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Q1 to 13 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D from a logical sequence between sentences 1 and
6.
1. 1. India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly
independent developing  country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita
incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous
political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing
power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached
the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without
development.
(a) CDAB (b) DCBA (c) CABD (d) BACD
2. 1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous
neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BADC (b) DBAC (c) ABCD (d) DCBA
3. 1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is  blind.
A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are
not equal and there is indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to
get what and one where it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people
concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation
of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according
to some universal standard and one where individuals’ shares are determined by chance of
goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted
than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more
free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.
(a) CDBA (b) DCBA (c) ABCD (d) BADC
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Q1 to 13 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D from a logical sequence between sentences 1 and
6.
1. 1. India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly
independent developing  country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita
incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous
political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing
power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached
the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without
development.
(a) CDAB (b) DCBA (c) CABD (d) BACD
2. 1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous
neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BADC (b) DBAC (c) ABCD (d) DCBA
3. 1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is  blind.
A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are
not equal and there is indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to
get what and one where it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people
concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation
of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according
to some universal standard and one where individuals’ shares are determined by chance of
goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted
than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more
free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.
(a) CDBA (b) DCBA (c) ABCD (d) BADC
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4. 1. The fragile Yugoslav state has an uncertain future.
A. Thus, there will surely be chaos and uncertainty if the people fail to settle their differences.
B. Sharp ideological differences already exist in the country.
C. Ethnic, regional, linguistic and material disparities are profound.
D. The country will also lose the excellent reputation it enjoyed in the international arena.
6. At worst, it will once more become vulnerable to international conspiracy and intrigue.
(a) BCAD (b) ADCB (c) ACBD (d) DBCA
5. 1. The New Economic Policy comprises the various policy measures and changes introduced
since July 1991.
A. There is a common thread running through all these measures.
B. The objective is simple to improve the efficiency of the system.
C. The regulator mechanism involving multitude of controls has fragmented the capacity and reduced
competition even in the private sector.
D. The thrust of the new policy is towards creating a more competitive environment as a means to
improving the productivity and efficiency of the economy.
6. This is to be achieved by removing the banners and restrictions on the entry and growth of firms.
(a) DCAB (b) ABCD (c) BDAC (d) CDBA
6. 1. Commercial energy consumption shows an increasing trend and poses the major  challenge for
the future.
A. The demand, for petroleum, during 1996 – 97 and 2006 – 07 is anticipated to be 81 million
tonnes and 125 million tonnes respectively.
B. According to the projections of the 14
th
 Power Survey Committee Report, the electricity generation
requirements from utilities will be about 416 billion units by 1996 – 97 and 825 billion units by
2006 – 07.
C. The production of coal should reach 303 million tonnes by 1996 – 97 to achieve Plan targets and
460 million tonnes by 2006 – 07.
D. The demand for petroleum products has already outstripped indigenous production.
6. Electricity is going to play a major role in the development of infrastructural facilities.
(a) DACB (b) CADB (c) BADC (d) ABCD
7. 1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last
45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the
imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian
power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particular India and
Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep
neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened
Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington’s military
alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered
the military junta of that country to stuff out the civilian government and destroy democracy in
Pakistan.
(a) ACBD (b) ABDC (c) CBAD (d) DCAB
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Q1 to 13 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D from a logical sequence between sentences 1 and
6.
1. 1. India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly
independent developing  country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita
incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous
political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing
power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached
the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without
development.
(a) CDAB (b) DCBA (c) CABD (d) BACD
2. 1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous
neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BADC (b) DBAC (c) ABCD (d) DCBA
3. 1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is  blind.
A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are
not equal and there is indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to
get what and one where it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people
concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation
of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according
to some universal standard and one where individuals’ shares are determined by chance of
goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted
than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more
free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.
(a) CDBA (b) DCBA (c) ABCD (d) BADC
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4. 1. The fragile Yugoslav state has an uncertain future.
A. Thus, there will surely be chaos and uncertainty if the people fail to settle their differences.
B. Sharp ideological differences already exist in the country.
C. Ethnic, regional, linguistic and material disparities are profound.
D. The country will also lose the excellent reputation it enjoyed in the international arena.
6. At worst, it will once more become vulnerable to international conspiracy and intrigue.
(a) BCAD (b) ADCB (c) ACBD (d) DBCA
5. 1. The New Economic Policy comprises the various policy measures and changes introduced
since July 1991.
A. There is a common thread running through all these measures.
B. The objective is simple to improve the efficiency of the system.
C. The regulator mechanism involving multitude of controls has fragmented the capacity and reduced
competition even in the private sector.
D. The thrust of the new policy is towards creating a more competitive environment as a means to
improving the productivity and efficiency of the economy.
6. This is to be achieved by removing the banners and restrictions on the entry and growth of firms.
(a) DCAB (b) ABCD (c) BDAC (d) CDBA
6. 1. Commercial energy consumption shows an increasing trend and poses the major  challenge for
the future.
A. The demand, for petroleum, during 1996 – 97 and 2006 – 07 is anticipated to be 81 million
tonnes and 125 million tonnes respectively.
B. According to the projections of the 14
th
 Power Survey Committee Report, the electricity generation
requirements from utilities will be about 416 billion units by 1996 – 97 and 825 billion units by
2006 – 07.
C. The production of coal should reach 303 million tonnes by 1996 – 97 to achieve Plan targets and
460 million tonnes by 2006 – 07.
D. The demand for petroleum products has already outstripped indigenous production.
6. Electricity is going to play a major role in the development of infrastructural facilities.
(a) DACB (b) CADB (c) BADC (d) ABCD
7. 1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last
45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the
imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian
power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particular India and
Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep
neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened
Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington’s military
alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered
the military junta of that country to stuff out the civilian government and destroy democracy in
Pakistan.
(a) ACBD (b) ABDC (c) CBAD (d) DCAB
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8. 1. The success of any unit in a competitive environment depends on prudent management sources.
A. In this context it would have been more appropriate if the concept of accelerated depreciation,
together with additional incentives towards capital allowances for recouping a portion of the cost
of replacements out of the current generations, had been accepted.
B. Added to this are negligible retention of profits because of inadequate capital allowances and
artificial disallowance’s of genuine outflows.
C. One significant cause for poor generation of surpluses is the high cost of capital and its servicing
cost.
D. The lack of a mechanism in India tax laws for quick recovery of capital costs has not received its
due attention.
6. While this may apparently look costly from the point of view of the exchequer, the ultimate cost
of the Government and the community in the form of losses suffered through poor viability will be
prohibitive.
(a) ADBC (b) BCDA (c) CBDA (d) DBAC
9. 1. Count Rumford is perhaps best known for his observations on the nature of heat.
A. He undertook several experiments in order to test the theories of the origin of frictional heat.
B. According to the calorists, the heat was produced by the “caloric” squeezed out of he chips in
the process of separating them from the larger pieces of metal.
C. Lavoisier had introduced the term “caloric” for the weightless substance heat, and had included
it among the chemical elements, along with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
D. In the munitions factory in Munich, Rumford noticed that a considerable degree of heat developed
in a brass gun while it was being bored.
6. Rumford could not believe that the big amount of heat generated could have come from the small
amount of dust created.
(a) ABCD (b) CBDA (c) ADCB (d) CDAB
10. 1. Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving of memories.
A. Psychologists of the Gestalt School maintain that objects are recognised as a whole in a
procedure.
B. Neural activity, triggered by the eye, forms an image in the brain’s memory system that constitutes
an internal representation of the viewed object.
C. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a single one-step procedure or a
serial step-by-step one.
D. When an object is encountered again, it is matched with its internal recognition and thereby
recognised.
6. The internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation.
(a) DBAC (b) DCAB (c) BDCA (d) CABD
11. 1. The idea of sea-floor spreading actually preceded the theory of plate tectonics.
A. The hypothesis was soon substantiated by the discovery that periodic reversals of the earth’s
magnetic field are recorded in the oceanic crust.
B. In its original version, it described the creation and destruction of ocean floor, but it did not
specify rigid lithospheric plates.
C. An explanation of this process devised by F.J. Vine and D.H. Mathews of Princeton is now
generally accepted.
D. The sea-floor spreading hypothesis was formulated chiefly by Harry H. Hess of Princeton University
in the early 1960’s.
6. As magma rises under the mid-ocean, ferromagnetic minerals in the magma become magnetised
in the direction of the geomagnetic field.
(a) DCBA (b) ABDC (c) CBDA (d) DBAC
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Q1 to 13 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D from a logical sequence between sentences 1 and
6.
1. 1. India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly
independent developing  country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita
incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous
political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing
power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached
the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without
development.
(a) CDAB (b) DCBA (c) CABD (d) BACD
2. 1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous
neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BADC (b) DBAC (c) ABCD (d) DCBA
3. 1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is  blind.
A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are
not equal and there is indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to
get what and one where it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people
concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation
of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according
to some universal standard and one where individuals’ shares are determined by chance of
goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted
than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more
free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.
(a) CDBA (b) DCBA (c) ABCD (d) BADC
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4. 1. The fragile Yugoslav state has an uncertain future.
A. Thus, there will surely be chaos and uncertainty if the people fail to settle their differences.
B. Sharp ideological differences already exist in the country.
C. Ethnic, regional, linguistic and material disparities are profound.
D. The country will also lose the excellent reputation it enjoyed in the international arena.
6. At worst, it will once more become vulnerable to international conspiracy and intrigue.
(a) BCAD (b) ADCB (c) ACBD (d) DBCA
5. 1. The New Economic Policy comprises the various policy measures and changes introduced
since July 1991.
A. There is a common thread running through all these measures.
B. The objective is simple to improve the efficiency of the system.
C. The regulator mechanism involving multitude of controls has fragmented the capacity and reduced
competition even in the private sector.
D. The thrust of the new policy is towards creating a more competitive environment as a means to
improving the productivity and efficiency of the economy.
6. This is to be achieved by removing the banners and restrictions on the entry and growth of firms.
(a) DCAB (b) ABCD (c) BDAC (d) CDBA
6. 1. Commercial energy consumption shows an increasing trend and poses the major  challenge for
the future.
A. The demand, for petroleum, during 1996 – 97 and 2006 – 07 is anticipated to be 81 million
tonnes and 125 million tonnes respectively.
B. According to the projections of the 14
th
 Power Survey Committee Report, the electricity generation
requirements from utilities will be about 416 billion units by 1996 – 97 and 825 billion units by
2006 – 07.
C. The production of coal should reach 303 million tonnes by 1996 – 97 to achieve Plan targets and
460 million tonnes by 2006 – 07.
D. The demand for petroleum products has already outstripped indigenous production.
6. Electricity is going to play a major role in the development of infrastructural facilities.
(a) DACB (b) CADB (c) BADC (d) ABCD
7. 1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last
45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the
imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian
power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particular India and
Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep
neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened
Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington’s military
alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered
the military junta of that country to stuff out the civilian government and destroy democracy in
Pakistan.
(a) ACBD (b) ABDC (c) CBAD (d) DCAB
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8. 1. The success of any unit in a competitive environment depends on prudent management sources.
A. In this context it would have been more appropriate if the concept of accelerated depreciation,
together with additional incentives towards capital allowances for recouping a portion of the cost
of replacements out of the current generations, had been accepted.
B. Added to this are negligible retention of profits because of inadequate capital allowances and
artificial disallowance’s of genuine outflows.
C. One significant cause for poor generation of surpluses is the high cost of capital and its servicing
cost.
D. The lack of a mechanism in India tax laws for quick recovery of capital costs has not received its
due attention.
6. While this may apparently look costly from the point of view of the exchequer, the ultimate cost
of the Government and the community in the form of losses suffered through poor viability will be
prohibitive.
(a) ADBC (b) BCDA (c) CBDA (d) DBAC
9. 1. Count Rumford is perhaps best known for his observations on the nature of heat.
A. He undertook several experiments in order to test the theories of the origin of frictional heat.
B. According to the calorists, the heat was produced by the “caloric” squeezed out of he chips in
the process of separating them from the larger pieces of metal.
C. Lavoisier had introduced the term “caloric” for the weightless substance heat, and had included
it among the chemical elements, along with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
D. In the munitions factory in Munich, Rumford noticed that a considerable degree of heat developed
in a brass gun while it was being bored.
6. Rumford could not believe that the big amount of heat generated could have come from the small
amount of dust created.
(a) ABCD (b) CBDA (c) ADCB (d) CDAB
10. 1. Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving of memories.
A. Psychologists of the Gestalt School maintain that objects are recognised as a whole in a
procedure.
B. Neural activity, triggered by the eye, forms an image in the brain’s memory system that constitutes
an internal representation of the viewed object.
C. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a single one-step procedure or a
serial step-by-step one.
D. When an object is encountered again, it is matched with its internal recognition and thereby
recognised.
6. The internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation.
(a) DBAC (b) DCAB (c) BDCA (d) CABD
11. 1. The idea of sea-floor spreading actually preceded the theory of plate tectonics.
A. The hypothesis was soon substantiated by the discovery that periodic reversals of the earth’s
magnetic field are recorded in the oceanic crust.
B. In its original version, it described the creation and destruction of ocean floor, but it did not
specify rigid lithospheric plates.
C. An explanation of this process devised by F.J. Vine and D.H. Mathews of Princeton is now
generally accepted.
D. The sea-floor spreading hypothesis was formulated chiefly by Harry H. Hess of Princeton University
in the early 1960’s.
6. As magma rises under the mid-ocean, ferromagnetic minerals in the magma become magnetised
in the direction of the geomagnetic field.
(a) DCBA (b) ABDC (c) CBDA (d) DBAC
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12. 1. The history of mammals dates back at least to Triassic time.
A. Miocene and Pliocene time was marked by culmination of several groups and continued approach
towards modern characters.
B. Development was retarded, however, until the sudden acceleration of evolutional change that
occurred in the oldest Paleocene.
C. In the Oligocene Epoch, there was further improvement, with appearance of some new lines and
extinction of others.
D. This led in Eocene time to increase in average size, larger mental capacity , and special adaptations
for different modes of life.
6. The peak of the career of mammals in variety and average large size was attained in this epoch.
(a) BDCA (b) ACDB (c) BCDA (d) ACBD
13. 1. The death of cinema has been predicted annually.
A. It hasn’t happened.
B. It was said that the television would kill it off and indeed audiences plummeted reaching a low in
1984.
C. Film has enjoyed a renaissance, and audiences are now roughly double of what they were a
decade ago.
D. Then the home computer became the projected nemesis, followed by satellite television.
6. Why? Probably because, even in the most atomized of societies, we human beings feel the
need to share our fantasies and our excitement.
(a) CADB (b) BDAC (c) ABDC (d) DABC
Q14 to 19: A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, from a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentence from
among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
14. A. In emission trading, the government fixes the total amount of pollution that is acceptable to
maintain a desired level of air quality.
B. Economists argue this approach makes air pollution control more cost – effective than the
current practice of fixing air pollution standards and expecting all companies to pollute below
these standards.
C. USA uses emission trading to control air pollution.
D. It then distributes emission permits to all companies in the region, which add up to the overall
acceptable level of emission.
(a) BADC (b) ACDB (c) CADB (d) DBAC
15. A. Realists believe that there is an objective reality “out there” independent of ourselves.
B. This reality exists solely by virtue of how the world is, and it is in principle discoverable by
application of the methods of science.
C. They believe in the possibility of determining whether or not a theory is indeed really true or
false.
D. I think it is fair to say that this is the position to which most working scientists subscribe.
(a) ABCD (b) CDBA (c) DCBA (d) BCAD
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Q1 to 13 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D from a logical sequence between sentences 1 and
6.
1. 1. India’s experience of industrialization is characteristic of the difficulties faced by a newly
independent developing  country.
A. In 1947, India was undoubtedly an under – developed country with one of the lowest per capita
incomes in the world.
B. Indian industrialization was the result of a conscious deliberate policy of growth by an indigenous
political elite.
C. Today India ranks fifth in the international comity of nations if measured in terms of purchasing
power.
D. Even today however, the benefits of Indian industrialization since independence have not reached
the masses.
6. Industrialization in India has been a limited success; one more example of growth without
development.
(a) CDAB (b) DCBA (c) CABD (d) BACD
2. 1. What does the state do in a country where tax is very low?
A. It tries to spy upon the taxpayers.
B. It investigates income sources and spending patterns.
C. Exactly what the tax authority tries to do now even if inconsistently.
D. It could also encourage people to denounce to the tax authorities any conspicuously prosperous
neighbours who may be suspected of not paying their taxes properly.
6. The ultimate solution would be an Orwellian System.
(a) BADC (b) DBAC (c) ABCD (d) DCBA
3. 1. It is significant that one of the most common objections to competition is that it is  blind.
A. This is important because in a system of free enterprise based on private property chances are
not equal and there is indeed a strong case for reducing the inequality of opportunity.
B. Rather it is a choice between a system where it is the will of few persons that decides who is to
get what and one where it depends at least partly, on the ability and the enterprise of the people
concerned.
C. Although competition and justice may have little else in common, it is as much a commendation
of competition as of justice that it is no respecter of persons.
D. The choice today is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according
to some universal standard and one where individuals’ shares are determined by chance of
goodwill.
6. The fact that opportunities open to the poor in a competitive society are much more restricted
than those open to the rich, does not make it less true that in such a society the poor are more
free than a person commanding much greater material comfort in a different type of society.
(a) CDBA (b) DCBA (c) ABCD (d) BADC
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4. 1. The fragile Yugoslav state has an uncertain future.
A. Thus, there will surely be chaos and uncertainty if the people fail to settle their differences.
B. Sharp ideological differences already exist in the country.
C. Ethnic, regional, linguistic and material disparities are profound.
D. The country will also lose the excellent reputation it enjoyed in the international arena.
6. At worst, it will once more become vulnerable to international conspiracy and intrigue.
(a) BCAD (b) ADCB (c) ACBD (d) DBCA
5. 1. The New Economic Policy comprises the various policy measures and changes introduced
since July 1991.
A. There is a common thread running through all these measures.
B. The objective is simple to improve the efficiency of the system.
C. The regulator mechanism involving multitude of controls has fragmented the capacity and reduced
competition even in the private sector.
D. The thrust of the new policy is towards creating a more competitive environment as a means to
improving the productivity and efficiency of the economy.
6. This is to be achieved by removing the banners and restrictions on the entry and growth of firms.
(a) DCAB (b) ABCD (c) BDAC (d) CDBA
6. 1. Commercial energy consumption shows an increasing trend and poses the major  challenge for
the future.
A. The demand, for petroleum, during 1996 – 97 and 2006 – 07 is anticipated to be 81 million
tonnes and 125 million tonnes respectively.
B. According to the projections of the 14
th
 Power Survey Committee Report, the electricity generation
requirements from utilities will be about 416 billion units by 1996 – 97 and 825 billion units by
2006 – 07.
C. The production of coal should reach 303 million tonnes by 1996 – 97 to achieve Plan targets and
460 million tonnes by 2006 – 07.
D. The demand for petroleum products has already outstripped indigenous production.
6. Electricity is going to play a major role in the development of infrastructural facilities.
(a) DACB (b) CADB (c) BADC (d) ABCD
7. 1. The necessity for regional integration in South Asia is underlined by the very history of the last
45 years since the liquidation of the British Empire in this part of the world.
A. After the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan was formed in that very area which the
imperial powers had always marked out as the potential base for operations against the Russian
power in Central Asia.
B. Because of the disunity and ill-will among the South Asian neighbours, particular India and
Pakistan, great powers from outside the area could meddle into their affairs and thereby keep
neighbours apart.
C. It needs to be added that it was the bountiful supply of sophisticated arms that emboldened
Pakistan to go for warlike bellicosity towards India.
D. As a part of the cold war strategy of the US, Pakistan was sucked into Washington’s military
alliance spreading over the years.
6. Internally too, it was the massive induction of American arms into Pakistan which empowered
the military junta of that country to stuff out the civilian government and destroy democracy in
Pakistan.
(a) ACBD (b) ABDC (c) CBAD (d) DCAB
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8. 1. The success of any unit in a competitive environment depends on prudent management sources.
A. In this context it would have been more appropriate if the concept of accelerated depreciation,
together with additional incentives towards capital allowances for recouping a portion of the cost
of replacements out of the current generations, had been accepted.
B. Added to this are negligible retention of profits because of inadequate capital allowances and
artificial disallowance’s of genuine outflows.
C. One significant cause for poor generation of surpluses is the high cost of capital and its servicing
cost.
D. The lack of a mechanism in India tax laws for quick recovery of capital costs has not received its
due attention.
6. While this may apparently look costly from the point of view of the exchequer, the ultimate cost
of the Government and the community in the form of losses suffered through poor viability will be
prohibitive.
(a) ADBC (b) BCDA (c) CBDA (d) DBAC
9. 1. Count Rumford is perhaps best known for his observations on the nature of heat.
A. He undertook several experiments in order to test the theories of the origin of frictional heat.
B. According to the calorists, the heat was produced by the “caloric” squeezed out of he chips in
the process of separating them from the larger pieces of metal.
C. Lavoisier had introduced the term “caloric” for the weightless substance heat, and had included
it among the chemical elements, along with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
D. In the munitions factory in Munich, Rumford noticed that a considerable degree of heat developed
in a brass gun while it was being bored.
6. Rumford could not believe that the big amount of heat generated could have come from the small
amount of dust created.
(a) ABCD (b) CBDA (c) ADCB (d) CDAB
10. 1. Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving of memories.
A. Psychologists of the Gestalt School maintain that objects are recognised as a whole in a
procedure.
B. Neural activity, triggered by the eye, forms an image in the brain’s memory system that constitutes
an internal representation of the viewed object.
C. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a single one-step procedure or a
serial step-by-step one.
D. When an object is encountered again, it is matched with its internal recognition and thereby
recognised.
6. The internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation.
(a) DBAC (b) DCAB (c) BDCA (d) CABD
11. 1. The idea of sea-floor spreading actually preceded the theory of plate tectonics.
A. The hypothesis was soon substantiated by the discovery that periodic reversals of the earth’s
magnetic field are recorded in the oceanic crust.
B. In its original version, it described the creation and destruction of ocean floor, but it did not
specify rigid lithospheric plates.
C. An explanation of this process devised by F.J. Vine and D.H. Mathews of Princeton is now
generally accepted.
D. The sea-floor spreading hypothesis was formulated chiefly by Harry H. Hess of Princeton University
in the early 1960’s.
6. As magma rises under the mid-ocean, ferromagnetic minerals in the magma become magnetised
in the direction of the geomagnetic field.
(a) DCBA (b) ABDC (c) CBDA (d) DBAC
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12. 1. The history of mammals dates back at least to Triassic time.
A. Miocene and Pliocene time was marked by culmination of several groups and continued approach
towards modern characters.
B. Development was retarded, however, until the sudden acceleration of evolutional change that
occurred in the oldest Paleocene.
C. In the Oligocene Epoch, there was further improvement, with appearance of some new lines and
extinction of others.
D. This led in Eocene time to increase in average size, larger mental capacity , and special adaptations
for different modes of life.
6. The peak of the career of mammals in variety and average large size was attained in this epoch.
(a) BDCA (b) ACDB (c) BCDA (d) ACBD
13. 1. The death of cinema has been predicted annually.
A. It hasn’t happened.
B. It was said that the television would kill it off and indeed audiences plummeted reaching a low in
1984.
C. Film has enjoyed a renaissance, and audiences are now roughly double of what they were a
decade ago.
D. Then the home computer became the projected nemesis, followed by satellite television.
6. Why? Probably because, even in the most atomized of societies, we human beings feel the
need to share our fantasies and our excitement.
(a) CADB (b) BDAC (c) ABDC (d) DABC
Q14 to 19: A number of sentences are given below which, when properly sequenced, from a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentence from
among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
14. A. In emission trading, the government fixes the total amount of pollution that is acceptable to
maintain a desired level of air quality.
B. Economists argue this approach makes air pollution control more cost – effective than the
current practice of fixing air pollution standards and expecting all companies to pollute below
these standards.
C. USA uses emission trading to control air pollution.
D. It then distributes emission permits to all companies in the region, which add up to the overall
acceptable level of emission.
(a) BADC (b) ACDB (c) CADB (d) DBAC
15. A. Realists believe that there is an objective reality “out there” independent of ourselves.
B. This reality exists solely by virtue of how the world is, and it is in principle discoverable by
application of the methods of science.
C. They believe in the possibility of determining whether or not a theory is indeed really true or
false.
D. I think it is fair to say that this is the position to which most working scientists subscribe.
(a) ABCD (b) CDBA (c) DCBA (d) BCAD
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16. A. All levels of demand, whether individual, aggregate, local, national, or international are subject to
change.
B. At the same time, science and technology add new dimensions to products, their uses, and the
methods used to market them.
C. Aggregate demand fluctuates with changes in the level of business activity, GNP , and national
income.
D. The demands of individuals tend to vary with changing needs and rising income.
(a) CBDA (b) DCAB (c) BCAD (d) ADCB
17. A. There is a strong manufacturing base for a variety of products.
B. India has come a long way on the technology front.
C. But the technology adopted has been largely of foreign origin.
D. There are however areas such as atomic energy , space, agriculture, and defense where significant
strides have been made in evolving relevant technologies within the country.
(a) ADCB (b) DBAC (c) BACD (d) CBAD
18. A. Secret persons shall strike with weapons, fire or poison.
B. Clans mutually supporting each other shall be made to strike at the weak points.
C. He shall destroy their caravans, herds, forests and troop reinforcements.
D. The conqueror shall cause enemy kingdom to be destroyed by neighboring kings, jungle tribes,
pretenders or unjustly treated princes.
(a) DCBA (b) ABCD (c) BDCA (d) ADCB
19. A. The individual companies vary in size, from the corner grocery to the industrial giant.
B. Policies and management methods within firms range from formal well-planned organization and
controls to slipshod day-to-day operations.
C. Various industries offer a wide array of products or services through millions of firms largely
independent of each other.
D. V ariation in the form of ownership contributes to diversity in capital investment, volume of business,
and financial structure.
(a) DBCA (b) CADB (c) BADC (d) ADCB
Q20 to 23: Read the text and the numbered statements carefully and answer the questions given at
the end.
Four people of different nationalities live on the same side of a street in four houses each of different color.
Each person has a different favorite drink. The following additional information is also known:
The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Italian drinks tea.
The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left.
In the second house from the right they drink milk.
The Norwegian lives adjacent to the blue house.
The Spaniard drinks fruit juice.
Tea is drunk in the blue house.
The white house is to the right of the red house.
20. The color of the Norwegian’s house is
(a) yellow (b) white (c) blue (d) red