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Reading Comprehension 1
Among those who call themselves socialists,
two kinds of persons may be distinguished.
They are, in the first place, those who plan for a
new order of society, in which private and
individual competition are to be superseded
and other motives to action substituted, are on
the scale of a village community of township,
and would be applied to an entire country by the
multiplication of such self-acting units; of this
character are the systems of Owen, of Fourier,
and the more thoughtful and philosophic
socialists generally. The other class, which is
more a product of the continent than of Great
Britain and may be called the revolutionary
socialists, has people who propose to
themselves a much bolder stroke. Their
scheme is the management of the whole
productive resources of the country by one
central authority, the general government. And
with this view some of them avow as their
purpose that the working classes, or somebody
on their behalf, should take possession of all
the property of the country, and administer it for
the general benefit.
Whatever may be the difficulties of the first of
these two forms of socialism, the second may
evidently involve the same difficulties and
many more. The former, too has the great
advantage that it can be brought into operation
progressively, and can prove its capabilities by
trial. It can be tried first on a select population
and extended to the rest as their education
and cultivation permit. It need not, and the
natural order of things would not, become an
engine of subversion until it has shown itself
capable of being also a mean of
reconstruction. It is not so with the other: the
aim of that is to substitute the new rule for the
old at a single stroke, and to exchange the
amount of good realized under the present
system, and its large possibilities for a plunge
without any preparation into the most extreme
form of the problem of carrying on the whole
round of the operations of social life without
the motive power which has always hitherto
worked the social machinery. It must be
acknowledged that those who would play this
game on the strength of their own private
opinion, unconfirmed as yet by any
experimental verification-who would forcibly
deprive all who have now a comfortable
physical existence of their only present means
of preserving it, and would brave the frightful
bloodshed and misery that would ensue if the
attempt was resisted-must have a serene
confidence in their own wisdom on one hand
and the recklessness of other peoples’
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suffering on the other, of which, Roberspierre
and St. Just, were hitherto the typical
instances, scarcely came up to. Nevertheless,
this scheme has great elements of popularity
which the more cautious and reasonable form
of socialism has not; because what it
professes to do, it promises to do quickly and
holds out hope to the enthusiasts of seeing the
whole of their aspirations realised in their own
time and at a blow.
Question 1.Who among of the following is not
a socialist?
A.Robespierre
B.Fourier
C.Owen
D.All are socialists.
Question 2.Which of the following, according
to the author, is true?
A.The second form of socialism has more
difficulties that the first
B.The second form of socialism has the same
difficulties as the first
C.The second form of socialism has less difficulties
than the first
D.The author has not compared the difficulties of
the two
Question 3.According to the author, the
difference between the two kinds of socialists
is that
A.one consists of thinkers and the others are
active people
B.the first have a definite philosophy and the
second don’t have any definite philosophy
C.the first believe in gradual change while the
others believe in revolutionary change
D.the first are the products of Britain, while the
other are products of Russia
Question 4.Which of the following were
characteristics of St. Just and Robespierre?
A.Unconcern for other’s suffering
B.Full confidence in their own wisdom
C.Both 1 and 2
D.Neither 1 nor 2
Question 5.Which of the following according
to the author, may not be the result of not
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verifying the desirability of socialism
experimentally first?
A.Bloodshed
B.Deprivation of current comfortable existence
C.Corruption in high places
D.Misery caused by resisting the change
Question 6.According to the philosophy of
revolutionary socialism,
A.the government takes over the villages first,
and then gradually the whole country.
B.the government takes over all productive
resources of the country at one stroke.
C.the government declares a police state and
rules by decree.
D.there is no government as such: the people
rule themselves by the socialist doctrine.
Question 7.The word 'avow' in the context of
the passage means
A.proclaim
B.vow
C.confirm
D.deny
Question 8.It may be inferred from the
passage that the author's sympathies are for
A.neither side.
B.the side of the socialist doctrine.
C.the second type of socialism.
D.the first type of socialism.
(Answer) Reading Comprehension 1 :
1. D
2. A
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3. C
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. A
Reading Comprehension 2
Directions (1-10): Read the following
passage carefully and answer the
questions given below it. Certain words
have been printed in bold to help you
locate them while answering some of the
questions.
Financial Inclusion (FI) is an emerging priority
for bank s that have nowhere else to go to
achieve business growth. The viability of FI
business is under question, because while
bank s and their delivery partners continue to
mak e investments, they haven't seen
commensurate returns. In mark ets lik e India,
most programmes are focused on customer
on-boarding, an expensive process which
people often find difficult to afford, involving
issuance of smart cards to the customers.
However, large-scale customer acquisition
hasn't translated into large-scale business,
with many accounts lying dormant and
therefore yielding no return on the bank 's
investment. For the same reason, Business
Correspondent Agents, who constitute the
primary channel for financial inclusion, are
unable to pursue their activity as a full-time
job. One major reason for this state of events
is that the customer on-boarding process is
often delayed after the submission of
documents (required to validate the details of
the concerned applicant) by the applicant and
might tak e as long as two week s. By this time
the initial enthusiasm of applicants fades
away. Moreover, the delivery partners don't
have the k nowledge and sk ill to propose
anything other than the most basic financial
products to the customer and hence do not
serve their bank s"' goal of expanding the
offering in unbank ed mark ets.
Contrary to popular perception, the inclusion
segment is not a singular impoverished,
undifferentiated mass and it is important to
navigate its diversity to identify the right target
customers for various programmes. Rural
mark ets do have their share of rich people who
do not use bank ing services simply because
they are inconvenient to access or have low
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perceived value. At the same time, urban
mark ets, despite a high branch density, have
multitude of low wage earners outside the
financial net. Moreover, the branch timings of
bank s rarely coincide with the off-work hours
of the labour class.
Creating affordability is crucial in tapping the
unbank ed mark et. No doubt pricing is a tool,
but bank s also need to be innovative in right-
sizing their proposition to convince customers
that they can derive big value even from small
amounts. One way of doing this is to show the
target audience that a bank account is actually
a lifestyle enabler, a convenient and safe
means to send money to family or mak e a
variety of purchases. Once bank s succeed in
hook ing customers with this value proposition
they must sustain their interest by introducing
a simple and intuitive user application,
ubiquitous access over mobile and other touch
points, and adopting a bank ing mechanism
which is not only secure but also reassuring to
the customer. Technology is the most
important element of financial inclusion
strategy and an enabler of all others. The
choice of technology is therefore a crucial
decision, which could mak e or mar the
agenda. Of the various section criteria, cost is
perhaps the most important. This certainly
does not mean buying the cheapest pack age,
but rather choosing that solution which by
scaling transactions to huge volumes reduces
per unit operating cost. An optimal mix of
these strategies would no doubt offer an
innovative means of expansion in the
unbank ed mark et.
1. Which of the following facts is true as
per the passage?
(1) People from rural areas have high
perceived value of banking services.
(2) Cost is not a valid criterion for technological
pack selection for financial-inclusion initiatives.
(3) The inclusion segment is a singular
impoverished_ undifferentiated mass.
(4) The branch timings of banks generally do
not coincide with the off-work hours of the
labour class in urban markets
(5) All the given statements are true
2. According to the passage, for which of
the following reasons do the delivery
partners fail to serve their bank-‘s goal to
expand in the unbanked markets?
(A) They do not have adequate client base to
sell they financial products.
(B) They do not have adequate knowledge
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and skills explain anything beyond basic
financial products to the customers.
(C) They do not have the skills to operate
advanced technological aids that are a
prerequisite to tap the unbanked-market.
1) Only (B)
2) Only (C)
3)All (A), (B) & (C)
4) Only (A)
5) Both (B) and (C)
3. According to the passage, for which of
the following reasons is the viability of
financial inclusion under question?
(1) Banks always prefer the cheapest package
(to cut cost) while making a choice of
technology to be used.
(2) The Business Correspondent Agents are
highly demotivated to pursue their activity as a
full-time job.
(3) The investments made by banks and their
delivery partners are not yielding equal
amounts of returns.
(4) Banks do not have adequate number of
delivery partners required to tap the unbanked
market.
(5) Banks do not have adequate manpower to
explore the diversity of the unbanked market
and thereby identify the right target customers
for various programs.
4. In the passage, the author has specified
which of the following characteristics of
the customer on-boarding process?
(1) It involves collection of documents from the
applicants in order to validate their details.
(2) It involves issuance of smart cards to the
customers.
(3) It suffers from latency as it takes a long
time after submission of documents by the
customer
(4) It is an expensive process which people
find difficult to afford.
(5) All of the given characteristics have been
specified
5. What did the author try to highlight in the
passage?
(A) The ailing condition of financial inclusion
business at present
(B) Strategies that may help banks expand in
the unbanked market
(C) Role of government in modifying the
existing financial-inclusion policies
(1) Both A & B
2) All A, B, & C
(3) only C
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(4)Only A 2. 1
(5) Only B 3. 3
4. 5
6. According to the passage, which of the 5. 1
following ways may help banks sustain the 6. 5
interest of their customers after hooking 7. 4
them? 8. 3
(A) Adoption of a banking mechanism which is 9. 5
not only secure but reassuring to the 10. 3
customers
(B) Increasing the number of delivery partners
in rural market Reading Comprehension 3
(C) Introduction of a simple and intuitive user
application
(1) Only (A) Today, emerging markets account for more
(2) Only (C) than half of world GDP on the basis of
(3) Only (B) purchasing
(4) All (A), (B) and (C)
5) Both (A) and (C)
power, according to the International Monetary
Fund (IMF). In the 1990s, it was about a third.
For Qs(7-8): Choose the word which is In the late 1990s, 30% of countries in the
MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word
developing world managed to increase their
printed in bold as used in the passage.
output per person faster than America did, thus
achieving what is calIed “catch-up growth”. That
7. Multitude
catching up was somewhat lackadaisical: the
1) Impoverished
gap closed at just 1.5% a year. Some ofthis was
2) Handful due to slower growth in America; most was not.
3) Acknowledged
The most impressive growth was in four ofthe
4) Plenty
biggest emerging economies: Brazil, Russia,
5) Solitude India and China (BRICs). These economies
have grown in different ways and for different
8. Ubiquitous
reasons. The remarkable growth of emerging
(1) Quintessential markets in general and BRICs in particular
(2) Popular
transformed the global economy in many ways,
(3) Omnipresent some wrenching.
(4) Simplified
(5) Abnormal
Commodity prices particularly soared and the
For Qs (9-10): Choose the word which is cost of manufacture and labour sank. A growing
MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word and vastly more accessible pool of labour in
printed in bold as used in the passage. emerging economies played a part in both
wage stagnation and rising income inequality in
9. Dormant rich ones. Global poverty rates tumbled. Gaping
1) Emaciated economic imbalances fuelled an era of financial
2) Pertinent vulnerability and laid the groundwork for global
3) Cornered crisis. The shift towards the emerging
4) Rejected economies will continue. But its most
5) Active tumultuous phase seems to have more or less
reached its end. Growth rates have dropped.
10. Delayed The nature of their growth is in the process of
1) Perturbed changing, too and its new mode will have fewer
2) Popularised direct effects on the rest of the world. The
3) Expedited likelihood of growth in other emerging
4) Stabilised economies having an effect in the near future
5) Represse comparable to that of BRICs in the recent past
is low. The emerging giants will grow larger, and
Answer) Reading Comprehension 2 : their ranks will swell but their tread will no longer
shake the Earth as once it did.
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After the 1990s there followed ‘convergenc e
with a vengeance’. China’s pivot towards
liberalisationand global markets came at a
propitious time in terms of politics, business and
technology. Rich economies were feeling
relaxed about globalisation and current account
deficits. America, booming and confident, was
not troubled by the growth of Chinese industry
or by off-shoring jobs to India. And the
technology etc necessary to assemble and
maintain complex supply chains were coming
into their own, allowing firms to spread their
operations between countries and across
oceans. The tumbling costs of shipping and
communication sparked globalisation’s “second
unbundling” (the first was the simple ability to
provide consumers in one place with goods
from another). As longer supply chains
infiltrated and connected places with large and
fast-growing working-age populations ,
enormous quantities of cheap new
labourbecame accessible. Advanc ed
economies added about 160m non-farm jobs
between 1980 and 2010. In 2007 China’s
economy expanded by an eye-popping 14.2%.
India managed 10.1 % growth, Russia 8.5%
and Brazil 6.1 %. The IMF now reckons there
will be slowdown in growth. China will grow by
just 7.8% in 2013, India by 5.6% and Russia
and Brazil by 2.5%.
Other countries have impressive growt h
potential. The “Next 11” (N11) includes
Bangladesh,
Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Turkey. But
there are various reasons to think that this N11
cannot have an impact on the same scale as
that of the BRICs. The first is that these
economies are smaller. The N11 has a
population of just over 1.3 billion -less than half
that of the BRICs. The second is that the Nil is
richer now than the BRICs were back in the day.
The third reason that the performance of the
BRICs cannot be repeated is the very success
of that performance. The world economy is
much larger than it used to be – twice as big in
real terms as it was in 1992, according to IMF
figures. But whether or not the world can build
on a remarkable era of growth will depend in
large part on whether the new giants tread a
path towards greater global co-operation – or
stumble, fall and, in times of tumult and in the
worst case, fight.
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Q1. According to the passage, which of the
following is a reason for the author’s
prediction regarding N11 countries?
(1) N11 countries are poorer, have less
resources than BRIC countries and do not have
much
scope to grow.
(2) The size of these countries is too great to
fuel a high rate of growth as expected by BRICs
countries.
(3) The world economy is so large that the
magnitude of growth from these countries will
have to be huge to equal the growth of BRICs.
(4) These economies are agricultural and have
not opened up their economies yet so their
scope of growth is greater than that of BRlCs.
(5) Other than those given as options
Q2. What is the author’s view of
globalisation’s “second unbundling”?
(1) It-proved beneficial since it created a large
number of jobs and tremendous growth in
crossborder trade.
(2) It disturbed the fragile balance of power
among BRIC nations and caused internal strife.
(3) It caused untold damage to America’s
economy since it restricted the spread of
American
farms off-shore.
(4) It proved most beneficial for the agricultural
sector, creating huge employment
opportunities.
(5) Citizens in advanced countries became
much better off than those in emerging
economies.
Q3. Choose the word which is most nearly
the SAME in meaning as the word
TUMBLING given in bold as used in the
passage.
(1) jumbling
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(2) confusing
(3) reducing
(4) dilapidated
(5) hurrying
Q4. What do the comparative statistics of
2007 and 2013 for BRICs countrie s
published by, the IMF as cited in the
passage indicate?
(1) BRIC economies will contribute less to
global growth.
(2) As the population of these countries grows,
its growth rate is filling.
(3) The financial practices followed by these
countries will continue to pay rich dividends.
(4) These countries are creating global financial
imbalances to the detriment of smaller
developing economies like Africa.
(5) IMF forecasts of growth rate for these
countries have not been fulfilled.
Q5. What effect did rising economies of
BRICs have on the global economy?
(1) It helped stabilise the global economy and
insulate it from the fallout of the global fmancial
crisis.
(2) Labour became more highly skilled and
wages were alarmingly increased, reducing the
offshoring of jobs to developing countries.
(3) Though worldwide poverty rates tumbled,
the gap between the rich and the poor in
richeconomies increased.
(4) The cost of living and level of inflation in
these countries were mantained at low levels.
(5) All the given options are effects of the rise in
BRIC economies.
Q6. What does the phrase “Their ranks will
swell but their tread will no longer shake the
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Earth as it once did” convey in the context
of the passage?
(1) While many countries will try and achieve
the same rate of growth as BRICs they will not
succeed.
(2) The growth of BRIC countries has changed
the world’s economy in ways that any further
growth will not have such a disruptive effect on
the world economy.
(3) Developing countries have strengthened
their fiscal systems in such a way that they will
not be shaken to such a great extent again
(4) Poverty may increase as the gap between
the rich and the poor increase but it will never
reach the same leves as prior to the crisis.
(5) Citizens in advanced countries became
much better off than those in emerging
economies.
Q7. Which of the following best describe s
‘catch-up growth’?
(1) Emerging economies tried but failed to catch
up with America, which always grew at a
higher growth rate.
(2) The size of emerging economies and their
purchasing power has caught up with and now
exceeds the rich countries together.
(3) The growth of the American economy
determines the growth of emerging economies.
(4) From the later half of 1990s onwards
emerging economies outdid America in terms of
output per person.
(5) None of the given statements describes
‘catch up growth.’
Q8. Which of the following can be said about
‘convergence with a vengeance?
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(A) After the 1990s advanced economies like
America were open to the idea of free trade and
globalisation.
(B) There were huge technology advanc es
which were conducive to allowing businesses to
spread their area of operations.
(C) Rich economies felt threatened by the
competition from China.
(1) Only (A)
(2) Only (B)
(3) Only(C)
(4) Only (A) and (B)
(5) Only (B) and (C)
Q9. Choose the word which is OPPOSITE in
meaning to the word EXPANDED given in
bold as used in the passage.
(1) widened
(2) pressured
(3) delayed
(4) shrunk
(5) frightened
Q10. What is the author’s main objective in
writing the passage?
(A) To urge emerging economies to deal with
growth, which can be disruptive, maturely and
without conflict
(B) To point out that while the period of growt h
of BRICs was disruptive this disruption has
almost come to a close.
(C) To criticise advanced economies for their
handling of growth and promoting competition
and conflict in certain regions
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(1) Only (A) and (B)
(2) Only (A)
(3) Only(C)
(4) All (A), (B) and (C)
(5) Only (B) and (C)
Answer Reading Comprehension 3
1. 1
2. 1
3. 3
4. 1
5. 3
6. 2
7. 4
8. 4
9. 4
10. 1
Reading Comprehension 4
The government has no business to be in the
business of owning airports, running hotels,
making bread — and owning banks. When the
government stepped into these sectors in the
first flush of Independence, it was with a view to
creating basic capacities. With the passage of
time, it became clear that overwhelming
government presence was doing no good to
anyone. Today, the benefits of the government
stepping back in sectors like telecom and
aviation are evident. Till as recently as the early
90s, a landline was a status symbol because it
was accessible to just 2 per cent of the
population. Today, the mobile phone is a
ubiquitous feature of rural and urban India.
Indian Airlines and Air-India had reduced air
travel to a privilege; with competition, rates
have fallen to a third of levels that obtained a
decade ago, despite little change in input costs.
The time is ripe for the government to ease itself
out of banking as well.
The recent strike by State Bank of India
employees will result in higher pension outgo in
the entire banking sector. This will further
consolidate the organised labour aristocracy
and its tendency to act as a law unto itself. Bank
nationalisation was seen as a necessity in
1969, in order to direct credit to Green
Revolution areas. Today, that system has
outlived its utility, as agriculture is a
transformed occupation with new risks and
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opportunities. Green Revolution is in the grip of 3) Landline phone is considered a status

diminishing returns, and prosperous farmers of symbol.
yesteryears are fast moving out of agriculture. 4) Gramin Banking has failed in India.
Small farmers all over the country are in 5) None of these
distress, as rural banks lend to moneylenders
instead of dealing directly with them. New forms 4. What message does the author want to
of production based on contract farming do not convey to the government through this
really need the sarkari banking network. Privat e passage?
players have made lending more competitive 1) Govt should compete with private players in
and customer-friendly. A small-scale telecom, aviation, banking etc.
entrepreneur need not suffer for lack of working 2) Govt should withdraw from telecom,
capital, nor does he have to bow and scrape aviations banking etc.
before a bank manager. Credit is readily 3) Govt should allow private players in all the
available to business, in varying packages to areas of business.
suit different needs. It is not hard to visualise a 4) Govt should provide credit to the farmers on
replication of this situation in rural areas. With a simpler terms.
number of players in rural credit, entrepreneurs 5) None of these
who come forward with proposals for food
processing and cold storage would benefit. Directions (Q. 5-7): Choose the word which
Farmers seeking to add value to their produc e is the same in meaning as the word given in
will encounter fewer hindrances in a bold as used in the passage.
competitive situation. A spirit of enterprise in
rural banking can transform rural India. Gramin 5. OVERWHELMING
banking, or microcredit, has worked wonders in 1) large
Bangladesh. Given the chance, it could do the 2) majority
same here. 3) feasible
4) vigilant
1. That the mobile phone is a ubiquitous 5) viable
feature of rural and urban India today show s
that 6. ACCESSIBLE
1) people have no interest in landline phone 1) convincing
these days. 2) deliberate
2) telephone is easily available everywhere 3) targeted
now. 4) approachable
3) technology can invade all the barriers. 5) distributed
4) telephone has become affordable for all now.
5) mobile phone has taken the place of landline 7. UBIQUITOUS
phone everywhere. 1) unique
2) modern
2. Which of the following seems to be false 3) omnipresent
in the context of the passage? 4) enormous
1) Agriculture sector has witnessed much 5) stylish
change over the years.
2) Green Revolution has lost its charm with the Directions (Q. 8-10): Choose the word which
farmers. is the opposite in meaning of the word given
3) The government is facing competition in in bold as used in the passage.
telecom, aviation, banking etc.
4) Agriculture is no more a lucrative area for the 8. RIPE
wealthy farmers now. 1) lengthy
5) None of these 2) inappropriate
3) rare
3. Which of the following is ‘true’ in the 4) hard
context of the passage? 5) umpteen
1) Getting loans from private banks is easier
than the nationalised banks. 9. CONSOLIDATE
2) Credit through banks is readily available for 1) deviate
even small farmers these days. 2) strike
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4) weaken
5) instigate
10. READILY
1) deliberately
2) strictly
3) strangely
4) supposedly
5) None of the above
Answer Reading Comprehension 4
1. 3
2. 5
3. 1
4. 3
5. 1
6. 4
7. 3
8. 2
9. 4
10. 5
Reading Comprehension 5
Ethics concern an individual’s moral judgements
about right and wrong. Decisions taken within an
organization may be made by individuals or
groups, but whoever makes them will be
influenced by the culture of the company. The
decision to behave ethically is a moral one;
employees must decide what they think is the
right course of action. This may involve rejecting
the route that would lead to the biggest short-
term profit. Ethical issues include the rights and
duties between a company and its employees,
suppliers, customers and neighbours,
its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders.
Issues concerning relations between different
companies include hostile take-over and
industrial espionage. Related issues include
governance; corporate; political contributions;
legal issues such as the ethical debate over
introducing a crime of corporate manslaughter;
and the marketing of corporations’ ethics policies.
Business ethics reflects the philosophy of business,
one of whose aims is to determine the
fundamental purposes of a company. If a
company’s purpose is to maximize shareholder
returns, then sacrificing profits to other concerns is
a violation of its fiduciary responsibility. Business
ethics is also known as corporate ethics, a form of
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applied ethics or professional ethics that examines
ethical principles and moral or ethical problems
that arise in a business environment. It applies to
all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to
the conduct of individuals and entire
organizations. Business ethics has both normative
and descriptive dimensions. As a corporate
practice and a career specialization, the field is
primarily normative. Academics attempting to
understand business behaviour employ descriptive
methods. The range and quantity of business
ethical issues reflects the interaction of profit-
maximizing behaviour with non-economic
concerns. Ethical behaviour and corporate social
responsibility can bring significant benefits to a
business. For example, they may: attract
customers to the firm’s products, thereby boosting
sales and profits. It makes employees want to stay
with the business, reduce labour turnover and
therefore increase productivity. It attracts more
employees wanting to work for the business,
reduce recruitment costs and enable the company
to get the most talented employees and also
attract investors and keep the company’s share
price high, thereby protecting the business from
takeover.
While unethical behaviour or a lack of corporate
social responsibility, by comparison, may damage a
firm’s reputation and make it less appealing to
stakeholders. Unethical behaviour can also result
in bad publicity, resulting in a bad name that will
always be associated with the company even if
they attempt to utilize a more ethical code of
conduct. If a company has unethical behaviour and
is charged by the courts, they can wind up paying
fines, court fees and may even receive some jail
time, many companies eventually go bankrupt and
close their doors due to the high cost of unethical
behaviours. Unethical behaviour also decreases
productivity of a company. If you are working in a
company with bad ethical behaviours, it is difficult
for the employees to trust each other, or their
supervisors. When people work in an environment
where they do not trust anyone, they are not
going to do their best work, if they continue to
work there at all. Unethical behaviour can cause
employees to lose the faith in the company and
become more likely to call in sick more often or
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not even show up at all. Once a company is known Direction : Choose the word which is most
for having unethical behaviours, the effects can be nearly the SAME in meaning as the word
permanent. All of the years spent building a good printed in bold as used in the passage.
reputation can be quickly torn down with only one
6. FIDUCIARY
unethical incident, destroying the company’s 1) Employee
reputation possibly forever. 2) Depositary
3) Guardian
4) Collector
1. What is meant by Manslaughter ?
5) Store keeper
1) A kind of heinous crime
2) It's all about foul play.
7. ESPIONAGE
3) Legally killing of one human being by
1) Spying
another. 2) Information
4) Killing without malicious forethought
3) Reforms
5) None of these
4) Norms
5) Requirement
2. What is/are the dimensions of Busine ss
ethics ?
8. TORN DOWN
1) Corporate ethics 1) Restored
2) Applied ethics or professional ethics
2) Solvent
3) Normative and descriptive
3) Bulldoze
4) 1) and 2) 4) End
5) None of these
5) Demolish
3. What can be the worst impact of unethical Direction : Choose the word which is most
behaviour in corporate world ?
OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in
1) It can reduce the loyalty of customer towards
bold as used in the passage.
the product.
2) It will reduce productivity.
9. WIND-UP
3) It may damage firm's reputation and make it
1) Start
less appealing to stake holders. 2) Neglect
4) A company can be charged by the counts
3) Conclude
and order to close down it with a fine or jail or
4) Unsettled
both. Thus, company becomes insolvent. 5) Normalized
5) Both 1 and 3
10. BANKRUPT
4. Once a company is known for having 1) Successful
unethical behaviours, the effect can be - 2) Saved
1) Permanent
3) Rich
2) Negligible 4) Solvent
3) Determined 5) Complete
4) Partial
5) None of these
Answers Reading Comprehension 5:
5. Which of the following is definitely true in
the context of the passage ? 1. 4
1) Profit maximization directly proportional to 2. 3
ethical behaviour. 3. 4
2) People having ethical behaviour always in 4. 1
loss at their working place. 5. 1
3) Corporate culture does not understand 6. 2
business behaviour. 7. 1
4) Both 2 and 3 8. 5
5) None of these 9. 1
10. 4

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