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Question Bank – Verbal Ability
Question No. 1:
A. Opposition parties would use the issue to the
maximum.
B. High-profile cases would be registered and some
dramatic arrests would be made.
C. Every now and then, there would be a popular
backlash against corruption both at the central level and
in the states.
D. There would be changes in government following
elections where corruption would be the major issue.
E. Then, the dust would settle and it would be back to
business as usual.
A) ABDEC B) CADBE
C) CDABE D) DBACE
Question No. 2:
A. The pressure is to liberate India from corruption.
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B. Even the higher judiciary is finding itself being called
to account for the first time.
C. A free, competitive and vibrant media, the impact of
the RTI, and dedicated NGOs have acquired a critical
mass.
D. These forces will only gain in strength.
A) CDBA B) BDCA
C) CABD D) BCDA
Question No. 3:
A. Instead it plans to overhaul its marketing to cope with
the “new era of deregulation.”
B. The problem, Shiseido admits, is that it can no longer
set the retail prices of its products.
C. The firm forecast that its profits for the full year will
fall for the second year in a row.
D. On October 27th Shiseido, a cosmetics giant,
announced dismal interim results: in the six months to
September , its post tax profits, miserly Yen 7.3 billion
($82m), fell 6.2% compared with the same period last
year.
E. In Japan’s cosmetic market, as in its car industry,
producers no longer rule unchallenged
A) DEABC B) EBCDA
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C) EDCBA D) ABCDE
Question No. 4:
A. The announcement on April 14 that a nearby star
known as Upsilon Andromedae, quite like our Sun,
sports a trio of planets carries with it the long-sought
conclusion that our tiny neighborhood may not be a
cosmic quirk—there are other solar systems.
B. More recently, explorations of the planets, moons,
comets and asteroids in the solar system have
reduced our turf in the cosmos to a relatively cozy
corner.
C. Now it’s the Milky Way’s turn.
D. The great voyages of discovery shrank our planet from
a fearsome void to a familiar orbit.
A) ABCD B) DCBA
C) DBAC D) DBCA
Question No. 5:
A. Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola are supporting the
government of Mr. Laurent Kabila; South Africa,
Uganda and Rwanda are supporting the rebels.
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B. While the idea of a NAM- sponsored conflict –
resolution mechanism is highly ambitious and
perhaps premature, India should not have assumed
that any discussion of the subject would
automatically prejudice the robustness of New Delhi’s
position on Kashmir.
C. Africa is plagued by civil wars and interstate conflicts,
and Pretoria would like NAM to play a leading role in
resolving these.
D. However, as the ongoing conflict in the Democratic
Republic of Congo has highlighted, this is easier said
than done.
A) ADCB B) CDAB
C) ABCD D) CADB
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many sales leads, and came at a low cost. However, a
small number of Internet users began to consider these
advertising techniques intrusive and annoying. Yet
because marketing strategies relying heavily on banners
and pop-ups produced results, companies invested
growing amounts of money into purchasing these ad
types in hopes of capturing market share in the
burgeoning online economy. As consumers became
more sophisticated, frustration with these online
advertising techniques grew. Independent programmers
began to develop tools that blocked banner and pop-up
ads. The popularity of these tools exploded when the
search engine Google, at the time an increasingly popular
website fighting to solidify its place on the Internet with
giants Microsoft and Yahoo, offered free software
enabling users to block pop-up ads. The backlash
against banner ads grew as new web browsers provided
users the ability to block image-based ads such as
banner ads. Although banner and pop-up ads still exist,
they are far less prominent than during the early days of
the Internet. A major development in online marketing
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came with the introduction of pay-per-click ads. Unlike
banner or pop-up ads, which originally required
companies to pay every time a website visitor saw an ad,
pay-per-click ads allowed companies to pay only when an
interested potential customer clicked on an ad. More
importantly, however, these ads circumvented the pop-up
and banner blockers. As a result of these advantages
and the incredible growth in the use of search engines,
which provide excellent venues for pay-per-click
advertising, companies began turning to pay-per-click
marketing in droves. However, as with the banner and
pop-up ads that preceded them, pay-per-click ads came
with their drawbacks. When companies began pouring
billions of dollars into this emerging medium, online
advertising specialists started to notice the presence of
what would later be called click fraud: representatives of
a company with no interest in the product advertised by
a competitor click on the competitor's ads simply to
increase the marketing cost of the competitor. Click
fraud grew so rapidly that marketers sought to diversify
their online positions away from pay-per-click marketing
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through new mediums. Although pay-per-click
advertising remains a common and effective advertising
tool, marketers adapted yet again to the changing
dynamics of the Internet by adopting new techniques
such as pay-per-performance advertising, search engine
optimization, and affiliate marketing. As the pace of the
Internet's evolution increases, it seems all the more likely
that advertising successfully on the Internet will require a
strategy that shuns constancy and embraces change.
A) Critical B) Analytical
C) Sardonic D) Pedantic
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Directions for the questions 9 to 12: After reading the
passage, choose the best answer to each question base
your answer on information that is either stated or
implied in the passage.
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structural benefits, small retailers will be able to coexist
with the big ones. If anything will change, it will only be
for the better.
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Question No. 9: According to the passage, which of the
following can be inferred as the main thrust of the
author's argument(s)?
A) I only B) II only
C) II and III only D) III only
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Question No. 10: Which of the following statement(s), if
true, weakens the arguments in favor of the organized
retail stores presented in the passage?
A) I only B) II only
C) III only D) II and III only
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Question No. 11: Which of the following statement(s),
according to the passage, is/are true as per to the
author?
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I. The organized retail stores - (modern trade) - offer
smaller regional brands more shelf-space, better
displays and ambience compared to Kirana stores.
II. Regional brands are benefitted by pushing their
brands through the organized retail stores with
bargains and value deals that are often better and
bigger players.
III. The organized retail stores, controlled and invested
by big business, Indian and foreign – for example,
Reliance, Wal-Mart, and others, offer variety of
products at affordable price-tags and better
quality.
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scrub, and the jumble of secondary growth. Just as the
virgin forests of Europe and North America were laid low
by man's improvidence, so those of the tropics are now
vanishing only their destruction may be encompassed in
decades instead of centuries. A few authorities hold that,
expect for government reserves, the earth's great rain
forest may vanish within a generation. The economic
loss will be incalculable, for the primary rain forests are
rich sources of timber (mahogany, teak) and such by-
products are resins, gums, cellulose, camphor and
rattans. No one, indeed can compute their resources, for
the thousands of species that compose the forest cover,
there are only a few whose physical and chemical
properties have been studied with a view to commercial
use.
Most important of all, the primeval rain forest is a
reservoir of specimens, a dynamic centre of evolution
which the rest of the world's plant life has been
continually enriched with new forms. These extensive
reserves must be defended from the acquisitive hand of
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man, whose ruthless axe would expose them to the
ravages of sun and rain.
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A) will take only a few decades
B) will happen in this century
C) will be surely by the next century
D) will take place in a decade
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photoperiod (daily amount of sunlight), for example, can
govern population growth. The theory - the density -
independent view - asserts that climatic factors exert the
same regulatory effect on population regardless of the
number of individuals in a region.
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effects may persist for three generations in the absence
of the original provocation. One challenge for density-
dependent theorist is to develop models that would allow
the precise prediction of the effects of crowding.
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B. suggest that theories of population control that
concentrate on the social behaviour of animals are
more open to debate than are theories that do not
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A. reproduce the results of the study of Christian and
Davis
B. demonstrate how predator populations are
themselves regulated
C. make sufficiently accurate predictions about the
effects of crowding
D. explain adequately why the numbers of a population
can increase as the population's rate of growth
decreases
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C. As the number of white-backed Indian vultures in
Delhi decreases, the growth rate of this population of
white-backed Indian vultures also begins to decrease
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C. Thus Wynne-Edward's theory raises serious
questions about the constancy of animal population
in a region
D. The result of one study, for instance, have suggested
that group vocalizing is more often used to defend
territory than to provide information about population
density
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Question No. 23 :
A) Despite of B) the pills which
C) Are available, many people still D) has trouble
sleeping.
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Question No. 26:
ENDORSEMENT
A) imposition B) endurance
C) award D) approval
SALUBRIOUS
A) miasmic B) unhealthy
C) wholesome D) delightful
Demography — pertains-to:
A) Education B) Democracy
C) Population D) Religion
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A) Natural B) Man-made
C) Fake D)Elaborately decorated
STREW
A) cleanse B) weaken
C) scatter D) collect
LACKLUSTER
A) superficial B) courteous
C) complex D) vibrant
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Question No. 32:
SPUNK
A) sumptuous B) timidity
C) success D) informal
COGENT
A) stable B) expository
C) contemplative D) unpersuasive
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A. The tribals do not like to withstand physical strain as
the urbanites do
B. The urbanites are hardworking but they do not like to
undertake physical strain
C. The tribals can withstand physical strain whereas
urbanities cannot
D. Because the tribals are hardworking they can tolerate
physical strain
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Question No. 36:
Despite any kind of hurdles, I shall come
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Question No. 37:
The books I read as a child have made a greater
impression on me than any other time in my life.
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Developing the ......... attitude is very important but where
a child can develop the right attitude.
A) lucidity - enlightenment
B) frivolity - triteness
C) insight – banality
D) obscurity - ambivalence
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Question No. 41:
Iodine deficiency is ____ in these remote mountain
regions; however, it is no longer ____ in the lowlands
where iodized salt is available.
A) recorded - unusual
B) rare - sporadic
C) eradicated - common
D) endemic - prevalent
A) misologist B) bibliophilic
C) illiterate D) misogynist
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Question No. 43:
A disease that spreads by means of germs carried in
atmosphere
A) contagious B) epidemic
C) infectious D) endemic
A) exodus B) immigration
C) migration D) aberration
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C) his D) him
A) In spite of B) Because of
C) But for D) Even after
A) took up B) took on
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C) took off D) took down
A) Partisan B) Partesan
C) Partisane D) Partison
A) defenistration B) defenestration
C) defenestretion D) definestration
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Question Bank – Verbal Ability
Answer Key & Explanation:
Q No. Key Explanations
1. B The introductory idea is captured in
sentence C.As the clue word 'corruption'
is mentioned in the first sentence. It is an
important issue taken up by the
opposition parties mentioned in sentence
A. Sentence D logically follows the idea,
therefore the sequence would be CADBE.
2. A C is the independent sentence so it will
open the paragraph. D will follow C as
pronoun "these" used in D is talking about
forces used in C. The clue word 'even'
helps us to place sentence B after
sentence C.
3. C Sentence E gives us a fair idea of about
what will be discussed in the passage.
Statement D gives us the explanation to
support. E. So it comes after E. After this
C will come as it tells that the same will
happen for the second year in row. BA
form the mandatory pair and A is the
concluding sentence. Hence the final
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sequence is EDCBA.
4. D D talks about discoveries and B talks
about exploration so B would come
immediately after D. After 'DB', C will
come as it talks about 'milky way's turn'
after the exploration of nearby celestial
objects. The sequence is concluded by A,
as it tells about other galaxies etc.
5. B C would be the first statement as it talks
about the African civil war. Since D
begins with however it makes indirect
reference to happenings in sentence C.
So it would come after C.
6. D Only option 4 is giving the complete
essence of the paragraph. As the
passage mentions various strategies to
embrace change in internet marketing.
Also refer the last line of the passage.
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