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The sentences (four/five/four between 1 and 6) given in each question, when properly sequenced form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence in labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. (A) “It changed my life and the company’s,” says Murthy, “it was the first business-critical deal we signed.”
(B) It also made the man who struck the deal, Phanesh Murthy, a legend of sorts within the company.
(C) This was way back in 1994, Infy had to make a mark on the global scene, and the deal with the US-based fashion
retailer gave ti much-needed revenues and credibility.
(D) Infosys historians–there are several of the breed in Bangalore–will tell you who cares to listen if there was one
deal that made the company it was the Nordstrom one.
(1) ABCD (2) DCBA (3) DABC (4) DBCA

2. (A) That requires knowledge of companies and the industries in which they operate, something Sirohi looks for in his
team-members.
(B) “People need to do their homework diligently.”
(C) Sirohi (Raj Sirohi/President CEO, HCL Technologies, America) is the master of the two-minute advertorial, the
kind of spiel one gets to give CEOs, COOs, CFOs, or CIOs of prospective clients to chance encounters–a quick
greeting, a firm shake of the hand, the delivery of the 120-second pitch that impresses the prospect with the
speaker’s knowledge of the industry and sets the ground for a business meeting.
(D) “We look for discipline, in our front-line teams,” he says.
(1) DBCA (2) BDCA (3) CADB (4) CDBA

3. (A) Recall the last time that one of our employees told you he could not come to work because his child was sick.
(B) But if you immediately thought of who would fill in for the missing employee then the ability to juggle several
variables at once is your dominant talent.
(C) If you immediately focused on the child, asking what was wrong and who was going to take care of her, empathy
is one of your strongest themes of talent.
(D) What was your first thought ?
(1) ABCD (2) ACDB (3) ADBC (5) ADCB

4. (A) As a result, margins have already begun to decline.

(B) To be able to reverse this trend, Indian leaders in call centres and business process outsourcing need to offer
hard-to-replicate benefits for their clients–one way to do that is to create or acquire facilities in other parts of
Asia.
(C) However, the competition is increasing faster than customer acquisition and there has been very little
differentiation among competitors thus far in this industry.
(D) India is widely recognised globally as a leader in business process outsourcing (BPO), including call centres and
back-office services.
(1) DCBA (2) DCAB (3) DBAC (4) DACB

5. (A) And so it seemed, from a spate of lectures and books.

(B) In 1998, when economist Amartya Sen, 69, won the twin trophy of the economics Nobel and Mastership of the
Trinity College, Cambridge, it was widely believed that the scholar with a cause had found back the cradle to
pursue his favourite theme of inequity–of gender, class, race, education and opportunity.
(C) It could well be a shock to Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had nominated Sen to the Membership of
Trinity, which is a Crown appointment, in an apparent bid to win left academic support for his New Labour
deviations from the socialist scripture, but Sen said he was off to America because he was “a bit fed up trying
to attend so many meetings.”
(D) However, Santiniketan-born, Presidency College-educated Sen sprang a surprise on his admirers in 2002 when
he declared that he was headed again for his old chair across the ocean, as Lamont Professor at Harvard.
(1) BCAD (2) BACD (3) BADC (4) BDAC

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Choose the word or set of words for each blank in the following questions that best fits the meaning of the
sentence.

6. With ..... a thought for his own safety, Gene ..... dashed back across the courtyard.
(1) even, quickly (4) scarcely, nimbly (3) barely, cautiously (4) seldom, swiftly
(5) hardly, randomly

7. Paul’s ..... at work is a natural product of his ..... nature.

(1) wastefulness, unpleasant (2) thoughtfulness, rarefied
(3) diligence, sedulous (4) candour, familial
(5) stubbornness, intrepid

8. The machines were ....., and because of the below-zero temperature, it was feared they would ..... .
(1) frozen, dehydrate (2) brittle, shatter (3) frosty, slide (4) icy, capsize
(5) shiny, expand

9. ..... the activities of her employees, the director refused to ..... their methods.
(1) Disarming, condone (2) Applauding, question (3) Repudiating, reward (4) Handling, oversee
(5) Approving, arrogate

10. The ..... treatment of the zoo animals resulted in community-wide ..... .
(1) curious, apathy (2) popular, neglect (3) critical, distention (4) adequate, revulsion
(5) inhumane, criticism

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters.

11. THESPIAN
(1) foreigner (2) skeptic (3) daydreamer (4) magician
(5) actor

12. PLAINTIVE
(1) mournful (2) senseless (3) persistent (4) rural
(5) evasive

13. MENTOR
(1) guide (2) genius (3) talker (4) philosopher
(5) stylist

14. DEFILE
(1) manicure (2) ride (3) pollute (4) assemble
(5) order

15. ASTUTE
(1) sheer (2) noisy (3) astral (4) unusual
(5) clever

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.

16. ANIMUS
(1) pterodactyle (2) bastion (3) giraffe (4) grimace
(5) favour

17. DIATRIBE
(1) mass (2) range (3) eulogy (4) elegy
(5) starvation

18. JADED
(1) upright (2) stimulated (3) aspiring (4) applied
(5) void

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19. PROFANE
(1) sanctify (2) desecrate (3) define (4) manifest
(5) urge

20. ENNUI
(1) hate (2) excitement (3) seriousness (4) humility
(5) kindness

Select the lettered pair in the following analogy questions that best expresses a relationship similar to
that expressed in the original capitalised pair.

21. JUDGE : COURTHOUSE

(1) carpenter : bench (2) lawyer : brief (3) architect : blueprint (4) physician : infirmary
(5) landlord : studio

22. DELICATE : FASTIDIOUS

(1) hard-working : diligent (2) altruistic : mercenary
(3) demonstrative : effusive (4) deceptive : fallacious
(5) blithe : melancholy

23. IMPANEL : JUROR

(1) accuse : defendant (2) convict : culprit (3) testify : witness (4) enroll : student
(5) landscape : portrait

24. PHYSIQUE : STURDY

(1) intellect : noble (2) punctuality : tardy (3) investment : sound (4) fabric : worn
(5) technique : inept

25. JUGGERNAUT : INEXORABLE

(1) cosmonaut : worldly (2) colossus : gigantic (3) demagogue : liberal (4) philistine, cultivated
(5) despot : immaculate

Objective Key
1.(2) 2.(3) 3.(4) 4.(2) 5.(3) 6.(2) 7.(3) 8.(2) 9.(2) 10.(5)
11.(5) 12.(1) 13.(1) 14.(3) 15.(5) 16.(5) 17.(3) 18.(2) 19.(1) 20.(2)
21.(4) 22.(3) 23.(4) 24.(3) 25.(2)

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