Verbal Section
For questions 1 to 3, select among the given choices the word or phrase for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 1 As the waves rose and the ship tossed, many of the passengers felt ________. (a) lethargic (b) subdued (c) tremulous
(d) queasy
The committee, which held its first meeting _______ consultation with the RBI on drought. This is in lead with RBIs directives. (a) holds (c) would hold (b) will hold (d) will have been holding It is fascinating to note how many travelers return from their gastronomic tours of Europe with a _________ of la grandee cuisine and a haunting hunger for the simplicity of local dishes. (a) memory (b) suspicion (c) surfeit (d) superfluity For questions 4 to 6, select among the given choices the correct phrase to replace the underlined phrase in the following sentence.
The performance of our team members was rather worst than I had expected. (a) bad as I had expected (c) worse than I had expected (b) worse than expected (d) worse than was expected The reason why Sravanti wrote the letter was because she could not contact him over the phone. (a) wrote the letter was since (c) wrote the letter was that (b) wrote the letter was the reason that (d) had written the letter was because After the heavy rains last week, the water in the reservoir raised another two feet. (a) rose another two feet (c) have risen by two feet (b) raised another two feet (d) would raise another two feet For questions 7 to 9, choose the lettered pair that expresses a relationship most similar to the relationship expressed in the capitalized pair
SCURRY : MOVE (a) chant : sing (b) chatter : talk CHAMELEON : HERPETOLOGIST (a) fungi : ecologist (b) salmon : ichthyologist ASCETIC : SELF-DENIAL (a) nomad : dissipation (b) miser : affluence
(c) carry : lift (d) sleep : drowse (c) mongoose : ornithologist (d) oriole : virologist (c) zealot : fanaticism (d) renegade : loyalty
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Given below are sentences which when arranged logically form a coherent passage. For questions 12 to 14, choose the option which gives the correct sequence. 12 Choose the correct option: a. In consonance with this approach, these projects are being developed with high specifications as per IRC standards. b. The cost of construction is higher than routine roads. c. For Mohanty, the quality of all these roads is very important for the sake of assuring the credibility of the project. d. It is also for the first time that the state government has engaged outside consultants at every stage. (a) cbad (b) acdb (c) cabd (d) cdab Choose the correct option: a. This is part of a coordinated international effort to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters. b. To mitigate the threat an early warning system is required. c. On 31 July 1990 the Belize Postal Services released a set of four stamps to commemorate the international Decade for National Disaster Reduction. d. In Belize hurricanes pose the greatest threat. e. The new stamps depict picture of one of the worst hurricanes to strike Belize and three aspects of the protective warning system against similar storms. (a) cadbe (b) ceadb (c) dbcae (d) cedab Choose the correct option: a. That truth led him to fight evil and untruth, wherever he found them regardless of the consequences. b. What was this great power over the mind and heart of man due to? c. Even we realize that his dominating passion was truth. d. This truth led him to proclaim without ceasing that good end can never be attained by evil methods. (a) abcd (b) bcad (c) bcda (d) bacd
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(c) Lapidist
(d) Philatelist
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(c) Cynic
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(c) Editor
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For questions 18 to 20, select the word among the given choices that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word. 18 JETTISON (a) Salvage SEDATE (a) Agitated RETROSPECT (a) Foresight
(b) Decelerate
(c) Muffle
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Analytical Section
21 Carrey rented a car for Rs.20 plus Rs.0.25 per kilometer driven. Samuel rented a car for Rs.24 plus Rs.0.16 per kilometer driven. If each drove d km. and each was charged exactly the same amount for the rental, then d equals ? (a) 44.4 (b) 34.4 (c) 49.4 (d) 54.4 Naresh ran in three marathons during the last four months. His times were 2.1 hours, 2.6 hours, and 2.5 hours. What was his mean time? (a) 2.16 hrs (b) 2.4 hrs (c) 6.12 hrs (d) 7.2 hrs If SEPARATE is coded as ESTEAPRA, how will you code VIOLENCE? (a) IVCNELOE (b) EVCINOEL (c) IVLONECE
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On reaching a place of appointment on Thursday, I found that I was 5 days earlier than my friend who was late by 3 days. If I had reached there on the following Sunday, how many days early or late would I have been? (a) Early by one day (b) Late by one day (c) Early by two days (d) Late by two days If the day that will dawn 2 days after tomorrow is Friday, what day of the week dawned two days before yesterday? (a) Wednesday (b) Friday (c) Thursday (d) Sunday
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My house has a number. 1. If my house number is a multiple of 3, then it is number from 50 through 59. 2. If my house number is not a multiple of 4, then it is a number from 60 through 69. 3. If my house number is not a multiple of 6, then it is a number from 70 through 79. What is my house number? (a) 56 (b) 68 (c) 76 (d) 72
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What is the missing number? 4, 11, 18, ____ , 12, 27 (a) 12 (b) 14 (c) 16
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The ages of Old and Young total 48.Old is twice as old as Young was when Old was half as old as Young will be when Young is three times as Old was when Old was three times as old as Young. How old is Old? (a) Old-42, Young-26 (b) Old-38, Young-22 (c) Old-30, Young-18 (d) Old-28, Young-14
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Three people (A, B, and C) need to cross a bridge. A can cross the bridge in 10 minutes, B can cross in 5 minutes, and C can cross in 2 minutes. There is also a bicycle available and any person can cross the bridge in 1 minute with the bicycle. What is the shortest time that all men can get across the bridge? Each man travels at his own constant rate. (a) 2.75 minutes (b) 2.87 minutes (c) 2.92 minutes (d) 2.96 minutes Each week the forensics teams at Roslyn High School and Manhasset High School debate each other. Each team has several members, and each week three are selected to debate. Whenever Aviva debates for Roslyn, Roslyn wins; and whenever Zachary debates for Roslyn, Roslyn wins. Whenever Josh debates for Roslyn, Manhasset wins. If one week Roslyn lost to Manhasset, which of the following must be true? (a) Josh debated for Roslyn. (b) Either Aviva or Zachary debated for Roslyn. (c) Neither Aviva nor Zachary debated for Roslyn. (d) Josh and either Aviva or Zachary debated for Roslyn.
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Technical Section
41 Even if a particular implementation doesnt limit the number of characters in an identifier, it is advisable to be concise because 1) Chances of typographic errors are more 2) It may be processed by assembler, loaders, etc., which may have their own rules that may contradict the language rules 3) By being concise, one can be mnemonic (a) 1 & 2 (b) 1 & 3 (c) 2 & 3 (d) 1, 2 & 3 Which of the following best describes the purpose of a prototype? (a) A prototype is an instruction for the compiler to include the stdio header file (b) A prototype declares a function, so subsequent code can be checked for the correct numbers and types of arguments (c) A prototype is used to call a function (d) The prototype is the first line of a function What will be the output of the following code? void main( ) { int x,y=2,z,a; x=(y*=2) + (z=a=y); printf(%d, x); } (a) Prints 7 (b) Prints 6 (c) Prints 8 (d) Is syntactically wrong
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Which of the following is an example of a spooled device? (a) A line printer used to print the output of a number of jobs (b) The terminal used to enter the input data for a Fortran program being executed (c) The secondary memory device in a virtual memory system (d) The swapping area on a disk used by the swapper Which of the following are broad categories of operating system programs? (a) Booting Loader, Diagnostic Tests (c) Operating System Executive, File (b) BIOS, Utility Programs Maintenance (d) All of these In C++, the keyword try, catch and throw are associated with (a) Run-Time Type Information (RTTI) (c) Exception Handling (b) Namespaces (d) All of these The preorder traversal of a tree. (a) Processes the value in the root node, left and then right (b) Processes the value in the left node, root and then right (c) Processes the value in the left node, right and then root (d) None of these The prefix notation of the expression: ((A + B) * C (D E))/(F + G) is (a) * + A B C - - D E / F G (c) / * - + A B C D E + F G (b) / - * + A B C D E + F G (d) - * + A B C D E + F G The data stored in a single linked list is 10, 30, 40, 50 20. What is the output of this code? void print(struct link * cp) { if (cp = = NULL) return; else { print (cp ->next); printf(%d\n, cp ->data); return; } } (a) 10,20,30,40,50 (b) 20,50,40,30,10 (c) No output (d) None of the above
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