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DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for for for for for QQQQQuestions 1 to 13:uestions 1 to 13:uestions 1 to 13:uestions 1 to 13:uestions 1 to 13: The four passages given below are followed by a set of questions.Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

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THE highly acclaimed film Pretty Baby provokes disturbing questions, but are mostly left unexplored, andthe film fails, we think, as a serious visual statement of important moral issues. Critics have lavished extravagantpraise on Pretty Baby, declaring that the film is “a perfectly beautiful movie” (Judith Christ), “a labor of loveand art” (Liz Smith), “elegant, ironic, and poignant” (Jack Kroll), “penetrating and beautiful” (Norma McLainStoop), “the most extraordinary film so far this year” (Walter Spencer), “the most imaginative, most intelligent,and most original film of the year” (Vincent Canby).

The names behind the screening certainly promise something special: the well-known French director, LouisMalle; the former Bergman photographer, Sven Nyvist; the talented actors and especially the twelve-year oldBrooke Shields. And the story, set in the red-light district of New Orleans, seems a natural for our sexuallyinsatiable age. There is ample historical and illustrative documentation for this unique social experiment, theonly legalized area of prostitution in America that flourished (if that is the word) from 1898 to 1917 nearlytwenty years. Much of the chronicle, in official papers, interviews, and pictures, is available in Al Rose’s“authentic” account (curiously unacknowledged in the film’s initial credits).

The story has to do with the inhabitants and habitués of a gaudy “sporting house,” Nell, the madam (FrancesFaye), a dozen “girls,” a deaf senator, a tottering old man in full evening dress, various paying customers, ajazz piano player (Antonio Fargas), a photographer (Keith Carradine), a retinue of servants (mostly black),and several illegitimate children wandering around, including “Violet” (Brooke Shields), the daughter of ahardened professional (Susan Sarandon) who sometimes calls herself “Hattie” and at other times “Hildegarde”and who refers to her daughter as her “sister.” Everything tends to focus on Violet who grows up within thisunusual household with equanimity, composure, and eager expectation of the time when she, too, can becomea professional.

Since sex is the subject, it may seem prudish these days to raise objections to the film. But we are not disturbedso much by the visual story, which incidentally is remarkably free of explicit scenes or language, as by thefailure of the film to deal realistically, subtly, or even incidentally with the very issues implied.

Pretty Baby poses a dozen perplexing moral ambiguities but deals with them only superficially, if at all. What,for example, do we make of commercial sex, the (sexual) exploitation of women and children, pornography,bestiality, venereal disease, illegitimacy, voodoo magic spells, homosexuality, rape, racial (sexual) segregation,and political corruption that feeds on community vice of all kinds?

We think these and related questions should be dealt with in a film that presumably undertakes to provoke theissues in the first place, and we find irresponsible and misleading those critics and reviewers who call thepicture “beautiful,” “poetic,” and “intelligent.” We can’t claim to know much about pornography, but itseems to us that in many ways it could be more honest than a film such as Pretty Baby. Pornography may bevulgar and vile, but it doesn’t pretend to be artistic.


But, how does Pretty Baby rate as an authentic history? Rather well-with one or two significant exceptions.The basis for the film, as already mentioned, is Al Rose’s documented and illustrated Storyville, New Orleans(1974), which apparently few of the reviewers bothered to read and, curiously, the book goes unannouncedeither in the screen version or in the Bantam text edition by William Harrison. Polly Platt, who is credited withthe story and screenplay, seems to have lifted most of her material from Rose’s book. (In academic andliterary circles, that is known, bluntly, as plagiarism.)

1. The authors mention Al Rose’s book ‘Storyville, New Orleans in order to show that:(1) The screenplay writer has committed plagiarism by lifting most of the material for the movie directly

from the book.(2) Most movies that are adapted from books are unable to do justice to the story.(3) Most movie critics conveniently ignore to read the book which is the basis for the film.(4) The movie deals with the main theme of the story remarkably well than the book itself.(5) The movie fails to deal with the issues presented in the story; however, it genuinely depicts the

historical realities given in the book.

2. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?(1) ‘Pretty Baby’ treats serious issues on a superficial level and hence deserves the plaudits.(2) ‘Pretty Baby’ makes a mockery of the serious issues prevailing in society.(3) ‘Pretty Baby’ justifies the treatment given to the moral ambiguities present in the story.(4) ‘Pretty Baby’ seems flawless to some critics; however, it genuinely falls short of giving proper

treatment to the subject.(5) ‘Pretty Baby’ does not portray a realistic picture of prostitution but makes up for the loss due to

dramatic performances in the film.

3. Which of the following statements is most similar to the tone of the authors of the above passage?(1) The film is just another version of a melodramatic soap opera that glorifies the evils of society.(2) An utter waste of time, the film expects the audience to take the story seriously.(3) An unconvincing tale, the film could have been more sensible and realistic.(4) When dealing with the subject of pornography one should carefully understand the society and its

evils.(5) However, the shortcomings of the movie do not overshadow the fact that it was a stirring portrayal

of prostitution.

4. Which of the following statements are the authors most likely to agree with?(1) It is highly improbable for a film to be an honest and true version of the book that forms the basis of

the movie in the first place.(2) Film projects undertaken by famous directors and artists are promising ventures that raise the

expectations of film critics and the audience.(3) Giving due credit and acknowledgement to certain texts that form the basis of a movie can raise

certain doubts in the mind of a film critic.(4) Proper research of the background of a movie is as important as watching the movie and reviewing

it.(5) A subject like pornography raises many issues that cannot be properly dealt with in a movie.


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Aung San’s aim for loka nibbana carries a double sense, namely ‘national independence’ and ‘freedom’.Since 1962 the generals have placed primary emphasis on the loka national independence element, whileAung San Suu Ki insists, following her father Aung San and following the democratization of enlightenmentafter national independence, that this is no excuse for denying the ‘freedom’ nibbana element.

The ideology of freedom serves to overcome constraints placed upon some person or agency, to do what itwould like to do in the way it would like to do it. A call for freedom is a call for an ideal state of unconstraint,and it is usually phrased relationally. Attention is always attracted to the agencies that prevent it from beingrealised – for example, the anti-colonial uprisings in Burma held lut-lak-yeì to be freedom from confinementby the British, and this has historically resonated particularly well with the Buddhist movements that soughtfreedom in the ultimate sense, namely the goal of nibbana as freedom from samsara. Hence Aung San choseto describe the struggle he and his army fought as loka nibbana: this expresses lut-lak-yeì fully in terms of thisdouble meaning and resonates with the numerous struggles of the past. This is how in Burmese politics mentalculture could become the chief instrument not only for personal liberation, but for the liberation of the nation.However, national independence is a much more tangible and earthly concept than freedom; it does not meanfreedom as an absolute, but the freedom to determine within certain boundaries. It typically relies not on a callfor personal freedom of movement, but the right to take over agency to control movements within certainboundaries and to defend these boundaries from the threat of encroachment by outside agencies. In sum,national independence is about a lower level of freedom that concerns itself with the freedom to controlsubstantive territorial boundaries associated with loka.

During Aung San’s political ascendance, right up until his conversion to civilian status, an indigenous armywas widely perceived as a desirable instrument for attainment of both, national independence and freedom.However, since 1962 remilitarisation has meant that the concept of freedom (nibbana) has become subsidiaryto national independence (loka). The generals proclaim that granting ‘freedom’ in any other way but theirswould necessarily lead to loss of ‘national independence’ all over again. Saw Maung stated that ‘I shall do myduty so that my country and my people do not become enslaved’. It is in the name of containing the threat tonational independence posed by encroaching foreign interests that Aung San Suu Kyi and the democracymovement are confined. Their quest, the regime feels, should not contaminate the sentiments of the massesand should remain at best a mental event spiritually realised by the opposition leaders in their enforcedprivacy, but never implemented for the collective.

Paradoxically then, it is by postulating and living lut-lak-yeì as national independence, that the regime,supposedly for the sake of national independence, has ended up depriving the people of Burma of theirfreedom. The regime’s partial interpretation of the lut-lak-yeì concept, suggests limits or boundaries thatAung San Suu Ki’s interpretation does not. These limits arise from the country versus person-centred discoursethat national independence and freedom address respectively. Tied up with the struggle for nationalindependence is the idea of substantiating the nature of the collective, and the concern to substantiate thenature of purity and domain, i.e. setting limits to keep some people in and others out. However, freedomchallenges these and transcends the limits. This paradox of how the army is turning lut-lak-yeì into a boundedand framed concept based on loka, then, is the subject of this and the subsequent four chapter.

5. Why does the author say that the call for freedom is ‘relationally phrased’ ?(1) This is because the call for freedom is synonymous with the call for removal of some form of

constraint.(2) Because personal freedom is undeniably tied with the concept of political freedom or national

independence.(3) Because freedom is a more absolute thing while independence is more tangible as a concept.(4) Because a call for freedom invariably highlights the force that stands in the way of attaining freedom.(5) The reason cannot be gathered from the passage.


6. Why did Aung San choose to describe his struggle as loka nibbana?(1) As this term implies the double meaning of both ‘national independence’ and ‘freedom’, and best

sums up his historic struggle.(2) As this term covers both the concepts of ‘national independence’ and ‘freedom’,and also finds

resonance with Burmese culture, religion and history.(3) As this term ,being in the Burmese tongue, best represents the indigenous nature of his struggle

against the British.(4) As this term would appeal to the masses in Burma, where almost everybody takes equal interest in

politics and religion.(5) This term has no connotations of violence, which most Burmese (who are Buddhist) would shun.

7. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?I. Aung San Suu Ki’s interpretation of freedom is, after all partial, as she concentrates only on the

personal aspect of liberation.II. The military regime manipulates the interpretation of independence in their own interest – to justify

their being in power.III. Aung San’s conceptualisation of freedom and independence seeks to appeal to both the personal

and the political perspectives.IV. The author would be sympathetic to Aung San Suu Ki’s cause rather than the military’s cause.(1) I & IV (2) II only (3) I only (4) IV only (5) II & III

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THE economic meltdown has popularized a new term: deglobalisation. Some critics of capitalism seem happyabout it—like Walden Bello, a Philippine economist, who can perhaps claim to have coined the word with hisbook, “Deglobalisation, Ideas for a New World Economy”. Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is amongthose who fear the results will be bad.

But is globalization really ending? The world’s economies are certainly slowing fast. And the speed and scaleof this recession are raising doubts about the assumptions that had underpinned the drive to integrate worldmarkets. At the end of 2008 the IMF said the world economy would grow 2.2% in 2009, less than half the ratein 2007. Now it thinks growth will be just 0.5% this year, the lowest for 60 years. Even that may be optimistic;in the last quarter of 2008, some economies shrank at annualized rates of over 10%.

Nobody ever said globalization had ended economic ups and downs, but this feels different: prima facieevidence of big problems at least, and possibly of the failure of globalization to deliver many of its advertisedbenefits, especially to the poor. True, economic slowdown is not the same as deglobalisation. And the slowdownhas yet to affect one thing. For years, poor countries have been growing faster than rich ones; so far, they stillare. The gap between real GDP growth in emerging markets and in rich countries widened from nothing in1991 to about five points in 2007—and, says the IMF, it will stay at 5.3 points in 2008 and 2009. Helpingpoorer countries catch up has long been among the benefits touted for globalization.

And yet the process is going into reverse. Globalization means the global integration of the movement ofgoods, capital and jobs. Each of these processes is now in trouble. World trade has plunged. As recently as thefirst half of 2008, boosted by rising commodity prices and a falling dollar, trade was growing at an annualized20% in dollar terms. In the second half of 2008, as commodities sagged and the dollar rose, growth slowedfast; by September, says the IMF, it was in reverse. In December, says the International Air Transport Association,air-cargo traffic (responsible for over a third of the value of the world’s traded goods) was down 23% onDecember 2007—almost double the fall in the year up to the end of September 2001, a result affected by the9/11 terror attacks.


The downturn has been sharpest in countries that opened up most to world trade, especially East Asia’s tigers.Singapore’s exports are 186% of GDP; its economy shrank at an annualized rate of 17% in the last threemonths of 2008. Taiwan’s exports are over 60% of GDP; and its economy may fall as much as 11% this year.The downturn has also hurt rich countries that specialize in staid old-fashioned manufacturing—supposedly asafer activity than the reckless delusions of finance. On average, says the IMF, rich countries will contract 2%this year. But Germany and Japan, big exporters of capital goods, cars and electronics, will do worse, theireconomies shrinking by 2.5% and 2.6% respectively. In the last quarter their economies contracted alarmingly,falling at an annualized rate of 8% in Germany and by 13%—the worst since 1974—in Japan.

8. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?1. Poor countries are still growing faster than rich countries.2. Deglobalization is all set to become a reality because of the economic slowdown.3. Germany and Japan are rich countries which are also big exporters.(1) 1 and 2(2) 2 and 3(3) 1 and 3(4) Only 1(5) Only 2

9. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?(1) World trade plunged in the second half of 2008 as a result of fluctuating commodity prices.(2) Rising commodity prices lead to a fall in the value of the dollar.(3) The economies of Singapore and Taiwan have shrunk in 2008 primarily due to their opening up to

world trade.(4) Air Cargo traffic fell by more than 12% in the year upto the end of September 2001, due to the

9/11 attacks .(5) None of the above.

10. The closest meanings of the words ‘prima facie’ and ‘staid’ are?(1) Foreboding and Steady.(2) Sound and Archaic.(3) ‘At first sight’ and Sedate.(4) ‘At first sight’ and Tempestuous.(5) Sound and Sedate.

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Why are women paid less than men? Why were there riots in some northwestern English cities in 2000 but notin London? What is the significance of bloggers, or of the World Social Forum?One of the strange features of our times is that well-educated people can get by with very little idea of how toanswer questions like these. Over the last few decades, we have witnessed great progress in the public’s levelof scientific understanding, thanks to many brilliant expositors. In history, too, some of the most originalminds are also first rate communicators. Much of economics has permeated into common sense, particularlyof decision-makers around the world. But sociology has faded from view. Its heyday a generation ago feelslike another era. As a result, many people rely on very simple interpretive frameworks to make sense of whatthey see around them or on the evening news. So conflicts between Muslims and Christians are attributed toculture or history. Gender pay gaps are seen as the result of misogyny. The internet is ascribed with magicalpowers to turn the tables on multinational corporations or governments.Some of the reasons for sociology’s retreat from public awareness lie in the discipline itself, which took a turntowards abstract theory in the 1970s and away from observation, description and detailed historical analysis.


Some of the reasons lie in the shape of professional careers which enabled sociologists to progress withouthaving to do primary observation. Within sociology very good work is continuing to be done, and sense isbeing made of complex issues. But little of it is penetrating the public consciousness.Charles Tilly is probably the outstanding contemporary exponent of an engaged but theoretically rigoroussociology. It is a symptom of sociology’s relative detachment that he remains largely unknown outside academiccircles in Britain, even though he is by some margin the most fertile thinker in the American social sciences,covering topics as diverse as the rise of the state in 18th-century Europe to racial inequality, political violenceto the conditions for democracy in central Asia. In some ways he is old fashioned—he offers explanations andshows how some things cause other things to happen. His accounts contain real people, history and drama,and have lessons for how change might be achieved more successfully.Like all the best sociologists, his work starts with close observation. A good example is pay inequality, whichTilly investigated along with many other kinds of inequality in his book Durable Inequality. Economists havefound it hard to explain why gender pay gaps are so persistent, since in a properly functioning labour market,employers should have incentives to reward women as much as men for their skills. Tilly points out that closeobservation of how pay and jobs work in the real world soon shows that the most important determinant ofpay is the jobs that people take. Pay differences between the sexes within the same jobs are now small(although a combination of men’s greater pushiness and some lingering discrimination means they have notentirely disappeared). “Since compensation varies systematically by job more than it varies by gender withinjobs, the big question we have to ask is not, ‘How come individual bosses discriminate against women?’ but,‘What is the process by which women stream into some occupations and men into others?’” he says.

11. What does the author mean by “sociology has faded from view”?(1) That there is no reasoning in our actions.(2) That religious conflicts are on the rise.(3) That there is breakdown in the human society.(4) That there is unwarranted faith on the internet.(5) That women are subject to gender bias.

12. The author cites the turn towards abstract theory to imply:(1) a shift in core sociology.(2) a drift away from historical analysis.(3) the superficiality of modern day careers.(4) the change in the professional objectives.(5) a transformation in people’s perception.

13. What does the author imply by stating that Tilly’s accounts have real elements and they contain lessonsfor achieving change successfully?(1) That Tilly is an advocate of theory based sociology.(2) That Tilly is one of the most fertile thinkers.(3) That offering explanations is considered old fashioned.(4) That learning by models is passé.(5) That sociology has attained a level passiveness.


DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for for for for for QQQQQuestions 14 and 15: uestions 14 and 15: uestions 14 and 15: uestions 14 and 15: uestions 14 and 15: Five alternative summaries are given below each paragraph. Choosethe option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.

14. Quine’s influential paper “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” challenges the foundations of logical positivismby raising significant doubts about its project of constructing reliable knowledge out of the data ofhuman experience. The traditional distinction between analytic and synthetic statements, on Quine’sview, depends more nearly on a conventional decision than on any bright line between distinct types ofjudgment. The content of our experiences counts for or against the entire body of beliefs we hold, andour efforts to reconcile them may require the modification or abandonment of any of those beliefs, nomatter what their status. No statement (or, perhaps, none but the pure tautologies of logic) is foreversecure from revision in the face of future evidence, and any statement can be retained if suitable changesare made in the rest of the system.(1) The ideas of Logical Positivism are open to revision based on the content of our experiences which

is something different from the tautologies of logic.(2) Quine challenges the basis of Logical Positivism, especially its belief in traditional distinctions of

statements and questions the basis by arguing that beliefs are open to revision in face of the contentof our experiences.

(3) Quine raises questions about the apparently sound traditional basis of Logical Positivism by showingthat any statement, except the tautologies of logic, is open to revision.

(4) Quine questions the traditional distinction between analytic and synthetic statements which weakensthe basis of Logical Positivism.

(5) Quine is in opposition to Logical Positivism as he shows that its basis-the data of human experience,is changing and hence any statement is open to revision.

15. Magical realism is not speculative and does not conduct thought experiments. Instead, it tells its storiesfrom the perspective of people who live in our world and experience a different reality from the one wecall objective. If there is a ghost in a story of magical realism, the ghost is not a fantasy element but amanifestation of the reality of people who believe in and have “real” experiences of ghosts. Magicalrealist fiction depicts the real world of people whose reality is different from ours. It’s not a thoughtexperiment. It’s not speculation. Magical realism endeavors to show us the world through other eyes.When it works, as I think it does very well in, say, Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony, somereaders will inhabit this other reality so thoroughly that the “unreal” elements of the story, such aswitches, will seem frighteningly real long after the book is finished. A fantasy about southwesternIndian witches allows you to put down the book with perhaps a little shiver but reassurance that whatyou just read is made up. Magical realism leaves you with the understanding that this world of witchesis one that people really live in and the feeling that maybe this view is correct.(1) Magical realism is a view of real people who experience ghosts and witches.(2) Magical realism leaves the reader with the feeling that the world of ghosts and witches is real.(3) Magical realism is not speculative as the people who experience this reality are real.(4) Magical realism is not speculative but is the view of real people who experience a reality different

from our normal objective reality.(5) Magical realism gives the readers an experience of a different objective world through the eyes of

others.


DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for for for for for QQQQQuestions 16 to 19:uestions 16 to 19:uestions 16 to 19:uestions 16 to 19:uestions 16 to 19: In each question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to bearranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the mostappropriate option..

16. A. This is possible because all, including the mind, are aspects of the same reality which is consciousness.B. Therefore knowing anything external is also a kind of self-knowledge.C. Sensing through the sense organs is indirect knowledge (Paroksha Jnana).D. However, when we see a cat, we are not seeing nervous changes in the Occipital area of the brain,

but we are seeing a cat which is a reality in the mental plane of consciousness.E. Therefore, even though sensory in form, the essential content of sensation is extra-sensory.(1) EDBC (2) CDEB (3) BCDE (4) ECBD (5) CBED

17. A. Though Darwin himself was not an avowed atheist, today more than ever his theory represents theembattled front line in the confrontation between religion and atheism, as espoused by neo-Darwinistslike Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and others.

B. However, many in India and not just those belonging to the Christian faith find themselvesuncomfortable with the either/or position of the radical neo-Darwinists: choose between a Creatorand Darwin;

C. In India, Darwin is not the bogey man as he is in the West.D. You can’t have your God and believe in evolution too.E. The Indic tradition which accommodates both atheism as well as a well-stocked pantheon of

33 million gods (including a monkey god) should have little problem playing host to evolution.(1) BEDC (2) EDCB (3) CEDB (4) CEBD (5) EDBC

18. A. The seeds of fascism, however, were planted in Italy. “Fascism is reaction,” said Mussolini, butreaction to what?

B. The progeny of these theories are sometimes called Modernism or Modernity because they challengedsocial theories generally accepted since the days of Machiavelli.

C. It was Rousseau who is best known for crystallizing these modern social theories in.D. The response to the French Revolution and Rousseau, by Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and others,

poured into an intellectual stew which served up Marxism, socialism, national socialism, fascism,modern liberalism, modern conservatism, communism, and a variety of forms of capitalistparticipatory democracy.

E. The reactionary movement following World War I was based on a rejection of the social theoriesthat formed the basis of the 1789 French Revolution, and whose early formulations in this countryhad a major influence on our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights

(1) BCED (2)EDBC (3) EDCB (4) ECBD (5) DECB

19. A. To begin, what do feminist critics mean by the term patriarchy?B She herself admits that nowadays the average woman dismisses the term as an outdated “bugbear.”C. Bennett is distressed at Brockes’s reply and insists that patriarchy is “essential to the future of

feminism.”D. She recounts how Jane Fonda once remarked that “patriarchy is very much alive and well, and we

have to do something about it,” and her interviewer Emma Brockes replied that patriarchy is an“anachronism” and that “lots of women would bridle at the suggestion they are victims of a patriarchalsystem.”

E. According to Judith Bennett, in her recent work History Matters, patriarchy is the “central problem”of women’s history, and even “one of the greatest general problems of all history.”

(1) EBDC (2) ECDB (3) DCBE (4) BCDE (5) CDBE


26. A. A tarot is one of the most wonderful of human inventions.B. Despite all the outcry of philosophers, this pack of pictures,C. in whom destiny is reflected as in a mirror with multiple facets,D. remains so vital and exercises so irresistible an attraction onE. imaginative minds that it is hardly possible that it could ever be abolished.(1) A only (2) A and B (3) D and E (4) D only (5) A and D

27. A. Venus travels around the Sun like all planets do.B. Since it’s orbit is smaller than the Earth’s,C. Venus can go through dramatic phases just like Moon does.D. When Venus is on the far side of the Sun,E. we see the entire near side lit by the Sun.(1) A, D and E (2) D only (3) A and E (4) A and D (5) B, C and E

DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS for for for for for QQQQQuestions 28 to 30: uestions 28 to 30: uestions 28 to 30: uestions 28 to 30: uestions 28 to 30: In each question, there are three to five sentences. Each sentence haspair/s of words/phrases that are highlighted. From the highlighted words / phrase(s) select the most appropriatemost appropriatemost appropriatemost appropriatemost appropriateword(s) / phrases to form correct sentences. Then from the options given choose the right sequence

28. Kirtin and Swami was bornbornbornbornborn(A)/ borne borne borne borne borne(B) in the year 1916.The example of Einstein is citedcitedcitedcitedcited(A)/ sighted sighted sighted sighted sighted(B) to encourage school dropouts who have lost hope.The dualdualdualdualdual(A) / duel duel duel duel duel(B) role of Anup Kapoor in the film ‘The poet’s dilemma’ has been well received.You should have a clauseclauseclauseclauseclause(A) / claws claws claws claws claws(B) in your will stating that unless your sons take care of theirmother, they will not receive their share in the property.The cessioncessioncessioncessioncession(A)/ sessionsessionsessionsessionsession(B) started an hour late due to a power cut.(1) BBBAA (2) BABAB (3) AABAB (4) AAAAB (5) AABBA

29. Sarah was fired as she had committed a gaffgaffgaffgaffgaff(A) / gaffegaffegaffegaffegaffe(B) in the office party.One can see the new Sukhoi aircraft in the hangarhangarhangarhangarhangar(A) / hangerhangerhangerhangerhanger(B).There were new varieties of hats for young women in the millinerymillinerymillinerymillinerymillinery(A) / millenarymillenarymillenarymillenarymillenary(B).Kavita’s face turned mordantmordantmordantmordantmordant(A)/ mordent mordent mordent mordent mordent(B) as she faced the monster.Members of a certain family in Africa suffer from genetically induced intestinal problems whichgenerally affect the ileumileumileumileumileum(A) / iliumiliumiliumiliumilium(B).(1)ABABA (2) AAAAB (3) BAAAB (4) BABAB (5) BAAAA

30. The police arrested him for driving in the wrong lanelanelanelanelane(A) / lainlainlainlainlain(B).The fleafleafleafleaflea(A) / flee flee flee flee flee(B) caused considerable nuisance to the people sitting inside the car.The hoardhoardhoardhoardhoard(A) / hordehordehordehordehorde(B) of animals running together caused the whole place to get covered in dust.The feintfeintfeintfeintfeint(A) / faintfaintfaintfaintfaint(B) of his opponent caught the boxer from Russia by surprise.The lamalamalamalamalama(A) / llamallamallamallamallama(B) found himself surrounded by thieves who wanted his holy beads.(1) AAABB (2) AABAA (3) AAAAA (4) ABBAB (5) AABAB


DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for for for for for QQQQQuestions 31 to 35: uestions 31 to 35: uestions 31 to 35: uestions 31 to 35: uestions 31 to 35: Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the lastsentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the mostappropriate way.

31. Adaptation, the process by which one thing develops into another thing, by which one shape or formchanges into a different form, is a commonplace artistic activity. Books are turned into plays and filmsall the time, plays are turned into movies and also sometimes into musicals, movies are turned intoBroadway shows and even, by the ugly method known as “novelisation”, into books as well. We live ina world of such transformations and metamorphoses. ________________________(1) Ricky Gervais turns into Steve Carell, just as, long ago, the British working-class racist Alf Garnett

in ‘Till Death Us Do Part’ turned into the American blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker in ‘All In theFamily’.

(2) British TV comedy series are turned into American TV comedy series, so that ‘The Office’ becomesa different ‘The Office’.

(3) British reality programmes are adapted to suit American audiences as well; ‘Pop Idol’ becomes‘American Idol’ when it crosses the Atlantic.

(4) Strictly, ‘Come Dancing’ becomes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ - a programme which, it may interestyou to know, invited me to appear on it last season, an invitation I declined.

(5) Good movies - ‘Lolita’, ‘The Pink Panther’ - are remade as bad movies; bad movies - ‘The IncredibleHulk’, ‘Deep Throat’ - are remade as even worse movies.

32. The Booker is a prize awarded by the British literary establishment according to its value system; yetthe book that receives it becomes, in our country, the most important book of its time. The question is:why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in thiscountry? Even Salman Rushdie, that most international of writers, says that the readers you write for arethe people you are writing about. But the Booker — undoubtedly an important literary prize — hasbecome so important to us that while we ignore the prizes given in our country, discussions about theBooker longlist, and then about the shortlist go on for months. ________________________(1) In our country the obsession with ‘labels’ is what helps us to metaphorically spell out our latent

desire for recognition from the so-called ‘white- elite’.(2) To talk of subversion makes it seem that Indian Writing in English (IWE) still thinks of Europe or

America as its centre.(3) The fault lies with the readers as they prefer reading the books that receive an international prize

over the ones that receive domestic honours.(4) The Booker should not be held as a benchmark for deciding the greatness of a book especially by

the people of a culture richer than that of the British.(5) This makes it hard to accept the argument that winning the Booker is an act of subversion.

33. It might not sound like a recipe for success – but this is the most important piece of theatre happeninganywhere in the country. Some 40 years ago, director Augusto Boal began experimenting with invisibletheatre – rehearsing and performing semi-improvised pieces in public spaces to the unsuspecting public.Meanwhile in the bohemian lofts of New York City, a new generation of visionaries were embeddingtheir art ever further into the everyday. Lurking in the corner of a diner, Vito Acconci sat quietlyrubbing his arm to produce a sore, while Allan Kaprow created instructions for almost unseen activitiesto be carried out on the streets of the city. ____________________________________(1) Such theatre is not as successful as that which happens in an auditorium.(2) Even audiences were transformed, no longer limited to those who knew they were an audience.(3) In this way, theatre broke free of the auditorium, art tore itself from the gallery and the museum(4) Theatre veterans are least bothered about praise or criticism.(5) Experimental theatre has been doing the rounds for quite some time now.


34. Most people know what communism is at its most basic level. Simply put, communism is the idea thateveryone in a given society receives equal shares of the benefits derived from labor. Communism isdesigned to allow the poor to rise up and attain financial and social status equal to that of the middle-class landowners. In order for everyone to achieve equality, wealth is redistributed so that the membersof the upper class are brought down to the same financial and social level as the middle class. Communismalso requires that all means of production be controlled by the state. ______________________(1) In other words, private business owners are very few and have to share profits with the state.(2) In other words, the state redistributes wealth and creates equality among the people.(3) In other words, no one can own his or her own business or produce his or her own goods because

the state owns everything.(4) In other words, communism is against capitalism.(5) In other words, communism reeks of corruption and is next to dictatorship in suppressing the

wealthy.

35. There is much to commend in this novel, a witty parable of India’s changing society, yet there is muchto ponder. The scales have fallen from the eyes of some Indian writers, many either living abroad, oreducated there like Adiga. The home country is invariably presented as a place of brutal injustice andsordid corruption, one in which the poor are always dispossessed and victimised by their age-oldenemies, the rich. Characters at the colourful extremities of society are Dickensian grotesques, Phizsketches, adrift in a country that is lurching rapidly towards bland middle-class normality.__________________________(1) My hunch is this is fundamentally an outsider’s view and a superficial one.(2) There are so many alternative Indias, uncontacted and unheard which Adiga can never hope to

explore.(3) Adiga is a genius of this age who has written a pathbreaking book.(4) Presenting the home country as a poverty-stricken place has become a means of getting cheap

popularity.(5) We are talking about a country which for ages has served as a spiritual guide for the world .

DIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONSDIRECTIONS for for for for for QQQQQuestions 36 to 40:uestions 36 to 40:uestions 36 to 40:uestions 36 to 40:uestions 36 to 40: Read the arguments and answer the questions that follow.

36. In a supermarket survey the company found out that all those customers who spent more than half anhour in making purchases in the ‘daily needs section’ also spent some time in the ‘lifestyle productssection’. As a result, the company executives decided to put a fifteen percent discount sale in the‘lifestyle products section’.

Which of the following statements can be concluded from the argument?

(1) All those consumers who purchase items from the ‘daily needs section’ will also buy items from the‘lifestyle products section’ during the discount sale.

(2) Purchasing lifestyle products and items of daily need is based on the spending power of the consumer.(3) Keeping a discount on lifestyle products will affect the buyers’ purchases made in the children’s

section.(4) The company hopes that consumers shopping in the ‘daily needs section’ will make some purchases

from the ‘lifestyle products section’ during discount sale.(5) During the discount sale, consumers will purchase more items from the ‘lifestyle products section’

than from the ‘daily needs section’.


37. The current economic downturn is forcing employees to constantly improve their performance levels.A number of lousy workers are now becoming dangerous competitors for those employees who werealways performing better than the others in their department. This is causing a great deal of tensionamong the employees. The flip side is that a number of companies are eventually compelled to dismissthose employees who were earlier one of the best performers, but now, are unable to consistently copewell with the increasing levels of competition.

Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above argument?

(1) The overall performance levels of employees have, generally, increased due to the economiccondition.

(2) Performance levels that were considered as the benchmark are still unachievable by most employees.(3) Most lousy workers are underdogs who usually outperform their colleagues in crises situations.(4) Employees, whose performance is usually outstanding, get easily tensed when they are challenged

by their colleagues.(5) The economic downturn is forcing companies to hire only those candidates who can cope with

fierce competition.

38. The number of farmers committing suicide is on the rise. Burdened with debt, these farmers are unableto sow and maintain their crops. Even when the yield is good, these farmers are never far away from theclutches of the brokers who take away more than half of the profits. While the government fails tocontrol these factors, farmers are unable to get out of this vicious circle and are forced to end their lives.

Which of the following statements considerably strengthens the above argument?

(1) The government has waived some of the farmers’ loans in specific parts of the country.(2) Under the rural development programme, farmers are getting education and training in how to sell

their crops without the aid of brokers.(3) Designing a foolproof plan for the betterment of the farmers and the agricultural sector is the biggest

challenge for the government.(4) Even though the government has set strict rules that clearly define the share of the brokers, most

brokers easily evade the law and demand higher commission.(5) The number of farmers committing suicides this year is fifteen percent less than last year’s figures.

39. Any attempt to ban schools from teaching and using the English language as the primary medium ofinstruction will only steer the nation backwards. Forbidding people from learning English is equivalentto isolating them from the rest of the world, where the primary language of commerce, trade, industryand communication is English. At a time when more and more Non-English speaking countries areaggressively providing English language training in order to accelerate business and development,unfortunately some Indians are thinking the opposite.

Which of the following statements considerably weakens the above argument?

(1) A number of Non-English speaking professionals agree that not knowing the English languagehinders their chances of career growth.

(2) Most Non-English speaking nations are introducing English language training in schools as it iseasier to get a grip of the language when one is at an early stage in life.

(3) Only those who belong to affluent families really need to learn English as most of them eventuallygo to International universities for higher education.

(4) It is only at a superficial level that English seems to be the preferred language of communication asmost people in India would rather converse in Hindi.

(5) Some nations are training people to converse in multiple languages as most Indian traders aremultilingual and fluently converse in the national or regional languages.


40. While treating patients suffering from Down’s syndrome, doctors realized that an overdose of medicinegiven to a patient who also had high blood sugar levels made him/her resilient. Seeing the drasticrecovery in such patients the doctors believe that patients with high blood sugar levels along with othergenetic birth defects can also be treated successfully when they are given overdoses of the prescribedmedicines.

Which of the following statements shows a flaw in the reasoning of the doctors?

(1) Treating patients, who are suffering from genetic birth defects and have high blood sugar levels,through an overdose has no permanent impact on their physical condition.

(2) Successfully treating patients suffering from both, high blood sugar levels and Down’s syndrome,suggests that those suffering only with Down’s syndrome have little hope of recovery.

(3) High blood sugar levels could be specifically conducive in the treatment of patients with Down’ssyndrome.

(4) Treatments of diseases related to genetics are usually similar in most cases and have very littlevariation which is only in terms of the dosage of prescribed medicines.

(5) Overdoses of medicines prescribed intentionally by the doctors may be fatal for those sufferingsolely with Down’s syndrome.


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DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 44: DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 44: DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 44: DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 44: DIRECTIONS for questions 41 to 44: Anssssswer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

One day, a class of 180 students consumed 342 chocolates from among the varieties A, B, C, D, E and F. Nostudent ate two chocolates of the same variety. The number of students who ate the varieties D, E and F was73, 93 and 45 respectively. The number of students who did not have any chocolates was equal to the totalnumber of students who either had exactly one of the varieties or all the six varieties. The following bar graphindicates the number of students who consumed exactly 2,3,4 or 5 varieties of chocolates.

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41. The number of students who had exactly one variety of chocolate on that day is(1) 42 (2) 43 (3) 44 (4) 45 (5) Cannot be determined

42. The number of students who did not have any variety of chocolate on that day is(1) 67 (2) 68 (3) 69 (4) 70 (5) Cannot be determined

43. The number of students who had chocolates of only variety D is at least(1) 0 (2) 73 (3) 44 (4) 3 (5) 4

44. If the number of students who had chocolates of exactly two varieties D and F is 10 and those who hadchocolates of exactly three varieties D, E and F is 12, then the number of students who had chocolatesof only variety F is(1) 4 (2) 0 (3) 2 (4) 1 (5) Cannot be determined

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