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Solutions of Mock CAT - 11 (CAT 2015 Pattern)

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Directions for questions 1 to 4: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

For such a supposedly vague, cryptic movement as Symbolism, Symons pins down
exactly what was going on “in this revolt against exteriority, against rhetoric, against a
materialistic tradition; in this endeavour to disengage the ultimate essence, the soul, of
whatever exists and can be realized by the Consciousness; in this dutiful waiting upon
every symbol by which the soul of things can be made visible.” And to clarify the
original title, Symons covers only the French Symbolist movement in literature, but
does this supremely well, taking in 16 writers in his main chapter heads, from Balzac to
Maeterlinck, and touching on many others besides.

It helps to have been there. Edmund Wilson may have retreaded some of the same
subjects and themes inAxel’s Castle, some 30 years later, but Symons actually knew
many of the writers he chronicles personally, and can tell you from first-hand
experience how Stéphane Mallarmé, displaced from his favourite chair, roamed round
the room “like a cat that has been turned out of its favourite corner,” or how Joris-Karl
Huysmans rolled a cigarette “between his thin, expressive fingers.” Yet he writes with
quite enough perspective and critical insight to situate his near-contemporaries in their
proper sequence and relation to each other. He writes about literary style and a writer’s
aesthetic extremely well, in the process clarifying the aims and techniques of some very
recondite writers, even in the original French. Symons was totally at ease in French, and
it shows in his unforced assessments of writers’ work from across the entire 19th
century and even before.

Symons also manages some very effectively acid criticism of the last writers you’d
expect to see him cover, such as Émile Zola – “just as Zola’s vision is the vision of the
average man, so his vocabulary, with all its technicology, remains mediocre, incapable
of expressing subtleties, incapable of a really artistic effect”- or Victor Hugo – “‘a fellow
with the most beautiful figures of speech at his disposal,’ who did not take the trouble to
think.” Sometimes he is too partial and too much the man of his time – as in his
moralistic eulogies of Verlaine, describing the debauches of this exquisitely gifted but
weak and pathetically corrupted nature as “love desiring the absolute, seeking in vain,
seeking always, and, finally, out of the depths, finding God.” You can taste the late
Victorian in those moralizing tendencies, which a French critic would likely not have
bothered with, but they are one of Symons’s few limitations.

With its deficiencies, which are very few, this remains one of the best introductions to
French Symbolism, and to the entire Symbolist aesthetic and worldview, in English. It’s
also a constantly stimulating appraisal of some very great writers, even putting aside its
agenda. This is what free internet content ought to be about.

Q.1
Which of the following cannot be said to be true about the Symbolist movement?

a It helped to disengage the literary work from the materialistic pleasures of life.

b It was a reaction to the realist and naturalistic viewpoints and favoured


spirituality and imagination.

c It was a form of expression for an unseen reality that could be comprehended by


the consciousness.

d It was a representation of things in their ultimate essence.

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 1 to 4: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

For such a supposedly vague, cryptic movement as Symbolism, Symons pins down
exactly what was going on “in this revolt against exteriority, against rhetoric, against a
materialistic tradition; in this endeavour to disengage the ultimate essence, the soul, of
whatever exists and can be realized by the Consciousness; in this dutiful waiting upon
every symbol by which the soul of things can be made visible.” And to clarify the
original title, Symons covers only the French Symbolist movement in literature, but
does this supremely well, taking in 16 writers in his main chapter heads, from Balzac to
Maeterlinck, and touching on many others besides.

It helps to have been there. Edmund Wilson may have retreaded some of the same
subjects and themes inAxel’s Castle, some 30 years later, but Symons actually knew
many of the writers he chronicles personally, and can tell you from first-hand
experience how Stéphane Mallarmé, displaced from his favourite chair, roamed round
the room “like a cat that has been turned out of its favourite corner,” or how Joris-Karl
Huysmans rolled a cigarette “between his thin, expressive fingers.” Yet he writes with
quite enough perspective and critical insight to situate his near-contemporaries in their
proper sequence and relation to each other. He writes about literary style and a writer’s
aesthetic extremely well, in the process clarifying the aims and techniques of some very
recondite writers, even in the original French. Symons was totally at ease in French, and
it shows in his unforced assessments of writers’ work from across the entire 19th
century and even before.

Symons also manages some very effectively acid criticism of the last writers you’d
expect to see him cover, such as Émile Zola – “just as Zola’s vision is the vision of the
average man, so his vocabulary, with all its technicology, remains mediocre, incapable
of expressing subtleties, incapable of a really artistic effect”- or Victor Hugo – “‘a fellow
with the most beautiful figures of speech at his disposal,’ who did not take the trouble to
think.” Sometimes he is too partial and too much the man of his time – as in his
moralistic eulogies of Verlaine, describing the debauches of this exquisitely gifted but
weak and pathetically corrupted nature as “love desiring the absolute, seeking in vain,
seeking always, and, finally, out of the depths, finding God.” You can taste the late
Victorian in those moralizing tendencies, which a French critic would likely not have
bothered with, but they are one of Symons’s few limitations.

With its deficiencies, which are very few, this remains one of the best introductions to
French Symbolism, and to the entire Symbolist aesthetic and worldview, in English. It’s
also a constantly stimulating appraisal of some very great writers, even putting aside its
agenda. This is what free internet content ought to be about.

Q.2
Which of the following options best establishes the point made in the second paragraph?

a Symons’ writing was lucid enough to bring in both his personal knowledge and
his critical understanding of many writers of the Symbolist movement.

b No better interpreter of the symbolists could be found than Arthur Symons


because of his personal friendship with many writers of the movement.

c The Symbolist writers were a restless and eccentric group that needed to be so in
order to bring out the essential characteristics of their subjects.

d By being a part of the Symbolist era, Symons could gather his perspective at close
quarters and reveal his understanding in accordance with readers’ interest.

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 1 to 4: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

For such a supposedly vague, cryptic movement as Symbolism, Symons pins down
exactly what was going on “in this revolt against exteriority, against rhetoric, against a
materialistic tradition; in this endeavour to disengage the ultimate essence, the soul, of
whatever exists and can be realized by the Consciousness; in this dutiful waiting upon
every symbol by which the soul of things can be made visible.” And to clarify the
original title, Symons covers only the French Symbolist movement in literature, but
does this supremely well, taking in 16 writers in his main chapter heads, from Balzac to
Maeterlinck, and touching on many others besides.

It helps to have been there. Edmund Wilson may have retreaded some of the same
subjects and themes inAxel’s Castle, some 30 years later, but Symons actually knew
many of the writers he chronicles personally, and can tell you from first-hand
experience how Stéphane Mallarmé, displaced from his favourite chair, roamed round
the room “like a cat that has been turned out of its favourite corner,” or how Joris-Karl
Huysmans rolled a cigarette “between his thin, expressive fingers.” Yet he writes with
quite enough perspective and critical insight to situate his near-contemporaries in their
proper sequence and relation to each other. He writes about literary style and a writer’s
aesthetic extremely well, in the process clarifying the aims and techniques of some very
recondite writers, even in the original French. Symons was totally at ease in French, and
it shows in his unforced assessments of writers’ work from across the entire 19th
century and even before.

Symons also manages some very effectively acid criticism of the last writers you’d
expect to see him cover, such as Émile Zola – “just as Zola’s vision is the vision of the
average man, so his vocabulary, with all its technicology, remains mediocre, incapable
of expressing subtleties, incapable of a really artistic effect”- or Victor Hugo – “‘a fellow
with the most beautiful figures of speech at his disposal,’ who did not take the trouble to
think.” Sometimes he is too partial and too much the man of his time – as in his
moralistic eulogies of Verlaine, describing the debauches of this exquisitely gifted but
weak and pathetically corrupted nature as “love desiring the absolute, seeking in vain,
seeking always, and, finally, out of the depths, finding God.” You can taste the late
Victorian in those moralizing tendencies, which a French critic would likely not have
bothered with, but they are one of Symons’s few limitations.

With its deficiencies, which are very few, this remains one of the best introductions to
French Symbolism, and to the entire Symbolist aesthetic and worldview, in English. It’s
also a constantly stimulating appraisal of some very great writers, even putting aside its
agenda. This is what free internet content ought to be about.

Q.3
It can be inferred from the passage that Symons was

a partial to the artistic expression in literary form.

b against any form of immorality and corruption.

c incapable of expressing his views in subtle form.

d partial to the colloquial style of writing.

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 1 to 4: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

For such a supposedly vague, cryptic movement as Symbolism, Symons pins down
exactly what was going on “in this revolt against exteriority, against rhetoric, against a
materialistic tradition; in this endeavour to disengage the ultimate essence, the soul, of
whatever exists and can be realized by the Consciousness; in this dutiful waiting upon
every symbol by which the soul of things can be made visible.” And to clarify the
original title, Symons covers only the French Symbolist movement in literature, but
does this supremely well, taking in 16 writers in his main chapter heads, from Balzac to
Maeterlinck, and touching on many others besides.

It helps to have been there. Edmund Wilson may have retreaded some of the same
subjects and themes inAxel’s Castle, some 30 years later, but Symons actually knew
many of the writers he chronicles personally, and can tell you from first-hand
experience how Stéphane Mallarmé, displaced from his favourite chair, roamed round
the room “like a cat that has been turned out of its favourite corner,” or how Joris-Karl
Huysmans rolled a cigarette “between his thin, expressive fingers.” Yet he writes with
quite enough perspective and critical insight to situate his near-contemporaries in their
proper sequence and relation to each other. He writes about literary style and a writer’s
aesthetic extremely well, in the process clarifying the aims and techniques of some very
recondite writers, even in the original French. Symons was totally at ease in French, and
it shows in his unforced assessments of writers’ work from across the entire 19th
century and even before.

Symons also manages some very effectively acid criticism of the last writers you’d
expect to see him cover, such as Émile Zola – “just as Zola’s vision is the vision of the
average man, so his vocabulary, with all its technicology, remains mediocre, incapable
of expressing subtleties, incapable of a really artistic effect”- or Victor Hugo – “‘a fellow
with the most beautiful figures of speech at his disposal,’ who did not take the trouble to
think.” Sometimes he is too partial and too much the man of his time – as in his
moralistic eulogies of Verlaine, describing the debauches of this exquisitely gifted but
weak and pathetically corrupted nature as “love desiring the absolute, seeking in vain,
seeking always, and, finally, out of the depths, finding God.” You can taste the late
Victorian in those moralizing tendencies, which a French critic would likely not have
bothered with, but they are one of Symons’s few limitations.

With its deficiencies, which are very few, this remains one of the best introductions to
French Symbolism, and to the entire Symbolist aesthetic and worldview, in English. It’s
also a constantly stimulating appraisal of some very great writers, even putting aside its
agenda. This is what free internet content ought to be about.

Q.4
Which of the following would the author most agree with?
a Arthur Symons has an enthusiastic appreciation of the Symbolist writers and has
presented his work in an eminently readable style.

b The symbolists strive by means of suggestion and association to convey a sense of


spiritual presence.

c Symons' work is not only comprehensive but also quite excellent.

d The faith of the symbolist is the surest remedy for the despair which comes with a
sense of life’s transiency.

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 5 to 8: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The endgame of Chinese communist rule has now begun and it has progressed further
than many think. We don’t know what the pathway from now until the end will look
like, of course. It will probably be highly unstable and unsettled. But until the system
begins to unravel in some obvious way, those inside of it will play along—thus
contributing to the facade of stability.

Communist rule in China is unlikely to end quietly. A single event is unlikely to trigger
a peaceful implosion of the regime. Its demise is likely to be protracted, messy and
violent. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Mr. Xi will be deposed in a power
struggle or coup d’état. With his aggressive anticorruption campaign—a focus of this
week’s National People’s Congress—he is overplaying a weak hand and deeply
aggravating key party, state, military and commercial constituencies.

The Chinese have a proverb, waiying, neiruan—hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Mr. Xi is a genuinely tough ruler. He exudes conviction and personal confidence. But
this hard personality belies a party and political system that is extremely fragile on the
inside.

Consider five telling indications of the regime’s vulnerability and the party’s systemic
weaknesses. First, China’s economic elites have one foot out the door, and they are
ready to flee en masse if the system really begins to crumble. In 2014, Shanghai’s Hurun
Research Institute, which studies China’s wealthy, found that 64% of the “high net
worth individuals” whom it polled—393 millionaires and billionaires—were either
emigrating or planning to do so. Rich Chinese are sending their children to study
abroad in record numbers (in itself, an indictment of the quality of the Chinese higher-
education system).

Just this week, the Journal reported, federal agents searched several Southern
California locations that U.S. authorities allege are linked to “multimillion-dollar birth-
tourism businesses that enabled thousands of Chinese women to travel here and return
home with infants born as U.S. citizens.” Wealthy Chinese are also buying property
abroad at record levels and prices, and they are parking their financial assets overseas,
often in well-shielded tax havens and shell companies.

Meanwhile, Beijing is trying to extradite back to China a large number of alleged


financial fugitives living abroad. When a country’s elites—many of them party
members—flee in such large numbers, it is a telling sign of lack of confidence in the
regime and the country’s future.

Second, since taking office in 2012, Mr. Xi has greatly intensified the political repression
that has blanketed China since 2009. The targets include the press, social media, film,
arts and literature, religious groups, the Internet, intellectuals, Tibetans and Uighurs,
dissidents, lawyers, NGOs, university students and textbooks. The Central Committee
sent a draconian order known as Document No. 9 down through the party hierarchy in
2013, ordering all units to ferret out any seeming endorsement of the West’s “universal
values”—including constitutional democracy, civil society, a free press and neoliberal
economics.

A more secure and confident government would not institute such a severe crackdown.
It is a symptom of the party leadership’s deep anxiety and insecurity.

Third, even many regime loyalists are just going through the motions. It is hard to miss
the theatre of false pretence that has permeated the Chinese body politic for the past
few years. Last summer, I was one of a handful of foreigners (and the only American)
who attended a conference about the “China Dream,” Mr. Xi’s signature concept, at a
party-affiliated think tank in Beijing. We sat through two days of mind-numbing,
nonstop presentations by two dozen party scholars—but their faces were frozen, their
body language was wooden, and their boredom was palpable. They feigned compliance
with the party and their leader’s latest mantra. But it was evident that the propaganda
had lost its power, and the emperor had no clothes.

Q.5
From the information in the passage, which of the following can be inferred?

a The decay of the Chinese political regime started at a previous time and will
reach its fruition.

b Mr. Xi will find himself ousted from the seat of power at the end of the Chinese
regime.

c Xi’s anti-corruption campaign is too severe and does not have the supporters it
rightfully should.

d From stiff body language to theatrical presentations, the Chinese political regime
has seen a change in its ranks.
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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 5 to 8: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The endgame of Chinese communist rule has now begun and it has progressed further
than many think. We don’t know what the pathway from now until the end will look
like, of course. It will probably be highly unstable and unsettled. But until the system
begins to unravel in some obvious way, those inside of it will play along—thus
contributing to the facade of stability.

Communist rule in China is unlikely to end quietly. A single event is unlikely to trigger
a peaceful implosion of the regime. Its demise is likely to be protracted, messy and
violent. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Mr. Xi will be deposed in a power
struggle or coup d’état. With his aggressive anticorruption campaign—a focus of this
week’s National People’s Congress—he is overplaying a weak hand and deeply
aggravating key party, state, military and commercial constituencies.

The Chinese have a proverb, waiying, neiruan—hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Mr. Xi is a genuinely tough ruler. He exudes conviction and personal confidence. But
this hard personality belies a party and political system that is extremely fragile on the
inside.

Consider five telling indications of the regime’s vulnerability and the party’s systemic
weaknesses. First, China’s economic elites have one foot out the door, and they are
ready to flee en masse if the system really begins to crumble. In 2014, Shanghai’s Hurun
Research Institute, which studies China’s wealthy, found that 64% of the “high net
worth individuals” whom it polled—393 millionaires and billionaires—were either
emigrating or planning to do so. Rich Chinese are sending their children to study
abroad in record numbers (in itself, an indictment of the quality of the Chinese higher-
education system).

Just this week, the Journal reported, federal agents searched several Southern
California locations that U.S. authorities allege are linked to “multimillion-dollar birth-
tourism businesses that enabled thousands of Chinese women to travel here and return
home with infants born as U.S. citizens.” Wealthy Chinese are also buying property
abroad at record levels and prices, and they are parking their financial assets overseas,
often in well-shielded tax havens and shell companies.

Meanwhile, Beijing is trying to extradite back to China a large number of alleged


financial fugitives living abroad. When a country’s elites—many of them party
members—flee in such large numbers, it is a telling sign of lack of confidence in the
regime and the country’s future.

Second, since taking office in 2012, Mr. Xi has greatly intensified the political repression
that has blanketed China since 2009. The targets include the press, social media, film,
arts and literature, religious groups, the Internet, intellectuals, Tibetans and Uighurs,
dissidents, lawyers, NGOs, university students and textbooks. The Central Committee
sent a draconian order known as Document No. 9 down through the party hierarchy in
2013, ordering all units to ferret out any seeming endorsement of the West’s “universal
values”—including constitutional democracy, civil society, a free press and neoliberal
economics.

A more secure and confident government would not institute such a severe crackdown.
It is a symptom of the party leadership’s deep anxiety and insecurity.

Third, even many regime loyalists are just going through the motions. It is hard to miss
the theatre of false pretence that has permeated the Chinese body politic for the past
few years. Last summer, I was one of a handful of foreigners (and the only American)
who attended a conference about the “China Dream,” Mr. Xi’s signature concept, at a
party-affiliated think tank in Beijing. We sat through two days of mind-numbing,
nonstop presentations by two dozen party scholars—but their faces were frozen, their
body language was wooden, and their boredom was palpable. They feigned compliance
with the party and their leader’s latest mantra. But it was evident that the propaganda
had lost its power, and the emperor had no clothes.

Q.6
Which of the following cannot be inferred from the first indicator of the regime’s
vulnerability?

a Sending children to study abroad is one step to ensure that the child can settle
down in a foreign country.

b The Chinese higher-education system is unable to attract and retain the children
of rich Chinese.

c The Chinese are preparing for the inevitable downfall of the economy and are
hence buying assets abroad.

d The extradition of alleged financial fugitives to China indicates that the regime is
worried about the emigration of wealth from the country.

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 5 to 8: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The endgame of Chinese communist rule has now begun and it has progressed further
than many think. We don’t know what the pathway from now until the end will look
like, of course. It will probably be highly unstable and unsettled. But until the system
begins to unravel in some obvious way, those inside of it will play along—thus
contributing to the facade of stability.

Communist rule in China is unlikely to end quietly. A single event is unlikely to trigger
a peaceful implosion of the regime. Its demise is likely to be protracted, messy and
violent. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Mr. Xi will be deposed in a power
struggle or coup d’état. With his aggressive anticorruption campaign—a focus of this
week’s National People’s Congress—he is overplaying a weak hand and deeply
aggravating key party, state, military and commercial constituencies.

The Chinese have a proverb, waiying, neiruan—hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Mr. Xi is a genuinely tough ruler. He exudes conviction and personal confidence. But
this hard personality belies a party and political system that is extremely fragile on the
inside.

Consider five telling indications of the regime’s vulnerability and the party’s systemic
weaknesses. First, China’s economic elites have one foot out the door, and they are
ready to flee en masse if the system really begins to crumble. In 2014, Shanghai’s Hurun
Research Institute, which studies China’s wealthy, found that 64% of the “high net
worth individuals” whom it polled—393 millionaires and billionaires—were either
emigrating or planning to do so. Rich Chinese are sending their children to study
abroad in record numbers (in itself, an indictment of the quality of the Chinese higher-
education system).

Just this week, the Journal reported, federal agents searched several Southern
California locations that U.S. authorities allege are linked to “multimillion-dollar birth-
tourism businesses that enabled thousands of Chinese women to travel here and return
home with infants born as U.S. citizens.” Wealthy Chinese are also buying property
abroad at record levels and prices, and they are parking their financial assets overseas,
often in well-shielded tax havens and shell companies.

Meanwhile, Beijing is trying to extradite back to China a large number of alleged


financial fugitives living abroad. When a country’s elites—many of them party
members—flee in such large numbers, it is a telling sign of lack of confidence in the
regime and the country’s future.

Second, since taking office in 2012, Mr. Xi has greatly intensified the political repression
that has blanketed China since 2009. The targets include the press, social media, film,
arts and literature, religious groups, the Internet, intellectuals, Tibetans and Uighurs,
dissidents, lawyers, NGOs, university students and textbooks. The Central Committee
sent a draconian order known as Document No. 9 down through the party hierarchy in
2013, ordering all units to ferret out any seeming endorsement of the West’s “universal
values”—including constitutional democracy, civil society, a free press and neoliberal
economics.

A more secure and confident government would not institute such a severe crackdown.
It is a symptom of the party leadership’s deep anxiety and insecurity.

Third, even many regime loyalists are just going through the motions. It is hard to miss
the theatre of false pretence that has permeated the Chinese body politic for the past
few years. Last summer, I was one of a handful of foreigners (and the only American)
who attended a conference about the “China Dream,” Mr. Xi’s signature concept, at a
party-affiliated think tank in Beijing. We sat through two days of mind-numbing,
nonstop presentations by two dozen party scholars—but their faces were frozen, their
body language was wooden, and their boredom was palpable. They feigned compliance
with the party and their leader’s latest mantra. But it was evident that the propaganda
had lost its power, and the emperor had no clothes.

Q.7
Which of the following best describes the Chinese regime’s attitude towards the press
and social media?

a The regime ensures that the press is not free to present their opinions.

b The regime censors the media to ensure that it is incapable of reaching a wide
audience.

c The regime controls the news media through a complex combination of party
monitoring of news content.

d The regime controls the media to prevent unapproved reformist, separatist,


“counter-revolutionary”, or religious ideas from spreading.

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 5 to 8: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

The endgame of Chinese communist rule has now begun and it has progressed further
than many think. We don’t know what the pathway from now until the end will look
like, of course. It will probably be highly unstable and unsettled. But until the system
begins to unravel in some obvious way, those inside of it will play along—thus
contributing to the facade of stability.

Communist rule in China is unlikely to end quietly. A single event is unlikely to trigger
a peaceful implosion of the regime. Its demise is likely to be protracted, messy and
violent. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Mr. Xi will be deposed in a power
struggle or coup d’état. With his aggressive anticorruption campaign—a focus of this
week’s National People’s Congress—he is overplaying a weak hand and deeply
aggravating key party, state, military and commercial constituencies.

The Chinese have a proverb, waiying, neiruan—hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Mr. Xi is a genuinely tough ruler. He exudes conviction and personal confidence. But
this hard personality belies a party and political system that is extremely fragile on the
inside.

Consider five telling indications of the regime’s vulnerability and the party’s systemic
weaknesses. First, China’s economic elites have one foot out the door, and they are
ready to flee en masse if the system really begins to crumble. In 2014, Shanghai’s Hurun
Research Institute, which studies China’s wealthy, found that 64% of the “high net
worth individuals” whom it polled—393 millionaires and billionaires—were either
emigrating or planning to do so. Rich Chinese are sending their children to study
abroad in record numbers (in itself, an indictment of the quality of the Chinese higher-
education system).

Just this week, the Journal reported, federal agents searched several Southern
California locations that U.S. authorities allege are linked to “multimillion-dollar birth-
tourism businesses that enabled thousands of Chinese women to travel here and return
home with infants born as U.S. citizens.” Wealthy Chinese are also buying property
abroad at record levels and prices, and they are parking their financial assets overseas,
often in well-shielded tax havens and shell companies.

Meanwhile, Beijing is trying to extradite back to China a large number of alleged


financial fugitives living abroad. When a country’s elites—many of them party
members—flee in such large numbers, it is a telling sign of lack of confidence in the
regime and the country’s future.

Second, since taking office in 2012, Mr. Xi has greatly intensified the political repression
that has blanketed China since 2009. The targets include the press, social media, film,
arts and literature, religious groups, the Internet, intellectuals, Tibetans and Uighurs,
dissidents, lawyers, NGOs, university students and textbooks. The Central Committee
sent a draconian order known as Document No. 9 down through the party hierarchy in
2013, ordering all units to ferret out any seeming endorsement of the West’s “universal
values”—including constitutional democracy, civil society, a free press and neoliberal
economics.

A more secure and confident government would not institute such a severe crackdown.
It is a symptom of the party leadership’s deep anxiety and insecurity.

Third, even many regime loyalists are just going through the motions. It is hard to miss
the theatre of false pretence that has permeated the Chinese body politic for the past
few years. Last summer, I was one of a handful of foreigners (and the only American)
who attended a conference about the “China Dream,” Mr. Xi’s signature concept, at a
party-affiliated think tank in Beijing. We sat through two days of mind-numbing,
nonstop presentations by two dozen party scholars—but their faces were frozen, their
body language was wooden, and their boredom was palpable. They feigned compliance
with the party and their leader’s latest mantra. But it was evident that the propaganda
had lost its power, and the emperor had no clothes.

Q.8
Which of the following options best explains the phrase in the last paragraph, “the
emperor has no clothes”?
a Mr. Xi’s attempts to cover up the atrocities of his regime has now been exposed.

b Mr. Xi’s reality is now known to his close associates and regime loyalists.

c The endgame of communist rule in China has begun, and Xi Jinping’s ruthless
measures are only bringing the country closer to a breaking point.

d Mr. Xi is surrounded by supporters and well-wishers who pretend that they


believe in his philosophy.

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Correct Answer : d

Directions for questions 9 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

“It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.”

That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York Times on
October 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism
About Helping Cuban Trade.”

The toll of the long ‘terrorist’ war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which
continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the U.N., for the 23rd time,
endorsed “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade
imposed by the United States against Cuba.” The vote was 188 to 2 (U.S., Israel), with
three U.S. Pacific Island dependencies abstaining.

There is by now some opposition to the embargo in high places in the U.S., reports ABC
News, because “it is no longer useful” (citing Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices).
French scholar Salim Lamrani reviews the bitter costs to Cubans in his 2013 book The
Economic War Against Cuba.

Nicaragua need hardly be mentioned. President Ronald Reagan’s terrorist war was
condemned by the World Court, which ordered the U.S. to terminate its “unlawful use
of force” and to pay substantial reparations.

Washington responded by escalating the war and vetoing a 1986 U.N. Security Council
resolution calling on all states — meaning the U.S. — to observe international law.

Another example of terrorism will be commemorated on November 16, the 25th


anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador by a terrorist unit
of the Salvadoran army, armed and trained by the U.S. On the orders of the military
high command, the soldiers broke into the Jesuit University to murder the priests and
any witnesses — including their housekeeper and her daughter.
This event culminated the U.S. terrorist wars in Central America in the 1980s, though
the effects are still on the front pages today in the reports of “illegal immigrants,”
fleeing in no small measure from the consequences of that carnage, and being deported
from the U.S. to survive, if they can, in the ruins of their home countries.

Washington has also emerged as the world champion in generating terror. Former CIA
analyst Paul Pillar warns of the “resentment-generating impact of the U.S. strikes” in
Syria, which may further induce the jihadi organizations Jabhat al-Nusra and the
Islamic State toward “repairing their breach from last year and campaigning in tandem
against the U.S. intervention by portraying it as a war against Islam.”

That is by now a familiar consequence of U.S. operations that have helped to spread
jihadism from a corner of Afghanistan to a large part of the world.

Jihadism’s most fearsome current manifestation is the Islamic State, or ISIS, which has
established its murderous caliphate in large areas of Iraq and Syria.

“I think the United States is one of the key creators of this organization,” reports
former CIA analyst Graham Fuller, a prominent commentator on the region. “The
United States did not plan the formation of ISIS,” he adds, “but its destructive
interventions in the Middle East and the War in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth
of ISIS.”

To this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of
assassination of “terrorists.” The “resentment-generating impact” of those drone and
special-forces strikes should be too well known to require further comment. This is a
record to be contemplated with some awe.

Q.9
According to the author what did the San Salvador incident stand as an example of?

a Churches being a prime target in situations of political intrusion

b Suppression and extermination of witnesses of cruelty, which is a prime part of


U.S. terrorist operations

c The inhuman nature of the deeds of U.S. soldiers

d The extent of terrorist activities being perpetrated by the U.S.

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Correct Answer : d

Directions for questions 9 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

“It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.”

That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York Times on
October 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism
About Helping Cuban Trade.”

The toll of the long ‘terrorist’ war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which
continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the U.N., for the 23rd time,
endorsed “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade
imposed by the United States against Cuba.” The vote was 188 to 2 (U.S., Israel), with
three U.S. Pacific Island dependencies abstaining.

There is by now some opposition to the embargo in high places in the U.S., reports ABC
News, because “it is no longer useful” (citing Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices).
French scholar Salim Lamrani reviews the bitter costs to Cubans in his 2013 book The
Economic War Against Cuba.

Nicaragua need hardly be mentioned. President Ronald Reagan’s terrorist war was
condemned by the World Court, which ordered the U.S. to terminate its “unlawful use
of force” and to pay substantial reparations.

Washington responded by escalating the war and vetoing a 1986 U.N. Security Council
resolution calling on all states — meaning the U.S. — to observe international law.

Another example of terrorism will be commemorated on November 16, the 25th


anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador by a terrorist unit
of the Salvadoran army, armed and trained by the U.S. On the orders of the military
high command, the soldiers broke into the Jesuit University to murder the priests and
any witnesses — including their housekeeper and her daughter.

This event culminated the U.S. terrorist wars in Central America in the 1980s, though
the effects are still on the front pages today in the reports of “illegal immigrants,”
fleeing in no small measure from the consequences of that carnage, and being deported
from the U.S. to survive, if they can, in the ruins of their home countries.

Washington has also emerged as the world champion in generating terror. Former CIA
analyst Paul Pillar warns of the “resentment-generating impact of the U.S. strikes” in
Syria, which may further induce the jihadi organizations Jabhat al-Nusra and the
Islamic State toward “repairing their breach from last year and campaigning in tandem
against the U.S. intervention by portraying it as a war against Islam.”

That is by now a familiar consequence of U.S. operations that have helped to spread
jihadism from a corner of Afghanistan to a large part of the world.

Jihadism’s most fearsome current manifestation is the Islamic State, or ISIS, which has
established its murderous caliphate in large areas of Iraq and Syria.

“I think the United States is one of the key creators of this organization,” reports
former CIA analyst Graham Fuller, a prominent commentator on the region. “The
United States did not plan the formation of ISIS,” he adds, “but its destructive
interventions in the Middle East and the War in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth
of ISIS.”

To this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of
assassination of “terrorists.” The “resentment-generating impact” of those drone and
special-forces strikes should be too well known to require further comment. This is a
record to be contemplated with some awe.

Q.10
What is the tone of the author in the last paragraph of the given passage?

a Tacitly accusatory

b Subtly encouraging

c Vehemently derogatory

d Deeply awestruck

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 9 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

“It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.”

That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York Times on
October 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism
About Helping Cuban Trade.”

The toll of the long ‘terrorist’ war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which
continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the U.N., for the 23rd time,
endorsed “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade
imposed by the United States against Cuba.” The vote was 188 to 2 (U.S., Israel), with
three U.S. Pacific Island dependencies abstaining.

There is by now some opposition to the embargo in high places in the U.S., reports ABC
News, because “it is no longer useful” (citing Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices).
French scholar Salim Lamrani reviews the bitter costs to Cubans in his 2013 book The
Economic War Against Cuba.

Nicaragua need hardly be mentioned. President Ronald Reagan’s terrorist war was
condemned by the World Court, which ordered the U.S. to terminate its “unlawful use
of force” and to pay substantial reparations.

Washington responded by escalating the war and vetoing a 1986 U.N. Security Council
resolution calling on all states — meaning the U.S. — to observe international law.

Another example of terrorism will be commemorated on November 16, the 25th


anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador by a terrorist unit
of the Salvadoran army, armed and trained by the U.S. On the orders of the military
high command, the soldiers broke into the Jesuit University to murder the priests and
any witnesses — including their housekeeper and her daughter.

This event culminated the U.S. terrorist wars in Central America in the 1980s, though
the effects are still on the front pages today in the reports of “illegal immigrants,”
fleeing in no small measure from the consequences of that carnage, and being deported
from the U.S. to survive, if they can, in the ruins of their home countries.

Washington has also emerged as the world champion in generating terror. Former CIA
analyst Paul Pillar warns of the “resentment-generating impact of the U.S. strikes” in
Syria, which may further induce the jihadi organizations Jabhat al-Nusra and the
Islamic State toward “repairing their breach from last year and campaigning in tandem
against the U.S. intervention by portraying it as a war against Islam.”

That is by now a familiar consequence of U.S. operations that have helped to spread
jihadism from a corner of Afghanistan to a large part of the world.

Jihadism’s most fearsome current manifestation is the Islamic State, or ISIS, which has
established its murderous caliphate in large areas of Iraq and Syria.

“I think the United States is one of the key creators of this organization,” reports
former CIA analyst Graham Fuller, a prominent commentator on the region. “The
United States did not plan the formation of ISIS,” he adds, “but its destructive
interventions in the Middle East and the War in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth
of ISIS.”

To this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of
assassination of “terrorists.” The “resentment-generating impact” of those drone and
special-forces strikes should be too well known to require further comment. This is a
record to be contemplated with some awe.

Q.11
How can you best describe the attitude of Graham Fuller on the subject of the
formation of ISIS?

a He dismisses the aspect of alleged guilt and tries to look at things from a more
scientific perspective.

b He makes an attempt to salvage the drowning reputation of the U.S. by


misattributing the real cause behind the formation of ISIS.

c He tries to use diplomatic terminology in order to downplay the role of the U.S.
and make it appear less guilty.

d He tries to put things in the right perspective by neither entirely absolving the
role of the U.S. nor by holding it as solely responsible.

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Correct Answer : d

Directions for questions 9 to 12: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

“It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.”

That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York Times on
October 15, which was more politely titled “CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism
About Helping Cuban Trade.”

The toll of the long ‘terrorist’ war was amplified by a crushing embargo, which
continues even today in defiance of the world. On Oct. 28, the U.N., for the 23rd time,
endorsed “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial, financial blockade
imposed by the United States against Cuba.” The vote was 188 to 2 (U.S., Israel), with
three U.S. Pacific Island dependencies abstaining.

There is by now some opposition to the embargo in high places in the U.S., reports ABC
News, because “it is no longer useful” (citing Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices).
French scholar Salim Lamrani reviews the bitter costs to Cubans in his 2013 book The
Economic War Against Cuba.

Nicaragua need hardly be mentioned. President Ronald Reagan’s terrorist war was
condemned by the World Court, which ordered the U.S. to terminate its “unlawful use
of force” and to pay substantial reparations.

Washington responded by escalating the war and vetoing a 1986 U.N. Security Council
resolution calling on all states — meaning the U.S. — to observe international law.

Another example of terrorism will be commemorated on November 16, the 25th


anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador by a terrorist unit
of the Salvadoran army, armed and trained by the U.S. On the orders of the military
high command, the soldiers broke into the Jesuit University to murder the priests and
any witnesses — including their housekeeper and her daughter.

This event culminated the U.S. terrorist wars in Central America in the 1980s, though
the effects are still on the front pages today in the reports of “illegal immigrants,”
fleeing in no small measure from the consequences of that carnage, and being deported
from the U.S. to survive, if they can, in the ruins of their home countries.

Washington has also emerged as the world champion in generating terror. Former CIA
analyst Paul Pillar warns of the “resentment-generating impact of the U.S. strikes” in
Syria, which may further induce the jihadi organizations Jabhat al-Nusra and the
Islamic State toward “repairing their breach from last year and campaigning in tandem
against the U.S. intervention by portraying it as a war against Islam.”

That is by now a familiar consequence of U.S. operations that have helped to spread
jihadism from a corner of Afghanistan to a large part of the world.

Jihadism’s most fearsome current manifestation is the Islamic State, or ISIS, which has
established its murderous caliphate in large areas of Iraq and Syria.

“I think the United States is one of the key creators of this organization,” reports
former CIA analyst Graham Fuller, a prominent commentator on the region. “The
United States did not plan the formation of ISIS,” he adds, “but its destructive
interventions in the Middle East and the War in Iraq were the basic causes of the birth
of ISIS.”

To this we may add the world’s greatest terrorist campaign: Obama’s global project of
assassination of “terrorists.” The “resentment-generating impact” of those drone and
special-forces strikes should be too well known to require further comment. This is a
record to be contemplated with some awe.

Q.12
What was Paul Pillar’s warning primarily concerned with?

a The further rise of the Jihad

b Joining of Islamist forces against the U.S.

c Islamist states threatening U.S. like never before

d Opposition of terrorism with terrorism

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 13 to 16: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Among the first to identify the brain as the major controlling center for the body were
Hippocrates and his followers, inaugurating a major change in thinking from Egyptian,
biblical and early Greek views, which based bodily primacy of control on the heart.
This belief was supported by the Greek physician Galen, who concluded that mental
activity occurred in the brain rather than the heart, contending that the brain, a cold,
moist organ formed of sperm, was the seat of the animal soul—one of three “souls”
found in the body, each associated with a principal organ. And the study of this organ,
together with its external casing was termed Phrenology.

Thereby, the popularization of phrenology in the middle and working classes was due in
part to the idea that scientific knowledge was important and an indication of
sophistication and modernity. Cheap and plentiful pamphlets as well as the growing
popularity of scientific lectures as entertainment also helped spread phrenology to the
masses. Combe created a system of philosophy of the human mind that became popular
with the masses because of its simplified principles and wide range of social applications
that were in harmony with the liberal Victorian world view. George Combe’s book On
the Constitution of Man and its Relationship to External Objects sold over 200, 000
copies through nine editions. Combe also devoted a large portion of his book to
reconciling religion and phrenology, which had long been a sticking point. Another
reason for its popularity was that phrenology balanced between free will and
determinism. A person’s inherent faculties were clear, and no faculty was viewed as evil,
though the abuse of a faculty was. Phrenology allowed for self-improvement and
upward mobility, while providing fodder for attacks on aristocratic privilege.
Phrenology also had wide appeal because of its being a reformist philosophy not a
radical one. Phrenology was not limited to the common people and both Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert invited George Combe to read the heads of their children.

However, phrenology was mostly discredited as a scientific theory by the 1840s. This
was due only in part to a growing amount of evidence against phrenology. Phrenologists
had never been able to agree on the most basic mental organ numbers going from 27 to
over 40, and had difficulty locating the mental organs. Phrenologists relied on
cranioscopic readings of the skull to find organ locations. Jean Pierre Flourens’
experiments on the brains of pigeons indicated that the loss of parts of the brain either
caused no loss of function, or the loss of a completely different function than what had
been attributed to it by phrenology. Flourens experiment, while not perfect, seemed to
indicate that Gall’s supposed organs were imaginary. Scientists had also become
disillusioned with phrenology since its exploitation with the middle and working classes
by entrepreneurs. The popularization had resulted in the simplification of phrenology
and mixing in it of principles of physiognomy, which had from the start been rejected
by Gall as an indicator of personality. Phrenology from its inception was tainted by
accusations of promoting materialism and atheism, and being destructive of morality.
These were all factors which led to the downfall of phrenology.

Q.13
Which of the following was NOT responsible for the downfall of Phrenology?

a Allegations of promoting a lack of belief in god

b Allegations of promoting a love of raw materials


c Both (a) and (b)

d Neither (a) nor (b)

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 13 to 16: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Among the first to identify the brain as the major controlling center for the body were
Hippocrates and his followers, inaugurating a major change in thinking from Egyptian,
biblical and early Greek views, which based bodily primacy of control on the heart.
This belief was supported by the Greek physician Galen, who concluded that mental
activity occurred in the brain rather than the heart, contending that the brain, a cold,
moist organ formed of sperm, was the seat of the animal soul—one of three “souls”
found in the body, each associated with a principal organ. And the study of this organ,
together with its external casing was termed Phrenology.

Thereby, the popularization of phrenology in the middle and working classes was due in
part to the idea that scientific knowledge was important and an indication of
sophistication and modernity. Cheap and plentiful pamphlets as well as the growing
popularity of scientific lectures as entertainment also helped spread phrenology to the
masses. Combe created a system of philosophy of the human mind that became popular
with the masses because of its simplified principles and wide range of social applications
that were in harmony with the liberal Victorian world view. George Combe’s book On
the Constitution of Man and its Relationship to External Objects sold over 200, 000
copies through nine editions. Combe also devoted a large portion of his book to
reconciling religion and phrenology, which had long been a sticking point. Another
reason for its popularity was that phrenology balanced between free will and
determinism. A person’s inherent faculties were clear, and no faculty was viewed as evil,
though the abuse of a faculty was. Phrenology allowed for self-improvement and
upward mobility, while providing fodder for attacks on aristocratic privilege.
Phrenology also had wide appeal because of its being a reformist philosophy not a
radical one. Phrenology was not limited to the common people and both Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert invited George Combe to read the heads of their children.

However, phrenology was mostly discredited as a scientific theory by the 1840s. This
was due only in part to a growing amount of evidence against phrenology. Phrenologists
had never been able to agree on the most basic mental organ numbers going from 27 to
over 40, and had difficulty locating the mental organs. Phrenologists relied on
cranioscopic readings of the skull to find organ locations. Jean Pierre Flourens’
experiments on the brains of pigeons indicated that the loss of parts of the brain either
caused no loss of function, or the loss of a completely different function than what had
been attributed to it by phrenology. Flourens experiment, while not perfect, seemed to
indicate that Gall’s supposed organs were imaginary. Scientists had also become
disillusioned with phrenology since its exploitation with the middle and working classes
by entrepreneurs. The popularization had resulted in the simplification of phrenology
and mixing in it of principles of physiognomy, which had from the start been rejected
by Gall as an indicator of personality. Phrenology from its inception was tainted by
accusations of promoting materialism and atheism, and being destructive of morality.
These were all factors which led to the downfall of phrenology.

Q.14
What was believed to be the control center of the body prior to the acknowledgement of
the importance of the brain?

a The three souls

b The animal soul

c The primacy of control

d The heart

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Correct Answer : d

Directions for questions 13 to 16: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Among the first to identify the brain as the major controlling center for the body were
Hippocrates and his followers, inaugurating a major change in thinking from Egyptian,
biblical and early Greek views, which based bodily primacy of control on the heart.
This belief was supported by the Greek physician Galen, who concluded that mental
activity occurred in the brain rather than the heart, contending that the brain, a cold,
moist organ formed of sperm, was the seat of the animal soul—one of three “souls”
found in the body, each associated with a principal organ. And the study of this organ,
together with its external casing was termed Phrenology.

Thereby, the popularization of phrenology in the middle and working classes was due in
part to the idea that scientific knowledge was important and an indication of
sophistication and modernity. Cheap and plentiful pamphlets as well as the growing
popularity of scientific lectures as entertainment also helped spread phrenology to the
masses. Combe created a system of philosophy of the human mind that became popular
with the masses because of its simplified principles and wide range of social applications
that were in harmony with the liberal Victorian world view. George Combe’s book On
the Constitution of Man and its Relationship to External Objects sold over 200, 000
copies through nine editions. Combe also devoted a large portion of his book to
reconciling religion and phrenology, which had long been a sticking point. Another
reason for its popularity was that phrenology balanced between free will and
determinism. A person’s inherent faculties were clear, and no faculty was viewed as evil,
though the abuse of a faculty was. Phrenology allowed for self-improvement and
upward mobility, while providing fodder for attacks on aristocratic privilege.
Phrenology also had wide appeal because of its being a reformist philosophy not a
radical one. Phrenology was not limited to the common people and both Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert invited George Combe to read the heads of their children.

However, phrenology was mostly discredited as a scientific theory by the 1840s. This
was due only in part to a growing amount of evidence against phrenology. Phrenologists
had never been able to agree on the most basic mental organ numbers going from 27 to
over 40, and had difficulty locating the mental organs. Phrenologists relied on
cranioscopic readings of the skull to find organ locations. Jean Pierre Flourens’
experiments on the brains of pigeons indicated that the loss of parts of the brain either
caused no loss of function, or the loss of a completely different function than what had
been attributed to it by phrenology. Flourens experiment, while not perfect, seemed to
indicate that Gall’s supposed organs were imaginary. Scientists had also become
disillusioned with phrenology since its exploitation with the middle and working classes
by entrepreneurs. The popularization had resulted in the simplification of phrenology
and mixing in it of principles of physiognomy, which had from the start been rejected
by Gall as an indicator of personality. Phrenology from its inception was tainted by
accusations of promoting materialism and atheism, and being destructive of morality.
These were all factors which led to the downfall of phrenology.

Q.15
What did the popularization of Phrenology result in?

a It began finding use in all scientific contexts.

b It made a certain writer shoot to unprecedented fame.

c It brought about a sense of reconciliation between fate and free-will.

d Both (b) and (c)

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 13 to 16: The passage given below is followed by a set of four
questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Among the first to identify the brain as the major controlling center for the body were
Hippocrates and his followers, inaugurating a major change in thinking from Egyptian,
biblical and early Greek views, which based bodily primacy of control on the heart.
This belief was supported by the Greek physician Galen, who concluded that mental
activity occurred in the brain rather than the heart, contending that the brain, a cold,
moist organ formed of sperm, was the seat of the animal soul—one of three “souls”
found in the body, each associated with a principal organ. And the study of this organ,
together with its external casing was termed Phrenology.

Thereby, the popularization of phrenology in the middle and working classes was due in
part to the idea that scientific knowledge was important and an indication of
sophistication and modernity. Cheap and plentiful pamphlets as well as the growing
popularity of scientific lectures as entertainment also helped spread phrenology to the
masses. Combe created a system of philosophy of the human mind that became popular
with the masses because of its simplified principles and wide range of social applications
that were in harmony with the liberal Victorian world view. George Combe’s book On
the Constitution of Man and its Relationship to External Objects sold over 200, 000
copies through nine editions. Combe also devoted a large portion of his book to
reconciling religion and phrenology, which had long been a sticking point. Another
reason for its popularity was that phrenology balanced between free will and
determinism. A person’s inherent faculties were clear, and no faculty was viewed as evil,
though the abuse of a faculty was. Phrenology allowed for self-improvement and
upward mobility, while providing fodder for attacks on aristocratic privilege.
Phrenology also had wide appeal because of its being a reformist philosophy not a
radical one. Phrenology was not limited to the common people and both Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert invited George Combe to read the heads of their children.

However, phrenology was mostly discredited as a scientific theory by the 1840s. This
was due only in part to a growing amount of evidence against phrenology. Phrenologists
had never been able to agree on the most basic mental organ numbers going from 27 to
over 40, and had difficulty locating the mental organs. Phrenologists relied on
cranioscopic readings of the skull to find organ locations. Jean Pierre Flourens’
experiments on the brains of pigeons indicated that the loss of parts of the brain either
caused no loss of function, or the loss of a completely different function than what had
been attributed to it by phrenology. Flourens experiment, while not perfect, seemed to
indicate that Gall’s supposed organs were imaginary. Scientists had also become
disillusioned with phrenology since its exploitation with the middle and working classes
by entrepreneurs. The popularization had resulted in the simplification of phrenology
and mixing in it of principles of physiognomy, which had from the start been rejected
by Gall as an indicator of personality. Phrenology from its inception was tainted by
accusations of promoting materialism and atheism, and being destructive of morality.
These were all factors which led to the downfall of phrenology.

Q.16
Which of the following did not contribute to the popularity of Phrenology?

a A desire to appear elegant, using Science as a garment

b Popular rebellion against Victorian ideas

c Inexpensive advertising
d Simplified presentation of ideas

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Correct Answer : b

Q.17
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the
given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way

Vasari says in his Life of Leonardo, “that he (da Vinci) labored much more by his word
than in fact or by deed,” and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous
works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost
inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so
long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the 16th and 17th
centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated.

a In fact, in 1994 Microsoft’s Bill Gates bought for what was to him an important
personal inspiration and valued possession: one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks,
the Codex Leicester, for a staggering $30.8 million.

b That, notwithstanding this eagerness to possess the Manuscripts, their contents


remained a mystery, can only be accounted for by the many and great difficulties
attending the task of deciphering them.

c Vasari observes with reference to Leonardo’s writing: “he wrote backwards, in


rude characters, and with the left hand, so that anyone who is not practised in reading
them, cannot understand them”.

d This is proved not only by the prices which they commanded at that time, but also
by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of
merely a few pages of Manuscript.

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Correct Answer : d

Q.18
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the
given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate
way

It is folly to judge by appearances, and this is perhaps more true of astronomy. For
instance, the idea arose that the solid earth on which we live and move extends to a
great distance in every direction, and that the heaven is an immense dome upon the
inner surface of which the stars are fixed. However, difficult problems agitated the
human mind. On what, for instance, did the solid earth rest, and what prevented the
vaulted heaven from falling in upon men and crushing them out of existence? Fantastic
myths sprang from the vain attempts to solve these riddles.

a Later on, glimmerings of the true light began to break in upon men.

b The Greek philosophers, who busied themselves much with such matters,
gradually became convinced that the earth was spherical in shape.

c The Hindus, for example, imagined the earth as supported by four elephants
which stood upon the back of a gigantic tortoise, which, in its turn, floated on the
surface of an elemental ocean.

d One such myth was the Ptolemaic system according to which the Earth occupied
the centre; while around it circled in order outwards the Moon, the planets Mercury
and Venus, the Sun, and then the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn

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Correct Answer : c

Q.19
Given below are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words that are italicized.
From the italicized words, select the most appropriate words (A) or (B) to form correct
sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be
selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the
most appropriate one.

A. I am adverse (A) /averse (B) to traveling in such weather conditions.


B. In mock debates, we used to alternative (A) /alternate (B) sides, taking positions.
C. The Pilgrims acted with certitude (A) / certainty (B) on matters of faith.
D. The Board of Education has censured (A) /censored (B) the high-school principal.

a AABB

b BBAA

c ABAB

d BABA
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Correct Answer : b

Q.20
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a
logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the most
appropriate one.

A. Illusions can also evolve from imagination unsupported by facts.


B. These are the illusions of knowledge and understanding, of faith and certainty, of
time and eternity, of freedom and free will, and of the meaning of life.
C. During this limited existence, the individual has to adapt to the outside world in an
endless struggle against the unknown.
D. The limits of existence, cognitive biases, and the boundaries of understanding can
result in illusions, which can be perceived as reality.
E. Individual human beings emerge in the world in a specific era and place, and they
have relatively short lives in the constant presence of uncertainty and death.

a BADEC

b ABDEC

c DBACE

d ECDBA

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Correct Answer : d

Q.21
Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a
logical order to form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the most
appropriate one.

A. The dogma of the divinity of kingship led to a marked differentiation between the
royal and the non-royal, that is, private spheres.
B. Increasingly, what was proper for the life and death of a king differed from the
usages of the private person.
C. As its use slowly grew, its first major application took the form of an Offering List, a
long list of fabrics, foods, and ointments, carved on the walls of private tombs.
D. When writing first appeared in Egypt, at the very beginning of the dynastic age, its
use was limited to the briefest notations designed to identify a person or a place, an
event or a possession.
E. An aura of magic surrounded the art which was said to derive from the gods.

a BACDE

b ABDEC

c ACBED

d DECAB

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Correct Answer : d

Q.22
Read the following argument and answer the question that follows.

The costs of monarchy are unjustifiable. Typically, monarchs and their immediate
family receive substantial amounts of money from the state to maintain luxurious
lifestyles, complete with servants, expensive holidays and hobbies. The state also spends
a great deal to maintain and run palaces and other royal residences, which are seldom
accessible to the general public who support them through their taxes. In the UK, what
is officially termed as ‘Head of State Expenditure’ amounted to £40 million in the 2007-
8 financial year. However, this excludes the cost of security for the numerous family
members and residences. Although the security costs have not been confirmed, it is
estimated that it exceeds £50 million a year.

Which of the following statements would weaken the argument?

a Monarchy is highly cost-effective when compared to the alternate -expense of


maintaining a Presidency with a large staff and equally stringent security requirements.

b Royal residences are held in trust for the nation, and would require the same
upkeep costs whether they were inhabited by a monarch or not.

c Monarchy generates tourist revenue as millions visit sites associated with royalty,
and through its role in promoting trade and industry abroad on royal visits.

d All of the above

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Correct Answer : d

Q.23
Read the following argument and answer the question that follows.

Recent controversy has arisen around France’s plan to ban the Hijab, along with other
visible religious symbols, in schools. France’s secular constitution provides the grounds
for excluding religion from their schools. However it is not just western countries who
have taken this approach. Turkey has for many years suppressed the Hijab in schools,
public buildings and among employees of the state. In the aftermath of 9/11, many
minority Muslim communities in western countries view attacks on the Hijab as part of
a wider attack on Islam conducted in tandem with the ‘War on Terror’. In a similar
way, there is anxiety as to the freedom to bring Sikh Kirpans’ to school because they are
ceremonial daggers. It should be noted that the Sikh religion requires the Kirpan to
carried with the Sikh at all times. In this way, the practice of the religion is seen to be
restricted and can, therefore, be possibly considered as discrimination.

Which of the following will support the cause of the ban?

a Deciding what people can and can’t wear should not be the responsibility of
schools.

b When some women wear the Hijab it creates pressure on other Muslim women to
also cover their heads.

c Most people are affected by the societal norms surrounding them.

d In a multicultural society, students should be aware of the different religious


practices and cultural traditions of their classmates.

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Correct Answer : b

Q.24
Read the following argument and answer the question that follows.

One thing that is certain is that Internet’s importance in society and politics will
continue to grow. There are now 2.08 billion people on the internet; searching on
Google & Yahoo; forming social networks on Facebook and MySpace; sharing videos
on YouTube; tweeting on Twitter; shopping on EBay and Amazon; playing online
games; and accessing news from around the world. The internet allows anyone with
access to view, create, and spread information. The spread of information and growing
communication over the internet can promote democracy.
Which of the following will weaken the argument?

a China is not a democracy even though they have extensive internet access.

b Iran has some internet freedom and access to outside information, yet the
government remains a theocracy.

c Egypt shut down internet and phone service during part of the revolution, yet the
revolution continued.

d Governments have access to and can successfully censor information available on


the net.

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Correct Answer : d

Q.25
Read the following argument and answer the question that follows.

The United Kingdom should adopt a written constitution, explicitly outlining the rights
of citizens, the roles of all organs of the government, and the powers (and limitations
thereon) of the state. The option facing the country is therefore whether to adopt the
sort of explicit, formal supreme law typified by documents such as the United States
Constitution. Adopting such a constitution would restrict the behavior of the
government, and subject all exercises of state power to judicial review.

Which of the following statements would support the cause of a written constitution?

a It is important to enshrine clarity in legal code in order to engage in economic,


social, and political relations.

b When Hitler came to power by election, he quickly dismantled the constitutional


checks on his power.

c It is far wiser to rely on the will of the state than to depend on a constitution.

d The metric by which laws are evaluated in a democracy ought to be whether the
populace accepts them as just.

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Correct Answer : a
Q.26
There are two gaps in the sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words
given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately.

Logic is one of the most ancient __________ disciplines, and one of the most _______.

a highbrow, dated

b intellectual, modern

c philistine, contemporary

d cerebral, current

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Correct Answer : b

Q.27
Five sentences are given below, labeled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. They need to be arranged in a
logical order to form a coherent paragraph. In the space given below, write the correct
sequence.

(1) And what is so remarkable about that?


(2) On 31 August 1997 the finals of the Mercury Music Prize were televised.
(3) It would have been inconceivable for them to be judged against one another.
(4) The nominations included Suede, Mark Anthony Turnage, the Chemical Brothers,
and John Tavener.
(5) Just that only a few years earlier it would have been unusual for ‘classical’
composers like Turnage and Tavener to appear on the same stage as pop groups like
Suede and the Chemical Brothers.

21453

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Correct Answer : 24153

Q.28
Five sentences are given below, labeled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. They need to be arranged in a
logical order to form a coherent paragraph. In the space given below, write the correct
sequence.
(1) Mother sat facing the front of the train, as it makes her giddy to ride backwards.
(2) Our train laid over in Washington two hours till another train come along to pick us
up and I got out and strolled up the platform and into the Union Station.
(3) I sat facing her, which does not affect me.
(4) We reached Baltimore at 6.30 and Washington, D.C., at 7.25.
(5) We reached North Philadelphia at 4.03 P.M. and we reached West Philadelphia at
4.14, but did not go into Broad Street.

12524

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Correct Answer : 13542

Q.29
Four sentences are given below, labeled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of these, three sentences
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the
given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.

a She married for love, and the love turned to dust.

b There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet
she had no luck.

c She was an everywoman.

d She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could
not love them.

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Correct Answer : c

Q.30
Four sentences are given below, labeled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of these, three sentences
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the
given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.

a You could tell that at once by his travelled air, his well-cut tweed suit, and
fearless accent.
b He was the perfect tourist, and every place suited him.

c Few fellows had talents like his, and fewer still could remain unspoiled by such
success.

d Eight years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him
God-speed, Gallaher had got on.

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Correct Answer : b

Q.31
Given below are four sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar, usage, spellings and
punctuation. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

A. Every music is different, but every music is music, too.


B. There is a level at which you can talk off ‘music’, but it isn’t the ABC level.
C. To talk about music in general is to talk about what music mean – and more
basically, how it is that music operates as an agent of meaning.
D. For music isn’t just something nice to listen to.

a A and B

b B and C

c C and D

d D and A

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Correct Answer : b

Q.32
Given below are four sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar, usage, spellings and
punctuation. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

A. Global warming is one of the most controversial science issue of the 21st century,
challenging the very structure of our global society.
B. The problem is that global warming is not just a scientific concern, but encompasses
economics, sociology, geopolitics, local politics, and individuals option of lifestyle.
C. Global warming is caused by the massive increase of greenhouse gases, such as
carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, resulting from the burning of fossil fuels and
deforestation.
D. There is clear evidence that we had already elevated concantrations of atmospheric
carbon dioxide to their highest level for the last half million years and maybe even
longer.

a A and B

b A , B, and D

c B and C

d C and D

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Correct Answer : b

Q.33
Given below are four sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar, usage, spellings and
punctuation. Then, choose the most appropriate option.

A. But it is not that simple.


B. Psychiatry was different.
C. Even those of us who work in it are treated as different.
D. I am often asked, only half- joking, weather we become psychiatrists because we are
odd or did we become odd as a result of being psychiatrists.

a A and B

b A and C

c C and D

d D and B

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Correct Answer : d
Q.34
Given below are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words that are italicized.
From the italicized words, select the most appropriate words (A) or (B) to form correct
sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be
selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the
most appropriate one.

I. His eyes were light blue and childish (A)/ childlike (B) in their innocence.
II. I want to look closely at the first lines of the poem, in which Smith seems to abjure
(A)/ adjure (B) any claim of authority.
III. The forests were low, and the land stretched tight like taut (A)/ tout (B) buffalo skin.
IV. Before she can marry the prince, she finds herself kidnapped by a gang of rouges
(A)/rogues (B) led by Vizzini.

a ABAB

b BAAB

c AABA

d BBBA

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Correct Answer : b

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Directions for questions 35 to 38: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Citrus Mobile Ltd. launched a new model “Orange” in April, 2014. For the mobile,
which was sold exclusively online, the bookings started on April1, 2014 and ended on
September 30, 2014. The model had only one variant at a fixed price. There were three
modes of booking – premium booking, which were delivered in the same month at 5%
premium i.e. one had to pay 105% of the price of the mobile; normal bookings, which
were delivered in next month i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered in
(X + 1)th month without any extra charges; and discounted bookings, which were
delivered in next to next month, i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered
in (X + 2)th month, at 2% discount i.e. one had to pay 98% of the price of the mobile.
The payment for all kind of deliveries was done in the month of booking. In every
month, except April, exactly one-fifth of the bookings were normal bookings.

The following table gives the number of bookings and the number of deliveries for the
given period.
Q.35
For how many moths premium collected was more than discount given?

a 2

b 3

c 4

d 5

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 35 to 38: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Citrus Mobile Ltd. launched a new model “Orange” in April, 2014. For the mobile,
which was sold exclusively online, the bookings started on April1, 2014 and ended on
September 30, 2014. The model had only one variant at a fixed price. There were three
modes of booking – premium booking, which were delivered in the same month at 5%
premium i.e. one had to pay 105% of the price of the mobile; normal bookings, which
were delivered in next month i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered in
(X + 1)th month without any extra charges; and discounted bookings, which were
delivered in next to next month, i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered
in (X + 2)th month, at 2% discount i.e. one had to pay 98% of the price of the mobile.
The payment for all kind of deliveries was done in the month of booking. In every
month, except April, exactly one-fifth of the bookings were normal bookings.

The following table gives the number of bookings and the number of deliveries for the
given period.

Q.36
In which month was the number of premium bookings as a percentage of total bookings
highest?

a August

b September

c May

d July

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 35 to 38: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Citrus Mobile Ltd. launched a new model “Orange” in April, 2014. For the mobile,
which was sold exclusively online, the bookings started on April1, 2014 and ended on
September 30, 2014. The model had only one variant at a fixed price. There were three
modes of booking – premium booking, which were delivered in the same month at 5%
premium i.e. one had to pay 105% of the price of the mobile; normal bookings, which
were delivered in next month i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered in
(X + 1)th month without any extra charges; and discounted bookings, which were
delivered in next to next month, i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered
in (X + 2)th month, at 2% discount i.e. one had to pay 98% of the price of the mobile.
The payment for all kind of deliveries was done in the month of booking. In every
month, except April, exactly one-fifth of the bookings were normal bookings.

The following table gives the number of bookings and the number of deliveries for the
given period.

Q.37
How many Orange mobiles booked in June were delivered in August?

538

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Correct Answer : 538
Directions for questions 35 to 38: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Citrus Mobile Ltd. launched a new model “Orange” in April, 2014. For the mobile,
which was sold exclusively online, the bookings started on April1, 2014 and ended on
September 30, 2014. The model had only one variant at a fixed price. There were three
modes of booking – premium booking, which were delivered in the same month at 5%
premium i.e. one had to pay 105% of the price of the mobile; normal bookings, which
were delivered in next month i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered in
(X + 1)th month without any extra charges; and discounted bookings, which were
delivered in next to next month, i.e if booking was done in Xth month, it was delivered
in (X + 2)th month, at 2% discount i.e. one had to pay 98% of the price of the mobile.
The payment for all kind of deliveries was done in the month of booking. In every
month, except April, exactly one-fifth of the bookings were normal bookings.

The following table gives the number of bookings and the number of deliveries for the
given period.

Q.38
In how many months did number of discounted bookings constitute not more than half
of total bookings in that month?

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

The following graph gives the percentage change in the expenditure of a company over
the previous year for the period 2008 to 2014.
The following table gives the percentage point change in percentage profit of the
company over the previous year for the time period 2008 to 2014.

Percentage point change means that if the profit in 2009 was 30%, then in 2010 it was
30 – 10 = 20% and if it in 2009 was 5%, then in 2010 it will be 5 – 10 = –5% i.e. 5% loss.
Profit = Revenue – Expenditure
Percentage profit = (Profit/Expenditure) × 100%

Q.39
If the profit in 2010 was 10% less than that in 2009, then what was the percentage profit
of the company in 2009?

a 40%

b 30%

c 60%

d 50%

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Correct Answer : a
Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

The following graph gives the percentage change in the expenditure of a company over
the previous year for the period 2008 to 2014.

The following table gives the percentage point change in percentage profit of the
company over the previous year for the time period 2008 to 2014.

Percentage point change means that if the profit in 2009 was 30%, then in 2010 it was
30 – 10 = 20% and if it in 2009 was 5%, then in 2010 it will be 5 – 10 = –5% i.e. 5% loss.
Profit = Revenue – Expenditure
Percentage profit = (Profit/Expenditure) × 100%

Q.40
If the profit in 2014 was Rs.10 crore more than that in 2013, what was the percentage
profit of the company in 2012?

a 20%

b 5%

c 10%

d Cannot be determined
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Correct Answer : d

Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

The following graph gives the percentage change in the expenditure of a company over
the previous year for the period 2008 to 2014.

The following table gives the percentage point change in percentage profit of the
company over the previous year for the time period 2008 to 2014.

Percentage point change means that if the profit in 2009 was 30%, then in 2010 it was
30 – 10 = 20% and if it in 2009 was 5%, then in 2010 it will be 5 – 10 = –5% i.e. 5% loss.
Profit = Revenue – Expenditure
Percentage profit = (Profit/Expenditure) × 100%

Q.41
If the company made 20% profit in one of the years from 2007 to 2014, then what was
the maximum number of years in which company did not make any profit?

a 4
b 3

c 2

d 5

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 39 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

The following graph gives the percentage change in the expenditure of a company over
the previous year for the period 2008 to 2014.

The following table gives the percentage point change in percentage profit of the
company over the previous year for the time period 2008 to 2014.

Percentage point change means that if the profit in 2009 was 30%, then in 2010 it was
30 – 10 = 20% and if it in 2009 was 5%, then in 2010 it will be 5 – 10 = –5% i.e. 5% loss.
Profit = Revenue – Expenditure
Percentage profit = (Profit/Expenditure) × 100%

Q.42
If company made 15% loss in one of the years from 2008 to 2014, then what was the
minimum number of years in which company incurred loss?

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Correct Answer : 4

Directions for questions 43 to 46: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

On the occasion of Diwali, Pranav bought gifts from ten shops namely Sh1, Sh2, Sh3, …
Sh10. These shops are located in four different areas – Andheri, CP, NFC and Gurgaon.
Pranav bought only four types of gifts from these shops – wallet, watch, perfume and
pens. Table 1 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from these gift shops and
Table 2 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from the four areas.

Q.43
Sh7 is located in

a Andheri
b NFC

c Gurgaon

d Cannot be determined

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Correct Answer : a

Directions for questions 43 to 46: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

On the occasion of Diwali, Pranav bought gifts from ten shops namely Sh1, Sh2, Sh3, …
Sh10. These shops are located in four different areas – Andheri, CP, NFC and Gurgaon.
Pranav bought only four types of gifts from these shops – wallet, watch, perfume and
pens. Table 1 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from these gift shops and
Table 2 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from the four areas.

Q.44
Which of the following groups of shops are not located in Andheri?
a Sh6 and Sh2

b Sh6 and Sh7

c Sh2 and Sh9

d More than one of the above

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 43 to 46: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

On the occasion of Diwali, Pranav bought gifts from ten shops namely Sh1, Sh2, Sh3, …
Sh10. These shops are located in four different areas – Andheri, CP, NFC and Gurgaon.
Pranav bought only four types of gifts from these shops – wallet, watch, perfume and
pens. Table 1 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from these gift shops and
Table 2 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from the four areas.

Q.45
Which area definitely has only 2 of these shops?

a Andheri

b Gurgaon

c CP

d None of these

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 43 to 46: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

On the occasion of Diwali, Pranav bought gifts from ten shops namely Sh1, Sh2, Sh3, …
Sh10. These shops are located in four different areas – Andheri, CP, NFC and Gurgaon.
Pranav bought only four types of gifts from these shops – wallet, watch, perfume and
pens. Table 1 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from these gift shops and
Table 2 gives the number of gifts of each type bought from the four areas.
Q.46
Which of the following shops is located in Gurgaon ?

a Sh1

b Sh4

c Sh8

d More than one of the above

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Correct Answer : d

Directions for questions 47 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

A survey was conducted among 120 kids to gauge their preference for ice cream,
chocolate and milkshake. It was found that the number of kids who liked at most two of
these items was three times that of those who liked at least 2 of these items. The number
of kids who like only chocolate was more than that of those who liked only ice cream,
which, in turn, was more than that of those who liked only milkshake.

Q.47
The number of kids who did not like either of the three items was one-fifth of those who
liked exactly two items, then which of the following could be the number of kids who
liked exactly one of the three items?

a 80

b 81

c 82

d 85

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 47 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.
A survey was conducted among 120 kids to gauge their preference for ice cream,
chocolate and milkshake. It was found that the number of kids who liked at most two of
these items was three times that of those who liked at least 2 of these items. The number
of kids who like only chocolate was more than that of those who liked only ice cream,
which, in turn, was more than that of those who liked only milkshake.

Q.48
If the number of kids who did not like either of three items was less than that of those
who liked only milkshake, then the number of kids who did not like any of the three
items could not be more than

a 19

b 20

c 21

d 22

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 47 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

A survey was conducted among 120 kids to gauge their preference for ice cream,
chocolate and milkshake. It was found that the number of kids who liked at most two of
these items was three times that of those who liked at least 2 of these items. The number
of kids who like only chocolate was more than that of those who liked only ice cream,
which, in turn, was more than that of those who liked only milkshake.

Q.49
If each of the kids liked atleast one of the three items, the number of kids who liked only
chocolate was 36 and the number of kids who liked ice cream was equal to that of those
who liked chocolate, the number of kids who liked ice cream could not be more than

a 84

b 75

c 74
d 85

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 47 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

A survey was conducted among 120 kids to gauge their preference for ice cream,
chocolate and milkshake. It was found that the number of kids who liked at most two of
these items was three times that of those who liked at least 2 of these items. The number
of kids who like only chocolate was more than that of those who liked only ice cream,
which, in turn, was more than that of those who liked only milkshake.

Q.50
If each of the kids liked atleast one of the three items, the number of kids who liked only
chocolate was 36 and the number of kids who liked ice cream was equal to that of those
who liked chocolate, the number of kids who liked chocolate and ice cream but not
milkshake could not be more than

a 40

b 39

c 37

d Cannot be determined

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Correct Answer : b

Directions for questions 51 to 54: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

A cube, having two red faces, two blue faces and two green faces, is cut into 216 smaller
and identical cubes.

Q.51
The number of cubes with both red and green coloured faces cannot be more than

a 22
b 16

c 24

d 18

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Correct Answer : c

Directions for questions 51 to 54: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

A cube, having two red faces, two blue faces and two green faces, is cut into 216 smaller
and identical cubes.

Q.52
What is the maximum and minimum respective value of the number of smaller cubes
that have all the three colours on them?

a 8, 4

b 6,4

c 8,2

d 8,0

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given below.

A cube, having two red faces, two blue faces and two green faces, is cut into 216 smaller
and identical cubes.

Q.53
If one of unpainted faces of all the smaller cubes is painted with red color, then what is
the minimum possible number of smaller cubes now that have all three colours on
them?
a 8

b 12

c 14

d 16

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given below.

A cube, having two red faces, two blue faces and two green faces, is cut into 216 smaller
and identical cubes.

Q.54
The number of smaller cubes that have exactly one colour on them cannot be more than

a 108

b 96

c 144

d 134

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Directions for questions 55 to 58: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Each question consists of two statements, labeled I and II, which contain certain data.
Using these data decide whether the data given are sufficient for answering the question
and then indicate one of the following answer choices:

(a) Statement I alone is sufficient, but statement II alone is not sufficient.


(b) Statement II alone is sufficient, but statement I alone is not sufficient.
(c) Either statement I alone or statement II alone is sufficient.
(d) Statements I and II together are not sufficient.

Q.55
What is the average of four real numbers w, v, x and y?
I. Average of v and w is 7.
II. Average of v, x and y is 17.

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Directions for questions 55 to 58: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Each question consists of two statements, labeled I and II, which contain certain data.
Using these data decide whether the data given are sufficient for answering the question
and then indicate one of the following answer choices:

(a) Statement I alone is sufficient, but statement II alone is not sufficient.


(b) Statement II alone is sufficient, but statement I alone is not sufficient.
(c) Either statement I alone or statement II alone is sufficient.
(d) Statements I and II together are not sufficient.

Q.56
Jose travels from point A to point B at an average speed of 60 km/hr and then from
point B to point C at an average speed of 30 km/hr. What is the distance between points
A and C?
I. Jose had taken a total of 3 hr in travelling from point A to point C.
II. Jose had taken a total of 1 hr in travelling from point A to point B.

c
d

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given below.

Each question consists of two statements, labeled I and II, which contain certain data.
Using these data decide whether the data given are sufficient for answering the question
and then indicate one of the following answer choices:

(a) Statement I alone is sufficient, but statement II alone is not sufficient.


(b) Statement II alone is sufficient, but statement I alone is not sufficient.
(c) Either statement I alone or statement II alone is sufficient.
(d) Statements I and II together are not sufficient.

Q.57
A man has three sons A, B and C, what are their ages?
I. The difference between the ages of A and B is 3 years and the difference between the
ages of B and C is also 3 years.
II. The sum of the age of the three sons is 57 years. 58.

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given below.

Each question consists of two statements, labeled I and II, which contain certain data.
Using these data decide whether the data given are sufficient for answering the question
and then indicate one of the following answer choices:

(a) Statement I alone is sufficient, but statement II alone is not sufficient.


(b) Statement II alone is sufficient, but statement I alone is not sufficient.
(c) Either statement I alone or statement II alone is sufficient.
(d) Statements I and II together are not sufficient.

Q.58
What is the value of (ad – bc)?
I. a, b, c, d are 4 consecutive terms of an A.P with common difference = 3 such that a < b
< c < d.
II. a, b, c, d are 4 consecutive positive even numbers such that a < b < c < d.

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

In a company, there are four managers – Akash, Bharat, Chetna and Dimple – in
marketing department, and four managers – Prakash, Kamal, Richa and Shilpa – in
finance department. Akash, Bharat, Prakash and Kamal are male and others are
female. Two teams, with four members each, are to be constitueted out of these eight
persons to handle launch of two new products – Crux and Shivel. Also each team has
two members from each department. Prakash and Bharat cannot not be in the same
team. Chetna is a part of the team that is to handle launch of Crux and Richa is a part
of the team that is to handle launch of Shivel.

Q.59
If Bharat and Shilpa are in the same team, who among the following is definitely in
their team?

a Richa

b Chetna

c Akash
d None of these

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

In a company, there are four managers – Akash, Bharat, Chetna and Dimple – in
marketing department, and four managers – Prakash, Kamal, Richa and Shilpa – in
finance department. Akash, Bharat, Prakash and Kamal are male and others are
female. Two teams, with four members each, are to be constitueted out of these eight
persons to handle launch of two new products – Crux and Shivel. Also each team has
two members from each department. Prakash and Bharat cannot not be in the same
team. Chetna is a part of the team that is to handle launch of Crux and Richa is a part
of the team that is to handle launch of Shivel.

Q.60
If the team handling launch of Crux has exactly two males, then in how many ways can
the other team be formed?

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

In a company, there are four managers – Akash, Bharat, Chetna and Dimple – in
marketing department, and four managers – Prakash, Kamal, Richa and Shilpa – in
finance department. Akash, Bharat, Prakash and Kamal are male and others are
female. Two teams, with four members each, are to be constitueted out of these eight
persons to handle launch of two new products – Crux and Shivel. Also each team has
two members from each department. Prakash and Bharat cannot not be in the same
team. Chetna is a part of the team that is to handle launch of Crux and Richa is a part
of the team that is to handle launch of Shivel.

Q.61
If one of the team has three males, then which of the following pairs of persons are
definitely in the same team?
(i) Bharat and Chetna
(ii) Bharat andRicha
(iii) Prakash and Chetna
(iv) Prakash and Richa

a Only (i)

b Only (iii)

c Both (ii) & (iii)

d Only (ii) and (iv)

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Directions for questions 59 to 62: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

In a company, there are four managers – Akash, Bharat, Chetna and Dimple – in
marketing department, and four managers – Prakash, Kamal, Richa and Shilpa – in
finance department. Akash, Bharat, Prakash and Kamal are male and others are
female. Two teams, with four members each, are to be constitueted out of these eight
persons to handle launch of two new products – Crux and Shivel. Also each team has
two members from each department. Prakash and Bharat cannot not be in the same
team. Chetna is a part of the team that is to handle launch of Crux and Richa is a part
of the team that is to handle launch of Shivel.

Q.62
If Prakash and Kamal are in different teams, then which of the following pairs of
persons are definitely in the same team?
(i) Kamal and Richa
(ii) Chetna and Shilpa
(iii) Prakash and Dimple
(iv) Bharat and Akash

a Only (ii)

b Only(ii) and (iii)

c Only (i)

d Only (iii) and (iv)

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Directions for questions 63 to 66: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Four friends namely Dinesh, Jatin, Prakash and Vivek, each of whom has a different
coloured car from among red, blue, green and yellow, not necessarily in the same order,
belong to three categories of persons (at least one from each category) – truth teller,
alternator and liar. A truth teller always speaks the truth; an alternator makes a true
statement followed by a false one or vice versa; and a liar always speaks a lie. It is
known that out of the four, two are alternators. When these four persons were enquired
regarding the colors of their cars, each of them made two statements, the details of
which are as follows:

Prakash : The color of my car is either red or blue. The red colored car is either
Dinesh’s or mine.
Vivek : The color of my car is neither red nor blue. The yellow colored car is neither
Jatin’s nor mine.
Dinesh : The color of Vivek’s car is yellow. Jatin is a truth teller.
Jatin : The color of my car is yellow. The color of Dinesh’s car is not green.

Q.63
Who among the following cannot be a truth teller?

a Vivek

b Dinesh

c Jatin

d Prakash

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given below.

Four friends namely Dinesh, Jatin, Prakash and Vivek, each of whom has a different
coloured car from among red, blue, green and yellow, not necessarily in the same order,
belong to three categories of persons (at least one from each category) – truth teller,
alternator and liar. A truth teller always speaks the truth; an alternator makes a true
statement followed by a false one or vice versa; and a liar always speaks a lie. It is
known that out of the four, two are alternators. When these four persons were enquired
regarding the colors of their cars, each of them made two statements, the details of
which are as follows:

Prakash : The color of my car is either red or blue. The red colored car is either
Dinesh’s or mine.
Vivek : The color of my car is neither red nor blue. The yellow colored car is neither
Jatin’s nor mine.
Dinesh : The color of Vivek’s car is yellow. Jatin is a truth teller.
Jatin : The color of my car is yellow. The color of Dinesh’s car is not green.

Q.64
If the color of Vivek’s car is blue, then the color of whose car is green?

a Jatin

b Prakash

c Dinesh

d Cannot be determined

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Directions for questions 63 to 66: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.

Four friends namely Dinesh, Jatin, Prakash and Vivek, each of whom has a different
coloured car from among red, blue, green and yellow, not necessarily in the same order,
belong to three categories of persons (at least one from each category) – truth teller,
alternator and liar. A truth teller always speaks the truth; an alternator makes a true
statement followed by a false one or vice versa; and a liar always speaks a lie. It is
known that out of the four, two are alternators. When these four persons were enquired
regarding the colors of their cars, each of them made two statements, the details of
which are as follows:

Prakash : The color of my car is either red or blue. The red colored car is either
Dinesh’s or mine.
Vivek : The color of my car is neither red nor blue. The yellow colored car is neither
Jatin’s nor mine.
Dinesh : The color of Vivek’s car is yellow. Jatin is a truth teller.
Jatin : The color of my car is yellow. The color of Dinesh’s car is not green.

Q.65
If the color of Prakash’s car is Red, then the color of whose car is yellow?
a Vivek

b Jatin

c Dinesh

d Cannot be determined

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given below.

Four friends namely Dinesh, Jatin, Prakash and Vivek, each of whom has a different
coloured car from among red, blue, green and yellow, not necessarily in the same order,
belong to three categories of persons (at least one from each category) – truth teller,
alternator and liar. A truth teller always speaks the truth; an alternator makes a true
statement followed by a false one or vice versa; and a liar always speaks a lie. It is
known that out of the four, two are alternators. When these four persons were enquired
regarding the colors of their cars, each of them made two statements, the details of
which are as follows:

Prakash : The color of my car is either red or blue. The red colored car is either
Dinesh’s or mine.
Vivek : The color of my car is neither red nor blue. The yellow colored car is neither
Jatin’s nor mine.
Dinesh : The color of Vivek’s car is yellow. Jatin is a truth teller.
Jatin : The color of my car is yellow. The color of Dinesh’s car is not green.

Q.66
Who among the following cannot be the liar?

a Dinesh

b Vivek

c Jatin

d Prakash

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Q.67
Ram Prasad lives in Ramnagar colony where each house has a number. If Ram
Prasad’s house number is a multiple of 7, then it falls between 200 and 299. If his house
number is not a multiple of 4, then it falls between 300 and 399. If his house number is
not a multiple of 9, it falls between 400 and 499. His house number can be

a 432

b 252

c Neither (a) nor (b)

d Both (a) and (b)

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Q.68
If 20 units of item A are sold at a profit of x% and 30 units of item B are sold at a profit
of 2x%, then what is the net profit percentage?

a 1.4x%

b 1.6x%

c 1.5x%

d Data insufficient

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Q.69
a

b 1

d 0

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Correct Answer : a

Q.70
is a right-angled triangle. The altitude CD drawn from vertex C to the
hypotenuse AB is the diameter of a circle. This circle intersects AC at E and BC at F. If
AB = 17 cm and AC = 15 cm, then what is the length of EF?

a 6 cm

b 120/17 cm

c 110/17 cm

d 8 cm

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Q.71
A sum of money invested in compound interest, compounded anually, becomes Rs.
1,24,000 after 4 years and Rs. 1, 55, 000 after 12 years. The compound interest earned in
24 years as a percentage of the amount kept at the beginning of the first year is

a 75%

b 56.25%
c 81.25%

d 95.3%

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Q.72
A three-digit positive number ‘X’ is in the decimal system. ‘X’ is equal to cube of its
unit digit as well as square of a two digit number formed by the remaining two digits(in
any order). Find the sum of the digits of ‘X’.

20

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Q.73
If x + y + 3xy = 125 and 27x + y + 27x y + 9xy = 0, then find (x + y).
3 2 3 3 2 2

a –10

b 100

c –5

d Data insufficient

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Q.74
A, B and C are the vertices of a triangle of area 60 cm . Let AD be the median drawn
2

from vertex A to side BC and BY be the median from vertex B to AD. If BY is extended
to meet AC at E, what is the area of triangle AYE?

a 10 cm 2
b 9 cm 2

c 6 cm 2

d 5 cm 2

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Q.75
The largest integer that always divides n – 5n + 4n, where ‘n’ is a natural number, is
5 3

a 40

b 60

c 24

d 120

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Q.76
How many 10 digit numbers can be formed by using the digits 2 and 3?

a 2 10

b 10 2

c 10!

d 2 ×3
5 5

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Q.77

a a : b : c : d = 20 : 15 : 12 : 10

b a:b:c:d=3:4:5:6

c a, b, c and d are in AP

d Both (b) and (c)

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Q.78
In the following figure, CAD and CBE are straight lines. If CA is the diameter of the
smaller circle, then find the value of

a 90°

b 110°

c 45°

d Data insufficient

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Q.79
If P and Q are real numbers satisfying P > 0, Q > 0, and P + Q ≤ 6, then which of the
following is not necessarily true?

a 3P + 3Q ≤ 35

b 2P + 3Q ≤ 23

c 3P + 4Q < 21

d 2P + 3Q ≤ 25

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Q.80
All the first 150 positive multiples of 3 are placed side by side .What is the sum of all the
digits of the number so formed ?

a 450

b 1356

c 1584

d 900

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Q.81
How many five-digit numbers can be formed so that at even place there is an even digit
and at odd place there is an odd digit, repetition of digits is not allowed? (Assume zero
is an even number.)

1200

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Q.82
N(x) = –x, where x is any real number greater than 1. If [x] denotes the greatest integer
less than or equal to x, and |x| is the absolute value of x, then which of the following is
greatest?

a [1 + | N(x)|] ⋅ [1 – | N(x)|]

b [1 – |x| ] 2

c |1 – x| [1 + x]

d |1 – x |
2

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Q.83
In the figure given below, O, Q, P, R are respective centres of circles of different radii
and each circle touches the other three circles. It is further given that OP = 98, PQ =
157, OR = 92 and PR = 170.
Find the radii of the circles with centres O, Q, P and R respectively.

a 190, 92, 43, 66

b 180, 75, 64, 88

c 190, 92, 65, 66

d 180, 75, 82, 88

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Q.84
A vessel contains V litres milk-water solution, in which ratio of milk to water is 3 : 2.
After adding 10 litres of water to the solution, the concentration of milk in the resultant
solution lies between 40% and 50%. Which of the following is the certain range of
values of V?

a 50 litres < V < 60 litres

b 40 litres < V < 50 litres

c 30 litres < V < 40 litres

d 20 litres < V < 50 litres

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Q.85
There are 5 questions with 4 options each. Out of 4 options, one is correct and 3 are
wrong. A right answer fetches 1 mark, and one wrong answer attracts penalty of 1/4
marks. What is the probability of getting zero marks if all the questions are mandatory?

a 1/6

b 81/256

c 405/1024

d 113/256

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Q.86
a

b 10 – 2
8

c 10 – 2
10

d 25 × 10 – 2
8

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Correct Answer : d

Q.87
A swimmer started swimming from Baghbazar Ghat towards Ahiritola Ghat against
the stream. At Ahiritola Ghat he saw a floating log. He continued swimming, in the
same direction as before,till Howrah Ghat and after reaching there, he immediately
turned and started swimming back. Coincidentally the log and the swimmer both
reached Baghbazar Ghat at the same time. If Howrah Ghat is 20 km away from the
Ahiritola Ghat and the swimmer took thrice the time for ongoing journey that he took
while coming back, then what is the distance between Baghbazar Ghat and Ahiritola
Ghat?

a 60 km

b 20 km

c 10 km

d 40 km

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Q.88
A cubical container is half filled with water. The container is now inclined in such a way
that the water surface touches one edge completely and does not touch the other lateral
face of the cube which it was touching before inclination.What is the angle made by the
surface of water with the bottom surface of the container?

a 30°

b 90°

c 45°

d 60°

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Q.89
The smallest 4-digit number which is divisible by 3 and 37 but leaves a remainder 1
when divided by 11 is

a 1332

b 3774

c 3663

d 1443

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Q.90
If Y = 5 – | X + 1 | – | X – 3 |, what is the maximum possible value of Y?

a 1

b 5
c 4

d ∞

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Q.91
When the air-conditioner is on, a typist can type X pages per hour. However, when the
air-conditioner is off, she can type at 65 % of the efficiency that she had with the air-
conditioner being on. How many hours would she take to type 575 pages when the air-
conditioner is off?

a 375.4 X

b 884.6/X

c 884.6 X

d 454.3/X

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Q.92

a 2<a <3 5

b 3<a <4 5

c 4<a <5 5

d 5<a <6 5

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Correct Answer : b

Q.93
What will be the remainder when (26 + 1) + (25 + 2) + (24 + 3) + ... + (1 + 26) is
27 27 27 27

divided by 27?

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Correct Answer : 0

Q.94
In the figure shown below, O, which is the origin, is the centre of the circle and ABCD is
a rectangle.
If the radius of the circle is 5 cm and AB = 6 cm, then find the area of ΔADE.

a 48 cm 2

b 24 cm 2

c 36 cm2

d 18 cm 2

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Q.95
The sum of the date of the last Monday of the previous month and the date of the first
Thursday of the following month is 38. If both the dates are of the same year, the
current month is

a August

b October

c February

d Cannot be determined

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Q.96
If the product of the 11th, 18th and 20th terms of a geometric progression is equal to the
product of 28th and 5th terms of the same geometric progression, which term of the
geometric progression is necessarily equal to 1?

a 15th

b 16th

c 18th

d 19th

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Q.97
A farmer grows cauliflower in his square field. Each cauliflower needs 1 sq.mt of
independent area. This year the farmer increases the area of his field maintaining the
square shape of the field. In the new field too, each cauliflower needs 1 sq. mt of
independent area and the number of cauliflowers grown is increased by 211 due to the
increase in area. What is the total number of cauliflowers produced this year?

a 11025
b 11236

c 11449

d 10816

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Q.98
If all the binary numbers from 100 to 1000000 are written, find the total number of 1’s
used in these numbers?

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Correct Answer : 189

Q.99
The minimum value of 3x + 3y + z subject to the condition xyz = 24, where x, y and z are
all positive real numbers, is

b 18

c 216

d 12

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Q.100
In a colony, there are 350 residents. At least 40% of them smoke cigar, at least 30% of
them smoke hookah, and at least 22% of them smoke cigarette. If p is the number of
residents smoking all cigar, hookah and cigarette, then

a 28 < p < 77

b 0 ≤ p ≤ 100

c 0≤p≤7

d 0 ≤ p ≤ 350

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