Good To Great Academy

1-DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTION BY SELECTING THE
CORRECT RESPONSE. ONLY ONE RESPONSE IS CORRECT.

1-E–mailing has become one of the most popular means of communication. Every year almost 4 – 5
trillion e–mails are sent globally from almost 600 million electronic mail boxes. The stats have shot
up since 1995. A survey shows almost six fold increase in e–mailing between employers and
employees during this period. And since e-mailing is a form of formal text messaging, it has not
interfered much with informal face to face communication. It is highly beneficial in organized
communication. Most of the working people prefer e–mail and face to face communication over
telephone conversation or written memos. Candidates can e–mail their resumes, contact on internet
and give interviews through video conferencing. Even business tycoons prefer transferring their
business reports through e–mail.

Question 1 of 15-What main point is the author trying to make?

1. Direct communication has fallen to a great extent due to e-mail and fax.

2. E-mail and faxes are better options where time needs to be saved.

3. E–mail has trounced all other means of direct and indirect communication of information.

4. E–mailing has revolutionized the messaging by its reach and breadth of application.

2-DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTION BY SELECTING THE
CORRECT RESPONSE. ONLY ONE RESPONSE IS CORRECT.

2-Carbon dioxide constitutes only a small part of the atmosphere. But it has an important function
in maintaining the balance between radiation from the sun entering the atmosphere and radiation
leaving the Earth. Some of the radiation is absorbed by the Earth and some is radiated back into the
atmosphere. Since carbon dioxide in the atmosphere prevents some of the radiation from leaving
the atmosphere, the heat remains in the atmosphere. Yet, if the proportion of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere is increased as a result of air pollution, the temperature of the atmosphere may rise
with catastrophic consequences.

Question 2 of 15-Which of the following most accurately summarizes the opinion of the author in
the text?

1. Air pollution may upset the balance of nature through excessive levels of carbon dioxide.

2. Carbon dioxide helps prevent the temperature of the Earth from rising or falling.

3. Climatic changes brought about by air pollution are likely to be serious.

4. Increase in levels of carbon dioxide in atmosphere causes air pollution.

3-Wheat is one of most primitive types of food in the world. Its discovery contributed to the
development of Homo-sapiens from hunters to farmers. Civilization arose where soil was fertile and
wheat could be produced. The Stone Age farmers in the Middle East 9000 years ago were perhaps
the first to cultivate cereal grams, such as wheat and barley. They also developed bread wheat from
a cross of wild wheat and grasses. Studies on Neolithic women in Syria highlight damage to their
toes, knees and vertebrate as they had to spend long hours kneeling before saddle shaped stones to
crush grains. The finding that grain could be grounded to make a powder called a meal must
havebeen fantastic because raw wheat is distasteful. This powder called meal was used to make
porridge or gruel until baking was discovered. The baked flour was more enjoyable and tasty. Sieve
or baskets were made using horse hair or papyrus to separate the ground meal into coarse bran
particles and white flour. Later ancient Romans crushed the grain and sifted the flour through linen,
twice. This was an expensive procedure that only the aristocracy could afford. The white flour
obtained was called “pollen” meaning a fine powder. The Romans were the pioneers in the birth of
the milling industry using animals or slaves to drive the wheels to grind wheat. It was only in the
11th century that water and wind mills appeared to grind the wheat

Question 3 of 15-Directions: Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the correct
responses. More than one response is correct.

Which of the following statements is/are not true in accordance with the information given in the
above passage?

1. Extracting fine pollen from raw wheat used to be an expensive process.

2. Discovery of wheat helped primitive societies to lead a nomadic life.

3. Crushing wheat with the help of saddle shaped stones used to be a difficult task for ancient
women.

4. In ancient Rome milling was always done with the help of slaves.

5. Baked wheat flour is tastier than porridge.

4Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of
cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he
had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery
that the firebrand from which the torch may well have developed, could be used for illumination
was probably incidental purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps, too probably developed by accident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp
while watching a twig of fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to
do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made
of hollowed stones or sea-shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

QUESTION 4 OF 15DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTION BY SELECTING ALL
THE CORRECT RESPONSES. MORE THAN ONE RESPONSE IS CORRECT.

Which of the following statements about learning English can be supported from the text?

1. Lighting his surroundings was a major concern for the primitive man.

2. Primitive man used to soften his food by heating it.

3. Torch was discovered more by accident than by design.

4. Preserving fire was not a major concern for the primitive man.

5. Some of the primitive lamp designs survived for long through the ages.
QUESTION 5 OF 15 -DIRECTIONS: THE TEXT BOXES IN THE LEFT PANEL HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A
RANDOM ORDER. RESTORE THE ORIGINAL ORDER BY DRAGGING THE TEXT BOXES FROM THE LEFT
PANEL TO THE RIGHT PANEL.

1. You have to let people think and act outside their corporate “boxes”. You have to create an
atmosphere of innovation.

2. Innovation is about doing what delights the customer, not just satisfying the customer.

3. But you can’t invent revolutionary products in a conservative environment.

4. It’s giving the customer something they didn’t expect. They can’t ask for it because they can’t
know what it is before it is created

5. Once it has been invented, customers can’t imagine ever having lived without it.

QUESTION 6 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: THE TEXT BOXES IN THE LEFT PANEL HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A
RANDOM ORDER. RESTORE THE ORIGINAL ORDER BY DRAGGING THE TEXT BOXES FROM THE LEFT
PANEL TO THE RIGHT PANEL.

1. As manufacturing continues to shrink in an economy, overall growth will increasingly depend on

boosting productivity in services.

2. Policy should therefore focus on removing obstacles (such as trade barriers and regulation), to
such productivity growth, and creating a labour market in which workers can move freely from
factory employment to services.

3. Protection and subsidies push just the wrong way.

4. But those who would tackle this by subsidies or trade barriers are missing the point.

5. De-industrialisation causes problems in economies unable to absorb the workers released by

manufacturing.

QUESTION 7 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: IN THE TEXT BELOW, SOME WORDS ARE MISSING. DRAG WORDS
FROM THE BOX BELOW TO THE APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE TEXT. TO UNDO AN ANSWER CHOICE,
DRAG THE WORD BACK TO THE BOX BELOW THE TEXT.

If people are at their most BLANK 1 to learning in youth, and in later years draw upon their
attainments, it is BLANK 2that the young are given every BLANK 3to learn. It is extremely important
that a broad–based training is given to young people so that through vertical transfer they may find
it easier to BLANK 4a variety of skills when they are older.

triumph, virtue, advent, precocious, interpersonal, satanic, adverse

8 Directions: In the text below, some words are missing. Drag words from the box below to the
appropriate place in the text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the
text.

The BLANK 1of computer and internet technology has simplified our lives, but the benefits ushered
in by the technology revolution have also had anBLANK 2affect on the core of our BLANK 3
relationships. Mere communication is no longer by face-to-face contact, but rather by electronic
email, by personal internet message boards, and by personal electronic assistants.

job, essential, learn, productive, receptive, futile, opportunity, train

QUESTION 9 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: IN THE TEXT BELOW, SOME WORDS ARE MISSING. DRAG WORDS
FROM THE BOX BELOW TO THE APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE TEXT. TO UNDO AN ANSWER CHOICE,
DRAG THE WORD BACK TO THE BOX BELOW THE TEXT.

General purpose technologies reshape the nature of production and service activities BLANK 1. They
open up new BLANK 2and BLANK 3reorganization of production. They share characteristics like
BLANK 4 and applicability across a range of uses and potential for use in a variety of products and
processes. They alter the skill mix in the economy by biasing it towards higher-skilled people.

Opportunities, obstruct , necessitate ,irreversibly ,disfigurement ,factories ,elaboration

,straightaway

QUESTION 10 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: IN THE TEXT BELOW, SOME WORDS ARE MISSING. DRAG WORDS
FROM THE BOX BELOW TO THE APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE TEXT. TO UNDO AN ANSWER CHOICE,
DRAG THE WORD BACK TO THE BOX BELOW THE TEXT.

In the 18th century postal system was BLANK 1; the coffee houses provided a place for BLANK
2news and information. Information was gathered from these coffee houses on the major BLANK
3of the day, victories or defeats in battles or other political upheavals. Sales, auctions, deals,
appointments, transfers, were made on the coffee tables by the BLANK 4of London.

Listening, communicating, private, elite, occasions, events, festivals, unorganised, worst

QUESTION 11 OF 15DIRECTIONS: BELOW IS A TEXT WITH BLANKS. CLICK ON EACH BLANK; A LIST
OF CHOICES WILL APPEAR. SELECT THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER CHOICE FOR EACH BLANK.

Darwin’s theory of “natural selection” captured the attention of philosophers and scientists all over
the world. He concluded that women stopped BLANK 1earlier than men and so were less developed
mentally and less suited for education. He said “woman has a head almost too small for intellect, but
just big enough for love”. But after the Great War, the theory of Darwinism was rejected and women
in America were BLANK 2many social and political rights. A large number of women started working
in the offices and factories throwing off the shackles of Victorian conventions. Many women’s Rights
Movements started, the famous National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth
Candy Stanton argued that marriage was set up to BLANK 3men and to disempower women. Many
social feminists inspired women to get the right to vote; the radical feminists contended that social
environment and not biology determined roles of men and women in society. In 1919, the American
Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment and all the states approved it in 1920. After a long
struggle, American women finally won the right to vote. Thus, the image of flapper, an ideal of
youth, beauty and freedom of action for women became popular. From Seattle to Portland, Los
Angles to Kirkland, the economy quickened and new (BLANK 4for women to work in factories and
offices opened.

1-evolving , enlarging ,obtaining ,halting

2-disputed,agreed,conceded, refused

3 –annoy, offend,disturb, gratify

4-schemes,machines,opportunities,place
QUESTION 12 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: BELOW IS A TEXT WITH BLANKS. CLICK ON EACH BLANK; A LIST
OF CHOICES WILL APPEAR. SELECT THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER CHOICE FOR EACH BLANK.

The first elevator designed for a passenger was built in 1743 for King Louis XV at his palace in France.
The one-person contraption went up only one floor, from the first to the second. Known as the
Flying Chair, it was on the outside of the building, and was entered by the king via his balcony. The
mechanism consisted of a carefully BLANK 1arrangement of weights and pulleys hanging inside a
chimney. Men stationed inside the chimney then raised or lowered the Flying Chair at the king's
command.

By 1850 steam and hydraulic elevators had been BLANK 2, but it was in 1852 that the landmark
event in elevator history occurred: the invention of the world's first safety elevator by Elisha Graves
Otis. The first passenger elevator was BLANK 3by Otis in New York in 1857. After Otis' death in 1861,
his sons, Charles and Norton, built on his heritage, creating Otis Brothers & Co. in 1867. By 1873 over
2,000 Otis elevators were in use in office buildings, hotels and department stores across America,
and five years later the first Otis hydraulic passenger elevator was installed. The Era of the
Skyscraper BLANK 4and in 1889 Otis revealed the first successful direct-connected geared electric
elevator machines.

In 1898 overseas business had added to the company's growth, and Otis Brothers merged with 14
other elevator entities to form the Otis Elevator Company. In 1903 Otis introduced the BLANK 5 that
would become the backbone of the elevator industry. The gearless traction electric elevator,
engineered and proven to outlast the building itself. This ushered in the age of high-rise structures,
ultimately including New York's Empire State Building, Chicago's John Hancock Centre, and Toronto's
CN Tower.

Otis is part of United Technologies Corporation, a Fortune 500 company and BLANK 6 leader in the
building systems and aerospace industries. With 1.7 million Otis elevators and 110,000 escalators in
operation, Otis touches the lives of people in more than 200 countries around the world

1.balanced,accorded,opposed,adjusted
2 announced,offered,activated,introduced
3 allotted,assigned,established,installed

4 resulted,followed,emulated,composed

5 sketch,diagram,draft,design

6 creation,universe,world,system

QUESTION 13 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: BELOW IS A TEXT WITH BLANKS. CLICK ON EACH BLANK; A LIST
OF CHOICES WILL APPEAR. SELECT THE APPROPRIATEANSWER CHOICE FOR EACH BLANK.

Few things symbolize Paris like the Eiffel Tower. It is found on postcards, paintings, books, tee-shirts.
Even BLANK 1 furnishings like lamps are fashioned into the recognizable shape. Of course, a trip to
Paris simply isn't complete without a trip to the Eiffel Tower.

It really isn't the most BLANK 2thing in Paris, though, despite its BLANK 3. There are many
attractions that are far older with a much richer history. There are more romantic (and less crowded)
spots. There are even better views of the city (climb the stairs at Notre Dame, go up the Tour
Montparnesse, or go to the top of the Arc de Triomphe).

You also do not physically have to visit the Eiffel Tower to BLANK 4it. Anywhere in central Paris is
almost sure to feature a view of the architectural wonder.

If you do go, you can climb to the second floor, or take an elevator to the top. You will have to
BLANK 5 in line for one of the two elevators, although trips are around 8 minutes apart between the
two. Avoid the masses by going early in the morning on weekdays.

Visit the first floor for displays on the tower's history, to send a post card right from the tower (there
is a postal branch there) or to dine at the Altitude 95 restaurant. On the second floor, visit the more
upscale Jules Verne restaurant. Both levels have souvenir shops and Internet kiosks.

At the top, get a view of the BLANK 6(and there are panoramic guides to tell you what you are
seeing). This is so high-up, though, it can be difficult to make things out.

1 -land,home,country,haven 2- chilling,touching,amazing,astonishing

3-fame,splendour,honour,rank 4- find,see,watch,stare

5- walk,run,stand,sit 6-city,region,market,area

QUESTION 14 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: BELOW IS A TEXT WITH BLANKS. CLICK ON EACH BLANK; A LIST
OF CHOICES WILL APPEAR. SELECT THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER CHOICE FOR EACH BLANK.
My conception of social life is modest, for it makes no demands on what we have, though it does
make some on what we are. Interest, wonder, sympathy, and love, the first two leading to the last
two, are the psychological prerequisites for social life; and the need for the first two must not be
BLANK 1. We cannot make the most even of our intimate social life unless we are able to make
strangers of our oldest friends everyday by discovering unknown areas in their personality, and
BLANK 2 them into new friends. In sum, social life is a function of vitality.

It is tragic, however, to observe that it is these very natural BLANK 3 of social life, which are drying
up among us. It is becoming more and more difficult to come across fellow feeling for human beings
as such in our society – and in all its strata. In the poor middle class I have hardly seen any social life
properly so-called. Not only has the grinding BLANK 4 of making a living killed all desire for it in
them, it has also generated a standing mood of peevish hostility to other human beings. Increasing
economic distress in recent years has infinitely worsened this state of affairs, and has also brought
sinister addition - class hatred. Indeed they feel most Blank 5 when they form a pack, and snarl or
howl at people who are better off than they.

1-understood ,underrated ,underscored ,undercut

2- translating , transcending, transiting ,transforming

3-springs, sources, souvenirs, spasms

4- roster ,rat-race ,routine ,revelation

5- sinister, social, severe, solicitin

QUESTION 15 OF 15-DIRECTIONS: BELOW IS A TEXT WITH BLANKS. CLICK ON EACH BLANK; A LIST
OF CHOICES WILL APPEAR. SELECT THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER CHOICE FOR EACH BLANK.

The British Renaissance was BLANK 1 by the growth of technology and religious upheaval. Protestant
Reformation was the main religious event. In 1476, William Caxton set up the first printing press in
Westminster which resulted into proliferation of journals and papers to BLANK 2to the educated
middle class of England. The growth of middle class was a great cultural feature. This led to a new
cultural set up and the writers were forced to cater to the tastes of the middle class people. The
proliferation of papers and magazines dealing with the BLANK 3 of morality and didacticism were
now in vogue as they were widely read, and with passage of time were BLANK 4 as middle class
literature. Sea explorations opened new vistas of knowledge. We find countless adventurous scenes
in the novels and dramas of the Renaissance. Lusts for wealth and knowledge were common themes
of Renaissance literature. People also became romantic and loved sensational tales

1 witnessed , marked ,linked ,chartered

2 meet, publish, provide, cater

3 chapters, emotions, themes ,culture

4- floated ,rated ,berated ,recognised