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Directions (1-5): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
When Gunnar Myrdal was writing his three-volume Asian Drama in the late 1960s, no one would have ______1_______ that a Bangladesh, which was shortly to suffer from the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded, and then a liberation war, would emerge as a star economic performer 50 years later. The country that was dismissed by Henry Kissinger as an international basket case has now beaten its South Asian neighbours on both human development _______2_________ and economic growth rates. Its per capita income of $1,905 compares with Pakistan’s $1,388, and is not far behind India’s $2,171. Myrdal’s book is often referred to as monumental, being all of 2,300 pages. But he got many things wrong, including whether population would be a deadweight (today China and India owe their large internal markets to population growth), but he also got some things right (like, initial conditions matter). And some passages in Asian Drama read like little better than journalism. Still, Deepak Nayyar has chosen the book’s 50th anniversary to ______3________ Asia (Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development). Mr Nayyar’s story is nuanced, pointing to the different paths that countries in the region followed, often as a ________4________ of colonialism’s role in opening up closed markets. Shashi Tharoor in An Era of Darkness has speculated on whether India could have made it if it had not been colonised and given the railways and a modern administration (he thinks it would have), but it is certainly true that without external influence many countries of the region would not have introduced land reforms. Nor were Taiwan and South Korea countries that took to exports like ducks to water; they experimented with import _______5________ before they realised that their home markets were too small.

Q1.

(a) paradigm
(b) planned
(c) dreamt
(d) split
(e) None of these.

Q2.
(a) indicators
(b) multiple
(c) mediate
(d) virtue
(e) None of these.

Q3.
(a) doctrine
(b) revisit
(c) common
(d) critics
(e) None of these.

Q4.
(a) grumble
(b) consequence
(c) exhaust
(d) offer
(e) None of these.

Q5.
(a) vivid
(b) noisy
(c) fear
(d) substitution
(e) None of these.

Directions (6-10): In the following questions, a sentence has been given with some of its parts in bold. To make the sentence grammatically correct, you have to replace the bold part with the correct alternative given below. If the sentence is correct as it is, give (e) as your answer (i.e. No correction required).

Q6. India has the dubiously distinction of been the most unsafe country in the world for road users.
(a) have the dubiously distinction of being the most
(b) have the dubious distinction of being the mostly
(c) has the dubious distinction of being the most
(d) had the dubiously distinction of being the mostly
(e) None of these.

Q7. The Committee brief considered the Chandigarh issue and urged the Central Government to speedily settle the problem.
(a) briefly considered the Chandigarh issue
(b) briefly considers the Chandigarh issue
(c) briefly considering in the Chandigarh issue
(d) briefly considering in the Chandigarh’s issue
(e) None of these.

Q8. No previous Indian Government must have dragged Pakistan into the domestically discourse as much as is being done now.
(a) must dragged Pakistan into the domestic
(b) must has drag Pakistan into the domestic
(c) must have dragged Pakistan into the domestic
(d) must have drags Pakistan on the domestic
(e) None of these.

Q9. Soon debtors started getting off relatively lightly while creditors tonsure the taxpayer to get back as much as they could.
(a) get off relatively lightly while creditors tonsured
(b) get off relatively lightly while creditors have tonsure
(c) getting off relative lightly while creditors tonsured
(d) getting off relatively lightly while creditors tonsured
(e) None of these.

Q10. This has been a decade of start-ups. Hundreds of new ones has emerged and more that a dozen have achieved “Unicorn” status (valuation at more than a billion dollars) in quick time.
(a) new ones have emerging and more that
(b) new ones have emerged and more than
(c) new ones has emergedly and more that
(d) new ones has emerge and more that
(e) None of these.

Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following seven sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
(A) Some cases are even pending for over four decades, defeating the very purpose of providing relief to the litigants.
(B)But are they really getting justice? Inordinate delays and adjournments remain the order of the day.
(C) That is, if they are still alive. It is a matter of concern that the judicial delivery mechanism has failed to keep pace with the mounting number of cases.
(D)Orders and verdicts ordinarily take up to a decade.
(E) LITERACY brings with it an awakened and more aware citizenry; people cognisant of their rights; and the aggrieved knocking the doors of the courts for justice and legal redress.

Q11. Which of the following should be the first sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) D
(c ) A
(d) E
(e) C

Q12. Which of the following should be the third sentence after rearrangement?
(a) E
(b) A
(c) B
(d) D
(e) None of these.

Q13. Which of the following should be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) None of these.

Q14. Which of the following should be the last sentence after rearrangement?
(a) C
(b) A
(c) B
(d) D
(e) None of these.

Q15. Which of the following should be the second sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) A
(c) E
(d) C
(e) None of these.

Solution:

S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct option is option (c).Apart from that no other options fit contextually.

S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct option is option (a). Apart from that no other options fits contextually.
Mediate -intervene in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation.
Virtue- behaviour showing high moral standards.

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct option is option (b). Apart from that no other options fits contextually and grammatically correct.

S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct option is option (b). Apart from that no other options fits contextually.
Grumble -complain about something in a bad-tempered way.

S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct option is option (d). Apart from that no other options fits contextually.
‘Import Substitution’ (IS) generally refers to a policy that eliminates the importation of the commodity and allows for the production in the domestic market.

S6. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct replacement of the highlighted phrase is “has the dubious distinction of being the most” as it provides the correct grammatical structure of the sentence. Hence option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S7. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct replacement of the highlighted phrase is “briefly considered the Chandigarh issue” as it provides the correct grammatical structure of the sentence. Hence option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.

S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct replacement of the highlighted phrase is “must have dragged Pakistan into the domestic” as it provides the correct grammatical structure of the sentence. Hence option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S9. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct replacement of the highlighted phrase is “getting off relatively lightly while creditors tonsured” as it provides the correct grammatical structure of the sentence. Hence option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.

S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct replacement of the highlighted phrase is “new ones have emerged and more than” as it provides the correct grammatical structure of the sentence. Hence option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.

S11. Ans. (d)
Sol. Among the given statements, the statement (E) is the most suitable choice as the introductory statement of the rearranged paragraph. Being an independent statement, it can successfully start the paragraph. It will then be followed by statement (B) which supports the latter part of statement (E), which explains the importance of literacy in the judicial system. It will then be followed by statement (D), which mentions how there are a system failure and the decisions come in a decade. It will follow statement (A), as the hint can be driven from the former part of the statement which gives an absolute example of the decision pending in some of the courts of India. It will further followed by statement (C) which tells how the Judicial System can be improved. Hence, the correct arrangement of the given statements will be EBDAC.
Therefore, option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.

S12. Ans. (d)
Sol. Among the given statements, the statement (E) is the most suitable choice as the introductory statement of the rearranged paragraph. Being an independent statement, it can successfully start the paragraph. It will then be followed by statement (B) which supports the latter part of statement (E), which explains the importance of literacy in the judicial system. It will then be followed by statement (D), which mentions how there are a system failure and the decisions come in a decade. It will follow statement (A), as the hint can be driven from the former part of the statement which gives an absolute example of the decision pending in some of the courts of India. It will further followed by statement (C) which tells how the Judicial System can be improved. Hence, the correct arrangement of the given statements will be EBDAC. 

Therefore, option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.

S13. Ans. (b)
Sol. Among the given statements, the statement (E) is the most suitable choice as the introductory statement of the rearranged paragraph. Being an independent statement, it can successfully start the paragraph. It will then be followed by statement (B) which supports the latter part of statement (E), which explains the importance of literacy in the judicial system. It will then be followed by statement (D), which mentions how there are a system failure and the decisions come in a decade. It will follow statement (A), as the hint can be driven from the former part of the statement which gives an absolute example of the decision pending in some of the courts of India. It will further followed by statement (C) which tells how the Judicial System can be improved. Hence, the correct arrangement of the given statements will be EBDAC.
Therefore, option (b) is the most suitable answer choice. 

S14. Ans. (a)
Sol. Among the given statements, the statement (E) is the most suitable choice as the introductory statement of the rearranged paragraph. Being an independent statement, it can successfully start the paragraph. It will then be followed by statement (B) which supports the latter part of statement (E), which explains the importance of literacy in the judicial system. It will then be followed by statement (D), which mentions how there are a system failure and the decisions come in a decade. It will follow statement (A), as the hint can be driven from the former part of the statement which gives an absolute example of the decision pending in some of the courts of India. It will further followed by statement (C) which tells how the Judicial System can be improved. Hence, the correct arrangement of the given statements will be EBDAC.
Therefore, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.

S15. Ans. (a)
Sol. Among the given statements, the statement (E) is the most suitable choice as the introductory statement of the rearranged paragraph. Being an independent statement, it can successfully start the paragraph. It will then be followed by statement (B) which supports the latter part of statement (E), which explains the importance of literacy in the judicial system. It will then be followed by statement (D), which mentions how there are a system failure and the decisions come in a decade. It will follow statement (A), as the hint can be driven from the former part of the statement which gives an absolute example of the decision pending in some of the courts of India. It will further followed by statement (C) which tells how the Judicial System can be improved. Hence, the correct arrangement of the given statements will be EBDAC.
Therefore, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.