JUMBLED PARAGRAPH

Direction for question: The sentences given in each questions, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of
sentences from among the given choices to construct a given paragraph.
1.
A. According to these scientists every summer will see severe conflicts over water not just
between states but individuals as well, if the issue of scarcity of the planets most essential natural
resource is not addressed on a war footing.
B. Water scarcity in India is just not confined to the stand off between
Tamilnadu and Karnataka over cauvery water or between Delhi and Haryana
for control of river yamuna.
C. They say the days of easy water are over.
D. Social scientists say these are gentle disputes as compared to the doomsday
scenario they are predicting.
a) ABDC
b) BDCA
c) DCAB
d) BADC
2.
A. For it is here, that the practice of polygamous marriages had survived time immemorial.
B. Yet, to behavioural scientists and ethnologists it is very important place.
C. Almost every able-bodied youth in this village boasts of four to eight wives, living in perfect
harmony.
D. Dhadigam is a tiny, nondescript hamlet is western Gujarat that hardly ever shows up in any
tourism map.
a) ADBC
b) CDBA
c) DBAC
d) BDAC
3.
A. One expected him to die any time.
B. One imagined that he spoke of so remote a subject to escape from the actualities that had
become so grim.
C. The great war had just broken out and the peace loving philosopher was
shocked to see civilized nations take to barbarism.
D. When Russel spoke at Columbia University in 1914, he looked like his
subject epistemology thin, pale and moribund.
a) ADBC
b) BADC
c) CABD
d) DACB
4.
A. Mankind has been travelling form time immemorial.
B. In the earliest of times, travel was merely a way to find suitable food, until man learned to
grow his own food.
C. Travelling is by no means a twenty first century idea.
D. Perhaps one of the earliest reasons to travel was to develop trade and commerce to tap
resources in other lands.
a) CABD
b) DCAB
c) ADBC
d) DABC
5.
A. While not strictly true, it is interesting to see that most of our food and the living things
around us contain a great deal of water.
B. From the earliest of times people understood the significance of water.

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C. In Indian thought too, the universe is believed to be made of five elements, one of which is
water.
D. There was even a time when people believed that all substances were
composed primarily of water.
a)
6.
A. And, pursuing the claim for compensation, he had virtually become a court bird.
B. He was not old; probably, in his early fifties; but, he looked exhausted.
C. The wrinkles were already beginning to show on his face; the road accident appeared to have
taken a lot out of run.
D. During the last two years, he had gone through two surgeries for the repair of his femur.
a) ABCD
b) DCBA
c) CBAD
d) BCDA
7.
A. If we are masters of innovation, we are also adept at emulation.
B. A reproduced Rembrandt, Constable or a Leonardo da Vinci or even a Raja Ravi Verma
howsoever skilled the effort, would still e lacking that something which made the original what it
was.
C. It is nearly impossible to reproduce works of art, even if it is the creation of a relatively
unknown artist.
D. However good we try even in a seemingly mundane routine as cooking, one often has to bear
with critical appraisal by the family that proclaims. That was delicious, but grandmothers was
still well, different.
a) ABCD
b) ACDB
c) ADBC
d) CBAD
8.
A. Planet Earth is in urgent need of a healing touch to save it from the impending
environment disaster.
B. Which is why the Earth Day celebrated on April 2 every year, assumes such special
significance.
C. The world over ambient standards of air and water pollution are likely to exceed the limits
prescribed by the WHO and the impact of air pollution on cities could result in hundreds of
thousands of premature deaths and millions of cases of hospitalization.
D. In India alone, the cost of pollution when computed in health terms could exceed Rs. 5,000
crore per annum to cure health problems caused by it.
a) CDBA
b) ABDC
c) DBAC
d) DBCA
9.
A. States cannot use force except when there is legitimate reason, but it is the state, which
decides whether its reasons are legitimate.
B. Even if the international community accepts the principle that intervention is justified in the
vent of human rights violations, different states will have different interpretations whenever a
concrete case comes up.
C. But when you do not follow procedures, every state can simply assert that it is right, so we
have come back to the 19th century definition of international law.
D. According to Prof. Corten, all law contains procedures for dealing with
interpretations.
a) ABCD
b) BDCA
c) BDAC
d) CABD7

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10. A. Is he orchestrating the Taliban protests to consolidate his own position at home, or is he
driven by the fear that he could lose support if he tried to curb their activities?
B. If it is the former, then he is banking on the US limitations in dealing with an army-ruled
nuclear Pakistan.
C. The targeting of American establishments in Islamabad has raised questions about the role of
Pakistans chief executive General Pervez Musharraf.
D. If it is the latter, then it indicates Pakistans inability to prevent the resurgence in militancy that
it has itself been nurturing across its eastern and western borders.
a) CABD
b) CDAB
c) BDCA
d) ABCD
11. A. They believed that Cupid used these splinters as arrow heads.
B. In India, according to the ancient vedic texts, diamonds represent the planet Venus the symbol
of love and comfort.
C. From the earliest of times, diamonds have captured the imagination of the people.
D. The Romans called them splinters of the stars.
a) BADC
b) DBAC
c) CDAB
d) DACB
12. A. While it is fun and frolic for most, there is also a service motive associated with many of
these.
B. What very often passed as just another on eof those days with scholls closed and going ga-ga
over Chacha Nehru, it has taken on the aura of a day with immense marketing potential and
colour.
C. So there are the messages, which could be read between the lines without being too obvious.
D. With that goes TV and photo opportunities, innovative shopping schemes and mega offers that
would have not only the kids, but even their parents drooling.
a) BADC
b) BDAC
c) CBAD
d) ABCD
13. A. Productivity depends on how well the knowledge created by individuals and groups can
be captured, and packaged for reuse by others inside, and outside, the company.
B. However, KM Technologies must provide individuals with the tools to discover and mine
corporate knowledge that has already been created.
C. Once people find the corporate knowledge assets they need, they can improve upon those
assets by applying them to new processes and problems.
D. Employee skills are a natural target for KM technologies.
a) ADBC
b) ACDB
c) ABCD
d) CADB
14. A. Research has shown that innovation follows a regular brainstorming cycle and the
companies that consistently succeed at innovation follow a specific process.
B. They then select from these ideas, the one that seems to be the most likely to succeed.
C. Its members generate as many good ideas as they can.
D. They return to the idea generation stage, except now they focus on good ideas about this one
good idea.
a) ABCD
b) ACBD
c) BDCA
d) ACDB
15. A. The realization that knowledge is the new competitive resource has hit organizations like
lightning.
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B. Knowledge focused strategies create the environment for systems thinking which enhances
an organizations ability to sense opportunities and challenges; its ability to discern patterns of
relationships; its ability to define and develop innovative solutions and to learn from its
experiences.
C. Businesses are increasingly appreciating the power of systems thinking; where an
understanding of the business depends upon contemplating the whole and not an individual subsystem as the sub-systems are intricately bound by invisible strands of interdependent activities.
D. translated in sharply defined terms, knowledge management offers benefits from two different
perspectives.
a) ABCD
b) ACBD
c) ADCB
d) ACDB
16. A. In order to do so, it is necessary that we identify risks to our health and then try to
manage them.
B. Going by the definition, we see that there are countless risks or threats to human health.
C. Although there are many definitions of the word risk, experts at the World Health
Organization (WHO), define it as probing of an adverse outcome, or a factor that raises this
probability.
D. It is everybodys wish to learn a healthy, longer life without to bother to visit a doctor.
a) CABD
b) CDBA
c) DCBA
d) DACB
17. A. Finnish specialists recommend a chewing gum containing xylitol a natural sweetener
present in a birch, maple, corn and straw- to be used several times a day by young children.
B. Chewing gum is a new solution that may work for parents whose children suffer from chronic
ear infections.
C. An experiment was conducted involving three hundred and six children between two and six
years.
D. After Finnish studies showed that xylitol is effective in preventing cavities, a team of
researchers decided to investigate its effects on a very similar type of bacteria which causes ear
infections.
a) BADC

b) BCDA

c) ABCD

d) CBAD

18. A. Oddly, there was no university in Bad Saarow, but it did house the Medical Academy of
The National Peoples Army.
B. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, West Germany sent experts into the former East
Germany (GDR) to investigate industries, administrations and institutions in order to plan their
integration into the new, single German state.
C. In mid-December 1990 Franke was intrigued to learn that several doctoral theses on sport and
medical subjects had been presented in the town of Bad Sarrow.
D. Werner Franke, a world renowned molecular biologist, was asked to report on research
centres of GDR Academy of Sciences.
a) BACD
b) BDCA
c) ABCD
d) DABC
19. A. The speed with which private engineering colleges are mushrooming all over the country
is mind boggling.
B. Education in todays lexicon appears to refer only to engineering education.
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C. But, are we so industrialized that we need so many engineers, is indeed a debatable point.
D. So what we witness today is the mad rush of the literate and semi-literate for engineering
college admissions like moths racing towards a lamp.
a) ADBC
b) CABD
c) BADC
d) DBCA
20. A. His family had mortgaged their meagre possessions to pay a tout for a job in the Gulf.
B. His small dream of being a pravasi ended, he hanged himself.
C. A while ago during my mothers routine call from Kerala, she told me about the suicide of a
young man in my hometown.
D. The tout decamped with the money, leaving the family destitute.
a) CABD
b) CADB
c) CBDA
d) CBAD
21. A. far from this being the case, the unstable course of Nepalese politics actually reinforces
the argument for more and better democracy.
B. Left to them, the Himalayan Kingdom would be precisely that a kingdom undeserving of
representative politics.
C. But for the peoples democratic strivings, the monarchy would not be facing the crisis that it is
now confronted with.
D. Every turn of the political wheel in Nepal is seized upon by the Cassandra to declare the end of
democracy.
a) BCAD
b) CDAB
c) DBAC
d) ABDC
22. A. In winter the snowfall is so heavy that all the houses in the villages get buried under the
snow.
B. Niti is the last village on the Indian side of the border with China.
C. Niti is a village situated at a height of 3000 meters above sea level, in Uttaranchal
D. At the first hint of winter, Nitis villagers make an exodus to Bhimtala, a village at a lower
altitude and return only in summer.
a) BADC
b) BCDA
c) DBCA
d) CADB
23. A. Thats the problem of potential defaults by State Governments.
B. Many of these bodies, in turn, are in a perilous financial condition.
C. Most of the states are in a deep financial mess, but that hasnt stopped them from cheerfully
extending guarantees, entitlements and special purpose vehicles.
D. While financial institutions are finally moving, to considerable popular acclaim, to crack down
on bank defaults by private borrowers, an equally serious problem is being largely ignored.
a) DABC
b) DCAB
c) DCBA
d) DACB
24. A. He pointed out that the family and the village satisfy our primary needs of food, warmth,
marriage and child rearing.
B. Without a society around us, we are not real people, he claimed.
C. The undesirability of cultivating extremes is also expressed in Aristotles view of society.
D. he says that man is by nature a political animal.
a) CABD
b) CDBA
c) CBAD
d )CADB

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25. A. Happiness is a moot, concept, but there is no doubt that seeing and experiencing nature is
good for us.
B. Summer is the ideal season for this.
C. better still, doing something different like trekking in the wild and coursing past glaciers
triggers changes in our mental state that can be positive ly beneficial in day- to day life.
D. Life today is veering round to the dictum, work hard and play hard.
a) CDAB
b) ABCD
c) DCAB
d) DACB
26. A. Ageing is a fact of life, which does not take place all of a sudden.
B. Though elders are prone to all types of disorders, it is possible to take remedial measures
which would enable one to lead a happy and contended life.
C. Anyone who lives reasonably long must definitely undergo the process of ageing.
D. It is fixed and definite for all individuals in the normal course of a life- time and death is the
end result of the old age.
a) BCDA
b) CDAB
c) ADCB
d)DACB
27.

A. Designers have entered the fray to give the pens different shapes and colours.

B. Today pens of a good-brand are available from a mere hundred rupees at the entry level to
exquisite ones costing he earth.
C. However new technologies, new innovations and economies of scale have threatened the
survival of the fountain pen.
D. The use of platinum, titanium and other costly metals or coating increases the prices manifold.
a) BDAC
b) ADCB
c) DBCA
d) CDAB
28. A. Several crashes have taken place in recent years and pilots have lost their lives.
B. Faulty second-hand spares bought cheap by the Indian Air Force from dubious sources could
be one of the reasons for the MiG21fighter aircraft crashing.
C. The MiG21, bought form Russia, is an ageing aircraft.
D. The Indian Air Force, however, has said that the crashes are the result of bird-hits and errors
made by pilots.
E. Questions about the quality of MiG21 spares have been raised by the Russians in the past.
a)DCBEA
b) CABED
c) ABCED
d) CBADE
29. A. One is that individuals and communities have surrendered almost completely to the state.
B. instead exploitation of rains and ground water through dams and tube wells has become the
key source of water.
C. Over the last one hundred years or so the country has seen three paradigm shifts in water
management.
D. The second is that the simple technology of using rain-water has declined.
a) BDCA
b) CADB
c) ACDB
d) CBAD
30. A. It has become an instrument of revenge.
B. The reason there is terrorism is not because there are unresolved root causes but because
terrorist has become an instrument of war by other means.
C. What some countries and groups are unable to obtain through peaceful and democratic means
is sought to be grabbed through the systematic and deliberate use of terror as an instrument of
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policy and through the use of subversion and violence of armed, trained and indoctrinated
irregulars.
D. the changing character of terrorism in the modern world needs to be properly understood.
a) BACD
b) CABD
c) ACDB
d) DBAC
31. A. The emphasis is on food mechanics but not on genetic alternations of foods.
B. Consumers will soon be able to buy functional foods tailored to their genetic trait that will help
them reduce or prevent the risk of developing a wide range of disease.
C. It is about gaining better insight into the effects of nutrition through the application of genetics.
D. Nutrigenomics is not at all about genetically modified foods.
a) BCAD
b) DCAB
c) ADBC
d) BADC
32. A. Advertising agency commissions have hit rock bottom.
B. Advertisings lowest common denominator just got lower.
C. Anything above this could come up for negotiation very soon.
D. Advertising agencies grin and bear the cut.
E. Yes, five percent commission is par for the course and seven is considered good.
F. A far cry from the 15%, some clients are paying their agencies commissions as low as 2%.
a) BAFECD
b) EDFABC
c) CABDEF
d) BADCFE
33. A. We have a hoary tradition of venerating trees, plants and vegetation.
B. Whether it is a tulsi plant in a courtyard or the worship of Vat Vriksha or the planting of a
peepal tree before ones home-they are all part of the fabric of our life.
C. The hymns of the Vedas extol the great power and life-giving attributes of nature.
D. Concern for the environment may appear a new concept, but we in India have been
worshipping nature since time immemorial.
a) ABCD
b) DCBA
c) CABD
d) BDCA
34. A. The way something is said can cause more harm than the expected correct behaviour.
B. Criticisms come out very quickly and easily, with no effort whatsoever, unlike a complement.
C. The purpose of criticism is to improve matters and not choice it.
D. Delivering a criticism requires tact and diplomacy.
a) BADC
b) DBAC
c) CBDA
d) ADBC
35. A. The reasons are many.
B. The average rate per agent per hour for generic inbound voice calls usually ranges between $12
to $15.
C. Billing rates are said to be highly negotiable.
D. Market observers say several call centres are facing heat on the price front and their billing
rates are seeing a gradual erosion.
E. The price war for most BPO outfits offering commodity services is well underway.
F. On the other hand, established companies command a higher rate of $25 per agent per hour.
a) BCDEFA
b) FACDEB
c) EDACBF
d) EDFACB

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36. A. If our work and home lives are reasonably stable and predictable, our ability to cope is
greater.
B. This applies even when we perceive the changes as being positive.
C. One of the greatest reasons for stress in modern life is change.
D. But when we are faced with change, we have to manage a situation where we feel less in
control.
a) BADC
b) CADB
c) CDBA
d) ACBD
37. A. When Gandhi left the ashram on his famous salt march he declared that he would never
return to this ashram his home until India was free from British rule.
B. The ashram was founded in 1918 when Gandhi came back from South Africa, and it was from
this ashram that the long struggle of Indias independence began.
C. However, many of his friends and colleagues continued to live there and still engage in
handicrafts, gardening, education and particularly, the spinning and weaving of handmade cloth.
D. Mahatma Gandhis ashram on the bank of the sabarmati river is visited by large number of
people every day.
a) ADBC
b) ACBD
c) DBAC
d) DABC
38. A. Electricity is a subject enumerated in the Concurrent list, meaning that the Federal and
State legislatures in three different lists.
B. The Constitution of India has demarcated the legislative competence
C. However a State law cannot override, or be inconsistent with a Federal law and in case of
consistency, the Federal law will override the State law.
D. The Union list contains matters within the exclusive domain of the Federal legislature, the
State list contains matters within the exclusive domain of the State legislature, and the Concurrent
list contains subjects on which both the Federal and the State legislatures are competent to enact
laws.
a) ACBD
b) BDAC
C) DABC
d) BCDA
39. A. Guruji had been undergoing a terrific strain for over five decades in devoting his body,
mind, heart and soul to the causes of service to humanity and the spread of spiritual
enlightenment.
B. The excessive strain of the long tour abroad came as a severe blow to his health, but he still
refused to rest, continuing his studies, talks and writings, with unabated vigour and enthusiasm.
C. This had already undermined his health but he was never to reserve any time or attention to his
own wellbeing.
D. In fact it required great vigilance to prevent him from giving advice and blessings to his
devotees and disciples even when he could hardly speak on account of the strain.
a) ABCD
b) BADC
c) BDAC
d) ACBD
40. A. Our symbol and instrument for freedom was a craft technology-the charka.
B. Indias independence movement did not have a gun as its instrument or symbol.
C. The crisis of unemployment and fall in incomes faced by the Indian weavers today was also a
crisis generated a century and a half ago by the mechanization of textile industry in Britain itself.
D. The policies to promote hand spinning and hand weaving of cloth and boycotting mill made
cloth were at the heart of our struggle for freedom.
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a) ACBD

b) BADC

c) CBDA

d) DACB

41. A. It is one of the few countries to have a major portion of global biodiversity concentrated
within its national boundaries, and protecting its rain forests had become a cause celebrate of
conservationists.
B. It is one of the worlds most pristine and untouched wilderness.
C. Bolivia has access to the most important ecological regions Tropical South America.
D. The Noel Kempff Mercado National park in southern Bolivia is a case in point.
a) DABC
b) ACDB
c) DBCA
d) CADB
42. A. Employment was viewed as a secondary life role as far as women were concerned.
B. Many were highly qualified and comfortable fitted into executive, administrative and
managerial occupations.
C. Till a couple of decades ago most women did not except their careers to play a significant role
in their lives.
D. But from the eighties onwards an increasing number of women began exploring the possibility
of combining family and career roles.
a) ADCB
b) CDAB
c) DCAB
d) CADB
43. A. I was trying to figure out what kind of sand witch Bronko Nagurski would like.
B. He retired when I was little but if he came back and I could get someone to take me to a game,
I could see him play and may be if whoever took me also knew him. I could meet him after and
may be if he was hungry, I might let him have a sand witch I might have brought with me.
C. I was thinking about Bronko Nagurski.
D. Hes a great football player, and the paper said he might come back and play for the Bears
again.
a) CDBA
b) ADBC
c) CADB
d) ADCB
44. A. Deprived of livelihood and income, they face penury, and as families split up and spread
out, their community bonds crumble.
B. Oddly, all this happens in the name of development, and the victims are described as
beneficiaries.
C. Cut off from their most vital resources, those uprooted are then robbed of their history,
traditions, and culture.
D. Imagine the entire population of the continent of Australia turned out of their homes-eighteen
million people losing their lands, evicted from their houses.
a) DACB
b) DBAC
c) ACDB
d) ABDC
45. A. However in India, the government restricts itself to advice on epidemics, infectious
diseases, mother and child health, family planning etc.
B. Patients, rightly or wrongly, think health advice from corporate entities is self-serving.
C. Ideally, the government should be a source of comprehensive public health information.
D. As a result, they may sometimes refuse sound advice simply because they distrust the source of
the information.
a) CBDA
b) CABD
c) BDCA
d) BACD

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46. A. It is the pivot around which the nation-state functions, its raison detre.
B. Unfortunately, the Indian nation state being or late starter we started recording our history very
late, long after others had made their own records and jugdements.
C. It is only with the growth of the nation-state that history was recorded and studied as a
motivating factor, one that would rally people to the cause of nation making and preserving.
D. Ancient societies did not bother about history, as they were more interested in preserving and
developing their cultures.
a) BCAD
b) DCAB
c) CDBA
d) ABDC.
47. A. And I lay there, eyes kind of closed, my body slowly beginning the long flow back of
strength.
B. Even when I was able to read myself, this book remained his.
C. it took, as I said, probably a month, and in that time he read The Princess Bride twice to me.
D. Every night my father read to me, chapter by chapter, always fighting to sound the words
properly, to nail down the sense.
a) CDAB
b) DACB
c) ABCD
d) ACBD
48. A. As such the statue of Apollo which stood astride the entrance of the Agean port of
Rhodes, fell neatly into the definition.
B. In ancient times any statue which was larger than life size was called a colossus.
C. That statue was said to have been 71 cubic high or just under 107 feet.
D. It was a colossus.
a) ABCD
b) CBAD
c) BCDA
d) BADC
49. A. As clinching proof we have Kim II-sung, of North Korea, a man who thought so highly
of himself that he wanted to literally splatter his entire nation with his statues, some of them
rivaling the original colossus.
B. He, too has ordered a statue of himself which is to be even more gigantic than any in North
Korea.
C. If gigantism in statue of himself was shunned by their makers, it was hijacked by the tyrant
dictators of our times.
D. And finally, the current inheritor of Kims mantle, Saddam Hussein.
a) DBAC
b) DABC
c) CDBA
d) CADB
50. A. Tired teenagers can be as cranky as tired two-year-olds, and even less fun to deal with.
B. Many people around the world, line in a state of chronic sleep deficit that can affect mood,
behaviour, school work and reaction time.
C. Lack of sleep may take its toll physically as well.
D. More seriously, sleep deprivation can bring on feelings of stress, anger and sadness.
a) ABCD
b) CBAD
c) DBAC
d) BADC
51. A. That is why, Poincare explained, meteorologists have such limited success in predicting
the weathers.
B. Unable to observe such tiny differences, we assume that the outcomes they produce are
random, unpredictable.
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C. A cone perfectly balanced on its apex will topple over if there is the least defect in symmetry,
and even if there is no defect, the cone will topple in response to a very slight tremor, a breath of
air.
D. Poincare points out that some events that appear to be fortuitous are not, instead, their causes
stem from minute disturbances.
a) ACDB
b) BDAC
c) DCBA
d) CDAB
52. A. When I was a child I used secretly, night after night, to pray to the internal Gods to carry
her off.
B. For it was clear that it had long been only the fear of his mother that had kept Tiberius within
bounds.
C. And now I would have offered the richest sacrifices I could find- unblemished white bulls and
desert antelopes, and ibises, and flamingoes by the dozen- to have had her back again.
D. I could never have thought it possible that I would miss Livia when she died.
a) DACB
b) DCAB
c) DBAC
d) DCBA
53. A. A few years or decades ago children grew up in a natural environment devoid of stress
and strain.
B. With working couples on the increase efforts are made to spend extra quality time with their
children.
C. Parents went about their times and their childrens in a normal fashion.
D. With the rise in the number of nuclear families as well as academic pressure on children, too
many materialistic lives and too little time for inculcating values, brining up children is not what
is used to be.
a) ACDB
b) BADC
c) DCBA
d) CADB
54. A. They revolutionized the life of man and the wheel led him to create pottery the first
functional and artistic craft of man.
B. His discovery of fire and wheel basically scientific, had an enormous impact on the arts as
well.
C. Over a period of time his sense of creation and appreciation of nature grow and there by grew
the outs and sciences.
D. Man made himself through discovery and creation-creation of art from objects of beauty and
so on seeking inspiration from nature.
a) DCBA
b) ACDB
c) BADC
d) CBAD
55. A.One of the earliest references on this flower is in the Rig Veda where the birth of Agni,
the fire god is described.
B. Flowers offered to gods are supposed to gladden the heart, and are called sumanasas by the
Vedas, but the flower to command highest religious significance is the sacred lotus.
C. In particular, Lakhmi the goddess of wealth is shown to be sitting in it.
D. According to the scriptures, it is the seat of gods and goddesses.
a) ACDB
b) BDCA
c) DBAC
d) CDAB
56. A. In medieval times, knights performed great deeds for their ladies; now, men were given a
chance to show their skill at words.
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B. The desire to converse is not enough to keep a conversation alive.

C. Husbands did not object because this was supposed to be a platonic relationship, with the
admirer required to play a comedy of enslavement, of being devoted to a women whom he could
not possess, and indeed, he attended her almost like a servant.
D. Eighteenth century, for example, developed the art of whispering, in which a woman granted a
man, not her husband, the privilege of talking to her alone.
a) BDCA
b) ABDC
c) BADC
d) ACDB
57.

A. The Vikings were the terrorists whom Europe feared the most between the
eighth and the twelfth centuries.
B. They set out on these voyages of dangerous adventure because they felt an
even more unbearable fear than did their neighbours who staved behind.
C. For they were tortured by the thought that their name and reputation might vanish into
nothingness.
D. They managed to brave the seas to pillage, ransom, and create havoc from Constantinople to
Lisbon and Dublin, even thought they carried inside them all the usual fears of poor peasants, as
well as the loneliness of Scandinavias long nights.
a) CDAB

b) CBAD

c) DABC

d) ADBC

58. A. All of a sudder, an enormous lotus sprung up to support him symbolic of the fact that
though as a human being, Bodhisatwa belongs to this world, he is above it and remains undefiled?
B. Undaunted by this, Bodhisatwa walked right into the pit.
C. Mara had even created a pit of red hot embers in front of Bodhisatwa.
D. In a Jataka tale, Bodhisatwa was being harassed by Mara, the satan in Buddhist mythology.
a) DBCA
b) CDBA
c) DCBA
d) DABC
59. A. A group of German archaeologists discovered the ruins of the stadium of Olympia, in
1876.
B. They were held in honour of Zeus, chief of the gods.
C. This discovery gave Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Frenchman, the idea of organizing a modern
Olympics.
D. The ancient Olympic games were held in Olympia, Greece, every four years from 776 BC to
AD 393.
a) DBAC
b) ABCD
c) ACBD
d) DACB
60. A. In this frame work the World Tourism organization and the United Nations Environment
Programme organized a pioneering forum earlier this year that was conducted solely online.
B. Over the past two decades, ecotomism activities have expanded rapidly and further growth is
expected in the future.
C. Recognising its global importance, the United Nations designated the year 2002 as the
International year of Ecotimism, and its Commission on sustainable development requested
international agencies, governments and the private sector to undertake supportive activities.
D. The prime objective was to provide easy access for a wide range of stakeholders involved in
ecotomism to exchange experiences and voice comments.
a) BCAD
b) CDAB
c) DCBA
d) ABCD
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61. A. He began his revolution in 1897 with an investigation of dreams.

B. Encouraging them to articulate dream related thoughts and memories as well he found that
most associations revealed something the dream itself did not close.
C. Freud did indeed, trouble the sleep of the world by challenging and then by overturning long
cherished beliefs about human behaviour.
D. He has noticed hat during free association his patients often talked of their dreams.
E. He then outlined two levels of meaning in dreams.
a) DACEB
b) CADBE
c) CDABE
d) ECDAB
62. A. In Act 1 two grizzled tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, are passing time on a country road
by a scraggy tree.
B. Waiting for Godot tells no story in the traditional sense.
C. They discuss a wide variety of topics including the state of Estragons feet (bad) and his
memory (worse) in order to make the time go faster.
D. They also talk with two passers by, a rich man named Pozzo and his slave Lucky.
E. They are waiting for Godot, with whom they have an appointment.
a) BAECD
b) ACDEB
c) BDCEA
d) BACDE
63. A. Researches at Boston University conducted a personality exam for more then 700 men
and concluded that men were likely to suffer heart attacks more as a result of their personality
rather than high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, over-weight and smoking.
B. These studies however state that the results do not hold good for heart diseases in women and
younger men.
C. Men, especially older ones who were more hostile are at the greatest risk to developing
coronary heart disease.
D. A personality test may do a better job than standard examinations in predicting a mans heart
disease risk according to researchers who have studied a close link between hostility and heart
symptoms.
a) DACB
b) ABDC
c) BACD
d) CDAB
64. A. The best way to stop someone snoring is to change his position in bed.
B. It is caused by vibration of the soft, mobile back part of the palate, the roof of the mouth, and
the arch which sweeps down from this behind the tonsils.
C. Although snoring is more likely to occur if the sufferer is sleeping on his back, this is not
always the case.
D. The sound of a snore (upto 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill
(70-90 decibels).
E. In most cases, the nose is partly blocked; so sufferers tend to breadthe through their mouth.
a) ACDBE
b) ACBDE
c) DBECA
d) CABDE

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