Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Test

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Customer–driven (wants) and need–oriented (needs) selling begins with the sales professional doing a Need Analysis. In Need Analysis, the goal is to X–ray the prospect. The sales professional develops the skill and talents necessary to look within the customer and find the need of the customer – to uncover existing needs. These needs may be on the surface or just below the surface, but they definitely exist. Your duty (and opportunity) as a sales professional is to get those needs out into the open - to discover needs. As you are searching for needs, “wants” and desires will surface. Do not make the mistake of discounting these wants as frivolous because prospects take action on their “wants” as well as their needs. Please understand that I did not say you invent or create the need and wants. That is not selling. You uncover a need that is already there and, in the process, render a real service.
The argument above assumes that

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Researchers pushing the limits of optical design are learning from a simple sea creature crusted with tiny lenses, each one smaller and more perfect than any human engineer could devise. The brittlestar, as the organism is called, sees with its bones. Built into the starfish’s tough, calcite skeleton are arrays of microscopic crystals that focus light ten limes more precise than any manufactured micro-optics. Each brittlestar lens is one-thousandth of an inch across, composed of a calcite crystal that grows into a flawless eyepiece naturally corrected for any distortions, double images or any other optical aberrations. The beadlike lenses cover skeletal plates on the brittlestar’s five supple arms and its disk-shaped body.
What is the purpose of the passage?

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"It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to see life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth is to sense an experience which is very rare and very exciting. It usually ends in laughter and a delight in the futility of trying to understand what this atom in the universe is, this thing - atom with curiosity - that looks at itself and wonders why it wonders. Well, these scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it was all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate."
What is the theme of the passage?

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The senses are said to be greater than the body; but greater than the senses is the mind. Greater than the mind is the intellect; and what is greater than the intellect is the Self. Knowing that which is greater than the intellect and subduing the mind by reason, kill this enemy in the form of desire that is hard to overcome.
What is the theme of the passage?

Directions: Given below are sets of three sentences. One, two or all the sentences may have error(s) of grammar or syntax or Standard English usage. Identify only the sentences that are incorrect.

(A) You do not have to take his word on its face value; just try to get what is on the back of his mind
(B) If he comes or he doesn’t is entirely his jurisdiction. I have no say in the matter.
(C) When coming back from the morning walk, the old man met with an accident.

Directions: Given below are sets of three sentences. One, two or all the sentences may have error(s) of grammar or syntax or Standard English usage. Identify only the sentences that are incorrect.

(A) While there is precious little that I can do in the matter, it is perhaps your closest friend who holds the key to the problem.
(B) Our ancestors were staunch in their faith in the need to maintain our old customs and traditions.
(C) It might be easier to take the criticism out of context and paint the critic as but a biased bigot.

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The search for truth does not stop with a simple material analysis but seems to move inevitably into the realm of asking “why?” “What about death, disease and the disasters of life? Why are we here at all?” The different answers given to these questions in different cultural traditions appear to have a profound influence on personality and society.
What is the theme of the passage?

Directions: Given below are sets of three sentences. One, two or all the sentences may have error(s) of grammar or syntax or Standard English usage. Identify only the sentences that are incorrect.

(A) Being a woman of her own mind, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, refused to heed the advice of her close counselors.
(B) Get to root of the problem. Do not beat about the bush.
(C) I even called upon his house, but could not get him.

Directions: Given below are sets of three sentences. One, two or all the sentences may have error(s) of grammar or syntax or Standard English usage. Identify only the sentences that are incorrect.

(A) You can't rely on his suggestions to sort out the problem, for the simple reason that he is part of the problem himself.
(B) The craftsman who has been forced to produce more and more of the handicraft to meet the ever-increasing demand, was the one to get a raw deal.
(C) It has been enunciated about the relationship of man and woman that if a man cannot live with a woman, he cannot live without her either.

Directions: Given below are sets of three sentences. One, two or all the sentences may have error(s) of grammar or syntax or Standard English usage. Identify only the sentences that are incorrect.

(A) The endorsements signed by the top-notch sportsmen and artists earn far greater revenue for them than the money they earn from their actual professional pursuits.
(B) I find the progress of the student far more impressive than what I had expected initially.
(C) Better known as an exponent of the classical belle, the danseuse nevertheless gave an exceptional performance of folk dance.

Directions: Select the correct word/words from the choices that replace the words in bold italics so as to make the sentence most meaningful. Please note that more than one choice may fit in syntactically but select the choice that is in the context of the sentence.

The littoral regions have relatively moderate climate.

Directions: Select the correct word/words from the choices that replace the word in bold italics so as to make the sentence most meaningful. Please note that more than one choice may fit in syntactically but select the choice that is in the context of the sentence.

He is better known for his stentorian abilities than for legitimate contributions to the world of artistic excellence.

Directions: Select the correct word/words from the choices that replace the word in bold italics so as to make the sentence most meaningful. Please note that more than one choice may fit in syntactically but select the choice that is in the context of the sentence.

Though a taciturn, the businessman is nevertheless amiable.

The opening line of the passage can be interpreted as:

PASSAGE – II

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 

What according to the passage is the ideal way to survive for a long time?

PASSAGE – II

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 

“We are losing every year a vast army of individuals who are in their productive prime.” (Lines 7-9) How has the modern civilization initiated this condition?

PASSAGE – II

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 

Which statement best shows the relation of education and environment in molding human behavior?

PASSAGE – III

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
A community or a social group sustains itself through continuous self-renewal, and this enewal takes place by means of the educational growth of the immature members of a group.  By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals.  Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating and a process.  Etymologically, the word education means just a process of bringing up.  When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of education as shaping, forming, molding activity - that is, a shaping into the standard form of social activity.  Since what is required is a transformation of the quality of experience, till it partakes in the interests, purposes, and ideas current in the social group, the problem is evidently not one of mere physical forming.  Things can be physically transported in space; they may be bodily conveyed. Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. How then are they communicated? Given the impossibility of direct contagion or literal inculcation, our problem is to discover the method by which the young assimilate the point of view of the old, or the older bring

How does environment play a role, in general formulation of a set of behavior?

PASSAGE – III

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
A community or a social group sustains itself through continuous self-renewal, and this enewal takes place by means of the educational growth of the immature members of a group.  By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals.  Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating and a process.  Etymologically, the word education means just a process of bringing up.  When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of education as shaping, forming, molding activity - that is, a shaping into the standard form of social activity.  Since what is required is a transformation of the quality of experience, till it partakes in the interests, purposes, and ideas current in the social group, the problem is evidently not one of mere physical forming.  Things can be physically transported in space; they may be bodily conveyed. Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. How then are they communicated? Given the impossibility of direct contagion or literal inculcation, our problem is to discover the method by which the young assimilate the point of view of the old, or the older bring

Which of the following best enhances the concept of 'environment' according to the passage?

PASSAGE – III

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
A community or a social group sustains itself through continuous self-renewal, and this enewal takes place by means of the educational growth of the immature members of a group.  By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals.  Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating and a process.  Etymologically, the word education means just a process of bringing up.  When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of education as shaping, forming, molding activity - that is, a shaping into the standard form of social activity.  Since what is required is a transformation of the quality of experience, till it partakes in the interests, purposes, and ideas current in the social group, the problem is evidently not one of mere physical forming.  Things can be physically transported in space; they may be bodily conveyed. Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. How then are they communicated? Given the impossibility of direct contagion or literal inculcation, our problem is to discover the method by which the young assimilate the point of view of the old, or the older bring

The central idea of the passage can be best summarized as:

PASSAGE – III

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
A community or a social group sustains itself through continuous self-renewal, and this enewal takes place by means of the educational growth of the immature members of a group.  By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals.  Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating and a process.  Etymologically, the word education means just a process of bringing up.  When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of education as shaping, forming, molding activity - that is, a shaping into the standard form of social activity.  Since what is required is a transformation of the quality of experience, till it partakes in the interests, purposes, and ideas current in the social group, the problem is evidently not one of mere physical forming.  Things can be physically transported in space; they may be bodily conveyed. Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. How then are they communicated? Given the impossibility of direct contagion or literal inculcation, our problem is to discover the method by which the young assimilate the point of view of the old, or the older bring

What does the author think about that aspect of the mind about which we do not have proven facts?

I. It comes under the realm of metaphysics.
II. It may one day come under the realm of science.
III. It is departed from science.

Directions: The passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Which of the following is an instinctive response?

Directions: The passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

What is the tone of the passage?

Directions: The passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

The author talks of “unnecessary waste of life” (Line 71). In what sense has the phrase been used?

PASSAGE – II

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 

The author does not believe that

Directions: The passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Which of the following situations best represents the idea of environment as a means of education?

PASSAGE – III

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
A community or a social group sustains itself through continuous self-renewal, and this enewal takes place by means of the educational growth of the immature members of a group.  By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals.  Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating and a process.  Etymologically, the word education means just a process of bringing up.  When we have the outcome of the process in mind, we speak of education as shaping, forming, molding activity - that is, a shaping into the standard form of social activity.  Since what is required is a transformation of the quality of experience, till it partakes in the interests, purposes, and ideas current in the social group, the problem is evidently not one of mere physical forming.  Things can be physically transported in space; they may be bodily conveyed. Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. How then are they communicated? Given the impossibility of direct contagion or literal inculcation, our problem is to discover the method by which the young assimilate the point of view of the old, or the older bring

What legacy does the new generation receive from its ancestors?

PASSAGE – II

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. 

Which of the following cannot be derived from the passage?

Directions: The passage below is followed by a question based on its content. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.