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Directions for questions 1 to 10: The sentences given in each C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass
most logical order of sentences from among the given choices from one state to another.
to construct a coherent paragraph. E. This depends on an assessment of the political situation,
a. BEDAC b. CDABE c. EDBAC d. ABCDE
1. A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not
infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here and 5. A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of
there and doing nothing. that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel the proverbial Irishman's question: "Is this a private fight or can
free to call any time without prior appointment. anyone join in?"
C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than
and reactions, indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than our societies, is calculable.
outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others. C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the office those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there
and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual. are probably some rules.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India. D. However, binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled
of their way to help them in their personal matters even during if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
office hours. a DABC b. ACDB c. CBAD d. DBAC
a. ECADBF b. EADCFB c. EADBFC d. ABFCBE
6. A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many
2. A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's supermarkets and drug stores.
productive capacity means bombing the factories which are B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper,
located in the cities. customers may buy that brand elsewhere. C. By contrast, the
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive
productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if since it is available
you're really vicious, salt them. only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's D. So the demand for branded diapers at any particular store
productive capacity means destroying the information may be quite price sensitive. E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs
infrastructure. stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
D. How do you do battle with your enemy? F. Then stores should set a higher incremental margin
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and percentage for private label diapers.
depending upon the economic foundation, that productive a.ABCDEF b.ABCEDF c.ADBCEF d.AEDBCF
capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to 7. A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy. B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that
a. FDEBAC b. FCABED c. DEBACF d. DFEBAC enables a company to offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to
3. A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry make tough tradeoffs in choosing what not to do.
(act without approval or complaint. D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him. E. A company must stay the course even during times of
C. He acknowledges too — in fact, he returns to the point often upheaval, while constantly improving and extending its
— that best translators of poetry always fail at some level. distinctive positioning.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work and this is clear F. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing
from his writings. system, any competitor wishng to imitate a strategy must
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators replicate the whole system.
come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners. a.ACEDBF b.ACBDEF c. DCBEFA d.ABCEDF
a. EACDB b. ADEBC c. EACBD d. DCEAB
8. A. As officials, their vision of a country shouldn't run too far
4. A. Passivity is not, of course, universal. beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.
B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier B. Ambassadors have to choose their words.
zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry C. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be
may well be different. denying or ignoring part of what they know.

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D. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black process information as quickly and effectively as the model
Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence. assumes; they tend not to think ... 12 ... as easily as the model
E. They do a specialized job and ft is necessary for them to live calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really
ceremonial lives, assessing its... 13... and when they do assess alternatives, they
a. BCEDA b. BEDAC c. BEADC d. BCDEA may be extremely nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.

9. A. "This face-off will continue for several months given the 11. a. Regrettably b. Firstly c. Obviously d. Apparently
strong convictions on either side." says a senior functionary of
the high-powered task force on drought. 12. a. quantitatively b. systematically c. scientifically d.
B. During the past week-and-half, the Central Government has analytically
sought to deny some of the earlier apprehensions over the
impact of drought. 13. a. implications b. disadvantages c. utility d. alternatives
C. The recent revival of the rains had led to the emergence of a
line of divide between the two. In a large company,... 14 ... people is about as common as using
D. The state governments, on the other hand, allege that the a gun or a switch-blade to ... 15 ... an argument. As a result,
Centre is downplaying the crisis only to evade its full most managers have little or no experience of firing people,
responsibility of financial assistance that is required to alleviate and they find it emotionally traumatic; as result, they often
the damage. delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will
E. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an inadequate prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often
monsoon had been sounded by the Centre as well as most of done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
the states, in late July and early August.
a. EBCDA b. DBACE c. BDCAE d. ECBDA Do the world-class software organizations have a different way
of firing people? No. but they do the deed swiftly, humanely,
10. A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey and professionally.
expeditions to Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the The key point here is to view the fired employee as a 'failed
Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth the arc product' and to ask how the process... 16 ... such a
was about a kilometer shorter. phenomenon in the first place.
B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th
century was that exact nature of the shape of the earth. 14. a. dismissing b. punishing c. firing d. admonishing
C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the
equatorial latitudes than at the poles. 15. a. resolve b. thwart c. defeat d. close
D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc
along a chosen longitude or meridian at one degree latitude 16. a. derived b. engineered c. produced d. allowed
separation.
E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a
sphere but an 'oblate spheroid', more curved at the equator
and flatter at the poles, the question of 'how much more' was
yet to be established.
a. BECAD b. BEDCA c. EDACB d. EBDCA

Directions for questions 11 to 16: Fill the gaps in the passages

below with the most appropriate word from the options given
for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author.
Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you
choose the answers.
Von Nuemann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework
in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option
being independent of the others, with a numerical value
derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these
outcomes reflecting, in turn, all possible combinations of
choices). The decision is then made to maximize the expected
utility.
... 11 ... such a model reflects major simplifications of the way
divisions are made in the real world. Humans are not able to

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