Practice Test

Q1) Five sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph / passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate one.
(A) His new persona, Oscar the Swoon-Including singer.
(B) Oscar's debut album is a collection of love ballads in English and Spanish.
(C) It's is not enough that Oscar won the world welter weight championship six times or any Olympic gold medal in 1992.
(D) Or that the dairy industry's untested milk moustache model was the only presenter at last menth's Latin Grammys to inspire louder girlie screams from the audience than N sync.
(E) Oscar, 27, wants more Show Answer

Q2) Five sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph / passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate one.
(A) In fact, the opposite is true-more nuclear weapons means more danger.
(B) There is increasing evidence that first-strike strategies are no longer a military option but have become central to American defense policy. In such a situation each new missile makes nuclear war more likely.
(C) Over the past few years an alarming change in American defense policy has been noticeable, a trend towards a nuclear arsenal aimed not at retaliation but at a first strike.
(D) Nuclear weapons do not increase our security, as the military establishment would have us believe ; they merely increase the likelihood of global destruction. The threat of nuclear was is the greatest danger humanity is facing today, but it is by no means the only one.
(E) In the United States, where the military-industrial complex has become an integral part of government, the Pentagon tries to persuade us that building more and better weapons will make the country safer. Show Answer

Q3) Five sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph / passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate one.
(A) Then he set the mixer's two 20 blades-revolving round a 1.2 m horizontal shaft to start churning up the powder at a steady 30 revolutions a minute.
(B) Two employees who should have been with paul Kellytaht day in his small tile-adhesive factor in Northern England had phoned in sick, so he was entirely on his own.
(C) But the trim, six foot, 47 years old still had a business to run and he'd never been one to worry about getting his own hands dirty.
(D) On the mezzanine level of his factory, he began shoveling half a tonne of cement mixed with a dry chemical powder into a rectangular opening in the floor the mouth of a large mixing machine.
(E) It had been a hectic morning. Show Answer

Q4) A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence is missing. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
The computer Industry's estimate that it loses millions of dollars when users illegally copy programs without paying for them is greatly exaggerated. Most of the illegal copying is done by people with no serious interest in the programs. Thus the loss to the industry is quite small, because Show Answer

Q5) A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence is missing. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Some sociologists believe that religious sets such as the California based waiters, who believe the end of the world is imminent and seek to purify their souls by, among other things, abstaining completely from sexual relations are a product of growing disaffection with modern, industrialised and urbanised living. As evidence, they cite the fact that there are no other active organisations of the same type which are more than 50 or 60 years. The evidence however, fails to support the conclusion for Show Answer

Q6) A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence is missing. Form the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
In a survey of job applicants, two-fifths admitted to being atleast a little dishonest, .However, The survey may underestimate the proportion of job applicants who are dishonest because Show Answer

Q7) SOME BUILDINGS THAT WERE DESTROYED AND HEAVILY DAMAGED IN THE EARTHQUAKE LAST YEAR WERE constructed in violation of the city's building code. Show Answer

Q8) Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers PROVIDE WORKERS WITH UNPAID LEAVE SO AS TO care for sick or newborn children Show Answer

Q9) Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ----- since the cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been either ---- or decreased diversity. Show Answer

Q10) Observable as a tendency of our culture is a ---- of ---- psychoanalysis we no longer feel that it can solve our emotional problems. Show Answer

Q11) Among the below mentioned groups, if one person in removed from the group, then which group becomes a perfect committee according to the conditions stated above ? Show Answer

Q12) Who among the following, if selected in the committee, will always be a magazine head ? Show Answer

Q13) Who among the nine candidates cannot be selected in any committee ? Show Answer

Q14) Ajay's fashion show was in which month and which country ? Show Answer

Q15) Balram's show was held in which month ? Show Answer

Q16) Which fashion show was held in Indonesia ? Show Answer

Q17) The only person, who is between E and D, is wearing T-shirt of the colour Show Answer

Q18) Which of the following is correctly matched ? Show Answer

Q19) The colour of the T-shirt of the person, who has ordered for Patties, is Show Answer

Q20) Why does the author want the talks about climate change by the global leaders " to be taken with a pinch of salt "? Show Answer

Q21) According to the passage, what should be the stand of India on matters of climate change ? Show Answer

Q22) What is the thematic centre of the passage ? Show Answer

Q23) According to the passage,
A. For an organisation to be successful, it is essential to hire like minded people.
B. The best way to deal with staff who refuse to change their mindset is by not touting them as role models for the organisation.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct ? Show Answer

Q24) On the basis of the passage,
A. For an organisation to redefine itself, it has to first re-evaluated its employees.
B. For an employee to become an integral part of an organisation, he has to subscribe to the views and ideology of the organisation.
C. Top management executives are the sole drivers for reinventing an organisation.
D. Now-a-days, employees can function without depending on a 'key figure' to emulate.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct ? Show Answer

Q25) Consider the following with regards to resistance to change ?
A. It is difficult for some people to think out of the box.
B. Some people resist new information and prefer to rely on past practices to conduct business.
C. Their cultural background predisposes them to shy away from risks.
D. Radical thinkers are not rewarded in today's corporate culture.
E. The Voluntary Retirement Scheme is used by some organisations to breathe new life into the organisation.
Which of the statements given is / are correct ? Show Answer

Q26) What does the Author imply by 'the profits and the brokerage and sucked from the masses'? Show Answer

Q27) Consider the following statement with reference to the passage.
The deterioration of cottage industries in India can best be proved by
A. Poverty in the villages of India
B. Comfort of the town dweller.
C. In human processes of British industries. Show Answer

Q28) Why does the Author use the word 'miserable' to describe comfort ?
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