the proper order for the four sentences.
S1: Soumitra lost his wallet today in the market.
S6: Apart from calling the bank, he should also lodge an FIR.
P: He had all his cards and money in the wallet.
R: He is more worried about the credit cards than the money.
S: The best thing would be to call the bank and block all his cards.
Q: This surely would avoid any kind of credit card forgery.
A] RSQP B] PRSQ C] QPRS D] SQPR

[73-76] Sixty years ago, on the evening of August 14, 1947, a few hours before Britain’s Indian Empire was formally divided into the nation-states of India and Pakistan, Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, sat down in the viceregal mansion in New Delhi to watch the latest Bob Hope movie, “My Favorite Brunette.” Large parts of the subcontinent were descending into chaos, as the implications of partitioning the Indian Empire along religious lines became clear to the millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs caught on the wrong side of the border. In the next few months, some twelve million people would be uprooted and as many as a million murdered. But on that night in mid-August the bloodbath—and the fuller consequences of hasty imperial retreat—still lay in the future, and the Mountbattens probably felt they had earned their evening’s entertainment.
While the Mountbattens were sitting down to their Bob Hope movie, India’s constituent assembly was convening in New Delhi. The moment demanded grandiloquence, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s closest disciple and soon to be India’s first Prime Minister, provided it. “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny,” he said. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”
Posterity has enshrined this speech, as Nehru clearly intended. But today his quaint phrase “tryst with destiny” resonates ominously, so enduring have been the political and psychological scars of partition. The souls of the two new nation-states immediately found utterance in brutal enmity. In Punjab, armed vigilante groups, organized along religious lines and incited by local politicians, murdered countless people, abducting and raping thousands of women. Soon, India and Pakistan were fighting a war—the first of three—over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Gandhi, reduced to despair by the seemingly endless cycle of retaliatory mass murders and displacement, was shot dead in January, 1948, by a Hindu extremist who believed that the father of the Indian nation was too soft on Muslims. Jinnah, racked with tuberculosis and overwork, died a few months later, his dream of a secular Pakistan apparently buried with him.

10.   Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
In the view of author what is the phrase "tryst with destiny" symbolize today?
A] A celebration of Indian independence                              B] An inspirational quote
C] A reminder of Gandhi's assassination                                D] A symbol of ills of partition

11.   Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
What does the author imply about the future of Pakistan?
A] It becomes a secular country                                                B] It becomes unsecular
C] It is unprosperous                                                                      D] It becomes a rogue state

12.   Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
The author persists on taking about the "Bob Hope movie" in article. Why?
A] Because the movie was classic of 1947
B] He thinks it caused the partition of sub-continent
C] He uses it to show the apathy of Britishers to sub-continent
D] It was Mountbatten's favourite movie

13.   Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
Why was Gandhi assassinated?
A] Because he was favouring the Muslims.
B] His assassin thought he was partial to the Muslims.
C] He got killed in the violence after partition.
D] None of these.

[77- 80] AT THE end of the 19th century, India's maharajahs discovered a Parisian designer called Louis Vuitton and flooded his small factory with orders for custom-made Rolls-Royce interiors, leather picnic hampers and modish polo-club bags. But after independence, when India's princes lost much of their wealth, the orders dried up. Then in 2002 LVMH, the world's largest luxury-goods group, made a triumphant return to India, opening a boutique in Delhi and another in Mumbai in 2004. Its target was the new breed of maharajah produced by India's liberalised economy: flush, flash, and growing in number.
Other purveyors of opulence followed, from Chanel to Bulgari. In recent months a multitude of swanky brands have announced plans to set up shop in India, including Dolce & Gabbana, Hermès, Jimmy Choo and Gucci. And Indian women will soon be invited to spend over $100 on bras made by La Perla, an Italian lingerie firm. Only a tiny fraction, of course, will do so. But it is India's future prospects that have excited the luxury behemoths.
India has fewer than 100,000 dollar millionaires among its one billion-plus population, according to American Express, a financial-services firm. It predicts that this number will grow by 12.8% a year for the next three years. The longer-term ascendance of India's middle class, meanwhile, has been charted by the McKinsey Global Institute, which predicts that average incomes will have tripled by 2025, lifting nearly 300m Indians out of poverty and causing the middle class to grow more than tenfold, to 583m. Demand for all kinds of consumer products is about to surge, in short. And although restrictions on foreign investment prevent retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Tesco from entering India directly, different rules apply to companies that sell their own products under a single brand, as luxury-goods firms tend to. Since January 2006 they have been allowed to take up to 51% in Indian joint ventures. India is also an attractive market for luxury goods because, unlike China, it does not have a flourishing counterfeit industry. Credit is becoming more easily available. And later this year Vogue, a fashion magazine, will launch an Indian edition.
Barriers to growth remain, however. High import duties make luxury goods expensive. Rich Indians tend to travel widely and may simply buy elsewhere. Finding suitable retail space is also proving a headache. So far most designer boutiques are situated in five star hotels.
But things are changing. Later this year Emporio, a new luxury-goods mall, will open in a prosperous neighborhood in the south of Delhi. It is likely to be the first of many. Even so, India could remain a difficult market to crack. Last October the Luxury Marketing Council, an international organization of 675 luxury-goods firms, opened its India chapter. Its boss, Devyani Raman, described India's luxury-goods market as “a cupboard full of beautiful clothes with a new outfit arriving every day—it could start to look messy without the right care”. This, she said, included everything from teaching shop assistants appropriate manners to instilling in the Indian public a proper understanding of the concept of luxury.
“How do you educate them”, she asked, “about the difference between a designer bag that costs $400 and a much cheaper leather bag that functions perfectly well?”

14.   Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
Who are the 'new breed of Maharajas' ?
A] Maharajas who recovered their wealth in 2004.
B] The children of the older Maharajas.
C] The new class of rich people which emerged in India post liberalisation.
D] None of these

15.   Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
What is the author most likely to agree to as the reason for the inflow of luxury good groups in India?
A] The fast growth in Indian economy leading to bright future prospects.
B] To serve 'the new breed of maharajas'.
C] To serve the tiny fraction of high income groups in India.
D] None of these

16. Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
Why do different rules apply to Wal-Mart and luxury good firms?
A] India is encouraging luxury goods while it doesn’t encourage Wal-Mart.
B] India is an attractive market for luxury goods.
C] There are different rules for retail firms and those that sell their own product.
D] India does not have a flourishing counterfeit industry.

17. Select the correct answer option based on the passage.
What does Devyani Raman's statement imply?
A] Beautiful clothes are an important luxury item and should be taken care of.
B] The luxury goods market is becoming disorganized.
C] The supply of beautiful clothes is very high.
D] None of these

18. Improve the sentence by selecting the correct alternative to the italicized part of the sentence.
I did not go to the school in a week after an accident
A] Through B] Within C] For D] After

19. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
He finished his novel………………..I was getting ready…………………office.
A] Because, for B] While, for C] While, to D] Since, for

20. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
All the faculty members except the HOD………………to the new curriculum proposed by Prof. Bhasin.
A] Agreed B] Agrees C] Has agreed D] Was agreed

21. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The Oriental Express is a Hyderabad-bound train from Delhi and it goes…………..Bhopal.
A] Through B] Via C] By D] Across

22. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
[A] We have been saying it separately up till [B] now, but we thought it would be [C] better if we spoke in one voice.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

23. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
We want to become internationally______________ in terms of technological research.
A] Equipped B] Great C] Renowned D] Notorious E] Familiar

24. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Scientists believe that during initial years of the ____________of the Earth, water bodies increased in size due to continuous rainfall.
A] Formative B] Formations C] Formation D] Formed

25. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any.
[A] Harish likes to play cricket [B] and riding bicycle besides [C] playing video games.
A] A B] B C] C D] No error

26. Select the correct option that fills the blank[s] to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Our bright and beautiful environment is being systematically destroyed under the pressure of a ___________population.
A] Proliferating B] Expanding C] Widening D] Enlarging

Passage
The most avid users of social-networking websites may be exhibitionist teenagers, but when it comes to more grown-up use by business people, such sites have a surprisingly long pedigree. LinkedIn, an online network for professionals that signed up its ten-millionth user this week, was launched in 2003, a few months before My Space, the biggest of the social sites. Consumer adoption of social networking has grabbed most attention since then. But interest in the business uses of the technology is rising.
Many companies are attracted by the marketing opportunities offered by community sites. But the results can be painful. Pizza Hut has a profile on MySpace devoted to a pizza-delivery driver called Ted, who helpfully lets friends in on the chain's latest promotional offers (“Dude, I just heard some scoop from the Hut,” ran one recent post). Wal-Mart started up and rapidly closed down a much-derided teenage site called The Hub last year. Reuters hopes to do better with its forthcoming site for those in the financial-services industry.
Social networking has proved to be of greatest value to companies in recruitment. Unlike a simple jobs board, social networks enable members to pass suitable vacancies on to people they know, and to refer potential candidates back to the recruiter. So employers reach not only active jobseekers but also a much larger pool of passive candidates through referrals. LinkedIn has over 350 corporate customers which pay up to $250,000 each to advertise jobs to its expanding network. Having lots of people in a network increases its value in a “super-linear” fashion, says Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's founder. He says corporate use of his service is now spreading beyond recruiters: hedge funds use it to identify and contact experts, for example.
This techniques are also gathering momentum in “knowledge management”. IBM recently unveiled a social-software platform called Lotus Connections, due out in the next few weeks, that lets company employees post detailed profiles of themselves, team up on projects and share bookmarks. One manufacturer testing the software is using it to put inexperienced members of its customer-services team in touch with the right engineers. It can also be used to identify in-house experts. Software firms will probably start bundling social features of this kind into all sorts of business software.
To work well in the business world, social networking has to clear some big hurdles. Incentives to participate in a network have to be symmetrical, for one thing. The interests of My Space members—and of jobseekers and employers—may be aligned, but it is not clear why commission-hungry salespeople would want to share their best leads with colleagues. Limiting the size of the network can reduce its value for companies, yet confidentiality is another obvious concern for companies that invite outsiders into their online communities. “Social networking sounds great in theory, but the business benefits are still unproven,” says Paul
Jackson of Forrester, a consultancy. But if who you know really does matter more than what you know, it has obvious potential. W spreading beyond recruiters: hedge funds use it to identify and contact experts, for example.

27. What meaning of avid could you infer from the passage ?
A] Dormant B] Unprincipled C] Unwanted D] Enthusiastic

28. What are the hurdles that the social networking has to overcome in order to benefit the business world ?
A] Issues of confidentiality B] Misalignment of interests
C] Misalignment of confidentiality and interests D] None of these

29. The most probable context in which the author is talking about Pizza hut ?
A] Social networking did not benefit it B] Social networking was a big success for it
C] Social networking created problems for it D] None of these

30. Why does the author call "Lotus connection" a social software platform ?
A] Because it is used for knowledge management.
B] It has a feature to allow employees to interact and cooperate with each other
C] Because IBM developed it
D] Because the service team can get in touch with the right team using it

In India, women _______ only three percent of senior management
A] Contain B] Involve
C] Comprises D] Contains
E] Comprises
(A)When the captain called the crew, (B)each of the crew members ran towards(C) the deck of the ship.

A] A B] B C] C D] No error

The origin of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), as believed by many medical experts can be congenital, whereas others believe it to be………………
A] Exogenous B] Deleterious C] Pathological D] Environmental

E] Celestial

The business_____ incurring losses since early September

A] Is being B] Has been C] Has being D] Is been

Ravi put____ the light and slept
A]For B] Down C] In D] Out
She studied______ entire chapter for an hour before the exam.

A] In the B] The C] For the D] Of the

The meeting in the office was held behind _____ doors
A] Close up B] Closing C] Closed D] Close
Find the grammatical error in this sentence.
A) Juhu beach in Mumbai was filled with B) Innumerable people who had gather there C)To see the discovered newly ancient temple

A] A B] B C] C D] No error

(A)The accumulated toxins in our body(B) did not just affect our physical being but also (C)have adverse effect on our mental faculties

A] A B] B C] C D] No error

Select the word which expresses the similar meaning of the given word.
Furious

A] swift B] angry C] calm D] Attentive

Select the word which expresses the similar meaning of the given word.
Generic

A] standard B] brand C] individual D] Specific

Select the word which expresses the similar meaning of the given word.
Ironic

A] Good-natured B] bitter C] inflexible D] disgustingly sarcastic

Give the antonym for the underlined word:

Her hands are too rough now, I remember last year they were____
A] nice B] firm C] smooth D] Fair

Constituent(OPPOSITE)
A] whole B] component C] element D] Citizen
Victorious(OPPOSITE)

A] defeated B] annexed C] destroyed D] vanquished

Select the word which expresses the similar meaning of the given word.
TIMID
A] fast B] slow C] medium D] shy

Passage
The impressive recent growth of certain sectors of the Indian economy is a necessary but insufficient condition for the elimination of extreme poverty.

In order to ensure that the poorest benefit from this growth, and also contribute to it, the expansion and improvement of the microfinance sector should be a national priority.studies suggest that the impact of microfinance on the poorest is greater than on the poor, and yet another that non-participating members of communities where microfinance operates experience socio-economic gains — suggesting strong spillover effects. Moreover, well-managed microfinance institutions (MFIs) have shown a capacity to wean themselves off of subsidies and become sustainable within a few years.

Microfinance is powerful, but it is clearly no panacea.Microfinance does not directly address some structural problems facing Indian society and the economy, and it is not yet as efficient as it will be when economies of scale are realised and a more supportive policy environment is created.

Loan products are still too inflexible, and savings and insurance services that the poor also need are not widely available due to regulatory barriers

Still, microfinance is one of the few market-based, scaleable anti-poverty solutions that is in place in India today, and the argument to scale it up to meet the overwhelming need is compelling.According to Sa-Dhan, the overall outreach is 6.5 million families and the sector-wide loan portfolio is Rs 2,500 crore.

However, this is meeting only 10% of the estimated demand. Importantly, new initiatives are expanding this success story to the some of the country's poorest regions, such as eastern and central Uttar Pradesh.

The local and national governments have an important role to play in ensuring the growth and improvement of microfinance. First and foremost, the market should be left to set interest rates, not the state. Ensuring transparency and full disclosure of rates including fees is something the government should ensure, and something that new technologies as well as reporting and data standards are already enabling.

Furthermore, government regulators should set clear criteria for allowing MFIs to mobilise savings for on-lending to the poor; this would allow for a large measure of financial independence amongst well-managed MFIs. Each Indian state could consider forming a multi-party working group to meet with microfinance leaders and have a dialogue with them about how the policy environment could be made more supportive and to clear up misperceptions.

There is an opportunity to make a real dent in hard-core poverty through microfinance.By unleashing the entrepreneurial talent of the poor, we will slowly but surely transform India in ways we can only begin to imagine today.

Which of following is not a challenge faced by microfinance in india ?
A] does not help the poorest
B] efficient when economy of scale is achieved
C] non conducting policy environment
D] structural problems of india society
Which of following is correct with regard to microfinance?

A] the supply is more than demand

B] the demand is more than supply

C] the supply and demand are well balanced

D] none of these can be inferred from the passage

Which of following will the author agree to ?
A] indian economy growth will solve the problem of poverty.

B] indian economy growth is not enough to solve the problem of poverty

C] indian economy growth aggravates the problem of poverty

D] none of these

What is the author view about interest rate?
A] the government should set them

B] there should be transparency with regard to them

C] the market forces should set them

D] both a and b

E] both b and c

Passage
The great event of the New York cultural season of 1882 was the visit of the sixty-two-year-old English philosopher and social commentator Herbert Spencer. Nowhere did Spencer have a larger or more enthusiastic following than in the United States, where such works as “Social Statics” and “The Data of Ethics” were celebrated as powerful justifications for laissez-faire capitalism. Competition was preordained; its result was progress; and any institution that stood in the way of individual liberties was violating the natural order. “Survival of the fittest”—a phrase that Charles Darwin took from Spencer—made free competition a social as well as a natural law. Andrew Carnegie admired Spencer enormously and attributed to him the decisive metaphysical epiphany of his life: “I remember that light came as in a flood and all was clear.
I had found the truth of evolution. ‘All is well since all grows better’ became my motto, my true source of comfort.” Thanks to Spencer, Victorian capitalists knew that nature was on their side.

Spencer had not come to America to give lectures or to boost his book sales. He detested public speaking, and he no longer needed money, thanks to the immense popularity of his books. A lifelong hypochondriac, he had come for his health, to reinvigorate his “greatly disordered nervous system,” and he withstood all inducements to what he called “social excitement.” But the press of distinguished American Spencerians was too great to resist, and he agreed to a farewell banquet at Delmonico’s on November 9th.

Senators, captains of industry, and professors were there in force, vying with each other in the fulsomeness of their praise. The former Secretary of State William Evarts said that Spencer was the smartest man in the world: “We recognize in the breadth of your knowledge, such knowledge as is useful to your race, a greater comprehension than any living man has presented to our generation.” The Union Army general Carl Schurz declared that there would have been no Civil War if the South had been adequately instructed in Spencer’s principles of individual liberty.And the president of Columbia, Frederick Barnard, announced that Herbert Spencer was “not only the profoundest thinker of our time, but the most capacious and most powerful intellect of all time.”

The Delmonico’s dinner, however, ended in disaster. Instead of graciously bathing in the torrents of tribute, Spencer told his admirers that they had got him seriously wrong. He did not approve of the culture of American capitalism, and, while he admired its material achievements, he was concerned that, for Americans, work had become a pathological obsession. Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork, and many were turning gray before their time—ten years earlier than the British, Spencer believed. America needed “a revised ideal of life,” he said, and it was time to “preach the gospel of relaxation.” He went on, “Life is not for learning, nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.” Having administered that slap to the face of national virtue, Spencer steamed off back to England.

Spencer was, arguably, the single most influential systematic thinker of the nineteenth century, but his influence, compared with that of Darwin, Marx, or Mill, was short-lived. In 1937, the Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons asked, “Who now reads Spencer?” Seventy years later, the question remains pertinent, even if no one now reads Talcott Parsons, either. In his day, Spencer was the greatest of philosophical hedgehogs: his popularity stemmed from the fact that he had one big, easily grasped idea and a mass of more particular ideas that supposedly flowed from the big one. The big idea was evolution, but, while Darwin applied it to species change, speculating about society and culture only with reluctance, Spencer saw evolution working everywhere. “This law of organic progress is the law of all progress,” he wrote, “whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language,

Literature, Science, [or] Art.” Spencer has been tagged as a social Darwinist, but it would be more correct to think of Darwin as a biological Spencerian. Spencer was very well known as an evolutionist long before Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published, in 1859, and people who had limited interest in the finches of the Galápagos had a great interest in whether the state should provide for the poor or whether it was right to colonize India.

William James once ungenerously remarked that Spencer was “the philosopher whom those who have no other philosopher can appreciate.” He was appropriated by a wide variety of readers, often with conflicting agendas—free marketeers, positivists, Indian and Japanese nationalists. They all had their understandings of Spencer and they all differed. Mark Francis, in “Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life” (Cornell; $45)—the first full-scale intellectual biography of Spencer since J. D. Y. Peel’s fine “Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist” (1971)—is determined to put an end to the confusion. He thinks that he has discovered the philosophical grounds of Spencer’s true coherence, and he hands out academic demerits to the commentators who have missed the underlying unities of Spencer’s scientific, philosophical, ethical, psychological, sociological, and political writings. Still, for the most part the misreaders should be forgiven. Over almost half a century of furious writing, Spencer continually reworked and reconfigured his views, copying and pasting chunks of text from the eighteen-fifties into volumes published in the eighteen-seventies and eighties.

How, then, to get Spencer right? One suggestion comes from Spencer himself: if you want to understand the origin and lineage of his ideas, you should understand where he came from and how he was formed. He put his immense talent and energy into his philosophical and political works but his genius into his “Autobiography,” a work more than a thousand pages long, on which he labored intermittently during the last two decades of his life. This is where Spencer wished people to go when they wanted to grasp how his philosophical system came to be and how its parts related to one another.

according to author y was spencer so popular in 19th century
A] he supported capitalism
B] he extended drawns theory of evaluation in the large extend
C] he had 1 broad and sinple idea and many specific idea followed from it

D] he was a friend of parsons

What must have been the most likely response/reaction of newyork audience to spencer's talk in 1882?
A] vindication B] surprise C] happiness D] depression
which people is the author referring to in the statement “ people who have limited interest in the finches of the Galapagos” ?

A] people who were not interested in the word finch
B] people who were not interested in the finches particularly form the Galapagos.
C] people who were not interested in the animal species or natural evolution
D] people who did not have interest in birds

what is the author most likely to agree to in the following ?
A] Darwin’s idea of evolution preceded that of Spencer.

B] both Darwin and Spencer got the idea at the same time.

C] Spencer idea of evolution preceded that by Darwin

D] Darwin and Spencer worked on totally different models of evolution.

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