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READING COMPREHENSION:
LEVEL – 1

PASSAGE – 1
Picasso usually makes his first appearances around noon. He wears shorts and sandals in
summer, rumpled trousers and sweater in winter. In contrast to many painters who favours
working in the even light filtered through north windows, he works in a variety of sun conditions
and even at night in a room lighted by one or more unshaded bulbs. Instead of using a palette, he
mixes and tries out his colours on a sheet of newspaper or cardboard. If the work goes wall, he
may keep it until two or three in the morning.
1. Picasso usually makes his first appearance:
(a) in casual wear
(b) either in shorts and sandals or trousers and sweater
(c) in shorts and sandals in winter and rumpled trousers in summer.
(d) in shorts and sandals is summer and rumpled trousers and sweater in winter.
2. He likes to work in:
(a) the even light filtered through north windows
(b) a variety of sun condition
(c) a room lighted by one or more unshaded bulbs
(d) a variety of sun conditions and even at night in a room lighted by one of more unshaded
bulbs.
3. Many painters use:
(a) only a palette to mix their colours
(b) only a sheet of news paper
(c) only a card – board
(d) either a sheet of news paper or cardboard.
4. Picasso keeps at what till two or three in the morning?
(a) Painting
(b) The work
(c) Mixing the colours
(d) Painting and mixing the colours
5. This passage throws light on:
(a) the personality of Picasso
(b) the personalities of many painters

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(c) the casual way of painting of Picasso


(d) the serious conditions in which Picasso works.
ANSWERS:
1) d 2) d 3) a 4) d 5) a

PASSAGE – 2
We are tempted to assume that technological progress is the real progress and that material
success is the criterion of civilization. If the eastern people become fascinated by machines and
techniques and use them as Western Nations do, to build industrial organizations and large
military establishments they will get involved in power politics and drift into the danger of death.
Scientific and technological civilization brings opportunities and great rewards but also great
risks and temptations. If machines get into the saddle all our progress will have been in vain. The
problem facing us is a universal one. Both east and west are threat ended With the same danger
and face the same destiny. Science & Technology are neither good nor bad. They are not to be
tabooed but named and assigned their proper place. They become dangerous only if they become
idols.
1. What is man tempted to assume?
(a) Western nations are superior of Eastern nations
(b) Science and Technology pose no danger to humanity
(c) Technological progress is the real progress
(d) As such there is nothing wrong with machines
2. When do science and technology become dangerous?
(a) When they become idols
(b) When they are used with temptation
(c) When their advantages are not used judiciously
(d) when it is assumed that material success is the criterion of civilization
3. What will happen if Eastern people use machined?
(a) It will bring great opportunities and rewards to them.
(b) It will show the victory of min over matter.
(c) They realize that it is not end in itself.
(d) They will get in involved in politics and drift into danger of death.
4. Which of the following statements is/are true in the context of the
passage?

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(a) Science and Technology are neither good not bad.


(b) Through machines man can achieve all progress
(c) Science and technology bring great risks and temptations
(d) All the above
5. Choose the word which is SIMILAR in meaning as the word „tabooed‟ as
used in the passage.
(a) Confined
(b) Accepted
(c) Criticized
(d) Forbidden
ANSWERS:
1) c 2) a 3) d 4) d 5) d

LEVEL – 2
PASSAGE – 1
The favoured sport of the season is swimming. Like climbing hills. This sport is also accessible
to the ordinary Chinese, at least to those who have the time for it. Swimming pools can be found
in almost every neighborhood; every big school and housing complex has one. Anyone with 8 to
10 yuan to spare can swim for as long as they want, with hotels and gyms charging between 15
to 25 yuan. It‟s not uncommon to find residents of upmarket residential complexes and the
security guards of these complexes cooling off in the same pool. As with swimming pools, so
with ice creams. Unlike in India, there aren‟t two categories of ice creams – the small cart of the
common man and the big brads for the rich. Prices range from 1.5 to 5 yuan for all ice crams
(except hard-to-find designer brands such as Haagen Dazas and TCBY). But foreigners have two
major problems with Chinese ice cream: finding an ice cream, which tastes like it‟s expected to,
and being able to distinguish chocolate ice cream from the universally vourflaed red bean
flavour; and not mistaking green tea ice cream for pista or mint. Swimming pools and ice creams
are for all, but not air-conditioners. Strangely, ceiling fans are not the norm here. But here too,
there‟s a remedy for the vast majority: night out at the sea front. Hordes of ordinary Chinese
families escape the stifling heat of small apartments to sleep, lulled by the cool sea breeze, on
newspapers spread out on the wide grassy stretches that line the sea front promenades. They go
home at dawn, and by 8 am, the grass has been swept clan.
1. One aspect of China which makes it strikingly different from India is that
(a) the Chinese do not have tine for swimming.

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(b) the Chinese are not connoisseurs of food.


(c) residential complexes lying close to the beach.
(d) houses meant for employees of commerce industry.
2. Upmarket residential complex means
(a) residential complexes of the affluent community.
(b) residential complexes of stock market brokers.
(c) residential complexes lying close to the beach.
(d) houses meant for employees of commerce industry.
3. One thing that an ordinary Chinese person cannot afford is
(a) an ice-cream.
(b) an air-conditioner.
(c) a swimming pool.
(d) a ceiling fan.
4. Promenade is
(a) a paved public walk along the sea front.
(b) refreshing air.
(c) a luxurious resort.
(d) a camping place for the rich.
5. Which of the following cannot be inferred about the Chinese from the given passage
(a) The Chinese are adventurous.
(b) The Chinese do not differentiate fellow Chinese based on financial status.
(c) The Chinese value time.
(d) Chinese value cleanliness.
ANSWERS:
1) d 2) a 3) b 4) a 5) c

PASSAGE – 2
Cosmology is the study of the Universe at large, its beginning, its evolution, and its ultimate fate.
More than any other branch of science, cosmology can be studied by using the mind alone. This
is just as true today as it was seventy-five years ago, when Albert Einstein developed the general
theory of relativity,and thereby invented the science of theoretical cosmology. When scientists
refer to the „classical‟ ideas of physics, they are not referring back of the thoughts of the Ancient
Greeks. Strictly speaking, classical physics is the physics of Isaac Newton, who laid the
foundations of the scientific method of investigating the world, back in the seventeenth century.

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Newtonian physics reigned supreme until the need of the nineteenth century, when it was
overtaken by two revolutions, the first sparked off by Einstein‟s general theory of relativity, and
the second by the quantum theory. The first is the best theory we have of how gravity works; the
second explains how everything else in the material world works. Together, these two topics,
relativity theory and quantum mechanics, form the two pillars of modern twentieth-century
science. The Holy Grail of modern physics, sought by many, is a theory that will combine the
two into one mathematical package. There is another, more colloquial way in which scientists
use the term „classical physics‟ – essentially, to refer to any thing developed by previous
generation of researchers, and therefore more than about twenty-five years old. In fact, going
back twenty-five years from today does bring us to a landmark event in science: the discovery of
pulsars, in 1967, the year Stephan Hawking celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday. These objects
are now know to be neutron stars, the collapsed cores of massive stars that have ended their lives
in vast outbursts know as supernova explosions.
1. What paved the way to theoretical cosmology?
(a) Mathematical calculations
(b) Space probes
(c) Contemplations of human mind
(d) Eintein‟s general theory of relativity
ANS: (d)
2. What is Classical Physics?
(a) is the physics that was studied before 17th century.
(b) was the physics of the Ancient Greeks.
(c) is the physics of Newton.
(d) is the Physics disregarded by Einstein.
ANS: (c)
3. What does quantum theory explain? It explains
(a) how gravity works.
(b) how every thing else in the material world works.
(c) theoretical cosmology.
(d) the classical ideas of ancient Greeks.
ANS: (b)
4. The „Holy Grauk‟ of modern physics is
(a) the theory that combines relativity theory with quantum theory.
(b) everything discovered in physics so far.

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(c) the ideas of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Albert Einstein.
(d) the classical theories on cosmology.
ANS: (a)
5. What are pulsars?
(a) Neutron stars
(b) Supernova explosions
(c) Black holes
(d) Massive stars
ANS: (a)

PASSAGE – 3
Even the best and strongest manager needs advice and double-checking. But not all time. Part
of a chief‟s essential equipment is to know when to scream for help and when not to : part of his
duty is to be as sparing of the time of other managers as of his own-for time is the one
irreplaceable corporate assets. Physical assets can be replaced, financial losses can be regained.
No company is short of managers. The shortage is one of effective manager-hours.
Unfortunately, managers have marked regressive tendencies in the use of time. Several studies
have proved that if the managerial day is analyzed. Large fallow periods pop out, which by self-
discipline and changed methods the good manager can promptly fill up with productive labour.
Any follow up, however, world surely show back-sliding probably to the point where as much as
ever slips away like sand through the fingers. Possibly, in some cases, the eighteen-hour
executive by spending twice as much time as normal in ostensible works, gets twice as much
effective time. But this is the wrong answer. The ideal of summit management, and of
delegations to reduce the job contents at the top to the bare minimum. The boss who keeps his
desk bare and his diary empty for one thing, is certain to be available when somebody
really needs him.
1. According to the author, the ideal chief is one who spends
(a) his maximum time on the job
(b) at least 18 hours a day on the job
(c) as much time as it essentially needed on the job
(d) more time than his other colleagues on the job
ANS: (c)
2. According to the author, the ideal chief is one who spends
(a) physical (b) financial (c) production (d) time

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ANS: (d)
3. If a manager uses his time effectively he
(a) brings about the intended results
(b) is always punctual in keeping his appointment
(c) does nothing else but his work
(d) is always vigilant
ANS: (1)
4. In the context of this passage, a regressive tendency stands for
(a) indiscipline (b) less productivity
(c) lack of interest (d) escapism
ANS: (c)
5. The most appropriate title for this passage is
(a) the eighteen – hour executive b) effective manager – hours
(b) the best and strongest manager (d) the ideal summit of management
ANS: (b)

PASSAGE – 4
There is no reason to believe that there are fundamental differences between the East and the
West. Human beings are basically the same everywhere. The differences, which undoubtedly
significant, are related to external, social conditions. East and west are relative terms. They are
geographical expressions and not cultural types. The differences among countries like China,
India and Japan are quite as significant as those among European or American countries. These
differences are of specific cultural patterns with distinctive beliefs and habits developed in
different regions isolation from one another. There were period when China d India were
preeminent in cultural affairs, others when Western nations aided by scientific development have
dominated the East. The world has now reached a stage of intercommunication. All societies are
fast becoming industrialized and new sets of values are springing up. If we are to live together in
peace we much develop international Co-operation and understanding.
1. The different between human beings are
(a) fundamental
(b) not important because they are external, temporary and of social conditions
(c) permanent
(d) none of the above
ANS: (b)

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2. East and West are


(a) similar in all respects
(b) opposite in all respects
(c) relative terms, geographical expressions and not cultural type
(d) relative terms, geographical expressions and cultural type.
ANS: (c)
3. During the last four centuries
(a) the eastern nations have dominated the western countries
(b) the western nations have dominated the eastern countries
(c) the western countries have dominated the eastern countries with help of scientific
Level
(d) the eastern countries have dominated the western countries in the religious field
ANS: (c)
4. The world has now reached a stage of
(a) lack of communications (b) inter-communication
(c) inter-dependence (d) none of the above
ANS: (b)
5. For living in peace
(a) both national international understanding must be made
(b) international organization much be strengthened
(c) there must be inter-communication between the nations
(d) international co-operation and understanding must be developed
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 5
Today the game reserves of East Africa are facing a number of threats. Although they earn
considerable revenue by attracting tourists, they take up land which is increasingly sought by the
local people. While these reserves feed and protect animals, they are in danger of turning into
barren areas or deserts. Trees, shrubs and grass are gradually being eaten by grazing herbs.
Another problem is to found in the changing attitudes of the animals themselves. Many of them
are losing their hereditary fear of man. In this way they may become a danger to visitors and thus
to themselves. Attacks on vehicles are beginning to increase, and it is possible that the problem
will become serious in a few years time. The problem of shortage of land is not a simple one. As
the population increases; more and more people look hungrily at the land set aside for game

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reserves. They claim that a Governments first duty is to its inhabitants and not to tourists or to
wild animals. Despite the income obtained from tourism. This is an argument which it is difficult
to answer satisfactorily.
1. Why many local people look hungrily at the game reserves?
(a) They may seek land for their own cultivation.
(b) The animals may be a danger to them and their village
(c) They may dislike living in a deserted place
(d) They may be hungry and want to eat the animals
ANS: (a)
2. What is causing soil erosion in the game reserves?
(a) The tropical heat
(b) The disappearance of vegetation which is eaten by the animals
(c) The violent storms which are caused by grazing herds.
(d) The animals are losing their hereditary fear of man.
ANS: (b)
3. As far as you can tell from the passage, why does the Government bother to maintain
game reserves?
(a) To stop the people from using the land
(b) To keep the vegetation under control
(c) To obtain income from tourism
(d) To make the country beautiful
ANS: (c)
4. What may be the attitude of the animals (in these reserves) in general in a few years
time?
(a) They may become a nuisance in various ways
(b) They may become too shy to be seen
(c) They may chase away every visitor with enters a game reserve
(d) They may become friendly with the local people
ANS: (c)
5. To what does „this‟ refer to in the last sentence of the passage?
(a) The income obtained from tourists who park their cars in town
(b) The revenue from tourists who visit the game reserves
(c) The claim concerning the first duty of the Government
(d) The problems concerning game reserve in East Africa

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ANS: (c)

PASSAGE – 6
Native to India and Burma, the neem tree is a stately cousin of the mahogany and has been
venerated since ancient times for its medicinal and fumigant properties. Neem is one of the five
“essentials” that tradition prescribes for every Indian garden: the other are: amla (Indian
gooseberry), palash (flame of the forest), bilva (Bengal quince or bail) and tulsi (sacred basil).
Ayurveda ascribes amazing curative powers to the neem. Then, there is the neem panchang – the
roots, bark, gum, leaves, fruit, (Kernel and oil) – which furnishes a variety of antivirals,
antibacterial, fungicides and other bioactive substances. These have been found effective against
a host of ailments. Countless Indians today use neem twigs, called datum in Gujarat, as
disposable toothbrushes. This explains why, most people in India have white, healthy teeth.
Dried neem leaves are put in stored grain, clothes are books to protect them pests. Neem leaves
are used for skin ailments and in rituals to propitiate the goddess Mariamma of small pox and to
fan the patients. Neem oil cake curbs, improves the soil and serves as a nourishing animal feed.
1. Which parts of the neem tree have curative properties?
(a) The roots and bark. (b) The leaves and fruit.
(c) The gum and oil. (d) All the above
ANS: (d)
2. The neem twigs
(a) are not useful. (b) are used as disposable tooth brushes.
(c) are used for skin aliments. (d) making nourishing animal feed.
ANS: (b)
3. The benefits to be derived from neem tree
(a) have been know since time immemorial.
(b) came to be know only recently.
(c) was discovered accidentally.
(d) was found by foreigners.
ANS: (a)
4. This is NOT a tree traditionally considered essential for the garden.
(a) Tulsi (b) Amla (c) Chandan (d) Bilwa
ANS: (c)
5. Neem leaves are NOT used
(a) to improve fertility of the soil. (b) to protect books.

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(c) to keep pests off stored grains. (d) to safeguard cloths from insects.
ANS: (a)

PASSAGE – 7
The village has customarily been very conservative in his attitude and approach. He is reluctant
to change his traditional way of thinking and doing things. His attitude, in many respects, is:
„home – made is best‟. For instance, most cattle – farmers in the villages prefer to feed their
cows and buffaloes with a home – comprising of local oil-cakes like mustard or cottonseed,
pulses, jiggery, salt ect., it takes numerous visits, hard-convincing, daily trails and experiments to
convince the rural farmer that compound feeds, scientifically formulated, improve the yields of
milk, without any incremental costs. The age-old values and attitudes towards caste, creed,
women, time and money take time to change. The village has traditionally been a believer in the
philosophy or „karma‟ of fate. He has found it more convenient to blame his economic
destitution. Poor Living conditions, and strained social status on „bhagya‟, „karma‟ or „fate‟. The
security that the villages find the „status quo‟ act as a disincentive to change and experiment, in
the short run. Many of these antiquated attitudes, value-system and outlooks are changing due
improved levels of awareness and education. However the rate of change is sluggish.
Attitudes that have fossilized over the centuries do take time to change.
1. When will you call a person conservation in his attitude and approach?
(a) When he world like to try out every new idea before accepting it.
(b) When he sticks to old ways of thinking and doing.
(c) When he solves his problem through tried out methods.
(d) When he imputes motives to change agents.
ANS: (b)
2. What does the phrase “home – made is best” imply?
(a) Whatever is being practiced is better than what is new
(b) The best should not be described.
(c) Change for the sake of change is not good.
(d) People should go in for Swadeshi because it is home – made
ANS: (a)
3. What is the best method to convince the average Indian villager about the superiority
of a new cattle-feed?
(a) Home – visits (b) Field demonstration
(c) Discussion (d) Distribution of related literature

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ANS: (b)
4. Which of the following is not usual reason by an average Indian villager for his
property?
(a) It is his destiny (b) It is because of his resistance to new ideas.
(c) It is God‟s will (c) It is God‟s will
(d) It is a result of some of his bad deeds committed in this or the previous birth.
ANS: (d)
5. Why does a villager feel secure in maintaining „status quo‟?
(a) Because charge is seldom for the better
(b) Because of the imagined risk involved in trying a new approach
(c) Because whatever is known should be the best
(d) Because too many people go without advising him.
ANS: (c)

PASSAGE – 8
Communication with anyone around the world is within the grasp of every person now. The
rapid development of Internet and Computer technology world over has led to the growth of new
forms of transnational crime related especially with the internet. These crimes may affect any
country across the globe as no geographic boundaries can stop them. Internet and computer
based commerce and communications cut across territorial boundaries. Access to the internet
allows linking up easily and cheaply with anyone. Internet is the fastest-growing
Communications medium in human history. It is not possible to quantify the size, use, and
growth of the entire system. No one knows the exact number of people who use it, or the number
of nodes on it. It is difficult even to know the amount of information that is transmitted through
it. New forms of criminal activities in cyber space are coming to forefront. Territorially based
law-making and law-enforcing authorities find this new environment deeply threatening.
The World Wide Web was initially not thought of as needing any regulations. But over a period
of time, it was found that the internet needed some rules and regulations to govern it, without
which it can be used as a toll for the destruction of mankind. Unauthorized access to systems in
order to steal users‟ passwords on the internet became a grave international concern. Law from
the real world had to enter the realm of communications. So, a new discipline was developed in
the U.S. about four years back called cyber law. Cyber law is a term, which denotes all aspects,
issues and the legal consequences on the internet. Cyber crime refers to all the activities done
with criminal intent in Cyberspace. Cyber terrorism is a crime committed by individuals and

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groups to threaten governments and to terrorize citizens of a country by misusing Cyberspace.


This is done by an individual or group when he succeeds in cracking into a government of
military maintained web site. Hence, the first interactions between the internet and law rose out
of necessity.
1. The chief reason for the formulated of cyber law is
(a) to prevent misuse of the internet.
(b) to know the number of users.
(c) to regulate the interaction between internet and law.
(d) to stream line the internet activities.
ANS: (a)
2. Cyber crime can affect any country in the world because
(a) Internet cut across territorial boundaries.
(b) criminal con travel to any country.
(c) criminal are found in all countries.
(d) most countries have computer and internet.
ANS: (a)
3. Same rules and regulations are needed to govern the interest because
(a) it is widely used medium.
(b) it can be used for the destruction of mankind.
(c) it is a new medium.
(d) law from the real world are not applicable to it.
ANS: (b)
4. The passage deals with
(a) the intricacies of the internet.
(b) the multiple uses of the internet.
(c) new development is communication.
(d) the need for cyber laws.
ANS: (d)
5. An example of cyber crime is
(a) cracking into government or military maintained with site.
(b) linking up with strangers.
(c) trading with people in other countries.
(d) unauthorized use of computer.
ANS: (a)

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PASSAGE – 9
The private sector has today reached a stage of development and expertise where it can make a
massive contribution to the country‟s further economic development. The majority of Indian‟s
entrepreneurs, large and small, are patriotic men who do not ask for Special favours or large
profits, nor do they seek monopolies or any concentration of wealth and power. What they want
are the opportunities or any concentration of wealth an power. What they want are the
opportunities to exercise their initiative, their skills and their resources for the benefit of their
shareholders and above all, to be allowed to get on with the job. Yet, mistrust of the private
sector, particularly in large scale industry, has been such as seriously to impede economic growth
in the sixties and it now threatens to make it impossible for it to meet its targets in the current
plan. If we, in private enterprise, are to play our legitimate role in the decade to come. It clear to
me that we must prove to Government, to Parliament and to the public in general that we deserve
to be trusted. There is also the opposition from socialists in our country who, through opposed to
violence and regimentation of communism, accept its economic policies in the mistaken belief
that private enterprise is incompatible with the achievements of socialist goals and that even if it
were, Indian businessman and industrialists do not believe in those goals or are unwilling to
make the necessary sacrifices.
1. The majority of Indian entrepreneurs want
(a) To monopolies the trade
(b) To concentrate wealth and power
(c) To exploit the workers
(d) The opportunity to use their talent and resources for the benefit of their
Shareholders
ANS: (d)
2. The socialists oppose the private sector because
(a) It exploits the workers
(b) They think that entrepreneurs cannot achieve the socialist goals
(c) They believe in Marxist ideology
(d) They think that private sector should not be trusted
ANS: (b)
3. What impeded the economic growth in the sixties?
(a) The non-availability of the raw materials
(b) Strikes and lock-outs in the industries

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(c) The faulty planning by the Government


(d) The mistrust of the private sector by the Government
ANS: (d)
4. The socialists think that Indian businessman should not be trusted because
(a) The businessman do not believe in socialist goals and are unwilling to make any
sacrifice
(b) They only calculate their own profit
(c) They exploit the economically weaker section of the society
(d) They do not think about the general good of the society.
ANS: (a)
5. Private sector can contribute to the economy because of
(a) Market driven economy (b) Globalization
(b) Disinvestment policy (d) The expertise it has acquired
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 10
What is cholesterol? Well, it is a fat that looks like wax, and under the microscope it appears as
crystalline long, sharp needles. Cholesterol is synthesized in the body through a complicated
process. After being manufactured by the liver, it is absorbed from the intestine and mixed with
blood where it remains in solution along with other fatty substances. When blood flows under
pressure, tiny droplets of cholesterol are forced into the inner wall of the blood vessels. It later
gets precipitated in the vessel wall as needle-like pointed crystals resembling splinters of wood.
Thus the role of cholesterol in heart disease is arteriosclerosis, which is a kind of hardening of
the arteries caused by fatty deposits called plaques. These deposits contain 70 per cent
cholesterol. They clog the arteries and thus impede the flow of blood. The result can be angina or
heart attack. The quantity of cholesterol in the blood plasma depends mostly on the cholesterol
content in your diet. It is also dependent on the balance between its synthesis (production by the
liver) and its excretion with bile. This equilibrium is influenced by the fats we eat in our food.
Fats combine with cholesterol and proteins to form lipoproteins. Lipoproteins come in two types
– High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) having more protein than fat; and Low Density Lipoproteins
(LDL) containing more fat than protein. Whereas LDL carries fat and cholesterol to the
peripheral tissues where they are used, HDL seems to collect cholesterol from the tissues and
carry it to the liver for excretion. As HDL clears excess cholesterol from the blood, it is called

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the „good‟ cholesterol and because LDL favours build up of cholesterol, it is known as „bad‟
cholesterol.
1. Lipoproteins contain
(a) protein and fat.
(b) only cholesterol.
(c) only fat.
(d) only protein.
ANS: (a)
2. The amount of cholesterol in the blood depends on
(a) the cholesterol we consume.
(b) the cholesterol synthesized in the liver.
(c) the cholesterol excreted by bile.
(d) all the above.
ANS: (d)
3. The deposits that clog the arteries are
(a) lipoproteins.
(b) mostly cholesterol.
(c) HDL.
(d) LDL.
ANS: (b)
4. High Density Lipoprotein
(a) have more fat than protein.
(b) have equal amounts of fat and protein.
(c) gets rid of cholesterol from the blood.
(d) builds up cholesterol in the body.
ANS: (c)
5. The cholesterol we consume
(a) are absorbed by the blood and deposited on the walls of the artery.
(b) are stored in the liver.
(c) are converted into lipoproteins.
(d) may be deposited on the inner walls of the blood vessels under certain conditions.
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 11

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Globalisation, advances in information technology and changes in the nature of work are joining
together in generation a new type of economy, often referred to as the knowledge economy. The
most dynamic sectors of this new economy – computers, finance, software, telecommunications
– are ones that are dependent on „knowledge workers‟: white-collar employees who works with
and produce information, rather than physical goods. One of the fastest growing segments of the
middle class is comprised of people who work in the „InfoTech‟ sector. These so-called „wired
workers‟ are employed in a broad spectrum of positions, as webpage designers, e-commerce
workers, online marketers and advertisers, data analysts, systems analysts, software developers,
graphic designers and financial consultants. Despite this diversity of occupations, wired workers
are united by several commonalities. They tend to spend most of their time behind computers,
working in non-hierarchical settings. Rather than performing repetitive tasks, wired workers
engage in dynamic problem-solving activities. The number of wired workers is hard to estimate
with any precision, but some have placed it as high as third of the workforce in EU countries,
and somewhat higher in the United States. By all accounts the knowledge economy it still in its
emergent state; the population of wired workers seems sure to grow.„Wired workers‟ are among
those at the forefront in embracing the new political culture that is transcending traditional „left-
right‟ politics. In this new order, political out looks are based less on traditional class issues, such
as fiscal policy and welfare provision, and more on „lifestyle issues‟ that reflect personal
concerns and values.
1. The term „wired workers‟ does not include
(a) technicians.
(b) web page designers.
(c) online marketers.
(d) graphic designers.
ANS: (a)
2. Which of the following in not common to wired workers?
(a) Dynamic problem solving
(b) Non hierarchical settings
(c) Editing messages
(d) Working on computers
ANS: (c)
3. The Knowledge workers in the new economy produce
(a) physical good.
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(c) new technology.


(d) innovative processes.
ANS: (b)
4. The issues that are interests to „wired workers‟ are
(a) ideological concerns.
(b) political issues – right or left.
(c) traditional class issues.
(d) personal concerns and values.
ANS: (d)
5. The „wired workers‟ are engaged in the
(a) primary sector.
(b) secondary sector.
(c) essential sector.
(d) infortech sector.
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 12
Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability
than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people. Our country often stood like a
solid rock in the face of common danger and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a
golden thread all our seeing diversity. There have occasions when unfortunate and disturbing
divisions some of them accompanied by violence, have appeared in our society.
Political democracy and the way it has functioned in our country is surely a great achievement.
Here again we owe an immeasurable debt to Sri. J.L. Nehruji for his deep attachment to
democracy as a form of government and as a way of life. There is some-times in our older
cultural heritage too. I have particularly in view that enduring strength in Indian life which can
best be described as respect for human personality and the sprit of tolerance. I have no doubt in
my mind that it is only by methods of persuasion and mutual accommodation and by a constant
search for areas of agreement as the basic for action that democracy can work. It is in this spirit
that I shall devote myself to the duties and responsibilities of the office I have been called upon
to fill. Of all the problems facing us none is more distressing than that of dire poverty in which
tens of millions of our countrymen continue to live. It is my great desire to be able to lighten in
some measure the burden of poverty on our people. In this I remember particularly the claims of
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and have had to ensure disabilities for many centuries. It would be my proud privilege to work
for the establishment of a more just social order.
1. Shri Nehru was deeply attached to
(a) democracy as away of life
(b) democracy of the western type
(c) democracy with emerges from our culture
(d) the Indian way of living
ANS: (a)
2. What is the permanent trend in Indian life?
(a) respect for human personality
(b) love for animal
(c) worship of nature
(d) hero-worshipping
ANS: (b)
3. The author believes that democracy can work
(a) if leader are honest (b) if people participate
(c) if method of persuasion and mutual adjustment are employed
(d) if people have faith in democracy
ANS: (c)
4. The writer wants to work for
(a) just economic order (b) just social order
(c) democratic forces (d) None of the these
ANS: (b)
5. The writer thinks that
(a) we have never faced dangers
(b) in our country there is unity underlying diversity
(c) our society is tribal in organization
(d) stability of the nation depends upon many factors
ANS: (b)

PASSAGE – 13
Teachers should be aware of the importance of their role in helping gifted student in social and
emotional adjustment, and in promoting their mental health. Many signs of maladjustment
appear at quite an early age and teachers have the opportunity to observe students under

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conditions which disclose such behaviour. If need be, expect help should help should be obtained
in treating such maladjustment. When parental relations are strained, the child is likely to feel
insecure. Such a child can be helped by giving him some individual attention and making him
feel that he can win the teacher‟s respect and affection for his superior performance.
When discipline in the home is weak and inconsistent, the teacher can do much by providing the
child opportunities for good behaviour. Bright students are as quick to respect firm and
consistent discipline as they are to challenge one that is lax. Bright students who misbehave at
home may welcome stricter discipline of school and they may infact be grateful for the support
of a firm hand in their efforts to control themselves. The gifted child may need help in human
relations. He cannot but feel different from his average classmates. If he can find no companions
who can share his interests and concerns, he may begin to stay apart more and more. One result
may be a tendency to solitary pursuits such as reading, collecting things or scientific
experimentation. He misses group games and rough and tumble type of play. He falls behind in
physical skills and when, by chance, he finds himself in games or group activities he feels
awkward and inadequate. The teacher could help by giving him the opportunity of leadership in
the activities in which he is superior, by asking him to help the weaker students in studies and so
on.
1. The teacher‟s role in helping the gifted child is important because he/she
(a) has the opportunity to notice maladjustments in a child.
(b) can impose discipline on students.
(c) can cure all problems in children.
(d) is always with children.
ANS: (a)
2. A child is likely to feel insecure when
(a) strict discipline is imposed.
(b) he does not have friends.
(c) he has no money.
(d) relationship between parents to strained.
ANS: (d)
3. The gifted child needs help in human relations because he is
(a) predisposed to solitary pursuits
(b) different from his classmates and cannot share his interests with them.
(c) emotionally imbalanced.
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ANS: (b)
4. A child who has no companion enjoys
(a) physical games.
(b) fine arts.
(c) reading or collecting things.
(d) only intellectual activities.
ANS: (c)
5. The passage focuses on
(a) below average students.
(b) role of discipline.
(c) the mental health of the gifted students.
(d) parent-child relationship.
ANS: (c)

PASSAGE – 14
The demand for State funding of elections amounts to trying to gain a new and additional
avenue for money, power and pelf without plugging the existing pipelines. The political bosses
and dons gunning for state – funded elections seem to imply that prevailing vulgar and
astronomical levels of election expenses are normal; natural, legitimate phenomena and the
major means of mobilizing the masses. It speaks volumes for the nature of their politics.
According to them, it is pity that while our democratic system has imposed this inexorable
„necessity‟ on the political parties playing the „democratic‟ game of cajoling, coaxing.
„Educating‟ and even coercing the electorate to accept their resources for being able to do so.
Hence, it seems to be implied that the lap of the money bags turn democracy into plutocracy.
This genre of apologia, masquerading as reasoning, goes on to imply that in this process of
meeting a necessary democratic obligation of organizing political campaigns for electioneering,
the politicians, being at the receiving end, are in no position to be choosers of their benefactors,
or be able to ask questions about the nature of origin of the money offered to them since it is the
business persons, contractors, suppliers, smugglers, fixers and people with huge hoards of the
blank lucre who have most of the money which can be spared for the politicians, it is little
wonder that „the poor, helpless‟ politicians are willy – nilly forced to accept such money,
irrespective of its taint and hue.
1. „inexorable‟ means
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ANS: (d)
2. The passage is concerned with the problem of
(a) state-funded elections (b) democratic system
(c) corruption (d) corrupt people
ANS: (d)
3. „Plutocracy‟ is a ruling body or class of
(a) aristocrats(b) rich persons (c) bureaucrats (d) corrupt people
ANS: (b)
4. The attitude of the author as reflected in the passage is
(a) straight forward (b) academic (c) ironic (d) matter-or-fact
ANS: (c)
5. According to the author, the politicians‟ stands as put forward in the passage is
(a) specious (b) tentative (c) democratic (d) apologetic
ANS: (a)

PASSAGE – 15
To write the history of a man, or the history of an epoch, are two distinct undertakings, different
both in name and technique. The attempt to combine them has been in vain. Plutarch renounced
the one, and Carlyle renounced the other. That is why both these masters where able to achieve
their respective tasks. Artists have some times dramatized historical figures with a free hand;
sometimes they have produced one of those horrible mishmashes which pass by the name of
“historical novel” of which Goethe, like Napoleon, said that they confuse everythin The attempt
is especially difficult when, not works, but deeds, are the milestones along the road of life.
Caesar, Frederick, and Napoleon, only become great powers through their victories in that
battlefield; and yet their battles tend, more and more to become meaningless of posterity.
Nowadays, it is only in military and academies that Pharsalia, Rossbach, and Austerlitz, have
historical significance. Not one of the three great generals I have named world mean any more to
us than Crasus, Seydlitz, or Massena, had they, too been nothing more than military
commanders; it is the political genius of Caesar, Frederick, and Napoleon. That makes these men
supreme. In his highest embodiment, the statesman shapes our destiny. Where genius and
character intersect, is the focus for the searcher of the soul.
1. What are the two separate undertaking the author speaks of?
(a) To write the history of man and to write the history of a period.
(b) The works of Carlyle and Plutarch.

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(c) The understanding of military academies and politics.


(d) The understanding of deeds and the understanding of works.
ANS: (a)
2. He renounced writing
(a) the history of man.
(b) the history of an epoch.
(c) the history of great minds.
(d) history itself.
ANS: (b)
3. What according to the author makes Napoleon, Caesar and Frederick great?
(a) Their love for posterity.
(b) Their military strength.
(c) Their victories in the battle field.
(d) Their political genius.
ANS: (d)
4. What causes confusion?
(a) Historical novel
(b) History of man
(c) History of a period
(d) Search for the truth
ANS: (a)
5. We can say that
(a) the author wants us to study history.
(b) the author wants us to understand the distinction between works and deeds.
(c) the author wants to emphasize that it is the combination of genius in a specific field
and good character that make a person supreme.
(d) the complexities of minds result from the complexities of the epoch.
ANS: (c)

READING COMPREHENSION:
LEVEL – 3
PASSAGE – 16
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constitute one sixth of humanity. For us, power is a means of advancing the welfare of our
people and a tool for preserving and consolidating the autonomy of our foreign and domestic
policy. Moreover, as befits India‟s history and the traditions of its post-independence foreign
policy, our pursuit of power is firmly anchored in an international mission aimed at eliminating
the scourge of war, protecting international law, strengthening the U.N. and striving for a new
deal for developing countries whose people constitute the large majority of the words.
India‟s recent achievements in terms of hard power are many. They include the development of
a nuclear deterrent; military modernization; rapid economic growth with a rate expected to reach
over 8 per cent this year; transition from a food deficit, aid receiving nation with limited foreign
exchange reserves in the world; major advances in areas of high technology and global
recognition of India‟s huge reservoir of young and world class human resources.
Traditionally, military might has been considered the most important of the various ingredients
of power. However, the use of force in naked pursuit of national interests is no longer a viable
objective of moral as well as pragmatic reasons. Power in the 21st century will flow from a well-
run economy. Prosperity and economic clout rather than war and aggression will be the key
determinants of status in the world community. It has been argued by some that India‟s decision
to develop nuclear weapons was purely a political act aimed at enhancing its status in the world
by breaking into the exclusive nuclear political act aimed at enhancing its status in the world by
breaking into the exclusive nuclear club. This is a fallacy. In a world where weapons of mass
destruction are still to be eliminated, nuclear weapons sadly remain the ultimate guarantor of a
nation‟s security. It was the imposition of an imperfect non-proliferation order, evidence of
which is all around us, that compelled us to make the transition from nuclear abstinence to
that of a reluctant nuclear power. India is a mature nuclear power, which takes the responsibility
of possessing this awesome capability very seriously.
1. The words „power capabilities‟ in the first line means
(a) ability to produce electric power.
(b) capable to being powerful.
(c) deal with super powers.
(d) produce change.
ANS: (b)
2. The „fallacy‟ referred to in the 4th paragraph is
(a) the belief that India became nuclear to enter the nuclear club.
(b) that India‟s nuclear potential is a guarantee of security.
(c) the violation of non-proliferation order.

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(d) India being a mature nuclear power.


ANS: (a)
3. The term „hard power‟ as used in the passage does not include
(a) advances in technology.
(b) nuclear deterrent.
(c) economic growth.
(d) contribution to U.N.
ANS: (d)
4. In the present century power will be determined by
(a) war and aggression.
(b) use of force.
(c) prosperity and economic clout.
(d) military might.
ANS: (c)
5. According to the author, India become a nuclear power
(a) to counter the enforcement of an unjust non-proliferation order.
(b) to reinforce its position.
(c) to eliminate weapons of mans destruction.
(d) to ensure a better standard of living for its masses.
ANS: (a)

PASSAGE – 17
Life on Mars has been a long-time human preoccupation. The late 19th century Italian
astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, thought he saw “canali” (meaning channels) on the Martian
surface, and the word got misinterpreted to mean canals. His contemporary, Percival Lowell, a
wealthy American amateur astronomer, was convinced after studying Mars through a telescope
for 15 years that the straight lines he saw on that planet were undoubtedly canals constructed by
intelligent beings. The prospect gripped lay people and scientists a like, and writers and film-
markers were quick to pounce on its dramatic possibilities. If there were intelligent beings on
Mars, who could say that they would not one day to take over Earth and enslave its people? So
when a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells‟ book, War of the Worlds, was broadcast in the United
States in 1938, the public was quite prepared to believe that the Martians were invading and
panic ensued. With the coming of the space age, instead of the Martians coming to Earth,
humans, sent probe after probe to that planet. Over 30 scientific satellites and landers have been

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dispatched to Mars in the past four decades, although two-thirds of them failed somewhere along
the way. The United States currently has two satellites mapping Maps and studying its chemical
makeup. Europe‟s Mars Express, with the Beagle 2 lander, is just the latest to arrive. Right
behind are two robotic rovers from the United States that will reach the planet next month and
prowl about on its surface. Japan‟s Nozomi spacecraft would have been part of the throng around
Mars in 1969, were the first to send back close up images of that planet. Those photographs
dispelled notions of vegetation flourishing there. A decade after, when the Viking landers
touched down on its surface, there were no Martians to be seen and there was indeed not trace of
life. Mars is actually a rather forbidding place, arid, bitterly cold, with a thin atmosphere made
up largely of carbon dioxide and bathed in strong ultraviolet light. Life in such an environment
would seem improbable, if not impossible. Yet human obsession with Martian life refuses
to die out. Exotic Martians with strange body-form are out of the question, but hardy microbes
might eke out an existence, say scientists. Mars may have been a very different place over three
and a half billion years ago, they point out. Back then, Mars may have been warmer and wetter
than it is today, the deep gullies and ravines still visible on the planet were probably etched by
running water. With liquid water and a more benign climate, microbial life could conceivably
have arisen on Mars, as happened on Earth. But that is speculation, and finding proof is not
going to be easy, Liquid water no longer flows on the Martian surface. Much of the water known
to exist on Mars is locked away as ice at the polar caps. If there is water below the surface, in the
pores of rocks and when the iced water melts in summer, Martin microbes may be able to cling
to life, like bacteria which inhabit extreme environment on Earth. Locating sources of liquid
water on Mars is a major objective for the scientific satellites and landers. If there are
no living microbes, establishing that life once existed on that planet could be just as difficult. But
even if no trace of life, past or present, is ever found there, the search will refine our skill in
looking for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond.
1. The „dramatic possibility‟ that people pounced on was
(a) Martians invading earth.
(b) the existence of intelligent beings on Mars.
(c) humans talking control of Mars.
(d) communication with Martians.
ANS: (b)
2. Life on Mars appears to be
(a) certain
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(c) unlikely.
(d) developing by leaps and bounds.
ANS: (a)
3. The Martian probes would help
(a) in finding life on Mars.
(b) in making it accessible to humans.
(c) controlling space.
(d) in refining space technology.
ANS: (c)
4. The presence of this is crucial to any life being on Mars.
(a) Water
(b) Oxygen
(c) Atmosphere
(d) Favorable climate
ANS: (b)
5. The number of satellites dispatched to Mars in the past four decade is
(a) only one.
(b) at least ten.
(c) between ten and twenty.
(d) more than thirty.
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 18
If the Central Advisory Board on Education is congratulating itself on its clarion call to the
government to raise the expenditure on education to 6 percent of the national income. It ought to
remember that this demand was first raised by the Kothari Commission an entire quarter of a
century ago. At present only a little more than 3 percent of GNP is spent on this vital need and it
is unrealistic to except that it can be doubled over night. For that matter, the decline in
allocations for education is mirrored in the Five-year Plans; while the first devoted an all-time
high of 7.86 percent, it had progressively declined to 2.59 percent in the Sixth Plan and rose
marginally to 3.55 percent in the next. As the advisory board recognizes, a paucity of funds will
render it impossible to meet long-overdue targets, like the universalisation of Primary education
and the eradication of illiteracy. At the same time when the allocation in the Eight Plan is
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education, like health and family welfare, will get short shrits. And yet, there is no room for
despair. Funds are an essential requisite, but by no means the only one. Even within the existing
constrainsts, there is a lot that both the Centre and State Governments can do. For example, each
state can reduce the amount it spends out of its total education budget on staff, which has reached
as much as 92 percent in some instances. Besides, there is a strong case for revising fees in some
professional education institutions. Both medical colleges and IITs could charge a great deal
more than they now do and most entrants would be happy to bear the increased burden,
considering what they would otherwise spend on similar education abroad or in colleges
charging capitation fees. IIT s now charge a meager Rs.500s a year from students, presumably in
the pursuit of greater financial independence, although surveys show that almost all such
students hail from reasonably well-off families. Another reform which many institutions could
consider-and many already -do is to hold morning and evening classes, which amounts to shifts.
Given the pressure on all resources, physical as well as financial, there is no reason why all such
innovations should not be experimented withprovided, of course, that poor students do not suffer
as a consequence and standards as a whole are maintained
1. Which of the following is the recommendation of the Central Advisory Board
regarding allocation on education?
(a) 6 percent increase from that of the Seventh Plan
(b) 3% of GNP
(c) Reduction of amount spent on staff
(d) Increase in fee in professional institutions
ANS: (a)
2. Which of the following conveys the meaning of „no room for despair‟?
(a) No scope for improvement (b) Not much need to worry
(c) No place for hope (d) No need to panic
ANS: (d)
3. Which of the following is false in the context of the passage?
(a) Some innovations in education should be tried out
(b) A high percentage out of the total budget of education is spent on staff
(c) IITs should charge capitations fees
(d) Professional education in foreign countries is expensive
ANS: (c)
4. According to the passage which sector, apart from education, gets small budgetary
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(a) Adult Literacy (b) Child Welfare


(c) Women Welfare (d) None
ANS: (d)
5. The need for 6 percent of the national income to be spent on education was earlier
raised around which of the following years?
(a) 1950 (b) 1955 (c) 1960 (d) 1965
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 19
According to Hindu mythology, at the confluence of Ganga and Jamuna, near Allahabad, there is
an invisible river, Saraswati joining them and making it a confluence of there rivers (Triveni
sangamam). Similarly, in marketing besides the synergistic effect of quality and service. There is
another invisible factor contributing to marketing success, which is difficult to see or define. This
third dimension may be termed as “consumer perception” or “Caring for Consumers”. Most
marketing men are aware that they should improve service and quality, but are not all heading to
the same direction. There are confusing and conflicting ideas of what service or quality means
within the marketing group, let alone in the rest of the organization. There is, therefore, a need
to develop an integrated and consistent definition of service and quality. But this is not enough.
To improve sales, one has to give a further dimension to high – quality product or service, so that
the customer perception of value increases. Enhancing the perceived value is the job of the
marketing man.Most definitions of service or quality stop at “find out what your customers want
and give it to them”. Customer satisfaction and meeting need are two different, but important
goals. Most marketers know far less about their customers‟ wants needs fear complaints and
expectations related to their offerings than would be needed to reflect a sincere commitment to
customer orientation. A firm can gain customer at the expense of Rivals in many ways-offering
customers a better mix of what they want is only one of them. But this is only a short – term
strategy. Unfortunately, we can no longer afford to merely satisfy the customer. To win today
you have to delight and astound your customer perception concept moves beyond customer
satisfaction to customer delight it exceeds normal exceptions.You can objectively point to
specification, selection criteria, equipment, facilities support systems and the like to give clear,
rational reasons why something didn‟t live up to requirements and expectations. But customer
perception is more intuitive and irrational. It is a series of tiny gestures and insignificant signals
that make dealings with an organization a rare delight.It is often said that it is the little things, or
the little extra that counts. Buck Rodgers one of the key executives who helped IBM become so

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dominant through a service and quality focus, says „There‟s no way of quantifying how many
customers are lost because of little human errors-not returning a phone call, being late for a
appointment failing to say thank you, talking an account for granted. As far I‟m concerned these
things can be the different between a very successful company and a failure”. Such gesture is
small in itself, but like grains of sand, they accumulate to make mountains of success.For people
in marking or sales, service is an opportunity, not an obligation. It is an opportunity for greater
personal contact and productivity and for greater profit for their companies, through satisfied and
loyal customer. A salesman cannot be taught this or forced to do this. But a company can
build an environment and culture that encourages, nurtures and rewards in the area. This will add
the third dimension to your selling which no one feel, but know from the results it brings.
1. The above passage seems to be
(a) A book review (b) foreword for a book
(c) An article (d) Preface of a book
ANS: (a)
2. Which of the following is not true about the customer perception?
(a) Its study is not always with reasoning
(b) Perceptions can be objectively reported
(c) The concept means much more than customer satisfaction
(d) It is to go beyond the expectations of the customer
ANS: (d)
3. According to the passage quite a number of customers are lost because of which of the
following reasons?
(a) Poor mix of products (b) Little human errors by marketers
(c) Poor demonstration of products by marketers (d) Poor quality
ANS: (c)
4. According to Buck Rodges which of the following is the difference between a
successful and a failure company?
(a) Not quantifying the loss due to little human errors
(b) Spending more on quality
(c) Not returning a phone call
(d) Little gestures to enhance customer perception
ANS: (d)
5. According to the passage when will the saraswati of marketing make its presence felt?
(a) If new product mix are produced

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(b) If the quality of products is improved


(c) If a company creates conductive climate for salesman‟s initiative
(d) If marketers come together to objectively define the Saraswati if marketing
ANS: (d)

PASSAGE – 20
Globalisation, advances in information technology and changes in the nature of work are joining
together in generating a new type of economy, often referred to as the knowledge economy. The
most dynamic sectors of this new economy – computers, finance, software, telecommunications
– are ones that are dependent on „knowledge workers‟: white collar employers who work with
and produce information, rather than physical goods. One of the fastest growing segments of the
middle class is comprised of people who work in the „infotech‟ sector. These so-called „wired
workers‟ are employed in abroad spectrum of positions, as webpage designers, e-ecommerce
workers, online marketers and advertisers, data analysts, systems analysts, software developers,
graphic designers and financial consultants. Despite this diversity of occupations, wired workers
are united by several commonalities. They tend to spend most of their behind computers,
working in non-hierarchical settings. Rather than performing repetitive tasks, wired workers
engage in dynamic problem-solving activities. The number of wired workers is hard to estimate
with any precision, but some have placed it as high as a third of the workforce in EU countries
and somewhat higher in the United States. By all accounts the knowledge economy is still in its
emergent state; the population of wired workers seems sure to grow. „Wired workers‟ are among
those at the forefront in embracing the new political culture that is transcending traditional „left-
right‟ politics. In this new order, political outlooks are based less on traditional class issues, such
as fiscal policy and welfare provision, and more on „lifestyle issues‟ that reflect personal
concerns and values.
1. The term „wired workers‟ does not include
(a) technicians. (b) web page designers.
(c) online marketers. (d) graphic designers.
ANS: (a)
2. Which of the following is not common to wired workers?
(a) Dynamic problem solving (b) Non hierarchical settings
(c) Editing messages (d) Working on computers
ANS: (c)
3. The knowledge workers in the new economy produce

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(a) physical good. (b) information.


(c) new technology (d) innovative processes.
ANS: (b)
4. The issues that are of interests to „wired workers‟ are
(a) ideological concerns. (b) political issues – right or left.
(c) traditional class issues. (d) personal concerns and values.
ANS: (d)
5. The „wired workers‟ are engaged in the
(a) primary sector (b) secondary sector
(c) essential sector (d) infotech sector.
ANS: (d)

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