IBPS SO Exam 2017 - Day 11 (Reading Comprehension)

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Directions (Q. 1–10): Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

There has been abundant criticism following the budgetary cuts imposed on social sector programmes in this year’s budget, the most prominent being the 50 per cent drop in the Integrated Child Development (ICDS) programme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, custodian of underprivileged children, and supposed guardian nutritional wellbeing. 

 Socialist evangelists have termed this as an attack on the welfare state. Understandable, because both in governmental and non-governmental circles, we continue to have a penchant for measuring commitment to ‘welfare’ through the size of budget allocations and expenditures, rather than proper utilisation of money or achieving outcomes. To what extent these budgetary cuts will be compensated by the tax devolution arithmetic of the 14th Finance Commission is not yet clear.


However, several development experts and practitioners view this new development as the beginning of a much needed transition within the ‘social sectors’ of the government. The government and the people both know that several development programmes have reached a state of diminishing or nil returns. Independent India had no option but to start as a welfare state with a planned economy, to build up its abysmal economic and human capital left behind by British rulers. 

The planned economy pursued a vigorous agriculture, industrial and social development agenda. The year 1975 was a watershed year for India’s welfare state — the year of the 5th Five Year Plan, the 20 Point Programme, the Minimum Needs Programme and the ICDS. It was also the year of the (infamous) Emergency, which required parallel populism through the platform of development. Meanwhile, democracy was maturing, welfare delivery systems were being built and peoples’ lives were improving gradually. The welfare state was becoming increasingly popular, as side by side, a rent nexus between the political class, budget handlers, and the implementing machinery had also started evolving, and leakage mechanisms were getting entrenched. Apart from the public good aspect, welfare schemes provided several other advantages: they assuaged the conscience of governments, when acting unethically, or against public or national interest; they provided employment to vast numbers of the semi-literate, low-skilled work force, especially in rural areas, in the form of cooks, helpers, guards, attendants, etc., the closest they could get to a ‘government’ job; they provided opportunity to NGOs, genuine or otherwise, to grow, which also boosted rural employment, etc. Also, higher were the welfare state’s financial allocations for development, the larger became the supervisory governmental machinery, lengthening hierarchies, advancing promotion prospects, deepening leakages, and expanding rental cronyism. Today, almost seven decades after independence, we see the full-blown rental nexus, well past the danger mark, and most welfare programmes and institutions in a state of irretrievable collapse. 

A glaring failure of the welfare state has been in improving the nutritional profile of our population, even though health indicators, particularly for women and children, have steadily improv ed during the last decade, as consistently brought out in recent surveys - Sample Registration System-2010, the National Institute of Nutrition Report 26, 2012. One of the reasons for this could be that national health programmes in India have periodically reviewed themselves, and programme gaps if not completely, have been progressively addressed. Similar periodic reviews have not happened within the ICDS or the orphan nutrition sector that still remains without a national programme to address under-nutrition.

1. According to the revivalist which of the following is an attack on the welfare state?
1) Premediated economy
2) Percentage drop in women and child development programme
3) Several development programs have reached a state of nil returns.
4) Only 2 and 3
5) Only1 and 3

2. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word 'Abysmal' as used in the passage.
1) Infinite 
2) Unfathomable 
3) Measurable 
4) Depthless 
5) Achievable

3. Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning of the word 'penchant' as used in the passage.
1) Predisposition 
2) Proclivity 
3) Proneness 
4) Antipathy 
5) Yen

4. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word 'Entrenched' as used in the passage.
1) Fortified 
2) Irresolute 
3) Weakened 
4) Retailed 
5) Succeed

5. According to the passage, how can a country become a welfare state?
1) With a profound economy
2) By increasing male and female life expectancy rate
3) Parallel populism through the platform of development
4) Suitable welfare delivery system
5) Other than given options

6. Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning of the word 'irretrievable' as used in the passage.
1) Hopeful 
2) Despairing 
3) Irremediable 
4) Desponding 
5) Downcast

7. What were the consequences of emerging inter-relations among the governing bodies ?
1) The funds were not reaching at their targets.
2) Expansion of supervisory government machinery
3) Advancing promotion prospects and lengthening hierarchies
4) Expanding patronage
5) All of the above

8. Which of the following is contrary to the health indicators of the government?
1) Improvement in nutritional profile of the population
2) No improvement in nutritional profile of the population
3) Improvement in nutritional profile of women and children only
4) Periodic review of health policies.
5) None of the above

9. What are the advantages of welfare schemes?
A) Generation of employment for the vulnerable section in rural area
B) Ameliorating the faith of rural population in the government.
C) Providing opportunity to NGOs.
1) Only A 
2) Both A and C 
3) All A, B and C 
4) Both B and C 
5) Only B

10. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word 'assuaged' as used in the passage.
1) Relieved 
2) Intensified 
3) Assured 
4) Devoid 
5) Provoked


Answers:

1. 2
2. 2
3. 4
4. 1
5. 5
6. 1
7. 5
8. 2
9. 3

10.1

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IBPS SO Exam 2017 - Day 11 (Sentence Correction)

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Directions (1-15): The following sentences contain an error part. Each sentence is following by five different ways of wording the part that contains the error. Answer choice (A) always repeats the original; the other four choices are different. If you think that the original sentence displays the best way of wording the incorrect part, choose answer (A); otherwise, select the best alternative.

Q1. Many healthcare professionals now advocate race walking as a form of exercise because it burns as many calories as jogging, works muscle groups that jogging does not, and the chances of stress related injuries are reduced.
(a) and the chances of stress related injuries are reduced
(b) and reduces the chances of stress-related injury
(c) reducing the chances of stress related injury
(d) and the chances of a stress-related injury get reduced
(e) with a reduction of the chances of a stress-related injury


Q2. A baby boomer is defined to be one who is now in his or her mid-thirties, who is concerned with raising a family, and who is not upwardly mobile.
(a) to be one who is now in his or her mid-thirties, who is concerned with raising a family, and who
(b) as those who are in their mid-thirties, concerned with raising a family.
(c) to be those that are in their mid-thirties, concerned about the raising of a child, that
(d) to be one who is in his or her mid-thirties and concerned with the raising of a family and also who
(e) as a person in his or her mid-thirties, who is concerned with raising a family and who

Q3. The dropout rate in American schools is ten times that of European nations
(a) that of European nations
(b) what the rate is in Europe
(c) that of school in Europe
(d) European nations’
(e) that which they are in Europe

Q4. More and more fashion conscious women are asking themselves if it is morally right to wear clothing made from the skin of an animal.
(a) if it is
(b) about if it is
(c) whether it is
(d) as to whether or not it is
(e) about whether it is

Q5. This is the third straight Christmas season in which retail stores will experience a sharp drop in sales from the previous year
(a) in which retail stores will experience
(b) in which retail stores experience
(c) which retail stores will experience
(d) of retail stores experiencing
(e) of experiencing by retail stores of

Q6. When used together, the cosmetic claims that its products enhance the appearance of the skin by preventing blemishes of reducing signs of aging.
(a) When used together, the cosmetic company claims that its products enhance the appearance of the skin by preventing blemishes and reducing signs of aging.
(b) The cosmetic company claims that, when used together, the appearance of the skin will be enhanced by the products by their preventing blemishes and reducing signs of aging.
(c) When used together, the products will enhance the appearance of the skin, also preventing blemishes and reducing signs of aging, or so the company claims.
(d) According to the cosmetic company, when its products are used together, they will enhance the appearance of the skin, prevent blemishes, and reduce signs of aging.
(e) According to the cosmetic company, when its products are used together, the appearance of the skin will be enhanced and blemishes will be prevented reducing the signs and aging.

Q7. Elizabeth I was a student of classical languages and it has her who insisted that Greek and Latin were spoken at court.
(a) it was her who insisted that Greek and Latin were spoken at court
(b) it was she that insisted on the speaking of Greek and Latin at court
(c) it was she who insisted that Greek and Latin be spoken at court
(d) she insisted that, at court, Greek and Latin were spoken
(e) she had insisted that Greek and Latin were to be spoken at court

Q8. Although Beverly Sills never achieved superstar status in Europe or at the Metropolitan Opera, yet she was singing major roles at the City Opera during 20 years
(a) yet she was singing major roles at the City Opera during 20 years
(b) she did sing major roles at the City Opera during 20 years
(c) she sang major roles at the City Opera for 20 years
(d) yet for 20 years major roles had been sung by her at the City Opera
(e) but for 20 years major roles had been sung by her at the City Opera

Q9. Although Mary Ann is not a great scholar, neither has she published any books, she has and always will be a great teacher and well-loved by her students
(a) scholar, neither has she published any books she has and always will be
(b) scholar, nor having published any books, she has been and always will be
(c) scholar and she hasn’t published any books, she has been and always will be
(d) scholar nor published any books, still she has been and always will be
(e) scholar not has she published any books, but she has been and always will be

Q10. The great difference in interpretation between him and his immediate predecessor of the role of Anthony were the subject of last week’s column by the well-known drama critic.
(a) between him and his immediate predecessor of the role of Anthony were
(b) between him and his immediate predecessor in the role of Anthony was
(c) between he and his immediate predecessor of the role of Anthony were
(d) among him and his immediate predecessor of the role of Anthony was
(e) among him and his immediate predecessor of the role of Anthony were

Q11. The English version of Waiting for Godot, of which Beckett was the translator, was seen in a new production at Lincoln Center in 1988.
(a) of which Beckett was the translator
(b) which Beckett was the translator
(c) having been translated by Beckett
(d) that had being translated by Beckett
(e) the translator Beckett

Q12. Accusing his opponent of falsifying his military record, it was clear that the Congressional race was heating up.
(a) Accusing his opponent of falsifying his military record, it was clear that the Congressional race was heating up.
(b) Accusing the other opponent of falsifying his military record, it was clear that the Congressional race heated up.
(c) It was clear that the Congressional race was heating up when one candidate accused the other of falsifying his military record.
(d) Having accused his opponent of falsifying his military record, it was clear that the Congressional race was heating up.
(e) Once accused of falsifying his military record, it was clear that the Congressional race was heating up

Q13. Although she plays tennis as well, if not better, than her sister, her sister is the captain of the team.
(a) Although she plays tennis as well, if not better, than here sister.
(b) Although she plays tennis as well as, if not better than, her sister.
(c) Despite her playing tennis as well as, if not better than, her sister.
(d) She plays tennis as well, if not better, than her sister, but
(e) Playing tennis as well as, if not better than, her sister

Q14. A discussion on our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being an independent Western Europe which now thinks of itself in trans-nationalist terms.
(a) A discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being
(b) Beginning any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must be the fact of there being
(c) Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin with the fact that there is
(d) Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin by acknowledging the existence of
(e) To begin discussing our nation’s foreign policy there must be an acknowledgment of the fact that

Q15. Interest rates on mortgages have declined steadily during the first six months of this year, but virtually remained unchanged during the next three months.
(a) have declined steadily during the first six months of this year but virtually remained unchanged
(b) declined steadily during the first six months of this year but virtually remain unchanged
(c) steadily declined during the first six months of this year but remain virtually unchanged
(d) declined steadily during the first six months of this year but have remained virtually unchanging
(e) declined steadily during the first six months of this year, but have remained virtually unchanged

ANSWERS :

S1. Ans.(b) 
Sol. and reduces the chances of stress-related injury

S2. Ans.(e) 
Sol. as a person in his or her mid-thirties, who is concerned with raising a family and who

S3. Ans.(a) 
Sol. that of European nations

S4. Ans.(c) 
Sol. whether it is

S5. Ans.(a) 
Sol. in which retail stores will experience

S6. Ans.(d) 
Sol. According to the cosmetic company, when its products are used together, they will enhance the appearance of the skin, prevent blemishes, and reduce signs of aging.

S7. Ans.(c) 
Sol. it was she who insisted that Greek and Latin be spoken at court

S8. Ans.(c) 
Sol. she sang major roles at the City Opera for 20 years

S9. Ans.(c) 
Sol. scholar and she hasn’t published any books, she has been and always will be

S10. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  between him and his immediate predecessor in the role of Anthony was

S11. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  of which Beckett was the translator

S12. Ans.(c) 
Sol.  It was clear that the Congressional race was heating up when one candidate accused the other of falsifying his military record.

S13. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Although she plays tennis as well as, if not better than, her sister

S14. Ans.(d) 
Sol.  Any discussion of our nation’s foreign policy must begin by acknowledging the existence of

S15. Ans.(e) 

Sol.  declined steadily during the first six months of this year, but have remained virtually unchanged

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IBPS SO Exam 2017 - Day 10 (Error-Spotting)

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Directions (1-15): Find out the error, if any.

Q1. I know he is having a lot of books on how to improve English.
(a) I know
(b) he is having
(c) a lot of books
(d) on how to improve English.
(e) No error


Q2. The theory of relativity is so complicated as we cannot describe it in a few sentences.
(a) The theory of relativity is
(b) so complicated as we
(c) cannot describe
(d) it in a few sentences.
(e) No error

Q3. A cell is the smallest identifiable unit of life and cannot be seen with a naked eye.
(a) A cell
(b) is the smallest
(c) identifiable unit of life and cannot be
(d) seen with a naked eye.
(e) No error

Q4. If a student needs advices about careers, he or she should consult the Careers officer.
(a) If a student needs advices about
(b) careers, he or she
(c) should consult
(d) the Careers officer.
(e) No error

Q5. This machine looks good but is very badly designed and doesn’t work good.
(a) This machine looks
(b) good but is very
(c) badly designed
(d) and doesn’t work good.
(e) No error

Q6. He is well known for both his kindness as well as his understanding.
(a) He is well known for both
(b) his kindness
(c) as well as
(d) his understanding.
(e) No error

Q7. Please explain to me how is a digital computer different from an analogy computer.
(a) Please explain to me
(b) how is a digital computer
(c) different from
(d) an analogy computer.
(e) No error

 Q8. I’ll work for you as long as you’ll pay well.
(a) I’ll work for you
(b) as long as
(c) you’ll pay
(d) well.
(e) No error

Q9. Of the two principles he put forward the last one was the more difficult to understand.
(a) Of the two principles
(b) he put forward the last one
(c) was the more
(d) difficult to understand.
(e) No error

Q10. All of us surprised to see an old man of sixty taking part in the Marathon held last month.
(a) All of us
(b) surprised
(c) to see an old man of
(d) sixty taking part in the Marathon held last month.
(e) No error

Q11. We had swam across the river before the sun set.
(a) We had swam
(b) across the river
(c) before
(d) the sun set.
(e) No error

Q12. Madhuri is more prettier than her sister.
(a) Madhuri is
(b) more prettier
(c) than her
(d) sister.
(e) No error

Q13. Every man and woman should vote for the candidate of their choice.
(a) Every man and woman
(b) should vote
(c) for the candidate
(d) of their choice.
(e) No error

Q14. The Secretary and Treasurer were not present at today’s meeting.
(a) The Secretary and Treasurer
(b) were
(c) not
(d) present at today’s meeting.
(e) No error

Q15. Neither Rakesh nor I are leaving for Hyderabad.
(a) Neither Rakesh
(b) nor
(c) I are leaving
(d) for Hyderabad.
(e) No error


Answers :

S1. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write ‘has’ in place of ‘is having’.

S2. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write conjunction ‘that’ in place of ‘as’. “so-that” is a correlative conjunction and always used in the pairs.

S3. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Use article ‘the’ in place of ‘a’. the correct expression is – with the naked eye.

S4. Ans.(a) 
Sol. Write ‘advice’ in place of ‘advices’.

S5. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Write ‘well’ in place of ‘good’. “Good” is an adjective and Noun as well but “well” is an adverb. 

S6. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Write ‘and’ in place of ‘as well as’. “both-and” is used as pairs.

S7. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write the verb ‘is’ after ‘a digital computer’. In assertive or statement sentence, verb is used after the subject.

S8. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Write ‘you pay’ in simple present tense. When main clause is in Simple future tense, then the subordinate clause will be in simple present tense.   

S9. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write ‘latter’ in place of ‘last’.

S10. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Write ‘were surprised’.

S11. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  Write ‘swum’ in place of ‘swam’.

S12. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Remove ‘more’. ‘More prettier’ will be double comparative. Double comparative or superlatives are not used in a sentence.

S13. Ans.(d) 
Sol.  Write ‘his or her’ in place of ‘their’.

S14. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Write ‘was’ in place of ‘were’.

S15. Ans.(c) 

Sol.  Write verb ‘am’ in place of ‘are’.

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IBPS SO Exam 2017 - Day 9 (Sentence Correction)

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Directions (1-15): Improve the bold part in each of the following sentences, if needed.

Q1. Everything we have so far looked at gives inconclusive evidence about the change in the living conditions of the masses.
(a) had looked at for giving
(b) had been looking for giving
(c) have so far been looked at gives
(d) had so far been looked for given
(e) No correction required

Q2. People who enjoy these kind of activities can be very useful for your company.
(a) these kind of activity
(b) these of kind activity
(c) these kinds of activities
(d) the kind activiities like these
(e) No correction required

Q3. The population question in China has been the subject of heated and frequently changing controversy.
(a) heating and frequently changed
(b) heated and frequent changed
(c) heated and frequently changed
(d) heat and frequent changes in
(e) No correction required

Q4. Your suggestion is no different from the other employees.
(a) not different from
(b) not different than the
(c) not different from that of the
(d) not differing from the
(e) No correction required

Q5. If you would have succumbed to his pressure, we would have lost faith in you.
(a) Had you been
(b) If you would be 
(c) If you had
(d) If you would have been
(e) No correction required

Q6. If India’s demographic transition is to be speeded up, it will have to be by a special process.
(a) should have been speeded up
(b) is to be speed up
(c) is to speed up
(d) is to be speed faster
(e) No correction required

Q7. Though his actions were severe criticized, he didn’t lose his temper.
(a) were severe criticism
(b) were being of severe criticism
(c) had severe criticise
(d) were severely criticised
(e) No correction required

Q8. It was he, not me, who put forth the remarkable position.
(a) he, not I
(b) him, not me
(c) he, not mine
(d) he not I
(e) No correction required

Q9. India has none of the advantages possess by the rich countries during industrialization.
(a) from the advantages possess by
(b) with the advantages possess by
(c) of the advanages possess with
(d) of the advantages possessed by
(e) No correction required

Q10. People, who are indecisive, can be readily persuading to change their minds again.
(a) can be readily persuading
(b) can be readily persuaded 
(c) should be ready to persuade
(d) can be ready to persuade
(e) No correction required

Q11. Despite of having required ability, he could not succeed.
(a) Despite of being
(b) Despite having
(c) Despite having of
(d)In spite of being
(e) No correction required

Q12. Although he has received many awards, I could not find his performance satisfactorily.
(a) performing satisfactorily
(b) performing satisfaction
(c) satisfactorily performance
(d) performance satisfactory
(e) No correction required

Q13. Indirect taxes effect the common man and increase the cost of living.
(a) tax effects
(b) taxes are effective
(c) taxing efforts
(d) taxes affect
(e) No correction required

Q14. A budget should have to mould by the needs of a nation.
(a) should be moulded
(b) should have mould
(c) should mould
(d) should be moulding
(e) No correction required

Q15. He was untiring in his efforts to eliminate unnecessary controls.
(a) untired in
(b) untired of
(c) untiring into
(d) tired not of

(e) No correction required



ANSWERS :

1. e

2. c

3. e

4. c

5. c

6. e

7. d

8. a

9. d

10.b

11.b

12.c

13.d

14.a

15.e

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IBPS SO Exam 2017 - Day 9 (Reading Comprehension)

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Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions given below it.

“No man is an Island, entire of itself… And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee”. — John Donne What are the borders of the humanspirit, the contours which shape what we call the soul? That metaphysical question gained viral urgency worldwide when a photograph of the corpse of a three-year-old boy washed up on a beach spread like wildfire over the Net.The child, whose body was picked up and carried away by an anguished border patrolman was, together with other members of his refugee family, drowned when he was trying to cross into Europe in an overcrowded and unsafe vessel from war-torn Syria. The boy is just one of the many thousands of illegal migrants from countries as disparate as Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and various parts of Africa who are desperately — literally at the cost of their lives — fleeing murderous civil war, rape, torture and starvation to seek sanctuary in a Europe already besieged by a host of its own internal problems, including bitter social and political dissension and, in many cases, dire economic distress and unemployment. Even as individual nations and organisations try to grapple with the problem in terms of law enforcement, emigration legalities and ethical compulsions, a number of questions arise which go beyond those constantly mutating diagrams , crisscrossed by arbitrary manmade lines called borders.
Borders demarcate not just where one or more countries end and where others begin; they divide where one definition of humanity ends and another begins. A refugee,often called a displaced person, is one seeking entry, often unsanctioned, not just into another country but into the common domain of all humanity. It is this landscape of our human spirit, of the soul if you prefer, which all of us inescapably share with one another. Geographical and political borders are the illusory fault lines which conceal this essential oneness, this indivisibility. For almost 70 years, generations who have lived and died on the Indian subcontinent have been victims of a psychosomatic disorder which has yet to find mention in any dictionary of geopolitical pharmacology, but could one day come to be defined as borderophobia, a form of intense paranoia which makes us believe that those who live across a line of demarcation, often drawn overnight, are to be demonised, or at least denigrated and despised, as morally, culturally and perhaps even genetically different from we who live on this side of the mythical meridian which separates us. A line is drawn in the shifting dust of history — through military might, colonialism, the rise and fall of rulers — and one people become two antagonists; a single Earth becomes a segregation of strife. Even as an interdependent network of electronic communication seeks unity to make whole again a planet cruelly vivisected by economic and environmental exploitation, the forces of a fratricidal fanaticism gain ground through the cancerous growth of transborder organisations like al- Qaida, IS and other unholy alliances against humanity. Such forces reveal all too clearly that far more perilous to the human legacy than the borders marked on our maps are those unmarked barriers etched deeply within our minds, within our consciousness as to who and what we are and to whom and what we belong. The first, haunting picture of a blue earth taken from outer space gave us an enduring emblem of the fragility of our common destiny. The photograph of a three-year-old sacrificed on the altar of mind-made borders now shows us just how endangered that destiny has become.


Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

1.What does Mutating diagrams signify in the given passage?
a.Borders
b.Maps
c.Drawings
d.Boundary
e.None of these

2.Which of the following can be the suitable title of the passage?
a.Borders of the soul
b.Political boundaries
c.Military disputes
d.All the above
e.None of these

3.Which of the following statement is Not True according to the given passage?
a.Borders divide not only countries but also humanity
b.With the growth of transborder organsations,fratricidal fananticism's force faces loss of life.
c.The photograph of the dead body of a three-year-old boy got viral on internet.
d.Nations and organisations are trying to deal with the problems of law enforcement, emigration legalities and ethical compulsions.
e.None of these

4.Which of the following statement is/are true according to the given passage?
I.  Syria,Afghanistan,Pakistan,Iran are among the countries from where illegal migrants move to other countries.
II. A Europe is besieged by its own internal problems.
III.Generations who have lived and died on the Indian subcontinent more than 70 years have been victims of borderphobia.
a.III
b.II & I
c.II
d.II & III
e.I

5.What is the central idea of the passage?
a.Terrorist attacks create borders and boundaries
b.Borders vilify the humanity
c.Individual disputes among leaders create political unrest
d.All the above
e.None of these

Directions (6-8); Choose the word which is most SIMILAR in meaning of the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

6.Denigrate
a.Defame
b.indifferent
c.commend
d.applaud
e.None of these

7.Endure
a.Halt
b.abide
c.abate
d.oppose
e.None of these

8.Inescapable
a.avoidable
b.formal
c.inevitable
d.abjure
e.None of these

Directions (9-10); Choose the word which is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold as used in the passage.


9.Etch
a.reject
b.accept
c.contour
d.confuse
e.None of these

10.Anguish
a.solace
b.torment
c.tangible
d.solicit


Answers :

1.  b
2.  a
3.  b
4.  c
5.  b
6.  a
7.  b
8.  c
9.  d

10. a

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