IBSAT 2027 Sample Paper

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. This paper contains 140 multiple-choice questions. All questions are compulsory.

2. Each question has four options — (A), (B), (C) and (D) — of which only one is correct.

3. Each correct answer carries 1 mark; there is no negative marking.

4. Total time allowed is 120 minutes. Manage your time across all sections.

5. Use of calculators, mobile phones or any electronic device is not permitted.

6. Attempt the paper first, then check your answers against the Answer Key at the end.

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Questions 140 Max Marks 140 Time 120 Min Marking +1 / 0

Attempt all questions. Choose the one correct option for each.

VERBAL ABILITY

1. 2.

In the given question, the first two words are related in a In the given question, each sentence is divided into three
particular manner. You have to choose a word from the parts (a), (b) and (c). Find out which part of the sentence
options so that a new pair of words is formed where the contains an error. If there is no error, mark your answer
relation is the same as that of the first pair of words. You as (d).
are required to consider the secondary meaning of
certain words while choosing an answer. (A)

Convict: Imprisonment :: Exile: (a) This is one of the reason

(A) (B)

Settlement (b) why the industry flourished in such rich countries

(B) (C)

Resentment (c) as Japan and Britain.

(C) (D)

Abandonment (d) No error

(D)

Banishment

3. 4.

In the given question, each sentence is divided into three In the given question, each word is followed by four
parts (a), (b), and (c). Find out which part of the sentence options. Choose the option which is the closest antonym
contains an error. If there is no error, mark your answer of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
as (d). mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
certain words.

EFFICACY
(A)
(A)
(a) When I went to Maniram's house
Virtue
(B)
(B)
(b) his mother told me that
Power
(C)
(C)
(c) he was gone out of the country.
Caliber
(D)
(D)
(d) No error
Enervation

5.

In the given question, a part of the given sentence has been underlined as this part may have an error. The first
option is the same as the underlined part in the given sentence. Choose this option if you think that the underlined
part has no error. Otherwise, choose the option that rectifies the error in the underlined part of the given sentence.

Although today it is cost-effective to make perfumes with synthetic ingredients, they used to make the classic
fragrances from flowers only and other natural essences.

(A)

they used to make the classic fragrances from flowers only

(B)

the classic fragrances used to be made from flowers

(C)

the classic fragrances used to be made by them only from flowers

(D)

the classic fragrances used to be made from flowers only

6. 7.

In the given question, the first two words are related in a Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given
particular manner. You have to choose a word from the phrase from the options under the question.
options so that a new pair of words is formed where the
To adjust to a situation or environment
relation is the same as that of the first pair of words. You
are required to consider the secondary meaning of
(A)
certain words while choosing an answer.
Adopt
Dog : Poodle:: Fashion house :

(B)
(A)
Influence
Simpsons

(C)
(B)
Adapt
Collie

(D)
(C)
Comply
Armani

(D)

Riga

8. 9.

In the given question choose the word which is the exact In the question, different parts of a sentence/passage
OPPOSITE of the given words. have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents
the best sequence to make the sentence/passage
ENORMOUS
coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.

P. 196 leprosy Endemic districts of
(A)

Q. National leprosy eradication Programme
Soft

R. our Country had greatly benefitted
(B)
S. As a result of the implementation of the
Average

(A)
(C)
QPSR
Tiny

(B)
(D)
QSRP
Weak

(C)

SRPQ

(D)

SQPR

10. 11.

In the given question, each word is followed by four In the given question, each sentence is divided into four
options. Choose the option which is the closest synonym parts (a), (b), (c) and (d). Find out which part of the
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in sentence contains an error. If there is no error, mark your
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of answer as (d).
certain words.
(A)
ASTUTE
(a) Included in
(A)
(B)
Asinine
(b) the parcel was a coat,
(B)
(C)
Ignorant
(c) a shirt, a tie and a toy for our son.
(C)
(D)
Naive
(d) No error
(D)

Shrewd

12. 13.

Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning In the given question, each word is followed by four
of the sentence as a whole: options. Choose the option which is the closest antonym
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
This partly, explains how the Iyer family has been able to
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
...... its lavish lifestyle in recent times, despite the fact
certain words.
that all its assets have been......
IMPERVIOUS
(A)
(A)
keep………..removed
Fortunate
(B)
(B)
give……… attached
Modest
(C)
(C)
Develop…….. Liquidated
Susceptible
(D)
(D)
keep up…….. destroyed
Obvious

14. 15.

In the given question, each word is followed by four Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of
options. Choose the option which is the closest synonym the given idiom/phrase.
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
A few days before his death, he made a clean breast of
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
everything.
certain words.

RENDEZVOUS (A)

Suffered
(A)

Avoidance (B)

Confessed
(B)

Yield (C)

Donated
(C)

Surrender (D)

Took off his shirt
(D)

Engagement

16.

In the given question, a part of the given sentence has been underlined as this part may have an error. The first
option is the same as the underlined part in the given sentence. Choose this option if you think that the underlined
part has no error. Otherwise, choose the option that rectifies the error in the underlined part of the given sentence.

We are enclosing a letter received from one of our shareholder complained about not receiving of the dividend.

(A)

One of our shareholders complained about not receiving of the dividend.

(B)

One of our shareholders having complaining of not receiving of the dividend.

(C)

One of our shareholders complaining about not receiving the dividend.

(D)

One of ours shareholders having complaint for not receiving the dividend.

17. 18.

In the given question, each word is followed by four Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of
options. Choose the option which is the closest antonym the given idiom/phrase.
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
Those who work by fits and starts seldom show good
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
results.
certain words.

AVANT-GARDE (A)

Rarely
(A)

Conservative (B)

Disinterestedly
(B)

Radical (C)

Regularly
(C)

Innovative (D)

Irregularly
(D)

Cordial

19. 20.

In the given question, the first two words are related in a In the question, different parts of a sentence/passage
particular manner. You have to choose a word from the have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents
options so that a new pair of words is formed where the the best sequence to make the sentence/passage
relation is the same as that of the first pair of words. You coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.
are required to consider the secondary meaning of
P. the masses particularly Harijans, students
certain words while choosing an answer.
Q. small and marginal farmers and urban middle class
Goods : Warehouse:: Films:
R. agricultural and industrial workers
(A)
S. there is a revival of confidence among
Studio

(A)
(B)
SRQP
Garage

(B)
(C)
PQRS
Dockyard

(C)
(D)
SPQR
Archives

(D)

SPRQ

21. 22.

Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning In the given question, each word is followed by four
of the sentence as a whole: options. Choose the option which is the closest synonym
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
If you …………… goods into the country, they may be ......
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
by the customs authority.
certain words.

(A) CALUMNIATE

get …………punished
(A)

(B) Accuse

send………….fined
(B)

(C) Compliment

transport ……………jailed
(C)

(D) Denounce

smuggle ………….confiscated
(D)

Flatter

23. 24.

Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of
the given idiom/phrase. the given idiom/phrase.

Why should you always be the one to cast the first stone? Because of his misbehavior, he is bound to face the
music.
(A)
(A)
to be deeply involved
be imprisoned
(B)
(B)
to praise first of all
Get reprimanded
(C)
(C)
to be the first to find fault
Feel sorry
(D)
(D)
to start a fight
Listen to the music

25. 26.

In the given question, each sentence is divided into four In the given question, each word is followed by four
parts (a), (b), (c) and (d). Find out which part of the options. Choose the option which is the closest synonym
sentence contains an error. If there is no error, mark your of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
answer as (d). mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
certain words.

BALEFUL
(A)
(A)
(a) This letter along with
Noxious
(B)
(B)
(b) these invoices and the statements
Illicit
(C)
(C)
(c) of monthly sales are to be typed today.
Open
(D)
(D)
(d) No error
Ambivalent

27. 28.

Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given
of the sentence as a whole: phrase from the options under the question.

In the decade after the revolution, the new government Wistfully sentimental
seemed to ______ and was never quite ______; this period
ultimately led to a second revolution in which the current (A)

ruling party took power.
Romantic

(A)
(B)

fortify ... faltering
Nostalgic

(B)
(C)

waver ... flimsy
Patriotic

(C)
(D)

coagulate ... tenable
Rustic

(D)

totter ... stable

29. 30.

In the given question, a part of the given sentence has In the given question choose the word which is the exact
been underlined as this part may have an error. The first OPPOSITE of the given words.
option is the same as the underlined part in the given
COMMISSIONED
sentence. Choose this option if you think that the
underlined part has no error. Otherwise, choose the
(A)
option that rectifies the error in the underlined part of
the given sentence. Started

Most departmental stores offer customers the option that (B)
you may exchange your purchases within ten days
Closed

(A)
(C)
That you may exchange your
Finished

(B)
(D)
To exchanging the
Terminated

(C)

Of exchanging your

(D)

Of exchanging their

31.

In the given question, the first two words are related in a
particular manner. You have to choose a word from the
options so that a new pair of words is formed where the
relation is the same as that of the first pair of words. You
are required to consider the secondary meaning of
certain words while choosing an answer.

Trousers :Belt :: Bridge:

(A)

Cables

(B)

Tracks

(C)

Poles

(D)

Girders

32.

In the given question, a part of the given sentence has been underlined as this part may have an error. The first
option is the same as the underlined part in the given sentence. Choose this option if you think that the underlined
part has no error. Otherwise, choose the option that rectifies the error in the underlined part of the given sentence.

Since the past twenty years, thousands of magnificent United States elms have been killed by infestations of the tiny
European bark beetle.

(A)

Since the past twenty years

(B)

Since twenty years have passed

(C)

During the past twenty years

(D)

Twenty years ago

33.

In the given question, the first two words are related in a
particular manner. You have to choose a word from the
options so that a new pair of words is formed where the
relation is the same as that of the first pair of words. You
are required to consider the secondary meaning of
certain words while choosing an answer.

Dictionary : Lexicographer :: Evolution :

(A)

Biologist

(B)

Paleontologist

(C)

Anthropologist

(D)

Historian

34.

In the given question, a part of the given sentence has been underlined as this part may have an error. The first
option is the same as the underlined part in the given sentence. Choose this option if you think that the underlined
part has no error. Otherwise, choose the option that rectifies the error in the underlined part of the given sentence.

Although the stock market seems to offer the possibility of great personal gain, you must understand that to invest in
stocks is accepting the risk of financial ruin as well.

(A)

is accepting the risk of financial ruin as well

(B)

is to accept the risk of financial ruin as well

(C)

is to accepting the risk as well as financial ruin

(D)

are accepting the risk of financial ruin as well

35. 36.

In the question, different parts of a sentence/passage Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning
have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents of the sentence as a whole:
the best sequence to make the sentence/passage
Fate smiles …………those who untiringly grapple with
coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.
stark ……………of life.
P. All this was made possible by the invention of the
heart-lung machine. (A)

Q. Now-a-days surgeons are able to stop a patient’s heart of ……….. problems

and carry out complicated operations.
(B)
R. If the heart stops we die in about five minutes.
over …….suggestions
S. The heart is the pump of life
(C)
(A)
on…….. realities
SPQR
(D)
(B)
for ……..difficulties
PRSQ

(C)

SRQP

(D)

RPSQ

37. 38.

In the question, different parts of a sentence/passage Fill in the blanks with the words that best fit the meaning
have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents of the sentence as a whole:
the best sequence to make the sentence/passage
The new education policy provides a useful ...... for the
coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.
planners to remove ……………..
P. Breakthroughs in communications technology,
(A)
Q. There has been a great change
Breakup…………..literacy
R. Throughout the entire communications industry

(B)
S. In the past, it has been observed that with each new
wave of Breakthrough……………..illiteracy

(A) (C)

PQRS break-in…………………unscholarliness

(B) (D)

SPQR breakaway……………incomprehension

(C)

RSQP

(D)

PSQR

39. 40.

In the given question choose the word which is the exact In the given question, each sentence is divided into four
OPPOSITE of the given words. parts (a), (b), (c) and (d). Find out which part of the
sentence contains an error. If there is no error, mark your
RELINQUISH
answer as (d).

(A)

Abdicate
(A)

(B) (a) If the streets would have been clearly marked

Renounce
(B)

(C) (b) it would not have taken us

Possess
(C)

(D) (c) so long to find his house

Deny
(D)

(d) No error

41. 42.

Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of In the given question, each word is followed by four
the given idiom/phrase. options. Choose the option which is the closest antonym
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
He was all at sea when he began his new job
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
certain words.
(A)

NASCENT
Happy

(A)
(B)

Fragrant
Sad

(B)
(C)

Withering
Puzzled

(C)
(D)

Pubescent
Triumphant

(D)

Detestable

43. 44.

Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given In the question, different parts of a sentence/passage
phrase from the options under the question. have been jumbled. Choose the option that represents
the best sequence to make the sentence/passage
To give ones consent
coherent and meaningful. Ignore punctuation marks.

(A) P. for many years, he had worked with great labour and

Deliver Q. Pygmalion was a sculptor who lived on the island of
Cyprus
(B)
R. at last he could use the chisel like a master and the
Accede
figures

(C) S. that he carved out of senseless blocks of marble and
wood were perfect and somewhocametolook at them
Surpass
were deceived

(D)
(A)
Consign
QSPR

(B)

QSRP

(C)

QPRS

(D)

QRPS

45. 46.

In the given question choose the word which is the exact Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given
OPPOSITE of the given words. phrase from the options under the question.

EXODUS A humorist who uses irony and sarcasm

(A) (A)

Influx Optimist

(B) (B)

Home-coming Philanthropist

(C) (C)

Return Satirist

(D) (D)

Restoration Cynic

47. 48.

In the given question choose the word which is the exact Choose a suitable one-word substitute for the given
OPPOSITE of the given words. phrase from the options under the question.

ARTIFICIAL Specialist in tumors and cancer

(A) (A)

Red Orthopedist

(B) (B)

Natural Orthodontist

(C) (C)

Truthful Obstetrician

(D) (D)

Solid Oncologist

49. 50.

In the given question, each word is followed by four In the given question, each word is followed by four
options. Choose the option which is the closest synonym options. Choose the option which is the closest antonym
of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in of the given words. While choosing your answer, keep in
mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of mind the finer distinctions in the meaning and usage of
certain words. certain words.

JANUS-FACED EQUIVOCATE

(A) (A)

Predictable Quibble

(B) (B)

Deceitful Eschew

(C) (C)

Forthright Confront

(D) (D)

Unipolar Shuffle

READING COMPREHENSION

51.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).

‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

What would be the best place for trapping the ice water on the moon?

(A)

Near the poles

(B)

In shaded areas

(C)

From any part of the moon

(D)

Bottom of craters at the poles

52.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and
northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it
begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.

The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves
through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and
passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84

million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.

Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the
frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on.
The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic
climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen
ground).

A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12
feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.

One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive
construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8
major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular
shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today,
despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous
terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is
operating.

Which of the following determined the percentage of the construction costs each member of the consortium would
pay?

(A)

Area of oil field land each company owned

(B)

Tenure of the ownership of the company on the oil fields

(C)

Number of employees worked for each company

(D)

Number of oil wells located on the company’s land

53.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African

nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

Which of the following pairs has synonymous words?

(A)

Inequality and Racism

(B)

Fervour and Independence

(C)

Gesture and Acknowledgment

(D)

Foundation and Bedrock

54.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are

usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

It is evident that the institutions mentioned in the passage are devoid of

(A)

Minimum infrastructure

(B)

Safety arrangements

(C)

Love and affection

(D)

Community interaction

55.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

UNESCO made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador

(A)

As a recognition for his unwavering social commitment

(B)

In order to acknowledge his exemplary literary skills

(C)

For promoting African culture and human rights

(D)

To honor him for his patriotic fervor

56.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

Pick out the synonym of ‘hilarious’ as used in the passage.

(A)

Amusing

(B)

Deadly

(C)

Awful

(D)

Boisterous

57.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and
northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it
begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.

The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves
through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and
passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84
million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.

Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the
frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on.
The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic
climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen
ground).

A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12
feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.

One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive
construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8
major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular
shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today,
despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous
terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is
operating.

The passage primarily discusses the pipeline's

(A)

operating costs

(B)

employees

(C)

consumers

(D)

construction

58.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

In the phrase, ‘slew of instruments’, the word ‘slew’ means

(A)

A large number

(B)

The assembled parts

(C)

The automated components

(D)

A restricted number

59.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

Soyinka’s popular work, Opera Wonyosi, throws light on the

(A)

Rich traditions and ritual practices of Nigerian society

(B)

Evils and signs of decadence in Nigerian society

(C)

Varied and rich cultural past of Nigeria

(D)

Evils and structures of racism that existed in Nigeria

60.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are
usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

According to the passage, ‘special homes’ are statutorily run for

(A)

Orphans and children affected by natural disasters and riots

(B)

Children with incurable terminal ailments

(C)

Destitute children and children who are addicted to drugs

(D)

Juvenile delinquents

61.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

In which of the following books did Wole Soyinka recall the influences of his christian home?

(A)

Ake:The Years of Childhood

(B)

A Dance of the Forests

(C)

Opera Wonyosi

(D)

The Man Died

62.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and
northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it
begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.

The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves
through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and

passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84
million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.

Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the
frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on.
The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic
climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen
ground).

A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12
feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.

One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive
construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8
major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular
shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today,
despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous
terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is
operating.

How many companies shared the costs of constructing the pipeline?

(A)

3

(B)

4

(C)

8

(D)

12

63.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of

Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

Why is it necessary to extract water locally on the moon?

(A)

To carry on further research

(B)

It is highly expensive to carry a bottle of water to the moon

(C)

It would be greatly useful to humans if they want to set up bases on the moon

(D)

It will become easy for the astronauts to stay there for a longer time

64.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are

usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

It may be inferred from the passage that it is the right of every child to have a/an

(A)

Luxurious life

(B)

Special identity in the society

(C)

Individual status

(D)

Happy and free childhood

65.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

How is the moon referred to in the passage?

I. A gold mine

II. A celestial body

III. Earth’s natural satellite

IV. Earth’s nearest neighbor

(A)

(I) and (II) above

(B)

(II) and (III) above

(C)

(II) and (IV) above

(D)

(II), (III) and (IV) above

66.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far

below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

What is the belief about the existence of water on the moon?

(A)

It is brought by comets and meteorites

(B)

It is formed through chemical reaction

(C)

It is present in considerable quantities in shaded areas

(D)

All the above

67.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

The main objective of sending the LRO and the LCROSS to the moon is to

(A)

Find out if sunlight ever reaches some craters at the lunar poles

(B)

Carry on complete research about the moon

(C)

Establish bases on the celestial body

(D)

Search for deposits of water

68.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are
usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to

protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

Pick out the statement, which is true.

(A)

India accounts for the largest number of children engaged in work

(B)

The author feels that it is quite reasonable to keep the neglected children in jails to ensure their safety

(C)

Orphanages run by private charities do not enforce strict discipline on the inmates

(D)

A huge amount in the Indian budget is reserved for child protection

69.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and
northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it
begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.

The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves
through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and
passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84
million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.

Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the
frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on.
The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic
climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen
ground).

A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12
feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.

One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive
construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8
major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular
shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today,
despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous
terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is
operating.

In the third Para, The phrase "Resting on" is closest in meaning to

(A)

Consisting of

(B)

Supported by

(C)

Passing under

(D)

Protected with

70.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are
usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

What is the central theme of this passage?

(A)

It makes a comparative study about State-run homes and orphanages run by private organizations

(B)

It draws conclusions on a study based on ‘children’s jails’

(C)

It critically analyses the deplorable conditions in State-run homes

(D)

It focuses on the child, who is in need of State support

71.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

It can be inferred from the passage that the moon’s

(A)

Upper crust contains hydrogen

(B)

Daytime temperatures are very high

(C)

Soil can hardly hold water

(D)

Surface is covered with ice

72.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

Choose the statement that is true in the context of the passage

(A)

Sunlight never reaches the surface of the moon

(B)

Oxygen does not exist in any form on the moon

(C)

It is not yet proved whether the moon holds any water or not

(D)

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched in 1961

73.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, the United States has dispatched two unmanned lunar spacecraft to
earth’s natural satellite to pave the way for humans to return there. The search for deposits of water is high on the
agenda of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).
‘Discovering water on the moon would be like finding a gold mine,’ said U.S. space agency NASA in a recent press
document. It estimates that getting a bottle of water to the moon would run to about $50,000 at current launch costs.
Therefore, the ability to extract water locally would be immensely useful if humans want to establish bases on the
celestial body.

It is believed that water could have been brought to the moon by comets and meteorites that have crashed on its
surface over billions of years. Likewise, hydrogen ions streaming out from the sun might have combined with oxygen
from chemical compounds in the lunar soil and turned into water. The question is whether all this water has boiled off
in the face of the moon’s scorching daytime temperatures and its low gravitational hold.

In a paper published in 1961, three scientists at the California Institute of Technology, put forward the idea that water
‘may well be present in appreciable quantities in shaded areas in the form of ice’. The paper appeared in the Journal of
Geophysical Research around the same time President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S, to landing a man on the
moon. Some thirty years later, two U.S. space probes that went to the moon, Clementine and Lunar Prospector,
provided evidence that water might persist as patches of ice mixed with soil at the bottom of craters at the poles.
Sunlight never reaches the bottom of some craters at the lunar poles, which therefore remain at temperatures far
below the freezing point of water. So these would be ideal locations for trapping water ice on the moon. But the
evidence has been disputed and scientists continue to argue vigorously about whether or not earth’s nearest
neighbour holds any water.

The LRO and the LCROSS were launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The two spacecraft will undoubtedly throw a
great deal of new light on the issue. Once the spacecraft is commissioned, a slew of instruments on it will look for
signs of water ice and hydrogen in different ways.

The LCROSS and the spent upper stage of the Atlas rocket that launched the two spacecraft have swung past the
moon for the first time. NASA plans to send the empty upper stage, weighing over 2,000 kg, hurtling into a crater near
the lunar south pole at a speed of about 9,000 km per hour.

What is the apt title of the passage?

(A)

Weather Conditions on the Moon

(B)

Searching for Water on the Moon

(C)

Moon – A Gold Mine for Many

(D)

Mission LCROSS

74.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

Choose the statement that is true about Soyinka in the context of the passage.

(A)

He was kept in solitary confinement for more than a decade

(B)

He is the nominated member of UNESCO

(C)

He was expelled from his country for his rebellious nature

(D)

He has lived a purposeful life

75.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or

tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are
usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

It becomes an obligation for the State to take moral and legal responsibility in the case of children

(A)

Whose parents are seriously ill

(B)

Who are orphaned or abandoned

(C)

Whose parents are destitute and homeless

(D)

All the above

76.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below

18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are
usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions
similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

What have been the State authorities doing all these years?

(A)

They have been strictly supervising the State-run homes and similar charitable organizations which give shelter to homeless
children

(B)

They have been keeping huge numbers of neglected children in State-run homes and would suddenly send them out into the
society as soon as they become adults

(C)

They have been trying to bring reformation in the minds of children who display socially unacceptable behavior

(D)

They have been running schools with the prime motto of sending out young offenders as changed persons

77.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and
northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it
begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.

The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves
through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and
passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84
million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.

Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the
frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on.
The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic
climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen
ground).

A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12
feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.

One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive
construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8
major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular
shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today,
despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous
terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is
operating.

The author mentions all of the following as important in determining the pipeline's route EXCEPT the

(A)

climate

(B)

lay of the land itself

(C)

local vegetation

(D)

kind of soil and rock

78.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

There are millions of children in India, who cannot, for a variety of reasons, be protected by their parents and adult
family. The parents maybe dead, or alcoholic, or violent and abusive, or in jail, or lost, or have abandoned their child.
They may also be themselves destitute, homeless, gravely ill or disabled, and therefore unable to care for their
children without support. The child, who has no home or settled place or abode and any ostensible means of
subsistence maybe at risk in other ways as well: due to riots, natural disasters, war and militant conflict; disabilities
and incurable terminal ailments, with no one who can support or look after the child; when a child is grossly abused or
tortured; is inducted into drug abuse or trafficking; child marriage and child labor. In all such situations, it is the
State, which is both morally and legally responsible to protect, nurture and raise each child.

However, at present, the State in India invests miniscule resources in child protection. India today is a youthful nation:
19 percent of the children in the world live within its boundaries, and more than one-third of the population is below
18 years. Accounting for the largest number of children in work, and the second largest number of children affected by
HIV, India arguably has the highest number of children facing exploitation and neglect in the world. But the
investment on child protection was a shocking 0.034 per cent of the budget.

Traditionally, public authorities have tried to accomplish their duty of protecting children who are at risk mainly by
locking away large numbers of these children in State-run, closed institutions for many years until the child grows to
adulthood, and soon after the child comes of age by abruptly discharging the child without any further support into
the larger society. Private and religious charities also sometimes run orphanages for such children, but they are
usually run on similar custodial principles of raising the child in confined and overly disciplined environments. For
children who conflict with the law, there are statutory ‘special homes’ to which they are usually confined in conditions

similar to jails. For many years, these children also shared adult jails, and many illegally continue to do so.

It is both absurd and heartless for children to be locked up only because they have no one to protect them. It is
argued that this is done for the sake of the child: if the child was free in the community, the State would be unable to
protect the child from abuse, and therefore she is locked up for her own good. This is quite illogical. The State must
find ways to protect the child who is in need of care in ways that respect the child’s right to a happy and free
childhood, while at the same time ensuring her protection, and her rights to food, education, health care, recreation,
love and security.

Pick out the word which is a close synonym of ‘ostensible’ as used in the passage.

(A)

Apprehensive

(B)

Rigid

(C)

Contemptible

(D)

Apparent

79.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

What is the passage about?

(A)

It is a tribute on Wole Soyinka

(B)

It is a review of his literary works

(C)

It is his autobiography

(D)

It is about his life in prison

80.

Read the Passage and answer the following questions:

‘Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity’.

So said Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, in his book of prison notes titled, The Man Died. Soyinka has lived
a meaningful life. As a poet, dramatist, novelist, essayist and literary critic, his contribution to literature has been
immense. Soyinka is more than a writer. An outspoken social critic, political activist and tireless crusader against
tyranny, he is the conscience of Africa.

Born in a Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Soyinka is the inheritor of the best of both the worlds. His family was Christian.
In the book, Ake: The Years of Childhood, he recalls the influences of his Christian home. His father was a
schoolmaster. In his well-stocked library, where young Wole spent hours, the foundation of a literary career was laid.
But it was his grandfather who initiated young Soyinka into the rituals and religious beliefs of his people.

Soyinka’s creative art is anchored in his culture. With all his pride in the culture of his people, Soyinka was no blind
worshipper of Africa’s past. This was startlingly proved by his play, A Dance of the Forests, written for the
Independence celebrations of Nigeria in 1960. As sadistic and megalomaniac dictators emerged in independent African
nations, Soyinka’s moral fervour deepened. Soyinka has been severe also in his criticism of his countrymen. His
hilarious comedies and brilliant political satires like Opera Wonyosi have brought to light evils and signs of decadence
in Nigerian society. In the midst of the violence and chaos that marked the history of independent Nigeria, Soyinka
kept his sanity. His deep moral outrage, however, drove him to take enormous personal risks. Soyinka was arrested
and held in solitary confinement for more than two years. Soyinka produced some of his best works in prison. After he
was being released, he chose to go on voluntary exile for a long period. The bedrock of Soyinka’s unwavering social
commitment is his deep love for Africa. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, Soyinka held out the
Prize in the direction of the African continent. This touching gesture was an acknowledgment of his belief that the
Prize was an affirmation of African culture, literature and art that had long been trampled by the colonial powers.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Soyinka eloquently affirmed the African values. He called for the political will to
dismantle all structures of racism and human inequality. The speech echoed his statement in The Man Died, ‘For me
justice is the prime condition of humanity.’ It was in recognition of this passionate commitment that in 1994, UNESCO
made Soyinka its Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture and human rights.

According to the author’s opinion, all the following words describe Soyinka except that he is a/the

(A)

Frank social critic

(B)

Champion of human rights

(C)

Political activist

(D)

Megalomaniac

QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

81. 82.

I have some marbles of equal size. If I arrange them in When a number is divided by 44, it leaves a remainder of
the form of a solid square, then 12 marbles are left and if 12. What will be the remainder when the number is
the number of marbles on each side of the square is divided by 11?
increased by 1 then I fall short of 21 marbles. How many
marbles do I have ? (A)

0
(A)

124 (B)

1
(B)

218 (C)

11
(C)

268 (D)

12
(D)

320

83. 84.

There are 5 Rock songs, 6 Carnatic songs and 3 Indi pop A trader sells 90 quintals of rice at a profit of 8% and 50
songs. How many different albums can be formed using quintals at a profit of 10%. If he had sold the total
the above collection if the albums should contain at least quantity at a profit of 9%, he would have received Rs.60
1 Rock song and 1 Carnatic song? more than he actually did. How much did the trader pay
per quintal of rice?
(A)
(A)
15624
Rs.150
(B)
(B)
16384
Rs.140
(C)
(C)
6144
Rs.160
(D)
(D)
240
Rs.170

85. 86.

For what values of ‘m’ is f(x) = 0, if(x)=x2 + (2m+1)x +m2 In the figure below, two circles, with centres X and Y,
+7 where x is a real number? touch each other externally at point Z. P is a point on the
tangent to the circles at Z. If PQ and PR are tangents,
(A) then what is the value of ∠QZX + ∠RZY ? (Figure not
drawn to scale)
m<0

(B)

m=0

(C)

m ≥ 27/4

(D)
(A)
m>0
90°

(B)

64°

(C)

46°

(D)

36°

87. 88.

If the expressions px4 - 3x3 + 15 and 4x2 + 7x - p when What is the least decimal value that should be added to
divided by (x – 3) leave the same remainders, then the 0.000510 to make it a perfect cube?
value of p is
(A)
(A)
0.02
1.4
(B)
(B)
0.0002
1.5
(C)
(C)
0.00002
2.1
(D)
(D)
0.000002
2.4

89. 90.

A train is moving with a speed of 48 km/h. A passenger in Three numbers are in the ratio of 2 : 5 : 6 and their L.C.M.
the train observes that a goods train of length 250 m, is 1080. What is their H.C.F. ?
moving in opposite direction, takes 10 seconds to pass
him. What is the speed of the goods train? (A)

24
(A)

36 km/h (B)

36
(B)

38 km/h (C)

48
(C)

40 km/h (D)

64
(D)

42 km/h

91. 92.

Two trains A and B start simultaneously from stations X A metallic hollow sphere is melted and transformed to a
and Y towards each other respectively. After meeting at a cone of diameter 12 cm. The internal and external
point between X and Y, train A reaches station Y in 9 diameters of the hollow sphere are 6 cm and 12 cm
hours and train B reaches station X in 4 hours. If the respectively. What is the height of the cone?
speed of train A is 36 km/hr, what is the speed of train
B? (A)

15 cm
(A)

24 km/hr (B)

18 cm
(B)

54 km/hr (C)

21 cm
(C)

81 km/hr (D)

24 cm
(D)

16 km/hr

93. 94.

Two sets are such that, set A = {2, 4, 5, 6} and set B = A bag contains 800 coins of 20p denomination, 600 coins
{3, 4, 5, 6, 8}. Two integers are selected at random, one of 25p denomination and 300 coins of 50p denomination.
from set A and one from set B. What is the probability If 5% of 20p coins, 10% of 25p coins and 15% of 50p coins
that the sum of the two integers will be equal to 10? are removed, then how much amount (in rupees) is
removed from the bag?
(A)
(A)
0.2
Rs. 36.20
(B)
(B)
0.3
Rs. 42.25
(C)
(C)
0.4
Rs. 45.50
(D)
(D)
0.6
Rs. 54.50

95. 96.

Mr.X purchased an article. The profit earned by selling it If the mean of 5 observations x, (x + 1), (x + 3), (2x + 1)
for Rs. 1,025 is equal to the loss incurred when the same and (2x + 3) is 11.4, then the mean of last three
article is sold for Rs. 675. At what price, should Mr.X sell observations is
the article such that he attains a gain of 50%?
(A)
(A)
18
Rs. 1,350
(B)
(B)
16
Rs. 1,275
(C)
(C)
15
Rs. 1,425
(D)
(D)
14
Rs. 1,560

97. 98.

The difference between a two-digit number and the The value of (23.5+11.5)2-(23.5-11.5)211.5 × 47.0 is
number obtained by interchanging the digits is 54. What
is the difference between the sum and difference of the (A)

digits of the number if the ratio between the digits of the
1
number is 3 : 1?

(B)
(A)
2
4

(C)
(B)
4
5

(D)
(C)
8
6

(D)

8

99. 100.

12 P + 11 P + 10 P 15 P =? Two completely filled vessels, one in the shape of a prism
3 3 4 3
and the other in the shape of a pyramid hold water such
(A) that the prism holds 400 litres more than the pyramid.
After evaporation of 100 litres of water from each, the
752/237
water left in the prism is twice that in the pyramid. How

(B) many litres of water did the prism hold when it was full?

732/247 (A)

(C) 650 litres

724/237 (B)

(D) 700 litres

735/273 (C)

900 litres

(D)

1,000 litres

101. 102.

The area of a rectangular field is 432 sq.m. If the Rs.5,887 is divided between A and B, such that A’s share
perimeter of the field is 8 times the measure of one of its at the end of 9 years is equal to B’s share at the end of
sides then what is the measure of the shorter side of the 11 years, compounded annually at the rate of 5%. What is
field? the share of A?

(A) (A)

12 m Rs. 2,800

(B) (B)

16 m Rs. 2,000

(C) (C)

24 m Rs. 3,087

(D) (D)

36 m Rs. 2,087

103. 104.

If g(x)=x/(1+x) , then what is the value of g{g[g(x)]} ? The present age of a father is twice the present age of

(A) his son. After 6 years, his age would be times his

x/(1+2x) son’s age. After further 6 years, the son’s age would be
how many times his father’s age ?
(B)
(A)
x/(1+3x)
5/3
(C)
(B)
x/(1+4x)
3/2
(D)
(C)
x/(1+5x)
2/3

(D)

3/5

105. 106.

Simplify: √26+√111-√130-√73+√(64) A box consists of ‘a’ number of apples and ‘c’ number of
cherries. Three more cherries and four more apples are
(A) added in the box. If a particular fruit is to be selected at
random from the box, then what is the probability of
6
picking up an apple from the box?

(B)
(A)
8
(c+3)/(a+c)

(C)
(B)
10
(a+7)/(a+c+7)

(D)
(C)
12
(a+4)/(a+c+7)

(D)

(c+4)/(a+c+7)

107. 108.

The unit digit in the product of (256 x 124 x 21* x 127) is If 184 / {42 + 25 [ 38 – (12 * x ) ] } = 92, the value of x is
2. What is the digit in the place of *?
(A)
(A)
3/10
8
(B)
(B)
33/10
6
(C)
(C)
4/10
4
(D)
(D)
42/10
2

109. 110.

What is the sum of all the terms of an arithmetic A sum of money invested for a certain number of years at
progression if its first, second and last terms are 5, 8 and 8% p.a. simple interest grows to Rs.180. The same sum of
74 respectively? money invested for the same number of years at 4% p.a.
simple interest grows to Rs.120 only. For how many years
(A) was the sum invested.

948
(A)

(B) 25 years

888
(B)

(C) 30 years

768
(C)

(D) 33 years

724
(D)

40 years

DATA INTERPRETATION

111.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

How much was the Mohan Bagan football card worth in January 1991?

Statement 1: In January 1997 the card was worth ` 100, 000

Statement 2: Over the ten years 1987-1997, the card steadily eased in value by 10% each 12 months

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

112. 113.

The following pie chart gives the success rate of The following bar graph gives the yearly investments of
international teams playing cricket for the period 2001- three people in a certain business for various years.
08 and the table below the chart gives the number of
matches won by each team during the period.

What is the % of incline/decline in the total investment of
Kiran and Rahul in 3 rd year when compared to 1 st
year?

(A)

25.94%

(B)

27.34%

(C)
What is the ratio between number of matches won by Sri
Lanka and West Indies? 29.83%

(A) (D)

2:1 30.43%

(B)

3:2

(C)

5:4

(D)

7:9

114.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

How many people are reading only newspaper ‘The Hindu’?

Statement 1: Number of people reading the newspaper ‘Deccan Chronicle’ are 2500 and the number of people reading
either ‘The Hindu’ or ‘Deccan Chronicle’ or both are 3900

Statement 2: Number of people reading both ‘The Hindu’ and ‘Deccan Chronicle’ 300 and the no. of people reading
‘The Hindu’ are 1700

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

115.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

Is the two-digit integer, with digits r (first) and m (second), a multiple of 7?

Statement 1: r + m = 13

Statement 2: r is divisible by 3.

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

116. 117.

The following line-graph gives the number of vehicles (in The following line-graph gives the number of vehicles (in
thousands) manufactured by two companies over the thousands) manufactured by two companies over the
years. years.

What was the difference between the total production of What was the difference between the number of vehicles
the two companies in the given years? manufactured by the company B in 2003 and 2004?

(A) (A)

8,000 21,000

(B) (B)

8,500 20,000

(C) (C)

9,500 18,000

(D) (D)

10,000 16,000

118.

The following line-graph gives the number of vehicles (in
thousands) manufactured by two companies over the
years.

What was the average number of vehicles manufactured
by company A over the given period? (Round off to
nearest integer)

(A)

1,08,000

(B)

1,12,000

(C)

1,20,000

(D)

1,26,000

119.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

Four persons A, B, C and D are walking down a road. The ratio of ages of A and B is 1 : 2. Who among the four is the
oldest?

Statement 1: The ratio of ages of B and C is the duplicate of the inverse ratio of the ages of A and B.

Statement 2: The ratio of the ages of C and D is the triplicate of the sub duplicate ratio of ages of C and B.

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

120.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

Among five friends A, B, C, D and E, who is the shortest?

Statement 1: A is taller than B but shorter than C

Statement 2: D is shorter than A but taller than B, who is taller than E

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

121.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

In △ PQR, PQ = PR = 10 cm. What is the area of the triangle?

Statement 1: QR = 10√3 cm

Statement 2: If RP is extended to S, ∠QPS = 60°

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

122. 123.

The following bar graph gives the yearly investments of The following pie chart gives the success rate of
three people in a certain business for various years. international teams playing cricket for the period 2001-
08 and the table below the chart gives the number of
matches won by each team during the period.

If the profit share of Kiran in 3 rd year profit of RS 15,000
is RS 2,500 and Karan and Rahul invested for 5 months
each, what is the ratio of profits between Karan, Kiran
and Rahul respectively?

(A)

4:5:3

(B)

11 : 13 : 16

What is the ratio between the number of matches lost by
(C)
team India, Zimbabwe and Australia, South Africa?
15 : 30 : 22
(A)
(D)
3:5
20 : 7 : 15
(B)

272 : 231

(C)

312 : 319

(D)

503 : 476

124.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

Ravi sells twice as many ` 20 tickets as Vinay, and Vinay sells three times as many ` 10 tickets as Ravi. How many
tickets did Ravi sell? Tickets are either ` 10 or ` 20.

Statement 1: Vinay sold a total of 35 tickets

Statement 2: Together Ravi and Vinay sold 70 tickets for ` 1000

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

125. 126.

The following line-graph gives the number of vehicles (in The following pie chart gives the success rate of
thousands) manufactured by two companies over the international teams playing cricket for the period 2001-
years. 08 and the table below the chart gives the number of
matches won by each team during the period.

In which of the following years, the difference between
the productions of companies A and B was the
maximum?

(A)

2001

(B)

2002 What is the total number of matches played by teams
Australia, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka during
(C)
the given period (no match ended in a tie)?
2003
(A)
(D)
266
2004
(B)

976

(C)

1875

(D)

2975

127.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

Who saves more, Mr. A or Mr. B?

Statement 1: The ratio of the incomes of A and B is 5 : 6

Statement 2: The ratio of expenditures of A and B is 6 : 5

(A)

If the data in statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(B)

If the data in statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

(C)

If the data in both the statements together are needed to answer the question

(D)

If either statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

128.

The following pie chart gives the success rate of
international teams playing cricket for the period 2001-
08 and the table below the chart gives the number of
matches won by each team during the period.

If 10% of the matches each played by New Zealand and
West Indies were ended in a tie, what is the total number
of matches lost by these two teams?

(A)

1031

(B)

1156

(C)

1381

(D)

1541

129.

A question given below has a problem and two statements numbered (1) and (2) giving certain information. You have
to decide if the information given in the statements is sufficient for answering the problem. Indicate your answer as:

What is the numerical value of 5p2 +15 - 5qr ?

Statement 1: p = 2 and q = 3

Statement 2: q, p and r are in geometric progression

(A)