Question 1 :
<div>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.&#160;<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of do's and dont's. The same old favourites recur year in and year out with monotonous regularity. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced to frustration that results from failure. Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our old bad ways.&#160;<br/></div><div><br/></div>'The same old favourites recur... with monotonous regularity' implies that ______.&#160;

Question 2 :
Choose the correct answer form the alternatives given.<br>Directions&nbsp;for questions 96 to 100: The passage given below is&nbsp;followed by a set of five questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the&nbsp;best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.<br>I&nbsp;have spoken of liberty as good, but it is not an absolute good. We all&nbsp;recognise the need to restrain murderers, and it is even more important to&nbsp;restrain murderous states. Liberty must be limited by law, and its most&nbsp;valuable forms can only exist within the framework of law. What the world most&nbsp;needs&nbsp;are effective laws to control international relations. The first and most&nbsp;difficult step in the creation of such laws is the establishment of adequate&nbsp;sanctions and this is only possible through the creation of a single armed&nbsp;force, which is in control of the whole world.<br>But&nbsp;such an armed force, like a municipal police force, is not an end in itself; it&nbsp;is the means to the growth of a social system governed by law, where force is&nbsp;not the prerogative of private individuals or nations, but is exercised only by&nbsp;a neutral authority in accordance with rules laid down in advance. There is&nbsp;hope that law, rather than private force, may come to govern the relations of&nbsp;nations within the present century.<br><span>A&nbsp;single armed force should be in control</span><br>

Question 3 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.</span></div></div><div><br/></div><div><span>We should preserve nature to preserve life and beauty. A beautiful landscape, full of green vegetation, will not just attract our attention but will fill us with infinite satisfaction. Unfortunately, because of modernization, much of nature is now yielding to towns, roads and industrial areas In a few places, some natural reserves are now being carved out to avert the danger of destroying nature completely. Man will perish without nature, so modern man should continue this struggle to save plants, which give us oxygen, from extinction. Moreover, nature is essential to man's health.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>Which one of the following is the correct statement? According to the passage ________.&#160;<span><br/></span>

Question 4 :
The given conversation&#160;has mixed up sentences. Reorder them correctly and select the correct option.<br/>A. I'm going to visit my cousin.<br/>B. Do you have any plans for the vacation?<br/>C. In a remote village in Himachal Pradesh.<br/>D. Where does she live?<br/>

Question 5 :
The given conservation has mixed up sentences. Reorder them correctly and select the correct option.<br/>A. How long ago did you finish school?<br/>B. How long have you been working for in this shop?<br/>C. I've been working here since July.<br/>D. I finished school seven years ago.<br/>

Question 6 :
<span>Choose the best option :</span><div><br/></div><div>What do you think of new car?</div>

Question 7 :
<span>Read the passage and answer the question given below.</span><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>It must be realized to make compulsory education a success, it is absolutely necessary to make it entirely free. India is a poor country and we cannot expect our people to pay directly for the education of their children. Even in rich countries like England and U.S.A. mas education is not only free but there are many additional facilities like mid-day meal for children, free medical service, and scholarship on a generous scale. Since education is a fundamental civic and human right and basic to the health of the body politics, funds must be found for the purpose whatever the cost of the scheme. If we consider educational and cultural activities to be important, funds will be forthcoming. What we have to do is to rearrange our priority. With this in view, we have to adopt a many-sided programme of national planning and economic and industrial reconstruction. If not there will always be arguments and statistics to prove that it is impossible to introduce free, compulsory and universal education in India.</span></div><div><br/></div>Why should we adopt a many sided programme of national planning and economic reconstruction?

Question 8 :
The given conservation has mixed up sentences. Reorder them correctly and select the correct option.<br/>A. No, I don't. Only the important ones.<br/>B. Do you know many words?<br/>C. Only a little, not very well.<br/>D. Do you speak French?<br/>

Question 9 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.<br/></span></div></div><div><br/></div><div><span>The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various. But all have something in common. The typical unhappy man is one who, having deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one ' kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of &#34;pleasure&#34;. This is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide-the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.&#160;</span><br/></div></div><div><br/></div>Which one of the following is the correct statement? Drinking helps the unhappy only to _______.&#160;

Question 10 :
<span>Read the following story and answer the question choosing the most appropriate option:</span><br/><span>All the animals of the forest gathered to elect their new king.</span><br/><span>They chose the monkey because they were amused by his antics. The fox was very disappointed at not being chosen and waited for a chance to get it.</span><br/><span>One day, he found a piece of meat on a path. He realized at once it was the bait for a trap. But off he went to the monkey and offered to show him where it was, as a sign of his loyalty. The monkey. king at once fell into the trap and the fox burst out laughing.</span><br/><span>'With so few wits, you cannot even rule yourself; let alone animals.'</span><br/><br/>Which word in the story means 'Food which is used to catch animals'?

Question 11 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the question that follows.</span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>As civilization proceeds in the direction of technology, it passes the point of supplying all the basic of life, food, shelter, clothes and warmth. Then we are faced with&#160;a choice between using technology to provide and fulfil needs which have hitherto been regarded as unnecessary or, on the other hand, using technology to reduce the number of hours of work which a man must do in order to earn a given standard of living. In other words, we either raise our standard of living above that necessary for comfort and happiness or we leave it at this level and work shorter hours. I shall take it as axiomatic that mankind has, by that time, chosen the later alternative. Men will be working shorter and shorter hours in their paid employment.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>What does the author suggest?&#160;

Question 12 :
<span>Read the passage and answer the question given below.</span><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>It must be realized to make compulsory education a success, it is absolutely necessary to make it entirely free. India is a poor country and we cannot expect our people to pay directly for the education of their children. Even in rich countries like England and U.S.A. mas education is not only free but there are many additional facilities like mid-day meal for children, free medical service, and scholarship on a generous scale. Since education is a fundamental civil and human right and basic to the health of the body politics, funds must be found for the purpose whatever the cost of the scheme. If we consider educational and cultural activities to be important, funds will be forthcoming. What we have to do is to rearrange our priority. With this in view, we have to adopt a many-sided programme of national planning and economic and industrial reconstruction. If not there will always be arguments and statistics to prove that it is impossible to introduce free, compulsory and universal education in India.</span><div><br/></div><div>Which of the following statements is incorrect?</div></div>

Question 13 :
Read the following short passage and answer the question that follow each passage.<br><br>For some women, the cost of giving birth can be an unexpectedly a large burden. The average normal birth now costs ? 3,200 and a birth with complications can cost thousands of rupees more. Of women in the primary child-bearing age. range of eighteen to twenty-four, who.account for about 40 percent of all births in this country annually, more than 25 percent have no health care insurance to pay maternity costs. <br>If the above statements are true, which one of the following must also be true ?<br>

Question 14 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the question that follows:</span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>It is said that ideas are explosive and dangerous. To allow them unfettered freedom is, in fact, to invite disorder. But, to this position, there are at least two final answers. It is impossible to draw a line round dangerous ideas, and any attempt at their definition involves monstrous folly. If views, moreover, which imply disorder are able to disturb the foundations of the State; there is something supremely wrong with the governance of the State. For disorder is not a habit of mankind. We cling so eagerly to our accustomed ways that, as even Burke insisted; popular violence is always the outcome of a deep popular sense of wrong.&#160;</span></div></div><div><br/></div>The author says, 'we cling eagerly to our accustomed ways'. Which one of the following statements may be considered as the assumption of the author?&#160;

Question 15 :
<span>Each conversation has the sentences mixed up. Reorder them correctly. Choose from (A), (B), (C) or (D).</span><div><br/></div><div>__________<br/>(a) Yes. My father and I &#160;love taking pictures. Do you like photography ?<br/>(b) Its beautiful. And you have some lovely photographs too.<br/>(c) Yes, weve been here ten years now. It didnt look like this when we moved in.<br/>(d) &#160;What a beautiful house. Have you lived here long ?</div>

Question 16 :
Arrange the sentences in a logical sequence.<br/><br/>(i) He loved to distribute them among small kids.<br/>(ii) He wore a long, loose shirt with many pockets.<br/>(iii) And in doing so his eyes brightened.<br/>(iv) The pockets of his shirt bulged with toffees and chocolates.<br/>

Question 17 :
<span></span><div>Read the telephonic conversation between Rohit and Radhika and answer the question that follows:</div><div><br/></div><div>Rohit:&#34; Hello!&#34;</div><div>Radhika: &#34;Hello, could I speak to Shreya please?&#34;</div><div>Rohit: &#34;No, she has gone to the market to purchase balloons for her birthday party. I am her younger brother, Rohit.&#34;</div><div>Radhika: &#34;Oh! Would you convey my message to her? I am her friend Radhika.&#34;</div><div>Rohit: &#34;Of course, with pleasure.&#34;</div><div>Radhika: &#34;Tell her that I will not be able to attend her birthday party because my mother has slipped from the stairs, and I have to take her to the hospital.&#34;</div><div>Rohit: &#34;Okay, I'll convey your message to Shreya and you do take care of your mother. Bye.&#34;</div><div><br/></div>Radhika will not be able to attend Shreya's birthday party because _____

Question 18 :
Identify the correct sequence of the given phrases, which can make a meaningful sentence:<br/>P. a <br/>Q. empty house <br/>R. boy walked <br/>S. into an&#160;<span><br/></span>

Question 19 :
<span>Poet: &#34;Who art thou?&#34;</span><br/><span>Rain: &#34;I am the poem of the earth.&#34;</span><br/><span>Poet: &#34;Why have you come here?&#34;</span><br/><span>Rain: &#34;To beautify my origin. I also want to give life to unborn seeds.&#34;</span><br/><span>A poet asked the rain __________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">1</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[21]</span></span><span>. The rain answered that ________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">2</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[22]</span></span><span>. The poet again asked it __________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">3</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[23]</span></span><span>. The rain replied that ________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[4</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[24]</span></span><span>. It further told that _________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">5</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[25]</span></span><span>.</span><div><br/></div><div>Read the following dialogue between the poet and the rain, and fill in the blank [5] with the most appropriate option.</div>

Question 20 :
Read the following dialogue between the poet and the rain, and fill in the blank [1] with the most appropriate option:<br/><span>Poet: &#34;Who art thou?&#34;</span><br/><span>Rain: &#34;I am the poem of the earth.&#34;</span><br/><span>Poet: &#34;Why have you come here?&#34;</span><br/><span>Rain: &#34;To beautify my origin. I also want to give life to unborn seeds.&#34;</span><br/><span>A poet asked the rain __________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">1</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[21]</span></span><span>. The rain answered that ________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">2</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[22]</span></span><span>. The poet again asked it __________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">3</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[23]</span></span><span>. The rain replied that ________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[4</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[24]</span></span><span>. It further told that _________</span><span class="MathJax_Preview"></span><span class="MathJax"><span class="math"><span><span><span class="mrow"><span class="mo">[</span><span class="mn">5</span><span class="mo">]</span></span><span></span></span></span><span></span></span><span class="MJX_Assistive_MathML">[25]</span></span><span>.</span>