A. putative
B. puny 
C. penurious
D. assumed

A. fund
B. treasure
C. repertoire
D. number

A ---------- settled over the populace before the war began.

A. dullness
B. indifference 
C. malady
D. malaise

He endured----------conditions when crossing Antarctica

A. balmy  
B. torrid  
C. gelid
D. inundated

We spotted a great deal of ---------- that could have been from the missing ship 

A.  refuse
B.  jetsam
C.  flotsam
D.  bottles

A. When successful companies face bit changes in their environment, they often fail to respond effectively.
B. Their best people leave, and their stock valuations stumble.
C. Unable to defend themselves against competitors armed with new products, technologies or strategies they watch their sales and profits erode.
D. One of the most common phenomena is also one of the most confusing.

A. BACD
B. DACB 
C. DBAC
D. CADB

 A.  Just before dawn on the final day, the taxi carries me along the Avenue of External Peace.
B. It’s  easy to imagine them as the ghosts of the murdered students and workers
C. My two weeks in Beijing have zoomed by.
D. Several hundred early risers huddle in the square, murky silhouettes in the wispy fog

A.
B.
C.
D.

A.  One day Mike came into restaurant when Sandy was also there
B. She figured that Sandy, another friend who seemed to have much in common with Mike.  Would be an ideal date.
C. Barbie dragged Mike over to Sandy’s table and introduced the two
D. Barbie a waitress, decided to put her matchmaking skills to the test with our mutual friend Mike

A.  ABCD
B.  DACB
C.  DBAC
D.  ACBD

A.   There are about two millio0n credit card holders in India, electronic payments between merchants    and banks has already been introduced
B.   Although Rs.1 crore in 100-rupee notes weighs around 100 kilos.
C.   Even  so, small steps towards this goal have been taken
D.   In India not likely to become a cashless society for a long time yet.

A. DBAC
B. BCDA  
C. DCBA
D. BDCA

A. The young do much less of it than the old and the middle aged.
B. Peter Kreisky argues that reading newspapers is a habit, like smoking that is acquired early in life.
C. Publishers shudder when they look at the demographics of newspaper reading.
D. The problem is competition –not specifically from and other medium, but more generally for people’s time.

A. ABCD
B. CADB  
C. CABD
D. ACBD

A. JHUDQKEG 
B. LJWERLFH
C. LJWFSMGI
D. JHLKKKEG

If  THRUST is  EQGDFE, what is PRODUCT?

A. igjuhzi
B. igjudve  
C. igjufve
D. igjufev

If wise is dqfs, what barn?

A. yxim
B. xyhl 
C. yygj
D. yyjg

If prim is RTKO what CANE?

A. xzmv
B. ecpg
C. dbof
D. ecgp

If Prune is MKHOX what STUMP?

A. jkhku
B. gfemj
C. jihpm
D. jijqp

PASSAGE-1

What  of the following statements is not true?
A. The popularity of pizzas is responsible for the Pizza University
B. The classes will teach about the history of pizzas
C. The students will have to work as well as undergo a training
D. None of the above

PASSAGE-2

What of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

A. Neurologists get puzzled when they are faced  with patients suffering from the same kinds of diseases
B. Neurologists specialise in the study of nerves
C. Decongestant pills may lead to stroke
D. None of the above

PASSAGE-3

Which of the following statements cannot be inferred from the passage?

A. Doctors are less likely to use cocaine.
B. Doctors indulge in self-treatment.
C. The risk of drug abuse is higher in doctors than in age and gender peers in society.
D. Doctors sometimes misuse drugs.

PASSAGE-4

The statement that the Bank of England’s plan to sell a total of 415 tonnes of gold will affect the market sentiment is

A. Definitely true
B. Probably true
C. Definitely false
D. Indeterminate

PASSAGE-5

Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?
A. Religious movements have disastrous consequences.
B. Modern Algerian political history is marked by war and loss of lives.
C. The new leaders were out to ruin Algeria
D. _{All of the above}

      A.  In years past, preparations lasted a long time, perhaps millions paraded before Lenin’s mausoleum in solemn formations.

2. That day’s observances have always been an important event; their  nature and scale were always a good barometer of the country’s situation.
   
3. When  I went out in the morning this time the city was empty.

A. BACD
B.  DBAC 
C. DACB
D. ACBD

A.
B.
C.
D.

A. Was somebody calling?
B. The sky was clear and sunny, the air cool and still
C. Far below Gardner saw a herd of cows being brought in for milking
D. His boots were swishing through the wet grass when suddenly he heard something  and paused to cock an ear.

A.
B.
C.
D.

A. CBDA
B. BDCA 
C. CDBA
D. BCAD

A. BCDA
B. BDCA 
C. BDAC
D. DBCA

a]  Violet flowers have a sweet smell 
b]  All sweet smelling things are yellow.
c]   Red rises smell sweet
d]  Canaries are yellow
e] Red roses are yellow
f] Canaries are sweet smelling

A. abc
B. bdf 
C. cbe
D. ceb

a]  Some like it hot
b]  Time is evil
c]  Those who like it cold are evil
d]  Tim likes it cold
e]Tim does not like it hot
f] Those who like it could do not like it hot.

A. bce
B. ceb
C. dfe
D. adf

a]  All dolls sing and dance.
b]  Barbie sings and dance.
c]  Barbie is a doll
d]  Those who sing  and dance are actors
e] Barbie is an actor
f] Dolls are actors

A. cfe
B. abc 
C. deb
D. bdf

a] All hills are mountains 
b] All rivers are valleys
c] Some valleys are not mountains
d] Some mountains are valley
e]Some rivers are not mountains.
f] All rivers are mountains

A. abd
B. ced 
C. fbd
D. bcd

a]  Some elephants can fly 
b]  Jumbo has wings
c]  Jumbos are elephants.  
d]  Jumbos can fly
e]  Those who cannot fly are not elephants
f]Jumbos cannot fly

A. cda
B. bda 
C. efa
D. dca

 A]  I h  A]  I have a splitting headache.
 B]  I took an Anacin
 C]Anacin is the best medicine for headache

A. FFJ
B. FJF 
C. JFI
D. JFJ

  A]  It  A]   It normally does not rain in the month of September in Bombay
B]   The share prices are expected to fall this year
C] Poets are known to be reserved by nature

A. FJJ
B. III 
C. IJI
D. IJF

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A. FFF
B. IFJ 
C. JJF
D. FFJ

A. FIJ
B. FJF 
C. FIF
D. JFF

DIRECTIONS for  questions 36 to 40:  Each question below has four statements.  An argument is a statement meant to convince another person about your point of view.  An assertion is a point of view.  A counter argument contains logic opposed to your assertion.  Based on these definitions.

Mark A, if the statement is an assertion.
Mark B.  if the statement is a supporting reason
Mark C  if the statement is a counter argument
Mark D, if the statement is irrelevant

A. DADC
B. ABCD 
C. DADB
D. BACD

I]   The  pollution levels in the metros are rising each day.
II]     Metros are more polluted than other cities.
III]     With stringent laws against vehicular pollution in metros, the pollution level has been restricted.
IV]     Every day, in each metro about hundred new cars hit the streets contributing to the pollution level

A. BACB
B. BADB 
C. CABD
D. ADCB

I]   Even if you go to the remotest corner of the world, you will feel the presence of the Ganapati.
II]  Ganapati is worshipped only in India
III] Combodia, Japan, and Mexico have Ganapati idols dating back to the thirteenth century.
IV]The Greek god of wisdom is known as Janus, he too is pictured with the head of an elephant as is Ganapati

A. ACBB
B. ADBD 
C. ACBD
D. BADD

A. ABCD
B. ACBD 
C. ABBB
D. BDAB

A. ABBD
B. ADDC 
C. ADCB
D. ABCD

DIRECTIONS  for questions 41 to 43:  Read the following information and answer the following questions

A. Arrest B
B. Interrogate A further 
C. Interrogate B further
D. Interrogate C further

A. Proceed towards the North
B. Proceed towards the South 
C. Interrogate F further
D. Interrogate D further

TinTin is one the verge of giving up the chase when he meets three other inhabitants of TseTse, on questioning they answer

     G:     Haddock has been kidnapped by I. I haven’t kidnapped him
     H:     Haddock has not been kidnapped by I.  Haddock has been kidnapped by G
  I: Haddock has been kidnapped by G. Haddock has been kidnapped by H

A. Arrest G
B. Arrest H 
C. Arrest I
D. Continue with the search

A. Soundtrack---------songs
B. diary     ---------facts 
C. display------------sings
D. calculator---------figures

A. mixture-----------skills
B. combination ----------achievements 
C. amalgam-----------feats
D. confluence------------examples

SECTION II

A. 50 mins
B. 40mins 
C. 55min
D. 35min

A. 10km
B.  5kms
C. 9kms
D. 6kms

A. 2000m
B. 3000m 
C. 4000m
D. 5000m

A. Jaya
B. Chandrika 
C. Maya
D. Cannot say

A. Jaya
B. Chandrika 
C. Maya
D. Cannot say

A. Jaya
B. Chandrika 
C. Maya
D. Cannot say

A. Rs.240
B. Rs250 
C. Rs.260
D. Rs.270

A. 7
B. 8 
C. 9
D. 10

49.         A piece of work is done by A,B,C in 5 days as follows

A. 10,20,10 days
B. 7,9,11 days 
C. 8,12,9 days
D. 9,18,9 days

A. 15 days
B. 16 days 
C. 18days
D. 20 days

In the figure L₁ is parallel to L₂.  If AB=CD, then

A. ABE is in equilateral triangle
B. AC=BD 
C. AD=BC
D. AC=AD

Line BC divides  rADE into 2 sections, one of them an isosceles r  (AB=AC).  Angle DBC is equal to 105°.  What is the sum of he measure of angles D and E?

A. 100
B.  125
C. 150
D. 175

A. 15
B. 16 
C. 10
D. 20

 *****************

 The radius OA of the circle in the figure is

A.
B.  
C.
D.
E.

A. 7cms
B. 1cm 
C. 3,7cms
D. can't be determined

A. Rs.16.5
B. Rs.17 
C. Rs.17.5
D. Rs.  18

A. 1
B. 2 
C. 3
D. 5

A. y/a = x/b
B. xy = ab 
C. ac/bd = x/y
D. x- c+d-y

A. 52 litres
B. 52.5 litres
C. 54 litres
D. 53.3 litres

A. rs = t
B. r + t = 2t – s 
C. r + s = t+ 2
D. r + t = 2s

A. Rs. 15
B. Rs.20 
C. Rs.25
D. Rs.30

A. 1
B. 2 
C. 6
D. 3

A. 48 minutes
B. 46 minutes 
C. 44 minutes
D. 39 minutes

A. greater than 3
B. less than or equal to 3 
C. less than 4
D. less than or equal to 2

A. y=0 
B. x² =1 
C. y + x³ = x+ y³
D. x² = 2

A. 0
B. 5
C. 8
D. 12

15		10
	25

A. 29
B.  25
C. 52
D. 50

A. Sunday
B.  Wednesday
C. Tuesday
D. Friday

A. close to 0
B. extremely large 
C. close to 2
D. greater than 2 but lesser than 3

A. -x < -y
B. x + 2 > y + 1 
C. x / 3 > y / 3
D. x² > y²

A. 7
B. 3 
C. 10
D. 5

   a                                                 x        b
The above figure shows the graph of a relation between x and y.  For each value of x between a and b  there is (are)
*****************

A. at least one value of y
B.  exactly one value of y
C. at least ‘a’ value of y
D. exactly ‘a’ values of y

A. 216
B. 126 
C. 154
D. 121

If x is any positive real number then the value of [x] - çxç is

A. 0
B. 1 
C. -1
D. -1 or 0

A. [çxç] = ç[x]ç
B. [ çxç]
C. [çxç] > ç[x]ç
D. None of these

A. 64/81
B. 46/54 
C. 8²/9² –17
D. None of these

A. 1/27
B.  1/9
C. 1/9³
D. None of these

A. 0
B.  1
C. approaches
D. approaches to 1

DIRECTIONS    for questions 84 to 86: Refer to the data below.

Greatest common divisor of a,b,c,f(n) =Total number of natural numbers less than n and relatively prime to n.  Two natural numbers are said to be relatively prime if their GCD is 1.

A. 1
B. less than or equal to p 
C. greater than p
D. p – 1

A. always 1
B. Greater than1 
C. a prime number or 1
D. None of these

A. 3 n + 1 is odd
B. n(n+2) is even 
C. n (3n + 3) is divisible by 6
D. n(n + 1) is divisible by 3

DIRECTIONS for questions 87 to 90: Each question below is followed by two statements.

Mark A if statement I alone, but not statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question
Mark B  if statement II alone, but not statement I alone, is sufficient to answer the question
Mark C if the question can be answered with the help of both statements together, but not with the help of either statement alone.
Mark D if the question cant be answered unless more information is provided.

What is the average of 2 brothers Ram and Shyam’s age?
I.     The average of the rest of the family  is 40
II. The  overall averages of the family is 35

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A.
B.
C.
D.

If D₁ and D₂ are the diameters of the outer and inner circles respectively, that is D₁:D₂?
I.     The two circles are concentric
II. The area of the ring is 2/3 the area of the greater circle.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

DIRECTIONS  for questions 91 to 93: Read the following and answer the questions that follow.

In the league below each team played each other team once, two points were awarded for a win, one for a draw.

A. 2 – 1
B. 3 – 1 
C. 3 – 0
D. 2  – 0

A. 2 – 1
B. 3 – 1
C. 2 – 0
D. 1- 0

A. 2 – 1
B. 2 – 0
C. 0 – 1
D. 1 – 0

A. Scheme I, Rs.600
B. Scheme II, Rs.600 
C. Scheme II, Rs.800
D. Scheme I, Rs.800

A. 0
B. 40
C. 20
D. 30 

SECTION III

DIRECTIONS for questions 96 to 145:  Read the following Passage and answer the question that follows.
PASSAGE –1

Any analysis of the New Wave unorthodoxy must in the end boil down to an analysis of the methods of Jean-Luc Godard.
Godard decided that film could be made cheaply and quickly, and then set out boldly to work out what conventional items of expense could be dispensed with without destroying the essential purity of the art form.  In effect, this was a fresh exploration of the fundamentals of film making, and it involved the questioning of all known methods and trying out new ones in their places.  As Breathless and subsequent films proved, Godard was perfectly justified in applying rough and ready methods to film which dealt basically with unconventional people in an unconventional era.  In other words, the Godard form grew out of the Godard content, and the Godard content has always  embraced some aspect of contemporary European youth – journalist, soldier, prostitute, working girl, intellectual – caught in the whirl of modern living.  The syntax is new, the pace and rhythm are new , the conception of narrative is new.
Godard is the first director in the history of the cinema to have totally dispensed with what is known as the plot line.  Indeed, it would be right to say that Godard has devised a totally new genre for the cinema.  This genre cannot be defined, it can only be described.  It is a collage of story, tract, newsreel, reportage, quotations, allusions, commercial short, and straight TV interview – all related to a character or a set of characters firmly placed in a precise contemporary milieu.  A cinema of the head and not of the heart, and therefore , a cinema of the minority.
The means by which Godard is able to discard plot by doing away with the kind of obligatory scenes which would set the audience speculating on possible lines of development.  This forces one not to anticipate but only to watch and absorb.
Let me give an example.  Masculine-Feminine opens in a restaurant where a by and a girl, sitting at separate tables set at least twenty feet apart, strike up an acquaintance,.  They talk, but since the camera is t a distance from them, and since there is heavy traffic on the street outside (seen through the glass door), we do not make out what they are saying.  Godard here reverses convention by keeping the noise of the traffic deliberately and, if I may say so, realistically, above the level of conversation.  This goes on for some time when suddenly a man gets up from another table, walks out of the restaurant, and is immediately followed by a woman who takes out a pistol from her handbag and shoots him down at point-blank range.  The boy and the girl make some inaudible comments on this, and the scene ends.  It remains to add that the boy and the girl continue to be the focal point of the film, while the murder is never brought up again.
At a cursory viewing, it would be  easy  to dismiss the scene as pointless and incoherent.  But on second thoughts (or perhaps second viewing), it might begin to dawn on one that the scene not only presents actuality in a more truthful way than one is used to in the cinema, but it also makes some valid comments on our life and times.  Film grammar tells us that essentials should be stressed, and enumerates the various audio-visual ways of doing so; but what if a director has a totally new angle on what is essential and what is not?  In the scene just described, what has been established beyond dispute is that a boy and a girl met in a restaurant and talked.  What they said is, to Godard, inessential.  It is also established  that while they sat taking a woman murdered a man (Husband? Lover? – inessential) within their sight.  Now, it is customary for directors to arrange background action for their scenes where such action is called for.  This usually takes the form of unobtrusive but characteristic bits of business which make up- a credible atmosphere without disturbing the main lines of action in the foreground.  But what if someone uses an extremely violent bit of action in the background, if only to suggest that we live in an age where violence is all around us?  And the youthful pair’s apparent unconcern – does it not suggest the apathy to violence which can grow out of a prolonged exposure to a climate of extreme violence?
It is important  to note that with Godard the reversal of convention is not a gimmick or an affectation, but a positive and meaningful extension of the film language.
Godard is fully aware that he treads on dangerous ground when he drops all pretence of telling a story.  But being as much concerned about the audience as anybody else, he provides attractive handholds for them to latch on to in the absence of a story line.  Among these are the telling details which breathe life into the shorts, superb action from all the performers (stars even-for what else is Jean Paul Belmondo?), and quick changes of mood achieved with wit, grace and style.
In his recent films, Godard has sacrificed art for politics; but even in his best and most characteristic early works, h has been a bad model for young directors simply because his kind of cinema demands craftsmanship of the highest order, let alone various other equipment on an intellectual plane.  In order to turn a convention upside down, one needs a particularly firm grip on convention itself.  This Godard had, thanks to years of assiduous film studying at the Cinematheque in Paris.  Those who have seen his first short  story film Every Man is Called Patrick now what a sure grasp of narrative he had before he made Breathless.

Godard’s films in a chronological order as suggested in the passage is

A. Masculine-Feminine, Breathless, Every Man is Called Patrick
B. Every Man is Called Patrick, Masculine-Feminine, and Breathless 
C. Breathless, Masculine-Feminine, Every Man is called Patrick
D. None of the above

A. he had his own unique style of filmmaking
B.  he made optimum  use  of film as a visual art
C. his films are set in contemporary times
D. he made optimum use of his budgets

A. Watching his films require a concentrated effort
B.  They can watch the film  from any point – they don’t have to watch from the beginning
C. They throw up a lot of disconcerting questions about violence
D. They are very visual and thus a viewer’s delight
E.

A. he concentrated more on the polities of the times
B. his films cater only to an intelligent audience 
C. he believes in enlivening every singly shot at the cost of sequence
D. One needs to be a genius with/in film formulae

A. descriptive
B. analytical 
C. argumentative
D. fictitious

91.         Which of the following statements can be deduced from the passage?

A. C&D
B. A&B 
C. only C
D. none of the above

A. increasing the violence in the action in background
B. reducing the noise level of the traffic 
C. having unrelated but interesting action in the background
D. having directly related but uninteresting action in the background

A. Godard first works on a story line and then style
B. Godard’s films are unconventional 
C. Godard’s film language is born of his unconventional subject
D. Godard makes films according to the availability of equipment

A. the girl ran up to the murdered man
B. the boy cheers the woman 
C. the rest of the movie focuses on why the woman turned murderer
D. all of the above

A. the film could be a murder mystery
B. the film would be a comedy 
C. the film would be a romantic suspense
D. cannot be said

Contemporary New York is raucously multi-ethnic and  post-Christian, a site for the worship of Mammon and Dionysus rather that of the baby Jesus.  Specifically Christian notes, in fact, are rare in the city’s seasonal decorations.  Long gone are the days when the Jewish owners of emporiums like Bloomingdale’s and Stern’s made creches,. With tenderly smitten shepherds and resplendent gift-bearing magi the centerpiece of their display windows, Snowmen, reindeer, and the silvery sparkle of artificial frost signify the season with an unobjectionable minimalism.  Symbolized by Santa Claus, evergreens, angels, and baubles, Christmas belongs to everyone.  In his novel the Counterlife Phillip Roth  Salutes Irving Berlin for having brilliantly secularized the two major  Christian holidays with two popular songs, “white Christmas” and “Easter Parade”, that leave Christ quite out of it.

Christmas in New York offers foreign tourists an excellent study in the accommodations of the American melting pot.  One fourth of the new Yorkers are Jewish; Jewish energy and cleverness and warmth set the city’s tone, or, rather, have conformed to and strengthened a tone that was always there, a tone  of mercantile brashness that was haughtily noted by Bostonians and Philadelphians while the colonies were still ruled by a king across the ocean.  The eight days of Hanukkah have been blended with Christmas into “holiday season”, and the Hanukkah menorach and the Nordic pine tree have merged wit the camels carrying the magi across the Sinai peninsula and Tiny Time and Rudolph   the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a welter of acceptable Christmas imagery, available to window-dressers as elements of the message intended to excite holyday spending.

A. New Yorkers no longer celebrate Christmas for religious reasons along
B. New Yorkers are mostly non-Christians who worship Pagan gods 
C. Christmas in new York is not celebrated for religious reasons
D. [B] & [C]

A. Hanukkah menorah, camels carrying the magi across the Sinai peninsula
B. Nordic pine tree and Hanukkah menorah 
C. Tiny Tim and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
D. All of the above

A. the author regrets the loss of artistic diligence of the past
B. window dressers do not feel the need to use detailed religious themes for Christmas 
C. display window use either of this symbols to indicate Christmas
D. all of the above

A. Weakening Christian orthodoxy
B. Commercialization where profitability is priority
C. Political correctness
D. All the above

A. two of his popular songs secularized two otherwise Christian holidays
B. ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Easter Parade’ are not hymns 
C. he popularised two of his songs
D. all of the above

A. Snowmen  are no longer a popular Christmas symbol
B. In the past, hews did take part in the Christmas spirit 
C. White Christmas is the popular anti racist song
D. New York Christmas is an excellent example of secularity

A. A & B
B. B & C
C. only C
D. only D

A. only A
B. only B 
C. C & D
D. none of these

A. critical
B. racist 
C. nostalgic
D. optimistic

A. congratulates New Yorkers on making Christmas a secular festival
B. misses the traditional ways of celebrating Christmas 
C. gives examples of Christmas  turning into a marketing orgy which then necessarily needs to be secular and politically correct
D.

A. board
B.  adapt
C. contain
D. adjust

PASSAGE –3

At the stroke of midnight on 14 August, when the rest of India gets set to celebrate the country’s 50^th anniversary of Independence, one group of businessmen will turn uncharacteristically morose:  seafood exporters.  For that is the precise hour when their prospects of a bountiful future will come under new pressure as an EU ban on Indian seafood exports takes effect.  At Rs.4,100 crore, seafood may constitute only 4 per cent of India’s total exports, but following the end of the Kerala government’s ban on trawling during the monsoon months, the sector was poised for a big recovery.

 Nothing could have better illustrated the history of Indian trade over the last five decades.  Just when you think the worst is behind you, up springs another hurdle.  So even though total exports may have swelled from Rs.647 crore in 1951 (the first year for which detailed figures are available)  to Rs.108,478 crore in 1996, and imports from Rs.650 crore to Rs.131,944 crore, India commands a mere 1.02 per cent of world trade.

At Rs. 201 crore in 1951, cotton made-ups led Indian exports, followed by goods manufactured from jute (Rs.111 crore) and tea (Rs.80 crore).  Today, none of these figures in the list6 of top exports.  Instead, gems and jewellery, ready-made garments and engineering goods dominate.  But the composition of imports has remained constant over the year, with capital goods and oil and petroleum products ranking high.

The late 1950s saw the opening up of new export markets.  Indian goods went out for the first time to countries like Norway, Sweden and Latin America.  Simultaneously, official socialist passions stressed import substitution and restrictive trade policies.  As a result, imports of items like machinery and transport equipment, textile fibres, iron, steel and cereals decreased.

The truly marked change in Indian trade occurred in 1967, after the Indian rupee depreciated by 33 per cent.  That year’s exports jumped to Rs.1,157 crore from the previous year’s Rs.810 crore, while imports rose from Rs.1,409 crore to Rs.2,078 crore.  Yet, exports of traditional items (tea, jute, textiles, tobacco) did not grow as much since the demand for them overseas was inelastic.  The Ministry of International Trade, the precursor of today’s Ministry of Commerce, launched a number of export promotion measures like export credit at concessional prices,  supply of key inputs at international prices, duty drawback and freight concessions.

The movement of international crude oil prices has had a major impact on Indian trade.  Just when the balance had started shifting in India’s favor came the oil shock of the early 1970s.  India’s oil and petroleum products bill more than doubled, from Rs.204 crore in 1973 to Rs.560 crore in 1974.  When oil prices leaped again in 1981, the import bill jumped to Rs.5,263 crore, 42 percent of the total value of Indian imports, accounting for 90 per cent of the trade deficit.  But when crude oil prices dipped sharply in 1986, the oil import bill fell by about 55 per cent.

 Similar fluctuations have been observed in Indo-Russian trade.  This was important for strategic and defence, rather than economic, considerations.  Even at their zenith in the mid-1980s, exports to Russia were merely around Rs.2,400 crore and imports around Rs.1,200 crore.  But when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, several Indians dealing with Russia, particularly Calcutta-based jute and tea exporters, were wiped out of business

 Frequent swings between ecstasy and despondency-that has been the story of Indian trade in the last 50 years. The traders blame it all on the lack of government encouragement, abysmal infrastructure and a deep-rooted conspiracy by OECD countries to slam the door on their faces.

A. Kerala had lifted the ban on trawling during the monsoons but were worried about the EU ban of Indian seafood
B. the Kerala government had lifted the ban on trawling so they were looking forward for a big recovery 
C. their exports which constituted only 4 percent were poised for a big recovery
D. none of the above

A. India started exporting seafood in 1951
B. Indian seafood exporters have a data bank of figures since 1951 
C. There has not been a detailed compilation of figures for Indian exports prior to  1951
D. B & C

A. There is a change in the export trend since 1951
B. There has been a major  shift in the composition of imports since 1951 
C. There has been a shift in the composition of exports since 1951
D. Socialist India has always implemented restrictive trade policies

A. India exporting cotton ready-mades, jute and tea to Norway, Sweden and Latin America
B.  an increase of Rs.201 crores in exports
C. import of only capital goods oil petroleum
D. none of the above

A. The Ministry of International Trade launched a number of export promotion measures because of the increase in  income from exports
B.  India was still exporting traditional items like tea, jute, textile and tobacco
C. Through demand for Indian exports did not increase, planners saw a rise in income from exports due to the Rupee depreciation
D. Indian  exports rose from Rs.1,409 crores to Rs.2,078 crores

A. because demand for Indian exports remained the same even though the rupee had depreciated
B. as the jump in exports in 1967 was not high enough 
C. to discourage imports
D. to encourage imports of items like machinery and transport equipment.

A. The trade deficit is  in equal proportion to crude oil prices
B. Since crude oil tops the list of Indian imports, in 1981, the total value accounted to 42% 
C. The reduction of crude oil prices in 1986 left Indian Planners ecstatic
D. All of  the above

A. India’s restrictive trade policy which led to heavy crude oil imports and the ire of OECD countries
B. Indian exporters neglect of quality of goods 
C. the policy makers concentration on strengthening Indo Russian trade even through it did not make economic sense
D. all the above

A. The movement of international oil prices has had a major impact on Indian trade
B. Just when you think the worst is behind, up springs another hurdle 
C. Indian exporters have suffered because they have neglected that most magical of mantras: quality
D. Frequent swings between ecstasy and despondency-that has been the story the Indian trade in the last fifty years
E.

A. In the mid 1980’s even when Indo-Russian trade was at its peak, the income was significant enough to make a difference to the trade deficit
B. Economic policy makers were short sighted in encouraging Indo Russian trade 
C. Economic policy makers were short sighted in encouraging Indo Russian trade
D. Soviet union collapse in 1980 led to a loss of business for many Indian business men
E.

Many Netizens will admit to having had a magical, near-orgasmic experience when they first came online.  Being directly in touch with other people in another part of the world, being able to see and interact with their online representation of themselves, has been known to prompt and adrenaline rush alongside feelings, of warmth and empathy- a marvellous combination of responses which has largely eluded the counterculture in 50 years of searching for just this sort of high.

But the ‘one world’ feeling seems to operate according  to a law of diminishing returns.  Each time the Netizen goes online, the more the experience tends to become unexceptional.  The same goes for the Internet industry as a whole.  Already  it has recognised that the experience of simply being on the Internet is no longer a marketable commodity.  Increasingly, the industry is concerned with the content of what’s online, rather than trying to sell the novelty  of just being there.

Some commentators have referred to this process as ‘desensitization’, and inferred that we should feel a little bit guilty for allowing ourselves to become jaded so quickly.  But how else could it be?

 The initial moment of online joy is surely an expression of the desire in each and every one of us to escape our mutual alienation and reconnect with each other.  This in turn is a reflection of the  universalizing  potential of the modern world – a world which is already connected, albeit indirectly, through the global market; and which carries within it the capacity to transcend itself by putting all of its people into a direct and  creative relationship with each other.

However, this potential is continually stifled by the particular  historical form of the society in which we live – a society which prevents productive cooperation among the majority except when such cooperation profits a privileged minority: and which , as a consequence, also tends to promote atomization and individuation.  Our experience of the Internet cannot help but be shaped by this contradiction.  So it is that the more being online becomes part of every day experience as lived in our anti-social society, the more its universalizing potential tends to be obscured, and even forgotten entirely.

Furthermore, the ‘one world’ feeling is not unique to the Internet.  In the postwar period, it was thought that television would promote a sense of interconnectedness.  ‘Television offers the soundest basis for  world peace that has yet been presented’ , declared Scientific American in June 1954.  ‘Peace must be created on the bulwark of understanding.  International television will knit together the peoples of the world in bonds of mutual respect; its possibilities are vast indeed’.

Likewise, in the first half of the twentieth century, the development of the telephone  network provoked a similar response.  My father, who was brought up in rural Oxfordshire around the time of the First World War, recalls that telephone users would preface their conversations by asking ‘Are you there?’ this question which now seems absurdly quaint, must have been redolent with the sort of wonderment and naïve, pleasure, which now surrounds our initial experiences online.

In each of these historical instances, the personal experience of the world in its interconnectedness has been a source of joy, initially at least, to the individuals involved it.  But none of these pleasurable experiences was simple the result of the new technology which facilitated it.  On he contrary, the successive technologies involved were themselves dependent on the social relations which predated them.

Long before TV or even the telephone, the world was already ‘wired’ through the operation of the market (established in Europe and he United States of America in the first half of the nineteenth century)  and the international division of labour (established by means of the externalizing dynamic of imperialism towards the end of the nineteenth century).  On each occasion the connections which already existed as a consequence of the social relations of production were intensified by the introduction of new technology.  But in our antisocial society, the intensification of our connectedness also has the contradictory effect of further obscuring social relations and emphasizing our alienation.

The shift in the perceived role of television, from the expectation  of social coherence and community building in the fifties to the assumption that TV promotes atomization and  ‘couch potato’ passivity in the nineties, bears witness to this contradiction.  The culture surrounding the Internet, however, is the social/anti-social space where the contradiction between the universal and the particular finds its most intense expression.

It  often happens that individuals go online with the avowed intention of opening themselves up to a new range of experiences.  But from the point of view of the particular individual, the sheer volume of postings on the Internet seems imponderable.  So what can you do but scale down the range of sites you may consider visiting?  And in this scaling down, what tends to get left out are those sites which do not interest you when there is so much else out there, including stuff which fits your intellectual profile like a data glove.

A. The process by which a Netizen gets used to connecting with people and stops meeting them
B. The point at which ‘one world’ feeling stops operating 
C. The process by which each time a Netizen accesses the Net, there is a reduction in the novelty and interest
D. not explained in the passage

A. The initial moments of online joy later turn to disappointment
B. The internet has the potential of the internet to allow human society to come together and work for the betterment of mankind.  Instead a few vested interests thwart such efforts 
C. The global market has the potential to allow human society to come together and work for the betterment of mankind.  Instead a few vested interests thwart such efforts
D. all of the above

A. A& B
B. only B 
C. C&D
D. only D

A. As soon as a netizen is on the net he is cut off from the real world
B. A  netizen is not able to surf every single website on the net 
C. A netizen makes his choice to surf only those websites which interest him.   Thus joining a group of people with similar idealogies
D. All of  the above

A. the net paves the way leading to your own backyard
B. the latest innovation – the web site has had the same effect as television, of promoting atomization and individuation because of our anti social attitudes 
C. our anti social attitudes have led 20^th century innovations to narrowing our horizon
D. all of the above

A. A & D
B. all of the above 
C. B & C
D. only B

A. These inventions were too hard to resist and became popular because they were means of  pleasure
B. The need to the wired to bring together the ‘new and the development worlds 
C. To speed up operations within the western world and reduce distances
D. To supply cheap labor to the imperialist countries

A. all of them brought the entire world into your backyard
B. all of them helped in globalisation of  a fragmented world 
C. all of them were pleasurable experiences
D. the consequence on society contradicts the initial reasons for their introduction, in all the cases

A. a book on the internet
B. a sociology book 
C. a text book on contemporary social history
D. not clear from the passage

A. The one world feeling seems to operate according to a law of diminishing returns
B. The culture surrounding the internet, however, is the social/anti-social space where the contradictions between the universal and the particular finds its most intense expression 
C. The Netizen may set out travel the digital world but the most popular route turns out to be the path to his own backyard
D. Increasingly,  the industry is concerned with the content of what’s on line, rather than trying sell the novelty of just being there

PASSAGE –5

What does it mean to simulate something?  According to Baudrillard.  “To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has.  To simulate is to feign to have what one hasn’t.”  More than this , he says, “simulation threatens the difference between ‘true’ and ‘false’ between ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’.  Simulations can have powerful effects on our senses and constructions of reality.  Umberto Eco illustrates this with his description and analysis of Marine World in San Diego Zoo:

The symbolic center of Marine World is the Ecology Theater where you sit in a comfortable amphitheater (and if you can’t sit, the polite but implacable hostess will make you, because everything must proceed in a smooth and orderly fashio0n and you can’t sit where you choose, but if possible next to the latest to be seated, so that the line can move properly and everybody takes his place without pointless search), you face a natural area arranged like a stage.  Here, there are three girls with long blond hair and a hippie appearance;  one plays very sweet folk songs on the guitar, the other two show us, in succession, a lion cub, a little leopard, and a Bengal tiger only six months old.  The animals are on leashes, but even if they weren’t they wouldn’t seem dangerous because of their tender age and also because, thanks perhaps to a few poppy seeds in their food , they are somewhat sleepy.  One of the girls explains that the animals, traditionally ferocious, are actually quite good when they are in a pleasant and friendly environment, and  she invites the children in the audience to come up on state and pet them.  The emotion of petting a Bengal tiger isn’t an everyday occurrence and the  public is   spurting ecological goodness from every pre.  From the pedagogical has a certain effect on the young people, and surely it will tech them not to kill fierce animals.  Assuming that in their later life they happen to encounter any.  But to achieve this ‘natural peace’ (as  an indirect allegory of social peace) great efforts had to be made:  the training of the animals, the construction of an artificial environment that seems natural, the preparation of the hostesses who educate the public.  So the final essence of this apologue on the goodness of nature is Universal Taming.

Killer whale and dolphin pools are coming to possess many of the same qualities.  In many modernistic “ dolphinariums”,  constructed in 1970s or thereabouts, a concrete pool painted in garish blue, with clear, sweeping lines and expansive vistas, contains the dolphins, which are made to bounce colored balls, jump through hoops, and somersault over sticks by their youthful, brightly dressed, California surfer-style trainers.  Here nature is visibly subjugated.  Tamed and arguably even improved by the triumph of human technology.

In the post modern dolphinarium at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, however, the pool is surrounded on three sides by huge windows so the audience look out onto  and feel and inclusive part of what they imagine to be the ocean, even though it is only Lake Michigan, in which a dolphin could never live.  The vast oceanarium of which the dolphin pool is a part consists of sophisticated reconstruction of the Pacific Northwest complete with timber, islands board-walks, bird calls, and the like.  This is more like the Pacific Northwest than the Pacific Northwest itself.  Members of the audience perch on rough-hewn steps, seemingly carved out of the vary cliffs abutting the pool.;  the dolphins still do somersaults, slap their tails, and open their jaws  on command, but now their quietly spoken, wet-suited and “ecologically correct” trainers assure us that all this behavio9r is “natural”, that they tell the dolphins not what to  do, only when to do it.  More than this, they say, having the dolphins open their jaws on command makes it less stressful when they need to have their teeth checked, just as cuddling the dolphins out of the water makes it easier to administer injections when they are sick- all in the interest of their health and natural development, of course.  (Just one day after I first drafted this paragraph, two of the Aquarium’s recently captured Beluga whales died after receiving routine injections!)

 The dolphins are doing the same tricks as captive dolphins always have – but the simulated imagery gives their behavior a very different meaning.  This simulation of nature, its order and goodness, it achieved only by dissimulating the capture, control and containment of the animals which make the experience possibly even unentertaining behavior in which these animals might otherwise indulge if left to their own desires.

 This postmodern phenomenon of safe simulation has a significance that extends far beyond  the theatrical worlds of zoos, museums and theme parks.  Changing approaches to the in service training and development of teachers have some disconcerting parallels with changing approaches to the training of dolphins! This is most evident in those activities in classrooms and staff rooms, which involve creating a culture of cooperation and collaboration among students, teachers, or both.

A. B &C
B. A&D 
C. B,C &D
D. A&C

91.         Love for nature at the Ecology Theater
A]  is created using artificial means
B]  in reality creates an unnatural peace.
C]  introduces the animals in their true light.
D] teaches us not  to kill ferocious animals

A. C&D
B. A,B &D 
C. A&B
D. A,B &C

A. Incident at Ecology Theater
B. Bengal tiger snaps at the audience 
C. Dolphins being taught tricks for their own good
D. To  think you have  a tame animal when you actually have a wild one

A. soon our classrooms will  be simulated environments where real world problems will be controlled but not addressed
B. our classrooms will have more sports oriented activities 
C. teachers will issue  orders which students will unwillingly follow
D. none of the above

A. simulated learning
B. dissimulated learning
C. safe simulation
D. none of the above

A. A book on tourist attractions
B. A book on animal training 
C. A book on education
D. A book on a new methods of teaching

A. training dolphins is essential for their own well being
B. simulated environs can fool an animal into behaving normally 
C. essentially, placing animals out of their  natural environments is harmful
D. none of the above

A. descriptive
B. analytical 
C. critical
D. narrative

A. The behavior of animals in simulated environs is natural
B. Dolphinariums and marine theatres standardise animal responses as enthusiastic and friendly 
C. Safe simulation reaches new parameters in our classrooms
D. Universal Taming is an indirect allegory of social peace

SECTION-IV

 DIRECTIONS  for questions 146 to 150: Refer to the graph below.

A. 1995
B.  1997
C. 1996
D. 1999

A. 3
B. 1 
C. 2
D. 4

A. 1996
B. 1997 
C. 1998
D. 1995

A. 1996
B. 1995
C. 1997
D. 1998

A. 1
B. 3
C. 1
D. None of these

DIRECTION for questions 151 to 156:  Refer to the data below

 The CAT comprises 200 questions divided into 4 equal sections: The test duration is 120 minutes.  Hit Ratio (HR) is defined as the ratio of the number of correct answer to the number of wrong answers.  The following data pertains to an aspirant Nathuram Batliwalla (NB).

Please note that  for every correct answer one mark is awarded, for every wrong answer 1/4^th  mark is deducted. No marks are deducted for questions left unanswered.  The net score is obtained by deducting 1/4^th the number of wrong answers from the total number of correct answers.

A. 114.50
B. 122.25 
C. 108.75
D. 104.00

A. QA-VA-RC-DI
B. VA-DI-QA-RC 
C. VA-RC-DI-QA
D. VA-QA-DI-RC

A. 95 min
B. 70 min 
C. 75 min
D. 88 min

A. 145
B. 160
C. 125
D. 110

A. 143
B. 162 
C. 126
D. 117

A. Yes
B. No 
C. Cannot be determined
D.

DIRECTIONS for questions 157 to 161: Refer to the data below.

The following table gives the trade figures between Tanzania and the European community (EC), in the period 1982-1992.  All figures are in US$ billion. 

A. 1987
B. 1991
C. 1990
D. 1992

A. 1984
B. 1987 
C. 1990
D. 1992

A. 1986
B. 1987 
C. 1990
D. 1992

A. 1983-84
B. 1986-87 
C. 1990-91
D. 1988-89

A. 1987
B. 1991 
C. 1990
D. 1992

DIRECTIONS   for Questions 162 to 167: Refer to the line graph.

A.
B.  
C.
D.
E.

A. 100
B. 106.4 
C. 88.6
D. 112.5

A. September
B. October 
C. December
D. November

A. October
B.  January
C. February
D. December

A. 99.8
B. 90.6 
C. 88.8
D. 104.2

A. 1997-98
B. 1998-99 
C. It was the same in both the seasons
D. None of these

DIRECTION for questions 168 to 172: Refer to the table below.

 The following table gives the statistics on the financial performance of some companies in terms of net sales and net profits.  The data pertains to 1997-98 and 198-99.

All figures are in  Rs.crores
NS- Net Sales; NP – Net Profit

A. Reliable Industries
B. Jasen  and Koubro 
C. CTC
D. SILT

A. SILT
B. Bijili Auto 
C. CTC
D. Jasen and Koubro

A. 16%
B. 18%
C. 20%
D. 22%

A. SILT
B. Bijili Auto 
C. CTC
D. Reliable Industries

A. Reliable Industries
B. Jason and Roubro 
C. CTC
D. SILT
E.

DIRECTIONS for questions 173 to 177: Refer to the bar graph below.

The following graph gives the net sales figures of the top five Industrial V-Belt manufacturers, for the year 1998-99.  A peculiar feature of this industry is that the market share of any company (expressed in percentage) has the same numerals as its net sales (in Rs.Crore) For e.g., the market leader Fenner India Ltd.  has a market share of 40% and its net sales in Rs.40 crore

A. 100
B. 86 
C. 90
D. cannot be determined

A. 16
B. 17 
C. 14
D. 18

A. expected that of the remaining two of the top five companies
B. was same as that of Fenner India Ltd 
C. was more than 50%
D. was less than that of Fenner India Ltd

A. There is no single manufacturer with the largest market share
B. The market share of any manufacturer is the top five exceeds the combined market share of all others (except the top five) 
C. No other manufacturer can have as large a share as Fenner India Ltd
D. The combined market share of all the other companies (apart from the top five), exceeds the market share of Dunlop Ltd

A. 0.25
B. 0.35
C. 0.05
D. 0.15

DIRECTIONS    for questions 178 to 189: Each question is followed by two statements.

Mark A  If statement I alone, but not statement II alone, is sufficient to answer the question
Mark B  If statement II alone, but not  statement I alone, is sufficient to answer the question
Mark C If the question can be answered with the help of both statements together, but not with the help of either statement alone.
Mark D If the question cannot be answered unless more information is provided.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

I.  6x + 10 is and even integer
II.  X is an odd number

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A.
B.  
C.
D.
E.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

A.
B.  
C.
D.
E.

Is A a prime number?
I. A is odd, greater than 10 and lesser than 16.
II. A is odd, greater than 10 , lesser than 20 and is not a multiple of 3

A.
B.  
C.
D.
E.

Is ABCD a square?

I. ABCD is a rhombus.
II. ABCD is not a rectangle.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

 Is Tejas a liar
I. Tejas claims that he speaks the truth.
II. Tejas  claims that he does not lie.

A.
B.  
C.
D.

Two angle X and Y are subtended with the centres of two circles by two arcs A and B respectively.Which angle (between X and Y) is greater?
    I. A is greater than B
    II.Both the circles are of the same size

A.
B.  
C.
D.

Which has a greater surface area the sphere or the cone?
I. The sphere has a greater volume than the cone.
II.The sphere has a lesser volume than the cone.

A.
B.  
C.
D.