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Direction (1-10): In a passage given below there are 10 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Every blank has four alternative words given in options (a), (b), (c) and (d). You have to choose which word will best suit to the respective blank. Choose (e) as your answer if the word given in the bold after the blank is your answer i.e. “No change requires”
The Department of Personnel and Training has invited applications from talented and motivated Indian nationals willing to contribute towards nation building. Once we unwrap the new policy, however, what we find is a little _ (1) _ [mismatched] that can one day grow into a monster. Since the problem that the new policy seeks to fix remains vague, we cannot hope for whatever improvements promised. Moreover, the lateral entry policy goes counter in spirit to the governance philosophy _ (2) _ [declare] by the Constituent Assembly. Traditionally, the services of outside experts were _ (3) _ [utilize] through consultative processes. The lateral entry decision is based on the assumption that since our civil servants, especially those of the Indian Administrative Service are generalists and hence ill-suited to deal with policy implications of new technologies and new modes of thinking, the country is in dire need of domain experts. Nobody questioned the assumption so far as the government _ (4) _ [apply] it sparingly and also it is prima facie valid. The policy’s aim also to _ (5) _ [expands] manpower can only mean that the lateral entry will be as wide as regular recruitment and used as regularly. Neither the DoPT nor Ministries concerned cared to define domain expertise. What is common between the lateral entry policy and the push for simultaneous polls is a certain restlessness that the system has become too unwieldy to speed up development. The sentiment is honourable but misplaced. While _ (6) _[clarified] why the Constituent Assembly preferred the parliamentary over the presidential system, B.R. Ambedkar reflected the sense of the House that while the former is more responsible but less stable, the latter is more stable but less responsible. Of the three methods at our disposal to ensure the government is responsible, one is independence of judiciary; the second is to subject the executive to constant scrutiny of the legislature; and the third is to maintain bureaucratic neutrality. What _ (7) _ [affected] a civil servant is the spectre of having to answer to a quo warranto writ against his alleged action. If this dynamic _ (8) _ [governed] bureaucracy slow to act, it’s a welcome trait. In any case, a civil servant is expected to follow the decisions taken by the political executive which is the real master. The nation cannot escape the havoc likely to be _ (9) _ [ruin] by a large number of private sector experts becoming joint secretaries on three-to-five year contracts. Unless the government is mindful of the dangers, lateral entry can result in large swathes of higher bureaucracy being _ (10) _ [ingest] by the ‘nation-building’ zeal at the cost of accountability.
1)
a) Congruity
b) Synergy
c) Incongruence
d) Similitude
e) No change required
2)
a) Enunciated
b) Muffled
c) Confined
d) Adumbrated
e) No change required
3)
a) Suffice
b) Recourse
c) Floundered
d) Availed
e) No change required
4)
a) Enforce
b) Invoked
c) Scorned
d) Supplicate
e) No change required
5)
a) Augment
b) Aggrandizes
c) Mounts
d) Amputate
e) No change required
6)
a) Expatiated
b) Abridging
c) Elaborating
d) Interpreted
e) No change required
7)
a) Infested
b) Haunts
c) Retracts
d) Repudiate
e) No change required
8)
a) Obscures
b) Delineate
c) Evince
d) Renders
e) No change required
9)
a) Wrecked
b) Vandalize
c) Beefed
d) Sabotage
e) No change required
10)
a) Dissipate
b) Consumed
c) Hoarded
d) Deplete
e) No change required
Directions (11-15): Each of the following sentences are divided into parts, which are marked a, b, c and d. One of these parts may contain an error. Mark that part as your answer from the options given below and choose e if you find out there is no error. (Ignore punctuation error if any)
11) In the NAFTA negotiations Canada and Mexico are a)/resisting an America demand for a sunset clause b)/which would require re-approval of the accord every c)/ five years and thus discourage long-term investment d)/no error e)/
a) a
b) b
c) c
d) d
e) e
12) The Chinese government could easily disrupt their a)/operations on which American firms depend, it b)/could also try to drive up interest rates in the United c)/States’ government debt by selling part of its stash of Treasury bonds d)/no error e)/
a) a
b) b
c) c
d) d
e) e
13) The world is at critical junctures on many a)/planetary boundaries and establishing b)/a system that shows promise in improving it while c)/supporting people sustainably is surely one worth pursuing d)/no error e)/
a) a
b) b
c) c
d) d
e) e
14) Stock exchanges fell around the world from Tokyo to a)/London to New York, unsurprisingly, the losses were most b)/acute in China, where the Hang Seng share index c)/close down 3% and exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen fell by 4% and 5% d)/no error e)/
a) a
b) b
c) c
d) d
e) e
15) The government should also take steps to remove policy a)/barriers that have discouraged private investment in building supply b)/chains, until that happens, India huge biofuel c)/potential will continue to remain largely untapped d)/no error
a) a
b) b
c) c
d) d
e) e
Direction (16-20): In each of the following questions on phrase has been given and it has been followed by four sentences. You have to find out on which sentences phrase has been used properly according to its meaning and mark your answer from the options denoted a), b), c), d) Mark e) as your answer of you find that the phrase has been applied properly in all sentences.
16) Push for
a) i and ii
b) ii and iii
c) iii and iv
d) i and iii
e) All are correct
17) Stave off
a) i and iii
b) ii and iv
c) i and ii
d) All except iii
e) All are correct
18) Move up
a) ii and iv
b) ii and iii
c) All except iii
d) i and ii
e) All are correct
19) Head off
a) ii and iii
b) i and iv
c) i and iii
d) All except iv
e) All are correct
20) Turn aside
a) i and ii
b) iii and iv
c) ii and iii
d) i and iv
e) All are correct
Answers:
Direction (1-10)
1). Correct Answer is: c) according to the sentence incongruence will be used as it means imbalance or conflict
2). Correct Answer is: a) according to the sentence enunciated will be used as it means to state or put into words clearly
3). Correct Answer is: d) according to the sentence availed will be used as it means to make use of something
4). Correct Answer is: b) according to the sentence invoked will be used as it means to put into effect
5). Correct Answer is: a) according to the sentence augment will be used as it means to make something greater by adding to it
6). Correct Answer is: c) according to the sentence elaborating will be used as it means to specify or explain in detail
7). Correct Answer is: b) according to the sentence haunts will be used as it means to worry or stay disturbed
8). Correct Answer is: d) according to the sentence renders will be used as it means to make or cause to be/become
9). Correct Answer is: a) according to the sentence wrecked will be used as it means to destroy or put an end to
10). Correct Answer is: b) according to the sentence consumed will be used as it means to use up or drain
Direction (11-15)
11). Correct Answer is: b)
In part b in place of America it should be American
12). Correct Answer is: c)
In part c in place of in it should be on
13). Correct Answer is: c)
In part c in place of in it should be them
14). Correct Answer is: d)
In part d in place of close it should be closed
15). Correct Answer is: c)
In part c in place of India it should be India’s
Direction (16-20)
16). Correct Answer is: d)
The meaning of “push for” is to request or demand something and the phrase has been applied properly in i and iii sentences.
17). Correct Answer is: e)
The meaning of “stave off” is to keep or hold someone or something off or repel someone or something and the phrase has been applied properly in all sentences.
18). Correct Answer is: c)
The meaning of “move up” is to cause something to change or move to a higher or more advanced position and the phrase has been properly applied in i, ii and iv sentences.
19). Correct Answer is: d)
The meaning of “head off” is to divert someone or something or to depart and the phrase has been applied properly in i, ii and iii sentences.
20). Correct Answer is: c)
The meaning of “turn aside” is to refuse someone or something or to cause someone to turn from a certain way and the phrase has been applied properly in ii and iii sentences.
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