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Arrange sentences A, B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6, to form a logical
sequence of six sentences.
1.
1. The Wal – Mart story is full of simple but important truths.
A. It’s a story that has mystified some, frustrated others and has been admired
by many.
B. It’s a story about the power of the free – enterprise system and how the
system is the engine that drives democracy.
C. It’s a story about trust – the basis of all successful relationships.
D. It’s a story about principled and focused leadership.
6. It is a story about a special man, a special group of people and a
special organization.
a. ABCD b. ACBD c. ADBC d. ABDC
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2.
1. Unfortunately this is, and it all stems from, the way recruitment
companies work.
A. The first is retained by employers to find specific people for specific jobs.
B. They are the consultants who advertise in this newspaper.
C. The other type of recruitment company – or agency to be precise – works on a
contingency basis
D. They are essentially two types.
6. They are paid by the employer only when someone is actually appointed.
a. BCDA b. DABC c. DBAC d. ACBD
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3.
1. A management consultant could hardly have hyped banking on a better
platform for a national bank.
A. Choose as a brand a friendly, geographically vague sort of name.
B. For Fund archive management, emphasize a product that benefits from scale
mutual funds.
C. Begin in a small town.
D. Expand via acquisitions, as regulations discouraging them are relaxed.
6. Buy a corporate bank and a dedicated credit – card operation
a. CADB b. CDAB c. BCAD d. DBCA
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4.
1. One of the sad consequences of the death of the telegram was the
disappearance of brevity as a communications skill.
A. Because part of the cost of sending a telegram was a charge per word, senders
grew ingenious at finding ways to write economically.
B. “Why news?” “Unnews good news.” “Unnews unjob.”
C. Journalists, for example, prefix words with “un” to mean “not”.
D. Thus went a famous exchange between a foreign editor and a lazy
correspondent.
6. Now, brevity is reviving, in an unexpected quarter: the mobile telephone.
a. DBAC b. CDBA c. ACDB d. BACD
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5.
1. With less than four months to go, the outlook is not bright for the
second Earth Summit.
A. The first such meeting was in New York last year.
B. Good intentions are not lacking.
C. But the implementation agenda and the funding – getting developed countries
to put their money where it matters – are the main sore points.
D. As countries head for the final of four preparatory committee meetings in
Indonesia later this month, the attempt is to begin three days earlier than
scheduled to iron out what hasn’t been possible in a year.
6. UN Environment Programme executive director Klaus Topfer, in Delhi last
week, admitted the problems.
a. ABCD b. BCDA c. CDAB d. ABDC
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6.
1. Such a policy seems to work in the US, where a drop in interest rates
leads to rise in consumer spending and helps manufactures and service providers
expand their business.
A. This is because the US is a debt laden, consumer society.
B. And, this has been made possible for two reasons.
C. One, US consumers have the confidence, and the ability, to get another job
if they lose theirs.
D. Because they have a common language unlike in most other countries,
including India which perhaps has the highest number of languages, thereby
restricting mobility.
6. Also because, they have few land control laws unlike in India where laws
that protect existing bunch of tenants serve to deprive future generation of
potential tenants from obtaining a house. a. BCDA b. ADCB c. CDAB d. ABCD
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7.
1. And this brings me to the point at which I asked
A. On the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little.
B. But more and better machines will only give us still more time and still
more energy, and what are we to do with them?
C. The answer, I think, is that we should try to become more civilized.
D. “What do we do with all the time which the machines have saved for us and
the new energy they have given us?”
6. For the machines themselves, and the power which the machines have given
us, are not civilization but aids to civilization.
a. DCBA b. DACB c. DABC d. CDBA
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8.
1. The first world war was an excuse to experiment with the arsenal from
various European states
A. A number of lessons were learnt and lot of preconceptions forgotten.
B. First World War was thus a prelude to even more destructive war.
C. Many weapons used in the war had never been used before.
D. As an after math of war, there was a savage intensification of research in
armaments.
6. The world war did arrive with several firsts like Radars, rockets, mines,
etc., to its credit.
a. DBAC b. CADB c. ABCD d. BCAD
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9.
1. Reservation should not exceed 50% for the civil services for want of
balance and efficiency.
A. If reservation is 50%, it is adequate for aspirants from reserved category
and even unreserved category gets an equal opportunity.
B. The number of aspirants to the civil services in India is very large and
they come from various socio – economic backgrounds.
C. These aspirants come from both reserved and unreserved category.
D. But if reservation were to exceed 50% mark, a lot of deserving candidates
from unreserved category would be deprived of a chance.
6. Thus, to achieve optimum efficiency, it is essential to maintain a
maximum of 50% reservation.
a. ADBC b. CABD c. BCAD d. BADC
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10.
1. At the height of the cold war in Asia during the mid – 1980s, normal
relations between Korea and China were non – existent.
A. Letters and telephone calls were also out of the question.
B. Yet, table tennis stars Ahu and Cho still connected.
C. AQs leading athletes they kept meeting at international competitions.
D. Personal visits between the two countries were not possible.
6. In 1989, Cho and Ahu reunited in Sweden and married despite the risk that
Cho might not be able to return home.
a. ADBC b. DABC c. ACBD d. BACD
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