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WIPRO MOCK TEST 2 Page | 1 1 Complete the given sentence with the best word from the options. Economics are a difficult lot to please and are _____________ impressed by either an increase in government expenditure or cut in taxes. (a) Always (b) often (c) Seldom (d) easily 2 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete. The roads to the hills _______ closed because of landslides. (a)Is (b)was (c)were (d)be 3 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete. ________ we been lying to our parents about smoking? (a) Hadn’t (b) Couldn’t (c) Haven’t (d) Didn’t 4 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete. His coach tells me that he ___________ in the league since he was sixteen years old. (a) Has played (b) Will be playing (c) Is playing (d) Has been playing 5 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete. The 30 minute composition ends on ___________ optimistic note, with Cardiff’s voice signing _________ haunting lullaby written by miller. (a) The, a (b) A, a (c) The, the (d) A, the (e) An, the 6 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete. Global warming refers to the rise in average global temperature ____________will eventually bring an end to humanity. (a) Therefore (b)that (c)and (d)those 7 In the question, a part of the sentence is underlined. Alternatives to the underlined part are given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative. My first salary was a four figure salary which had been considered very good in those days. (a) Would be (b) That is (c) Which was (d) That has been 8 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete. In today’s __________ economy, people secured with appropriate job are also continuously haunted by the standing fear of being jobless. (a)Sturdy (b)Relentless (c)Unstable (d)Robust 9 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word. Mottled (a)Dappled (b)Tired (c)Bias (d)Uniform 10 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word. Intrusion (a)Invasion (b)Retreat (c)Inflation (d)Defence 11 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word. Nonchalant (a)Keen (b)Indifferent (c)Indifferent (d)Concerned (e)Handsome 12 Improve the sentence by selecting the correct alternative to the underlined part of the sentence. A registered marriage requires the signatures of four witnesses , two each from the bride’s side

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1 Complete the given sentence with the best word from the options.

Economics are a difficult lot to please and are _____________ impressed by either an increase in

government expenditure or cut in taxes.

(a) Always (b) often (c) Seldom (d) easily

2 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The roads to the hills _______ closed because of landslides.

(a)Is (b)was (c)were (d)be

3 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

________ we been lying to our parents about smoking?

(a) Hadn’t (b) Couldn’t (c) Haven’t (d) Didn’t

4 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

His coach tells me that he ___________ in the league since he was sixteen years old.

(a) Has played

(b) Will be

playing

(c) Is playing

(d) Has been playing

5 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The 30 minute composition ends on ___________ optimistic note, with Cardiff’s voice signing

_________ haunting lullaby written by miller.

(a) The, a (b) A, a (c) The, the (d) A, the (e) An, the

6 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Global warming refers to the rise in average global temperature ____________will eventually bring

an end to humanity.

(a) Therefore (b)that (c)and (d)those

7 In the question, a part of the sentence is underlined. Alternatives to the underlined part are

given which may improve the construction of the sentence. Select the correct alternative.

My first salary was a four figure salary which had been considered very good in those days.

(a) Would be (b) That is (c) Which was (d) That has been

8 Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

In today’s __________ economy, people secured with appropriate job are also continuously

haunted by the standing fear of being jobless.

(a)Sturdy (b)Relentless (c)Unstable (d)Robust

9 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Mottled

(a)Dappled (b)Tired (c)Bias (d)Uniform

10 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Intrusion

(a)Invasion (b)Retreat (c)Inflation (d)Defence

11 Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Nonchalant

(a)Keen (b)Indifferent (c)Indifferent (d)Concerned (e)Handsome

12 Improve the sentence by selecting the correct alternative to the underlined part of the sentence.

A registered marriage requires the signatures of four witnesses, two each from the bride’s side

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of the groom’s side.

(a)Supporters (b)Relatives (c)Spectators (d)Attesters

13 Give the antonym of the underlined word, in the given blank.

He was very healthy before he got sick. Now he is very ________.

(a)Weak (b)Uneasy (c)Strong (d)week

14 Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the given word

CLARIFY

(a)Analyze (b)Simplify (c)Confuse (d)Resolve

15 Select the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.

STARTLED

(a)Amused (b)Relaxed (c)Endless (d)Soothe

16 Fill in the blanks with the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the word given in bold.

Anita was not happy with the bank’s interest rate policy. They offered a fixed rate on all loans

while she wanted a ___________ rate.

(a)Moving (b)Floating (c)Free (d)Market

17 In the question each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in

the beginning. The middle four sentences have been re-moved and jumbled up. These are

labelled P,Q,R and S. Select the proper order for the four sentences.

S1: An elderly lady suddenly became blind. P: The doctor called daily and every time he took away some of her furniture he liked. Q: At last she was cured and the doctor demanded his fee. R :She agreed to pay a large fee to the doctor who would cure her S: On being refused, the doctor wanted to know the reason. S6: The lady said that she had not been properly cured because she could not see all his furniture.

(a) PQRS (b) RPQS (c) RSPQ (d) RQPS

Read the passage and answer the questions given below

Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex

selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror. Experts are calling it "sanitised barbarism".

Demographic trends indicate India is fast heading towards a million female foetuses aborted

each year.

Although foetal sex determination and sex selection is a criminal offence in India, the practice is

rampant. Private clinics with ultrasound machines are doing brisk business. Everywhere,

people are paying to know the sex of an unborn child. And paying more to abort the female

child. The technology has even reached remote areas through mobile clinics. Dr. PuSneet Bedi,

obstetrician and specialist in foetal medicine, says these days he hardly sees a family with two

daughters. People are getting sex determination done even for the first child, he says.

Spreading like a virus

A recent media workshop on the issue of sex selection and female foeticide brought home the

extent of the problem. Held in Agra in February, the workshop was organised by UNICEF,

Business Community Foundation, and the Centre for Advocacy and Research. Doctors, social

scientists, researchers, activists, bureaucrats, journalists told their stories of what they were

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doing to fight the problem.

If the 1991 Census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number of girls per thousand

boys) less than 850; by 2001 it was 51 districts. Child rights activist Dr. Sabu George says

foeticide is the most extreme form of violence against women. "Today a girl is several times

more likely to be eliminated before birth than die of various causes in the first year. Nature

intended the womb to be a safe space. Today, doctors have made it the most unsafe space for

the female child," he says. He believes that doctors must be held responsible — "They have

aggressively promoted the misuse of technology and legitimised foeticide."

Researchers and scholars use hard-hitting analogy to emphasise the extent of the problem. Dr.

Satish Agnihotri, senior IAS officer and scholar who has done extensive research on the issue,

calls the technology "a weapon of mass destruction". Dr. Bedi refers to it as genocide: "More

than 6 million killed in 20 years. That's the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust."

Related issues: Foeticide is also one of the most common causes of maternal mortality. The

sex of the foetus can be determined only around 14-16 weeks. This means most sex selective

abortions are late. Abortion after 20 weeks is illegal in India. Donna Fernandes, Vimochana, a

Bangalore-based NGO, says foeticide is related to a host of other social problems as varied as

privatisation of medical education and dowry. Karnataka has the highest number of private

medical colleges. Healthcare turning commodity has led to terrifying consequences. Adds

Fernandes, "Wherever green revolution has happened foeticide has increased. With more

landholdings and wealth inheritance dowry has increased. Daughters are considered an

economic liability. Today, people don't want their daughters to study higher — a well-educated

groom will demand more dowry."

Ironically, as income levels increase, sex determination and sex selection is increasing. The

most influential pockets have the worst sex ratios. Take Punjab for instance — 793 girls for

every 1,000 boys against the national figure of 927. Or South Delhi — one of the most affluent

localities of the Capital — 760. According to Satara-based advocate Varsha Deshpande, small

families have come at the cost of the girl child.

In patriarchal States like Rajasthan where infanticide has existed for centuries, this new

technology has many takers. Meena Sharma, 27, television journalist from Rajasthan, who did a

series of sting operations across four States last year, says, "Today, people want to pretend they

are modern and that they do not discriminate between a girl and a boy. Yet, they will not

hesitate to quietly go to the next village and get an ultrasound done."

Sharma was determined to expose the widespread malpractice. She travelled with pregnant

women as "decoys" across four States and more than 13,000 km to do a series of sting

operations. She says more than 100 doctors of the 140 they met were ready to do a sex

selective abortion, some as late as the seventh month. "We were shocked at the greed we saw

— doctors did not even ask why we wanted to abort, far from dissuading us from doing so," she

says.

What's the solution? Varsha Deshpande says the PCPNDT Act (Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal

Diagnostic Techniques — Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) is very well conceived and easy

to use. "We have done 17 sting operations across Maharashtra and got action taken against

more than 25 doctors," says Varsha. She adds that other laws for violence against women such

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as dowry, domestic violence, rape, put the control in the hands of the police which is biased.

Therefore, even though the law exists, offenders get away. This law preventing sex

determination and sex selection is much easier to use, she says.

Regulating technology: Akhila Sivadas, Centre for Advocacy and Research, Delhi, agrees that

the law is very well conceived and the need of the hour is legal literacy to ensure the law is

implemented. "The demand and supply debate has been going on for some time. Doctors say

there is a social demand and they are only fulfilling it. They argue that social attitudes must

change. However, in this case supply fuels demand. Technology will have to be regulated.

Technology in the hands of greedy, vested interests cannot be neutral. There is a law to prevent

misuse and we must be able to use it," she says. CFAR is currently partnering with local NGOs in

six districts of Rajasthan to help ensure implementation of the law.

On the "demand" side, experts such as Dr. Agnihotri argue that women's participation in

workforce, having disposable incomes and making a contribution to larger society will make a

difference to how women are seen. Youth icons and role models such as Sania Mirza are making

an impact, he says.

Others feel there needs to be widespread visible contempt and anger in society against this

"genocide" — "the kind we saw against the Nithari killings," says Dr. Bedi. "Today nobody can

say female foeticide is not their problem." Time we all did our bit to help save the girl child.

Time's running out.

18 Select the correct answer option based on the passage.

What does the word ‘sanitised’ imply in the first paragraph of the passage?

(a)Unforgivable (b)Legitimate (c)Free from dirt (d)None of these

19 Select the correct answer option based on the passage.

Which ‘demand’ does the author refer to, in paragraph 5?

(a)Demand for principled doctors.

(b)Demand for high income jobs for women

(c)Demand for youth icons

(d)Demand for sex determination and abortion

20 Select the correct answer option based on the passage.

Which of the two people mentioned in the passage suggest similar solution to the problem?

a) Dr. Agnihotri

and Dr. George

b) Dr.Bedi and Dr.

Agnihotri

c) Dr. George and

Dr.Bedi

d) Dr. George and Ms. Sivadas

21 Select the correct answer option based on the passage.

What do you infer from the sentence in context of the passage “India lives in several centuries

at the same time”?

(a)We are progressing in some areas and regressing in the others

(b)People from different centuries are living in India.

(c)India has a diverse culture

(d)Some people are modern while the others are traditional in approach.

Select the correct answer option based on the passage.

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Somehow we manage to progress and regress

simultaneously.

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As a nation we age by pushing outward from the middle-adding a few centuries on either end of

the extraordinary CV. We greaten like the maturing head of a hammerhead shark with eyes

looking in diametrically opposite directions.

I don't mean to put a simplistic value judgment on this peculiar form of "progress" by

suggesting that Modern is Good and Traditional is Bad-or vice versa. What's hard to reconcile

oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it. That applies not just

to the ancient/modern conundrum but to the utter illogic of what appears to be the current

national enterprise. In the lane behind my house, every night I walk past road gangs of

emaciated labourers digging a trench to lay fibre-optic cables to speed up our digital revolution.

In the bitter winter cold, they work by the light of a few candles.

It's as though the people of India have been rounded up and loaded onto two convoys of trucks

(a huge big one and a tiny little one) that have set off resolutely in opposite directions. The tiny

convoy is on its way to a glittering destination somewhere near the top of the world. The other

convoy just melts into the darkness and disappears. A cursory survey that tallies the caste, class

and religion of who gets to be on which convoy would make a good Lazy Person's concise Guide

to the History of India. For some of us, life in India is like being suspended between two of the

trucks, one leg in each convoy, and being neatly dismembered as they move apart, not bodily,

but emotionally and intellectually.

Fifty years after independence, India is still struggling with the legacy of colonialism, still

flinching from the "cultural insult." As citizens we're still caught up in the business of

"disproving" the white world's definition of us. Intellectually and emotionally, we have just

begun to grapple with communal and caste politics that threaten to tear our society apart. But

meanwhile, something new looms on our horizon. On the face of it, it's just ordinary, day-to-day

business. It lacks the drama, the large-format, epic magnificence of war or genocide or famine.

It's dull in comparison. It makes bad TV It has to do with boring things like jobs, money, water

supply, electricity, irrigation. But it also has to do with a process of barbaric dispossession on a

scale that has few parallels in history. You may have guessed by now that I'm talking about the

modern version of globalization.

What is globalization? Who is it for? What is it going to do to a country like India, in which

social inequality has been institutionalized in the caste system for centuries? A country in

which 700 million people live in rural areas. In which 80 percent of the landholdings are small

farms. In which 300 million people are illiterate. Is the corporatization and globalization of

agriculture, water supply, electricity and essential commodities going to pull India out of the

stagnant morass of poverty, illiteracy and religious bigotry?

As of April 1-April Fool's Day-2001, according to the terms of its agreement with the World

Trade Organization, the Indian government had to drop its quantitative import restrictions. The

Indian market is already flooded with cheap imports. Though India is technically free to export

its agricultural produce, in practice most of it cannot be exported because it doesn't meet the

First World's "environmental standards." (You don't eat bruised mangoes or bananas with

mosquito bites or rice with a few weevils in it, whereas we don't mind the odd mosquito and

the occasional weevil.)

Developed countries like the United States, whose hugely subsidized farm industry engages

only 2 to 3 percent of its total population, are using the WTO to pressure countries like India to

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drop agricultural subsidies in order to make the market "competitive." Huge, mechanized

corporate enterprises working thousands of acres of farmland want to compete with

impoverished subsistence farmers who own a couple of acres.

In effect, India's rural economy, which supports 700 million people, is being garrotted. Farmers

who produce too much are in distress, farmers who produce too little are in distress and

landless agricultural labourers are out of work as big estates and farms lay off their workers.

They're all flocking to the cities in search of employment.

"Trade Not Aid" is the rallying cry of the head men of the new Global Village, headquartered in

the shining offices of the WTO. Our British colonizers stepped onto our shores a few centuries

ago disguised as traders. We all remember the East India Company. This time around, the

colonizer doesn't even need a token white presence in the colonies. The CEOs and their men

don't need to go to the trouble of tramping through the tropics, risking malaria, diarrhoea,

sunstroke and an early death. They don't have to maintain an army or a police force, or worry

about insurrections and mutinies. They can have their colonies and an easy conscience.

"Creating a good investment climate" is the new euphemism for Third World repression.

Besides, the responsibility for implementation rests with the local administration.

Enron in India: The fishbowl of the drive to privatize power, its truly star turn, is the story

of Enron, the Houston-based natural gas company. The Enron project was the first private

power project in India. The Power Purchase Agreement between Enron and the Congress

Party-ruled state government of Maharashtra for a 740 megawatt power plant was signed in

1993. The opposition parties, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv

Sena, set up a howl of swadeshi (nationalist) protest and filed legal proceedings against Enron

and the state government. They alleged malfeasance and corruption at the highest level. A year

later, when state elections were announced, it was the only campaign issue of the BJP-Shiv Sena

alliance.

In February 1995 this combine won the elections. True to their word, they "scrapped" the

project. In a savage, fiery statement, the opposition leader L.K. Advani attacked the

phenomenon he called "loot through liberalization." He more or less directly accused the

Congress Party government of having taken a $13 million bribe from Enron. Enron had made

no secret of the fact that in order to secure the deal, it paid out millions of dollars to "educate"

the politicians and bureaucrats involved in the deal.

Following annulment of the contract, the US government began to pressure the Maharashtra

government. US Ambassador Frank Wisner made several statements deploring the cancellation.

(Soon after he completed his term as ambassador, he joined Enron as a director.) In November

1995 the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra announced a "renegotiation" committee. In

May 1996 a minority federal government headed by the BJP was sworn in at New Delhi. It

lasted for exactly thirteen days and then resigned before facing a no-confidence vote in

Parliament. On its last day in office, even as the motion of no confidence was in progress, the

Cabinet met for a hurried "lunch" and reratified the national government's counter-guarantee

(which had become void because of the earlier "canceled" contract with Enron). In August 1996

the government of Maharashtra signed a fresh contract with Enron on terms that would

astound the most hard-boiled cynic.

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The impugned contract had involved annual payments to Enron of $430 million for Phase I of

the project (740 megawatts), with Phase II (1,624 megawatts) being optional. The

"renegotiated" power purchase agreement makes Phase II of the project mandatory and legally

binds the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) to pay Enron the sum of $30 billion! It

constitutes the largest contract ever signed in the history of India.

Indian experts who have studied the project have called it the most massive fraud in the

country's history. The project's gross profits work out to between $12 billion and $14 billion.

The official return on equity is more than 30 percent. That's almost double what Indian law and

statutes permit in power projects. In effect, for an 18 percent increase in installed capacity, the

MSEB has to set aside 70 percent of its revenue to pay Enron. There is, of course, no record of

what mathematical formula was used to "re-educate" the new government. Nor any trace of

how much trickled up or down or sideways or to whom.

But there's more: In one of the most extraordinary decisions in its not entirely pristine history,

in May 1997 the Supreme Court of India refused to entertain an appeal against Enron.

Today, everything that critics of the project predicted has come true with an eerie vengeance.

The power mat the Enron plant produces is twice as expensive as its nearest competitor and

seven times as expensive as the cheapest electricity available in Maharashtra. ln May 2000 the

Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Committee (MERC) ruled that temporarily, until as long as

was absolutely necessary, no power should be bought from Enron. This was based on a

calculation that it would be cheaper to just pay Enron the mandatory fixed charges for the

maintenance and administration of the plant that it is contractually obliged to pay than to

actually buy any of its exorbitant power. The fixed charges alone work out to around $220

million a year for Phase I of the project. Phase II will be nearly twice the amount.

Two hundred and twenty million dollars a year for the next twenty years. Meanwhile,

industrialists in Maharashtra have begun to generate their own power at a much cheaper rate,

with private generators. The demand for power from the industrial sector has begun to decline

rapidly. The MSEB, strapped for cash, with Enron hanging like an albatross around its neck, will

now have no choice but to make private generators illegal. That's the only way that

industrialists can be coerced into buying Enron's exorbitantly priced electricity.

In January 2001 the Maharashtra government (the Congress Party is back in power with a new

chief minister) announced that it did not have the money to pay Enron's bills. On January 31,

only five days after an earthquake in the neighbouring state of Gujarat, at a time when the

country was still reeling from the disaster, the newspapers announced that Enron had decided

to invoke the counter-guarantee and that if the government did not come up with the cash, it

would have to auction the government properties named as collateral security in the contract.

But Enron had friends in high places. It was one of the biggest corporate contributors to

President George W. Bush's election campaign. US government officials warned India about

vitiating the "investment climate" and running the risk of frightening away future investors. In

other words: Allow us to rob you blind, or else we'll go away.

Last June the MSEB announced that it was ending its agreement with the Dabhol Power

Corporation, a joint venture of Enron-which has the largest stake-General Electric and Bechtel.

DPC ceased operations soon afterward, and is pressuring the government to cover its debts.

Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo Dutch petroleum group, TotalFinaElf and Gaz de France are

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currently bidding to take over Enron, Bechtel and GE's collective stake in the plant in a "distress

sale."

Globalizing Dissent: Recently, globalization has come in for some criticism. The protests in

Seattle and Prague will go down in history. Each time the WTO or the World Economic Forum

wants to have a meeting, ministers have to barricade themselves with thousands of heavily

armed police. Still, all its admirers, from Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan and A.B. Vajpayee (the Indian

Prime Minister) to the cheering brokers in the stalls, continue to say the same lofty things: If we

have the right institutions of governance in place-effective courts, good laws, honest politicians,

participatory democracy, a transparent administration that respects human rights and gives

people a say in decisions that affect their lives-then the globalization project will work for the

poor as well. They call this "globalization with a human face."

The point is, if all this were in place, almost anything would succeed: socialism, capitalism, you

name it. Everything works in Paradise, a Communist State as well as a Military Dictatorship. But

in an imperfect world, is it globalization that's going to bring us all this bounty? Is that what's

happening in India now that it's on the fast track to the free market? Does any one thing on that

lofty list apply to life in India today? Are state institutions transparent? Have people had a say-

have they even been informed, let alone consulted-about decisions that vitally affect their lives?

And are Clinton (or now Bush) and Prime Minister Vajpayee doing everything in their power to

see that the "right institutions of governance" are in place? Or are they involved in exactly the

opposite enterprise? Do they mean something else altogether when they talk of the "right

institutions of governance"?

The fact is that what's happening in India today is not a 'problem," and the issues that some of

us are rising are not "causes." They are huge political and social upheavals that are convulsing

the nation. One is not involved by virtue of being a writer or activist. One is involved because

one is a human being.

If you're one of the lucky people with a berth booked on the small convoy, then Leaving It to the

Experts is, or can be, a mutually beneficial proposition for both the expert and yourself. It's a

convenient way of shrugging off your own role in the circuitry. And it creates a huge

professional market for all kinds of "expertise." There's a whole ugly universe waiting to be

explored there. This is not at all to suggest that all consultants are racketeers or that expertise

is unnecessary, but you've heard the saying: There's a lot of money in poverty. There are plenty

of ethical questions to be asked of those who make a professional living off their expertise in

poverty and despair.

For instance, at what point does a scholar stop being a scholar and become a parasite who feeds

off despair and dispossession? Does the source of your funding compromise your scholarship?

We know, after all, that World Bank studies are among the most quoted studies in the world. Is

the World Bank a dispassionate observer of the global situation? Are the studies it funds

entirely devoid of self-interest?

Take, for example, the international dam industry. It's worth $32-$46 billion a year. It's

bursting with experts and consultants. Given the number of studies, reports, books, PhDs,

grants, loans, consultancies, environmental impact assessments-it odd, wouldn't you say, that

there is no really reliable estimate of how many people have been displaced by big dams in

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India? That there is no estimate for exactly what the contribution of big dams has been to

overall food production in India? That there hasn't been an official audit, a comprehensive,

honest, thoughtful, post-project evaluation, of a single big dam to see whether or not it has

achieved what it set out to achieve? Whether or not the costs were justified or even what the

costs actually were?

Cynics say that real life is a choice between the failed revolution and the shabby deal. I don't

know...maybe they're right. But even they should know that there's no limit to just how shabby

that shabby deal can be. What we need to search for and find, what we need to hone and perfect

into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the

politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The

politics of slowing things down. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing

certain destruction. In the present circumstances, I'd say that the only thing worth globalizing is

dissent. It's India's best export.

22 What do you infer from the following lines – “In the lane behind my house, every night i walk

past roads of emaciated labourers digging a trench to lay fiber-optic cables to speed up our

digital revolution .In the bitter winter cold, they work by the light of a few candles?”

(a)India has unbalanced mixture of both traditional and modern people

(b)Progress is unbalanced

(c)Digital revolution is very important for our economic growth

(d)There is shortage of electricity in India.

23 Select the correct answer option based on the passage

Why does the response towards ‘Globalisation in India’ differ in different parts of India?

(a)Due to different literacy levels

(b)Due to religious diversity in India

(c)It will not benefit all sections of the society

(d)It may not have all the answers to India’s current problems.

24 Select the correct answer option based on the passage

What does the phrase “cultural insult” imply?

(a)People from one culture do not respect people from other cultures

(b)Disrespect of British towards Indian culture

(c)White peoples definition for us

(d)Ill-treatment at hands of British.

25 Choose the correct answer

The difference in the simple and compound interest and compound interest on a principal of

Rs 10,00,000 in 3 years at 4%p.a is

(a)Rs 4800 (b)Rs.4000 (c)Rs 4864 (d)Rs.4846

26 Choose the correct answer

What is the square of 7 1/2 expressed as a mixed fraction?

(a)49 1/2 (b)49 1/4 (c)56 1/4 (d)14 1/4

27 Choose the correct answer

How many three digit numbers can be formed using 2,3,4 and 5,with none of the digits

repeating ?

(a)25 (b)45 (c)24 (d)10

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28 Choose the correct answer

What is the value of “a” if 2 log 3log2loga23072 = 1

(a)128 (b)16 (c)64 (d)32

29 Choose the correct answer

Aman had to do a multiplication problem .Instead of taking 70 as one of the multipliers, he took

106 by mistake .As a result the product went up by 1080 .What is the new product?

(a)540 (b)1080 (c)2100 (d)3180

30 Choose the correct answer

If abcd is divisible by 4 what cannot be the value of d?

(a)0 (b)4 (c)3 (d)2

31 Choose the correct answer

If log 103 = 0.477, The value of log910 is ?

(a)1 (b)0.4777 (c)0.954 (d)0.523

32 Choose the correct answer

If mn =2401 then m/n = ?

(a)4/7 (b)7/4 (c)11/3 (d)4/11

33 Choose the correct answer

Which is the smallest number?

(a)1/12 (b)1/6 (c)1/4 (d)1/3

34 Choose the correct answer

Which number should be added to 3651 so that it can be divisible by 21?

(a)1 (b)2 (c)3 (d)4

35 Choose the correct answer

What will be the quotient when 25698.225 is divided by 21.542?

(a)1192.93 (b)119.293 (c)11929.3 (d)119293

36 Choose the correct answer

Solve: √ (9-√ (3+√ (5-√ (3+√ (169))))

(a)√7 (b)1 (c)0 (d)√5

37 Choose the correct answer

A number X when divided by 13 leaves a reminder 12, what is the reminder when we divide by

X13 by 13?

(a)12 (b)0 (c)1 (d)10 (e)4

38 Choose the correct answer

If 2x *3y =18 and 22x *3y =36,the value of X is?

(a)0 (b)2 (c)3 (d)None of these

39 Choose the correct answer

If log 2(X+1) + log 2X - log 2(X+1) = 2 then value X is equal to ?

(a)4 (b)3 (c)2 (d)1

40 Choose the correct answer

In a single throw of dice, what is the probability to get a number greater or equal to 4?

(a)1/3 (b)2/3 (c)1/2 (d)None of these

41 Choose the correct answer

If A rows 4km upstream and 8km downstream taking 2 hours each, what would be the speed of

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the stream?

(a)4km/hr (b)3km/hr (c)2km/hr (d)1km/hr

42 Choose the correct answer

8 friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are to be seated around a round table. Find the probability that

A&B never sit next to each other.

(a)2/7 (b)5/7 (c)3/8 (d)5/8

43 Choose the correct answer

A man earns Rs 24000 pm .He spends one third of his income on personal expenditures .Half of

the remaining income is invested in a scheme at 15% interest p.a. After investing, half of what is

left invested in a scheme which gives 10% interest p.a .The remaining lies in a bank ,where it

earns an interest of 4%p.a.The effective rate of interest earned the man at the end of the year

is?

(a)19% (b)10% (c)11% (d)29% (e)12.33%

44 Choose the correct answer

The value of 74P2 is?

(a)2275 (b)150 (c)5402 (d)None of these

45 Choose the correct answer

Five friends Megha, Meghana, Mehak, Menaka, and Meenakshi are to be seated in a round table

such that Megha never sits next to Meghana .In how many ways is it possible?

(a)4! (b)4!*2 (c)3!*2 (b)3!

46 Choose the correct answer

Mumbai rajdhani takes 16 hours to reach Mumbai from Delhi while swaraj express takes 20

hours .The ratio of the speeds of the two is

(a)1:4 (b)4:5 (c)5:4 (d)3:2

47 Choose the correct answer

The simple interest earned on a certain amount is half of the amount, when money is invested

for 8 years at the rate of 5%.What is the principal?

(a)Rs 3000 (b)Rs 1000 (c)Data inadequate (d)Rs 2000

48 Choose the correct answer

A bag contains 10 paisa, 20 paisa and 25 paisa coins in the ratio 7:4:3 .If the total value is Rs

902 ,The number of 25 paisa coins in the bag is?

(a)120 (b)160 (c)280 (d)300

49 The question consists of a problem followed by two statements I and II .Find out if the

information given in the statement is sufficient in finding the solution to the problem.

Question: volume of the sphere can be calculated

Statement I: If the volume of hemisphere is provided

Statement II: If the volume of sphere is provided.

(a)Statement I alone is sufficient

(b)Statement II alone is sufficient

(c)Both the statements put together are sufficient

(d)Both the statements put together are not sufficient

50 The question consists of a problem followed by two statements I and II .Find out if the

information given in the statement is sufficient in finding the solution to the problem.

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Question: When is Mohit’s birthday?

Statement I: He was born after 19th but before 25th September

Statement II: He was born in a leap year

(a)Statement I alone is sufficient

(b)Statement II alone is sufficient

(c)Both the statements put together are sufficient

(d)Both the statements put together are not sufficient

51 Passage for questions:

There are 4 questions in each puzzle.

Answer the questions based on the information:

There are 6 teachers A, B, C, D, E, and F in a school. Each of the teachers teaches two subjects,

one compulsory subject and the other optional subject. D's optional subject was History while

three others have it as compulsory subject. . E and F have physics as one of their subject. F’s

compulsory subject is mathematics which is an optional subject of C and E. History and English

are A’s subjects but in terms of compulsory and optional subjects, they are just reverse of those

D’s chemistry is an optional subject of only one of them. The only female teacher in the school

has English as her compulsory subject.

Directions: Choose the right answer:

Question: What is C’s compulsory subject?

(a)History (b) Physics (c) Chemistry (d) English

52 Directions: choose the right answer:

Question: disregarding which is the compulsory and which is the optional subject, who has the

same two subject combination as F?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e)NONE

53 Directions: choose the right answer

Question: who is the female member in the group?

(a)A (b)B (c)C (d)D (e) E

54 Directions: Choose the right answer:

Question: which of the following has same compulsory and optional subjects as this of F’s?

(a)D (b)B (c)A (d)C (e)NONE

55 Passage for questions:

In an auction of six televisions, one of each Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, LG, Onida, Samsung are

required to be arranged and laced in a circular table with the televisions facing outwards. If the

positions on the circular table are marked 1 to 6 in clockwise direction. Arrange the 6 brands of

televisions in accordance with the conditions provided below.

Samsung should stay adjacent to Onida, LG should not be adjacent to Philips, lg is to the right of

Panasonic. Toshiba is at position 5.

Directions: Answer the question based on the given information

Question: If Onida is at position 2, then whose stand will be at a position which is a multiple of

3(i.e 3 and 6) if all the possible arrangements are considered?

(a)Samsung &

Panasonic

(b)Philips & LG (c) Panasonic &

LG

(d) None of these

56 Passage for questions:

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Directions: Answer the question based on the given information

Question: If Samsung is at position 1 and LG is not at position 4 then which brand of television

is at position 6?

(a)Panasonic (b)LG (c)Philips (d)Onida

57 Passage for questions:

Directions: Answer the question based on the given information

Question: if Philips is to the left of Samsung, then the television of which brand is at position 3?

(a)Onida (b)Panasonic (c)Samsung (d)LG

58 Passage for questions:

Directions: Answer the question based on the given information

Question: If LG is at position 4, then how many arrangements of the different brands of

television are possible?

(a)1 (b)2 (c)3 (d)4

59 Select the right option from the given alternatives

Question: AZP: ZAR: TXK:

(a)PWU (b)XTM (c)LYT (d)QXU

60 Select the right option from the given alternatives:

Question: AIE: FNJ: KSO:

(a)PWU (b)PXT (c)LYT (d)QXU

61 Directions: Decode the word(s)/pattern given in the question.

Question: If MATH can be coded as RFYM, what is the code for PHYSICS in that language?

(a)UMDXNHX (b) UMDVNHV (c)UMDYNHY (d)UMDXHNX

62 Directions: select the right option from the given alternatives.

Question: Fan: Regulator : : Air conditioner

(a)Remote (b)Cable (c)Power (d)Stabilizer

63 Passage for question:

There are 2 questions based on the same data. Answer the questions based on the given

information:

Following are the conditions to appoint a distributor for petroleum gas throughout Delhi. The

applicant should

a) Be an Indian by nationality

b) Be in the age group of 21-50 years as on 5th September, 2008.

c) Be minimum matriculate or recognised equivalent

d) Be a resident of Delhi for not less than 5 years immediately preceding the date of application.

e) Have family income of not more than 50,000 annually

f) Not have any dealership in any oil company.

g) Have no close relatives as a dealer/ distributor of any oil company. However

h) Restrictions relating to annual income would not beside applicable to persons working in

corporations, owned or controlled by state government, but the case shall be referred to the

managing director.

i) For unemployed graduates, conditions (vi) and (vii) may be waived

If a person belongs to SC/ST but is not a resident of Delhi, the case may be referred to the

chairman.

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Directions: Choose the right answer:

Question: Bahadur Singh working in the state corporation is an Indian by nationality and is 23

years of age. He is a graduate and his annual income is Rs. 60,000 per annum. He has been in

Delhi for 7 years. He does not himself nor have any of his relatives working as distributors or

dealers in any oil company.

(a)Applicant should be selected.

(b)Applicant should not be selected.

(c)Insufficient data

(d)The case should be referred to the managing director.

64 Passage for question:

Directions: Choose the right answer:

Question: Cheena, an Indian resident of Mumbai, is a matriculate with a family income of

Rs.20,000 per annum. Her date of birth is 15, 3.85. She does not have any dealership in any oil

company nor have any close relatives as dealer or distributor. She is a SC candidate.

(a)Applicant should be selected.

(b)Applicant should not be selected

(c)Insufficient data.

(d)The case should be referred to the managing director.

(e)The case should be referred to the chairman.

65 Question: Pointing to a lady, a man said, “She is the wife of my father’s only son”. How is the

man related to the lady?

(a)Brother (b)Cousin (c)Husband (d)Brother in law

66 Directions: Symbols #,/, % and > mean the following:

A#B means A is equal to B.

A/B means A is half of B.

A%B means A is 20 percent of B.

A>B means A is double of B.

Using these symbols and taking the given statements as true, find out that which of the given

conclusions are definitely true?

Question: STATEMENTS:

S>T, T#U AND U/V

Conclusions:

I.S%V

II.S#V

(a)Only I is true (b)Only II is true (c)Both are correct (d)None of these

67 Select the right option from the given alternatives

Question: A drives 10 km towards east and turns to the right hand and drives 3 km. Then he

drives towards west (turning at his right) 3 km. He then turns to his left and drives 2 km.

Finally he turns to his right and travels 7 km. How far is he from his starting point and in which

direction would he be?

(a)10km east (b)9 km North (c)8 km west (d)5 km south (e) 3 km, south

68 Directions: based on the given passage find out which of the statement can be inferred from the

passage.

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Question: Deepa Mehta’s fire was under fire from the country’s self appointed moral police.

Their contention was that the film was a violation of the Indian cultural mores and could not be

allowed to influence the Indian Psyche. According to them, such films ruin the moral fabric of

the nation, which must be protected and defended against such intrusions at all cost, even at

the cost of cultural dictatorship.

(a)The assumption underlying the moral police’s critique of fire was that the Indian audience is

vulnerable to all types of influence.

(b)The assumption underlying the moral police’s critique of fire was that the Indian audience is

impressionable and must be protected against the ‘immoral ‘influence.

(c) The moral police think it has the sole authority to pass judgment on firms screened in India.

(d)None of these

69 Directions: Based on the given passage find out which of the statement can be inferred from the

passage:

Question: European cars have traditionally been smaller and more fuel-efficient than their giant

American cousins, but current policy explicitly stresses eco-friendliness. For example, recent

British legislation has linked to CO2 emissions with the lowest tax rate of 15 percent on the list

price reserved for cars emitting less than 165 gm/ km and rising by one per cent for each 5 gm

increase in C02 levels.

(a)The English are unconcerned about the environment and rules have to be imposed upon

them for the maintenance of a clean environment.

(b)The lesser the list price of a car, the greater is its fuel efficiency and so lesser the tax on it.

(c)The more fuel efficient a vehicle is, the more eco friendly it will be.

(d)Fuel sufficient does not necessarily correlate with eco-friendliness