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English Test 84

Directions for Questions from 1 to 4:

The poem given below is followed by a question. Choose the most appropriate answer to question.

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question. . .
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And indeed there will be time

For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions
And for a hundred visions and revisions
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.

And indeed there will be time

To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—
[They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”]
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
[They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”]
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all;

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?

1. Which of the following meanings can be inferred from the lines “Do I dare Disturb the universe?”?

j The author is referring to his bright future.

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j The author refers to the ‘status quo’ in which he is in.
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j The author expresses his feeling of being pinned against a wall.
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j The author is apprehensive about his last days.
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2. What, according to the passage, is the reason for the author’s optimism?

j That the women are talking of Michelangelo.

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j That the yellow fog rubs upon the window-panes.
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j That it was an October night.
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j That there will be moments for everything.
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j That the falling soot made a sudden leap.
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3. In the first ten lines of the passage the author embodies which of the following with human attributes?

j toast
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j restaurants
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j intent
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j retreats
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j arguments
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4. In the passage, evening is compared to:

j The spreading sky

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j The anesthetized patient
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j Wicked people
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j The deserted streets
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j A walk in the streets
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Directions for Questions from 5 to 7:

Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that
completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

5. And you know what? Life will go on. More people may be drawn to State and Madison. Chicagoans
lament the loss of the historic names that defined State Street shopping for 100 years—but not enough of them have been going there. They’ve
been going to Target or Costco or Kohl’s or Wal-Mart or any of the other specialty and big-box retailers that don’t have famous addresses and
landmark status, but have been chipping away at department store sales for years. If you’ve lived in Chicago for any period of time, especially if
you grew up here, chances are you have a favorite memory of shopping on State Street. You’re probably thinking of windows at Christmas right
now. _____________________

j It’s a sad day for those who love Chicago’s history, and particularly for those who will lose jobs at Carson Pirie Scott.
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j But times and tastes and habits change.
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j State Street is a fun place to hang out again.
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j Two names that embodied Chicago retailing for more than a century will disappear.
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j The big-box retailers are quite aggressive as compared to the departmental stores.
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6. The fundamental sea change in this decade is the opening of developed economies’ markets to the
commoditizing influence of developing economies like India and China. In response, companies jumped to innovation. But what you really have to
do to fight commoditization is create sustainable differentiation, which means your competitors cannot or will not copy you. Innovation, which
creates sustainable differentiation, is what you want. What most companies do, and why you have the feeling that they’re just talking about it, is
they innovate but they do not achieve sustainable differentiation. __________
 j Yes, they’re spending a lot on research and development, but at the end of the day, they are not substantially differentiated from their
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competitors.
j The issue has to do with, are you innovating for something that’s core or context to your business model?
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j Instead of concentrating on a few bold ideas that could revolutionize their companies, most firms put their resources in too many places, often
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creating product enhancements that don’t actually enhance the bottom line.
j They don’t drive a particular dimension of their business so far down the road that their competitors cannot or will not follow—and that is the
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gold standard.
j Enhancing the bottom line requires a market driven approach to innovation.
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7. Nonprofit organizations depend on two resources to fulfill their missions. One, of course, is money.
The other resource – just as vital but perhaps even more scarce – is leadership. Indeed, qualified
leadership candidates may be even rarer than six-figure donors. _________________

j oday, many nonprofit organizations struggle to attract and retain the talented senior executives they need to convert dollars into social
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impact.
j During the next 10 years, the nonprofit leadership deficit will become impossible to ignore
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j As one highly respected executive director recently observed, “If I have the choice between spending time with a $100,000 donor or a
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potential candidate for a senior role, hands down it’s the candidate.”
j Searches for chief executive, operating, and financial officers often turn up only one to three qualified candidates, compared with four to six for
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comparable private-sector positions.
j Many donors are least bothered where their donations are used.
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Directions for Questions from 8 to 10:

Each question is a logical sequence of statements with a missing link, the location of which is shown parenthetically. From the five choices available
you are required to choose the one which best fits the sequence logically.

8. Feynman on religion is interesting mainly because he clearly feels the need to tread very carefully for
fear of offending too many people. He divides religion up into three parts: the metaphysical (creation
myths and so on), the ethical and the inspirational .His analysis is that science undermines the
metaphysical part but has no effect at all on the ethical, because, in fact, (__________). He laments the fact that the undermining of the
metaphysical takes a lot of air out of the sails of the inspirational part, but his view is that the picture of the universe presented by science is pretty
inspirational itself.

j science has nothing to do with the ethics of religion

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j scientists have pretty much the same ethical values as everyone else
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j ethics and inspiration are irretrievably intertwined
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j scientific laws do not seek to confront ethical values
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j science does not moralise as ethics do
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9. Woolf’s focus on society has not been generally recognized because of her intense antipathy to
propaganda in art. (_______). Even when Woolf is fundamentally sympathetic to their causes, she
portrays people anxious to reform their society and possessed of a message or program as arrogant or dishonest, unaware of how their political
ideas serve their own psychological needs. (Her Writer’s Diary notes: “the only honest people are the artists.” whereas “these social reformers and
philanthropists...harbor...discreditable desires under the disguise of loving their kind...”) Woolf detested what she called “preaching” in fiction, too,

j Her detestation of the apathetic is palpable.

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j She disregards their objectives, howsoever noble they might have been.
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j She feels that they unnecessarily force their views and judgments down the peoples’ gullets.
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j The pictures of reformers in her novels are usually satiric or sharply critical.
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j There are several instances in her writings to prove the point.
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10. Recently, I had difficulty with one of my tyres so I went to the tyre store to get it replaced. Much to my
chagrin, the service attendant identified a small problem with another tyre, which indicated the front end was out of alignment. He explained that
if I did not correct the alignment, I would soon be replacing yet another tyre. Needless to say, realigning the front end of my car cost money, but
the investment actually saved me additional costs in the future. The attendant (salesperson) did not cause the problems; he simply identified the
problem and offered a solution, (______) We do not create problems; we identify them and offer solutions through our goods and services.
j which in any case was his duty to do
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j which we ought to do in the first place
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j which is exactly what the professional does
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j and saved me a lot of hassle
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j but isn’t that what all of us are bound to do if we are true professionals?
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