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Directions: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) to make a meaningful paragraph and accordingly select the correct option:
(A) But use them to buy your flock
(B) And he gave the boy his blessing
(C) Take to the fields, and someday you'll learn that our countryside is the best, and our women the most beautiful
(D) I wanted them to be a part of your inheritance
(E) I found these one day in the fields
Directions: Answer the questions based on the passage given below:
The guy sitting grimly alone in the corner of the office may not be anti-social. He may, in fact, even be working. That could be one of the inferences drawn from a recent survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com. Socializing with co-workers, spacing out and surfing the Web could, says that survey, cost US companies as much as $ 759 billion in salary. The survey of 10,044 employees debunks some popular myths. Men and women are found to have wasted an equal amount of time at work. Older workers were significantly more attentive. As compared to the overall average of two hours a day being wasted, lunchtime not counted, workers over 55 were found to have wasted just 30 minutes. While 33% of the respondents said they wasted time because they didn't have enough work, 25% said they did so because they were underpaid. However, not all time-wasting activities are detrimental to the organization. Salary.com senior vice-president Bill Coleman felt that personal use of the Internet could even be positive since it could generate new business ideas if not contributed to a happier work environment. "There is such a thing as creative waste. Not all wasted time is bad," Coleman was quoted by Reuters as saying.
A survey on time-wasting in Indian organizations could throw up interesting results. The most irritating waste of time is when those working inside the office are asked for directions by visitors. With receptionists and security staff also doing duty at the switchboard for telephone calls, it is usually the employee nearest the entrance who has to field queries ranging from "Where is so and so?" to "Where is the toilet?" However, the most formally-sanctioned way of wasting time in the Indian organization remains the office-meeting. Organizations are known to hold meetings at the drop of a hat. Even a decision to cut down on meetings would be taken at a meeting! The conference-hall is bigger than the canteen which serves a more useful purpose!
Q. Out of the following four options, which is the odd one out?
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Directions: Answer the questions based on the passage given below:
The guy sitting grimly alone in the corner of the office may not be anti-social. He may, in fact, even be working. That could be one of the inferences drawn from a recent survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com. Socializing with co-workers, spacing out and surfing the Web could, says that survey, cost US companies as much as $ 759 billion in salary. The survey of 10,044 employees debunks some popular myths. Men and women are found to have wasted an equal amount of time at work. Older workers were significantly more attentive. As compared to the overall average of two hours a day being wasted, lunchtime not counted, workers over 55 were found to have wasted just 30 minutes. While 33% of the respondents said they wasted time because they didn't have enough work, 25% said they did so because they were underpaid. However, not all time-wasting activities are detrimental to the organization. Salary.com senior vice-president Bill Coleman felt that personal use of the Internet could even be positive since it could generate new business ideas if not contributed to a happier work environment. "There is such a thing as creative waste. Not all wasted time is bad," Coleman was quoted by Reuters as saying.
A survey on time-wasting in Indian organizations could throw up interesting results. The most irritating waste of time is when those working inside the office are asked for directions by visitors. With receptionists and security staff also doing duty at the switchboard for telephone calls, it is usually the employee nearest the entrance who has to field queries ranging from "Where is so and so?" to "Where is the toilet?" However, the most formally-sanctioned way of wasting time in the Indian organization remains the office-meeting. Organizations are known to hold meetings at the drop of a hat. Even a decision to cut down on meetings would be taken at a meeting! The conference-hall is bigger than the canteen which serves a more useful purpose!
Q. From the passage, it may be inferred that:
Directions: Answer the questions based on the passage given below:
The guy sitting grimly alone in the corner of the office may not be anti-social. He may, in fact, even be working. That could be one of the inferences drawn from a recent survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com. Socializing with co-workers, spacing out and surfing the Web could, says that survey, cost US companies as much as $ 759 billion in salary. The survey of 10,044 employees debunks some popular myths. Men and women are found to have wasted an equal amount of time at work. Older workers were significantly more attentive. As compared to the overall average of two hours a day being wasted, lunchtime not counted, workers over 55 were found to have wasted just 30 minutes. While 33% of the respondents said they wasted time because they didn't have enough work, 25% said they did so because they were underpaid. However, not all time-wasting activities are detrimental to the organization. Salary.com senior vice-president Bill Coleman felt that personal use of the Internet could even be positive since it could generate new business ideas if not contributed to a happier work environment. "There is such a thing as creative waste. Not all wasted time is bad," Coleman was quoted by Reuters as saying.
A survey on time-wasting in Indian organizations could throw up interesting results. The most irritating waste of time is when those working inside the office are asked for directions by visitors. With receptionists and security staff also doing duty at the switchboard for telephone calls, it is usually the employee nearest the entrance who has to field queries ranging from "Where is so and so?" to "Where is the toilet?" However, the most formally-sanctioned way of wasting time in the Indian organization remains the office-meeting. Organizations are known to hold meetings at the drop of a hat. Even a decision to cut down on meetings would be taken at a meeting! The conference-hall is bigger than the canteen which serves a more useful purpose!
Q. The central idea of the passage relates to:
Directions: Answer the questions based on the passage given below:
The guy sitting grimly alone in the corner of the office may not be anti-social. He may, in fact, even be working. That could be one of the inferences drawn from a recent survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com. Socializing with co-workers, spacing out and surfing the Web could, says that survey, cost US companies as much as $ 759 billion in salary. The survey of 10,044 employees debunks some popular myths. Men and women are found to have wasted an equal amount of time at work. Older workers were significantly more attentive. As compared to the overall average of two hours a day being wasted, lunchtime not counted, workers over 55 were found to have wasted just 30 minutes. While 33% of the respondents said they wasted time because they didn't have enough work, 25% said they did so because they were underpaid. However, not all time-wasting activities are detrimental to the organization. Salary.com senior vice-president Bill Coleman felt that personal use of the Internet could even be positive since it could generate new business ideas if not contributed to a happier work environment. "There is such a thing as creative waste. Not all wasted time is bad," Coleman was quoted by Reuters as saying.
A survey on time-wasting in Indian organizations could throw up interesting results. The most irritating waste of time is when those working inside the office are asked for directions by visitors. With receptionists and security staff also doing duty at the switchboard for telephone calls, it is usually the employee nearest the entrance who has to field queries ranging from "Where is so and so?" to "Where is the toilet?" However, the most formally-sanctioned way of wasting time in the Indian organization remains the office-meeting. Organizations are known to hold meetings at the drop of a hat. Even a decision to cut down on meetings would be taken at a meeting! The conference-hall is bigger than the canteen which serves a more useful purpose!
Q. The passage does NOT deal with:
Directions: relate to the following article:
Pick up a glossy magazine or newspaper supplement and there will almost certainly be at least one double page spread that looks like a regular editorial page but is headed up either 'promotion' or 'advertisement'. These hybrids - unattractively but aptly called advertorials -are being used with increasing frequency by a growing number of companies. Traditionally the preserve of high-technology clients with a complicated message to get across to potential customers, the use of this technique has now spread to sectors like financial services, alcohol and automobiles.
One major reason why marketing departments are becoming more receptive to ideas for advertorials is that publishers are pursuing them more aggressively at a time of shrinking ad budgets, while they are being treated far more professionally in a bid to persuade clients that this is a creative opportunity to spread their message to their target audiences. Pouring more imagination into them allied with raising production standards has also been a means whereby the commercial executives of magazines and newspapers can try to convince sceptical editors who strongly disapprove of blurring the advertising / editorial line of their worth.
What advertorials are about is control - controlling the message in an editorial format. Positive editorial coverage of a company and / or its products in credible publications is the best publicity any company can hope for, but often proves elusive. A successful advertorial can pinpoint the way the company delivers its message to the heart of its target audience. High technology was one of the main sources of early advertorials - unsurprisingly, the products are complex and need to be explained with some technical detail to get the story across. That is not so easy with traditional advertising.
Advertorials can also to some degree circumvent journalistic indifference to what a company is doing because editorial coverage has already been so extensive. For example, in the case of a company like Compaq, whose swift growth in the computer market attracted many inches of editorial space, that very success can lead to journalists wondering how they can write something different about Compaq. There can be diminishing returns from an editorial point of view. So advertorials let the company present things editorially but with bought space. While they should be strongly labelled, information is being given to readers in a format that looks familiar.
Q. In the above passage, the phrase "blurring the advertising / editorial line of their worth" implies
Directions: relate to the following article:
Pick up a glossy magazine or newspaper supplement and there will almost certainly be at least one double page spread that looks like a regular editorial page but is headed up either 'promotion' or 'advertisement'. These hybrids - unattractively but aptly called advertorials -are being used with increasing frequency by a growing number of companies. Traditionally the preserve of high-technology clients with a complicated message to get across to potential customers, the use of this technique has now spread to sectors like financial services, alcohol and automobiles.
One major reason why marketing departments are becoming more receptive to ideas for advertorials is that publishers are pursuing them more aggressively at a time of shrinking ad budgets, while they are being treated far more professionally in a bid to persuade clients that this is a creative opportunity to spread their message to their target audiences. Pouring more imagination into them allied with raising production standards has also been a means whereby the commercial executives of magazines and newspapers can try to convince sceptical editors who strongly disapprove of blurring the advertising / editorial line of their worth.
What advertorials are about is control - controlling the message in an editorial format. Positive editorial coverage of a company and / or its products in credible publications is the best publicity any company can hope for, but often proves elusive. A successful advertorial can pinpoint the way the company delivers its message to the heart of its target audience. High technology was one of the main sources of early advertorials - unsurprisingly, the products are complex and need to be explained with some technical detail to get the story across. That is not so easy with traditional advertising.
Advertorials can also to some degree circumvent journalistic indifference to what a company is doing because editorial coverage has already been so extensive. For example, in the case of a company like Compaq, whose swift growth in the computer market attracted many inches of editorial space, that very success can lead to journalists wondering how they can write something different about Compaq. There can be diminishing returns from an editorial point of view. So advertorials let the company present things editorially but with bought space. While they should be strongly labelled, information is being given to readers in a format that looks familiar.
Q. According to the passage,
Directions: relate to the following article:
Pick up a glossy magazine or newspaper supplement and there will almost certainly be at least one double page spread that looks like a regular editorial page but is headed up either 'promotion' or 'advertisement'. These hybrids - unattractively but aptly called advertorials -are being used with increasing frequency by a growing number of companies. Traditionally the preserve of high-technology clients with a complicated message to get across to potential customers, the use of this technique has now spread to sectors like financial services, alcohol and automobiles.
One major reason why marketing departments are becoming more receptive to ideas for advertorials is that publishers are pursuing them more aggressively at a time of shrinking ad budgets, while they are being treated far more professionally in a bid to persuade clients that this is a creative opportunity to spread their message to their target audiences. Pouring more imagination into them allied with raising production standards has also been a means whereby the commercial executives of magazines and newspapers can try to convince sceptical editors who strongly disapprove of blurring the advertising / editorial line of their worth.
What advertorials are about is control - controlling the message in an editorial format. Positive editorial coverage of a company and / or its products in credible publications is the best publicity any company can hope for, but often proves elusive. A successful advertorial can pinpoint the way the company delivers its message to the heart of its target audience. High technology was one of the main sources of early advertorials - unsurprisingly, the products are complex and need to be explained with some technical detail to get the story across. That is not so easy with traditional advertising.
Advertorials can also to some degree circumvent journalistic indifference to what a company is doing because editorial coverage has already been so extensive. For example, in the case of a company like Compaq, whose swift growth in the computer market attracted many inches of editorial space, that very success can lead to journalists wondering how they can write something different about Compaq. There can be diminishing returns from an editorial point of view. So advertorials let the company present things editorially but with bought space. While they should be strongly labelled, information is being given to readers in a format that looks familiar.
Q. In the light of your reading of the passage above, identify the option that contains the set of words CLOSEST in meaning to the set of words in CAPITALS
SCEPTICAL: CIRCUMVENT: ELUSIVE
Directions: relate to the following article:
Pick up a glossy magazine or newspaper supplement and there will almost certainly be at least one double page spread that looks like a regular editorial page but is headed up either 'promotion' or 'advertisement'. These hybrids - unattractively but aptly called advertorials -are being used with increasing frequency by a growing number of companies. Traditionally the preserve of high-technology clients with a complicated message to get across to potential customers, the use of this technique has now spread to sectors like financial services, alcohol and automobiles.
One major reason why marketing departments are becoming more receptive to ideas for advertorials is that publishers are pursuing them more aggressively at a time of shrinking ad budgets, while they are being treated far more professionally in a bid to persuade clients that this is a creative opportunity to spread their message to their target audiences. Pouring more imagination into them allied with raising production standards has also been a means whereby the commercial executives of magazines and newspapers can try to convince sceptical editors who strongly disapprove of blurring the advertising / editorial line of their worth.
What advertorials are about is control - controlling the message in an editorial format. Positive editorial coverage of a company and / or its products in credible publications is the best publicity any company can hope for, but often proves elusive. A successful advertorial can pinpoint the way the company delivers its message to the heart of its target audience. High technology was one of the main sources of early advertorials - unsurprisingly, the products are complex and need to be explained with some technical detail to get the story across. That is not so easy with traditional advertising.
Advertorials can also to some degree circumvent journalistic indifference to what a company is doing because editorial coverage has already been so extensive. For example, in the case of a company like Compaq, whose swift growth in the computer market attracted many inches of editorial space, that very success can lead to journalists wondering how they can write something different about Compaq. There can be diminishing returns from an editorial point of view. So advertorials let the company present things editorially but with bought space. While they should be strongly labelled, information is being given to readers in a format that looks familiar.
Q. The passage DOES NOT discuss
Directions: In the following question, a word in capital is followed by four options. From the options, find the appropriate word that reflects the closest or similar meaning (synonym) to the given word.
KIN
Directions: The question below has blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
There is a growing recognition that China faces serious "imbalances" that could derail its long economic boom. Obsessed ____ recently _____ high growth, China has been pushing too hard _____ keep its currency too cheap
Directions: The question below has blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
I take it, are ordained _____ priests to keep alive the sacred fires ____ the altar of impartial truth, and I have _____ faithfully endeavoured to keep my oath ______ office as well as the circumstances would permit
Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C),(D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(A) These inhibitors to providing profitable mobile services to rural India come from two main sources-
(B) Rural India has a massive pent-up derhand for mobile services; a limitless supply of low-cost labour to help deploy them; and a large entrepreneurial class ready to deliver services at the local level.
(C) As powerful as these market drivers may be, the inhibitors are even more formidable.
(D) Firstly, there are the inherent constraints of the market - its geography, economy and skill levels; and secondly, the inherent limitations of current GSM technology, processes and models.
(E) Cheap handsets are available and unlike urban locations, space for Base Stations is plentiful.
Q. Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Employee misconduct, (A) of leave, tardiness, abuse of lunch hours or coffee breaks, (B) to comply with the agency's procedures, or any other (C) of the employee/employer relationship are examples of problems for which disciplinary actions may be (D). Such actions (E) from admonishments, warnings and oral or written reprimands to suspensions, reduction-in-grade or pay, or removal.
Q. Find out the appropriate word at “B”.
Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Employee misconduct, (A) of leave, tardiness, abuse of lunch hours or coffee breaks, (B) to comply with the agency's procedures, or any other (C) of the employee/employer relationship are examples of problems for which disciplinary actions may be (D). Such actions (E) from admonishments, warnings and oral or written reprimands to suspensions, reduction-in-grade or pay, or removal.
Q. Find out the appropriate word at “A”.
Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Employee misconduct, (A) of leave, tardiness, abuse of lunch hours or coffee breaks, (B) to comply with the agency's procedures, or any other (C) of the employee/employer relationship are examples of problems for which disciplinary actions may be (D). Such actions (E) from admonishments, warnings and oral or written reprimands to suspensions, reduction-in-grade or pay, or removal.
Q. Find out the appropriate word at “D”.
Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Employee misconduct, (A) of leave, tardiness, abuse of lunch hours or coffee breaks, (B) to comply with the agency's procedures, or any other (C) of the employee/employer relationship are examples of problems for which disciplinary actions may be (D). Such actions (E) from admonishments, warnings and oral or written reprimands to suspensions, reduction-in-grade or pay, or removal.
Q. Find out the appropriate word at “C”.
Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Employee misconduct, (A) of leave, tardiness, abuse of lunch hours or coffee breaks, (B) to comply with the agency's procedures, or any other (C) of the employee/employer relationship are examples of problems for which disciplinary actions may be (D). Such actions (E) from admonishments, warnings and oral or written reprimands to suspensions, reduction-in-grade or pay, or removal.
Q. Find out the appropriate word at “E”.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error the answer is (5).(Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
Q. Her talk was judged by many as one of the most important talks given in the seminar.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
The compromise put together by Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, that's been floating about is a ploy to evade responsibility.
Directions: Select the most OPPOSITE of the given word from the given choices.
Risible:
Directions: Select the most OPPOSITE of the given word from the given choices.
Mitigation
Directions: Choose the word most nearly opposite to the given word.
Expansive
Directions: Choose the word most nearly opposite to the given word.
Deviant
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. Finally he took a wrong turn and ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet, crying,
“Johnny, black Dog, Drik,” and other names, “you won't leave old Pew, mates-not old Pew!”
2. This quarrel was the saving of us, for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet-the tramp of horses galloping.
3. And that was plainly the last signal, of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
4. Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not: but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.
5. Almost at the same time a pistol-, flash and report, came from the hedge side.
Directions: In the following question, a word in capital is followed by four options. From the options, find the appropriate word that reflects the closest or similar meaning (synonym) to the given word.
NESCIENCE
Directions: Choose the option that is closest in meaning to the capitalized word in the sentences.
Q. How does it come that a few short hours later we find him galloping TANTIVY over the dusty hills?
Directions: Question below has blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
While looking ____ the challenges of relief and reconstruction that lie ahead, this is also the time to consider the lessons _____ the State from the extreme event. While there is agreement ______ the fact that the level of rainfall was unprecedented, intense and rather sudden, leaving little room for timely warnings, the environmental factors that underlie the tragedy need ____ be given a hard look
Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C),(D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
(A) These inhibitors to providing profitable mobile services to rural India come from two main sources-
(B) Rural India has a massive pent-up derhand for mobile services; a limitless supply of low-cost labour to help deploy them; and a large entrepreneurial class ready to deliver services at the local level.
(C) As powerful as these market drivers may be, the inhibitors are even more formidable.
(D) Firstly, there are the inherent constraints of the market - its geography, economy and skill levels; and secondly, the inherent limitations of current GSM technology, processes and models.
(E) Cheap handsets are available and unlike urban locations, space for Base Stations is plentiful.
Q. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. I was scarcely in position where my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the man with the lantern some paces in front.
2. My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
3. Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.
4. The next moment his voice showed me that I was right.
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