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1. Pick out the right sentences.
(1) I will go with you.
(2) There was nobody I could go with.
(3) I have a glass with painting on it.
(4) The curtains do not match with the
furniture.
(a)
1 & 2 (b) 2 & 3 (c) 1 & 4 (d) all
2. About the following pair of phrases,
choose the correct option.
(i) A two days’ visit
(ii) A two day’s visit
(a)
The first phrase is erroneous
(b)
The second phrase is erroneous
(c)
Both phrases are erroneous
(d)
Both phrases are correct
Directions
for Question No. 3 – 5: Read the following passage and answer within its
context.
Nearly two thousand years have passed since
a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of the greatest story every
told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry
worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an
unexpected influx, few inns would have managed to accommodate the weary guests.
Now it is the census taker that does the traveling in the fond hope that a
highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a good sampling.
Methods of gathering, recording and evaluating information have presumably been
improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to
obtain a simple head count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now
batteries of complicated statistical series furnished by governmental agencies
and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages and
seers to get a clue for future events.
The Bible does not tell us how the Roman
census takers made out, and as regards our more immediate concern, the
reliability of present-day economic forecasting, there are considerable
differences of opinion. They were aired at the celebration of the 125th
anniversary of the American Statistical Association. There was the thought that
business forecasting might well be on its way from an art to a science, and
some speakers talked about new-fangled computers and high-faulting mathematical
systems in terms of excitement and endearment, which we, at least in our
younger years when these things mattered, would have associated more readily
with the description of a fair maiden.
But others pointed to a deplorable record
of highly esteemed forecasts and forecasters with a batting average below that
of the Mets and the President-elect of the Association cautioned that
“high-powered statistical methods are usually in order where the facts are
crude and inadequate, statisticians assume.”
We left his birthday party somewhere
between hope and despair and with the conviction, not really newly acquired,
that proper statistical methods applied to ascertainable facts have their
merits in economic forecasting as long as neither forecaster nor public is
deluded into mistaking the delineation of probabilities and trends for a
prediction of certainties of mathematical exactitude.
3. According to the passage, taxation in
Roman times was based on
(a)
mobility (b) wealth (c) population (d) census takers
4. The author refers to the Mets primarily
in order to
(a)
show that sports do not depend on statistics
(b)
contrast verifiable and unverifiable methods of record keeping
(c)
indicate the changes in attitudes from Roman days to the present
(d)
illustrate the failure of statistical predictions.
5. The author’s tone can best be described
as
(a)
jocular (b) scornful (c) pessimistic (d) humanistic
6. Disinterested is closest in meaning to
(a)
bored
(b)
unbiased
(c)
not interested
(d) apathetic
7. Choose the option which is the nearly
opposite in meaning to BERATE
(a)
grant (b) praise (c) refer
(d) purchase
8. Arrange the following in the right order
to make a complete sentence
(i) with interconnected vibrating balls and
springs
(ii) in a naive sense, a field in physics
may be envisioned as if space were filled
(iii) as the displacement of a ball from
its rest position
(iv) and the strength of the field can be
visualized
(a)
ii, i, iv, iii (b) i, ii,
iii, iv (c) iv, iii, ii, i (d)
iii, iv, i, ii
9. Find the odd one out
(a)
latent
(b)
natural
(c)
inborn
(d)
inherent
10. He told the teacher that_____________.
(a)
he was liked by the whole class
(b)
you are liked by the whole class
(c)
he is liked by the whole class
(d)
you were liked by the whole class
11. Which does not make a sensible
word/phrase when added to the word: Honey
(a)
pot (b)
suckle (c) comb (d) taste
Directions
for Question No. 12-14: Read the passage carefully and answer within the
context.
In September of 1929, traders experienced a
lack of confidence in the stock market’s ability to continue its phenomenal
rise. Prices fell. For many inexperienced investors, the drop produced a panic.
They had all their money tied up in the market, and they were pressed to sell
before the prices fell even lower. Sell orders were coming in so fast that the
ticker tape at the New York Stock Exchange could not accommodate all the
transactions.
To try to reestablish confidence in the
market, a powerful group of New York bankers agreed to pool their funds and
purchase stock above current market values. Although the buy orders were
minimal, they were counting on their reputations to restore confidence on the
part of the smaller investors, thereby affecting the number of sell orders. On
Thursday, October 24, Richard Whitney, the Vice President of the New York Stock
Exchange and a broker for the J.P. Morgan Company, made the effort on their
behalf. Initially it appeared to have been successful, then, on the following
Tuesday, the crash began again and accelerated. By 1932, stocks were worth only
twenty percent of their value at the 1929 high. The results of the crash had
extended into every aspect of the economy, causing a long and painful
depression, referred to in American history as the Great Depression.
12. The new York bankers counted on
(a)
Current market values
(b)
The number of sell orders
(c)
Confidence
(d)
Their reputation
13. The cause of downfall of share market
was
(a)
Inexperienced investors
(b)
Phenomenal decrease
(c)
Lack of confidence in stock market’s ability.
(d)
Panic amongst investors.
14. Choose the word in the passage that is
an antonym of “minimal”
(a)
negligible
(b)
minimum
(c)
maximal
(d)
significant
15. Identify the correct sentence.
(a)
The office is opposite to the bank.
(b)
The office is opposite the bank.
(c)
The office is opposite from the bank.
(d)
The office is opposite of the bank
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Answers
1(a) 2(c)
3(c) 4(d) 5(b)
6(b) 7(b) 8(a)
9(a) 10(a) 11(d)
12(d) 13(c) 14(d)
15(b)