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1 Verbal
Directions for questions 1-3: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows :
An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the near future. Many languages are falling out of use and being replaced by others that are more widely used in the region or nation, such as English in the U.S. or Spanish in Mexico. Unless current trends are reversed, these endangered languages will become extinct within the next century. Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers ; these languages will become extinct when their last speaker dies. Infact, dozens of languages today have only one native speaker still living, and that person's death will mean the extinction of the language : It will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone. Ancient Greek and Latin languages are considered dead because they are no longer spoken in the form in which we find them in ancient writings. But they weren't abruptly replaced by other languages ; instead, Ancient Greek slowly evolved into modem Greek, and Latin slowly evolved into modem Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, and other languages. In the same way, the Middle English of Chauceis day is no longer spoken, but it has evolved into Modern English.
"These languages will become extinct ...."
In the above sentence "these" refers to :
A. Middle English
B. Other languages
C. Endangered languages
D. Spanish in Mexico
2 Verbal
Directions for questions 1-3: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows :
An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the near future. Many languages are falling out of use and being replaced by others that are more widely used in the region or nation, such as English in the U.S. or Spanish in Mexico. Unless current trends are reversed, these endangered languages will become extinct within the next century. Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers ; these languages will become extinct when their last speaker dies. Infact, dozens of languages today have only one native speaker still living, and that person's death will mean the extinction of the language : It will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone. Ancient Greek and Latin languages are considered dead because they are no longer spoken in the form in which we find them in ancient writings. But they weren't abruptly replaced by other languages ; instead, Ancient Greek slowly evolved into modem Greek, and Latin slowly evolved into modem Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, and other languages. In the same way, the Middle English of Chauceis day is no longer spoken, but it has evolved into Modern English.
Spanish language evolved out of
A. English
B. Greek
C. Rench
D. Latin
3 Verbal
Directions for questions 1-3: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows :
An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the near future. Many languages are falling out of use and being replaced by others that are more widely used in the region or nation, such as English in the U.S. or Spanish in Mexico. Unless current trends are reversed, these endangered languages will become extinct within the next century. Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers ; these languages will become extinct when their last speaker dies. Infact, dozens of languages today have only one native speaker still living, and that person's death will mean the extinction of the language : It will no longer be spoken, or known, by anyone. Ancient Greek and Latin languages are considered dead because they are no longer spoken in the form in which we find them in ancient writings. But they weren't abruptly replaced by other languages ; instead, Ancient Greek slowly evolved into modem Greek, and Latin slowly evolved into modem Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, and other languages. In the same way, the Middle English of Chauceis day is no longer spoken, but it has evolved into Modern English.
What is endangered language ?
A. The language that is spoken by many people
B. A language that is most likely to die in the near future
C. The language that is not spoken by anyone at all
D. A language that is most likely to expand in the near future
4 Verbal
Directions for questions 4-6: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
There are no World Trade Organisation (WTO) definitions of "developed" and "developing" countries. Members announce for themselves whether they are "developed" or "developing" countries. However, other members can challenge the decision of a member to make use of provisions available to developing countries. Developing country status in the WTO brings certain rights. There are for example provisions in some WTO Agreements which provide developing countries with longer transaction periods before they are required to fully implement the agreement and developing countries can receive technical assistance. That a WTO member announces itself as a developing country does not automatically mean that it will benefit from the unilateral preference schemes of some of the developed country members such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). In practice, it is the preference-giving country which decides the list of developing countries.
Who can change the decision of a country to make use of provisions available to developing countries ?
A. Any neighbouring country
B. Any member country of WTO
C. The World Trade Organization
D. The preference giving country
5 Verbal
Directions for questions 4-6: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
There are no World Trade Organisation (WTO) definitions of "developed" and "developing" countries. Members announce for themselves whether they are "developed" or "developing" countries. However, other members can challenge the decision of a member to make use of provisions available to developing countries. Developing country status in the WTO brings certain rights. There are for example provisions in some WTO Agreements which provide developing countries with longer transaction periods before they are required to fully implement the agreement and developing countries can receive technical assistance. That a WTO member announces itself as a developing country does not automatically mean that it will benefit from the unilateral preference schemes of some of the developed country members such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). In practice, it is the preference-giving country which decides the list of developing countries.
Who decides whether one country is developing or developed ?
A. The neighbouring countries
B. The preference giving country
C. The World Trade Organization
D. The country itself
6 Verbal
Directions for questions 4-6: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
There are no World Trade Organisation (WTO) definitions of "developed" and "developing" countries. Members announce for themselves whether they are "developed" or "developing" countries. However, other members can challenge the decision of a member to make use of provisions available to developing countries. Developing country status in the WTO brings certain rights. There are for example provisions in some WTO Agreements which provide developing countries with longer transaction periods before they are required to fully implement the agreement and developing countries can receive technical assistance. That a WTO member announces itself as a developing country does not automatically mean that it will benefit from the unilateral preference schemes of some of the developed country members such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). In practice, it is the preference-giving country which decides the list of developing countries.
Why would a country likes to announce itself as a developing country ?
A. So that it gets some relaxation of time in implementation WTO agreements
B. So that it need implement WTO agreements
C. So that it can become member of WTO
D. So that it can become the preference giving country
A. So that it gets some relaxation of time in implementation WTO agreements
7 Verbal
Directions for questions 7-9: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
When a child is born, her first connection to the world is established through her mother, or in a broader sense, her parents. An infant sees the world through her parent's eyes ; she tries to imbibe everything she recognises in her parents. Thus, a parent-child relationship lays the foundation of the 'building of her li y . Parenting is the bringing up of a child. It is like the nourishment that is necessary for a sapling to grow into a big and fruitful tree. Hence, for a child to grow into a wonderful human being, good parenting is essential.
Parenting styles vary from culture to culture. The world is a big place comprising of a variety of people having different ways of living.
Although culture is the key ingredient, the economic situation and standard of living also have an impact on parenting. While there are a common set of values in different cultures like honesty and integrity, the value system stands divided on some of the major facets of parenting, exemplified by the comparison of the Indian style with that of the West.
Parenting here is compared to :
A. Maintaining a relationship
B. Maintaining a vehicle
C. Nourishing a plant
D. Looking after a pet
8 Verbal
Directions for questions 7-9: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
When a child is born, her first connection to the world is established through her mother, or in a broader sense, her parents. An infant sees the world through her parent's eyes ; she tries to imbibe everything she recognises in her parents. Thus, a parent-child relationship lays the foundation of the 'building of her li y . Parenting is the bringing up of a child. It is like the nourishment that is necessary for a sapling to grow into a big and fruitful tree. Hence, for a child to grow into a wonderful human being, good parenting is essential.
Parenting styles vary from culture to culture. The world is a big place comprising of a variety of people having different ways of living.
Although culture is the key ingredient, the economic situation and standard of living also have an impact on parenting. While there are a common set of values in different cultures like honesty and integrity, the value system stands divided on some of the major facets of parenting, exemplified by the comparison of the Indian style with that of the West.
Which of the following is a major differentiator on some of the major facets of parenting ?
A. Value system
B. Love
C. Honesty
D. intregrity
9 Verbal
Directions for questions 7-9: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
When a child is born, her first connection to the world is established through her mother, or in a broader sense, her parents. An infant sees the world through her parent's eyes ; she tries to imbibe everything she recognises in her parents. Thus, a parent-child relationship lays the foundation of the 'building of her li y . Parenting is the bringing up of a child. It is like the nourishment that is necessary for a sapling to grow into a big and fruitful tree. Hence, for a child to grow into a wonderful human being, good parenting is essential.
Parenting styles vary from culture to culture. The world is a big place comprising of a variety of people having different ways of living.
Although culture is the key ingredient, the economic situation and standard of living also have an impact on parenting. While there are a common set of values in different cultures like honesty and integrity, the value system stands divided on some of the major facets of parenting, exemplified by the comparison of the Indian style with that of the West.
Parenting is basically :
A. Culture independent
B. Common across all cultures
C. Culture dependent
D. Country independent
10 Verbal
Directions for questions 10-15: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth. He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything ... all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure ... these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."
"Remembering that you are going to die, is the best way I know ...." I in this line is:
A. The author of the article
B. Steve Jobs
C. Any manager
D. The narrator in the article
11 Verbal
Directions for questions 10-15: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth. He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything ... all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure ... these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."
In the passage which one of the following in not true ?
A. Look for death
B. Death is the destination
C. Death is the single best invention
D. No one escapes the death
12 Verbal
Directions for questions 10-15: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth. He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything ... all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure ... these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."
Steve Jobs believed in
A. Altruism
B. Normatism
C. Materialism
D. Perfectionism
13 Verbal
Directions for questions 10-15: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth. He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything ... all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure ... these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."
Which of the following statement is false? Steve Jobs had no furniture at his house because :
A. He wanted to buy the perfect furniture
B. He had no money
C. He was a perfectionist
D. He could not decide what to buy
14 Verbal
Directions for questions 10-15: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth. He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything ... all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure ... these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."
The passage is written in :
A. Third person narrative
B. Multiple person narrative
C. First person narrative
D. Second person narrative
15 Verbal
Directions for questions 10-15: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
Steve Jobs was an enigma. He was quirky. I would like to share a few little known facts about the man who pretty much changed the world with one small technological device. Steve Jobs liked to work bare foot (even while in corporate environments and during million dollar negotiations). He was vegan and often went on diets where he would only eat orange things. He was a Zen Buddhist and extensively travelled India during his youth. He was such a perfectionist that there was a period when he had no furniture in his house at all, because he could not decide what to buy. He used to read his favourite book of all time, every single year 'Autobiography of a yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda. This man was not affraid to be himself. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon, is the most imporatant tool, I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything ... all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrasment or failure ... these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truely important" Jobs, used to say "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who wants to go to heaven, do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination, we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent It clears out the old to make way for the new."
This passage tells us :
A. Some not very well known facts.
B. Steve Job's business management skills
C. Steve Job's life story
D. Very well-known facts about Steve Jobs.
16 Verbal
Select the grammetically correct sentence from the following Statements :
A. Although he failed in that Mathematics, but he received a degree in Engineering.
B. Although he failed in that Mathematics, but he received a degree in Engineering.
C. Although that he failed in Mathematics, but he received a degree in Engineering.
D. Although he had failed in Mathematics, that he received a degree in Engineering.
B. Although he failed in that Mathematics, but he received a degree in Engineering.
17 Verbal
The following are jumbled up parts of a sentence. Rearrange them in a proper sequence :
P : did he realize
Q : helped by a man
R : that he had been
S : he never respected S
A. PRQS
B. QRPS
C. SRQP
D. PQRS
18 Verbal
In the following sentence, what does the underlined phrase mean ? A good teacher is one who sees to it that a student does not waste time in reinventing the wheel?
A. waste time on unnecessary details
B. repeating oneself
C. waste time in imaginary things
D. doing something that has already been done
19 Verbal
From the options given below choose the correct substitute for the underlined word :
Democracy is of the people, by the people and for the people. However, a government-run by a few is dangerous for a republic like India.
A. Oligarchy
B. Aristocracy
C. Monarchy
D. Autocracy
20 Verbal
Choose the word that is closest in meaning to the word : ABRIDGE
A. Join
B. Shorten
C. Understand
D. To fill the gap
21 Verbal
Choose the correct part of words to fill in the blanks.
The instructor asked the students to work ......... the given sum in the note book and hand it.......to him for correction.
A. away, in
B. out, away
C. on, over
D. out, over
22 Verbal
The following sentence is underlined and marked as section A, B, C and D. Show which section contains an error.
As John had taken (A)
only a few sips of tea (B)
there was still little tea (C)
left in the cup (D)
A. A
B. D
C. B
D. C
23 Verbal
Choose the correct word that is opposite in meaning to the word :
PACIFY
A. Aggravate
B. Discourage
C. Slow down
D. Encourage
24 Verbal
Choose the closest meaning of the proverb/idiom :
To leave someone in the lurch.
A. To help someone in difficulties
B. To respect someone
C. To leave someone to his/her fate
D. To make someone comfortable
25 Verbal
A primafacie case is :
A. As it seems at first sight
B. As it turns out to be at the end
C. As it seems to the court after a number of hearings
D. As it is made to seem at first sight