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1.
Ethologists, people who study animal behaviour, have traditionally divided an
organism’s actions into two categories: learned behaviour (based on experience)
and instinctive behaviour (based on genotype). Some current scholars reject
this distinction, claiming that all behaviour is a predictable interaction of
experience and genotype.
Which
of the following, if true, most strengthens the arguments made in the sentence
above?
A. All organisms with identical genotypes
and identical experience sometimes respond differently in different situations.
B. All organisms with different genotypes
and identical experience always respond identically in identical situations.
C. All organisms with similar genotypes and
similar experience always respond differently in identical situations.
D. All organisms with identical genotypes
and identical experience always respond identically in identical situations.
E. All organisms with identical genotypes
and different experience always respond identically in identical situations.
2.
The benefits of psychotherapy result not only from the advice the therapist
gives but also from the supportive relationship offered to the patient. Even
though this relationship may cost large amounts of money over many years, most
patients interpret the therapist’s concern for them as genuine and identify
this caring relationship as the primary factor in improving their mental
health. However, recent studies have found that only eight percent of
therapist/patient relationships continue after the patient terminates formal
paid visits.
Which
of the following is in accordance with the ideas contained in the passage?
Choose the best option.
A. Therapists are equally concerned with
moneymaking and their patients’ well-being.
B. Reading published articles of reputed
psychotherapists will hardly be beneficial.
C. Therapists can always treat mental
illness without the use of prescription drugs.
D. Therapists who terminate relationships
are likely to improve mental health of their patients. E. Eight percent of
patients will continue to improve after termination of therapy.
3.
Most of the Asian countries have trade deficit with China. Bangladesh’s trade
deficit with China this year has increased by 35%. Despite large increases in
exports to China, Indonesia’s trade deficit with China continues to increase.
So does that of South Korea, home of Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s
largest manufacturers of electronic gadgets.
Which
of the following, if true, would be most inconsistent with the above passage?
A. China is the largest manufacturer of
parts of electronic gadgets and Samsung Electronics imports parts for their
gadgets from China.
B. Exports to Bangladesh are insignificant
in proportion of China’s total exports.
C. Exports to Indonesia from China
decreased.
D. Indonesia’s chief exports are natural
resources.
E. China has trade deficit with Iran.
4.
All who studied commerce enjoy sports. No tax consultant enjoys sports. All
those who enjoy sports love classical music.
If
the above sentences are true, which of the following also must be true?
A. No one who enjoys classical music is a
tax consultant by profession.
B. Every tax consultant enjoys classical
music.
C. No tax consultant enjoys classical
music.
D. No tax consultant studied commerce.
E. No one who studied commerce enjoy
classical music.
5.
The head ______ was annoyed to see a ______ in the soup.
The
option that would best fill the blanks in the above sentence would be:
A. chief, house fly
B. chef, housefly
C. chief, house-fly
D. chef, house fly
E. chef, house-fly
6.
Which word is the opposite of the word ‘hypothesize’?
A. posit B.
propose C. conjecture D. refute E. speculate
7.
Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical
order.
A.
In fact, it is considered as a dumping ground for unwanted people in quite a
few organisations.
B.
In many parts of the country, traditional castes such as Kothari, Kotwal,
Bhandari and Bhandarkar have for generations been dealing in procuring,
stocking, distributing goods and merchandise.
C.
This is due to the fact that Indian traders have been trading with many parts
of the world.
D.
However, though the concept of warehousing has been prevalent for over 2000
years, the warehouse has not yet obtained due recognition in modem times.
E.
The concept of warehousing or stores function is not new in India.
A. E-A-C-D-B
B. E-C-B-D-A
C. A-E-C-D-B
D. D-B-A-C-E
E. E-D-B-A-C
8.
Concurrence means all of the following except:
A. Agreement B. Accord C.
Consensus D. Coincidence E. Harmony
9.
Read the sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical
order.
(i)
All it has to do is to drive up the inflation rate-examples are the damage
Lyndon Johnson’s inflationary policies did to the US economy and the damage
which consistently pro-inflationary policies have done to the economy of Italy.
(ii)
It is easy, the record shows, for a government to do harm to its domestic
economy. (iii)Contrary to what economists confidently promised forty years ago,
business cycles have not been abolished.
(iv)
They still operate pretty much the way they have been operating for the past
150 years.
(v)
But there is not the slightest evidence that any government policy to stimulate
the economy has impact, whether that policy be Keynesian, monetarist, supply-side
or neoclassical.
A. (iii)-(iv)-(ii)-(i)-(v)
B. (iii)-(v)-(ii)-(i)-(iv)
C. (ii)-(iv)-(i)-(v)-(iii)
D. (ii)-(i)-(iii)-(iv)-(v)
E. (ii)-(i)-(v)-(iii)-(iv)
10.
When income tax rates are reduced, there is an increase in taxable income, and
an increase in taxable income results in increased total income tax revenues
for the government.
Which
of the following is analogous to the argument above in terms of its logical
features?
A. If the city municipal corporation
increases taxes on property by 1% it will raise tax revenues, which can be used
for garbage disposal management.
B. The leader of the opposition in the
Parliament argued that a restriction on the import of Chinese manufacturing
products will increase the sales of Indian manufacturing products.
C. An advertisement using more than 25
words of text will not be read, and when an advertisement is not read, the
product is not sold. Therefore, the fewer words an advertisement has, the more
effective it will be in promoting its product.
D. The balance of payment of a country will
improve if the country reduces its imports and increases exports.
E. Citizens earning more than 15 lakh
rupees per annum pay at an increased tax rate of 40%. Citizens earning less
than 1 lakh rupees per annum can be exempted from paying income taxes without
decreasing the revenues of the Income Tax Department.
11.
Not wanting to present an unwarranted optimistic picture in the board meeting,
the CEO estimated the sales growth _________.
The
option that will best fill the blank in the above sentence would be:
A. strictly B. liberally
C. fancifully D. pessimistically
E. conservatively
12.
________ you have a doubt, why not go and verify? I shall be waiting in the
shade ________ this banyan tree till you come back ________ me.
The
option that best fill the blanks in the above sentence would be:
A. if; under; on
B. as; of; for
C. as; of; at
D. for; under; at
E. if; of; to
13.
It ______ not look like a great deal today, but back then it was a coup: no man
before _____to import tea directly into Ireland.
The
option that will best fill the blanks in the above sentences would be:
A. may, has dared
B. may, had dared
C. might, have dared
D. might, have ever dared
E. may, ever dared
Read
the following passage and provide appropriate answers for the questions 14 –
15.
This is one of the unanswered questions
that I want to explore. I believe that this is certainly one of the deeper
questions about technology. Wily do I say so? Without evolution technologies
seem to be born independently and improve independently. Each must come from
some unexplained mental process, some form of creativity or thinking outside
the box that brings it into existence and separately develops it. With
evolution, new technologies would be birthed in some precise way from previous
ones, albeit with considerable mid-wifing, and develop though some understood
process of adaptation. In other words, if we could understand evolution, we
could understand the most precious of processes: innovation. But, let me define
evolution before I proceed further. The word evolution has two general
meanings. One is the gradual development of something, as with the evolution of
ballet or the English madrigal. The other is the process by which all objects
of some class are related by ties of common descent from the collection of
earlier objects. The latter is what I mean by evolution.
14.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
I.
The author’s main concern is to develop a theory of innovation
II.
The author is interested in putting forth a theory of technological evolution.
III.
The author believes before developing a theory of technological evolution, one
needs to investigated whether technology evolves at all.
IV.
Evolution, as the author puts it, is a sense of common relatedness.
A. I and II B. I and IV C. II
and IV D. I, II and III E. All the above statements
15.
I.
In 1867, S. Colum Gilfillan, a sociologist traced the evolution of ships from
the dugout canoe to the modem steamship of the day.
II.
Many theories propose the existence of a technology in many forms. From these
variations, some perform better and are selected for further use and
development.
III.
Till date the people who have thought hardest about the general questions of
technology have only been social scientists. They have viewed technology from
the outside as standalone objects without studying earlier technologies.
IV.
Some technologies, for example, the laser, the jet engine, the radar, the quick
sort algorithm and the locomotive just appear, or at least they seem to just
appear unlike novel biological species which are versions of earlier objects.
V.
Radar descends from radio but you can vary 1930s radio circuits as radically
you like but you will never get radar. Radar requires a different principle.
Assuming
the above statements are true, which option would most strengthen the author’s
premise that the question that he has identified has not been solved as
yet?
A. I and III
B. II and III
C. I, III and IV
D. II, V and III
E. IV, V and III
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Answers
1(d) 2(a)
3(c) 4(d) 5(b)
6(d) 7(b) 8(e)
9(e) 10(c) 11(e)
12(e) 13(b) 14(a)
15(e)