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Directions
(Qs. 1 to 6): Every question given below consists of a paragraph broken into
its constituent sentences in an arbitrary way indicated with a unique alphabet
(A, B, C, or D). You are required to select the correct combination from the
alternatives provided which reorganizes these sentences into a passage in the
most logical manner so that the reorganised passage is meaningful and complete
in its message.
1.
(A)
It is attractive to the one who is attracted by it, as food is tasty to the one
who finds it tasty.
(B)
There is no such thing as attractiveness.
(C)
So what is real beauty?
(D)
This brings us to the consideration of the fact that nothing in these terms of
value exists in an object, except what we put into them.
(a) ABCD (b)
CBAD (c) CABD (d) BCDA
2.
(A)
The credit and honour that go with a high grade become the end and not the
means.
(B)
Perhaps, many high achievers seek the grade rather than knowledge.
(C)
This trait which makes for a good student does not necessarily make a good
manager.
(D)
A good manager is a credit giver, not a credit taker.
(a) ABDC (b)
BACD (c) CABD (d) ADBC
3.
(A)
Since their satisfaction comes from the exercise of authority, they are not
likely to share much of it with lower-level managers who eventually will
replace them even though most high-level executives try diligently to avoid the
appearance of being authoritarian.
(B)
But to expect otherwise is not realistic.
(C)
Few men who strive hard to gain and hold positions of power can be expected to
be permissive, particularly if their authority is challenged.
(D)
The power drive that carries men to the top also accounts for their tendency to
use authoritative rather than consultative or participative methods of
management.
(a) ABCD (b)
CADB (c) DBCA (d) CDAB
4.
(A)
The modern industrial organisation has given birth to a few giant business
corporations which tend to reduce the state to a subservient position and bind
it to what Professor Galbraith calls a technostructure consisting of
specialists, planners and technicians.
(B)
In order to avoid the perils of such an industrial system the American economist
recommends the strong assertion of ‘other goals’ so that the new industrial
state would become responsive to the larger purposes of society.
(C)
We have to realise without equivocation that the pursuit of material prosperity
alone, would lead us into a blind valley.
(D)
These ‘goals’ could doubtless be essentially human and spiritual in accordance
with Gandhiji’s ideal and programmes.
(a) ACBD (b)
CBAD (c) CABD
(d) CDAB
5.
(A)
Many relationship problems between boss and subordinate occur because the boss
fails to make clear how he plans to use his authority.
(B)
Problems may also occur when the boss uses a ‘democratic’ facade to conceal the
fact that he has already made a decision which he hopes the group will accept
as its own.
(C)
If, for example, he actually intends to make a certain decision himself, but
the subordinate groups get the impression that he has delegated this authority,
considerable confusion and resentment are likely to follow.
(D)
We believe that it is highly important for the manager to be honest and clear
in describing what authority he is keeping and what role he is asking his
subordinates to assume in showing a particular problem.
(a) ABCD (b)
ACBD (c) DABC (d)
DBCA
6.
(A)
One proposal, therefore, is to introduce plea bargaining.
(B)
Reformers hope that this will reduce the prison population by about 35 per cent
and prevent jails becoming universities of crime for the merely wayward.
(C)
At the moment, the weakest and poorest always go to prison for the pettiest of
crimes, sent there by judges wedded to inflexible interpretation of a
convoluted penal code and procedure bound juridical administration.
(D)
Judges will be given alternatives to prisons such as community service, as a
punishment for the minor infractions.
(a) ABCD
(b) CABD (c) CADB (d)
CDAB
Directions
(Qs. 7 to 10): Every question given below consists of a sentence the
constituent words/phrases of which are arranged in an arbitrary way. Each separated
phrase/ set of words is indicated by a unique alphabet. You are required to
select from the alternatives provided that option, which reorganises the
phrases/set of words back into the original sentence.
7.
(A)
surprising many in the audience by its shortness and leaving many others quite
unimpressed (B) he spoke in his high, penetrating voice
(C)
and in a little over two minutes
(D)
delivered this speech
(a) ABCD (b)
BACD (c) BCDA (d) ABDC
8.
(A)
the world will little note,
(B)
what we say here,
(C)
nor long remember
(D)
but it can never forget what they did here
(a) ACBD (b)
BACD (c) ABCD (d) ADCB
9.
(A)
primarily this is because
(B)
the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed,
(C)
through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence,
(D)
have admitted their failure, and abdicated
(a) BACD (b)
ABCD (c) DCAB (d) ACDB
10.
(A)
a corporation must identify its best and worst performers
(B)
then nurture the former and rehabilitate and/or discard the latter
(C)
that in order to develop and thrive
(D)
it is a workforce-management tool based on the premise
(a) DBCA (b)
DCAB (c) DABC (d) ABCD
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