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Directions for questions 1 to 10: The sentences given
in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
1.
A. Although there are large regional variations, it is
not infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here and there and
doing nothing.
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives
who feel free to call any time without prior appointment.
C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy
actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than outcome
orientation, and the lack of consideration for others.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the
office and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and
relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal matters even
during office hours.
a. ECADBF b. EADCFB c. EADBFC d. ABFCBE
2.
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy’s
productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the
cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the
enemy’s productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if
you’re really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy’s
productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy’s productive
capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity
is different in each case.
F. With regard to defense, the purpose of the military
is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
a. FDEBAC b. FCABED c. DEBACF d. DFEBAC
3.
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this
sorry fact without approval or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt
him.
C. He acknowledges too – in fact, he returns to the
point often – that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work and this
is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators
come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.
a. EACDB
b. ADEBC c. EACBD d. DCEAB
4.
A. Passivity is not, of course, universal.
B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in
frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well
be different.
C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the
unsubmissive.
D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the
problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from
one state to another.
E. This depends on an assessment of the political
situation.
a. BEDAC b. CDABE c. EDBAC d. ABCDE
5.
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the
nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in
the proverbial Irishman’s question: “Is this a private fight or can anyone join
in?”
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher
than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of
force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are
probably some rules.
D. However, binding the obligation to kill, members of
feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by
some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
a. DABC b. ACDB c. CBAD d. DBAC
6.
A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many
supermarkets and drug stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a
diaper, customers may buy that brand elsewhere. C. By contrast, the demand for
private-label products may be less price sensitive since it is available only
at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So the demand for branded diapers at any particular
store may be quite price sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn
Drugs diapers.
F. Then stores should set a higher incremental margin
percentage for private label diapers.
a. ABCDEF b. ABCEDF c. ADBCEF d. AEDBCF
7.
A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value
chain that enables a company to offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a
willingness to make tough tradeoffs in choosing what not to do.
D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best
practices.
E. A company must stay the course even during times of
upheaval, while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.
F. When a company’s activities fit together as a
self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must
replicate the whole system.
a. ACEDBF b. ACBDEF c. DCBEFA d. ABCEDF
8.
A. As officials, their vision of a country shouldn’t
run too far beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.
B. Ambassadors have to choose their words.
C. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear
to be denying or ignoring part of what they know.
D. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in
black Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.
E. They do a specialized job and it is necessary for
them to live ceremonial lives.
a. BCEDA b. BEDAC c. BEADC d. BCDEA
9.
A. “This face-off will continue for several months
given the strong convictions on either side,” says a senior functionary of the
high-powered task force on drought.
B. During the past week-and-half, the Central
Government has sought to deny some of the earlier apprehensions over the impact
of drought.
C. The recent revival of the rains had led to the
emergence of a line of divide between the two.
D. The state
governments, on the other hand, allege that the Centre is downplaying the
crisis only to evade its full responsibility of financial assistance that is
required to alleviate the damage.
E. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an
inadequate monsoon had been sounded by the Centre as well as most of the
states, in late July and early August.
a. EBCDA b. DBACE c. BDCAE d. ECBDA
10.
A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French
survey expeditions to Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which
found that around the middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer
shorter.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the
late 18th century was that of exact nature of the shape of the earth.
C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the
equatorial latitudes than at the poles. D. One way of doing that is to
determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian at one
degree latitude separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not
a sphere but an ‘oblate spheroid’, more curved at the equator and flatter at
the poles, the question of ‘how much more’ was yet to be established.
a. BECAD b. BEDCA c. EDACB d. EBDCA
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Answers
1(c) 2(a)
3(c) 4(d) 5(a)
6(c) 7(a) 8(c)
9(d) 10(b)