Parajumbles

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A .The inner self provides us with a touchstone to evaluate our interface in nature.
B. There is hierarchy of consciousness
C. Stones, Planets, fish and human beings represent consecutively higher levels of consciousness.
D. Interface with nature, which leads to the growth of higher consciousness, is desirable.

a) DABC b) BCAD c) DBCA d) ABCD

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A. Senior Management is usually overwhelmed by the complexity of budget setting.
B. They are rather bored by the budget process
C. It is a misconception that the budget is set by the senior management
D. Senior managers jump at a chance to accept a budget analysis recommendation for budget changes

A) CDAB B) CABD C)ABDC D) ABCD

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A. Risk stemming from fluctuation in exchange rate loans hover constantly on the horizon of foreign
investment
B. In view of higher risk, a firm contemplating foreign investment would naturally expect a higher rate of
return
C. A multinational company may be accused of profiteering, even when it may simply be following the
sound financial practice of asking a high rate of return commensurate with risks charactering the project
D. In addition, foreign investment is subject to discriminatory treatment and selection control in various
forms

A) ADBC B) CDBA C) ACBD D) BACD

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1. Jinnah initially tried to win British support for a seat in the House of Commons but failed.
A. He finally accepted fervent appeals from Muslim friends to return home and help them to revitalize the
demoralized leaderless Muslim league.
B. He was reelected to the expanded national assembly, which met for the first time in Delhi in January
1924.
C. The khilafat movement launched by Gandhi in 1920 had by then collapsed and so had the final phase of
Satyagraha in Gujarat.
D. Most congress leaders remained in prison cells, while Jinnah reorganized his Muslim league as its
president, and won the respect of ram say MacDonald
6. Jinnah advised MacDonald as soon as he became prime minister to draft a constitution for what Jinnah
still hoped would emerge as a single nation-state of independent India, with safeguards and separate
electorates for its Muslims and other minorities
a) ADCB b)BCDA c)DBAC d)ABCD

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1. vertical solutions are customized to the needs of a particular customer
A. cross industry solutions can be customized to the industry, and then to the customer that they are installed
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B. it can be said that this set of procedures and the data structures that are maintained by them became the
back bone of the business
C. once either of these is in place, they literally define the way the business will be operated
D.data relationship must be maintained
6.processes for updating the data need to be rigorously adhered to.

a)ABCD b)DBAC c)ACDB d)BDAC

Q6:
1. The free market often seems better at recognizing and promoting leaders than large organizations.
A. most of the job growth in the US this decade has come from small companies, according to cognetics, a
research organization.
B. Bill gates and Howard Schlitz stand out as heroes at a time when blue chips seem to be losing ground to
entrepreneurial companies.
C. executives of some large corporations, trying to recapture some of that dynamism, know that their staffs
must become more entrepreneurial so that future leader can be spotted early and supported
D. a theory called emergent leadership, which introduces some of the dynamics of the free market system to
corporate management, may help
6.it tries to eliminate the office politics and an uneven power distribution that can distort corporate
operation.

a)CDAB b)ABCD c)DBAC d)BACD

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A. A good budget is one which makes a sincere attempt to change the policy environment.
B. Government finances are terminally impaired with uncontrollable fiscal deficits
C. There are big gaps in perception and capability of managers
D. Industry too is not ready to deliver growth, should even the government pursue the right policies.
E. The current reforms pace is too slow.
F. The fiscal deficit has deteriorated

A)ABCDEF B)BADCEF C)FEDCBA D)EABCDF

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A. Reporting is all about back breaking work, long and very irregular hours and work pressure.
B. Most reporters join the profession with a dream of changing the world.
C. The truth is that reporters are usually passionate about their work and get their kicks from D. almost non-
stop excitement and, of course, seeing their names in print.
D. A few years later may seem to resign to the fact to the fact that reporting is
unlikely to do that.
E. Adding to that fact threat journalist the world over complains of being poorly paid in comparison to other
professional
F. and you wonder, why?
A) ACBDEF B) ABDEFC C) BDAEFC D) BADCEF

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1. The world population Day has come and gone, accompanied by the usual hysteria and Malthusian
prophesies: A billion strong and so little to go around.
A. True, many Indians are barred by circumstances of birth and socio- economic position from realizing
their full potential.
B. Yet, the lament about the lack of resources is patently specious.
C. Fact is, India has abundant resources: it is the skewed distribution system which has caused inequalities.
D. As our population has grown, so has our productivity and, today, we are in a position to export food to
other countries.
6. But for every Indian who performs below par, there is another who makes up, it is on the strength of
India's millions that we lay claim to being a great world power in the making.

(1) DBAC (2) CBAD (3) BDCA (4) ACBD

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1. Oil spills that contaminate the soil around petrol stations could soon be cleaned up more easily using
sound waves.
A. Researchers have been trying out sound waves to break up the droplets containing these heavier fractions
so they can be washed out.
B. The longer, heavier hydrocarbons often stay trapped in large droplets between the grains of the soil
C. Techniques that clean the soil in situ tend to remove only the shorter hydrocarbon chains which are more
soluble in ground water
D. At the moment, the dirty soil must be dug up and replaced.
6. Initial results show that this may provide an effective solution to the problem

• DCBA 2.BACD 3. DCAB 4.BADC

Q11:

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• i knew we were right, Neil Simon thought to himself as the steward brought him a glass of Cardhu
single malt.
A. Simon, the Director in charge of international franchise operations at Smith & Robin, a $8-billion
marquee garment retailer, had arrived in India exactly seven days back with mixed feelings.
B. The whiskey felt good after a week when he was allowed to drink nothing but champagne by his
hosts in India.
C. Simon signaled to the steward that he’d like a refill – he planned to take his time over the second
one – and thought about the week that had been.
D. Ah, but then they had had a reason to celebrate.
E. He’d been at S & R less than eight months – he had been hired when the company decided to
abandon its twenty-year-old strategy of expanding geographically through owned outlets as against
franchised ones – but he knew the India trip was one of those things that could make or break his
career.

1] ABCDE 2] CDAEB 3] ECBDA 4] BDCAE

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 • What’s a jarwal?
B. The jarwal stared at her malevolently; saliva dripping from its gaping jaws, making its fearsome
teeth glistens in the harsh winter sunlight.
C. I don’t know.
D. A bit like in Alien, only more like the maggot.
E. Something fierce and nasty.
F. A huge maggot-like beastie with a ferocious temper and huge teeth.

1] ACEBDF 2] AECBDE 2] BACEDF 4] BACEFD

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• They soon learnt the sad inadequacy of bow and arrow and examples of successful resistance are
rare.
B. They were too close to the main communications between North and South
C. Over the centuries the fringes of tribal territory have steadily receded.
D. On their western extremities in Maharashtra and Rajasthan the Bhil people still occasionally
waylay travelers though they are now largely settled and Hinduised.
E. The sensitive, good-natured and gentle tribals were no match for the crusading incursions of
Rajputs, Muslims and Marathas.

1) DCAEB 2) CEADB 3) CAEDB 4) CBDEA

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A) And this because it doesn’t want to be dubbed a spoilsport in the region.
(B) If you stop griming and bearing it, you would be declared a loser,” says a source, throwing up his hands
in absolute exasperation.
(C) There are many takers for this line of argument.
(D) But, ironically, say many government sources, the very political class that lambastes Pakistan for
sponsoring
terrorism is shying away from matching its rhetoric with act.
(E) It is like being in a popularity contest.
(1) DCAEB (2) ADAEB (3) CBADE (4) EBCDA

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A) Malignancies were diagnosed in three family members on the basis of this abnormality and then
surgically removed.
B) It appears to be the first instance in which this specific abnormality - in this case an exchange of material
between the chromosomes number three and eight in all cells of the person's body - has been traced from
generation to generation and thus permitted identification of cancer patients before they had any symptoms.
C) An inherited genetic abnormality has been linked to a specific type of kidney cancer in a family in which
ten members were affected over three generations.
D) The discovery by scientists at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, USA, provides a
potentially important clue to the origin of at least some cancers.

1) DCAB 2) CBDA 3) ABCD 4) DABC

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1. The human society is plagued with environmental crisis.
A. over population, depleting ozone layer, global warming, deforestation, soil erosion, depletion of non-
renewable energy sources etc. are the issues haunting our minds.
B. The plunder of environment since times immemorial is fast reaching a point of no return.
C. it is an irony that human being as soon as he appeared on the earth, took everything including the nature
for granted.
D. The list of ecological mishaps is growing longer each day.
6. The prestigious world watch institute had forewarned in 1992 that, we have only four decades to gain
control over the major environmental problems to arrest the irreversible changes.

(1)ABCD (2) DACB (3) CBAD (4) BADC

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A curved titanium plate with five tiny screws would hold the bone in place and help reform the damaged
margin of the eye.
B. Deftly, he replaced the wedge of bone in Tenneh's face.
C. Intravenous antibiotics would take care of any lingering infection.
D. When he'd eliminated most of the diseased tissue, he stopped.

1) ABCD 2) DCAB 3) DCBA 4) ACBD

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1. He came finally to a road from which he could see in the distance dark and agitated bodies of troops,
smoke-fringed.
A. The wounded men were cursing, groaning, and wailing in the air, always was a mighty swell of sound
that it seemed could sway the earth.
B. With the courageous words of the artillery and the spiteful sentences of the musketry mingled red cheers.
C. And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed; one of the wounded men had a
shoeful of blood.
D. There was a blood-stained crowd streaming to the rear.
6. He hopped like a schoolboy in a game; he was laughing hysterically.

1] ADBC 2]CBDA 3] DABC 4] ABCD

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A It is not with pessimism that one confronts man with the truth of this suffering
B. Buddhism is however a reminder that even when all the suffering that is rooted in social maladjustment
has been done away with, man will still be confronted with the problem of his destiny, of decay and death,
and of the evanescence of everything that he tries to change desperately
C. The smile on the Buddha's face indeed carries the promise that if man strives hard enough, he can even
conquer this suffering
D. There is much suffering in the world which is socially conditioned and which demands social cures
1) BACD 2) DBAC 3) CDBA 3) ABCD

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A. A.This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expenditions 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 exact nature of the shape of the
earth.
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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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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

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A. most people, walking for pleasure, contemplate for three minutes; when
B. a couple will stand there talking for half an hour on a fine afternoon
C. some one is always looking into the river near Waterloo Bridge
D. having compared the occasion with other occasions, or made some sentence, they pass on

1)ABDC 2)CADB 3)BCAD 4)CBAD

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1. 1.The advice from the others on Mr. Stern’s team is just as diverse
A. Mr. Stern does not say
B. Not all the money managers he wanted to see wanted to see him.
C How many of the nine have beaten S & P 500 over, say, the past 20 years and by how much exactly?
D. But which of them is the most successful?
6. And he rewards those who granted him an interview with uncritical acclaim

1)CBAD 2)DCAB 3)CDAB 3)DBCA

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1. After eight miserable years during which she had written nothing that satisfied her, she soon established
the pattern of her day.
A. Here she revised her early novels and wrote the later ones.
B. Emma, Mansfield Park and Persuasion
C. By now she knew the reality of being a poor relation, of the little snubs and disappointments that went
with life as a spinster.
D. Rising early to practice the piano and prepare breakfast, she then settled down to write in the ground-
floor parlour.
6. Yet she did not lose her sense of comedy while continuing to satirize the social inequalities she observed.

1)DACB 2)DCBA 3)BDAC 4)DABC

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A. So if determination were true, we would be trapped by the past and free will would be an illusion.
B. Wouldn't our choices just be one more outcome determined by the past?
C. Many philosophers hold that determinism is at odds with free will.
D. According to determinism, we can't just decide to disobey the immutable laws that govern the universe.
E. After all, if everything that happens is completely determined by the past, how can our choices be free?

1. CBDAE 2. CEBDA 3. DEBCA 4. ACEBD

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A. Therefore, the second one aims at undercutting the strength factors in the first.
B. Or it might stem simply from the overconfidence of being a leader.
C. White offensive principle one emphasizes on the strength of the leader's position, which makes it a
leader.
D. Offensive principle two is about finding the weakness in the strength of the leader.
E .The weakness of the leader may lie in a point which is overlooked as unimportant.

1) CADBE 2) CDBEA 3) CADEB 4) CDAEB

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1. Buybacks are a more tax-efficient form of cash distribution to the firm than dividends
A. However, there are some concerns that need to be addressed in the currently uncertain economic climate
in India
B. Furthermore, they create value through changes in capital structure.
C. And will the tax shield be fully utilized?
D. Taxable income in India can be highly cyclical if the economy continues to nose-dive
6. In the absence of clear answers, a case for increased valuation due to changes in capital structure on
account of buybacks remains tenuous.

a. ABDC b. BADC c.DBAC d.BCDA

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1. Some business executives have adapted a 'wait and see' attitude.
A. Like a driver changing a tyre in the middle o f the highway they hope an oncoming vehicle will not hit
them before their work is done.
B. Discussions with several executives in both situations show that they recognize the danger is not
applying them to understanding the shape of future.
C. Others are too busy bailing themselves out of troubles already caused by the changes that have taken
place around them to have any time to reflect on the future.
D. Like deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck, they risk being turn over.
6. Traditional ways of forecasting and strategic planning are not effective any longer.

a. DCAB b.ADCB c.DABC d.ACDB

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. 1. People today are indifferent to the aesthetic products of the past.
A. And it has no value for the human species at large.
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B That is the position of both the industrial magnate, trade unionist or communist.
C. They are suspicious of them; decline to receive them, until thay have been disinfected in Russia.
D. In England, still the abode of private enterprises, indifference predominates.
6. As a rule I am afraid to bore them with it lest I lose their acquaintance.

1. ABDC 2. DABC 3. BCDA 4. CADB

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A. This will ensure that MBA graduates will be more socially committed.
B. Aspirants have to humane, sensitive and caring.
C. Now it takes more than business sense to secure admission to Harvard Business School.
D. The idea is to reshape the MBA experience from admission to job finding.

1. CDAB 2. CBDA 3. ACBD 4. BACD

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. A. This is obvious with respect to the bulk of the relevant problems and disappointingly small predictive
and controlling power of the available theories.
B. Some of the accident shortcomings of the scientific method are of particular importance at present.
C There is little doubt that in contrast to the relatively mature state of physics, chemistry and astronomy, the
scientific method has yielded, so far comparatively poor results in the social sciences and humanities.
D The lag in the sciences is apparent from the largely controversial state of expert opinion.

1. CABD 2. BCDA 3. ABCD 4. DABC

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A. Moreover, as software is often built on the achievements of others, writing code could become a legal
hurdle race.
B. Critics claim that such intellectual monopolies hinder innovation, because software giants can use them
to attack fledgling competitors.
C. By analogy, if Haydn had patented the symphony form, Mozart would have been in trouble.
D. The of patents for software and business methods has been causing a stir in America ever since the
Patents and Trademark Office started issuing patents on internet methods in 1998, most famously that for
one-click shopping.
E. Proponents argue that these patents provide the necessary incentive to innovate at a time when more
inventions are computer related.

(1) DBCAE (2) DEBAC (3) DECBA (4) DBEAC

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A. Now she has started a hunger strike, according to the American government, which slapped strict
sanctions on Myanmar, in protest at such repression.
B. For military-ruled Myanmar, it is either the best of times or the worst of times, depending on whom you
believe.
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C. They even have a ‘map’ to take the country there, but they have not yet made clear whether they will
allow Miss Suu Kyi along for the ride, nor how long the trip will take.
D. The generals, however, say that Miss Suu Kyi is fine, and that Myanmar will soon be on the road to
democracy.
E. The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), as the country’s junta styles itself, has detained Aung
San Suu Kyi, the country’s most prominent dissident and a winner of the Nobel peace prize, at a secret
location for over three months.

(1) EDACB (2) BEDCA (3) EBACD (4) BEADC

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A. America spends more on defence than the next dozen countries combined.
B. The country is exceptional in more profound ways – it is more strongly individualistic than Europe, more
patriotic, more religious and culturally more conservative.
C. Military might is only a symptom of what makes America itself unusual.
D. The best indication of American exceptionalism is military power.
E. The National Security Strategy of 2002 says America must ensure that its current military dominance –
often described as thegreatest since Rome’s – is not even challenged, let alone surpassed.

(1) DAECB (2) ACBED (3) EADCB (4) CAEDB

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A.When bids for an item are based on estimates of the item’s value, the winner is the bidder who
overestimates this value the most.
B. Intuitively, most people bid more aggressively when faced with more bidders, but more aggressive
bidding increases the chances that a bidder will fall victim to the winner’s curse
C. The mathematical explanation for the winner’s curse, first observed in bidding for oil fields, reveals the
subtle intricacies of this apparently simple game.
D. The classroom experiment demonstrating the winner’s curse illustrates the complex relationship between
game theory, human intuition, and optimal decision making.
E. As more bidders enter the auction, the range of estimates increases…which in turn increases the
likelihood that the highest bid will exceed the true value.

1. BDCAE 2.CBDEA 3.DCAEB 4.CDABE

ANS:
1.d 2.b 3.a 4.d 5.c 6-d 7-C 8-C 9-3 10-1 11-4 12-4
13-4 14-4 15-

1 16 2 17 3 18 3 19 2 20 2 21 3 22 4 23 2 24 4

25 2 26 4 27 b 28 a 29 2 30 4 31 2 32 2 33 4 34 1 35 3

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A)The concept is termed 'intellectual' beca
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use it applies to products of the mind and 'property' because the products belong to the person whose mental
efforts created them
B)What exactly is intellectual property?
C)Control over access to certain types of knowledge /information is referred to as intellectual property
D)Knowledge is free but its flow is restricted
E)The 20th century could be summed up as the age of information revlution

1)ABCDE 2)BCDEA 3)DCBAE4)EDCBA

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A)while HLL scours high and low just to turn a positive topline ,Amway schorches ever upward-in another
five years,Amway could even be the country's second largest FMCG player,reckons Amway's former
country chief Sudershan banerjee
B)yet,business is about growth,and the contrast in pace is dizzing
C)not that one is eating the other's lunch;their markets do not overlap much,and India offers enormous
potential
D)but William Pickney,the MD and CEO,Amway India gets to sleep a lot easier than Lever chief MS
Banga.
E)in absolute terms,thats not even as large as the ad budget of hindustan lever ltd(HLL).

1)EDCBA 2)AEDBC 3)EADBC 4)ABEDC

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1. Fine, Hyderabad has an efficient administration and is the capital of a state that has a laptop toting power
point friendly Chief Minister, but for a long time, barring an odd Microsoft or two, that was all it had.
(A) Oracle, for instance, is acquiring 7.5 acres of land to build its largest campus outside the US–an official
at the state IT department says the 8,00,000 sq ft centre will dwarf the company’s 2,50,000 sq ft one in
Bangalore.
(B) Now, circa 2003, the city may finally be able to live up to the hype that was built around it.
(C) Now, there’s talk of Boeing and Bombardier exploring options of touching down in erstwhile
Hyderabad; Oracle and Dell are hitting the city soon; and Hyderabad has emerged a favorite destination of
IT-enabled services companies.
(D) In January this year, Infosys opened a 30-acre facility, (3,11,000 square ft of built up space in the city.
6. And Dell’s ITes operations will soon start in Hyderabad’s HiTec city. “There are some other big names,”
says Col M. Vijay Kumar, the Hyderabad Director of the Software Technology Parks of India, displaying a
reticence that is uncharacteristic of the city.

(1) BDAC (2) BCDA (3) DCBA (4) CBDA

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(A) But over the years, as clients turned the screws on their advertising budgets, expecting an ever-
increasing bang from their ad buck, the person who is helping put the most effective advertising together is
the researcher.
(B) And when screw-ups happen, it’s usually because the consumer has not been researched adequately.
(C) For instance, at her employer WPP Media World Wide, where Byfield heads consumer insight, there’s
more than $16 billion (Rs.76,464 crore) of advertising spend at stake each year.
(D) Says, Byfield : “We have enough of data, but sometimes we may be lacking in, insights.”
(E) When Sheila Byfield began researching media 12 years ago, it was a job that got the smallest and the
remotest cabin in the offices of major advertising agencies.

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(1) EACBD (2) DEACB (3) ECABD (4) DAECB

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AThey are particularly furious because they believe the sanctions–which they blame on another US-led war–
have ruined their lives, and their future.
(B) “They stopped us from thinking and dreaming like others do.”
(C) “The sanctions were economic, intellectual, scientific, and even in sport,” said one young man who
attended the rally.
(D) Ever since the 12th anniversary of the 1991 war against Iraq on January 17, 2003, groups of Iraqis had
expressed their anger in government-sanctioned protests–denouncing the UN inspectors or the US for
planning war against them.
(E) On the night of the anniversary, it was students and youth.

(1) DEACB (2) DAECB (3) EDACB (4) EADCB

36 4
37 1
38 1
39 1
40 1

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A“You are the crucial component in the transformation of the US-India relationship,” said ambassador
Blackwill.
(B) Mani summed it up: “If we can sustain the cohesion reflected here and successfully act on our collective
vision as alumni of a world class institution we will become a ‘tour de force’ in enhancing India’s well-
being and engagement with the US and the rest of the world.”
(C) The US-India trade relationship, which he describes as “flat as a chapati,” needs a leavening agent.
(D) What better than the IITs and their alumni ?
(E) Now that the IIT alumni have defined their charter it is up to them to step up to the plate and deliver on
the promise.

(1) EBACD (2) DEBAC (3) BDEAC (4) BEACD

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1.But to achieve 8 per cent economic growth, India needs to power-lift its exports from $46 billion now to
about $100 billion.
(A) L.Mansingh, feels that the industrial cluster towns with exports potential like Tiruppur (hosiery) Panipat
(woollen blankets) and Ludhiana (woollen knitwear), which have efficient assembly-line production
facilities, only need to be promoted and their infrastructure upgraded to transform them into export zones.
(B) Even then, we’d do less than what China does now.
(C) But Mansingh, director-general for foreign trade is optimistic, even as he acknowledges that the new
SEZ scheme may not have a significant impact on trade or economy or offset the high transaction cost
problem that plagues our exports.
(D) Ajanta Clocks, for instance, saw drastic cut in production cycle from one month in India to two days
when it went to China.
6. It’s hard uphill road ahead if India wants to increase its share in world trade from the present 0.65 per
cent.

(1) DCBA (2) DABC (3) ADCB (4) ADBC

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(A) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of
disparity,its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
(B) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women
from less thriving classes.
(C) It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation - being low class and being female.-
that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
(D) A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer
women very severely. .
(E) Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class.

1. EABDC 2. EBDCA 3. DAEBC 4. BECDA

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(A) This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe - up to a point.
(B) It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
(C) Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
(D) The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can describe
their fluctuations.
(E) This is how what business schools now call modem finance was born.

1. ADCBE 2. EBDCA 3. ABDCE 4. DCBEA

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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.
( a) BDAC (b) CDAB( c) DBAC ( d) ABCD

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42 4
43 2
44 4
45 a

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A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people sitting
here together 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.

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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
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( a) ECADBF ( b) EADCFB ( c) EADBFC ( d) ABFCBE

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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 Irisman’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 or 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

48
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 steam of events.
6. In modern terminology, Buddhist doctrine is reductionist.

[1] ABCD [2] CBAD [3] BDAC[4] ABCD

49
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 problems 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.

[1] DABC [2] CDBA [3] ACDB [4] ABCD

50
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.
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D. To have four editors for an issue that contains only seven contributions 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.

[1] ABCD [2] BCDA [3] ABDC [4] CBAD

46 a
47 b
48 2
49 4
50 2

51
1. It's 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.

[1] ACBD [2] DABC [3] BDAC [4] ABCD

52
1. The wind had savage allies.
A. If it had not been for my closely fitted helmet, the explosions might have shattered my eardrums.
B. The first clap of thunder came as a deafening explosion that literally shook my teeth.
C. I didn't hear the thunder; I actually felt it -- an almost unbearable physical experience.
D. I saw lightning all around me in every shape imaginable.
6. When very close, it began raining so torrentially that I thought I would drown in mid-air.

[1] BCAD [2] CADB [3] CBDA [4] ACDB

53
A)Investment banking income -- primarily fees from putting together initial public offerings and other deals
-- is very volatile.
B)Like many financial-services companies, Merrill has long wrestled with the cyclical nature of revenues.
C)One reason, says Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegal , "is the fact that the large brokerage firms
have not done well. Anyone who objectively looks at them sees that very few have done well. The fees are
high and the performance is extremely mediocre."
D)Trading on the firm's own account creates gains in some years, losses in others. Commission revenue
depends on investors' eagerness to trade, which varies as the market goes up or down.
E)The specialists, such as free-standing mutual fund companies like Fidelity and Vanguard, have done far
better at attracting fund investors than the multi-function firms like Merrill, which has actually suffered net
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reductions in fund assets since the late 1990s.

A)ABDCE B)EBDCA C)BADEC D)ECBDA

54
A.The decision comes two days after Karnataka agreed to release 1200 cusecs of cavery water daily to the
mettur reservoir in TN till the end of february.
B.The Karnataka government has decided to release 4500 cusecs of Cavery water daily to TN for a week.
C."We have decided to release 4500 cusecs for a week.What purpose would it have served if we release the
water later.We want to save the standing crops."State Law and Parliamentary affairs minister D B Chandre
Gowda said.
D. On Monday,Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna had agreed to release 1200 cusecs on a daily basis
after the centre had asked both Karnataka and TN to work out the possibility of enhancing the quantum of
release in the next two weeks.

1 DBAC 2 CBDA 3 CBAD 4 BCAD

55
AThe avian flu that is steadily making its way around the globe will develop into a pandemic that will kill
tens of millions, create chaos in companies and send the world economy into a tailspin.
B)Or will it fizzle out?
C)That uncertainty represents a huge challenge for governments, corporations and citizens worldwide: No
one knows what will happen to the avian influenza virus in the coming months and years. Will it mutate into
a strain that will allow people to readily infect others and sicken untold numbers?
D)Nonetheless, many people are taking into account scenarios ranging from mild to severe in order to plan
for what could turn out to be a calamity.
E)Or it won't.

1)AECBD 2)ABCED 3)DAECB 4)DCBAE

51 3
52 1
53 c
54 4
55 1

56
A)Clarity had its limits, though.
B)Still, Greenspan was very careful to keep financial markets informed, telegraphing every Fed move.
C)When a senator said that he understood the chairman's comment, Greenspan famously replied: "If you
understood what I said, I must have misspoke."
D)The policy of "no surprises" was a major factor in keeping financial markets smooth.
E)Almost never did the FOMC surprise the markets.

1)ABCED 2)EDACB 3)ACBED 4)DECBA

57
A)Now architects are starting to use the ubiquitous rectangular shipping units to build elegant, relatively
inexpensive, quickly constructed, and surprisingly sturdy homes.
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B)Or that their house had been to China and back?
C)Aluminum or steel shipping containers -- used by the global freight business since the 1930s to transport
goods -- have been adapted by leading architects and designers (such as Japan's Shigeru Ban) in concept or
museum projects for some years.
D)How many people can say the previous occupiers of their home were 20,000 toy dolls, 6,000 pairs of
sneakers, or 500 computer monitors?

1) ACDB 2)DBCA 3)ACDB 4)ACBD

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A) Lula’s strategists realise this, and the administration has begun to make explicit overtures to the country’s
poor majority, where Lula’s support is the strongest.
B) Among the bottom half of the country’s population, the poor, approval for Lula and his administration is
high.
C) Among the wealthier segments of the population, support for the PT administration drops off.
D)But what is different about the current scenario is that now, unlike a year ago, sympathies for Lula have
become more polarised.
E)The party’s support in congress is the weakest since its election, and internal discussions within the PT
have once again returned to reassessing its policy of broad alliances with centrist parties.

1)EBCAD 2)DABCE 3) BCAED 4)ABCED

59

A.Using the tragedies that took place in Handwara to attack the dialogue process is at best disingenuous —
and at worst plain dishonest.
B Not a word of regret was voiced by Mirwaiz Farooq over the recent assassination of State Education
Minister G.N. Lone — conduct which was of a piece with the stoic silence he has long maintained on the
murder of civilians like Tasleen.
C. Sadly, the APHC's moral compass has long pointed in the direction of the expedient.
D. Indeed, it is probable that the APHC will accept an invitation for further dialogue with Dr. Singh as long
as its political adversaries are not also at the table.
E. Although protected by guards provided by the Jammu and Kashmir Government, the APHC chairman
and his colleagues have never summoned the courage to speak out against the carnage.

1. DEACB 2. DACBE 3. CDEAB 4. DBACE

60
1.the INdian states biggest failure has been in building human capabilities;as a result of which 40%Inidans
remain illiterate.
A)Simultaneously,there is a growing,impatient deand for these goods from below.
B)It is primarily because of grass root pressures from below as social democracy has created upward
mobility among the lower castes.
C)Indian literacy has already risen by 10% in the past 6 years.
D)We have now realised that primary education and primary healthcare are the two most powerful ways to
eradicate poverty.
6.The push for liberal econimic reforms combined with investment in human capabilities will ensure that
millions of indians lift themselves from poverty within a generation.
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1)DACB 2)ABCD 3)DCAB 4)ACBD

56 3
57 2
58 2
59 2
60 1

61
1.It is undisputed that roads bring multifacetd benfits to villagers , the most important of which is poverty
alleviation.
A)Road connectivity stimulates the rural economy and its effects are transmitted to the entire economic
structure of rural society and it will reduce the pressure on the urban areas.
B)The impact is palpalable in the villager's social life, be it better medical care, increased attendance in
schools or higher levels of interaction.
C)Rural roads also change life patterns by bringing in awareness about modern means of living like cooking
dressing and recreation.
D)Increase in agricultural production, better prices for the produce , creation of new employment
opportunities are only some of the economic benifits.
6. Rural connectivity triggering a reverse immigration from urban to rural areas is a distinct possibility.

1)ABCD 2)BDAC 3)CBAD 4)DBCA

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A)Now, more than ever, we need to understand the past before trying to shape the future.
B)So far as we know, humans are unique among Earth's creatures in being able to interpret and learn from
their past.
C) The making of the chipped stones, the crude tool of our earliest ancestors, represent the beginning of
technology.
D) Humans, from the very beginning, were thinkers and makers at the same time.

1) ABCD 2) DBCA 3) BADC 4) CDAB.

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(a) And hide the hearts of one people from these of another
(b) Be recognized in international affairs
(c) If may be long before the law of love will
(d) The machineries of government stand between.

(a). ABCD (b). DCBA (c)CBDA (d). BCDA

64)
(a) To forgive is not to forget
(b) There is no merit in loving an enemy
(c) The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.
(d) When you forget him for a friend

(a). ABCD (b). ACBD (c)DCBA (d). BCDA

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65)
(a) My religion is based on
(b) Truth and non violence
(c ) Truth is my god
(d) Non violence is the means of realizing him

(a). DCBA (b). DBCA (c)DCBA (d). ABCD

61 4
62 3
63 c
64 b
65 d

66
1. The only virtue I want to claim is truth and non violence
(a) I lay no claim to superhuman powers
(b) My services have many limitations
(c ) I want non I wear the same corruptible flesh that the weakest of my
(d) Follow being wear and on these fore is liable to err as any.
2. but god has up to now blessed them in spite of in perfection

(a). ACDB (b). ABCD (c)ADCB (d). DCBA

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(a) methods even to serve the noblest of causes
(b) I am an uncompromising opponent of violent.
(c ) Admire worthy motives.
(d) However much I may sympathies with and

(a). ABCD (b). DCBA (c)DBCA (d). BCDA

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(a) Nonviolence is not quality to be evolved
(b) or expressed to order. It is an
(c) Upon intense individual effort
(d) inward growth depending for sustenance

(a). ABCD (b). ACBD (c)ABDC (d). CDBA

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(a) disposal of mankind it is mightier
(b) then the mightiest weapon of
(c) non violence is the greatest force at the
(d) destruction devised by the in genuity of man

(a). CABD (b). ABCD (c) CBAD (d). ABCD

70
(a) Love lived on island. One day
(b) Happiness, Sadness, knowledge and
(c) The Island began to sink so all
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(d) The felling prepared the boats to leave

(a). BADC (b). ABDC (c) BADC (d). BACD

66 a
67 b
68 c
69 a
70 b

71
(a) Vanity said “ you are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat”
(b) for help “ I can’t help you”
(c) beautiful vessel she cried out
(d) The love saw vanity in a

(a). DCBA (b). DCAB (c) ABCD (d). ACBD

72
(a) Sadness declined, saying he needed to be alone. This, love saw
(b) happiness love carried out “ Happiness, please take me with you”
(c) Next love pleaded with Sadness “ please let me go with you “ but
(d) But happiness was so overjoyed that he didn’t hear love calling to him

(a). CADB (b). CABD (c) ACBD (d). ACDB

73
(a) Love began to cry. Then, she heard a voice “ Come leave,
(b) I will take you with me “ it was an elder.
(c) When they arrived an land the elder want to his way. Love realized how much she owed the elder
(d) Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name.

(a). ABDC (b). ABCD (c) CDAB (d). DCBA

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(a) Who helped me
(b) It was time, knowledge an answered.
(c) Love then found knowledge and asked
(d) Only time is capable of understanding how great love is

(a). CDAB (b). CBAD (c) CABD (d). CDBA

75
A) The very root of the word emotion is motere,the Latin verb "to move" plus the
prefix "e-"to connote "move away,” suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in
every emotion.
B) In our emotional repertoire each emotion plays a unique role, as revealed by their
distinctive biological signatures
C) All emotions are, in essence ,impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life

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that evolution has instilled in us.
D) That emotion leads to actions is most obvious in watching animals or children; it is
only in "civilized" adults we so often find the great anomaly in the animal kingdom,
emotions-root impulses to act -divorced from obvious reaction.

1) CADB 2) CBAD 3) ABCD 4) BCAD

71 a
72 b
73 a
74 c
75 1

76
A. Finally, democracy goes better with coke- consumption rises with political freedom. Have a cola, North
Korea!
B. In the same spirit we wondered how the globe looks when viewed through the bottom of a Cocoa- Cola
bottle.
C. There is a lose but clearly positive relationship between Coke consumption and wealth perhaps not
surprisingly.
D. Even clearer is the relationship between cola and an index developed by the U.N to show general quality
of life -Coke consumption takes off at the upper end of the development scale.
E. Few Economic indicators are as often cited as our Big Mac Index , which uses hamburger prices as the
index of currency parity.
F. It turns out that fizzy mass market stuff- ie, capitalism- is good for you.

1. EBFCDA 2.CFDEBA 3.EBCAFD 4.ACDEBF

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• secrets once destined for the grave are nowadays exposed in no more time than it takes to analyse a
swab or two.
B. They can, then take a trip to meet their long lost cousins.
C. Americans and Europeans of Afro Carribean origin can find their remarkable accuracy where in
Africa their DNA came from.
D. DNA based pattern kits can be purchased over internet for less than $250.
E. When James Watson and Francis Crick first described the double helix structure of the DNA
molecule 50 years ago, they could not have imagined what a powerful light it would throw upon our
past.

1. EADCB 2. DAEBC. 3. ACBDE 4. ECBDA

78
A)The overall goal is to represent through resource materials the incredible diversity of Aboriginal peoples
in worldviews, languages, knowledge, cultural heritages, and political, economic and social structures.
B)LAC offers a wide variety of programs, services and resources available for consultation in person, on our
web site or through your local library.
C)Welcome to the Circle of Aboriginal Heritage and Knowledge of Library and Archives Canada (LAC), a
cultural institution whose mandate is to serve all Canadians by protecting, promoting and making accessible
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Canada's documentary heritage.
D)LAC has an extensive collection of resources by or about Aboriginal peoples.
E)Here we will gather to celebrate, promote and provide access to a full variety of Aboriginal resources
within Canada, both through Library and Archives' collections and services and in partnership with First
Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, associations, language and cultural centres, universities and libraries.

1)CAEBD 2)CEABD 3)CBDAE 4)CBADE

79
A.Much more is on the cards , if the senior bureaucrats are to be taken at face value but concerns have
cropped up since the current trend indicates a lack of a 'wholesome' strategy.
B. In the maze of India's twisted economic policies, it is difficult to find a more complex bundle of
contradictions than the aviation policy.
C. While the implimentation of the open skiies agreements will take time these pacts indicate the hurry to
put the horse before the cart.
D. Piecemeal liberalisation will only harm the sector rather than encouraging growth , putting both
passangers as well as the industry at a disadvantage.
E. While the government is omnipresent in the closely guarded sector, a whiff of fresh air has started
blowing in the forms of open skies agreements with Thailand , some south asian countries and Srilanka

1. EDBAC 2. CABDE 3. BEADC 4. BECDA......

80
A. This chemical compount finds wide usage in diversified industries such as refectories,ceramics.etc
B. Indal developed the requisite technology in-house at its begaum centre.
C. In 1982-83,it started developing special alumina,an import subsitute.
D In pursuit of its policy of adding value to its basic products, Indal has been adding value to alumina too.

1)BCDA 2)CDAB 3)CBAD 4)DCAB

76 1
77 4
78 2
79 3
80 4

81

1.The new economy has brought in a host of new concepts seeking convergence of several important
characteristics of the old economy with the infotech tools.
A. Organisations which have superior knowledge processes will fare well in the years to come.
B. ITUC school of management (ISM) an affiliate of the institute of Chartered Financila Ananlyst of of
India (ICFAI) has organized the seminar.
C. 'Knowledge management' is one such concept which plays a critical role in channelising the existing
knowledge available within the organization and also in the external business environment.
D. Several experts spoke at length on the topic at a one day seminar.
6. Knowledge management has been greatly facilitated by information technology tools such as data
warehousing and messaging systems..

1.DACB 2. CDAB 3.DBCA 4. CBAD

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1.The Union Ministry has advised all the naxalite affected states to impose a ban on people's war, the most
militant extremist outfit but left the final decision to respective states.
A. Mr. Pande Union Home Secretary said that it is left to their discretion and they have to go through legal
process before slapping the ban.
B. Meanwhile , sources said that Kamal Pande had assured Andhra Pradesh that the centre would reimburse
Rs. 82 crore, the expenditure incurred by the State Government on anti-Naxalite operations.
C. Union Home secretary disclosed this to newsmen after charging a meeting of the joint police and senior
officials of seven naxalite- affected states.
D. The Home Secretary said that the affected states had already been advised by the centre to impose a ban
on the People's war.
6. The State Government once again renewed its request that all naxalite-hit should ban the People's War to
help deal with the group in a more effective manner.

1. CDAB 2. ACBD 3. CABD 4.DCAB.......

83
A)All of the great and wise people who ever made a difference on planet Earth heard their souls' yearnings
and chose a purpose for their lives. People such as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela seem to
have been driven by a self-defined purpose that they chose for themselves.
B)Now, we often think of such people with a sense of awe and respect as if they were somehow different
from us -- better, smarter, more saintly, or more courageous.Sometimes they hardly seem human. But the
truth is that the only real difference between you and those people is that they all seemed to have a clearly
defined life purpose that they selected for themselves and then embraced with steadiest dedication and
unshakeable determination.
C)At one time or another you've probably asked yourself, "What is the purpose of my life? What is its
meaning? Why am I here on Earth, and what am I supposed to be doing?" Chances are, you work hard,
whether you take care of a household or have a job outside of the home. Your days are filled with seemingly
endless chores and tasks like getting the oil changed in your car and going to the grocery store.
D)You may have a sense that given the right circumstances, you could do much more than you are doing
now. Perhaps you long to make a real difference in the world, to assign meaning to your life, and to listen to
the yearnings of your very soul.
E)Perhaps sometimes, when you get tired or stressed out, life can seem like just one long and meaningless
"to do" list with a bland retirement and a gold-plated watch at the end of it.

1) CEDAB 2)ABCED 3)ABDEC 4)ECDAB

84
(a)One can understand American anxiety to reward their favourite in their askewed global war on terror and
secure Pakistani help to tackle Iran but one cannot understand India’s anxiety to please the Americans.
(b) After all, he heads Pakistan’s strongest, best equipped and financially endowed political party — the
Pakistan army.
(c)But that is not our requirement. India is not obliged to let Musharraf continue in perpetuity. Any
concession to him now will ensure him a life beyond 2007. And beyond 2007, even Bush does not care; his
time will have begun to run out.
(d) The US has a requirement to keep Musharraf in position.

1.ADCB 2.DBCA 3.ABDC 4. DCAB

85
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A.For seamers, the plus is the pitch is not gripping the ball as hard, ergo skid, therefore a marginal increase
in pace off the deck.
B.In this innings, he has been reduced to trundling.
C. Against that, as the moisture has dried up, the seam and cut has noticeably reduced, and that should
continue.
D. In the first innings, he looked almost unplayable-- the ball was darting around both ways; the odd one
was bouncing just the little bit extra to find the high edges for the carry, and there was movement off the
seam.
E. The best sign of what is happening is the bowling of Dwayne Bravo.

1. ADBEC 2.EBDCA 3.ACEDB 4.EDCAB

81 2
82 1
83 1
84 2
85 3

86
(A)Pathak has a disciplined way of investing. "We don't believe in momentum investing. We just focus on
our stock selection and valuations," he says.
(B) But Pathak says, "We have a designated process for large caps and mid caps." While selecting large-cap
stocks, he follows a combination of top-down and bottom-up strategy. Pathak says, "We first identify sectors
and give weightage to each sector, then within a sector, we identify stocks and rank them."
(C) To be a part of Pathak's portfolio a mid-cap company has to pass through five filters. It should be a
leader in its business, should be globally competitive, should have a niche positioning, should be proxy to
large cap (it should have equal or better growth opportunities but should be available at high discount to
large caps) and it should belong to the sunrise sectors.
(D)"In case of mid caps," says Pathak, "we invest only in those companies which have the potential to
become large cap."
(E) So, how does Pathak select stocks? His way is quite different from others. Most of the fund managers
follow the same stock-picking strategy, whether it is a mid-cap stock or a large-cap stock.

1.AECDB 2.AEBDC 3.EDCBA 4.DCEBA

87
(A)The work is monotonous, but it pays. Miners dig lumps of iron ore from the ground, pulverise them with
hammers, and filter the resulting pile. A family of five working 12 hours a day can earn a consistent Rs.800
a week doing this, Rs.7 for every putti (iron basin) they manage to fill. A paltry sum? Not when contrasted
with the Rs.30 to Rs.50 a day they earn in agriculture, when they can find work at all.

(B) According to a report released in 2005 by Mines, Minerals & People in collaboration with other non-
governmental organisations (NGOs), roughly 40,000 daily wage labourers work in Bellary-Hospet's iron ore
mines, half of them children under the age of 14. Migrants from a decimated agricultural sector, they float
from mining plot to mining plot searching for sustenance in an informal system of contract labour.
(C) THE lives of miners are stained red with the dust from "red gold", as some rightly call iron ore. Feet,
hands, faces; even the makeshift blue tents they squeeze into at night are covered with red dust from the
pockmarked land they work on, the rock they haul up, and the iron basins that scoop the ore.
(D) Conditions in the mines back her argument. The workers have no running water to fight the sun, no
masks to filter the suffocating dust, and only basic medical care to take care of smashed fingers and cuts
from errant shards of flying rock.
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(E) Given these wage differentials, it is no surprise that nearly all the mineworkers say they support iron ore
mining in Bellary. But K. Bhanumathi of Mines, Minerals & People, argues that this preference has to be
seen in the context of deprivation. "It's not that the workers want mining, it's just that they need some means
to survive," she says. "Given a choice they would never opt for this kind of work."

1)CBAED 2)CABED 3) BAECD 4) BAEDC

88
(A)Photographs depict objective realities that already exist, though only the camera can disclose them.
(B) That is, photography has two antithetical ideals: in the first, photography is about the world, and the
photographer is a mere observer who counts for little; but in the second, photography is the instrument of
intrepid, questing subjectivity and the photographer is all.
(C) These conflicting ideals arise from a fundamental uneasiness on the part of both photographers and
viewers of photographs toward the aggressive component in "taking" a picture.
(D) Picture-taking is a technique both for annexing the objective world and for expressing the singular self.
(E) And they depict an individual photographer's temperament, discovering itself through the camera's
cropping of reality.

1) DABCE 2)DBACE 3)DBCAE 4)ABCED

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1. They came, they spoke, and now they are gone.
(A) But was it wrong for the Indian government, industry, and even Bollywood to celebrate non resident
Indian ?
(B) We are, after all, your brothers’–it is almost as if we want them to be guilty for having left us behind,
literally
and figuratively.
(C) India and its problems are back to square one.
(D) No. What’s wrong, however is this : in wooing the NRI what we are doing in effect is telling them, “We
envy you for all your wealth and success, won’t you please share some of it with us ?”
6. We are chasing the NRI dollar because we want investments despite our problems, and not because we
think we
can deliver on the promise that is India.

(1) CADB (2) ACDB (3) ADCB (4) CABD

90
(A) Not surprisingly, Agro Tech’s Sen Gupta claims Shunu was one of the main architects of the HLL
approach to
marketing and branding.
(B) “He wanted all managers to have a common brand vision, vocabulary essentially be in the same boat,”
says
HCL’s Adhikari.
(C) Pant, and several other managers still remember the Brand Management Forums Shunu organised in
HLL’s
boardroom.
(D) “He taught us the ABC of marketing,” says Muktesh Pant, a one-time Shunu protege.

(1) ADCB (2) CDBA (3) ABCD (4) DCBA

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87 A
88 A
89 1
90 4

91
(A) According to estimates, its mobile services fetched about Rs.25 lakh a month in 2002.
(B) The question, however, is this : will the Indian market ever be big enough for the 600-pound gorilla of
the
internet ?
(C) The only area where things have clicked for the company is in internet to mobile services, where it has a
range
of clients, including new ones such as Airtel and RPG.
(D) In this segment, Yahoo India offers news, SMS, and downloads of ringtones and screensavers.
(E) This may well grow, given that mobile subscriber base in India is clipping and at last count had crossed
the
marginal 10-million mark.

(1) ADCEB (2) CDAEB (3) DCAEB (4) CEDAB

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1. It was India’s first biotech company, boasts of global leadership (a 25 per cent share) in select industrial
enzymes such as Pectinases, Tea Tannases, is profit-making and has ambitions of being one of world’s top
10
biopharmaceutical companies by 2010.
(A) You don’t need more reasons to buy into biotech’s first IPO.
(B) Simultaneously, it is exploiting opportunities in contract research.
(C) To do that, Biocon plans to raise Rs. 150–200 crore shortly.
(D) Says Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon Group: “In the next three
years, we will be one of the largest human insulin and statin producers in the world.”
6. In fact, the success and failure of Biocon may well determine the future of India’s biotech industry.

(1) BDCA (2) CDBA (3) DCBA (4) ADCB

93
5. 1. LG is the market leader in CTVs, air conditioners, fully automatic washing machines, and microwave
ovens.
(A) Therefore, while in 1998 LG’s sales were mere Rs. 465 crore, in 2002 calender it is expected to have
racked up
Rs. 2,700 crore in topline.
(B) Never mind that like its compatriot Samsung, it entered the market less than seven years ago.
(C) LG which employs strategies similar if not identical to Samsung’s, has products across the price range,
from
Rs.8,000–CTVs to Rs.1 lakh-plus Plasma projection CTVs.
(D) What explains the quick rise to top ? Deep pockets, state-of-the-art technology, and aggressive
marketing.
6. It has clearly positioned itself on the health platform and restlessly advertises through the year–compared
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some other players in the durable business, LG is on a strong wicket.

(1) BDAC (2) ACBD (3) DBAC (4) CBDA

94
A. Under his close eye Disney’s animation division soared, with hit films such as “The Little Mermaid”,
“Aladdin”and “The Lion King”.
B. The situation had worsened to the degree that Disney was in danger of being bought and broken up.
C. Indeed, he carried on these activities with such a missionary zeal that appearing on Disney TV shows, Mr
Eisner himself became a part of the brand.
D. He rescued the firm by energetically devising umpteen new ways to profit from its iconic cartoon
characters.
E. When Messrs Disney and Gold originally brought in Mr Eisner to be chief executive of Disney in
1984,he found a sleepy company with valuable but barely exploited brands.
1. EBDAC 2. EADCB 3. AEDCB 4. DECAB

95
A. This applies to material goods generally, and therefore to the greater part of the present economic life of
the world.
B. We may distinguish two sorts of goods, and two corresponding sorts of impulses.
C. The food and clothing of one man is not the food and clothing of another; if the supply is
insufficient,what one man has is obtained at the expense of another man.
D. On the other hand, mental and spiritual goods do not belong to one man to the exclusion of another.
E. There are goods in regard to which individual possession is possible, and there are goods in which all can
share alike.

1. BECAD 2. AEDBC 3. BADEC 4. AEDCB

91 2
92 4
93 1
94 1
95 1

96
A. Germany has been less staunch, worrying more than the others that Iran may make good on its threat to
leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
B. Yet Iran is exhausting the patience of even the friendlier European governments.
C. Britain and France have told Iran privately that it must fulfill its obligations to the IAEA, and also its
original promise of a full suspension of enrichment-related activity.
D. But, ultimately, it agrees with its European partners that Iran must toe the line.
E. The reasons for the three countries’ stance are not far to seek - An Iran that went nuclear despite repeated
European overtures would make a mockery of European claims to be defter at diplomacy than heavy-
handed America.

1. BACDE 2. AEDCB 3. CDEAB 4. BCADE

97
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A. But he is also thought to be indecisive and too much of a micro-manager.
B. He is intellectually curious, more comfortable in the spotlight than Miss Megawati, and widely viewed as
a man of integrity who would be strong in times of crisis.
C. This is amply reflected in the understanding that he won the election on character, not ideology.
D. Though Indonesia’s voters have now signaled that they want change at the top too, it is not clear that Mr
Yudhoyono can deliver on this mandate.
E. Besides these personality traits, his party worries that there is not much to separate him from Miss
Megawati on policy.

1. DBAEC 2. AEDBC 3. DEABC 4. AEBDC

98
A. Take her account of Mr Bush’s Yale years.
B. Mr Bush, on the other hand, spent his time doing everything but burnishing his credentials.
C. The case against Ms Kelley is not just that she fails to rake new muck.
D. The Ivy League universities are full of grubbing prodigies who regard themselves as the next president.
E. It is that she makes her principal target, the current president, look rather good.

1. CDEAB 2. AEDBC 3. CEADB 4. AEBDC

99
A)Nanotechnology has been around for two decades, but the first wave of applications is only now
beginning to break.
B) Technological revolutions travel with the same stealth.
C)A tsunami is unnoticeable in the open ocean—a long, low wave whose power becomes clear only when it
reaches shore and breaks.
D)As it does, it will make the computer revolution look like small change.
E)Spotting the wave while it's still crossing the ocean is tricky, which explains why so few of us are aware
of the one that's approaching.
F)It will affect everything from the batteries we use to the pants we wear to the way we treat cancer

1)ABCDEF 2)CBEDFA 3)CBEADF 4)AFBCDE

100
A)a group of about 35 bhumij tribal families here still hang on to the traditions of the discipline.
B)the dance portrayals are mostly enactments of hunting scenes and self defence.
C) today, firkal survives in just one obscure village, Jamundih, of Potka block in East Singhbhum district of
Jharkhand.
D) Experts say, Firkal is in fact, A variation of 'Kirpan Susan' (Kirpan means sword and susan dance), a
traditional dance form among the bhumij tribes of Chotanagpur.

1)ADBC 2)CADB 3)DCAB 4)CBDA

101
A) "you are the crucial component in the transformation of the US INDIA relationship", said ambassador
Blackwill.
B)Mani summed it up:"if we can sustain the cohesion reflected here and successfully act on our collective
vision as alumni of our world class ijnhstitution we will become a ' tour de force' in enhancing India's well
being and engagement with the US and the rest of the world"
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C)The US India trade relationship, which he describes as " flat as a chapati", needs a leavening agent.
D)What better than the IIT's and their alumni ?
E)Now that the IIT alumni have defined their charter it is up to them to step up to the plate and deliever on
the promise.

1)EBACD 2)DEBAC 3)BDEAC 4)BEACD

102
A).Each concept ,such as a man or an apple,refers to the qualities which a group of things share.
B) Concepts are the means by which the universe is made intelligible.
C) Plato's point is that to think or to communicate at all requires the use of concepts.
D) The simplest statement -"there is a man"-uses the concept man;"there is an apple" uses the concept apple.

1)ADCB 2) ADBC 3) CDAB 4)CBDA 5) BCAD

103
A.Nonetheless, Tocqueville was only one of the first of a long line of thinkers to worry whether such rough
equality could survive in the face of a growing factory system that threatened to create divisions between
industrial workers and a new business elite.
B. "The government of democracy brings the nation of political rights to the level of the humblest citizens."
He wrote,"Just as the dissemination of wealth brings the notion of property within the reach of all the
members of the community".
C. Tocqueville was far too shrewd an observer to be uncritical about the United States, but his verdict was
fundamentally positive.
D. No visitor to the United States has left a more enduring record of his travels and observations than the
French writer and political theorist Alexis De Tocqueville, whose "Democracy In Amercica", first
pusblished in 1835, remains one of the most trenchant and insightful analyses of American social and
political practices.

a. DACB b. BACD c. DCBA d. DBAC

104
A. The charming headwaiter answered our questions very politely.
B. There were so many young long-legged waiters that they were in danger of running into each other as my
companion and I considered the overheads.
C. These boys have taken the place of the middle-aged women in white overalls with a lot of Nanny about
them who used to serve the excellent plain English nursery food in a plain English nursery way.
D. We enquired about the number of covers, the existence of a private room and many other questions about
the cuisine and service.
E. He may have smelt a rat and guessed that we were from one of the many magazines which describe
places to eat, or perhaps he just thought we were naturally curious country bumpkins on an outing.
F. Bread-and-butter pudding and raspberry crumble came as naturally to them as they do to the customers
brought up on such no-frills fare.
a. ADEBCF b. AEDCBF c. ADECBF d. ABCDEF

105
.A. As if being embroiled in a murderous conspiracy was not enough, there is further sadness for Harrods
owner Mohammed Fayed.
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B. This accusation comes from the fact that Mr Fayed’s tinned mince-pie programme has been infiltrated by
a batch of rogue Bakewell tarts.
C. He has been forced to issue a product-recall notice in top people’s paper the Times that may permanently
damage his standing as a purveyor of culinary fancies to the aristocracy
D. What is irksome about this fact is that Bakewell tarts are a rather common form of sugary comestible; not
quite the thing the purchasers of Harrods finest mince pies expect to find for pudding.
E. This news came in a full month and a bit after Christmas with the information - Bakewell tarts may
contain nuts.
F. The obvious implication: that a Traditional Mince Pie With Harrods Brandy and these proletarian old
Bakewell tarts are, in fact, made in the same factory.
a. ACBEDF b. ABDECF c. AEDCBF d. ACEDBF

101 4
102 4
103 C
104 A
105 A

106

A. Ethnography has long been used in the academic world, and was first employed in commercial research
in the 70s.
B. “I spent time with different consumers while they were shopping, cooking and eating in their own home”.
C. “Perhaps the difference now is that a great deal of market research is not conducted solely at a single
point in time.”
D. Anne-Marie McDermott, managing director of Quaestor Research, points to a project 13 years ago,
which looked at a new chicken-burger product.
E. “This method of conducting research was revolutionary at the time”.
F. “Researchers spend a lot of time with respondents, living in their environment – even to the point of
moving in with them and sharing the experience being researched”, she says.

a. AEDCBF b. ACDEBF c. ADECBF d. ADBECF

107

• In general, the British Internet boom mirrored what had happened on the other side of the Atlantic a
year or two earlier.
B. Lastminute.com shared all of these attributes.
C. This was a replay of events twelve months previously, when the US market witnesses
Priceline.com issuing stock on the Nasdaq and ending its first day as a public company worth almost
10 bn $.
D. In March 2000, for example, Lastminute.com, the most widely-hyped of all British companies,
issued stock on the London Stock Exchange and achieved a valuation, albeit fleetingly, of more than
800 mn $.
E. Priceline.com allowed airlines and hotels to unload their spare capacity cheaply online; it made
heavy losses; and Morgan Stanley, a leading Wall Street investment bank, marketed its shares to the
public.
F. The principal difference between the British bubble and the American bubble was one of scale.

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a. AEDCBF b. ACDEBF c. ADCEBF d. ABCEDF

108
A. An old and semi-apocryphal story is routinely doing the rounds at the elections
B. The nub of the story is this: Sir Peter’s association sought to dissuade him from standing on the grounds
of his advanced age, reasoning that, should he die mid-term, the cash-strapped Tories of Louth would not be
able to bear the cost of fighting a by-election.
C. It concerns negotiations between Sir Peter Tapsell, the 74-year old Conservative member for Louth and
his constituency association, ahead of the forthcoming general election.
D. Sir Peter is said to have a written a personal cheque for the estimated 10,000 $ cost of a by election
campaign
E. He posted it along with the instruction that it is cashed in the event of his death.
F. This is seen as one more instance of his wit and ability to create hype about his candidature.

a. ACBDEF b. AEDCBF c. AEDCBF d. ACEDBF

109
a) Moreover, there are very basic differences between the two tripartite theories.
b) Plato had given aggression a more honorable status as a spirited element, thus revealing the importance of
war in the Greek world and the honorable status Athenians gave to warriors.
c) Plato's concept of the bodily appetites may be compared with Freud's concept of the id, which is,
however, a very much more complex concept.
d) Freud demoted aggression, a part of Plato's spirited element, to one of the drives or instincts.

1) cbda 2) acbd 3) acdb 4) cabd 5) acbd

110
A. My Brother has posted me here to watch over u.
B. Do not ask me to leave u alone & go.
C. Do not be deceived & grieve 4 nothing.
D. The voice we heard was not this.
E. It is a Raakshaa’s trick.

1. DECAB 2. DECBA 3. ECDAB 4. DCEAB

106 D
107 C
108 A
109 4
110 3

111
A. It is difficult to date the epics.
B. Evidently many authors have written them or added to them in successive periods.
C. The Ramayana is an epic poem with a certain unity of treatment; the Mahabharta is a vast &
miscellaneous collection of ancient lore.
D. They deal with remote periods when the Arayans were still in the process of setting down &
consolidating themselves in India.
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1. CDBA 2. ADBC 3. DCBA 4 ABCD

112
A. A good budget is one which makes a sincere attempt to change the policy environment.
B. Government finances are terminally impaired with uncontrollable fiscal deficits
C. There are big gaps in perception and capability of managers
D. Industry too is not ready to deliver growth, should even the government pursue the right policies.
E. The current reforms pace is too slow.
F. The fiscal deficit has deteriorated

A)ABCDEF B)BADCEF C)FEDCBA D)EABCDF

113
1)The concept of a nation state assumes a complete correspondence between the boundaries of the nation
and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state.
A) then there r members of national collectives who live in other countries, making a mockery of the
concept.
B) there r always people living in particular states who r not considered to be (and often do not consider
themselves to be members of the hegemonic nation.
C) even worse, ther r nations which never had a state or which r divided across several states.
D) this, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere a fiction.
6) however, the fiction has been, and continuous to be, at the basis of nationalist ideologies.

1)DBAC 2)ABCD 3)BACD 4)DACB

114
1) Will mtnl's latest offer of cell phones at a monthly rental of Rs.100 revolutionaize the market for cell
phones the way sachets revolutionized the market for shampoos.
A).in market like ours where purchasing power is limited but aspirations are unlimited companies have
realized that the trick is to package things in small affordable packs.
B).the best example of this is , perhaps , in the cosmetic market.
C).Just look around.
D)Or, more recently, the way the Rs. 5 -a-bottle coke took the soft drinks market by storm?quite possible.
6)Lipsticks,nail varnishes,deodorents,shampoos,you name it,almost every product is available in small
packs that are ,at best,good for just a few cases.

1)cabd 2)cadb 3)dbac 4)dabc

115
(A) And this because it doesn’t want to be dubbed a spoilsport in the region.
(B) If you stop griming and bearing it, you would be declared a loser,” says a source, throwing up his hands
in
absolute exasperation.
(C) There are many takers for this line of argument.
(D) But, ironically, say many government sources, the very political class that lambasts Pakistan for
sponsoring
terrorism is shying away from matching its rhetoric with act.
(E) “ It is like being in a popularity contest.

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(1) DCAEB (2) ADAEB (3) CBADE (4) EBCDA

111 2
112 c
113 1
114 4
115 4

116
(A) For the artists it is an entry to the big world.
(B) “These are like reminders of great conversations over good food–almost akin to buying a souvenir on a
holiday,” says A.D. Singh, owner of Olive, a restaurant in Mumbai.
(C) Put up a painting on the walls, a sculpture or anything interesting and it pushes up the hip factor.
(D) Restaurants are not just about great food anymore–also crucial is a fresh concept.
(A) Plus, the restaurateurs insist, their parents are more likely to pick up a buy in the eatery than in a gallery.

(1) CDAEB (2) CBDAE (3) DACEB (4) DCAEB

117
(A) The CBI took into custody Ravi Vermas that auction house Bowrings was to put under the hammer, an
Anjolie Ela Menon Murano sculpture, priced at Rs 3.5 lakh, went missing from an exhibition and then fakes
of Aparna Caurwere traced to Lajpat Nagar in Delhi.
(B) The Ela Menon was reported stolen only a few months after an M.F. Hussain went missing in
Hyderabad and the art world suspects more fake artists are doing the round than have come to light.
(C) For a close-knit community that can go for months without action, it has been an interesting fortnight.
(D) Negligence in museums, lack of incentives and conservation are issues raised by the art world before,
but the
immediate concern is the surge in art crimes.

(1) DBCA (2) DCBA (3) CADB (5) BDCA

118
1.That India needs to democratize its higher education system is not in dispute but htat would truly happen
only if the government sought to universalize both quality and access.
A.That the issue of caste based quotas has become more and more socially divisive must also be attributed
to the shrinking higher - education pie.
B.The scarcity of higher educational institutions has led to a spate of inferior quality professional
educational institutions that offer seats for exorbitant capitation fees.
C.Fewer and fewer people will have to suffer poor working conditions and meagre wages and this would
enhance society's capacity to social and economic growth.
D.Enhancing access to quality higher education would not only increase the pool of skilled labour force
available to indian industry, it would also improve it's quality of production and delivery.
6.The government should realize that concentrating on a few isolated centers of excellence no longer makes
sense.

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1.BCAD 2.BADC 3.DBCA 4.DABC

119
1.The rise in inflation is a global phenomenon.
AAlthough the reserve bank of india recently signalled higer short term interest rates, by and large it has
preferred to restrain an explosive growth of bank lending only in certain sectors where bubbles are seen to
be developing.
B.Along with many other countries, india is learning that there are no simple solutions.
C.The central bank has to strive for a balance between the iperatives of holding the price line and meeting
genuine credit requirements.
D.Restraining credit growth by raising interest rates has not always been feasible.
6.For policy makers, supply side solutions involve the balancing of confilcting interests.

1.ACDB 2.BDAC 3.BCAD 4.DCAB

120
1. But to achieve 8 per cent economic growth, India needs to power-lift its exports from $46 billion now to
about
$100 billion.
(A) L.Mansingh, feels that the industrial cluster towns with exports potential like Tiruppur (hosiery) Panipat
(woolen blankets) and Ludhiana (woollen knitwear), which have efficient assembly-line production
facilities, only need to be promoted and their infrastructure upgraded to transform them into export zones.
(B) Even then, we’d do less than what China does now.
(C) But Mansingh, director-general for foreign trade is optimistic, even as he acknowledges that the new
SEZ
scheme may not have a significant impact on trade or economy or offset the high transaction cost problem
that plagues our exports.
(D) Ajanta Clocks, for instance, saw drastic cut in production cycle from one month in India to two days
when it went to China.
6. It’s hard uphill road ahead if India wants to increase its share in world trade from the present 0.65 per
cent.

(1) DCBA (2) DABC (3) ADCB (4) ADBC

116 1
117 2
118 1
119 4
120 2

121
(A) And what if you and I get a shot at the peak that yielded to Tenzing and Hillary in May 1953 ?
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(B) But what can be better than the tallest of ‘em all, the 8,848-metre Mount Everest ?
(C) In the 50th year of Everest conquest, the Indian Army has tied up with the National Geographic Channel
to allowfive average Indians to be part of their team for the commemorative expedition along with the Royal
Nepalese Army.
(D) Climb every mountain, they said.

(1) CBDA (2) DCBA (3) DBAC (4) ABDC

122
1.India and China begin the eight round of talks betn their special representatives on the border dispute
marking another step forward on the slow road to resolution.
A.the area of Tawong is a sticky point since the Chinese claim it to be central to tibetan buddhism given that
the sixth dalai lama was born there.
B.India however has ruled out any populated areas as part of a border deal which makes concessions in
arunachal pradesh unacceptable.
C.This solution has been talked about ever since the 1950s even before the 1962 war and was reiterated by
dong xiaping in 1980.
D.China's traditional position has been to resolve the dispute on the basis of territorial swap - exchanging
aksai chin in the west with arunachal pradesh in the east.
6.The entrenched position of the two sides thus complicates the project of a swap.

1.ABCD 2.DBAC 3.BADC 4.DCBA

123.
1.Few people are comfortable with change.
A.Leaders who have stumbled in their attempts to drive change in their organisations may have failed to
understand the dynamics of workplace behaviour and why employees tend to dig in their heels.
B.The phenomenon which has long fustrated executives is beginning to draw new atention from academic
reseearchers and even from psychiatrists and neuro scientists.
C.But as a time of disruptive technologies, shifting business models and global uncertainty, continous
change has become a way of life for many companies.
D.Whether they are overhauling their strategy in response to competition or retooling their products in the
market place, resistance to change looms as a large obstacle.
6.In many cases psychological or even physiological factors may be coming into play.

1.BDAC 2.CDBA 3.ABCD. 4.DCAB

124
(A) This is the newest metro after all, and it must share the south with Ammaville and Naidu Nagar, which
have very distinct personalities.
(B) Writing software, and sinking pints–this is the Beer Shift at ‘Pubworld.’
(C) We can forgive Bangalore its identity crisis.
(D) But behind the facelessness of S.M. Krishna’s city, Bangloreans quietly get on with what they do best.

(1) CADB (2) ACDB (3) DACB (4) ACDB

125

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(A) The clubbing of their names would have pleased Nirala–it should make us sit up and take notice.
(B) I can think of only one other poet whose work is similarly available : Tagore.
(C) Books like the one under review, featuring the work of a single poet competently translated, are a rarity.
(D) A small amount of bad Indian poetry is available in worse English translation in a few anthologies.

(1) CDBA (2) DCBA (3) DBCA (4) CBAD

121 1
122 2
123 3
124 2/4
125 3

126
(A) Of course, they weren’t known then IPOs (initial public offerings).
(B) Back then, seasoned investors will recall, it wasn’t uncommon to have public issues from 30-40
companies hitting the market every month–true many of those companies were of dubious antecedents,
several have since disappeared without a trace.
(C) It was 1990, and IPOs were hitting the market like a hailstorm that refused to stop.
(D) That happened a bit later, thanks to the entry of foreign institutional investors (FIIs), who brought jargon
with their money to the Indian market.

(1) CDBA (2) DCBA (3) CABD (4) CBDA

127
(A) The cold calculus of business doesn’t recognize sentiment : to expect NRI’s to invest in India simply
because it is their country of origin is downright stupid; the community will invest in the country if the risk-
reward equation is favourable–if it isn’t they’ll seek better avenues.
(B) ‘Pravasi’ ..... will likely not fetch the returns expected of it, or anywhere close to it.
(C) “India will have to undertake major political, administrative, and judicial reforms,” explains Sam
Pitroda, Chairman, World Tel, “if it wants to tap its NRI network like China did.”
(D) China succeeded in attracting investments from overseas Chinese on the basis of policies that made it
attractive for foreign companies to invest in the country.

(1) DCBA (2) BCDA (3) BDCA (4) CDBA

128
(A) While the actual deal-making and selling may be taken care of by others, and while his association, in
them may merely be a CEO’s, there’s no taking away from the fact that Paul’s background–an MBA from
the Univ of Massachussets, stints at Pepsi Co, Bain and Co, and notably, GE–and location make him the
ideal brand ambassador for pro Technologies.
(B) From his base in Santa Clara, California, Paul orchestrates Wipro’s strategy : he is widely perceived to
be the man behind the Wipro-Ericsson deal.
(C) Rainmaking is all about being able to front a deal, speak the same language, business and cultural, as the
customer and Paul’s credential on both fronts are impeccable
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(D) Wipro acquired Ericsson’s development centres in India–a logical acquisition for a company with
significant expertise in telecom software–but not before Paul managed to wring out the commitment of
some consulting assignments from the telecom major.

(1) CDBA (2) DCBA (3) DCAB (4) BDAC

129
(A) Recall the last time that one of our employees told you he could not come to work because his child was
sick.
(B) But if you immediately thought of who would fill in for the missing employee then the ability to juggle
several variables at once is your dominant talent.
(C) If you immediately focused on the child, asking what was wrong and who was going to take care of her,
empathy is one of your strongest themes of talent.
(D) What was your first thought ?

(1) ABCD (2) ACDB (3) ADBC (5) ADCB

130
A)This is not a ploy to sell more blood pressure medication
B) But the more scientists learn about how hypertension affects various arteries and organs the more they
realise that damage begins long before that somewhat arbitrary cut off
C) The new guidelines make it clear that prehypertension is best treated with exercise ,weight loss and a
more balanced diet.Several studies have proved that the so called DASH diet,which emphasises fruits
,vegetables and modest quantities of nuts ,reliably lowers blood pressure in all ethnic groups.
D) Doctors have known for years that anyone with a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mm Hg or higher has
a greatly increased risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke o developing kidney problems
E) This growing awareness prompted the National Heart , Lung and Blood Institute last week to revise its
blood pressure guidelines so that 45 million Americans whose blood pressure is between 120/60 and 139/89
-a level that was considered to be on the high side of the normal -will now be told that they have
prehypertension

1) DEABC 2)ADBCE. 3) ADEBC 4) DBEAC

126 4
127 4
128 4

129 5/4
130 4

131
A. After missile defence, counter terrorism has emerged as an important platform for strategic cooperation
between New Delhi and Washington.
B. Both these actions, of course, were driven by India's perceived interests.
C. Ever since Bush's election, liberal outfits and publications have joined hands with the Republican
administration in projecting India as a strategic partner.
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D. Just as India promptly supported President George Bush's plans for recasting the framework of neuclear
deterrence by building missile defences, so did it quickly back his call for a war on terrorism.

1] ABCD 2] CBAD 3] CDAB 4] ADBC

132
A. Characterization of materials is an important area in the evolution of new materials having tailor-made
properties for a specific application.
B. Various properties of materials have to be studied towards developing a specific product.
C. The properties are interlinked and one needs to study them towards ensuring optimal performance.
D. The needs are also varied based on its intended application whether it is heterostructure interfaces for
semiconductor devices or sensors for chemical industries or structural materials in nuclear reactors or
aerospace engines.

1] ADBC 2] BCDA 3] ACBD 4] BDAC

133
A. Indians obviously care for medicinal plants because they know so much about them and have done a lot
of work on their applications.
B. The living folk traditions in the rural communities as well as the scholarly traditions of the codified
knowledge systems i.e.,Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Tibetan emphasize the fact that the use of medicinal
plants is still a living tradition.
C. No other medicinal culture in the world has so extensive, detailed and deep an understanding about the
medicinal value of plants.
D. The people of India had an incredible knowledge of phyto-medicine driven apparently by a tremendous
passion for the study of medicinal plants.

(1)ABCD (2) DCAB (3) DBAC (4) BCAD

134
A. Except recuding the number of vehicles on the road there seems to be no possible solution.
B. Reacting to the alarming findings in the report published by the centre for science and Environment, the
supreme court in an unprecedented move proposed sweeping changes and restrictions, ranging from
suspension of vehicle licenses to keeping automobiles off the road in order to check pollution levels.
C. Vehicular pollution has emerged a front-runner among other major pollutants in metropolises and major
cities.
D. Pollution caused by vehicles is snow-balling and causing a major threat to city dwellers.

(1) DCAB (2) CDAB (3) CADB (4) BDAC

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A. The healthy and positive effects of yoga make people revere this ancient science.
B. Yoga, an ancient discipline, has gained relevance in today’s world as a means of attaining a balance
between body, mind and soul.
C. Yoga has been made a part of the school education in Northern India and studies have revealed that by
practising yoga the students become more self-confident and there has been a significant increase in their

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D. In the modern world where depression, stress and psychosomatic problems have become the order of the
day, practising yoga seems to be the most viable solution to problems in living.

(1)DBAC (2) ABCD (3) BCDA (4) BACD

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