The question below contains a number of sentences with highlighted words Select the most appropriate words to form

correct sentences. Then choose the best option. 1. It took him a while, but Jack finally (A) mustard/ (B) mustered the courage to ask Kate out. 2. The climatic (A)/ climactic (B) point in the Dodo birds life came when a hurricane wiped the species out. 3. The cat (A) mewled/ (B) muled in pain; her leg was broken. 4. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a (A) pale/ (B) pail of water. 5. Wine-tasting is a good way to develop your (A) palette/ (B) palate. 1) BAABB

2) BAABA

3) BBABB

4) BBBBB

5) AABAA

Rather, we are speaking metaphorically. When we say, "The Federal Reserve believes that interest rates ought to remain low," this does not mean that the Federal Reserve literally has a belief. Although this account has common-sense appeal, it has not been appealing to philosophers working in this area for a variety of reasons. According to this account, our ascriptions of intentional states to groups, though useful, are, strictly speaking, false. A common response to the questions that arise concerning our practice of ascribing intentional states to groups is to say that these ascriptions are mere fictions. OPTIONS 1) EBADC

2)

DCEBA

3)

EABDC

5)

BACDE

The standard paragon (A) / paradigm (B) for incorporating supersymmetry into a realistic (A) / realism (B) theory is to have the underlying dynamics (A) / dynamos (B) of the theory be supersymmetric, but the ground state of the theory does not respect the symmetry and supersymmetry is broken spontaneously (A) / pontifically (B). The supersymmetry break cannot be done permanently by the particles of the MSSM as they currently appear. OPTIONS 1) ABAB

2) BAAB

3) AAAA

4) BABA

5) BAAA The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the options. As poor reading and arithmetic skills prevent children from studying up to higher levels, people are doomed to poverty even before they reach the fifth grade. In India there is illiteracy, yes, but it is the quality of education being imparted to millions that is in question. And like in the US, in India too there is a learning gap along ethnic and religious lines. Primary school children in many schools across the country have been found to be lacking in basic literacy and numeric skills. Having the stamp of being literate is of no use to them. OPTIONS 1) BDECA

2) BDCAE

3) DACEB

4) DCAEB

5) EBDCA 1) He thought that restoring their house back to its former glory would clear his conscious (A) / conscience (B) and he wouldnt feel so terrible about sending her husband to jail. 2) Jacks behaviour was comprehensive (A) / reprehensive (B); Sheena didnt deserve to be treated like that on her birthday. 3) ABC censored (A) / censured (B) the words so that they did not corrupt innocent minds. 4) The city had a (A) fetid / (B) feted air about it; as if it were just recovering from a terrible disease. 5) He tried hard to (A) illude / (B) ilude the men from the IRS, but to no avail. OPTIONS 1) BBAAA

2) BBBBB

3) ABAAA

4) BBAAB

5) BAAAA The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Abstract Expressionism comprised many different painterly styles varying in both technique and quality of expression. Despite this variety, Abstract Expressionist paintings share several broad characteristics- they depict forms not drawn from the visible world. They emphasize free, spontaneous, and personal emotional expression and they exercise considerable freedom of technique and execution to attain this goal, with a particular emphasis laid on the exploitation of the variable physical character of paint to evoke expressive qualities (e.g., sensuousness, dynamism, violence, mystery, and lyricism). They show similar emphasis on the unstudied and intuitive application of that paint in a form of psychic improvisation akin to the automatism of the Surrealists, with a similar intent of expressing the force of the creative unconscious in art. OPTIONS 1) The different forms of abstract expressionist paintings emphasise spontaneous creation through the manipulation of paint and are similar to surrealist art in the form of psychic improvisation. 2) Abstract expressionist art is basically abstract and evokes expressive qualities through the manipulation of the physical character of paint. It emphasises, similar to surrealists, automatic creation. 3) The varied styles of abstract expressionist art exploit the physical character of paint to evince expressive qualities and emotions; it is similar to the automatism of the surrealists. 4) The varied styles of abstract expressionists are basically abstract, and emphasise automatic creation through the manipulation of the physical character of paint; the intuitive application of the paint is similar to surrealism. 5) Abstract expressionist and surrealist art are similar in the exploitation of the physical character of the paint through intuitive application to evince emotions and can be termed as unconscious art. Population growth increased significantly as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace from 1700 onwards. The last 50 years have seen a yet more rapid increase in the rate of population growth due to medical advances and substantial increases in agricultural productivity, particularly beginning in the 1960s, made by the Green Revolution. In 2007 the United Nations Population Division projected that the world's population will likely surpass 10 billion in 2055. In the future, world population has been expected to reach a peak of growth, from there it will decline due to economic reasons, health concerns, land exhaustion and environmental hazards. According to one report, it is very likely that st the world's population will stop growing before the end of the 21 century. Further, there is some likelihood that population will actually decline before 2100. Population has already declined in the last decade or two in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Which of the following accurately sums up the trajectory of population growth? OPTIONS 1) Population started growing at a high rate from 1700 and reached a peak in 1960 with the Green Revolution. It will surpass 10 billion in 2055 and then start declining. 2) Population started growing because of two impetuses the Industrial Revolution and the Green Revolution. It will start declining because of economic reasons, health concerns, land exhaustion and environmental hazards. 3) Population has grown substantially from 1700 and experienced a burst due to medical advances and the Green Revolution in the 1960s. It will surpass 10 billion in 2055; and start declining before 2100 because of various reasons.

4) The population that started growing with the Industrial Revolution is already showing a sharp decline in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and in the Commonwealth of Independent States. 5) Population will start declining before the end of the 21 century because of economic reasons, health concerns, land exhaustion and environmental hazards. Read the passage and decide how many blanks can be filled contextually with the words given below. The same word cannot be used to fill more than one blank. The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been __(1)__ to keep blending them; finding it very __(2)__ to make external show pass for __(3)__ worth- to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to __(4)__ and expose- to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it- to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is __(5)__ to him. accustomed, impossible, convenient, scrutinise, indebted. OPTIONS 1) Four
st

2) Two

3) Three

4) Five

5) None The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in "poetics"the study of the aesthetics of poetry. Some ancient societies, such as the Chinese through the Shi Jing, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, developed canons of poetic works that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. More recently, thinkers have struggled to find a definition that could encompass formal differences as great as those between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Matsuo Bash's Oku no Hosomichi, as well as differences in context spanning Tanakh religious poetry, love poetry, and rap. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage? OPTIONS 1) Poetics: The Study of Poetry

2) Poetics and the reconciliation of different forms of poetry

3) The attempts made by ancient societies to study the aesthetics of poetry

4) Canons of Poetics

5) Shi Jong, One of the five Classics of Confucianism 1) There was a blockage in the flue (A) / flu (B), hence the smoke could not escape. 2) She used a pair of (A) sheers / (B) shears to lop off the tall grass.

3) Her father and brothers built a (A) marquis / (B) marquee over the yard for the wedding. 4) Shes too staid (A) / stayed (B) to have ever given birth to a daughter as capricious as that. 5) His job was to gild (A) / guild (B) the statue so that the king could present it to his wife on her birthday. OPTIONS 1) ABAAB

2) BABAA

3) BBBBB

4) ABAAA

5) ABBAA Poetry primarily is governed by idiosyncratic forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, metaphor, simile, and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm. According to the passage, which of the following isnt correct? OPTIONS 1) Poetry has numerous devices that are used to achieve the effects desired by the poet.

2) Irony is a stylistic element that makes it possible for the poem to have many meanings.

3) Two different images are connected in a poem by the use of metaphor and simile.

4) Rhythm is used in a poem to create disparate forms of resonance.

5) Idiosyncratic forms and conventions create poetry that evokes emotive responses. Tax incentives, good infrastructure, clean politics and efficient bureaucracy are all known to improve the competitiveness of a nation to attract global investments or emerge as places to do business in. So does the quality of human talent. However, the correlation between gender equality and competitiveness of the nations is very strong despite all other factors that contribute to make a country an attractive business destination. As many as 13 of the top 25 nations that have narrowed the gender gap are also among the top 25 countries listed as most competitive by the World Economic Forum. Which of the following casts the most serious doubt on the above argument? OPTIONS 1) Women account for half the worlds population and half of the worlds potential talent base.

2) Nordic nations with the narrowest gender gap top the World Economic Forums most competitive nations list. 3) West Asian countries with huge gender gaps are also in the top 25 on the World Economic Forums most competitive nations list. 4) None of the 13 of the top 25 nations has yet achieved gender equity.

5) Most of the 13 of the top 25 nations are the Nordic countries Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark that have closed 60 to 80% of the gender gap. He profited by using the labour of native slaves for agriculture and to mine gold. He attempted to sell native people as slaves in Spain, bringing five hundred people back. The Tanos began to resist the Spanish, refusing to plant and abandoning captured native villages. Over time the rebellion grew violent. In the resulting conflict, the native inhabitants used their extensive knowledge of the terrain and applied guerilla tactics such as booby traps, ambushes, attrition, and forced marches to tire the Spanish columns. Although stone arrows couldn't penetrate the best of the Spanish armor, they were somewhat effective if they were used as shrapnel, since they tended to shatter on impact; stone and copper or bronze maces were used more effectively. However, the most crucial weapon the Native Americans used was the sling, which could hurl massive stones that easily crushed even the most heavily armoured caballero. What can we conclude from the above passage? OPTIONS 1) Native Americans had started rebelling against the Spanish through non-violent ways, but they started using weapons after a while. 2) Native Americans werent very pliable as slaves in Spain.

3) The Tainos were a tribe of Spanish people.

4) The sling was a very powerful automated machine.

5) Shrapnel are weapons that cover long distances effectively. 1) The principle (A)/ principal (B) cause of your illness is your incessant smoking, so I suggest you cease that at once. 2) I should warn you that if youre not discreet (A)/ discrete (B) about the information were giving you, the com pany will fire you without a second thought. 3) The stadium was teaming (A)/ teeming (B) with inebriated revelers, ready to take the party on the road. 4) The children ran away once the bells told (A)/ tolled (B). 5) The resulting treaty imposed harsh terms upon Austria, forcing her to concede (A)/ secede (B) territory accounting for over three million subjects, about one-fifth of her total population. OPTIONS 1) ABBBA

2) BABBB

3) AABBB

4) BABBA

5) ABBBB Another virtually insurmountable problem facing the translator is how to deal with the author's intentional use of ambiguous terms or of words that have several meanings. One such instance is found in the first sentence of The Metamorphosis. English translators have often sought to render the word Ungeziefer as "insect"; in Middle German, however, Ungeziefer literally means "unclean animal not suitable for sacrifice" and is sometimes used colloquially to mean "bug"- a very general term, unlike the scientific sounding "insect". Kafka had no intention of labeling Gregor, the protagonist of the story, as any specific thing, but instead wanted to convey Gregor's disgust at his transformation. Another example is Kafka's use of the German noun Verkehr in the final sentence of The Judgment. Literally, Verkehr means "intercourse" and, as in English, can have either a sexual or non-sexual meaning; in addition, it is used to mean "transport or traffic". The sentence can be translated as: At that moment an unending str eam of traffic crossed over the bridge. Which of the following can be called the biggest problem in translating Kafkas works? OPTIONS 1) The word ungeziefer can be translated as both- insect as well as unclean animal not suitable for sacrifice. 2) Kafkas intentions with his characters arent clearly expressed- this makes translation ambiguous.

3) Words can mean more than one thing- a detriment that Kafka failed to foresee while writing his novels.

4) Gregors transformation was disgusting- a factor cleverly disguised by the translators.

5) Kafkas works were layered with words that could be interpreted in different ways, on purpose. The question below contains a paragraph followed by alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph. Anyone on first opening Kants books finds them overwhelmingly difficult and impenetrably obscure. The cause for this difficulty can be traced in part to the works that Kant took as his models for philosophical writing. He was the first great modern philosopher to spend all of his time and efforts as a university professor of the subject. Regulations required that in all lecturing a certain set of books be used, with the result that all of Kant's teaching in philosophy had been based on such handbooks as those of Wolff and Baumgarten, which abounded in technical jargon, artificial and schematic divisions, and great claims to completeness. Following their example, Kant accordingly, provided and by no means immediately illuminating scaffolding for all his books. OPTIONS 1) The influence of his predecessors on Kant made him write his books in a style that readers find it almost impossible to understand. 2) Kant, being an academic all his life, modelled his books on the textbooks he had learnt, and produced books that were abstruse and impenetrable. 3) Kants style of writing was significantly influenced by the technical and abstruse styles adopted by the philosophical handbooks that he dealt with as an academic. 4) Kants books are difficult and impenetrably obscure to anyone because Kant having been an academician all his life modelled them on the handbooks of philosophy he had been exposed to.

5) Kants books are extremely difficult for anyone to understand because as a professor of philosophy all his life, he modelled them on the technical and artificial styles of his predecessors. Another major industry of the later Industrial Revolution was gas lighting. Though others made a similar innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers. The process consisted of the large scale gasification of coal in furnaces, the purification of the gas (removal of sulphur, ammonia, and heavy hydrocarbons), and its storage and distribution. The first gas lighting utilities were established in London between 1812-20. They soon became one of the major consumers of coal in the UK. Gas lighting had an impact on social and industrial organisation because it allowed factories and stores to remain open longer than with tallow candles or oil. Its introduction allowed night life to flourish in cities and towns as interiors and streets could be lighted on a larger scale than before. Which of the following can be concluded from the passage? OPTIONS 1) The introduction of gas lighting had a positive impact on industrial organisation.

2) Bolton and Watt, the steam engine pioneers, were also responsible for the widespread use of gas lighting.

3) Impure coal was a better emitter of light than pure coal.

4) There was no night life in cities and towns before gas light.

5) Removal of sulphur, ammonia and heavy hydrocarbons made the gas useless.