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Direction for questions 1 to 5: Fill in the blanks of
the following sentences using the most appropriate word or words from among the
options given.
1. Football evokes a __________ response in India
compared to cricket, which almost ___________ the nation.
a. tepid, boiling b.
lukewarm, electrifies c. turbid, fascinating d. apocryphal genuinely fascinates
2. When children become more experienced with words as
visual symbols, they find that they can gain meaning without making __________
sounds.
a. aural b.
audible c. vocal d. intelligible
3. Learning is more efficient when it is __________.
It is less efficient when it is ___________.
a. fast, slow b. rapid, turtle-slow c. tedious, like a joy ride d.
fun, drudgery
4. Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more
________ than __________.
a. imitation, innovation b. improvisation, improvement c. impracticality, knowledge d. improbability, probability
5. Science is a
sort of news agency comparable ___________ to other news agencies.
a. principally b. in principle c. in principal d. in spirit and form
Direction for questions 6 to 10: Arrange sentences A,
B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6, so as to form a logical sequence of six
sentences.
6. 1. Buddhism is a way to salvation.
A. But Buddhism is more
severely analytical.
B. In the Christian
tradition there is also a concern for the fate of human society conceived as a
whole, rather than merely as a sum or network of individuals.
C. Salvation is a property, or achievement of individuals.
D. Not only does it dissolve society into individuals,
the individual in turn is dissolved into component parts and instants, a stream
of events.
6. In modern terminology, Buddhist doctrine is reductionist.
a. ABDC
b. CBAD c. BDAC d. ABCD
7. 1. The problem of improving Indian agriculture is
both a sociological and an administrative one.
A. It also
appears that there is a direct relationship between the size of a state and
development.
B. The
issues of Indian development, and the problem of India’s agricultural sector,
will remain with us long into the next century.
C. Without
improving Indian agriculture, no liberalisation and delicensing will be able to
help
India.
D. At the
end of the day, there has to be a ferment and movement of life and action in
the vast segment of rural India.
6. When it
starts marching, India will fly.
a. DABC
b. CDBA c. ACDB d. ABCD
8. 1. Good literary magazines have always been good
because of their editors.
A. Furthermore,
to edit by committee, as it were, would prevent any magazine from finding its
own identity.
B. The more
quirky and idiosyncratic they have been, the better the magazine is, at least
as a general rule.
C. But the
number of editors one can have for a magazine should also be determined by the
number of contributions to it.
D. To have
four editors for an issue that contains only seven contributions, it is a bit
silly to start with.
6. However,
in spite of this anomaly, the magazine does acquire merit in its attempt to
give a
comprehensive view of the Indian literary scene as it
is today.
a. ABCD
b. BCDA c. ABDC d. CBAD
9. 1. It is the success story of the Indian expatriate
in the US, which today hogs much of the media coverage in India.
A. East and
West, the twain have met quite comfortably in their person, thank you.
B.
Especially in its more recent romancing – the-NRI phase.
C. Seldom
does the price of getting there – more like not getting there – or what’s going
on behind those sunny smiles get so much media hype.
D. Well
groomed, with their perfect Colgate smiles, and hair in place, they appear the
picture of confidence which comes from having arrived.
6. The
festival of feature films and documentaries made by Americans of Indian descent
being
screened this fortnight, goes a long way in filling
those gaps.
a. ACBD
b. DABC c. BDAC d. ABCD
10. 1. A market for Indian art has existed ever since the international
art scene sprang to life.
A. But interest in
architectural conceits is an unanticipated fallout of the Festivals of India of
the ’80s, which were designed to increase exports of Indian crafts.
B. Simultaneously, the
Indian elite discarded their synthetic sarees and kitsch plastic furniture and
a market came into being.
C. Western dealers, unhappy
in a market afflicted by violent price fluctuations and unpredictable profit
margins, began to look East, and found cheap antiques with irresistible appeal.
D. The fortunes of the
Delhi supremos, the Jew Town dealers in Cochin and myriad others around the
country were made.
6. A chain of command was
established, from the local contacts to the provincial dealers and up to the
big boys, who entertain the Italians and the French, cutting deals worth lakhs
in warehouses worth crores.
a. ABCD
b. DCAB c. CBAD d. CABD
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Answers
1(b) 2(b)
3(d) 4(a) 5(b)
6(b) 7(d) 8(b)
9(c) 10(c)