SET – 1

INSTRUCTIONS: Please complete the below test in 1 hour and 15 minutes. It is marked out of
50. Please allocate time according to the marks available and attempt all sections. Checks
will be made for plagiarism and anyone found to have copied work will be rejected.

Name:

Date:

Telephone:

Microsoft Skills /10

Analytical Skills /10

Aptitude Test /10

English Test /10

Written Skills /10

TOTAL /50
 Microsoft office skills (10 Marks)

1. The line below has been formatted in lots of different ways.

If you were to select this line, which key would you then press to return all of the formatting to the
default?

a) CTRL + N
b) CTRL + ;
c) CTRL + Q
d) CTRL + Space

2. To alphabetically sort text, you click

a) Format/Sort
b) Tools/Sort
c) Tables/Sort
d) Edit/Sort/Paragraph

3. What is the shortcut keystroke to allow you to quickly toggle text case from UPPERCASE to
lowercase to Title Case?

a) Alt+F3
b) Shift+F1.
c) Shift+F3
d) Ctrl+F3

4. Is it possible to insert an image from a file into an Excel spreadsheet?

a) True
b) False

5. ###### means:

a)  You've entered a number wrong.

b) You've misspelled something.
c) The cell is not wide enough.

6. To add a new row, click a cell in the row immediately above where you want the new row
a) True
b) False

7. What is the shortcut key to insert a new row in Excel?

8. What is the shortcut key to enter the current date?

 9. How can you create a new document using Microsoft Word?
a) By clicking the blank page ( ) icon in Word.
b) By clicking File/New and choosing the default template.
c) By clicking Window's Start button, then New Office Document.
d) All of the above.

10. Which is not a way to insert a hyperlink?

a) Hit Ctrl/K.
b) Click Insert/Hyperlink
c) Click Format/Hyperlink
d) Click Insert/Field/Hyperlink

Analytical Skills (10 Marks)

Read the article below and answer the questions based on your understanding of the contents in
the passage Answers should be derived from the information available in the text only.

Making my way down a trail through rosemary scrub in Florida's central sand hills, I surprised a six-
lined racerunner (Cnemidophorus sexily neatus, so named for the lines that run the length of its
body) basking in a wheel rut. I gave chase and the lizard streaked off--easily keeping ahead of my
stumbling run. For thirty yards the lizard churned through loose sand, before managing a darting
escape under a shady bush. The sprint was impressive, particularly for a lizard less than a foot
long, but what was even more amazing was that the lizard had to make its dash without taking a
breath. The racerunner's mechanical systems for breathing and running are linked in such a way
that the lizard can do one or the other, but not both.

Lungs in any animal are, of course, the site of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange. But lungs
themselves cannot draw air into an animal's body; they are really nothing more than stretchy bags
that bring air into close proximity with blood. Lungs fill with air when the cavity housing them
enlarges, enlarging the lungs as well; the resultant low gas pressure causes outside air to rush in.

Mammals have two systems for ventilating the lungs. The rib muscles power one system: they
expand the chest by lifting and rotating the long flat bones to which they attach. The diaphragm, a
dome-shaped muscle between the lungs and the liver, powers the second system. It works by
pulling the lung cavity rearwards, toward the tail. The diaphragm is a mammalian innovation.
Crocodiles and alligators have independently evolved a muscle that pulls the liver backwards, also
effectively inflating the lungs. But lizards and snakes lack any analogue to the diaphragm, and so
they rely on their rib muscles alone to inflate their lungs.

David Carrier, a biomechanist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, observed that a lizard's rib
muscles also play a vital role in locomotion: they stabilize the trunk, giving the forelimbs a steady
platform from
Which to operate. But any locomotion also renders the rib muscles nearly useless for breathing;
running makes them completely so. Studying the common green iguana (Iguana iguana), Carrier
confirmed that the rib muscles are active during locomotion, and that the lizard holds its breath
while sprinting.

Now, any athlete can tell you that holding your breath while running will seriously cut down on your
endurance. So Carrier posited that lizards (not unlike me) are restricted to short bursts of anaerobic
exercise (less than thirty seconds), followed by prolonged panting to pay back the oxygen debt. (An
oxygen debt accrues when muscles work without oxygen; the result is that lactic acid accumulates,
and it must be oxidized after the work is done.)

Carrier's hypothesis was controversial, particularly among respiratory physiologists. Other

investigators had discovered that monitor lizards--a distant relative of Carrier's iguana--have high
metabolic rates. That is, unlike most so-called cold-blooded animals, monitors burn a lot of energy
rapidly. A good example is the savannah monitor (Varanus exanthematicus), an African monitor
lizard weighing about ten pounds, which spends most of its day patrolling its territory for tasty
insects. Its oxygen consumption is as high as that of such mammals as the armadillo, and so the
monitor can't afford to hold its breath while moving. On the contrary, the animal should ventilate as
often and as vigorously as a metabolically equivalent mammal. But if the lizard can't rely on its rib
muscles to breathe while it walks, how does the monitor spend all day walking?

The resolution to this apparent paradox required the joint efforts of physiologists and bio
mechanists. Tomasz Owerkowicz of Harvard University and Beth Brainerd of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst trained savannah monitors to trot on a treadmill in front of an X-ray
machine coupled to a video camera. The X-ray movies demonstrated that, as Carrier had predicted,
when the animal ran relatively fast, respiration relying on the sub atmospheric pressures generated
by expansion of the rib cage was supplanted by a different method of breathing. Long, thin bones
below the tongue and in the neck seemed to be causing the lizard's throat and the floor of its mouth
to expand and contract: the animal was "gulping" air on the run.

This kind of lung ventilation, well known in frogs and salamanders, is called gular pumping [see
illustration below]. In fact, the use of head muscles rather than trunk muscles to power respiration
predates the evolution of lungs. Fish, for example, pump water across their gills with their head
muscles. But until the work of Owerkowicz and Brainerd, gular pumping had not been considered
an important factor for lung ventilation in reptiles.

To show that gular pumping is the key to the monitor's endurance, Brainerd and Owerkowicz took a
group of treadmill-trained lizards on a road trip to the University of California, Irvine. There, together
with the physiologists James W. Hicks and Colleen Farmer, they custom-fitted the animals with
small face masks, which enabled the biologists to measure the lizards' oxygen consumption while
the animals ran a treadmill. First each lizard ran normally; then a plastic tube was inserted into the
mouth to keep the animal's mouth open and prevent gular pumping. And sure enough, when the
gular pumping was eliminated, the monitor lizards acted more like Carrier's green iguanas.

Gular pumping has turned out to be far more widespread in lizards than physiologists had
previously thought. The monitors, though, with their high metabolic rate, rely on it more than their
relatives do. For most other lizards, the drill remains: dash and pant, dash and pant ... just like me.
1. The apparent paradox mentioned in the passage refers to:

a) How a lizard is able to run while apparently not breathing.

b) The way lizards rib muscles come into play while it is running to assist in its breathing.

c) How a cold blooded animal burns a lot of energy when compared to others.

d) How oxygen debt in one animal leads to panting while it does not in its relative.

e) Why some animal takes recourse to gular pumping.

2. David carrier’s study about the green iguana conformed that:

a) It does not breath while running

b) Its rib muscle plays a vital role in locomotion.

c) It burns energy very fast.

d) It energetically spends most of its time looking for food.

1) Only (a) in true

2) Only (a) and (b) are true.

3) Only (a), (b) and (c) are true.

4) Only (b), (c) and (d) are true.

5) All the four statements are true.

3. The joint effort of physiologist and bio mechanists showed that:

a) Gular pumping is present in frogs and salamanders too.

b) The process of gulping of air is seen only in the savanna monitors.

c) Head muscles are used in breathing.

d) The lizard too like the monitor uses a different mechanism of breathing while running.

e) Gular pumping is found of breathing while running.

4. Which of the following statements is/are true as per the passage?

 a) In mammals the diaphragm aids in breathing in addition to the rib muscles.

b) Oxygen debt will result in the accumulation of latic acid in muscles.

c) In the hierarchy of the evolutionary process the use of lungs for breathing comes at a
later stage.

d) ‘Gulping air’ is a part of gular pumping.

e) All of the above.

5. Regarding gular pumping.

a) Only the monitors use it.

b) The monitors are more dependent on it.

c) Any animal with higher metabolic rate needs it.

d) All lizards use it.

e) All reptiles use it.

Aptitude test (10 Marks)

1) Kelly and Chris packed several boxes with books. If Chris packed 60 percent of the total
number of boxes, what was the ratio of the number of boxes Kelly packed to the number of
boxes?
a. 1 to 6
b. 2 to 5
c. 3 to 5
d. 2 to 3

2) There are 4 more women than men on Centerville’s board of education. If there are 10
members on the board, how many are women?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 6
d. 7

3) There are 8 teams in a certain league and each team play each of the other teams exactly
once. If each game is played by 2 teams, what is the total number of games played?
a. 15
b. 16
c. 28
d. 56
 4) The water from one outlet, flowing at a constant rate, can fill a swimming pool in 9 hours.
The water from a second outlet, flowing at a constant rate, can fill the same pool in 5 hours.
If both outlets are used at the same time, approximately what is the number of hours
required to fill the pool?
a. 0.22
b. 2.50
c. 3.21
d. 4.56

5) In a small snack shop, the average (arithmetic mean) revenue was Rs 400 per day over a
10-day period. During this period, if the average daily revenue was Rs 360 for the first 6
days, what was the average daily revenue for the last 4 days?
a. Rs 440
b. Rs 450
c. Rs 460
d. Rs 480

English Test(10 Marks)

I. Fill in with suitable prepositions:

1) He was so much enamored her that he forgot his duties to his children.

2) He conversed us __subjects __varied interest.

3) The soldiers _ _ the front were provided ___ provisions to last them a year.

4) His thirst ___ knowledge left him no leisure ___ anything else.

5) Samudragupta was known __ his skill __ music and song; he was equally proficient __the
allied art of poetry.

II. Each sentence has few underlined words or phrases; you must identify which underline
part of the sentence must be corrected or rewritten.
Example: A Surname is the part of a person’s name that indicates to what family he/she belong.
Ans: “Belongs”

1) The young girl dreamed that she was being carried away by monsters.

2) If it will rain this afternoon, we will have to cancel the picnic.

3) Are you familiar of the latest scientific developments in the field?

III. Choose the word or phrase nearest in meaning to the words given in bold letter.

1) idiosyncrasy:

a) Futile gesture
b) Authority
c) Sameness
d) Individuality

2) EXACERBATE
a) Attenuate
b) Aggravate
c) Distress
d) Mitigate

Written Skills (10 Marks)

Please write a short essay on one of the following topics .The writing should be in full
sentences in your best English

1. Women Empowerment.
OR
2. How globalization affects economy