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economies are uncertain, the

1. The poor especially in market Indian examples of women-only
economics need the strength groups farming offer
that collectivities offer for considerable potential for
creating more economic, social benefiting women.
and political space for 1. Agricultural collectivities
themselves, for enhancing their such as group based
socioeconomic well-being and farming can provide the
voice, and as a protection rural poor
against free market 2. Empowerment
individualism. It has been 3. Increased agricultural
argued that a group approach to productivity.
farming, especially in the form 4. Safeguard against
of bottom up agricultural exploitative markets.
production collectivities, offers
5. Surplus production of
substantial scope for poverty
agricultural
alleviation and empowering the
commodities.
poor as well as enhancing
Select the correct Solution:
agricultural productivity. To
using the codes given below:
realize this potential, however,
the groups would need to be a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
voluntary in nature, small in b) 1, 2 and 3 only
size, participative in decision c) 2 and 4 only
making and equitable in work d) 1, 3 and 4 only
sharing and benefit
distribution. There are many
notable examples of such 2. What does the author imply by
collectivities to be found in “gender impact”? a) Women are
varied contexts, such as in doubtful participants in
transitions economies. All of cooperatives.
them bear witness to the
b) Family cooperatives may not
possibility of successful
include women
cooperation under given
c) Women benefitting from
conditions. And although the
group farming.
gender impact of the family
d) Women’s role in transition
cooperatives in the transition
economies is highly restrictive.
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or caste identity. Community-

identity seems to be the
3. Consider the following governing force. It is not
assumptions: therefore surprising that the so-
1. It is imperative for called peripheral groups
transition economies to continue to maintain their
have agricultural identities with reference to the
collectivities. social groups {caste, religion or
2. Agricultural productivity sect} to which they belong while
can be increased by getting involved in the political
group approach to processes despite the fact that
farming. their political goals remain more
or less identical. By helping to
With reference to the above
articulate the political voice of
passage which of these
the marginalized, democracy in
assumptions is/are valid?
India has led to ‘a loosening of
a) 1 only
social strictures’ and
b) 2 only
empowered the peripherals to
c) Both 1 and 2 be confident of their ability to
d) Neither 1 nor 2 improve the socio economic
conditions in which they are
placed. This is a significant
4. In a typical Western liberal political process that had led to
context, deepening of a silent revolution through a
democracy invariably leads to meaningful transfer of power
consolidation of ‘liberal values’. from the upper caste cities to
In the Indian context, various subaltern groups within
democratization is translated the democratic framework of
into greater involvement of public governance.
people not as ‘individuals’ which According to the passage, what
is a staple to liberal discourse, does “deepening of democracy”
but as communities or groups. mean in the Western context?
Individuals are getting involved a) Consolidation of group and
in the public sphere not as class identities.
‘atomized’ individuals but as
b) Democratization translated
members of primordial
as greater involvement of
communities drawn on religious
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people. d) All the statements a), b) and

c) Democratization as greater c) given above are correct in this
involvement of ‘atomized’ context.
individuals in the public sphere.
d) None of the statements a, b
7. Guest lectures on five subjects
and c given above is correct in
this context. viz., Economics, History,
Statistics, English and
Mathematics have to be
5. Greater democratization in arranged in a week from
India has not necessarily led to Monday to Friday. Only one
lecture can be arranged on each
a) The dilution of caste and
day. Economics cannot be
communal identities in the
scheduled on Tuesday. Guest
public sphere.
faculty for History is available
b) Irrelevance of community
only on Tuesday. Mathematics
identity as governing force in
lecture has to be schedules
Indian politics.
immediately after the day of
c) Marginalization of elite Economics lecture. English
groups in society. lecture has to be scheduled
d) Relative unimportance of immediately before the day of
hereditary identities over class Economics lecture.
identities. Which lecture is scheduled on
Monday?
a) History
6. What is the “silent revolution”
b) Economics
that has occurred in the Indian
c) Mathematics
democratic process?
d) Statistics
a) Irrelevance of caste and class
hierarchies in political
processes
b) Loosening of social strictures
viz., Economics, History,
in voting behavior and patterns.
c) Social change through
transfer of power from upper
arranged in a week from
caste elites to subaltern groups.
Monday to Friday. Only one
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lecture can be arranged on each Which lecture is the last one in

day. Economics cannot be the week?
scheduled on Tuesday. Guest a) History
faculty for History is available b) English
c) Mathematics
d) Economics Solution:
Economics lecture. English
lecture has to be scheduled
immediately before the day of
Economics lecture.
Which lecture is scheduled
between Statistics and English?
arranged in a week from
a) Economics
Monday to Friday. Only one
b) History lecture can be arranged on each
c) Mathematics day. Economics cannot be
d) No lecture scheduled on Tuesday. Guest
faculty for History is available
9. Guest lectures on five subjects lecture has to be schedules
viz., Economics, History, immediately after the day of
Statistics, English and Economics lecture. English
Mathematics have to be lecture has to be scheduled
arranged in a week from immediately before the day of
Monday to Friday. Only one Economics lecture.
lecture can be arranged on each Which lecture is located
day. Economics cannot be scheduled on Wednesday?
scheduled on Tuesday. Guest a) Statistics
faculty for History is available b) Economics
c) English
d) History
Economics lecture.
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arranged in a week from 13. Consider the following
Monday to Friday. Only one statements:
lecture can be arranged on each 1. All machines consume
day. Economics cannot be energy
scheduled on Tuesday. Guest 2. Electricity provides
faculty for History is available energy
3. Electrically operated
machines are cheap to
maintain
4. Electrically operated
machines do not cause
pollution.
Economics lecture.
Which one of the following
Which lecture is scheduled
inferences can be drawn from
before the Mathematics lecture?
the above statements?
a) Economics
a) All machines are run by
b) History
electric energy.
c) Statistics
b) There is no form of energy
d) English other than electricity
c) Most machines are operated
on electric energy.
12. Two glasses of equal volume are
d) Electrically operated
respectively half and three-
machines are preferable to use.
fourths filled with milk. They are
then filled to the brim by adding
water. Their contents are then
14. Examine the following
poured into another vessel.
statements:
What will be the ratio of milk to
1. None but the rich ran
water in this vessel?
afford air-travel.
a) 1:3
2. Some of those who travel
b) 2:3
by air become sick
c)3:2
3. Some of those who
d) 5:3
become sick require
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treatment 16. Education, without a doubt, has

Which one of the following an important functional,
conclusions can be drawn from instrumental and utilitarian
the above statements? dimension. This is revealed
a) All the rich persons travel by when one asks questions such
air. as 'what is the purpose of
b) Those who travel by air education?'. The Solutions, too
become sick often, are 'to acquire
qualifications for
c) All the rich persons become
employment/upward mobility',
sick.
'wider/higher (in terms of
d) All those who travel by air
income) opportunities', and 'to
are rich
meet the needs for trained
human power in diverse field for
national development'. But in
15. In five flats, one above the other,
its deepest sense education is
live five professionals. The
not instrumentalist. That is to
professor has to go up to meet
say, it is not to be justified
his IAS officer friend. The doctor
outside of itself because it leads
is equally friendly to all, and has
to the acquisition of formal
to go up as frequently as go
skills or of certain desired
down. The engineer has to go up
psychological – social
to meet his MLA friend above
attributes. It must be respected
whose flat lives the professor's
in itself. Education is thus not a
friend. From the ground floor to
commodity to be acquired or
the top floor, in what order do
possessed and then used, but a
the five professionals live?
process of inestimable
a) Engineer, Professor, Doctor, importance to individuals and
IAS officer, MLA society, although it can and
b) Professor, Engineer, Doctor, does have enormous use value.
IAS officer, MLA Education then, is a process of
c) IAS officer, Engineer, Doctor, expansion and conversion, not
Professor, MLA in the sense of conversion
d) Professor, Engineer, Doctor, turning students into doctors or
MLA, IAS officer engineers, but the widening and
turning out of the mind – the
creation, sustenance and
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development of self-critical income are generated

awareness and independence of c) individuals develop self-
thought. It is an inner process of critical awareness and
moral-intellectual development. independence of thought
What do you understand by the d) qualifications for upward
'instrumentalist' view of mobility are acquired
education?
a) Education is functional and 19. Chemical pesticides lose their
utilitarian in its purposes. role in sustainable agriculture if
b) Education is meant to fulfill the pests evolve resistance. The
human needs evolution of the pesticide
resistance is simply natural
c) The purpose of education is to
selection in action. It is almost
train the human intellect
certain to occur when vast
d) Education is meant to achieve
numbers of a genetically
moral development
variable population are killed.
One or a few individuals may be
unusually resistant (perhaps
17. According to the passage,
because they possess an
education must be respected in
enzyme that can detoxify the
itself because
pesticide). If the pesticide is
a) It helps to acquire applied repeatedly, each
qualifications for employment. successive generation of the
b) It helps in upward mobility pest will contain a larger
and acquiring social status. proportion of resistant
c) It is an inner process of moral individuals. Pests typically have
and intellectual development a high intrinsic rate of
d) All the a), b) and c) given reproduction, and so a few
above are correct in this individuals in one generation
context. may give rise to hundreds or
thousands in the next, and
resistance spreads very rapidly
18. Education is a process in which in a population. This problem
was often ignored in the past,
a) Students are converted into
even though the first case of
trained professionals.
DDT
b) Opportunities for higher
(dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethan
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e) resistance was reported as spent. Moreover, in many poorer

early as 1946. There is an countries, the prospect of
exponential increase in the imminent mass starvation, or of
numbers of invertebrates that an epidemic disease, are so
have evolved resistance and in frightening that the social and
the number pesticides against health costs of using pesticides
which resistance has evolved. have to be ignored. In general
Resistance has been recorded in the use of pesticides is justified
every family of arthropod pests by objective measures such as
(including dipterans such as 'lives saved', 'economic
mosquitoes and house flies, as efficiency of food production'
well as beetles, moths, wasps, and 'total food produced'. In
fleas, lice and mites) as well as these very fundamental senses,
in weeds and plant pathogens. their use may be described as
Take the Alabama leaf worm, a sustainable. In practice,
moth pest of cotton, as an sustainability depends on
example. It has developed continually developing new
resistance in one or more pesticides that keep at least one
regions of the world to aldrin, step ahead of the pests –
DDT, dieldrin, endrin, lindane pesticides that are less
and toxaphene. If chemical persistent, biodegradable and
pesticides brought nothing but more accurately targeted at the
problems, - if their use was pests.
intrinsically and acutely “The evolution of pesticide
unsustainable – then they resistance is natural selection in
would already have fallen out of action.” What does it actually
widespread use. This has not imply?
happened. Instead, their rate of a) It is very natural for many
production has increased organisms to have pesticide
rapidly. The ratio of cost to resistance.
benefit for the individual
b) Pesticide resistance among
agricultural producer has
organisms is a universal
remained in favour of pesticide
phenomenon.
use. In the USA, insecticides
c) Some individuals in any given
have been estimated to benefit
population show resistance
the agricultural products to the
after the application of
tune of around $5 for every $1
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pesticides invented at all.

d) None of the statements a), b) c) Pesticides are biodegradable.
and c) given above is correct. d) None of the statements a), b)
and c) given above is correct.
20. With reference to the passage, 22. How do pesticides act as agents
consider the following for the selection of resistant
statements: individuals in any pest
1. Use of chemical population?
pesticides has become 1. It is possible that in a
imperative in all the poor pest population the
countries of the world. individuals will behave
2. Chemical pesticides differently due to their
should not have any role genetic makeup.
in sustainable 2. Pests do possess the
agriculture ability to detoxify the
3. One pest can develop pesticides.
resistance to many 3. Evolution of pesticide
pesticides resistance is equally
Which of the statements given distributed in pest
above is/are correct? population.
a) 1 and 2 only Which of the statements given
b) 3 only above is/are correct?
c) 1 and 3 only a) 1 only
d) 1, 2 and 3 b) 1 and 2 only

c) 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
21. Though the problems
associated with the use of
chemical pesticides is known for 23. Why is the use of chemical
a long time, their widespread pesticides generally justified by
use has not waned. Why? giving the examples of poor and
a) Alternatives to chemical developing countries?
pesticides do not exist at all. 1. Developed countries can
b) New pesticides are not afford to do away with
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use of pesticides by above are correct.

adapting to organic
farming, but it is 25. Today's developing economies
imperative for poor and use much less energy per capita
developing countries to than developed countries such
use chemical pesticides. as the United State did at
2. In poor and developing similar incomes, showing the
countries, the pesticide potential for lower-carbon
addresses the problem of growth. Adaptation and
epidemic diseases of mitigation need to be integrated
crops and eases the food into a climate-smart
problem. development strategy that
increases resilience, reduces the
3. The social and health
threat of further global
costs of pesticide use are
warming, and improves
generally ignored in poor
development outcomes.
and developing
Adaptation and mitigation
countries.
measures can advance
Which of the statements given
development, and prosperity
above is/are correct?
can raise incomes and foster
a) 1 only
better institutions. A healthier
b) 1 and 2 only population living in better –
c) 2 only built houses and with access to
d) 1, 2 and 3 bank loans and social security
is better equipped to deal with a
changing climate and its
24. What does the passage imply? consequences. Advancing
a) Alternative options to robust, resilient development
chemical pesticides should be policies that promote
promoted. adaptation is needed today
because changes is the climate,
b) Too much use of chemicals is
already begun, will increase
not good for the ecosystem.
even in the short term. The
c) There is no scope for the
spread of economic prosperity
improvement of pesticides and
has always been intertwined
making their use sustainable
with adaptation to changing
d) Both the statements a) and b) ecological conditions. But as
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growth has altered the intensive farming or housing

environment and as development, increases the
environmental change has physical vulnerability of coastal
accelerated, sustaining growth settlements, whether in Guinea
and adaptability demands or in Louisiana.
greater capacity to understand Which of the following
our environment, generate new conditions of growth can add to
adaptive technologies and vulnerability?
practices, and diffuse them 1. When the growth occurs
widely. As economic historians due to excessive
have explained, much of exploitation of mineral
humankind's creative potential resources and forests
has directed at adapting to the
2. When the growth brings
changing world. But adaptation
about a change in
cannot cope with all the impacts
humankind's creative
related to climate change,
potential.
especially as larger changes
3. When the growth is
unfold in the long term.
envisaged only for
Countries cannot grow out of
providing houses and
harm's way fast enough to
social security to the
match the changing climate.
people.
And some growth strategies,
whether driven by the 4. When the growth occurs
government or the market, can due to emphasis on
also add to vulnerability – farming only.
particularly if they over exploit Select the correct Solution:
natural resources. Under the using the codes given below:
Soviet development plan, a) 1 only
irrigated cotton cultivation b) 2, 3 and 4 only
expanded in water-stressed c) 1 and 4 only
Central Asia and led to the near
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
disappearance of the Aral Sea,
threatening the livelihoods of
fishermen, herders and farmers.
26. What does low-carbon growth
And clearing mangroves- the
imply in the present context?
natural coastal buffers against
1. More emphasis on the
storm surges – to make way for
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use of renewable sources b)2 and 3 only

of energy. c) 1 and 3 only
2. Less emphasis on d) 1, 2, and 3
manufacturing sector
and more emphasis on
agricultural sector. 28. Which of the following
3. Switching over from inferences can be made from the
monoculture practices to passage?
mixed farming 1. Rainfed crops should not
4. Less demand for goods be cultivated in irrigated
and services. areas
Select the correct Solution: 2. Farming under water-
using the codes given below: deficient areas should
a) 1 only not be a part of
b) 2, 3 and 4 only development strategy.
c) 1 and 4 only Select the correct Solution:

using the codes given below:
d) None of the above implies
low-carbon growth a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2 d) Neither 1 nor
27. Which of the following 2
conditions is/are necessary for
the sustainable economic
growth? 29. Consider the following
1. Spreading of economic assumptions:
prosperity more. 1. Sustainable economic
2. Popularizing/spreading growth demands the use
of adaptive technologies of creative potential of
widely man.
3. Investing on research in 2. Intensive agriculture can
adaptation and lead to ecological
mitigation technologies. backlash.
Select the correct Solution: 3. Spread of the economic
using the codes given below: prosperity can adversely
a) 1 only affect the ecology and
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environment With However, human actions have

reference to the passage, increased this trickle to a flood.
which of the above Human caused introductions
assumptions is/are valid? may occur either accidently or
a) 1 only as a consequence of human
transport, or intentionally but
b) 2 and 3 only
illegally to serve some private
c) 1 and 3 only
purpose or legitimately to
d) 1, 2 and 3 procure some hoped-for public
benefit by bringing a pest under
control, producing new
30. Which one of the following agricultural products or
statements constitutes the providing novel recreational
central theme of this passage? opportunities. Many introduced
a) Countries with greater species are assimilated into
economic prosperity are better communities without much
equipped to deal with the obvious effect. However some
consequences of climate have been responsible for
change. dramatic changes to native
b) Adaptation and mitigation species and native
should be integrated with communities. For example, the
development strategies accidental introduction of the
c) Rapid economic growth brown tree snake, Boiga
should not be pursued by both irregularis into Guam, an island
developed and developing in the pacific, has through nest
economies. predation reduced 10 endemic
forest bird species to the point of
d) Some countries resort to over
extinction. One of the major
exploitation of natural
reasons for the world’s great
resources for the sake of rapid
biodiversity is the occurrence of
development.
centres of endemism so that
similar habitats in different
31. parts of the world are occupied
Invasions of exotic species into
by different groups of species
new geographical areas
that happen it have evolved
sometimes occur naturally
there. If the species naturally
without human agency.
had access to everywhere on the
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globe, we might expect a noted above arises where

relatively small number of aggressive species provide a
successful species to become novel challenge to endemic
dominant in each biome. The biotas ill-equipped to deal with
extent to which this them.
homogenisation can happen With reference to the passage,
naturally is restricted by the which of the following
limited powers of dispersal of statements is correct?
most species in the face of the a) Introduction of exotic species
physical barriers that exist to into new geographical areas
dispersal. By virtue of the always leads to reduced
transport opportunities offered biodiversity.
by humans, these barriers have
b) Exotic species introduced by
been breached by an ever-
man into new areas have always
increasing number of exotic
greatly altered the native
species. The effects of
ecosystems.
introductions have been to
c)Man is the only reason to
convert a hugely diverse range
convert a hugely diverse range
of local community
of local community
compositions into something
compositions into more
much more homogenous. It
homogenous ones.
would be wrong, however, to
conclude that introducing d)None of the statements (a), (b),
species to a region will and (c) is correct in this context.
inevitably cause a decline in
species richness there. For
32. Why does man introduce exotic
example, there are numerous
species of plants, invertebrates species into new geographical
and vertebrates found in areas?
continental Europe but absent 1. To bread exotic species
from the British Isles (many with local varieties.
because they have so far failed 2. To increase agricultural
to recolonize after the last productivity.
glaciations).Their introduction 3. for beautification and
would be likely to augment landscaping
British biodiversity. The
Which of the above statements
significant detrimental effect
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is/are correct? above are correct?

a) 1 only a) 1 and 2
b) 2and3only b) 2 and 3
c) 1 and 3 only c) 1 and 3
d) 1, 2 and 3 d) 2 and 4
33. How is homogenization 35. What can be the impact of

prevented under natural invasion of exotic species on an
conditions? ecosystem?
a) Evolution of groups of species 1. Erosion of endemic
specific to local habitats. species.
b)Presence of oceans and 2. Change in the species
mountain ranges composition of the
c)Strong adaptation of groups of community of the
specific to local physical and ecosystem
climatic conditions Select the correct Solution:
d)All the statements (a), (b) and using the codes given below:
(c) given above are correct in a) 1 only
this context. b) 2 only
c) both 1 and 2
d) neither 1 nor 2
34. How have the human beings
influenced the biodiversity?
1. By smuggling live 36. Most champions of democracy
organism have been rather reticent in
2. By building highways suggesting that democracy
3. By making ecosystems would itself promote
sensitive so that new development and enhancement
species are not allowed of social welfare – they have
4. By ensuring that new tended to see them as good but
species do not have distinctly separate and largely
major impact on local independent goals. The
species. detractors of democracy, on the
Which of the statements given other hand, seemed to have
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been quite willing to express do to the lives and freedom of

their diagnosis of what they see the people involved, which must
as serious tensions between be central to the idea of
democracy and development. development. If development is
The theorists of the practical understood in a broader way,
spirit - “Make up your mind: do with a focus on human lives,
you want democracy, or instead, then it becomes immediately
do you want development?”- clear that the relation between
often came ,at least to start with development and democracy
, from East Asian countries, and has to be seen partly in terms of
their voice grew in influence as their constitutive connection,
several of these countries were rather than only through their
immensely successful – through external links. Even though the
the 1970s and 1980s and even question has often been asked
later – in promoting economic whether political freedom is
growth without pursuing “conductive to development”, we
democracy. To deal with these must not miss the crucial that
issues we have to pay particular political liberties and
attention to both the content of democratic rights are among the
what can be called development “constitutive components” of
and to the interpretation of development does not have to be
democracy (in particular to the established indirectly through
respective roles of voting and of their contribution to the growth
public reasoning). The of GNP.
assessment of development According to the passage, why is
cannot be divorced from the a serious tension perceived
lives that people can lead and between democracy and
the real freedom that they enjoy. development by the detractors
Development can scarcely be of democracy?
seen merely in terms of a) Democracy and development
enhancement of inanimate are distinct and separate goals
objects of convenience, such as
b) Economic growth can be
a rise in the GNP (or in personal
promoted successfully without
incomes), or industrialisation –
pursuing a democratic system
important as they may be as
of governance
means to the real ends. Their
c) Non-democratic regimes
value must depend on what they
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deliver economic growth faster and (c) given above is correct in

and far more successfully than this context.
democratic ones.
d) All the statements (a), (b) and
(c) given above are correct in 39. The need for Competition Law
this context. becomes more evident when
foreign direct investment (FDI)
is liberalised. The impact of FDI
37. According to the passage, what is not always pro-competitive.
should be the ultimate Very often FDI takes the form of
assessment/aim/view of a foreign corporation acquiring
development? a domestic enterprise or
a) Rise in the per capita income establishing a joint venture with
and industrial growth rates. one. By making such an
acquisition the foreign investor
b) Improvement in the Human
may substantially lessen
Development Index and GNP.
competition and gain a
c) Rise in the savings and
dominant position in the
consumption trends.
relevant market, thus charging
d) Extent of real freedom that higher prices. Another scenario
citizens enjoy. is where the affiliates of two
separate multinational
companies (MNCs) have been
38. What does a “constitutive” established in competition with
connection between democracy one another in a particular
and development imply? developing economy, following
a) The relation between them the liberisation of FDI.
has to be seen through external Subsequently, the parent
links. companies overseas merge.
b) Political and civil rights only With the affiliates no longer
can lead to economic remaining independent,
development competition in the host country
c) Political liberties and may be artificially inflated. Most
democratic rights are essential of these adverse consequences
elements of development. of mergers and acquisitions by
MNCs can be avoided if an
d) None of the statements (a), (b)
effective competition law is in
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place. Also, an economy that 40. According to the passage, how

has implemented an effective does a foreign investor dominate
competition law is in a better the relevant domestic market?
position to attract FDI than one 1. Multinational companies
that has not. This is not just get accustomed to
because most MNCs are domestic laws.
expected to be accustomed to
2. Foreign companies
the operation of such a law in
establish joint ventures
their home countries and know
with domestic
how to deal with such concerns
companies.
but also that MNCs expect
3. Affiliates in a particular
competition authorities to
market/sector lose their
ensure a level playing field
independence as their
between domestic and foreign
parent companies
firms.
overseas merge.
With reference to the passage,
4. Foreign companies lower
consider the following
the cost of their products
statements:
as compared to that of
1. It is desirable that the
products of domestic
impact of Foreign Direct
companies.
investment should be
pro-competitive.
above are correct?
2. The entry of foreign
a) 1 and 2 only
investors invariably
leads to the inflated b) 2 and 3 only
prices in domestic c) 1, 2 and 3 only
markets. d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
above is/are correct?
41. What is the inference from this
a) 1 only
passage?
b) 2 only
a) Foreign investors and
c) Both 1 and 2
multinational companies
d) Neither 1 nor 2
always dominate domestic
market.
b) It is not in the best interest of
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domestic economy to allow 43. Only six roads A, B, C, P, Q and

mergers company. R connect a military camp to the
c) With competition law, it is rest of the country. Only one out
easy to ensure a level playing of A, P, and R are open at any
field between domestic and one time. If B is closed so is Q.
foreign firms. Only one of A & B is open during
d) For countries with open storms. P is closed during
economy Foreign Direct floods.
investment is essential for In the context, which one of the
growth. following statements is correct?
a) Under normal conditions only
three roads are open.
42. Examine the following b) During storms at least one
statements: road is open.
1. I watch TV only if I am c) During floods only three
bored roads are open
2. I am never bored when I d) During calamities all roads
have my brother’s are closed
company.
3. Whenever I go to the
theatre I take my brother 44. Examine the following
along. statements:
Which one of the following 1. None but students are
conclusions is valid in the the members of the club.
context of the above 2. Some members of the
statements? club are married.
a) If I am bored I watch TV 3. All married persons are
b) If I am bored, I seek my invited for dance.
brother’s company. Which one of the conclusions
c) If I am not with my brother, can be drawn from the above
than i'll watch TV. statements?
d) If I am not bored I do not a) All students are invited for
watch TV. dance
b) All married students are
invited for dance
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c) All members of the club are 2. Some of them have

married person radial tyres
d) None of the above 3. All X-brand cars
conclusions can be drawn manufactured after 1986
have radial tyres are
parked here.
45. Four political parties W, X, Y 4. All cars are not X-brand.
and Z decided to set up a joint Which one of the following
candidate for the coming conclusions can be drawn from
parliamentary elections. The the above statements?
formula agreed by them was the
a) Only white cars are parked
acceptance of a candidate of the
here.
most of the parties. For aspiring
b) Some white X-brand cars
candidates A, B, C and D
with radial tyres are parked
approached the parties for their
here.
ticket. A was acceptable to W
c) Cars other than X-brand
but not Z B was acceptable to Y
cannot have radial tyres.
but not X C was acceptable to W
and Y D was acceptable to W d) Most of the X-brand cars are
and X When candidate B was manufactured before 1986.
preferred by W and Z, candidate
C was preferred by X and Z and
candidate A was acceptable to X 47. Consider the following
but not Y: statements: The Third World
Who got the ticket? War, if it ever starts will end very
quickly with possible end of
a) A
civilization. It is only the misuse
b) B
of nuclear power which will
c) C trigger it. Based on the above
d) D statement which one of the
following inferences is correct?
a) Nuclear power will be used in
46. Consider the following Third World War.
statements:
b) There will be no civilization
1. All X-brand cars parked left after the third world war.
here are white.
c) The growth of nuclear power
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will destroy civilization in the

long run.
d) The third world war will not
take place.
48. Figures given below are

changing with certain rules as
If a student scores 74 marks in
we observe them from left to
each of the four tests, in which
right:
one of the following tests is her
performance the best
comparatively?
a) Test I
According to this rule which of
the following would be the next b) Test II
figure if the changes were made c) Test III
in the same rule? d) Test IV
50. Six squares are coloured, front

and back, red(R), blue(B), yellow
(Y), green (G), white (W), orange
(O) and are hinged together as
shown in the figure given below.
If they were folded to form a
cube what would be the face
opposite to white face?
49. Consider the following

information regarding the
performance of class of 1000 a) R
students in four different tests b) G
c) B
d) O
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c) B
d) M
51. In the above figure, circle P
represents hardworking people,
circle Q represents intelligent 53.
people, Circle R represents
truthful people and circle S
represents honest people.
Which region represents the
people who are intelligent,
honest and truthful but not
hardworking?
Which one of the figures shown

below occupies the blank
space(?) in the matrix given
below?
a) 6
b) 7
c) 8
d) 11
52. Three views of a cube following

a particular motion are given
below: What is letter opposite to
A?
a) H
b) P
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whimsical
c) All frustrated people are drug
addicts.
d) Whimsical people are
generally frustrated

statements:
1. Either A & B are of same
age or A is older than B
2. Either C & D are of same
age or D is older than C
3. B is older than C
Which of the following
conclusions can be drawn from
the above statements?
a. A is older than B
b. B and D are of the same age
c. D is older than C
d. A is older than C
54. Consider the following

statements:
statements:
1. All artists are whimsical.
1. Only those who have a
2. Some artists are drug
pair of binoculars can
addicts.
become the member of
3. Frustrated people are
the birdwatcher's club.
prone to become drug
2. Some members of the
addicts.
birdwatcher's club have
From the above three
cameras.
statements it may be concluded
3. Those members who
that:
have cameras can take
a) Artists are frustrated
part in photo-contests.
b) Some drug addicts are
Which of the following
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conclusions can be drawn from 58. Three persons A, B & C wear

the above statements? shirts of Black, Blue and
a) All those who have a pair of Orange colours (not necessarily
binoculars are members of the in the order) and pants of green,
birdwatcher's club. yellow and orange (not
b) All members of the necessarily in that order). No
birdwatcher's club have a pair person wore shirt and pant of
of binoculars. the same colour. Further, it is
c) All those who take part in given that,
photo-contests are members of 1. A did not wear shirt of
the birdwatcher's club. black colour.
d) No conclusion can be drawn. 2. B did not wear shirt of
blue colour.
3. C did not wear shirt of
57. During the summer vacation orange colour.
Ankit went to a summer camp 4. A did not wear the pants
where he took part in hiking, of green colour
swimming and boating. This 5. B wore pants of orange
summer, he is looking forward colour.
to a music camp where he hopes
What were the colours of the
to sing, dance and learn to play
pants and shirts worn by C
the guitar. Based on the above
respectively?
information four conclusions as
a) Orange and black
given below, have been made.
b) Green and blue
Which one of these logically
follows from the information c) Yellow and blue
given above? d) Yellow and black
a) Ankit's parents want him to
play guitar.
59. Ten new TV shows started in
b) Ankit prefers music to
outdoor activities. January- 5 sitcoms, 3 drama
and 2 news magazines. By April,
c) Ankit goes to some type of
only seven of the new shows
camp every summer.
were still on, five of them being
d) Ankit likes to sing and dance
sitcoms. Based on the above
information, for conclusions, as
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given below, have been made. doctor is a Muslim.

Which of these logically follows Which of the above statements
from the information given is/are correct
above? conclusion/conclusions?
a) Only one news magazine a) 1 only
show is still going on. b) 2 only
b) Only one of the drama show c) Both 1 &2
is still going on. d) Neither 1 nor 2
c) At least one discontinued
show was a drama.
d) Viewers prefer sitcoms over 61. Consider the following
drama. statement: “Though quite
expensive, television is not a
luxury item, as one can learn
60. Read the passage given below many things through
and the two statements that television”.
follow (given on the basis of the Which of the following is the
passage) valid inference from the above
Four men are waiting at Delhi given statement?
airport for Mumbai flight. Two a) All expensive things are
are doctors and other two are regarded as luxury.
businessman. Two speak b) All essential things for
Gujarati and two speak Tamil. learning are not luxury.
No two of the same profession
c) Television is essential for
speak the same language. Two
learning.
are Muslims and two are
d) Television is not a luxury
Christians. No two of the same
item.
religion are of the same
profession, nor do they speak
same language. The Tamil
62. Mr. Kumar drives to work at an
speaking doctor is Christian.
average speed of 48km/hr. The
1. The Christian-
time taken to cover the first 60%
Businessman speaks
of the distance is 10 minutes
Gujarati.
more than the time taken to
2. The Gujarati-speaking
cover the remaining distance.
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How far is his office? Rama

a) 30km 4. Padma scored more than
b) 40km Rama but less than
c) 45km Ratna.
d) 48km Who scored the highest?

a) Rama
b) Padma
63. Gita is prettier than Sita but not c) Rani
as pretty as Rita. Then, d) Ratna
a) Sita is not as pretty as Gita
b) Sita is prettier than Rita
c) Rita is not as pretty as Gita
d) Gita is prettier than Rita
64. Given that,

1. A is the brother of B
2. C is the father of A.
3. D is brother of E.
4. E is the daughter of B
Then, the uncle of D is?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) E

statements:
1. Rama scored more than
Rani
2. Rani scored less than
Ratna
3. Ratna scored more than
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66. For fourteen and half months I and on the uneven floors and on
lived in my little cell or room in the ceiling with the moth eaten
Dehradun jail, and I began to rafters. In the little yard outside
feel as if I was almost a part of I greeted little tufts of grass and
it. I was familiar with every bit odd bits of stone as old friends.
of it, I knew every mark and I was not alone in my cell, for
dent on the whitewashed walls several colonies of wasp and
and on the uneven floors and on hornets lived there, and many
the ceiling with the moth eaten lizards found the home behind
rafters. In the little yard outside the rafters, emerging in the
I greeted little tufts of grass and evening in the search of prey.
odd bits of stone as old friends. The passage attempts to
I was not alone in my cell, for describe:
several colonies of wasp and a) The general conditions of the
hornets lived there, and many country's jail
lizards found the home behind b) The prisoner's capacity to
the rafters, emerging in the notice the minute details of his
evening in the search of prey. surroundings
Which of the following explains c) The prisoner's conscious
best the sentence in the passage efforts to overcome the
“I was almost a part of it”? loneliness
a) I was not alone in the cell d) The prisoner's ability to live
b) I was familiar with every bit of happily with other creatures
the cell
c) I greeted little tufts of grass
like old friends. 68. For fourteen and half months I
d) I felt quite at home in the cell lived in my little cell or room in
Dehradun jail, and I began to
feel as if I was almost a part of
67. For fourteen and half months I it. I was familiar with every bit
lived in my little cell or room in of it, I knew every mark and
Dehradun jail, and I began to dent on the whitewashed walls
feel as if I was almost a part of and on the uneven floors and on
it. I was familiar with every bit the ceiling with the moth eaten
of it, I knew every mark and rafters. In the little yard outside
dent on the whitewashed walls I greeted little tufts of grass and
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odd bits of stone as old friends. What does the expression

I was not alone in my cell, for “pitching the highest camp”
several colonies of wasp and imply?
hornets lived there, and many a) They reached the summit of
lizards found the home behind the highest mountain in the
the rafters, emerging in the world.
evening in the search of prey. b) Those who climbed that far
The author of the passage earlier did not pitch any camp.
seems to suggest that c) So far nobody climbed that
a) It is possible to adjust one- high.
self to uncongenial d) They were too many climbers
surroundings. and needed to pitch a big camp
b) The conditions in Indian
prisons are not bad
c) It is not difficult to spend 70. We started pitching the highest
one's time in prison camp that has been ever made.
d) There is a need to improve the Everything took five times as
conditions in our jails. long as it would have taken in
the place where there was
enough air to breathe; but at
69. We started pitching the highest last we got tent up, and when we
camp that has been ever made. crawled in, it was not too bad.
Everything took five times as There was only a light wind and
long as it would have taken in inside it was not too cold for us
the place where there was to take off our gloves. At night
enough air to breathe; but at most climbers take off their
last we got tent up, and when we boots; but I prefer to keep them
crawled in, it was not too bad. on. Hilary, on the other hand
There was only a light wind and took his off and lain them next
inside it was not too cold for us to his sleeping bag.
to take off our gloves. At night They took a long time to finish
most climbers take off their the work because:
boots; but I prefer to keep them a) They were very tired.
on. Hilary, on the other hand b) There was not enough air to
took his off and lain them next breathe
to his sleeping bag.
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c) It was very cold in the smoke-filled passage, he

d) It was very dark missed the stairway and went
into another room. He picked a
bundle to protect his face from
71. We started pitching the highest fire and immediately fell
camp that has been ever made. through the floor below where
Everything took five times as he managed to escape through a
long as it would have taken in clear doorway. The “bundle”
the place where there was proved to be the baby of the
enough air to breathe; but at Mayor's wife. The “hero” was
last we got tent up, and when we congratulated.
crawled in, it was not too bad. The man went to another room
There was only a light wind and because
inside it was not too cold for us a) He did not know where the
to take off our gloves. At night stairway was
most climbers take off their b) The passage was full of smoke
boots; but I prefer to keep them
c) He was extremely nervous
on. Hilary, on the other hand
d) He stumbled on bundle
took his off and lain them next
to his sleeping bag.
When they crawled into the tent 73. The man was called hero
a) They took off their gloves because
because it was not very cold
a) Expressed his willingness to
b) They could not take off their risk his life to save others
gloves because it was very cold.
b) Managed to escape from fire
c) They took of their gloves
c) Showed great courage in
though it was very cold.
fighting the fire.
d) They did not take off their
d) Saved a life
gloves though it was not very
cold.
74. You have differences of the

opinion regarding the final
72. A local man, staying on the top
report prepared by your
of the floor of an old wooden
subordinate that is to be
house, was awakened at
submitted urgently. The
midnight by fire. Losing his way
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subordinate is justifying the team members. You would,

information given in the report. a) Warn the team members for
You would their non-cooperation
a) Convince the subordinate b) Look into the reasons for non-
that he is wrong cooperation
b) Tell him to reconsider the c) Ask for the replacement of the
results team members
c) Revise the report on your own d) Ask for the extension of time
d) Tell him not to justify the citing reasons
mistake
77. You are a chairperson of a state

75. You are competing with your sports committee. You have
batch-mate for the prestigious received a complaint and later it
award to be decided based on an was found that an athlete in
oral presentation. You have junior age category who has
been asked by the committee to won a medal has crossed the
finish on time. Your friend age criteria by 5 days. You
however, is allowed more than would...
the stipulated time period. a) Ask the screening committee
a) Lodge a complaint to for a clarification
chairperson against the b) Ask the athlete to return the
discrimination. medal
b) Not listen to any justification c) Ask the athlete to get an
from the committee affidavit from the court
c) Ask for withdrawal of your declaring his/her age.
name d) Ask the members of the
d) Protest and leave the place committee for their views
76. You are handling a time bound 78. You are handling a priority
project. During the project project and have been meeting
review meeting, you find that all the deadlines and planning
project is likely to get delayed your leave during the project.
due to lack of cooperation of the Your immediate boss does not
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grant leave citing the urgency of differentiated charges for Non-

the project. You would... BPL and BPL families.
a) Proceed on leave without
waiting for the sanction
80. As a citizen you have some work
b) Pretend to be sick and take
leave with a government department.
The official calls you again and
c) Approach higher authority to
again; and without directly
reconsider the leave application.
asking you, sends out feelers for
d) Tell the boss that it is not
a bribe. You want to get your
justified.
work done. You would...
a) Give a bribe
79. You are involved in setting up a b) Behave as if you have not
water supply project in remote understood the feelers and
area. Full recovery of cost is persist with your application
impossible in any case. The c) Go to the higher officer for
income levels in the area are low help verbally complaining about
and 25% of the population is feelers.
below poverty line (BPL). When d) Send in a formal complaint
a decision has to be taken on
pricing you would....
a) Recommended that the
supply of water be free of charge
in all respects
b) Recommended that the users
pay a onetime fixed sum for
installation of taps and the
usage of water be free
c) Recommended that a fixed
monthly charges be levied on
the non-BPL families and for
BPL families water should be
free
d) Recommended that the users
pay a charge based on the
consumption of water with
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economies are uncertain, the

or caste identity. Community-

people. d) All the statements a), b) and

lecture can be arranged on each Which lecture is the last one in

Statistics, English and

treatment 16. Education, without a doubt, has

development of self-critical income are generated

e) resistance was reported as spent. Moreover, in many poorer

pesticides invented at all.

c) 1 and 3 only a) 1 only

d) 1, 2 and 3 b) 1 and 2 only

use of pesticides by above are correct.

growth has altered the intensive farming or housing

use of renewable sources b)2 and 3 only

c) 1 and 4 only Select the correct Solution:

environment With However, human actions have

globe, we might expect a noted above arises where

is/are correct? above are correct?

33. How is homogenization 35. What can be the impact of

been quite willing to express do to the lives and freedom of

deliver economic growth faster and (c) given above is correct in

place. Also, an economy that 40. According to the passage, how

domestic economy to allow 43. Only six roads A, B, C, P, Q and

c) All members of the club are 2. Some of them have

will destroy civilization in the

48. Figures given below are

50. Six squares are coloured, front

49. Consider the following

Which one of the figures shown

52. Three views of a cube following

55. Examine the following

54. Consider the following

conclusions can be drawn from 58. Three persons A, B & C wear

given below, have been made. doctor is a Muslim.

How far is his office? Rama

d) 48km Who scored the highest?

64. Given that,

65. Examine the following

odd bits of stone as old friends. What does the expression

c) It was very cold in the smoke-filled passage, he

74. You have differences of the

subordinate is justifying the team members. You would,

77. You are a chairperson of a state

grant leave citing the urgency of differentiated charges for Non-

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