1. He criticizes others, but is blind his own faults.

O to

Oat 0
of 0
over

2. Hu m an s ca n no t b rea th e water for a minute.

0 below 0
under 0
beneath 0
inside

3. Directions: Replace the underlined word with the correct preposition. I did not go to school in
a week after the accident

0 through
0 within

0 after
0 for

4._____________Once he has signed the agreement, he won't be able to

0 back up

0 back in

0 back at

0 back out

5. _____________________________________________________But each attempt ended in

failure, just as such attempts have failed all over the world.

0 Gloomy
0 Spectacular
0 intense
® dismal

6. Directions: Fill in the blank(s) with the option that makes the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q. The market was full of people attractive clothes of different styles.

0 enjoying
0 appearing
0 wearing
following

7.
Movies are becoming a medium of cultural contacts, good relations and___________among
different countries.

—, wars
0 love
® harmony
0 conformity

8. if a person cannot think clearly about certain problems, then the reason for this is experience to
those problems of knowledge or experience__________to those problems.

0 prevalent
0 following
0 pertaining
0 regarding

9. The monk wanders here and there in search of silence and peace. He lives a life.

0 Nomadic
0 Boring
0 Religious
0 Busy

10. This new technology has the potential to provide handsome returns even though it is at a______
stage in India.

0 ATurbulent
0 BPeculiar

0 CNascent D. Unknown

11. The labour union decided to go on strike because the management was adamant and did not
agree to their terms. The discussion had reached a /an ____

0 Climax
0 Obstacle
0 Impetus
0 Impasse

12. Friends_______the much-needed support when you are in trouble.

0 Are
0 Is
0 Distribute
0 Provide
13. Once he has signed the agreement, he won't be able to .
® Back out
0 B a ck u p

0 B ack in 0

Back at

14. Directions: Repalce the underlined part with correct option: The most
obvious downside to this pessimism is that it is coming at their expenses.

0 it comes at their expense

0 it is costing at their expense

0 it will have came at their expense

0 it was coming at their expenses

15. Directions: Repalce the underlined part with correct option As soon as I turn
the ignition key, the engine caught a fire.

I turn an ignition key

I turned the ignition key

I was turning the ignition key

No improvement needed

16. Select the option that is most nearly similar in meaning to the given word:
TIMID

0 Fast

0 Slow

0 Medium

0 Shy

17. Select the option that is most nearly similar in meaning to the given word:
RESTRAINT

_., Hindrance
0 Obstacle

0 Repression

@ Restriction

18. Select the option that is most nearly similar in meaning to the given word:
CORPULENT
0 Lean

0 Gaunt

0 Emaciated

19. Vanity
0 Obese
 O Pride
® Humility
0 Conceit
Indifference

20. ECONOMICAL

O Frugal
0 Wasteful
0 Efficient
0 Plain

21. (A) Shalini win the race /(B) as she practised too 1(C) hard for the
tournament

0A OB
0 C 0 No
error

22. (A) It have been 1(B) ages since 11(C) played the guitar.

0A OB
0 C 0 No
error

23. (A) A sales man of that 1(B) company tried to 1(C) cheated a native lady.

OA OB
0C 0 No
error

24. Arrange the fragments A, B, C, ❑ and E, to form a meaningful sentence. A -

was the recipient
B - o f
C -Mother Teresa
D -1979 Nobel Peace Prize
E -the

0 ECABD
0 EDABC
0 DABEC
0 CABED

25.
S1: Venice is strange and beautiful city
56: This is because Venice has no streets.
P: there are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of the Venice.
Q: In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, and no buses.

R: There are small islands near one another.

S: it is not an island, but a hundred and seventeen islands

PQRS

PRQS

SRPQ

PQSR

26. Si Rajeev and his friends went for river rafting.

56: Later they all came to know that he is aqua phobic.
P:Rajeev forced him to have some medicine.
Q:They tried persuading him to join them for rafting , but he had severe stomach ache.
R: Which he refused adamantly.
S:Among all his friends, Kunal backed out at the last moment.

PSQR

QPRS

RQSP

SQPR

27. Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some
will use their position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a
country's development. One study has shown that bribes account for 8% of the total cost of
running a business in Uganda. Another found that corruption boosted the price of hospital
supplies in Buenos Aires by 15%. Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, is devoting
special efforts during his presidency there to a drive against corruption.
For most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their
country's GDP growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small.
And for all the evidence that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively
clean, attitudes towards corruption, and even the language describing bribery, is remarkably
similar around the world. In a testament to most people's basic decency, bribe-takers and bribe-
payers have developed an elaborate theatre of dissimulation. This is not just to avoid detection.
Even in countries where corruption is so common as to be unremarkable and unprosecutable

and even when the transaction happens far from snooping eyes a bribe is almost always
dressed up as some other kind of exchange. Though most of the world is plagued by corruption,
even serial offenders try to conceal it.

One manifestation of this is linguistic. Surprisingly few people say: 'You are going to have to pay
me if you want to get that done.' Instead, they use a wide variety of euphemisms. One type is
quasi-official terminology. The first bribe paid by your correspondent, in Ukraine in 1998, went to
two policemen so they would let him board a train leaving the country. On the train into Ukraine,
the customs officer had absconded with a form that is needed again later to leave the country.
The policemen at the station kindly explained that there was a shtraf, a 'fine' that could be paid
instead of producing the document. The P olicemen let him off with the minimum shtraf of 50
hryvnia ($25).
A second type of euphemism dresses up a dodgy payment as a friendly favour done by the
bribe payer. There is plenty of creative scope. Nigerian policemen are known to ask for "a little
-

something for the weekend". A North African term is "un petit cadeau", a little gift. Mexican
traffic police will suggest that you buy them a refresco, a soft drink, as will Angolan and
Mozambican petty officials, who call it a gazoso in Portuguese. A businessman in Iraq told
Reuters that although corruption there is quite overt, officials still insist on being given a "good
coffee"
Double meaning can help soothe the awkwardness of bribe-paying. Baksheesh, originally a
Persian word now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean "tip'', "alms" and
"bribe". Swahili-speakers can take advantage of another ambiguous term. In Kenya a machine -
gun-wielding guard suggested to a terrified Canadian aid worker: "Perhaps you would like to
discuss this over tea" The young Canadian was relieved: the difficulty could be resolved with
some chai, which means both "tea" and "bribe".

Along with the obscurantist language, bribe-taking culture around the world often involves the
avoidance of physically handing the money from one person to another. One obvious reason is
to avoid detection, which is why bribes are known as "envelopes" in countries from China to

Greece. But avoidance of a direct hand-over is common even where there is no chance of
detection. There will always be some officials who will take money right from a bribe-payer's
hands, but most seem to prefer to find some way to hide the money from view. A bribe to a
border guard may be folded into a passport. A sweetener to a traffic cop is often placed in the
ticket-book that is handed to the driver. Parag Khanna, who is writing a book about countries on
the edge of the rich world that are trying to get rich themselves, describes a bribe-taker he
spotted in Georgia who he was sure was a rookie. Why? The scrawny young soldier, forgoing
any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age-old gesture.
Rich Westerners may not think of their societies as plagued by corruption. But the definition of
bribery clearly differs from person to person. A New Yorker might pity the third-world
businessman who must pay bribes just to keep his shop open. But the same New Yorker would
not think twice about slipping the maitre d' $50 to sneak into a nice restaurant without a

reservation. Poor people the world over are most infuriated by the casual corruption of the elites
rather than by the underpaid, "tip"-seeking soldier or functionary.
Q. What is the author most likely to agree to?
People generally do not try to hide money taken as bribe.

People hide money taken as bribe primarily to avoid detection

@ People hide money taken as bribe from view even if detection possibility is low.
None of these

28. Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some
will use their position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a
country's development. One study has shown that bribes account for 8% of the total cost of
running a business in Uganda. Another found that corruption boosted the price of hospital
supplies in Buenos Aires by 15%. Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, is devoting

special efforts during his presidency there to a drive against corruption.

For most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their
country's GDP growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small.
And for all the evidence that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively
clean, attitudes towards corruption, and even the language describing bribery, is remarkably
similar around the world. In a testament to most people's basic decency, bribe-takers and bribe-
payers have developed an elaborate theatre of dissimulation. This is not just to avoid detection.
Even in countries where corruption is so common as to be unremarkable and unprosecutable
and even when the transaction happens far from snooping eyes a bribe is almost always
dressed up as some other kind of exchange. Though most of the world is plagued by corruption,
even serial offenders try to conceal it.
One manifestation of this is linguistic. Surprisingly few people say: 'You are going to have to pay
me if you want to get that done.' Instead, they use a wide variety of euphemisms. One type is
quasi official terminology. The first bribe paid by your correspondent, in Ukraine in 1998, went to
-

two policemen so they would let him board a train leaving the country. On the train into Ukraine,
the customs officer had absconded with a form that is needed again later to leave the country.
The policemen at the station kindly explained that there was a shtraf, a 'fine' that could be paid
instead of producing the document. The policemen let him off with the minimum shtraf of 50
hryvnia ($25).
A second type of euphemism dresses up a dodgy payment as a friendly favour done by the
bribe payer. There is plenty of creative scope. Nigerian policemen are known to ask for "a little
-

something for the weekend". A North African term is "un petit cadeau", a little gift. Mexican
traffic police will suggest that you buy them a refresco, a soft drink, as will Angolan and
Mozambican petty officials, who call it a gazoso in Portuguese. A businessman in Iraq told
Reuters that although corruption there is quite overt, officials still insist on being given a "good
coffee"

Double meaning can help soothe the awkwardness of bribe-paying. Baksheesh, originally a
Persian word now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean "tip'', "alms" and
"bribe". Swahili-speakers can take advantage of another ambiguous term. In Kenya a machine -
gun-wielding guard suggested to a terrified Canadian aid worker: "Perhaps you would like to
discuss this over tea" The young Canadian was relieved: the difficulty could be resolved with
some chai, which means both "tea" and "bribe".
Along with the obscurantist language, bribe-taking culture around the world often involves the
avoidance of physically handing the money from one person to another. One obvious reason is
to avoid detection, which is why bribes are known as "envelopes" in countries from China to
Greece. But avoidance of a direct hand-over is common even where there is no chance of
detection. There will always be some officials who will take money right from a bribe-payer's
hands, but most seem to prefer to find some way to hide the money from view. A bribe to a
border guard may be folded into a passport. A sweetener to a traffic cop is often placed in the

ticket-book that is handed to the driver. Parag Khanna, who is writing a book about countries on
the edge of the rich world that are trying to get rich themselves, describes a bribe-taker he
spotted in Georgia who he was sure was a rookie. Why? The scrawny young soldier, forgoing
any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age-old gesture.
Rich Westerners may not think of their societies as plagued by corruption. But the definition of
bribery clearly differs from person to person. A New Yorker might pity the third-world
businessman who must pay bribes just to keep his shop open. But the same New Yorker would
not think twice about slipping the maitre d' $50 to sneak into a nice restaurant without a
reservation. Poor people the world over are most infuriated by the casual corruption of the elites
rather than by the underpaid, "tip"-seeking soldier or functionary.
Q. What is the author likely to agree to, in the following?

some cultures suffer corruptions while others do not

 some cultures suffer corruptions while others do not

@ bribery is not a cultural phenomena

0 none of these

29. Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some
will use their position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a
country's development. One study has shown that bribes account for 8% of the total cost of
running a business in Uganda. Another found that corruption boosted the price of hospital
supplies in Buenos Aires by 15%. Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, is devoting
special efforts during his presidency there to a drive against corruption.
For most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their

country's GDP growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small.
And for all the evidence that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively
clean, attitudes towards corruption, and even the language describing bribery, is remarkably
similar around the world. In a testament to most people's basic decency, bribe-takers and bribe-
payers have developed an elaborate theatre of dissimulation. This is not just to avoid detection.

Even in countries where corruption is so common as to be unremarkable and unprosecutable

and even when the transaction happens far from snooping eyes a bribe is almost always
dressed up as some other kind of exchange. Though most of the world is plagued by corruption,
even serial offenders try to conceal it.
One manifestation of this is linguistic. Surprisingly few people say: 'You are going to have to pay
me if you want to get that done.' Instead, they use a wide variety of euphemisms. One type is
quasi official terminology. The first bribe paid by your correspondent, in Ukraine in 1998, went to
-

two policemen so they would let him board a train leaving the country. On the train into Ukraine,
the customs officer had absconded with a form that is needed again later to leave the country.
The policemen at the station kindly explained that there was a shtraf, a 'fine' that could be paid
instead of producing the document. The policemen let him off with the minimum shtraf of 50
hryvnia ($25).
A second type of euphemism dresses up a dodgy payment as a friendly favour done by the
bribe payer. There is plenty of creative scope. Nigerian policemen are known to ask for "a little
-

something for the weekend". A North African term is "un petit cadeau", a little gift. Mexican
traffic police will suggest that you buy them a refresco, a soft drink, as will Angolan and
Mozambican petty officials, who call it a gazoso in Portuguese. A businessman in Iraq told

Reuters that although corruption there is quite overt, officials still insist on being given a "good
coffee"
Double meaning can help soothe the awkwardness of bribe-paying. Baksheesh, originally a
Persian word now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean "tip", "alms" and
"bribe". Swahili-speakers can take advantage of another ambiguous term. In Kenya a machine-
gun-wielding guard suggested to a terrified Canadian aid worker: "Perhaps you would like to
discuss this over tea" The young Canadian was relieved: the difficulty could be resolved with
some chai, which means both "tea" and "bribe".

Along with the obscurantist language, bribe-taking culture around the world often involves the
avoidance of physically handing the money from one person to another. One obvious reason is
to avoid detection, which is why bribes are known as "envelopes" in countries from China to
Greece. But avoidance of a direct hand-over is common even where there is no chance of
detection. There will always be some officials who will take money right from a bribe-payer's
hands, but most seem to prefer to find some way to hide the money from view. A bribe to a
border guard may be folded into a passport. A sweetener to a traffic cop is often placed in the
ticket-book that is handed to the driver. Parag Khanna, who is writing a book about countries on
the edge of the rich world that are trying to get rich themselves, describes a bribe-taker he
spotted in Georgia who he was sure was a rookie. Why? The scrawny young soldier, forgoing
any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age-old gesture.
Rich Westerners may not think of their societies as plagued by corruption. But the definition of
bribery clearly differs from person to person. A New Yorker might pity the third-world
businessman who must pay bribes just to keep his shop open. But the same New Yorker would
not think twice about slipping the maitre d' $50 to sneak into a nice restaurant without a
reservation. Poor people the world over are most infuriated by the casual corruption of the elites
rather than by the underpaid, "tip"-seeking soldier or functionary.
Q. In summary what does the passage primarily suggest and provide evidence for?

corruption is always concealed in some way, both linguistically and in the process

corruption exists only in developing economics

corruption is an unethical practice

corruption shows down GDP growth

30. Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some
will use their position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a
country's development. One study has shown that bribes account for 8% of the total cost of
running a business in Uganda. Another found that corruption boosted the price of hospital
supplies in Buenos Aires by 15%. Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, is devoting
special efforts during his presidency there to a drive against corruption.
For most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their
country's GDP growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small.
And for all the evidence that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively

clean, attitudes towards corruption, and even the language describing bribery, is remarkably
similar around the world. In a testament to most people's basic decency, bribe-takers and bribe-
payers have developed an elaborate theatre of dissimulation. This is not just to avoid detection.
Even in countries where corruption is so common as to be unremarkable and unprosecutable
and even when the transaction happens far from snooping eyes a bribe is almost always
dressed up as some other kind of exchange. Though most of the world is plagued by corruption,
even serial offenders try to conceal it.
One manifestation of this is linguistic. Surprisingly few people say: 'You are going to have to pay

me if you want to get that done.' Instead, they use a wide variety of euphemisms. One type is
quasi official terminology. The first bribe paid by your correspondent, in Ukraine in 1998, went to
-

two policemen so they would let him board a train leaving the country. On the train into Ukraine,
the customs officer had absconded with a form that is needed again later to leave the country.
The policemen at the station kindly explained that there was a shtraf, a 'fine' that could be paid
instead of producing the document.The policemen let him off with the minimum shtraf of 50
hryvnia ($25).
A second type of euphemism dresses up a dodgy payment as a friendly favour done by the
bribe payer. There is plenty of creative scope. Nigerian policemen are known to ask for "a little
-

something for the weekend". A North African term is "un petit cadeau", a little gift. Mexican
traffic police will suggest that you buy them a refresco, a soft drink, as will Angolan and
Mozambican petty officials, who call it a gazoso in Portuguese. A businessman in Iraq told
Reuters that although corruption there is quite overt, officials still insist on being given a "good
coffee"

Double meaning can help soothe the awkwardness of bribe-paying. Baksheesh, originally a
Persian word now found in many countries of the Middle East, can mean "tip", "alms" and
"bribe". Swahili-speakers can take advantage of another ambiguous term. In Kenya a machine -
gun-wielding guard suggested to a terrified Canadian aid worker: "Perhaps you would like to
discuss this over tea" The young Canadian was relieved: the difficulty could be resolved with
some chai, which means both "tea" and "bribe".

Along with the obscurantist language, bribe-taking culture around the world often involves the
avoidance of physically handing the money from one person to another. One obvious reason is
to avoid detection, which is why bribes are known as "envelopes" in countries from China to
Greece. But avoidance of a direct hand-over is common even where there is no chance of

detection. There will always be some officials who will take money right from a bribe-payer's
hands, but most seem to prefer to find some way to hide the money from view. A bribe to a
border guard may be folded into a passport. A sweetener to a traffic cop is often placed in the
ticket-book that is handed to the driver. Parag Khanna, who is writing a book about countries on
the edge of the rich world that are trying to get rich themselves, describes a bribe-taker he
spotted in Georgia who he was sure was a rookie. Why? The scrawny young soldier, forgoing
any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age old gesture.
-

Rich Westerners may not think of their societies as plagued by corruption. But the definition of
bribery clearly differs from person to person. A New Yorker might pity the third-world
businessman who must pay bribes just to keep his shop open. But the same New Yorker would
not think twice about slipping the maitre d' $50 to sneak into a nice restaurant without a
reservation. Poor people the world over are most infuriated by the casual corruption of the elites
rather than by the underpaid, "tip"-seeking soldier or functionary.
Q. Which of the following the author does not identify as linguistic manifestation of corruption?

asking for a favour

0 use of double meanings

use of quasi official terminology
-

relate to food item

31. Give people power and discretion, and whether they are grand viziers or border guards, some
will use their position to enrich themselves. The problem can be big enough to hold back a
country's development. One study has shown that bribes account for 8% of the total cost of
running a business in Uganda. Another found that corruption boosted the price of hospital
supplies in Buenos Aires by 15%. Paul Wolfowitz, the head of the World Bank, is devoting

special efforts during his presidency there to a drive against corruption.

For most people in the world, though, the worry is not that corruption may slow down their
country's GDP growth. It is that their daily lives are pervaded by endless hassles, big and small.
And for all the evidence that some cultures suffer endemic corruption while others are relatively