Para Jumbles

Q No:1

1)Over the years, I have had the opportunities to observe and understand the thought
processes behind the ads that have been flooding both the print and the TV media.
2)Although there is a huge shift in the quality of ads that we come across on a daily
basis-- thanks essentially to improvement in technology--I somehow can't help but feel
that the quality of communication of the message has become diluted.
3)Proportionally, the number of ads that lack in quality, have gone up exponentially as
well!!
4)There is an increasing attempt by most companies to be seen as cool and funky.
5)Another reason could be the burgeoning number of companies, which means an
exponential increase in the number of ads that are being made.
A. 43125
B. 12453
C. 43512
D. 21435
Answer – (B)
Solution:
As it is an individual explaining his perceptions, it should begin with 1.
Q No:2

1)Thus begins the search for relief: painkillers, ice, yoga, herbs, even surgery

2)Most computer users develop disorders because they ignore warnings like tingling
fingers, a numb hand or a sore shoulder

3)They keep pointing and dragging until tendons chafe and scar tissue forms, along with
bad habits that are almost impossible to change

4)But cures are elusive , because repetitive stree injuries present a bag of ills that often
defy easy diagnosis.
A 2413
.
B.2143
C 2314
.
D 1234
.
Answer – (C)
Solution:
Here we can make out that sentence 2 is will be the starting sentence as it introduces
the subject matter, which is ‘computer users and related problems’.
Option 4 automatically gets eliminated as its start with sentence 1.
Option 1 can be ruled out as there is no correlation between sentence 2 and sentence 4. 
Sentence 2 talks of warnings whereas sentence 4 talks about the cure for illness and
hence no correlation exists.
Option C presents the most logical sequence. So this the correct option
Q No:3
1)Let us take a look at the manner in which the traditional bank adds value to the
customer.
2)The ability to retain deposits, in itself, is not enough to ensure long-term survival and
growth.
3)The ability to deploy invested funds into productive economic activity at a higher rate
of return, hence contributing to the prosperity of both the economy and the institution, is
the other loop in the banking cycle.
4)Further, as only a small portion of the actual deposit base is retained with the bank in a
liquid form, the very survival of the bank lies in building enough trust with its clientele
so as to prevent the occurrence of a sizeable chunk of simultaneous customer withdrawal
(a run on the bank).
5)The bank's basic job is risk absorption- it takes money, which has a lot of attached risk,
and provides the customer an assured rate of return.
A. 31425
B. 51234
C. 15423
D. 24153
Answer – (C)
Solution:
The paragraph has to begin with 1, and it is 5(not 2) which explains the purpose of
banking. 2 qualifies it further.
Q No: 4
1)I suggested that Ford should buy up a company called NCP, which owned most of the
car parks in the city centres throughout the UK.
2)We were discussing competing in the European market.
3)If NCP became a Ford company, a notice could be placed at the entrance to all city
centres car parks indicating that only Ford cars could use them
4)At one time I was giving a seminar for the British marketing department of Ford, the
biggest Ford operation outside of Detroit.
A. 2134
B. 4213
C. 2431
D. 2314
Answer – (B)
Solution:
2 follows 4 as it disclose the point of discussion of the seminar mentioned in 4. 
3 concludes by revealing how the suggestion is valid.
Q No: 5
1)The general impressions that skilled negotiators seem to convey is they are people who
keep their cards close to their chest and do not reveal their feelings.
2)Hence, they used a surrogate method- they countered the number of times that the
negotiators talked about their feelings or motives.
3)This contrasts sharply with the amount of information given about external events such
as facts, clarifications and general expressions of opinion.
4)The results showed that contrary to the general impressions, skilled negotiators are
more likely to give information about internal events than are average negotiators.
5)Feelings are in themselves not observable and Huthwaite's researchers could not
measure them directly.
A. 15243
B. 15432
C. 12543
D. 12534
Answer – (A)
Solution:
5 is in continuation of the 'feelings' factor talked about in 1. 
2 is about the research method mentioned in 5. 24 is the experiment and result
therefore must follow 15.
So A is the correct option.
Q No: 6
1)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.
2)Late in the afternoon he realized the condition he had to fulfil to get the land was to get
back to the starting point by sundown.
3)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.
4)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. 4312
B. 3124
C. 4132
D. 4123
Answer – (C)
Solution:
1 comes after 4 as it follow the story beginning in 4. 3 follows 4 - the time factors
mentioned in the statement is indicative of this. 
2 concludes the process and reveals the mistake.
Q No: 7
1)Electronic transactions are happening in closed group networks and Internet. Electronic
commerce is one of the most important aspects of Internet to emerge.
2)Cash transactions offer both privacy and anonymity as it does not contain information
that can be used to identify the parties nor the transaction history.
3)To support e-commerce, we need effective payment systems and secure
communication channels and data integrity.
4)The whole structure of traditional money is built on faith and so will electronic money
have to be.
5)Moreover, money is worth what it is because we have come  to accept it.
A. 25413
B. 12534
C. 45123
D. 43521
Answer – (A)
Solution:
This paragraph is about cash transaction vis-a-vis electronic commerce. The
observation on cash transaction have to precede e-com . 
Therefore, the paragraph must start with 2.

Q No: 8
1)Food manufactures spend more on advertising than any other manufacturing group and
the nation's grocery stores rank first among all retailers.
2)Food product lead in expenditures for network and spot television advertisements,
discount coupons, trading stamps, contests, and other forms of premium advertising.
3)Foods are overwhelming the most advertised group of all consumer products in the
U.S.
4)In other media- newspapers, magazines, newspaper supplements, billboard and radio,
food advertising expenditures rank near the top.
A. 3421
B. 3241
C. 3142
D. 4132
Answer – (B)
Solution:
2 follows 3 as it confirms the information of the statement in 3. Logically, more the
advertisement, more the expenses. In 4 the expenditure mentioned in advertising on
food products is further elaborated. 1 sums up the thought.
Q No: 9
1 If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never
develops its own habits of thinking and reflecting

2)Marx thought that religion was the opiate, because it soothed people’s pain and
suffering and prevented them from rising in rebellion

3)If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.

4)Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their
addictive tendencies.
A. 2134
B. 1423
C. 2431
D. 3241
Answer – (D)
Solution:
Sentence 2 has Marx (short Form) and sentence 3 has Karl Marx (Full form). So 3 will
come before 2. Now in given options A and B and C, we can clearly see that 2 is
placed before 3 and hence we reject option A, B and C which leaves us with only
option D which is the correct option.
Q No:10
1)Thrills, ranging from video games to burgers cover the rest.
2)This is because the returns from browsing cover only a percentage of your costs.
3)The bigger your cafe, the more is the need for additional mean of income.
4)Some cafes can get away with being plain vanilla.
5)These fruits will make your clients spend more time with you and also add to your
profits.
6)But others cannot.
A. 346215
B. 321564
C. 423156
D. 463215
Answer – (D)
Solution:
4 is most appropriate begins the topic of cyber cafe.
'But' in 6 links it to 4.
Q No: 11
1)Wal-Mart has increased its Procter & Gamble diaper business by 50 percent and
cut inventory by 70 percent because of this collaboration.
2)Several years ago, senior executives from Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart met
for two days.
3)As a result of this meeting, a team of Procter & Gamble employees moved to
Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-Mart's headquarters, to work with Wal-Mart executives on
productivity and quality issues.
4)They wanted to explore how they could jointly apply quality management principles
to the disposable diaper business.
A. 2431
B. 4213
C. 3142
D. 2314
Answer – (A)

Solution:
Has to open with 2 as it is the only general statement. 2 must be followed by 4 as 'they'
in 4 refers to 'senior executives' mentioned in 2.
Q No: 12
1)Merchants soon grew rich as the demand for products increased.
2)Trade started from person to person but grew to involve different towns in different
lands.
3)Eventually, people got a greater variety of things to choose from.
4)People found work in transporting the goods or selling them.
A. 2413
B. 2143
C. 4123
D. 4213
Answer – (A)
Solution:
Before, trade started to grow internationally; it must have started in its basic form as
selling of goods from one person to another. Hence 2 would come before 4.
Obviously when trade grew to involve different lands then merchants would grow rich
and also people will get a variety of choices. Therefore, 2413. 
Q No: 13

1)In my view, a priority sector should be an area of market failure.

2)Priority sectors include agriculture, small scale industries, housing, exports, etc.
3)Economics say that a market has failed when the market does not provide efficient
outcomes for society.
4)The government of India directs substantial bank credit to what it deems are 'priority
sectors' for the Indian economy.
5)It is not clear how sectors get identified for the priority tag, as there is no clearly
articulated logic.
6)Markets fail for a variety of reasons.
A. 425136
B. 361452
C. 136452
D. 254136
Answer – (A)
Solution:
2 follow 4 as 2 names the priority sector mentioned in 4. 
Hence option A is the answer.
Q No: 14

1)Of course, sitting out in the country I possessed less information than anyone else at
headquarters about was going on, but they called me anyway.
2)But as soon I arrived at my country house, the telephone began ringing.
3)And it kept right on ringing with questions from people back at the office about the
most mundane matters.
4)In the summer of 1992, the first year I became president of XYZ, I decided to take a
two-week vacation.
A. 4213
B. 4312
C. 4123
D. 4231
Answer – (D)
Solution:
Since all options begin with 4, 4 is the opening statement. '23' also form a mandatory
pair as 'it' in 3 refers to the telephone mentioned in statement 2.
Q No: 15
1)More organisations today seek a transformation in their businesses, yet most of them
think of and talk about managing change.
2)Change is characterised by 'reactivity'. Most of us live in the domain of change both as
individuals and as organisations.
3)The characteristics of transformation are positive and actually creative. They stem from
a new found sense of purposefulness, once a higher purpose is discovered.
4)The implications of this conflict will not be fully appreciated until we learn to
distinguish between change and transformation.
5)Clearly, we all aspire to live in the domain of transformation even if we presently are in
the domain of change.
A. 13245
B. 13425
C. 14235
D. 15243
Answer – (A)
Solution:
1 is clearly the opening statement and 5 is the closing statement. 4 explains 1.
Q No: 16
1)A good budget is one which makes a sincere attempt to change the policy environment.
2)Government finances are terminally impaired with uncontrolled fiscal deficits.
3)There are big gaps in perception and capability of managers.
4)Industry too is not ready to deliver growth, should even the government pursue the
right policies.
5)The current reforms pace is too slow.
6)The fiscal deficit has deteriorated.
A. 214356
B. 512346
C. 654321
D. 143256
Answer – (C)
Solution:
'54' makes a mandatory pairs as they are linked with the word 'too'.
This pair is present in option C only.
Q No: 17
1)Its cargo consisted of 38 sacks of spices and Magellan himself had been hacked to
pieces on the beach of Mactan in the Phillipines

2)So contrary to popular belief it was the crew of the Victoria who were the first men to
have sailed around the globe

3)In September 1522 Victoria , the sole survivor of the Armada, limped into the Spanish
port San Lucar , manned by a skeleton crew of 15, so weak they could not talk

4)In September 1519 the Armada de Molucca of five ships and 250 sailors has set out
from San lucar de Barrameda under the command of Fernando de Magellan

5)It was to sail to the spice islands of the Malayan Archipelago where they were to
exchange an assortment of bells, mirrors and scissors for cinnamon and cloves.
A. 45312
B. 15432
C. 34512
D. 45123
Answer – (A)
Solution:
We can see its written Magellan in sentence 1 whereas Fernando de Magellan in
sentence 4  therefore sentence 1 will come after sentence 4..Sentence 1 cannot be the
starting sentence as its describes the cargo but not about who’s cargo is it?
Sentence 2 cannot be starting sentence also as it indicates continuation of a similar
idea. It will come after its supporting sentence.
Furthermore we can see its written armada in sentence 3 where as full form armada de
molluca is written in sentence 4 therefore 3 will come after 4.this rules out option C.
4 will be the starting sentence here and 5 will follow 4 as it correctly shows the journey
of armada ship. 1 describes the armada and in sentence 5 it is mentioned that he begins
his journey.
Therefore option A i.e. 45312 will be the correct answer.
Q No: 18
1)Its cargo consisted of 38 sacks of spices and Magellan himself had been hacked to
pieces on the beach of Mactan in the Phillipines

2)So contrary to popular belief it was the crew of the Victoria who were the first men to
have sailed around the globe

3)In September 1522 Victoria , the sole survivor of the Armada, limped into the Spanish
port San Lucar , manned by a skeleton crew of 15, so weak they could not talk

4)In September 1519 the Armada de Molucca of five ships and 250 sailors has set out
from San lucar de Barrameda under the command of Fernando de Magellan

5)It was to sail to the spice islands of the Malayan Archipelago where they were to
exchange an assortment of bells, mirrors and scissors for cinnamon and cloves.
A. 45312
B. 15432
C. 34512
D. 45123

Answer – (A)
Solution:
We can see its written Magellan in sentence 1 whereas Fernando de Magellan in
sentence 4  therefore sentence 1 will come after sentence 4..Sentence 1 cannot be the
starting sentence as its describes the cargo but not about who’s cargo is it?
Sentence 2 cannot be starting sentence also as it indicates continuation of a similar
idea. It will come after its supporting sentence.
Furthermore we can see its written armada in sentence 3 where as full form armada de
molluca is written in sentence 4 therefore 3 will come after 4.this rules out option C.
4 will be the starting sentence here and 5 will follow 4 as it correctly shows the journey
of armada ship. 1 describes the armada and in sentence 5 it is mentioned that he begins
his journey.
Therefore option A i.e. 45312 will be the correct answer.
Q No: 19
1)Despite posting healthy profits, Volkswagen shares trade at a discount to peers due to
bad reputation among investors.
2)A disastrous capital hike, an expensive foray into truck business and uncertainty about
the reason for a share buyback have in recent years left investors bewildered.
3)The main problem with Volkswagen is the past.
4)Many investors have been disappointed and frightened away.
5)Volkswagen shares trade at about nine times the 2002 estimated earnings, compared to
BMW's 19 and are the second cheapest in the sector.
A. 52134
B. 13425
C. 32451
D. 13524
Answer – (B)
Solution:
12 talks about the recent past and 34 the distant past.
Q No:20
1)Ignorance is the opposite of knowledge, i.e., want of knowledge.

2)To deal with uncertainty and ignorance economists have recognized the entrepreneur as
possessing this non-rational form of knowledge.

3)Like some ancient priest-king, the entrepreneur ‘knows’ the future and leads his
people.

4)Entrepreneurial knowledge is essentially intuitive.

5)It involves seeing and realizing a vision of future markets, products and/or other
opportunities.
A. 32145
B. 43125
C. 12453
 D. 45123
E. 23541
Answer – (D)
Solution:
5 uses the pronoun 'it' to refer to a non-living antecedent. 1 or 2 cannot be the
antecedents as they have multiple subjects which the pronoun it would qualify.
So 5 can either immediately follow 3 or 4. 4 is a general statement and 5 explains it
more, so the flow of the passage has to be from 4 to 5, something that is violated in
option 5. Hence It refers to Entrepreneurial knowledge and hence we would need 45
together. Also, 1 defines a variable and 2 mentions what economists did to deal with it.
Hence 12 too must be together.
So we are left with options C and D.
2 has a phrase 'this non-rational for of knowledge' in which 'this' again refers to
Entrepreneurial knowledge. 
Hence the flow of the passage has to be from 4 to 2. Hence D
Q No: 21
1)The impetus for change in cargo handling, after years of operational inefficiency has
come from new private sector facilitators.
2)Other ports, both major and minor, have spurred into action.
3)And the government agrees this is having a cascading effect on the functioning of other
ports.
4)In terms of cargo handling efficiency, some of India's ports have lately undergone a sea
change.
A. 1324
B. 4132
C. 4213
D. 4312
Answer – (B)
Solution:
4 has to be starting statement as it introduces the topic. 
13 forms a mandatory pair as 'this' of 3 indicates the 'new private sector ... of 1'.
Q No: 22
1)Wonder is marvellous, but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel.

2)We have paid a terrible price for our education, such as it is.
3)Of course, wonder is costly because it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshipped
security.

4)The Magian World View, in so far as it exists, has taken flight into science.

5)We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder has been banished.
A. 24531
B. 54132
C. 13245
D. 43215
E. 31254
Answer – (E)
Solution:
2 talks about the price that we have paid for education and 5 talks about "that price"
i.e. having educated ourselves into a world from which wonder has been banished. 
25 is thus a mandatory pair.
Also the tone of the two lines is same and begins in similar fashion. Also, both 1 and 3
talk about wonder and therefore must be placed together.
Only option E meets all the above mentioned conditions.
Q No: 23
1) I think even more urgent than privatizing existing state-owned firms is to allow the
entry of private firms into sectors earlier reserved for the state.
2)Indian thinking has traditionally been encumbered by a zero-sum view of the economy.
3) In reality, economic life is full of complementarities.
4)A government that facilitated private business was assumed to be working against the
interest of the workers and the public sector.
A. 4312
B. 1432
C. 4123
D. 2431
Answer – (D)
Solution:
The 'zero-sum' of 2 is explained in 4. Thus 4 follows 2. 
The 'reality' mentioned in 3 must follow the assumption in 4.
Q No: 24
1). In the US about 12 million people are homeless, one-third of the people cannot afford
primary health care, 20 percent of the children live below the poverty line, and about 23
percent of the people are illiterate with no security of either job or life.
2). In capitalism, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.
3). In the West, men are only capable of seeing the external aspects of things.
4). The resultant deprivations are variable even in the developed countries.
5). The domination of the capitalist class today is justified in the name of economic
growth and population efficiency.
A. 13452
B. 24135
C. 52314
D. 32541
Answer – (D)
Solution:
25 and 41 are mandatory pairs with focus on 'capitalism' and 'developed US'.
Q No: 25
1). Teacher preparation must ensure development of commitment amongst teachers.
2). With all the limitations and deficiencies inherent in our educational system has to be
achieved only through combined effort of teachers and community.
3). It is tough proposition when most of the other sectors are influenced by self-interests
and material pursuits everywhere.
4). A value based approach must form the backbone of educational system and also the
teacher education system.
5). However, teacher education needs to emphasise that teachers alone can kindle the
value-based growth.
A. 23154
B. 24135
C. 24315
D. 13245
Answer – (B)
Solution:
'1' can be the first sentence but 'teacher preparation' is not the subject of the paragraph;
''overhaul of the educational system", as stated in 2, is the subject.
Hence 2 the first sentence. 3 cannot follow 2 since 'it' in 3 does not have any reference
in 2. 'Tough proposition' in 3 is referred to 'the development' in 1. 
Hence 13 is the logical pair.
Q No: 26
1). The trade union declared a strike.
2). Unemployment touched 20 per cent.
3). The finance minister put a cap of $ 2000 a month on cash withdrawals.
4). The Argentines withdrew 2.3$ billion from their bank accounts.
A. 3214
B. 4312
C. 3421
D. 4321
Answer – (D)
Solution:
43 and 21 form a logical pairs. 
3 follows 4 as the consequences (cap of withdrawals) follows the action ($ 2.3
withdrawal); and the same logic applies to 1 following 2.
Q No:27
1). Since independence, every political party has played communal card whenever
election time draws near.
2). In fact, the caste and communal cards have been fine-tuned to an art form in the
political games that are played in this country.
3). This was seen when the Youth Congress(I) goons were given a free hand to terrorise
Sikhs all over the country after Indira Gandhi's assassination.
4). When each party carefully selects political candidates on the basis of religion or caste,
it is encouraging and continuing the divide-and-rule tactics of its colonial masters.
5). And no political party can absolve itself on this count; worse, political parties take on
board hoodlums and gangsters who use their clout in political circles to settle scores and
extract money.
A. 32514
B. 13254
C. 14253
D. 14235
Answer – (C)
Solution:
2 cannot start the paragraph as it begin with 'in fact'. 3 cannot begin the para since it
starts with a pronoun 'this'. Hence 1 begins the paragraph. 4 follows 1- 1 talks of
'communal card' and 4 refers to 'religion or caste'. 35 is illogical as 3 cities an example
to what is stated in 5 and so cannot follow 5.
Q No: 28
A. The two neighbours never fought each other.
B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the
participants was unknown.
C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined
by an immediate neighbour, an ally.
E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.
A. BEDAC
B. DEBAC
C. BDCAE
D. BCEDA
Answer – (A)
Q No: 29
A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does
not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.
A. CAEDB
B. DBAEC
C. CEADB
D. ECDBA

Answer – (C)
Q No: 30
A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as
Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern
Europe had been completed.
D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
E. EDACB
F. BEDAC
G. BDECA
H. CEDAB

Answer – (B)
Q No: 31
A. Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full
hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorisation that will one day
come to China or India.
B. But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground
coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open
for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system.
C. In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better
total fuel economy than any existing engines.
D. That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage
points better than a diesel hybrid.
E. Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal
or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30 %.
A. CEDBA
B. CEBDA
C. AEDBC
D. ACEBD

Answer – (A)
Q No: 32
A. But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians’ only preoccupation.
B. Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.
C. Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are
monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.
D. Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most
people died they were buried in simple graves.
E. We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the
ordinary people, as most monuments were made for the rich.
A. CDBEA
B. ECDAB
C. EDCBA
D. DECAB

Answer – (C)
Q No: 33
A. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolises the brutality of the upper classes.
B. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolises the
government’s weakness.
C. To foxhunting’s supporters, Labour’s 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it
symbolises the party’s metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.
D. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
E. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes,
foxhunting symbolises the ancient roots of rural lives.
A. DEACB
B. ECDBA
C. CEADB
D. DBAEC

Answer – (A)
Q No: 34
A. In the case of King Merolchazzar’s courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles,
there occurs a regrettable hitch.
B. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
C. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighbouring princess, dispatches
messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview.
D. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything
buzzes along pretty smoothly.
E. Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.

A. ACBDE
B. ABCDE
C. ECDAB
D. ECBAD
Answer – (C)
Q No: 35
A.Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of Damon for Pythias, of David for
Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar?
B. Similarly with men.
C. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that
can only be compared with the age old association of ham and eggs.
D. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so.
E. No one can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless
partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs about.

A. ACBED
B. CEDBA
C. ACEBD
D. CEABD
Answer – (B)
Q No: 36
A. Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from “over-
branding”.
B. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
C. But reunification and the federal government’s move to Berlin have prompted
Germany to think again about its image.
D. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas
Cook in 1855.
E. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself
abroad.

E. ACEBD
F. DECAB
G. BDAEC
H. DBAEC
Answer – (C)
Q No: 37
A. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis
of the 1967 borders.
B. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic ‘separation wall’ now being
built in the West Bank by Israel.
C. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at
regular intervals.
D. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometres
at a stretch.
E. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is
going up with scarcely a peep from Israel’s American allies who are going to pay for
most of it.
A. EBCAD
B. BADCE
C. AEDCB
D. ECADB
Answer – (B)
Q No: 37
A. Luckily the tide of battle moved elsewhere after the American victory at Midway
and an Australian victory over Japan at Milne Bay.
B. It could have been no more than a delaying tactic.
C. The Australian military, knowing the position was hopeless, planned to fall back to
the south-east in the hope of
defending the main cities.
D. They had captured most of the Soloman Islands and much of New Guinea, and
seemed poised for an invasion.
E. Not many people outside Australia realize how close the Japanese got.
A. EDCBA
B. ECDAB
C. ADCBE
D. CDBAE

Answer – (A)
Q No: 37
A. Call it the third wave sweeping the Indian media.
B. Now, they are starring in a new role, as suave dealmakers who are in a hurry to
strike alliances and agreements.
C. Look around and you will find a host of deals that have been inked or are ready to
be finalized.
D. Then the media barons wrested back control from their editors, and turned
marketing warriors with the brand as their missile.
E. The first came with those magnificent men in their mahogany chambers who took
on the world with their mighty fountain pens.
A. ACBED
B. CEBDA
C. CAEBD
D. AEDBC
Answer – (D)
Q No: 38
A. The celebrations of economic recovery in Washington may be as premature as that
“Mission Accomplished” banner hung on the USS Abraham Lincoln to hail the end of
the Iraq war.
B. Meanwhile, in the real world, the struggles of families and communities continue
unabated.
C. Washington responded to the favorable turn in economic news with enthusiasm.
D. The celebrations and high-fives up and down Pennsylvania Avenue are not to be
found beyond the Beltway.
E. When the third quarter GDP showed growth of 7.2% and the monthly
unemployment rate dipped to 6%, euphoria gripped the US capital.
A. ACEDB
B. CEDAB
C. ECABD
D. ECBDA
Answer – (D)
Q No: 39
A. Four days later, Oracle announced its own bid for PeopleSoft, and invited the firm’s
board to a discussion.
B. Furious that his own plans had been endangered, PeopleSoft’s boss, Craig Conway,
called Oracle’s offer “diabolical”, and its boss, Larry Ellison, a “sociopath”.
C. In early June, PeopleSoft said that it would buy J.D. Edwards, a smaller rival.
D. Moreover, said Mr. Conway, “he could imagine no price nor combination of price
and other conditions to recommend accepting the offer.”
E. On June 12th, PeopleSoft turned Oracle down.
A. CABDE
B. CADBE
C. CEDAB
D. CAEBD
Answer – (A)
Q No: 40
A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who
are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.
B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I
awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies—sent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at
seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full
day of work by studying in her sleep.
D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent
them e-mails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups.
E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to
herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem
might be solved.
A. DABCE
B. DACEB
C. ADBCE
D. AECBD
Answer – (C)
Q No: 41
A. I am much more intolerant of a human being’s shortcomings than I am of an
animal’s, but in this respect I have been lucky, for most of the people I have come
across have been charming.
B. Then you come across the unpleasant human animal—the District Officer who
drawled, “We chaps are here to help you chaps,’ and then proceeded to be as
obstructive as possible.
C. In these cases of course, the fact that you are an animal collector helps; people
always seem delighted to meet someone with such an unusual occupation and go out of
their way to assist you.
D. Fortunately, these types are rare, and the pleasant ones I have met more than
compensated for them—but even so, I think I will stick to animals.
E. When you travel round the world collecting animals you also, of necessity, collect
human beings.
A. EACBD
B. ABDCE
C. ECBDA
D. ACBDE
Answer – (A)
Q No: 42
A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages;
this ‘war’ has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as
war?
C. The phrase ‘war against terror’, which has passed into the common lexicon, is a
huge misnomer.
D. Besides, war has a juridical meaning in international law, which has codified the
laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity—either State or non-State.
A. ECDBA
B. BECDA
C. EBCAD
D. CEBDA
Answer – (D)
Q No: 43
A. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout put the keys most likely to be hit in rapid
succession on opposite sides. This made the keyboard slow, the story goes, but that
was the idea.
B. A different layout, which had been patented by August Dvorak in 1936, was shown
to be much faster.
C. The QWERTY design (patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to
Remington in 1873) aimed to solve a
mechanical problem of early typewriters.
D. Yet the Dvorak layout has never been widely adopted, even though (with electric
typewriters and then PCs) the anti jamming rationale for QWERTY has been defunct
for years.
E. When certain combinations of keys were struck quickly, the type bars often
jammed.
A. BDACE
B. CEABD
C. BCDEA
D. CAEBD
Answer – (B)
Q No: 44
A. Branded disposable diapers are available at many supermarkets and drug stores.
B. If one supermarket sets a higher price for a diaper, customers may buy that brand
elsewhere.
C. By contrast, the demand for private-label products may be less price sensitive since
it is available only at a corresponding supermarket chain.
D. So, the demand for branded diapers at any particular store may be quite price
sensitive.
E. For instance, only SavOn Drugs stores sell SavOn Drugs diapers.
F. Then, stores should set a higher incremental margin percentage for private-label
diapers.
A. ABCDEF
B. ABCEDF
C. ADBCEF
D. AEDBCF
Answer – (C)
Q No: 45
A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.
B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to
offer unique value.
C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough tradeoffs
in choosing what not to do.
D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.
E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval, while constantly
improving and extending its
distinctive positioning.
F. When a company’s activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any
competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.

A. ACEDBF
B. ACBDEF
C. DCBEFA
D. ABCEDF
Answer – (A)
TYPE II: Six Sentences—First and Last Sentences Fixed
Directions for Questions 42 to 51: Sentences given in each question, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the
four in between are labelled A, B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four
sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from
sentences 1 to 6.

Q No: 46
1. Security inks exploit the same principle that causes the vivid and constantly
changing colours of a film of oil on water.
A. When two rays of light meet each other after being reflected from these different
surfaces, they have each travelled slightly different distances.
B. The key is that the light is bouncing off two surfaces, that of the oil and that of the
water layer below it.
C. The distance the two rays travel determines which wavelengths, and hence colours,
interfere constructively and look bright.
D. Because light is an electromagnetic wave, the peaks and troughs of each ray then
interfere either constructively, to appear bright, or destructively, to appear dim.
6. Since the distance the rays travel changes with the angle as you look at the surface,
different colours look bright from different viewing angles.
A. ABCD
B. BADC
C. BDAC
D. DCAB
Answer – (B)
Q No: 47
1. Commercially reared chicken can be unusually aggressive, and are often kept in
darkened sheds to prevent them pecking at each other.
A. The birds spent far more of their time—up to a third—pecking at the inanimate
objects in the pens, in contrast to birds in other pens which spent a lot of time attacking
others.
B. In low light conditions, they behave less belligerently, but are more prone to
ophthalmic disorders and respiratory problems.
C. In an experiment, aggressive head-pecking was all but eliminated among birds in
the enriched environment.
D. Altering the birds’ environment, by adding bales of wood-shavings to their pens,
can work wonders.
6. Bales could diminish aggressiveness and reduce injuries; they might even improve
productivity, since a happy chicken is a productive chicken.
A. DCAB
B. CDBA
C. DBAC
D. BDCA
Answer – (D)
Q No: 48
1. The concept of a ‘nation-state’ assumes a complete correspondence between the
boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state.
A. Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries,
making a mockery of the concept.
B. There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be (and
often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation.
C. Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided across
several states.
D. This, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere a
fiction.
6. However, the fiction has been, and continues to be, at the basis of nationalist
ideologies.
A. DBAC
B. ABCD
C. BACD
D. DACB
Answer – (A)
Q No: 49
1. In the sciences, even questionable examples of research fraud are harshly punished.
A. But no such mechanism exists in the humanities—much of what humanities
researchers call research does not lead to results that are replicable by other scholars.
B. Given the importance of interpretation in historical and literary scholarship,
humanities researchers are in a position where they can explain away deliberate and
even systematic distortion.
C. Mere suspicion is enough for funding to be cut off; publicity guarantees that careers
can be effectively ended.
D. Forgeries which take the form of pastiches in which the forger intersperses fake and
real parts can be defended as mere mistakes or aberrant misreading.
6. Scientists fudging data have no such defences.
A. BDCA
B. ABDC
C. CABD
D. CDBA
Answer – (C)

Q No: 50
1. Horses and communism were, on the whole, a poor match.
A. Fine horses bespoke the nobility the party was supposed to despise.
B. Communist leaders, when they visited villages, preferred to see cows and pigs.
C. Although a working horse was just about tolerable, the communists were right to be
wary.
D. Peasants from Poland to the Hungarian Pustza preferred their horses to party
dogma.
6. “A farmer’s pride is his horse; his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat,” went
a Slovak saying.
A. ACDB
B. DBCA
C. ABCD
D. DCBA
Answer – (C)