SET 225
one from CL mock
1) A. This may mean breaking up old relationships to create more positive and productive ones.
B. Relationships can be developed from and determined by politics.
C. Any assessment performed to change an organizations environment should include possible
political ramifications of transformation.
D. Individual and organizational performance can be affected by myriad political influences, which
can come from both internal and external sources.
E. Changing an organizations environment should coincide with changing problematic political
practices.
(a) EABDC (b) DBEAC (c) BADCE (d) BEACD
2. Five sentences are given below, labeled 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
option.
A. Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity.
B. The chemical make-up of the ice provides clues to the average global temperature.
C. For example, bubbles of air in glacial ice trap tiny samples of Earths atmosphere, giving scientists
a history of greenhouse gases that stretches back more than 800,000 years.
D. Using this ancient evidence, scientists have built a record of Earths past climates, or
paleoclimates.
E. We know about past climates because of evidence left in tree rings, layers of ice in glaciers,
ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks.
(a) ACDEB (b) EACBD (c) BDCEA (d) AECBD
3. Five sentences are given below, labeled 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
option.
A. Thus, employee and manager alike may resist attempts to uproot established company traditions
or fiddle with untried, risky procedures.
B. The truth is if you want to learn to do it better, youve got to try a lot of things, many of which wont
work.
C. Their responses to creativity initiatives may in fact take shape vigorously, adamantly and fearfully.
D. With society officially downgrading the idea of creativity so strongly, it becomes problematic for
businesses to get their managers and other employees thinking truly freely and out of the box.
E. Also, genuine creativity, by definition, subverts the status quo by facing down long-held assumptions
and uncorking new ways of approaching things.
(a) DEBAC (b) DEACB (c) DBEAC (d) ACBED
OA's
b
d
bThe sequence should start with a general statement
sentence D presents a situation, a general viewpoint.
E will not be a good start point, because sentence D
introduces the viewpoint that there can be political
influences on an organisation. This is also the problem
with B as a starting sentence. In fact, B goes on to
reiterate the point made in D. DB is a link. EA is also a
link as A elaborates on the point made in E. C ends the
sequence by stating the required understanding of
the situation under discussion. The answer is (b).
22. d A is the starting sentence because it introduces a
general idea. E goes on to elaborate on this idea, making
AE the starting link. Another way to solve this question
is to look for the ending sentence. D is the best way to
end the paragraph as it uses the demonstrative and
points to the evidence that has been presented.
Sentence B discusses the clues that are presented in
the chemical make up of ice and so D fits in after this
sentence. Al l the other sentences also point to
evidence of climate change and so D should not only
come after B but should also end the entire sequence.
The answer is (d).
23. b The paragraph is about the resistance to genuine
creativity. The starting point should be D as it introduces
the argument. E and A are linked. E also follows D
b e c a u s e i t p r e s e n t s a n a d d i t i o n a l p r o b l e m o f
downgrading creativity. B ends the sequence as it
sums up the argument of the author. The answer is
(b).
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