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ST-2 (Text Summary / Text Completion)

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Not stagnating moment to moment is called achievement. Inward humility is achievement, outward courtesy is virtue. Establishing myriad truths in your nature is achievement; the mind being essentially detached from thoughts is virtue. Not departing from one's essential nature is achievement; acting adaptively without being affected is virtue. Continuity moment to moment, is achievement; balance and directness of mental activity are virtue. Refining your own nature is achievement. Refining your own person is virtue.
Which of the following can't be inferred from the paragraph?

  1. If you are constantly egoistic, you have achieved nothing.
  2. Unless your nature is unimpeachable, you have no virtue yourself.
  3. Sweet words, a smiling face and no scorn, are said to mark the well born.
  4. Let not your mind take you where your heart would fear to tread.
  5. People who cultivate achievement and virtue do not slight anyone in their hearts.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Contrary to Thomas Friedman's fervent imperialist plea Please, Mr. President, do it right the Bush people have no plans of installing a 'self-sustaining, progressive, accountable' government in Baghdad. At the end of the long sledge of Iraq, the result will not be a democracy, but another client regime, with an obligation to carry out Washington's strategic brief.The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?

  1. “Armed democratisation” might be a noble aim in theory, but it has few strategic benefits in practice.
  2. It may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory after all.
  3. For, example is always better than precept.
  4. Is Washington really serious about the long term implications of its foreign policy?
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Knowledge theorists opine that risk management is actually a combination of management of uncertainty, risk, equivocality and error. Uncertainty arises due to lack of information. As information gathering progresses, uncertainty transforms into risk. In uncertainty, outcomes cannot be estimated even randomly. This is possible in the case of risk. As information about markets and knowledge about possible outcomes increases, risk management provides solutions for cutting risk. Equivocality arises due to conflicting interpretations and the resultant lack of judgement. This happens despite adequate knowledge of the situation. Institutions develop control systems to reduce errors, information systems to reduce uncertainty, incentive systems to manage agency problems in a risk-reward framework and cultural systems to deal with equivocality.
Which of the following can't be inferred from the paragraph?

  1. Risk comes from unpredictable sources and managers resort to various approaches associated with risk management.
  2. Risk arises from lack of information and inadequate discernment.
  3. The risk managers are prone to error, due to the uncertainty of information and equivocality of judgment.
  4. Risk management is a graduated process of passing from total uncertainty to lucidity.
  5. Risk managers endeavour to reduce uncertainty through disputative interpretations of not so uncertain information.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the given sentence.

It is not enough to have a good mind; ___________.

  1. sound mind lives in a sound body
  2. it is also necessary to think positively
  3. the main thing is to use it well
  4. nothing is more sacred than its integrity
  5. it is important not to be a prisoner of one's own mind
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

With the assault on New York, the anarchy that has been one of the by-products of globalisation in much of the world can no longer be ignored. The ragged, irregular armies of the world's most collapsed zones have proved that they can reach the heart of its richest and most powerful state. Their brutal coup is an example of what military analysts call 'asymmetric threat' in other words, the power of the weak against the strong.The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?

  1. The lesson that we draw for posterity is: Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you.
  2. Given the guerrilla warfare of today, the definition of the strong and the weak is hazy indeed.
  3. The oppressed always find a way out to give it back.
  4. What it has shown is that the strong are weaker than anyone imagined.
  5. That is the flip side of globalization.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
The first lecture, the one that was supposed to explain what: scientific thinking is about, Feynman called The Uncertainty of Science. The uncertainty he had in mind was not that of Heisenberg, but rather that of Kari Popper: that scientists should be skeptical of their own theories, or in other words, have an open mind. As with most scientists who profess to follow Popper, he consistently refutes himself throughout his lectures. To Feynman, science has three parts: the facts or body of knowledge, the method or process that we use to establish those facts, and the applications of science, that is to say, technology: To him its an article of faith that technology follows science. He would regard technology arising on its own as something akin to the Virgin Birth.
The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?
  1. But scientific precepts are a priori before technology can set store for us.
  2. When the irrefutable scientific facts take shape, the applications in the form of technology are bound to follow.
  3. But his real point is that technology is only incidental to the importance of science.
  4. The body, the method, and the application, therefore, form the triumvirate of science.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If there is some ambiguity about the knowledge an educated man should have, there is none at all about the skills. The first is......................

  1. often the result of parental pressure and prejudices
  2. simply the training of the mind in the capacity to think clearly
  3. implicit, the second quite explicit
  4. often unanswered, not the second
  5. often an enigma, the second an epilogue
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The buck does not stop here. .............

  1. The state and the not-so-conscientious non-state organs are actually to blame for the malaise.
  2. It touches the institutions across the politico-ideological spectrum who find ingenious excuses not to deliver on the promises.
  3. The right is not considered inviolable.
  4. It continues to torment the general public, particularly the have-nots.
  5. This is a vicious circle, actually.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A shrewd peasant was always well enough protected against impostors in the market place, and we have all sorts of businessmen who have made themselves excellent judges of phoniness without the benefit of a high-school diploma; but this kind of shrewdness goes along with a great deal of credulity. Outside the limited field within which experience has taught the peasant or the illiterate businessman his lessons, he is often hopelessly gullible.The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?

  1. The skepticism and the gullibility go hand in hand.
  2. The situation has, however, changed remarkably of late.
  3. The educated man, by contrast, has tried to develop a critical faculty for general use, and feels fortified against imposture in all its forms.
  4. The peasant and the businessman of today can hardly make do with such crude differentiation.
  5. It is this gullibility which is ultimately exploited by the unscrupulous.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Like all social fitnesses, attunement to racism is a matter of degree:..............

  1. the tolerance varies as per the degree of your involvement
  2. sharpened by use, dulled by quiescence
  3. governed by conformity, rather than uniformity
  4. it all depends on which end of the stick you are
  5. it is the society that determines the ultimate outcome
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the society is organised as a political entity, elections and other political processes will tend to exacerbate conflict;...............

  1. but this will happen only when we indulge in politics of division
  2. social and cultural divisions get sharpened under tutelage of the political masters
  3. that is perhaps an inadvertent price we have to pay for democracy
  4. properly directed they could be used to reduce it
  5. that is perhaps why autocracies have better conflict management
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the human mind, which is capable of such astonishing energy, is not seeking reality or God, every expression of its energy becomes a means of destruction and misery. To seek reality requires immense energy, and, if man is not doing that he dissipates his energy in ways which create mischief, and therefore society has to control him. Now, is it possible to liberate energy in seeking God or truth in the process of discovering what is true, to be a citizen who understands the fundamental issues of life and whom society cannot destroy? You see, man is energy, and if man does not seek truth, this energy becomes destructive. Therefore society controls and shapes the individual, which smothers this energy.
Which of the following can't be inferred from the paragraph?

  1. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline.
  2. The man who is seeking reality spontaneously becomes the right kind of citizen.
  3. Reality does not have to follow the pattern of any particular society or government.
  4. Time not spent in spiritual pursuits is time wasted in dissipating energy.
  5. Energy of human mind also needs a vent.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

While the lethal H5N1 virus has been marching from one country to another, infecting birds and, in some cases, humans, one fact is becoming apparent that as long as the virus persists in birds, be it poultry or wild birds, avian flu outbreaks are bound to recur.The last sentence of the paragraph has been deleted. Which of the following completes the paragraph, most suitably?

  1. Preventive measures may actually have helped spread of the virus.
  2. The virus has developed resistance.
  3. A study highlights the ability of ducks to spread more of the virus and for a longer duration without actually falling sick.
  4. Only the time interval between the outbreaks cannot be determined for sure.
  5. Mass vaccination without other stringent control measures may not be the best strategy.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In today's society, publishers of text books find themselves in an uncomfortable position. As schools are regarded as depository of a society's moral and cultural values each group within a society wishes to prevent any material that offends its own values from appearing in books. Hence, stand on an issue is certain to run afoul of one group (or) another. As book publishers rely on community harmony to sell books, it is inevitable __________.Which of the following completes the paragraph , most suitably?

  1. that more and more groups pressure to influence the content
  2. to choose from a variety of books being sold
  3. that neutral grounds will increase in books
  4. that publishers are likely to face problems with their content
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