TOPIC: Miscellaneous
Directions (1-5): The sentences given in
each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. From among the five choices
given below each question, choose the most logical order of sentences that
constructs a coherent paragraph.
Q1. (A)The shift in approach in relation to
Beijing is quite telling — Mr. Trump had called Beijing a currency manipulator
until the other day.
(B)Washington’s recent trade dialogue with
Beijing, and its decision not to walk away from the North Atlantic Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) indicate a stunning about-turn of Mr. Trump’s stance on
specific bilateral agreements.
(C)However, it should be seen as signalling a
welcome caution to eschew conflict after the shrill pre-election rhetoric and
the string of executive orders after the inauguration.
(D)Conversely, his administration struck an
agreement with the Chinese last week on market access in specific areas, even
though there is, according to commentators, no guarantee of a reversal of the
trade imbalance.
(a)BDAC
(b)BCAD
(c)ABDC
(d)ADBC
(e)BADC
Q2. (A)Its objective is to reduce hunger to
zero by 2030.
(B)Released every year by the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe,
GHI highlights the successes and failures in reduction of hunger and provides
insights into the sociological and economic reasons for the blight.
(C)It is designed to calibrate and track hunger
on the basis of global, national, and regional parameters.
(D)The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is an
extremely important tool for the measurement of hunger in 118 countries.
(E)By bringing forth the multifarious nuances
of hunger into public discourse, GHI strives to raise awareness and
understanding of regional and national differences.
(a)DAEBC
(b)DBCAE
(c)DABCE
(d)DBCAE
(e)DCBEA
Q3. (A)Cantillon effect explains how changes in
the supply of money in an economy can affect the prices of different goods in
different proportions.
(B)Cantillon proposed the idea to argue that
the differential effect of changes in the money supply on prices leads to booms
and busts in the economy.
(C)This is because the real purchasing power of
individuals is not affected uniformly by the changes in money supply.
(D)The theory was proposed by Richard
Cantillon, an Irish-French economist, as a counter to John Locke’s crude
quantity theory of money — which saw prices of all goods being affected
proportionately by changes in money supply.
(a)ACDB
(b)ABCD
(c)BDAC
(d)ADBC
(e)ACBD
Q4.
(A)Because of its salty taste, we cannot drink it or otherwise make use
of it.
(B)This entire process, known as the
hydrological cycle, takes place on a global scale.
(C)Nature has gathered this water in the seas
and the oceans, at least 3.5 per cent of this seawater contains salt, which
acts as a preservative.
(D)But by the workings of the laws of nature,
the water in the oceans and seas rises up into the atmosphere as water vapour,
being separated in this way from the salt content.
(E)Two elements which are individually gaseous
in nature,combine to produce liquid water.
(F)This water vapour then collects together to
form clouds, which bring rain.
(G)Rainwater is fresh water that we can put to
use for our various daily needs.
(a)CDGBAFE
(b)GEADCFB
(c)ECADFGB
(d)EDCAGFB
(e)GBDFECA
Q5. (A)The election in the United Kingdom is
primarily a trick of Theresa May to get a massive mandate to keep the extreme
Eurosceptics in her party in check and to be assured of support of her
countrymen during her difficult Brexit negotiations with the other 27 members
of the European Union.
(B)Last year Europe was shocked by the Brexit
vote and the election of Donald Trump in the United States.
(C)The German election is turning out to be the
standard contest between the centre-right Christian Democrats and the
centre-left Socialists, with the neo-fascist xenophobic AfD (Alternative for
Germany) in total disarray.
(D)It is the uncertainty of the Brexit
negotiations that is the talking point there.
(E)The forthcoming election in Britain caused
barely a ripple in Europe.
(a)ABDEC
(b)CABED
(c)CADEB
(d)ADBEC
(e)ACEDB
Directions (6-10): In each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below
each sentence there are five options and each option consists of three words
which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence
meaningful and grammatically correct.
Q6. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels
through Sri Lanka for the UN Vesak Day celebrations, he will speak and hear
much about the teachings of the world’s greatest ____________, Gautama Buddha.
He is also certain to be mindful of Sri Lanka’s _______________with war,
victory, militarism, the challenges of conflict resolution, and getting to
peace and______________.
(a) peaceful, ignorance, settlement
(b) antagonistic, undergo, agreement
(c) nonviolent, encounter, estrangement
(d) pacifist, experience, reconciliation
(e) conciliatory, unfamiliarity, harmony
Q7. Most Tamil parents wanted their children to
study and become civil servants, and even in the worst of times,
_____________many difficulties to ensure that their sons and daughters attended
school. ___________Tamil parents sat on dharna outside militant camps where
their children had been________________.
(a) undergo, Ecstatic, recruited
(b) underwent, wailing, conscripted
(c) ignored, lamenting, levied
(d) experienced, mourning, discharged
(e) abided by, cheering, allocated
Q8. Rivers, it seems, have gone out of the
lives of large numbers of people in India, in cities surely. They do become
part of public_________________, but only as items of disputes between riparian
states, or as beneficiaries — or victims — of large projects or when they go
into _______________and cause havoc, sometimes even when they run dry. But the
river as a part of people’s day-to-day experiences is________________ a matter
of public conversation.
(a) ignorance, deluge, hardly
(b) speech, shortage, seldom
(c) discourse, spate, rarely
(d) sermon, paucity, scracely
(e) talk, inundation, frequently
Q9. The Ganga is one such sorry ____________ of
garbage. Over the three decades, much money has gone into cleaning this
cesspool: More than Rs 1,800 crore under the Ganga Action Plan in its various
avatars. The current government ________________ to spend more than 10 times
this amount: Rs 20,000 crore over five years on the Namami Gange Project. But
the project that took off last year is ________________on its predecessor in
very few respects.
(a) holder, aspires, weakening
(b) receptacle, intends, improvement
(c) container, expects, deterioration
(d) chest, ignore, progress
(e) repository, neglect, enhancement
Q10. The policy to implement legislation for
the ______________of generic drugs by doctors is a good move, no doubt. But the
_______________shown by the government in bringing this measure is odd and
populist. It is extremely important to reduce the ________________of
health-related costs on common people.
(a) prescription, haste, burden
(b) medication, delay, load
(c) recipe, hurry, comfort
(d) interdiction, bustle, strain
(e) avoidance, alacrity, trouble
Directions (11-15): In each of the following questions, there are two phrases/group of
words marked in bold which are either grammatically incorrect or not in
formation with the correct sentence structure. Choose the best alternative
among the four options given below each question to replace these two phrases
to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct. In case both the
phrases are correct, choose (e) i.e. ‘No correction required’ as your answer.
Q11. The challenge will likely be more stubborn
over the circumstances in the ongoing Fourth Industrial
Revolution that has already
fundamentally changed the way people live, work and connect to each other
by eliminating physical boundaries and overcoming technology limitations.
(a)given the circumstances, which has already
changed fundamentally
(b)after the circumstances like, which is
changing fundamentally
(c)under the circumstances of, that is already
fundamentally changing
(d)considering circumstance of, that has been
fundamentally changing
(e) No correction required.
Q12. One might argue that the figures of job
loss in ASEAN, which comprises only
ten Asian countries, are not sufficiently persuasive and representative to
prove that developing Asian countries would
probably be more negatively affected by Revolution 4.0.
(a)comprising of, will probably be more
(b)consisting, could be probably more
(c)which comprised of, may probably be more
(d)that consist of, are probably more
(e) No correction required.
Q13. The unhealthy “development” is actually a
realistic reflection on how society is
dividing so that everyone’s bona fides are now suspect, and members of
minority communities are constantly in
requirement of re-prove their
national credentials.
(a)how society has been divided, required to
(b)how society has divided, requiring to
(c)how society could be divided, require to
(d)how society is being divided, required of
(e) No correction required.
Q14. In a remarkable give-and-take, that has
hitherto been in short supply, international creditors could agree to disburse Euro 7.5 billion in emergency loans to
enable the country honour matured
debt repayments.
(a)are agreed to disburse, honouring matured
(b)have agreed to disburse, to honour maturing
(c)had agreed in disbursing, of honouring
matured
(d)agreed to disburse, to honour matured
(e) No correction required
Q15. We have been sufficiently alerted about
what the future may hold, but thus
far we have been unable to step out from the path to disaster that has been mapped out for us.
(a)might hold, that had been mapped out
(b)can hold, what is being mapped out
(c)will hold, which have been mapped out
(d)would hold, that is mapped out
(e) No correction required.
SOLUTIONS:
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. B must be the first sentence and it should
be followed by C as both the sentences can well be connected with each other.
A-D makes a combination. Hence BCAD is the correct sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph
S2. Ans. (e)
Sol. D, being the first sentence of the
paragraph must be followed by C as it further explains the motto of GHI (Global
Hunger Index). B-E forms a combination and A makes the perfect conclusion
citing the main objective. Hence DCBEA is the correct sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph.
S3. Ans. (a)
Sol. A must be the first sentence as it
explains the meaning of Cantillon effect. It is to be followed by C as it
brings out the reason for the explanation of sentence A. D-B forms a
combination. Hence ACDB is the correct sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
S4. Ans. (c)
Sol. E must be the first sentence as it starts
the process of hydrological cycle. C-A-D forms a combination describing the
presence of seawater and its importance in the complete process. B sums up the
paragraph quite evidently. Hence ECADFGB is the correct sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. C must be the first sentence of the
paragraph as it talks about the German election. It should be followed by A. B
should A as A-B forms a combination as both talk about the relevance of Brexit
negotiations in the UK election. E-D makes another combination forming the last
two sentences of the paragraph so formed. Hence CABED is the correct sequence
to form a meaningful paragraph.
S6. Ans. (d)
Sol. Antagonistic
means unsympathetic.
Estrangement
means disaffection.
Conciliatory
means pacific or peaceful.
S7. Ans. (b)
Sol. Conscripted
means recruited.
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. Spate
means a sudden flood in a river.
Paucity
means present in small amount.
S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. Receptacle
means container that is used to put or keep the things in.
S10. Ans. (a)
Sol. Interdiction
means action of prohibiting something.
Alacrity
means eagerness.
Haste
means excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. “under the circumstances of, that is
already fundamentally changing” makes the sentence grammatically correct. The
phrase “under the circumstances”
means “given the difficult nature of the situation”.
S12. Ans. (e)
Sol. The given sentence does not require any
correction. It is grammatically correct.
S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. “how society has been divided, required
to” is the correct usage to make the sentence grammatically correct. It is to
be noted that the sentence is in passive form, that’s why “has been divided” is the correct usage.
S14. Ans. (b)
Sol. “have agreed to disburse, to honour
maturing” is the correct usage as the sentence is in Present tense. Also, “to honour maturing debt repayments”
makes the sentence meaningful.
S15. Ans. (e)
Sol. The given sentence is grammatically
correct.
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