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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Who does the author hold responsible for the shooting spree in schools and colleges?
A. Lack of love and emotion in the society in general.
B. Increased focus on self-gratification even when it comes at the cost of innocent lives.
C. Deteriorating social structure leading to break up of families resulting in lack of moral development in children.
(A). Only A
(B). Only C
(C). Only B and C
(D). All of these
Right Answer: D
2.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Why does the author refer to the law of survival of the fittest as ridiculous?
(A). This law is primitive and does not hold good for developed nations
(B). The law is often used to justify the accumulation of wealth by a selected few
(C). People from developing countries use it to rationalize their immigration to the Western countries
(D). It does not lead to any material profits and material wealth
Right Answer: B
3.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Which of the following is a reason for poverty and hunger in underdeveloped countries?
A. Mindlessly chasing the Western way of living.
B. They have fallen prey to the idea of happiness through material comforts rather than love and emotional bond.
C. They do not have marketing techniques as good as the Western countries.
(A). Only B
(B). Only C
(C). Only A
(D). Only B and C
Right Answer: E
4.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Why do the ‘starry-eyed millions’ harbor a wish to become NRI?
A. They are driven towards higher profits and materialism.
B. They appreciate the Western way of life as it appears to them.
C. They have become emotionless and lost any attachment to the motherland.
(A). Only A
(B). Only B
(C). Only A and B
(D). Only C
Right Answer: C
5.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Why does the author disregard the Western way of living even though an average citizen in the West enjoys better living standards?
(A). Many Indians want to ape their lifestyle, leading to a cultural dilution of their own traditions
(B). The West has failed to market their lifestyle in an appropriate way
(C). According to him, the law of ‘survival of the fittest’ is now obsolete
(D). It only looks forward to material comfort rather than happiness within
Right Answer: D
6.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
What does the author mean by ‘intercepting someone’s share of daily bread’?
(A). Hindering the process of marketing in underdeveloped countries by the developed countries
(B). Denying material comfort to the Western World
(C). Affecting the social life of those working towards material comforts only
(D). Excess of wealth in Western World while people in poorer nations struggle for survival
Right Answer: D
7.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
What does the author mean by ‘shop window of the West’ when he suggests to look inside the shop?
A. The sprawling supermarkets have been making profits out of inhuman activities.
B. To look closely at the existing societal structure rather than superficially appreciating the delusive dazzle.
C. To study their marketing techniques closely.
(A). Only A
(B). Only B
(C). Only A and B
(D). Only B and C
Right Answer: C
8.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
The author’s main objective in writing the passage is
(A). To explain that consumerist societies have their own drawbacks, which are overlooked by those who are blinded by its material glare.
(B). To explain how too many material comforts have improved the living standard of common man in the West
(C). That young children should not be given access to guns and other ammunitions
(D). All NRIs are leading unmindful, second-class lives abroad
Right Answer: A
9.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
(A). Over-indulgence in accumulating material wealth has led to many problems on the social and emotional fronts.
(B). people should visit the sermons more often since this is the only way to achieve peace and happiness
(C). For the sake of making profits, people have taken decisions which have proved to be harmful to the society
(D). There are plenty of material comforts in the Western countries
Right Answer: B
10.
Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Shrewdly
(A). Roughly
(B). Rightly
(C). Rudely
(D). Courteously
Right Answer: E
11.
Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Chase
(A). Follow
(B). Capture
(C). Run
(D). Catch
Right Answer: A
12.
Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Elusive
(A). Terrifying
(B). Unusual
(C). Unachievable
(D). Haunting
Right Answer: C
13.
Choose the word/phrase which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Dejected
(A). Apologetic
(B). Anxious
(C). Accepted
(D). Elated
Right Answer: D
14.
Choose the word/phrase which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Unbridled
(A). Enthusiastic
(B). Controlled
(C). Rebellious
(D). Considerate
Right Answer: B
15.
Choose the word/phrase which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words have been printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, but a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our
chase for that elusive dream … especially in the West, the land that has been marketed as the land of the dreams – the great Western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and being happy – even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the West, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 years of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the World mindlessly chase Westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.
But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different World lies behind, a World that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions – for whom the Western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class fathers dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second class life they end up leading in the West. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the West also happens to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parents families per thousand, the number of old people in old age homes, the number of suicides, homicides and of course, the number of college/school shootouts.
And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the World is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st century civilization, the ‘Law of Survival of the Fittest’!
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness, however such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the World, after buying your new car or flat screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss, and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple …. And then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of the explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’ve sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day that they are your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
Momentary
(A). Sporadic
(B). Futuristic
(C). Brief
(D). Homogenous
Right Answer: E
16.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: D
17.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: C
18.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: C
19.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: D
20.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: B
21.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: C
22.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: D
23.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: C
24.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: A
25.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark ((E) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)
(A). (X1)
(B). (X2)
(C). (X3)
(D). (X4)
Right Answer: D
26.
Which of the phrases (A), (B), ((C) and ((D) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark ((E) as the answer.
The grim job market has taken its toll on students, many of those had hoped for a much better future.
(A). much of whom
(B). many of whom
(C). several of those
(D). many of which
Right Answer: B
27.
Which of the phrases (A), (B), ((C) and ((D) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark ((E) as the answer.
The relationship we have with our clients are the cornerstone of our future.
(A). our client are
(B). each clients is
(C). our clients is
(D). all clients are
Right Answer: C
28.
Which of the phrases (A), (B), ((C) and ((D) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark ((E) as the answer.
Many developed countries have been attempting to buy agricultural land in other countries to meet their own demand.
(A). has been attempting
(B). have being attempting
(C). are being attempting
(D). have been attempted
Right Answer: E
29.
Which of the phrases (A), (B), ((C) and ((D) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark ((E) as the answer.
A nuclear testing fills the air with radioactive dust and left the area uninhabitable.
(A). and leaves the
(B). also leaves the
(C). and leaving the
(D). and making the
Right Answer: A
30.
Which of the phrases (A), (B), ((C) and ((D) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark ((E) as the answer.
Modern ideas of governance started back to the time when people began to question kings.
(A). started when
(B). set back to
(C). start back to
(D). date back to
Right Answer: D
31. If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with 3rd, 7th, 8th and 10th letters of the word ‘COMPATIBILITY’, which of the following would be the last letter of that word? If no such word can be made, give ‘X’ as your answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give your answer as Y.
(A). I
(B). B
(C). L
(D). X
Right Answer: B
32. If in a certain code language ‘SIMILAR’ is written as ‘IZORNRH’, then how will
‘NATURAL’be written in that language? In each of the following questions two rows of numbers are given. The resultant number in each row is to be worked out separately based on the following rules and the questions below the rows of numbers are to be answered. The operations of numbers progress from left to right. Rules: (i) If a two digit odd number is followed by a two digit odd number, they are to be added. (ii) If a two digit even number is followed by a two digit odd number which is a perfect square, the even number is to be subtracted from the odd number. (iii) If a three digit number is followed by a two digit number, the first number is to be divided by the second number. (iv) If a prime number is followed by an even number, the two are to be added. (v) If an even number is followed by another even number, the two are to be multiplied. 23 15 12 X 24 49 If X is the resultant of the first row, what is the resultant of the second row? In each of the following questions two rows of numbers are given. The resultant number in each row is to be worked out separately based on the following rules and the questions below the rows of numbers are to be answered. The operations of numbers progress from left to right. Rules: (i) If a two digit odd number is followed by a two digit odd number, they are to be added. (ii) If a two digit even number is followed by a two digit odd number which is a perfect square, the even number is to be subtracted from the odd number. (iii) If a three digit number is followed by a two digit number, the first number is to be divided by the second number. (iv) If a prime number is followed by an even number, the two are to be added. (v) If an even number is followed by another even number, the two are to be multiplied. 37 12 21 38 81 14 What is the difference between the resultants of the two rows? In each of the following questions two rows of numbers are given. The resultant number in each row is to be worked out separately based on the following rules and the questions below the rows of numbers are to be answered. The operations of numbers progress from left to right. Rules: (i) If a two digit odd number is followed by a two digit odd number, they are to be added. (ii) If a two digit even number is followed by a two digit odd number which is a perfect square, the even number is to be subtracted from the odd number. (iii) If a three digit number is followed by a two digit number, the first number is to be divided by the second number. (iv) If a prime number is followed by an even number, the two are to be added. (v) If an even number is followed by another even number, the two are to be multiplied. 16 8 32 132 11 If X is the resultant of the first row, what is the resultant of the second row? In each of the following questions two rows of numbers are given. The resultant number in each row is to be worked out separately based on the following rules and the questions below the rows of numbers are to be answered. The operations of numbers progress from left to right. Rules: (i) If a two digit odd number is followed by a two digit odd number, they are to be added. (ii) If a two digit even number is followed by a two digit odd number which is a perfect square, the even number is to be subtracted from the odd number. (iii) If a three digit number is followed by a two digit number, the first number is to be divided by the second number. (iv) If a prime number is followed by an even number, the two are to be added. (v) If an even number is followed by another even number, the two are to be multiplied. 45 17 81 IfX is the resultant of the second row, what is the resultant of the first row? In each of the following questions two rows of numbers are given. The resultant number in each row is to be worked out separately based on the following rules and the questions below the rows of numbers are to be answered. The operations of numbers progress from left to right. Rules: (i) If a two digit odd number is followed by a two digit odd number, they are to be added. (ii) If a two digit even number is followed by a two digit odd number which is a perfect square, the even number is to be subtracted from the odd number. (iii) If a three digit number is followed by a two digit number, the first number is to be divided by the second number. (iv) If a prime number is followed by an even number, the two are to be added. (v) If an even number is followed by another even number, the two are to be multiplied. 12 28 84 37 22 18 What is the sum of the resultants of the two rows? Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below it. I. ‘A + B’ means that ‘A is the father of B’. II. ‘A – B’ means that ‘A is the wife of B’. III. ‘A × B’ means that ‘A is the brother of B’. IV. ‘A ÷ B’ means that ‘A is the daughter of B’. Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below it. I. ‘A + B’ means that ‘A is the father of B’. II. ‘A – B’ means that ‘A is the wife of B’. III. ‘A × B’ means that ‘A is the brother of B’. IV. ‘A ÷ B’ means that ‘A is the daughter of B’. Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below it. I. ‘A + B’ means that ‘A is the father of B’. II. ‘A – B’ means that ‘A is the wife of B’. III. ‘A × B’ means that ‘A is the brother of B’. IV. ‘A ÷ B’ means that ‘A is the daughter of B’. Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below it. I. ‘A + B’ means that ‘A is the father of B’. II. ‘A – B’ means that ‘A is the wife of B’. III. ‘A × B’ means that ‘A is the brother of B’. IV. ‘A ÷ B’ means that ‘A is the daughter of B’. Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below it. I. ‘A + B’ means that ‘A is the father of B’. II. ‘A – B’ means that ‘A is the wife of B’. III. ‘A × B’ means that ‘A is the brother of B’. IV. ‘A ÷ B’ means that ‘A is the daughter of B’. Read the following information carefully to answer the questions given below it. I. ‘A + B’ means that ‘A is the father of B’. II. ‘A – B’ means that ‘A is the wife of B’. III. ‘A × B’ means that ‘A is the brother of B’. IV. ‘A ÷ B’ means that ‘A is the daughter of B’. Read the following information carefully to answer the given questions. Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are sitting around a square table. Out of eight, four persons are sitting at the corners of the table and the other four are sitting at the mid points of each side of the table. Persons at the corners are facing the centre while the persons at the mid points of side are facing outside. S is 3rd to the right of P. P is facing the centre. Y is not sitting beside P or S. T is 3rd to the right of R. R is not sitting at the mid-point of any side of the table. R is also not beside Y. There is only one person between P and V. Q is not sitting beside V. Read the following information carefully to answer the given questions. Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are sitting around a square table. Out of eight, four persons are sitting at the corners of the table and the other four are sitting at the mid points of each side of the table. Persons at the corners are facing the centre while the persons at the mid points of side are facing outside. S is 3rd to the right of P. P is facing the centre. Y is not sitting beside P or S. T is 3rd to the right of R. R is not sitting at the mid-point of any side of the table. R is also not beside Y. There is only one person between P and V. Q is not sitting beside V. Read the following information carefully to answer the given questions. Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are sitting around a square table. Out of eight, four persons are sitting at the corners of the table and the other four are sitting at the mid points of each side of the table. Persons at the corners are facing the centre while the persons at the mid points of side are facing outside. S is 3rd to the right of P. P is facing the centre. Y is not sitting beside P or S. T is 3rd to the right of R. R is not sitting at the mid-point of any side of the table. R is also not beside Y. There is only one person between P and V. Q is not sitting beside V. Read the following information carefully to answer the given questions. Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are sitting around a square table. Out of eight, four persons are sitting at the corners of the table and the other four are sitting at the mid points of each side of the table. Persons at the corners are facing the centre while the persons at the mid points of side are facing outside. S is 3rd to the right of P. P is facing the centre. Y is not sitting beside P or S. T is 3rd to the right of R. R is not sitting at the mid-point of any side of the table. R is also not beside Y. There is only one person between P and V. Q is not sitting beside V. For recruiting management trainees in an organization, the following criteria as have been laid down. The candidate must (i) Be a first class graduate in Commerce with atleast 65% marks. (ii) Have secured atleast 70% marks in SSC. (iii) Be not more than 26 years and not less than 21 years of age as on 01st August 2007. (iv) Have secured atleast 60% marks in selection test. (v) Have secured atleast 50% marks in selection interview. However, if a candidate fulfills all the above mentioned criteria except (A) at (i) above but is an Economics graduate with atleast 70% marks, the case may be referred to the GM of the organization. (B) at (v) above but has secured atleast 40% marks in selection interview and atleast 70% marks in selection test, the case may be referred to the President of the organization. In each of the questions below, information of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following five decision bases on the information provided and the criteria and conditions given above. You are no to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01st August 2007. You have to indicate your decision by marking answers to each questions as follows. For recruiting management trainees in an organization, the following criteria as have been laid down. The candidate must (i) Be a first class graduate in Commerce with atleast 65% marks. (ii) Have secured atleast 70% marks in SSC. (iii) Be not more than 26 years and not less than 21 years of age as on 01st August 2007. (iv) Have secured atleast 60% marks in selection test. (v) Have secured atleast 50% marks in selection interview. However, if a candidate fulfills all the above mentioned criteria except (A) at (i) above but is an Economics graduate with atleast 70% marks, the case may be referred to the GM of the organization. (B) at (v) above but has secured atleast 40% marks in selection interview and atleast 70% marks in selection test, the case may be referred to the President of the organization. In each of the questions below, information of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following five decision bases on the information provided and the criteria and conditions given above. You are no to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01st August 2007. You have to indicate your decision by marking answers to each questions as follows. For recruiting management trainees in an organization, the following criteria as have been laid down. The candidate must (i) Be a first class graduate in Commerce with atleast 65% marks. (ii) Have secured atleast 70% marks in SSC. (iii) Be not more than 26 years and not less than 21 years of age as on 01st August 2007. (iv) Have secured atleast 60% marks in selection test. (v) Have secured atleast 50% marks in selection interview. However, if a candidate fulfills all the above mentioned criteria except (A) at (i) above but is an Economics graduate with atleast 70% marks, the case may be referred to the GM of the organization. (B) at (v) above but has secured atleast 40% marks in selection interview and atleast 70% marks in selection test, the case may be referred to the President of the organization. In each of the questions below, information of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following five decision bases on the information provided and the criteria and conditions given above. You are no to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01st August 2007. You have to indicate your decision by marking answers to each questions as follows. For recruiting management trainees in an organization, the following criteria as have been laid down. The candidate must (i) Be a first class graduate in Commerce with atleast 65% marks. (ii) Have secured atleast 70% marks in SSC. (iii) Be not more than 26 years and not less than 21 years of age as on 01st August 2007. (iv) Have secured atleast 60% marks in selection test. (v) Have secured atleast 50% marks in selection interview. However, if a candidate fulfills all the above mentioned criteria except (A) at (i) above but is an Economics graduate with atleast 70% marks, the case may be referred to the GM of the organization. (B) at (v) above but has secured atleast 40% marks in selection interview and atleast 70% marks in selection test, the case may be referred to the President of the organization. In each of the questions below, information of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following five decision bases on the information provided and the criteria and conditions given above. You are no to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01st August 2007. You have to indicate your decision by marking answers to each questions as follows. For recruiting management trainees in an organization, the following criteria as have been laid down. The candidate must (i) Be a first class graduate in Commerce with atleast 65% marks. (ii) Have secured atleast 70% marks in SSC. (iii) Be not more than 26 years and not less than 21 years of age as on 01st August 2007. (iv) Have secured atleast 60% marks in selection test. (v) Have secured atleast 50% marks in selection interview. However, if a candidate fulfills all the above mentioned criteria except (A) at (i) above but is an Economics graduate with atleast 70% marks, the case may be referred to the GM of the organization. (B) at (v) above but has secured atleast 40% marks in selection interview and atleast 70% marks in selection test, the case may be referred to the President of the organization. In each of the questions below, information of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following five decision bases on the information provided and the criteria and conditions given above. You are no to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01st August 2007. You have to indicate your decision by marking answers to each questions as follows. For recruiting management trainees in an organization, the following criteria as have been laid down. The candidate must (i) Be a first class graduate in Commerce with atleast 65% marks. (ii) Have secured atleast 70% marks in SSC. (iii) Be not more than 26 years and not less than 21 years of age as on 01st August 2007. (iv) Have secured atleast 60% marks in selection test. (v) Have secured atleast 50% marks in selection interview. However, if a candidate fulfills all the above mentioned criteria except (A) at (i) above but is an Economics graduate with atleast 70% marks, the case may be referred to the GM of the organization. (B) at (v) above but has secured atleast 40% marks in selection interview and atleast 70% marks in selection test, the case may be referred to the President of the organization. In each of the questions below, information of one candidate is given. You have to take one of the following five decision bases on the information provided and the criteria and conditions given above. You are no to assume anything other than the information provided in each question. All these cases are given to you as on 01st August 2007. You have to indicate your decision by marking answers to each questions as follows. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven students of a school. Each of them studies in a different standard from standard II to standard VIII but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes a different subject, viz. English, Hindi, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, GK and Computer but not necessarily in the same order. B studies in standard VII but he does not like Biology or Computer. C likes English and does not study in standard V or standard III. E studies in standard VIII and likes Hindi. The one who likes GK studies in standard II. D studies in standard IV. G likes Civics. A does not study in standard II. The one who likes Computer studies in standard V. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven students of a school. Each of them studies in a different standard from standard II to standard VIII but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes a different subject, viz. English, Hindi, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, GK and Computer but not necessarily in the same order. B studies in standard VII but he does not like Biology or Computer. C likes English and does not study in standard V or standard III. E studies in standard VIII and likes Hindi. The one who likes GK studies in standard II. D studies in standard IV. G likes Civics. A does not study in standard II. The one who likes Computer studies in standard V. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven students of a school. Each of them studies in a different standard from standard II to standard VIII but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes a different subject, viz. English, Hindi, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, GK and Computer but not necessarily in the same order. B studies in standard VII but he does not like Biology or Computer. C likes English and does not study in standard V or standard III. E studies in standard VIII and likes Hindi. The one who likes GK studies in standard II. D studies in standard IV. G likes Civics. A does not study in standard II. The one who likes Computer studies in standard V. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven students of a school. Each of them studies in a different standard from standard II to standard VIII but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes a different subject, viz. English, Hindi, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, GK and Computer but not necessarily in the same order. B studies in standard VII but he does not like Biology or Computer. C likes English and does not study in standard V or standard III. E studies in standard VIII and likes Hindi. The one who likes GK studies in standard II. D studies in standard IV. G likes Civics. A does not study in standard II. The one who likes Computer studies in standard V. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven students of a school. Each of them studies in a different standard from standard II to standard VIII but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes a different subject, viz. English, Hindi, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, GK and Computer but not necessarily in the same order. B studies in standard VII but he does not like Biology or Computer. C likes English and does not study in standard V or standard III. E studies in standard VIII and likes Hindi. The one who likes GK studies in standard II. D studies in standard IV. G likes Civics. A does not study in standard II. The one who likes Computer studies in standard V. In each of these questions two equations numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both the equations. In each of these questions two equations numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both the equations. In each of these questions two equations numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both the equations. In each of these questions two equations numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both the equations. In each of these questions two equations numbered I and II are given. You have to solve both the equations.
(A). OZIFGZM
(B). OZIFGMZ
(C). OZIFZMG
(D). OZIFMZG
Right Answer: A
33. Sameer remembers that his brother’s birthday is after fifteenth but before 18th of February whereas his sister Kanika remembers that her brother’s birthday is after 16th but before 19th of February. On which day in February is Sameer’s brother’s birthday?
(A). 15th Feb.
(B). 18th Feb.
(C). 17th Feb.
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: C
34.
(A). 24
(B). 25
(C). 28
(D). 22
Right Answer: E
35.
(A). 23
(B). 32
(C). 13
(D). 18
Right Answer: C
36.
(A). 192
(B). 128
(C). 132
(D). 144
Right Answer: A
37.
(A). 285
(B). 33
(C). 135
(D). 34
Right Answer: D
38.
(A). 77
(B). 87
(C). 84
(D). 72
Right Answer: E
39.
(A). P is the daughter of Q
(B). Q is the aunt of p
(C). P is the aunt of Q
(D). P is the mother of Q
Right Answer: C
40.
(A). P is the mother of Q
(B). Q is the daughter of P
(C). P is the aunt of Q
(D). P is the sister of Q
Right Answer: A
41.
(A). P is the uncle of Q
(B). P is the father of Q
(C). P is the brother of Q
(D). P is the son of Q
Right Answer: D
42.
(A). P is the brother-in-law of Q
(B). P is the brother of Q
(C). P is the uncle of Q
(D). P is the father of Q
Right Answer: A
43.
(A). P is the husband of Q
(B). P is the brother of Q
(C). P is the son of Q
(D). P is the father of Q
Right Answer: A
44.
(A). P is the sister of Q
(B). Q is the son of P
(C). Q is the husband of P
(D). P is the sister in law of Q
Right Answer: D
45. A clock becomes 12 s fast in every 3 h. If it is made correct at 3 o’clock in the afternoon of Sunday, then what time will it show at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning?
(A). 2 min 52 s past 10
(B). 2 min 54 s past 10
(C). 2 min 50 s past 10
(D). 2 min 48 s past 20
Right Answer: A
46. 2 days before yesterday was Friday, then what day of the week will be day after tomorrow?
(A). Monday
(B). Sunday
(C). Saturday
(D). Wednesday
Right Answer: D
47. Shreya started from point P and walked 2 m towards West. She, then took a right turn and walked 3 m before taking a left turn and walking 5 m. She finally took a left turn, walked 3 mand stopped at a point Q. How far is point Q from point P?
(A). 2 m
(B). 6 m
(C). 7 m
(D). 8 m
Right Answer: D
48.
(A). None
(B). One
(C). Two
(D). Three
Right Answer: A
49.
(A). T is not sitting beside Y
(B). Y is sitting at the mid-point of a side
(C). R is 2nd to the left of Y
(D). P and V are beside Y
Right Answer: C
50.
(A). Y
(B). R
(C). T
(D). Q
Right Answer: A
51.
(A). Immediate left
(B). 2nd to the left
(C). 3rd to the left
(D). 3rd to the right
Right Answer: E
52. Four out of the following five are some how same and therefore they form a group. Whichone of the following does not come into this group?
(A). Y
(B). W
(C). V
(D). R
Right Answer: B
53. Who is 3rd to the right of W?
(A). R
(B). S
(C). Q
(D). Y
Right Answer: D
54. How many people are there between T and Q?
(A). None
(B). 1
(C). 2
(D). 3
Right Answer: B
55.
(A). if the candidate is to be selected
(B). if the candidate is not to be selected
(C). if the case is to be referred to GM
(D). if the case is to be referred to President
Right Answer: A
56.
(A). if the candidate is to be selected
(B). if the candidate is not to be selected
(C). if the case is to be referred to GM
(D). if the case is to be referred to President
Right Answer: B
57.
(A). if the candidate is to be selected
(B). if the candidate is not to be selected
(C). if the case is to be referred to GM
(D). if the case is to be referred to President
Right Answer: C
58.
(A). if the candidate is to be selected
(B). if the candidate is not to be selected
(C). if the case is to be referred to GM
(D). if the case is to be referred to President
Right Answer: C
59.
(A). if the candidate is to be selected
(B). if the candidate is not to be selected
(C). if the case is to be referred to GM
(D). if the case is to be referred to President
Right Answer: E
60.
(A). if the candidate is to be selected
(B). if the candidate is not to be selected
(C). if the case is to be referred to GM
(D). if the case is to be referred to President
Right Answer: A
61.
(A). GK
(B). Civics
(C). Computer
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: E
62.
(A). C-VI-English
(B). D-V-Biology
(C). A-IV-Chemistry
(D). All are true
Right Answer: A
63.
(A). IV
(B). II
(C). III
(D). VI
Right Answer: C
64.
(A). Biology
(B). GK
(C). Computer
(D). Chemistry
Right Answer: C
65.
(A). F studies in standard II
(B). A likes Computer
(C). The one who studies in standard VIII likes English
(D). All are false
Right Answer: C
66. The average of four consecutive odd numbers is 36. What is the smallest of these numbers?
(A). 31
(B). 35
(C). 43
(D). 47
Right Answer: E
67. What would be the compound interest accrued on an amount of Rs.7850 at the rate of 14% per annum in two years?
(A). Rs.2351.86
(B). Rs.2880.37
(C). Rs.2518.22
(D). Rs.2290.23
Right Answer: A
68. Mithilesh started a business by investing Rs.48000. After 7 months, Vidya joined him with a capital of Rs.56000. At the end of the year of the total profit was Rs.5885. What is theVidya’s share of the profit?
(A). Rs.3625
(B). Rs.1650
(C). Rs.1925
(D). Rs.3960
Right Answer: C
69. Three-fourth of one number is equal to five-sixth of another number. What is the respective ratio of the first number to the second number?
(A). 12 : 11
(B). 11 : 9
(C). 9 : 10
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: E
70. Natasha decided to spend 45% of her salary on shopping. On completion of her shopping, she realized that she had spent only Rs.11475, whichwas 60% of what she had decided to spent. How much is Natasha’s salary?
(A). Rs.29600
(B). Rs.38800
(C). Rs.42500
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: C
71. In how many different way can the letters of the word ‘RUDE’ be arranged?
(A). 12
(B). 48
(C). 16
(D). 24
Right Answer: D
72. The ages of Bhakti and Neil are in the ratio of 8 : 7 respectively. After 6 years, the ratio of their ages will be 19 : 17. What is the difference in their ages?
(A). 4 years
(B). 8 years
(C). 10 years
(D). 12 years
Right Answer: A
73. If the numerator of a fraction is increased by 500% and the denominator is increased by 300%. The resultant fraction is 2-4/7. What was the original fraction?
(A). 4/7
(B). 12/7
(C). 15/4
(D). 6/5
Right Answer: B
74. 
(A). if x < y
(B). if x ≤ y
(C). if x > y
(D). if x ≥ y
Right Answer: B
75. 
(A). if x < y
(B). if x ≤ y
(C). if x > y
(D). if x ≥ y
Right Answer: C
76. 
(A). if x < y
(B). if x ≤ y
(C). if x > y
(D). if x ≥ y
Right Answer: A
77. 
(A). if x < y
(B). if x ≤ y
(C). if x > y
(D). if x ≥ y
Right Answer: E
78. 
(A). if x < y
(B). if x ≤ y
(C). if x > y
(D). if x ≥ y
Right Answer: D
79. Study the following graph carefully to answer the questions
If the income of Company A in the year 2007 was Rs.6.3 Lakh, what was its expenditure in that year?
(A). Rs.420000
(B). Rs.325000
(C). Rs.516500
(D). Rs.250000
Right Answer: A
80. Study the following graph carefully to answer the question.
If the amount of profit made by Company A in the year 2009 was Rs.31.85 Lakh, what was its expenditure in that year?
(A). Rs.107 Lakh
(B). Rs.45 Lakh
(C). Rs.91 Lakh
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: C
81. Study the following graph carefully to answer the question.
What is the approximate average percent profit of Company A over all the years together?
(A). 37
(B). 33
(C). 39
(D). 48
Right Answer: E
82. Study the following graph carefully to answer the question.
If in the year 2004, incomes of both Companies A and B were the same, what would be the respective ratio of their expenditures?
(A). 31 : 33
(B). 27 : 29
(C). 16 : 23
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: B
83. Study the following graph carefully to answer the question.
What is the average amount of profit earned by Company B over the years?
(A). 41.69
(B). 38.33
(C). 26.45
(D). Can’t be determined
Right Answer: D
84. Study the following table carefully to answer the question that follow.
What is the total number of students from all the classes together in the year 2005?
(A). 747
(B). 728
(C). 764
(D). 735
Right Answer: A
85. Study the following table carefully to answer the question that follow.
What is the average number of students in all the classes together in the year 2004? (Rounded off to the nearest integer)
(A). 123
(B). 117
(C). 144
(D). 109
Right Answer: B
86. Study the following table carefully to answer the question that below.
What is the percent increase in the number of students in class VII in the year 2007 from the previous year? (Rounded off to two digit after the decimal)
(A). 10.15
(B). 5.48
(C). 6.67
(D). 8.93
Right Answer: C
87. Study the following table carefully to answer the question that below.
Number of students in class X in the year 2008 forms approximately what percent of the total number of students in that class from all the years together?
(A). 9
(B). 31
(C). 11
(D). 26
Right Answer: E
88. Study the following table carefully to answer the question that follow.
What is the respective ratio of total number of students in class V in the year 2006 and 2009 together to the total number of students in class VI from the same year?
(A). 39 : 37
(B). 40 : 41
(C). 37 : 39
(D). 41 : 40
Right Answer: D
89. Study the graph and answer the question that follow.
By what percent is the rate of Platinum less than the rate of Diamond on 14th September 2014?
(A). 97.33%
(B). 98.13%
(C). 97.95%
(D). 96.38%
Right Answer: B
90. Study the graph and answer the question that follow.
The average price of Diamond is approximately what percent of the price of Platinum on 11th September 2014?
(A). 7836.31%
(B). 7632.25%
(C). 7765.8%
(D). 7289.85%
Right Answer: D
91. Study the graph and answer the question that follow.
What is the average price of Platinum (in Rs. Per kg) for the given dates?
(A). 15683.65
(B). 18926.35
(C). 16333.33
(D). 17864.39
Right Answer: A
92. Study the graph and answer the question that follow.
What is the percentage increase in the price of diamond on 16th September 2014 as compared to that on 9th September 2014?
(A). 2.38%
(B). 2.94%
(C). 3.69%
(D). 3.12%
Right Answer: A
93. Study the graph and answer the question that follow.
What is the maximum difference of prices (in rs. Per kg) of the two items for the given dates?
(A). Rs.956200
(B). Rs.938500
(C). Rs.786200
(D). Rs.896400
Right Answer: E
94. Study the table and pie chart carefully to answer the given questions.
The pie chart shows the percentage breakup of employees working in various departments of an organization.
The number of males working in the Marketing department is what percent of the total number of employees working in that department? (round off to the nearest integer)
(A). 48.7%
(B). 56.23%
(C). 52.88%
(D). 59.82%
Right Answer: C
95. Study the table and pie chart carefully to answer the given question.
The pie chart shows the percentage breakup of employees working in various department of an organization.
What is the ratio of the number of females working in Accounts department to the total number of employees in that department?
(A). 10 : 39
(B). 17 : 39
(C). 13 : 28
(D). 5 : 12
Right Answer: A
96. Study the table and pie chart carefully to answer the given question.
The pie chart shows the percentage breakup of employees working in various department of an organization.
The number of males working in IT department of the organization is what percent of the total number of employees working in that department?
(A). 39.63%
(B). 47.82%
(C). 51.89%
(D). 44.27%
Right Answer: D
97. Study the table and pie chart carefully to answer the given question.
The pie chart shows the percentage breakup of employees working in various departments of an organization.
The number of females working in Production department is what percent of the total number of employees working in all the departments together?
(A). 9.75%
(B). 12.41%
(C). 11.3%
(D). 13.62%
Right Answer: B
98. Study the table and pie chart carefully to answer the given question.
The pie chart shows the percentage breakup of employees working in various departments of an organization.
What is the ratio of the number of males working in the HR department to the number of females working in that department?
(A). 11 : 15
(B). 17 : 25
(C). 3 : 5
(D). 15 : 23
Right Answer: E
99. 9 11 15 ? 39 71
(A). 29
(B). 23
(C). 21
(D). 27
Right Answer: B
100. 7 8 12 21 ? 62
(A). 42
(B). 51
(C). 48
(D). 35
Right Answer: E
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