SET 58
Q1)
(A) Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a
separate cause of disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste
families also happen to be poor.
(B) Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that
obstruct women from less thriving classes.
(C) It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation -- being low class
and being female-- that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged
classes.
(D) A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives
of poorer women very severely. .
(E) Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act
independently of class.
1)EABDC 2)EBDCA 3)DAEBC 4)BECDA
Q2)
(A) When identity is thus 'defined by contrast', divergence with the West
becomes central.
(B) Indian religious literature such as the Bhagavad Gita or the Tantric texts, which
are identified as differing from secular writings seen as 'western', elicits much
greater interest in the West than do other Indian writings, including India's long
history of heterodoxy.
(C) There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from
mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics.
(D) Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other
civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms, which can be exotic and
charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simply strange and engaging.
(E) The exception is the Kamasutra in which western readers have managed to
cultivate an interest.
1)BDACE 2)DEABC 3)BDECA 4)BCEDA
Q3)
(A) This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe - up to a point.
(B) It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics.
(C) Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
(D) The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws
of chance can describe their fluctuations.
(E) This is how what business schools now call modem finance was born.
1)ADCBE 2)EBDCA 3)ABDCE 4)DCBEA
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.