1.

Any business calls for two ____ functions

A. critical
B. rudimentary
C. innate
D. none of these
2. Needle Eye : Thread :: Eyelet : ____
A. binoculars
B. Kaleidoscope
C. detergents
D. shoelace

3. Choose the word opposite in meaning to given word.

infirm
A. weak
B. deft
C. potent
D. strong
4. Which of the following best completes the passage
below? In a survey of job applicants, two-fifths admitted to
being at least a little dishonest. However, the survey may
underestimate the proportion of job applicants who are
dishonest, because______
A. some dishonest people taking the survey might have
claimed on the survey to be honest
B. some generally honest people taking the survey might
have claimed on the survey to be dishonest
C. some people who claimed on the survey to be at least a
little dishonest may be very dishonest
D. some people who claimed on the survey to be dishonest
may have been answering honestly

5. Company Alpha buys free-travel coupons from people

who are awarded the coupons by Bravo Airlines for flying
frequently on Bravo airplanes. The coupons are sold to
people who pay less for the coupons than they would pay
by purchasing tickets from Bravo. This marketing of
coupons results in lost revenue for Bravo. To discourage
the buying and selling of free-travel coupons, it would be
best for Bravo Airlines to restrict the
A. number of coupons that a person can be awarded in a
particular year
B. use of the coupons to those who were awarded the
coupons and members of their immediate families
C. days that the coupons can be used to Monday through
Friday
D. amount of time that the coupons can be used after they
are issued
6. Who wrote the novel Jurassic Park on which the famous
Steven Spielberg film was based?
A. Arthur C.Clarke
B. John Grisham
C. Michael Crichton
D. George Hans

7. Gold Riband’, the brand owned by McDowell’s is a type of

A. whisky
B. beer
C. rum
D. none of these
8. ‘It takes the rough with the smooth’ is used by which of
the following car models?
A. TATA Sumo
B. TATA Sierra
C. TATA Indica
D. Toyota Qualis

9. The new chairman of NASSCOM is

A. Phiroz Vandrevala
B. Pradeep Guha.
C. Arun Netravalli
D. Arun Kumar
10. Lifebuoy soap is brand of which of the following
companies?
A. godrej
B. procter and gamble
C. hll
D. none of these

11. In a meeting there are five participants, A, B, C, D and

E, out of which three are gents and two are ladies. How
many ways can they sit such that there is at least one lady
to the side of each gentleman.
A. 12
B. 36
C. 24
D. 48
12. What number should be subtracted from x^3 + 4x^2 –
7x + 12 if it is to be perfectly divisible by x + 3?
A. 42
B. 39
C. 13
D. none of these
13. A train travels at an average speed of 90 km/hr without
any stoppages. However, its average speed decrease to
60km/hr on account of stoppages. On an average, how
many minutes per hour does the train stop?
A. 12 mins
B. 20 mins
C. 24 mins
D. 18 mins
14. In an election contested by two parties, Party D
secured 12% of the total votes more than Party R. If party
R got 132,000 votes, by how many votes did it lose the
election?
A. 300,000
B. 168,000
C. 36,000
D. 24,000

15. 30% of the men are more than 25 years old and 80% of
the men are less than or equal to 50 years old. 20% of all
men play football. If 20% of the men above the age of 50
play football, what percentage of the football players are
less than or equal to 50 years?
A. 15
B. 20
C. 80
D. 70