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1.
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A) Mr D Gautam's personality sets him apart the rest
B) Nothing is too similar for his attention
C) He has a fanatical devotion in detail
D) This is what makes him a different guy
2.
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A) 1971 was changed the political geography of the subcontinent
B) Despite the significance of the event, there has been no serious book about the conflict
C) Surrender at Dacca aims to fill this gap
D) It also profoundly altered the geo-strategic situation in Africa
3.
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A) Sony has been valued at around Rs 500 crore
B) IBM is a leading consultancy firm
C) This valuation has been done by IBM
D) They have relied on the excess value approach
4.
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A) Merchants soon grew rich as the demand for product's increased
B) Trade started from person to person but grew to involve different towns in different lands
C) Eventually, people got a greater variety of things to choose from
D) People found work in transporting the goods or selling them
5.
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A) In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other groups
B) Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
C) And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive
D) But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches
E) Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures
6.
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A) Micheal Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or compliant
B) But thanklessens and impossibility do not daunt him
C) He acknowledges too- in fact he returns to the point- that best translators of poetry always fail at some level
D) Hofman fells passionately about his work, and this clear from his writings
E) in terms of gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners
7.
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A) Otherwise the congress would not have opposed PSU disinvestment today
B) It is clear that there is not consensus on economic reform
C) Nor would allies of ruling NDA opposes privatisation
D) All this would stop India becoming the next superpower
8.
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A) His political carrer came to an abrupt end with China's military operation
B) He attracted as repelled
C) He was responsible for the debacle
D) A man of paradoxes, Menon remained an engime
9.
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A) The Supreme Court in various judgements in the last 25 years has further emphasised this
B) The Right to Information is derived from Article 19 of the Constitution
C) The RTI Act was passed in May 2005 and came into force in October 2005
D) It is intended to give relevant information about the government and its institutions
E) This Act enables citizens to obtain information without going to court each time
10.
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Rearrange the five sentences 1,2,3,4,5 in the proper sequence to form a meaningful passage
1) "What is waste of my tax money", I thought, walking past the people having free Californian Chardonnay
2) "Speak to her", he said, "She's into books".
3) The friend who had brought me there noticed my noticing her
4) In late 2003, I was still paying taxes in America, so it horrified me that the US consulate was hosting a "Gallo drinking appreciation event".
5) Behind them, a pianist was playing old film tunes, and a slim short woman was dancing around him
Which of the following would be the FOURTH sentence?
11.
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A) the main difference is that efficiency is a ration and effectiveness is not
B) but they reach efficiency in a different way than American businessman
C) The Japanese are very efficient
D) They reach efficiency through the route of effectiveness
12.
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A) Riots had to be contained, food shortages to be overcome, princely states to be integrated, refugees to be resettled
B) It is safe to say that no modern politician had anywhere near as difficult a job as Jawaharlal Nehru's
C) At Independence, the country he was asked to lead was asked to lead was faced with horrific problems
D) This, so to say, was the task to fire-fighting; to be followed by the equality daunting task of nation-building
13.
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A) What came out was very large garland made out of currency notes
B) The unsuspecting governor opened the box in full view of the gathering
C) Where the RBI governor came to inaugurate the new printing press
D) There was a twist- the notes were all as tattered as notes could get
14.
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A) Arrived here on Sunday by an early morning flight
B) Dubai-based Win Gautam who is the
C) accused in the Rs 50 crore Before guns kickback case
D) He is scheduled to appear in the trial court by Wednesday
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A) But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities
B) So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them
C) Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure
D) How do you do battle with your enemy?
E) The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case
F) with regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do the battle with its eemy