QUESTION NO: 1
Sam -1 think there should be some way to get out of this trouble. We sure can manage to get the money
from somewhere. Like say we can work overtime or start some business. We will have to think hard, I am
sure we can handle the situation if we can think of some source of earning money. Samant -There is no
way. There is nothing we can do about it. Even if we work overtime we shall not be able to make enough
money in two months. We should not waste time in thinking about how we can earn the money. Instead
we should some other means of getting it. What is a reader most likely to conclude about the qualities of
the two after reading the above conversation?
Sam -1 think there should be some way to get out of this trouble. We sure can manage to get the money
from somewhere. Like say we can work overtime or start some business. We will have to think hard, I am
sure we can handle the situation if we can think of some source of earning money. Samant -There is no
way. There is nothing we can do about it. Even if we work overtime we shall not be able to make enough
money in two months. We should not waste time in thinking about how we can earn the money. Instead
we should some other means of getting it. What is a reader most likely to conclude about the qualities of
the two after reading the above conversation?
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 2
A teacher is making five children stand in a row. Each child is assigned a number tag before being made
to stand in the row. The tags are not necessarily according to their positions.
Amy, Tara, Xenia, Yana, Pam are the children and they are given numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
The following conditions apply:
Exactly one number is given to a child.
Pam must be made to stand fourth and assigned number 1.
4 must be assigned to Yana.
Tara and Xenia must each be made to stand in one of the extreme positions.
Xenia cannot be given either number 2 or 3.
All of the following is either true or can be true except
A teacher is making five children stand in a row. Each child is assigned a number tag before being made
to stand in the row. The tags are not necessarily according to their positions.
Amy, Tara, Xenia, Yana, Pam are the children and they are given numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
The following conditions apply:
Exactly one number is given to a child.
Pam must be made to stand fourth and assigned number 1.
4 must be assigned to Yana.
Tara and Xenia must each be made to stand in one of the extreme positions.
Xenia cannot be given either number 2 or 3.
All of the following is either true or can be true except
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 3
Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented
opportunities-as well as new and significant risks. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the
principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics and the other minority groups have difficulty establishing
themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated
by large companies. Now congress, in apparent agreement, has required by law that businesses awarded
federal contracts of more than $500,000 do their best to find minority subcontractors and record their
efforts to do so on forms field with the government. Indeed, some federal and local agencies have gone
so far as to set specific percentage goals for apportioning parts of public works contracts to minority
enterprises.
Corporate response appears to have been substantial. According to figures collected in 1977, the total of
corporate contracts with minority business rose from $77 to $1.1 billion in 1977. The projected total of
corporate contracts with minority business for the early 1980's is estimated to be over $3 billion per year
with no letup anticipated in the next decade. Promising as it is for minority businesses, this increased
patronage poses dangers for them, too. First, minority firms risk expanding too fast and overextending
themselves financially, since most are small concerns and, unlike large businesses they often need to
make substantial investments in new plants, staff, equipment, and the like in order to perform work
subcontracted to them. If, thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms can face
potentially crippling fixed expenses. The world of corporate purchasing can be frustrating for small
entrepreneurs who get requests for elaborate formal estimates and bids. Both consume valuable time and
resources and a small company's efforts must soon result in orders, or both the morale and the financial
health of the business will suffer.
A second risk is that White-owned companies may-seek to cash inon the increasing apportion-ments
through formation of joint ventures with minority-owned concerns, of course, in many instances there are
legitimate reasons for joint ventures; clearly, white and minority enterprises can team up to acquire
business that neither could Third, a minority enterprise that secures the business of one large corporate
customer often runs the danger of becoming and remaining dependent. Even in the best of circumstances,
fierce competition from larger, more established companies makes it difficult for small concerns to
broaden their customer bases; when such firms have nearly guaranteed orders from a single corporate
benefactor, they may truly have to struggle against complacency arising from their current success.
According to the passage, the authors played a normal Indigo bunting song backwards in order to
determine which of the following?
Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented
opportunities-as well as new and significant risks. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the
principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics and the other minority groups have difficulty establishing
themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated
by large companies. Now congress, in apparent agreement, has required by law that businesses awarded
federal contracts of more than $500,000 do their best to find minority subcontractors and record their
efforts to do so on forms field with the government. Indeed, some federal and local agencies have gone
so far as to set specific percentage goals for apportioning parts of public works contracts to minority
enterprises.
Corporate response appears to have been substantial. According to figures collected in 1977, the total of
corporate contracts with minority business rose from $77 to $1.1 billion in 1977. The projected total of
corporate contracts with minority business for the early 1980's is estimated to be over $3 billion per year
with no letup anticipated in the next decade. Promising as it is for minority businesses, this increased
patronage poses dangers for them, too. First, minority firms risk expanding too fast and overextending
themselves financially, since most are small concerns and, unlike large businesses they often need to
make substantial investments in new plants, staff, equipment, and the like in order to perform work
subcontracted to them. If, thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms can face
potentially crippling fixed expenses. The world of corporate purchasing can be frustrating for small
entrepreneurs who get requests for elaborate formal estimates and bids. Both consume valuable time and
resources and a small company's efforts must soon result in orders, or both the morale and the financial
health of the business will suffer.
A second risk is that White-owned companies may-seek to cash inon the increasing apportion-ments
through formation of joint ventures with minority-owned concerns, of course, in many instances there are
legitimate reasons for joint ventures; clearly, white and minority enterprises can team up to acquire
business that neither could Third, a minority enterprise that secures the business of one large corporate
customer often runs the danger of becoming and remaining dependent. Even in the best of circumstances,
fierce competition from larger, more established companies makes it difficult for small concerns to
broaden their customer bases; when such firms have nearly guaranteed orders from a single corporate
benefactor, they may truly have to struggle against complacency arising from their current success.
According to the passage, the authors played a normal Indigo bunting song backwards in order to
determine which of the following?
Correct Answer: E
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QUESTION NO: 4
Which one of the following is the weakest claim in the advertisement of Morning Walker, an electronic
device which can be used as a substitute of walking?
Which one of the following is the weakest claim in the advertisement of Morning Walker, an electronic
device which can be used as a substitute of walking?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 5
Those examples of poetic justice that occur in medieval and Elizabethan literature, and that seem so
satisfying, have encouraged a whole school of twentieth-century scholars to "find" further examples. In
fact, these scholars have merely forced victimized character into a moral framework by which the
injustices inflicted on them are, somehow or other, justified. Such scholars deny that the sufferers in a
tragedy are innocent; they blame the victims themselves for their tragic fates. Any misdoing is enough to
subject a character to critical whips. Thus, there are long essays about the misdemeanors of Webster's
Duchess of Malfi, who defined her brothers, and he behavior of Shakespeare's Desdemona, who
disobeyed her father.
Yet it should be remembered that the Renaissance writer Matteo Bandello strongly protests the injustice
of the severe penalties issued to women for acts of disobedience that men could, and did, commit with
virtual impunity. And Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Webster often enlist their readers on the side of their
tragic heroines by describing injustices so cruel that readers cannot but join in protest. By portraying
Griselda, in the Clerk's Tale, as a meek, gentle victim who does not criticize, much less rebel against the
prosecutor, her husband Waltter, Chaucer incites readers to espouse Griselda's cause against Walter's
oppression. Thus, efforts to supply historical and theological rationalization for Walter's persecutions tend
to turn Chaucer's fable upside down, to deny its most obvious effect on reader's sympathies. Similarly, to
assert that Webster's Duchess deserved torture and death because she chose to marry the man she
loved and to bear their children is, in effect to join forces with her tyrannical brothers, and so to confound
the operation of poetic justice, of which readers should approve, with precisely those examples of social
injustice that Webster does everything in his power to make readers condemn. Indeed. Webster has his
heroin so heroically lead the resistance to tyranny that she may well in spire members of the audience to
imaginatively joins forces with her against the cruelty and hypocritical morality of her brothers.
Thus Chaucer and Webster, in their different ways, attack injustice, argue on behalf of the victims, and
prosecute the persecutors. Their readers serve them as a court of appeal that remains free to rule, as the
evidence requires, and as common humanity requires, in favor of the innocent and injured parties. For, to
paraphrase the noted eighteenth-century scholar, Samuel Johnson, despite all the refinements of subtlety
and the dogmatism of learning, it is by the common sense and compassion of readers who are
uncorrupted by the characters and situations in mereval and Dlizabetahn literature, as in any other
literature, can best be judged.
The author's paraphrase of a statement by Samuel Johnson serves which of the following functions in the
passage?
Those examples of poetic justice that occur in medieval and Elizabethan literature, and that seem so
satisfying, have encouraged a whole school of twentieth-century scholars to "find" further examples. In
fact, these scholars have merely forced victimized character into a moral framework by which the
injustices inflicted on them are, somehow or other, justified. Such scholars deny that the sufferers in a
tragedy are innocent; they blame the victims themselves for their tragic fates. Any misdoing is enough to
subject a character to critical whips. Thus, there are long essays about the misdemeanors of Webster's
Duchess of Malfi, who defined her brothers, and he behavior of Shakespeare's Desdemona, who
disobeyed her father.
Yet it should be remembered that the Renaissance writer Matteo Bandello strongly protests the injustice
of the severe penalties issued to women for acts of disobedience that men could, and did, commit with
virtual impunity. And Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Webster often enlist their readers on the side of their
tragic heroines by describing injustices so cruel that readers cannot but join in protest. By portraying
Griselda, in the Clerk's Tale, as a meek, gentle victim who does not criticize, much less rebel against the
prosecutor, her husband Waltter, Chaucer incites readers to espouse Griselda's cause against Walter's
oppression. Thus, efforts to supply historical and theological rationalization for Walter's persecutions tend
to turn Chaucer's fable upside down, to deny its most obvious effect on reader's sympathies. Similarly, to
assert that Webster's Duchess deserved torture and death because she chose to marry the man she
loved and to bear their children is, in effect to join forces with her tyrannical brothers, and so to confound
the operation of poetic justice, of which readers should approve, with precisely those examples of social
injustice that Webster does everything in his power to make readers condemn. Indeed. Webster has his
heroin so heroically lead the resistance to tyranny that she may well in spire members of the audience to
imaginatively joins forces with her against the cruelty and hypocritical morality of her brothers.
Thus Chaucer and Webster, in their different ways, attack injustice, argue on behalf of the victims, and
prosecute the persecutors. Their readers serve them as a court of appeal that remains free to rule, as the
evidence requires, and as common humanity requires, in favor of the innocent and injured parties. For, to
paraphrase the noted eighteenth-century scholar, Samuel Johnson, despite all the refinements of subtlety
and the dogmatism of learning, it is by the common sense and compassion of readers who are
uncorrupted by the characters and situations in mereval and Dlizabetahn literature, as in any other
literature, can best be judged.
The author's paraphrase of a statement by Samuel Johnson serves which of the following functions in the
passage?
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION NO: 6
In her new kids1 guide to writing, Gail tells beginners not to get discouraged, to pay attention to every
detail and to incorporate fun into discipline. She suggests writing the first page of the story three times,
each time from a different starting point. Every story has another story behind it. Gail is practical,
conversational and honest -a good voice to have in your ear as you set about the solitary work of writing.
One of her more specific pieces of advice is to save the work for at least 15 years. Which of the following
is the most remarkable feature of the book?
In her new kids1 guide to writing, Gail tells beginners not to get discouraged, to pay attention to every
detail and to incorporate fun into discipline. She suggests writing the first page of the story three times,
each time from a different starting point. Every story has another story behind it. Gail is practical,
conversational and honest -a good voice to have in your ear as you set about the solitary work of writing.
One of her more specific pieces of advice is to save the work for at least 15 years. Which of the following
is the most remarkable feature of the book?
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 7
You don't see donkeys laughing; you don't see buffaloes enjoying a joke. It is only man who can enjoy a
joke, who can laugh. Without laughter a man is like a tree without flowers. But the society needs serious
people: Presidents, Prime Ministers, Vice-Chancellors, Professors, Popes, and Shankara charyas, all
kinds of priests, teachers, and commissioners. Everybody has to be serious. If they have a sense of
humor they will become human. They are expected to be just like machines. Which of the following is the
most suitable criticism of the above mentioned idea?
You don't see donkeys laughing; you don't see buffaloes enjoying a joke. It is only man who can enjoy a
joke, who can laugh. Without laughter a man is like a tree without flowers. But the society needs serious
people: Presidents, Prime Ministers, Vice-Chancellors, Professors, Popes, and Shankara charyas, all
kinds of priests, teachers, and commissioners. Everybody has to be serious. If they have a sense of
humor they will become human. They are expected to be just like machines. Which of the following is the
most suitable criticism of the above mentioned idea?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 8
Office orders are used to pass on important information such as withdrawing rights, imposing conditions,
making postings or transfers, and sanctioning promotion or increment and so on.
Office orders are used to pass on important information such as withdrawing rights, imposing conditions,
making postings or transfers, and sanctioning promotion or increment and so on.
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 9
Four persons enter the lift of a seven storey building at the ground floor. In how many ways can they get
out of the lift on any floor other than the ground floor?
Four persons enter the lift of a seven storey building at the ground floor. In how many ways can they get
out of the lift on any floor other than the ground floor?
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 10
Sometimes it is very difficult to see what is going on in the other person's mind. In such situations it gets
difficult to communicate.
What can be inferred about the speaker of the above sentence?
Sometimes it is very difficult to see what is going on in the other person's mind. In such situations it gets
difficult to communicate.
What can be inferred about the speaker of the above sentence?
Correct Answer: D
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