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The power tariff had already / been increased twice in / the last 15 months and the Electricity Board had also / levied additional monthly charges to consumers.
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Despite of curfew / in some areas, minor / communal incidents were reported / from different areas of the walled city.
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This comes / at a time / when fund allocation / is been doubled.
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As the prison will get / an official telephone facility soon, the prisoners / won't have to make calls in discreet manner / through smuggled mobile phones.
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The area was plunged into / darkness mid a wave of / cheering and shouting / slogans like Save The Earth.
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The poll contestants approached / the commission complicating that the hoardings / violated the code of conduct / and influenced public perception.
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The management feels that / the employees of the organisation are / non-productive, and do not want / to work hard.
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As far the issue of land encroachment / in villages is concerned, people will / have to make a start from their villages by / sensitising and educating the villagers this issue.
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Which of the phrases (1),(2), (3) and (4) given below each sentence should replace the word / phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark (5) as answer.
US secretary of state made it clear that time running out for diplomacy over Iran's nuclear Programmer and said that talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in April.
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According to WWF, the small Island nation of Samoa was the first in switch off its lights for Earth Hour.
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I felt the wall of the tunnel shiver. The master alarm squealed through my earphones. Almost simultaneously, Jack yelled down to me that there was a warning light on. Fleeting but spectacular sights snapped into ans out of view, the snow, the shower of debris, the moon, looming close and big, the dazzling sunshine for once unfiltered by layers of air. The last twelve hours before re-entry were particular bone-chilling. During this period, I had to go up in to command module. Even after the fiery re-entry splashing down in 81° water in south pacific, we could still see our frosty breath inside the command module.
The word 'Command Module' used twice in the given passage indicates perhaps that it deals with
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In this section, you find a number of sentences, parts of which are underlined. You may also find only a group of words which is underlined. For each underlined part, four words/phrases are listed below. Choose the word/phrase which is nearest in meaning to the underlined part.
Had he delivered his speech without a long and winding preamble, people would have understood him better
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But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Burmans who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
From the passage it appears that the author was
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But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with the preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him. I had never shot an elephant and never wanted to. (Somehow it always seems worse to kill large animal.) Besides, there was the beast's owner to be considered. But I had got to act quickly. I turned to some experienced-looking Burmans who had been there when we arrived, and asked them how the elephants had been behaving. They all said the same thing; he took no notice of you if you left him alone, but he might charge if you went too close to him.
The author did not want to shoot the elephant because he
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Which one of the following phrases best helps to bring out the precise meaning of 'loathsome creatures'?
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The statement that 'he later threw off the security bug' means that
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Harold's dream was fearful because
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. When times are hard, doomsayers are aplenty. The problem is that if you listen to them too carefully, you tend to overlook the most obvious signs of change. 2001 was a bad year. Can 2012 be any worse? Doomsday forecasts are the easiest to make these days. So, let's try a contrariness forecast instead. Let's start with the global economy. We have soon a steady flow of good news from the US. The employment situation seems to be improving rapidly and consumer sentiment, reflected in retail expenditures on discretionary items like electronics and clothes, has picked up. If these trends sustain, the US might post better growth numbers f.or 2012 than the 1.5-1.8% being forecast currently.
Japan is likely to pull out of a recession in 2012, as post-earthquake reconstruction efforts gather momentum and the fiscal stimulus announced in 2011 begins to pay off. The consensus estimate for growth in japan is a respectable 2% for 2012. The "hard-landing" scenario for China remains and will remain a myth. Growth might decelerate further from the 9% that it expected to clock in 2011, but is unlikely to drop below 8-8.5% in 2012.
Europe is certainly in a spot of trouble. It is perhaps already in recession and for 2012, it is likely to post mildly negative growth. The risk of implosion has dwindled over the last few months -peripheral economies like Greece, Italy and Spain have new governments in place and have made progress towards genuine economic reform. Even with some of these positive factors in place, we have to accept the fact that global growth in 2012 will be tepid. But there is a flip side to this. Softer growth means lower demand for Commodities and this is likely to drive a correction in commodity prices. Lower commodity inflation will enable emerging market and central banks to reverse their monetary stance. China, for instance, has already reversed its stance and has pared its reserve ratio twice. The RBI also seems poised for a reversal in its rate cycle as headline inflation seems well on its way to its target of 7% for March, 2012.
That said, oil might be an exception to the general trend in commodities. Rising geopolitical tensions, particularly the continuing face-off between Iran and the US, might lead to a spurt in prices. It might make sense for our oil companies to hedge this risk instead of buying oil in the spot market.
As inflation fears abate and emerging market and central banks begin to cut rates, two things could happen. Lower commodity inflation would mean Lower interest rates and better credit availability. This could set a floor to growth and slowly reverse the business cycle within these economies. Second, as the fear of untamed, runaway inflation in these economies abates, the global investor's comfort levels with their markets will increase. Which of the emerging markets will outperform and who will get left behind? In an environment in which global growth is likely to be weak, economies like India, that have a powerful domestic consumption, should lead; those dependent on exports should, prime face, fall behind. Specifically for India, a fall in the exchange rate could not have come at a better time. It will help Indian exporters gain market share even if global trade remains depressed. More importantly, it could lead to massive import substitution that favors domestic producers. Let's now focus on India and start with a caveat. It is important not to confuse a short-run cyclical dip with a permanent de-rating of its long-term structural potential. The arithmetic is simple. Our growth rate can be in the range of 7 -10% depending on policy action. 10%, if we get everything right, 7% if we get it all-wrong. Which policies and reforms are critical to taking us to our 10% potential ? In judging this, let's again be careful. Let's not go by the laundry list of reforms that FIIs like to wave: increase in foreign equity limits in foreign shareholding, greater voting rights for institutional shareholders in banks, FDI in retail, etc. These can have an impact only at the margin. We need not bend over backwards to appease the FIIs through these reforms - they will invest in our markets when momentum picks up and will be the first to exit when the momentum flags, reforms or not.
The reforms that we need are the ones that can actually raise our sustainable long-term growth rate. These have to come in areas like better targeting of subsidies, making projects in infrastructure viable so that they draw capital, raising the productivity of agriculture improving healthcare and education, bringing the parallel economy under the tax net, implementing fundamental reforms in taxation like GST and the direct tax code and finally easing the myriad rules and regulations that make doing business in India such a nightmare. A number of these things do not require new legislation and can be done through executive order.
Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
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Which of the following will possibly be a result of softer growth estimated for the year 2012?
(A) Prices of oil will not increase.
(B) Credit availability would be lesser.
(C) Commodity inflation would be lesser.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Which of the following can be said about the present status of the US Economy?
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According to the author, which of the following would characteristic Indian growth scenario in 2012?
(A) Domestic producers will take a hit because of depressed global trade scenario
(B) On account of its high domestic consumption, India will lead
(C) Indian exporters will have a hard time in gaining market share
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Why does the author not recommend taking up the reforms suggested by FIIs?
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According to the author, which of the following reform/is/are needed to ensure long term growth in India?
(A) Improving healthcare and educational facilities.
(B) Bringing about reforms in taxation.
(C) Improving agricultural productivity.
Which of the statements given above is / ate correct?