Class Exercise 1:

Directions for Questions 1 to 2: Arrange the following fragments to form a meaningful sentence.
1. (1) On being asked by the teacher
(P) and then picking up the bag (Q) why he always comes late
(R) to the class, (S) the student first kept quiet
(6) left the class red with shame and anger
(a) RSPQ (b) QRSP (c) SPQR (d) PQRS
2. The collector said that the
(P) supply of water for irrigation (Q) dams should receive water
(R) upto a particular level (S) to ensure uninterrupted
(a) QRSP (b) RQSP (c) SPRQ (d) SRPQ

Directions for Questions 3 to 4: In the following questions, each passage consists of six sentences. The
first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in such have been
jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper order for the four
sentences.
3. S1: Newton had a little dog named Diamond.
S6: The papers immediately caught fire and were burnt to ashes.
P: A heap of written papers containing the labour of twenty years lay on the table.
Q: In the absence of Newton little Diamond rose up, jumped on the table and knocked down the candle.
R: One day he was working on some problems. After a while he went out of his room.
S: The little dog was asleep in the room near the fire.
The proper sequence should be:
(a) RQSP (b) PQRS (c) PQSR (d) RSPQ
4. S1: Most people don’t think of cultural shifts when they move to a new country.
S6: If you give them a patient hearing, they will respect and there is a possibility that they will give
importance to family values.
P: It’s quite natural for your children to covet the same things that you wanted and even look for a social
life within their age group.
Q: If you oppose them, they will resent you.

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 R: When you decided to move to the US, obviously money and material goods figured high on your priority
list.
S: When that happens, you will lose them completely.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence?
(a) SPQR (b) RQPS (c) SQPR (d) RPQS

Directions for Questions 5 to 8: Rearrange the given five sentences A, B, C, D and E in the proper
sequences as to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the question given below them.
A. The mutations that the family has undergone in this century have been more challenging than at any
time of its evolution.
B. Thus, we have nuclear families, single parent families, surrogate families and global families to name just
a few.
C. How these change have redefined our world view is an interesting field of study in themselves.
D. Also, what we often forget is that the family as it exists today has expanded its orthodox definition to
include several variations.
E. Each of these has brought its own attitude and priorities.
5. Which sentence should come first in the paragraph?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E
6. Which sentence should come second in the paragraph?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E
7. Which sentence should come third in the paragraph?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E
8. Which sentence should come fourth in the paragraph?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E

Directions for Questions 9 to 18: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given
choices to construct a coherent paragraph
9. 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 modern finance was born.
(a) ADCBE (b) EBDCA (c) ABDCE (d) DCBEA
10. A. Passivity is not, of course, universal.
B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of
the peasantry may well be different.
C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or
active, but when to pass from one state to another.
(a) BDAC (b) CDAB (c) DBAC (d) ABCD
11. A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people
sitting here together and doing nothing.
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior
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 C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes.
Procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced to be
punctual.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal
matters even during office hours.
(a) ECADBF (b) EADCFB (c) EADBFC (d) ABFCBE
12. A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at
least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question: ‘Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?’
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and
even here there are probably some rules.
D. However, binding the obligation to kill, members or feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will
be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
(a) DABC (b) ACDB (c) CBAD (d) DBAC
13. A. Investment banking income -- primarily fees from putting together initial public offerings and other
deals-- is very volatile.
B. Like many financial-services companies, Merrill has long wrestled with the cyclical nature of revenues.
C. One reason, says Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel, "is the fact that the large brokerage firms
have not done well. Anyone who objectively looks at them sees that very few have done well. The fees
are high and the performance is extremely mediocre."
D. Trading on the firm's own account creates gains in some years, losses in others. Commission revenue
depends on investors' eagerness to trade, which varies as the market goes up or down.
E. The specialists, such as free-standing mutual fund companies like Fidelity and Vanguard, have done far
better at attracting fund investors than the multi-function firms like Merrill, which has actually
suffered net reductions in fund assets since the late 1990s.
(a) ABDCE (b) EBDCA (c) BADEC (d) ECBDA
14. A. SONY has been valued at around Rs 800 crore.
B. IBM is a leading consultancy firm.
C. This valuation has been done by IBM.
D. They have relied on the excess value approach.
(a) DABC (b) BADC (c) ABCD (d) ACBD
15. A. 1971 war changed the political geography of the subcontinent.
B. Despite the significance of the event. There has been no serious book about the conflict.
C. Surrender at Dacca aims to fill this gap.
D. It also profoundly altered the geo-strategic situation in South-East Asia.
(a) ACBD (b) CADB (c) BADC (d) ADBC
16. A. The main difference is that efficiency is a ration and effectiveness is not.
B. But they reach efficiency in a different way than American businesses.
C. The Japanese are very efficient and such concepts as "just in time" are a witness to their efficiency.
D. They reach efficiency through the route of effectiveness.
(a) CBDA (b) ADCB (c) CADB (d) CDAB

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 17. A. To get a head start, early the next morning the farmer started covering ground quickly because he
wanted to get as much land as he could.
B. Late in the afternoon he realized the condition he had to fulfill to get the land was to get back to the
starting point by sundown.
C. Even though he was tired, he kept going all afternoon because he did not want to miss this once in a
lifetime opportunity to gain more wealth.
D. There is a story about a wealthy who was once offered all the land he could walk on in a day, provided
he come back by sundown to the point where he started.
(a) DCAB (b) CABD (c) DACB (d) DABC
18. A. If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never develops its own
habits of thinking and reflecting.
B. Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people’s pain and suffering and
prevented them from rising in rebellion.
C. If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
D. Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive
tendencies.
(a) BACD (b) ADBC (c) BDCA (d) CBDA

Class Exercise 2:
Directions for Questions 1 to 11: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given
choices to construct a coherent paragraph
1. A. The avian flu that is steadily making its way around the globe will develop into a pandemic that will kill
tens of millions, create chaos in companies and send the world economy into a tailspin.
B. Or will it fizzle out?
C. That uncertainty represents a huge challenge for governments, corporations and citizens worldwide:
No one knows what will happen to the avian influenza virus in the coming months and years. Will it
mutate into a strain that will allow people to readily infect others and sicken untold numbers?
D. Nonetheless, many people are taking into account scenarios ranging from mild to severe in order to
plan for what could turn out to be a calamity.
E. Or it won't.
(a) AECBD (b) ABCED (c) DAECB (d) DCBAE
2. A. Clarity had its limits, though.
B. Still, Greenspan was very careful to keep financial markets informed, telegraphing every Fed move.
C. When a senator said that he understood the chairman's comment, Greenspan famously replied: "If you
understood what I said, I must have misspoke."
D. The policy of "no surprises" was a major factor in keeping financial markets smooth.
E. Almost never did the FOMC surprise the markets.
(a) ABCED (b) EDACB (c) ACBED (d) DECBA
3. A. Now architects are starting to use the ubiquitous rectangular shipping units to build elegant, relatively
inexpensive, quickly constructed, and surprisingly sturdy homes.
B. Or that their house had been to China and back?
C. Aluminium or steel shipping containers -- used by the global freight business since the 1930s to
transport goods -- have been adapted by leading architects and designers (such as Japan's Shigeru Ban)
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 D. How many people can say the previous occupiers of their home were 20,000 toy dolls, 6,000 pairs of
sneakers, or 500 computer monitors?
(a) ACDB (b) DBCA (c) ACDB (d) ACBD
4. A. Lula’s strategists realise this, and the administration has begun to make explicit overtures to the
country’s poor majority, where Lula’s support is the strongest.
B. Among the bottom half of the country’s population, the poor, approval for Lula and his administration is
high.
C. Among the wealthier segments of the population, support for the PT administration drops off.
D. But what is different about the current scenario is that now, unlike a year ago, sympathies for Lula have
become more polarised.
E. The party’s support in congress is the weakest since its election, and internal discussions within the PT
have once again returned to reassessing its policy of broad alliances with centrist parties.
(a) EBCAD (b) DABCE (c) BCAED (d) ABCED
5. A. Using the tragedies that took place in Handwara to attack the dialogue process is at best disingenuous
—and at worst plain dishonest.
B. Not a word of regret was voiced by Mirwaiz Farooq over the recent assassination of State Education
Minister G.N. Lone — conduct which was of a piece with the stoic silence he has long maintained on
the murder of civilians like Tasleen.
C. Sadly, the APHC's moral compass has long pointed in the direction of the expedient.
D. Indeed, it is probable that the APHC will accept an invitation for further dialogue with Dr. Singh as
long as its political adversaries are not also at the table.
E. Although protected by guards provided by the Jammu and Kashmir Government, the APHC chairman
and his colleagues have never summoned the courage to speak out against the carnage.
(a) DEACB (b) DACBE (c) CDEAB (d) DBACE
6. A. Now, more than ever, we need to understand the past before trying to shape the future.
B. So far as we know, humans are unique among Earth's creatures in being able to interpret and learn
from their past.
C. The making of the chipped stones, the crude tool of our earliest ancestors, represent the beginning of
technology.
D. Humans, from the very beginning, were thinkers and makers at the same time.
(a) ABCD (b) DBCA (c) BADC (d) CDAB
7. A. And hide the hearts of one people from these of another
B. Be recognized in international affairs
C. If may be long before the law of love will
D. The machineries of government stand between
(a) ABCD (b) DCBA (c) CBDA (d) BCDA
8. A. To forgive is not to forget.
B. There is no merit in loving an enemy.
C. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.
D. When you forget him for a friend.
(a) ABCD (b) ACBD (c) DCBA (d) BCDA
9. A. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move" plus the
prefix "e-"to connote "move away,” suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion.
B. In our emotional repertoire each emotion plays a unique role, as revealed by their distinctive biological
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 C. All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has
instilled in us.
D. That emotion leads to actions is most obvious in watching animals or children; it is only in "civilized"
adults we so often find the great anomaly in the animal kingdom, emotions-root impulses to act -
divorced from obvious reaction.
(a) CADB (b) CBAD (c) ABCD (d) BCAD
10. A. Finally, democracy goes better with coke- consumption rises with political freedom. Have a cola,
North Korea!
B. In the same spirit we wondered how the globe looks when viewed through the bottom of a Cocoa-
Cola bottle.
C. There is a loose but clearly positive relationship between Coke consumption and wealth perhaps not
surprisingly.
D. Even clearer is the relationship between cola and an index developed by the U.N to show general
quality of life -Coke consumption takes off at the upper end of the development scale.
E. Few Economic indicators are as often cited as our Big Mac Index , which uses hamburger prices as the
index of currency parity.
F. It turns out that fizzy mass market stuff- ie, capitalism- is good for you.
(a) EBFCDA (b) CFDEBA (c) EBCAFD (d) ACDEBF
11. A. The overall goal is to represent through resource materials the incredible diversity of Aboriginal
peoples in worldviews, languages, knowledge, cultural heritages, and political, economic and social
structures.
B. LAC offers a wide variety of programs, services and resources available for consultation in person, on
our web site or through your local library.
C. Welcome to the Circle of Aboriginal Heritage and Knowledge of Library and Archives Canada (LA(C), a
cultural institution whose mandate is to serve all Canadians by protecting, promoting and making
accessible Canada's documentary heritage.
D. LAC has an extensive collection of resources by or about Aboriginal peoples.
E. Here we will gather to celebrate, promote and provide access to a full variety of Aboriginal resources
within Canada, both through Library and Archives' collections and services and in partnership with First
Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, associations, language and cultural centers, universities and
libraries.
(a) CAEBD (b) CEABD (c) CBDAE (d) CBADE

Class Exercise 3:
Directions for Questions 1 to 10: In each of the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose
the one which can be substituted for the given words / reference.
1. To examine one’s own thoughts and feelings.
(a) Meditation (b) Retrospection (c) Reflection (d) Introspection
2. A short, usually amusing story about some real person or event.
(a) Anecdote (b) Antidote (c) Tale (d) Allegory
3. Life history of a person written by another
(a) Autobiography (b) Biography (c) Bibliography (d) Memoir
4. Bringing about gentle and painless death from incurable disease
(a) Suicide (b) Euphoria (c) Gallows (d) Euthanasia

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 5. Government by a single person
(a) Monarchy (b) Autocracy (c) Plutocracy (d) Aristocracy
6. Extensive fondness of books
(a) Entomomania (b) Bibliomania (c) Pseudomania (d) Verbomania
7. Excessive fear of heights
(a) Aerophobia (b) Photophobia (c) Hydrophobia (d) Altophobia
8. Person involved in a study of stamps
(a) Philatelist (b) Phycologist (c) Dendrologist (d) Topologist
9. Study of heart and heart related disease
(a) Psychology (b) Cardiology (c) Trichology (d) Phonology
10. The process or art of producing designs on wood, leather, or other materials by using heated tools or a fine
flame
(a) Seismography (b) Nephrology (c) Pyrography (d) Oncology

Directions for Questions 11 to 15: In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives,
choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
11. EAGER
(a) Clever (b) Enthusiastic (c) Curious (d) Devoted
12. PLACID
(a) Clear (b) Calm (c) Enjoyable (d) Dull
13. APHORISM
(a) Prune (b) Wither (c) Aphis (d) Proverb
14. VITUPERATION
(a) Moisture (b) Parallel (c) Malediction (d) Recover
15. QUALM
(a) Concavity (b) Amplitude (c) Misgiving (d) Repute

Directions for Questions 16 to 20: In each of the following questions, pick up the choice which is most
opposite in meaning of the word given in bold.
16. AFFLUENCE
(a) Sorrow (b) Indigence (c) Exuberance (d) Opulence
17. ECSTASY
(a) Depression (b) Pain (c) Disappointment (d) Trance
18. AMBIGUITY
(a) Lucidity (b) Basal (c) Dull (d) Necessity
19. PERSPICACITY
(a) Frankness (b) Bluntness (c) Obtuseness (d) Vivacity
20. BLAND
(a) Inedible (b) Spicy (c) Nutritious (d) Tasty

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