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The sentences (four/five/four between 1 and 6) given in each question, when properly sequenced form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence in labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. 1. Chinese manufactures are growing to be such a bogey for marketers in India and other countries, that they’d
probably feel a sense of camaraderie with multinationals operating in China.
(A) Watts, who’s spent three years heading the research company’s Chinese operations, has also worked in Singapore,
Vietnam, Australia and his home turf of New Zealand.
(B) What’s interesting is how they’ve gone about it, and there are probably lessons both for the multinational
competition as well as brands in India.
(C) And the first parallel that strikes him between China and India is the opportunity of the niche.
(D) Local brands are giving them a run for their money, says Alistairs Watts, managing director AC Nielsen China :
“In a number of categories, it would seem self-evident that MNC brands would dominate, but local brands have
picked themselves up, dusted themselves off, and taken them on.”
6 . “In any other country, being a niche brand would imply being a small brand, but in India and China, it could mean
hundreds of millions of consumers !”
(1) DCBA (2) DBAC (3) ADBC (4) BDAC

2. (A) Villages outside Bhubaneshwar are firmly in Panic’s grip.

(B) On being chased, they crossed the Kuakhai river and entered Naharkanta, outside Bhubaneshwar.
(C) Recently, a herd of five entered Ekamra Kanan Village, contiguous to the sanctuary.
(D) These elephants usually move in herds, attempts to drive them away only provoke an angry rampage.
(E) Marauding elephants from the adjacent Chandka Dampada sanctuary of late been straying into the surrounding
villages in search of food and water.
(1) ABCDE (2) CAEDB (3) CEDBA (4) AEDCB

3. (A) In year 2002, there have been three incidents of communal tension, in Ganganagar, Bhilwara, Barmer, but all
were successfully contained.
(B) The community is concentrated in Mewat, Jaipur, Kota, Tonk and Jodhpur and is, as a rule, well-integrated,
making communal polarisation of the Gujrat kind difficult.
(C) But no one expects Gujrat-style violence in the run-up to the sate elections.
(D) Muslims account for 8 to 9 per cent of the state population.
(1) ACDB (2) CADB (3) DBCA (4) DCBA

4. (A) Specifically for this reason, Nasscom in association with management consultancy firm KPMG, has initiated a
survey on the BCP practices of India software and business process outsourcing companies.
(B) Both large and mid-size companies are setting up such centres to highlight their global delivery model.
(C) ‘Better preparedness’ might tip the award of a particular contract to a vendor.”
(D) Sunil Mehta, V-P, Nasscom, agrees that “BCP and DRCS are definitely a factor in evaluating outsourcing to India.
(1) CBDA (2) CDBA (3) DCAB (4) ACDB

5. (A) For several years, it stoutly defended the badla system, the much maligned mechanism of carrying forward
enquiry transactions by paying a small percentage of the outstanding amount.
(B) After badla was banned in June 2001, the BSE thrived on the huge volumes spawned by badla, witnessed a
sudden dip in trading.
(C) Much of the BSE’s problems are of its own making.
(D) IT facilitated some of the major stocks scams in the past decade.
(1) CADB (2) BACD (3) BDCA (4) CDBA

Choose the word or set of words for each blank in the following questions that best fits the meaning of the
sentence.

6. The columnist was very gentle when he mentioned his friends, but he was bitter and even ..... when he discussed
people who ..... him.
(1) laconic, infuriated (2) acerbic, irritated
(3) remorseful, encouraged (4) militant, distressed
(5) stoical, alienated
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7. Despite her ..... unwillingness, the promoters were still hopeful that, given sufficient diplomacy and flattery on their
part, they could ..... her into signing the recording contract.
(1) patent, entrap (2) extreme, intimidate (3) apparent, shame (4) painful, tantalize
(5) obvious, inveigle

8. Although he was generally considered an extremely ..... individual, his testimony at the trial revealed that he had
been very ..... .
(1) intrepid, valiant (2) guileless, hypocritical
(3) abstemious, temperate (4) meek, timorous
(5) ingenuous, obtuse

9. Whereas off-Broadway theatre over the past several seasons has clearly ..... a talent for experimentation and
improvisation, one deficiency in the commercial state of late has been marked incapacity for ..... .
(1) manifested, spontaneity (2) lampooned, theatricality
(3) cultivated, orthodoxy (4) disavowed, histrionics
(5) betrayed, burlesque

10. The perpetual spinning of particles in much like that of a top, with one significant difference: unlike the top, the
particles have no need to be wound up, for ..... is one of their ..... properties.
(1) revolution, radical (2) motion, intangible (3) rotation, intrinsic (4) acceleration, lesser
(5) collision, hypothetical

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters.

11. REPUDIATE
(1) besmirch (2) appropriate (3) annoy (4) reject
(5) avow

12. PINNACLE
(1) foothills (2) card game (3) pass (4) taunt
(5) peak

13. INCLEMENT
(1) unfavourable (2) abandoned (3) kindly (4) selfish
(5) active

14. DENIGRATE
(1) refuse (2) blacken (3) terrify (4) admit
(5) review

15. COERCE
(1) recover (2) begin (3) force (4) license
(5) ignore

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.

16. AMBLE
(1) befriend (2) hasten (3) steal (4) browse
(5) prattle

17. DILATE
(1) procrastinate (2) contract (3) conclude (4) participate
(5) divert

18. HYPERBOLE
(1) velocity (2) climax (3) curve (4) understatement
(5) expansion

19. OPTIMUM
(1) pessimistic (2) knowledgable (3) worst (4) minimum
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20. SENTENTIOUS
(1) paragraphed (2) positive (3) posthumous (4) pacific
(5) wordy

Select the lettered pair in the following analogy questions that best expresses a relationship similar to
that expressed in the original capitalised pair.

21. PSEUDOPOD : AMOEBA

(1) branch : tree (2) minnow : fish (3) bristle : hedgehog (4) tentacle : octopus
(5) shell : snail

22. PAN : CAMERA

(1) ban : book (2) tune : radio (3) charge : battery (4) filter : lens
(5) rotate : periscope

23. MENTOR : GUIDE

(1) medium : advise (2) mediator : disagree (3) mercenary : demand (4) mendicant : beg
(5) merchant : consume

24. SAP : VITALITY

(1) preserve : fortitude (2) bore : tedium (3) examine : opinion (4) drain : resolve
(5) enhance : allure

25. MEANDERING : DIRECTNESS

(1) menacing, ambition (2) affable : permissiveness
(3) digressive, conciseness (4) circuitous : rotation
(5) aboveboard, openness

Objective Key
1.(2) 2.(4) 3.(2) 4.(3) 5.(1) 6.(2) 7.(5) 8.(2) 9.(1) 10.(3)
11.(4) 12.(5) 13.(1) 14.(2) 15.(3) 16.(2) 17.(2) 18.(4) 19.(3) 20.(5)
21.(4) 22.(5) 23.(4) 24.(4) 25.(3)

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