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Directions 1 to 5: In each of the questions below,
four sentences are given which, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical
order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent
paragraph.
1.
A. It is turning off the tap.
B. And with no consensus in the exit policy, the
government is damned if it supports loss-making units and damned if it doesn’t.
C. The private sector did the same in the past because
securing legal sanction for closure was virtually impossible.
D. After years of funding the losses of public sector
companies, the government is doing the unthinkable.
(a) DACB
(b) CADB
(c) DCAB
(d) BDAC
2.
A. Trade protocols were signed, the Dollar as the medium of exchange
was ignored, trade was denominated in Rupees and the exchange rate between the
two countries was to be fixed outside the ambit of free markets.
B. A young India, some years after independence fashioning her foreign
policy of non-alignment, found it prudent to stay close to the former Soviet
Union.
C. Once upon a time, there was a super power named Soviet Union that
attracted nations apprehensive of the global aspirations of the other
superpower, the U.S.A.
D. One way of doing this was to evolve bilateral relations in trade
that could be called upon to provide a buffer against the arm-twisting by the
U.S.A.
(a) CBAD
(b) BADC
(c) BCAD
(d) CBDA
3.
A. I had heard that sort of thing before.
B. He said that his generation was the first to believe that it had no
future.
C. A young American-made earthling stopped by my house the other day to
talk about some book of mine he had read.
D. He was the son of a Boston man who had died an alcoholic vagrant.
(a) CDBA
(b) ABCD
(c) CBAD
(d) ABDC
4.
A. This is probably one of the reasons why the number
of women and men remain roughly equal in most societies.
B. Fortunately or unfortunately, individual couples
cannot really be concerned about this overall ‘error’.
C. Population growth then can be considered the error
of this central process.
D. Purely at the human level, it appears that most
couples like to have at least one living daughter and one living son when they
are in the middle ages.
(a) CBDA
(b) DACB
(c) DCBA
(d) CDAB
5
A. Against this background, the current target of 12.8
percent does not seem that high a figure.
B. A better vantage point to evaluate the 12.8 percent
target for export growth is our performance in the ‘golden years’ between 1986
– 87 and 1990 – 91, during which time exports in dollar terms increased by 17.1
percent.
C. In fact, the growth rate would have to increase
still further if we are to achieve the eighth plan target of export growth in
value terms of 13.6 percent per annum.
D. Even in 1990 – 91, the year of the Gulf War,
exports went up by 9 percent.
(a) BDAC
(b) BCAD
(c) DABC
(d) ACBD
Directions 6 to 10: In each of the three questions, a
sentence has been divided into four parts and marked a, b, c and d. One of
these parts contains a mistake in grammar, idiom or syntax. Identify that part
and mark it as the answer.
6.
(a) Pakistan was the team
(b) whom most people thought
(c) would win the World Cup
(d) held in 1987.
7.
(a) When you turn to your right,
(b) you will find a big house
(c) with a beautiful garden on the front side of it
(d) and that is my residence.
8.
(a) I have been postponing calling
(b) on my friend in the hospital,
(c) but I am planning
(d) I would go there tomorrow
9.
(a) I wondered who could be calling me at midnight
(b) and when I took the phone
(c) I found it was not other
(d) than my fiancé from Paris.
10.
(a) I want you to take the first bus
(b) and to go to the Bank
(c) and remit this cheque and then
(d) come back straight here.
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Answers
1(a) 2(d)
3(a) 4(b) 5(a)
6(b) 7(d) 8(d)
9(c) 10(b)