Quiz-1

Question 1

Time: 00:00:00

1). Despite posting healthy profits, Volkswagen shares trade at a discount to peers due to bad reputation among investors.

2). A disastrous capital hike, an expensive foray into truck business and uncertainty about the reason for a share buyback have in recent years left investors bewildered.

3). The main problem with Volkswagen is the past.

4). Many investors have been disappointed and frightened away.

5). Volkswagen shares trade at about nine times the 2002 estimated earnings, compared to BMW's 19 and are the second cheapest in the sector.

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13254

14253

14235

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Question 2

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1). The impetus for change in cargo handling, after years of operational inefficiency, has come from new private sector facilitators.

2). Other ports, both major and minor, have spurred into action.

3). And the government agrees this is having a cascading effect on the functioning of other ports.

4). In terms of cargo handling efficiency, some of India's ports have lately undergone a sea change.

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4132

4213

4312

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Question 3

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1). Since independence, every political party has played communal card whenever election time draws near. 2). In fact, the caste and communal cards have been fine-tuned to an art form in the political games that are played in this country. 3). This was seen when the Youth Congress(I) goons were given a free hand to terrorise Sikhs all over the country after Indira Gandhi's assassination. 4). When each party carefully selects political candidates on the basis of religion or caste, it is encouraging and continuing the divide-and-rule tactics of its colonial masters. 5). And no political party can absolve itself on this count; worse, political parties take on board hoodlums and gangsters who use their clout in political circles to settle scores and extract money.

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14523

15423

14532

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Question 4

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1.It lost the popular vote at the most recent election, remaining in power thanks only to assiduous gerrymandering. 2.Since then news has emerged of the looting of hundreds of millions of dollars from a state development agency. 3.Malaysia’s current government, alas, is unlike its predecessors. 4.Officials in America have indirectly accused Najib Razak (pictured), the prime minister, of pocketing some of the missing money, along with his stepson and others.

CABD

ABCD

BACD

DACB

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Question 5

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A. To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world. B. Nor is it confined to one social class; quite the contrary. C. It is by no means confined to “culture” narrowly understood as an acquaintance with the arts. D. Cultural literacy constitutes the only sure avenue of opportunity for disadvantaged children, the only reliable way of combating the social determinism that now condemns them. E. The breadth of that information is great, extending over the major domains of human activity from sports to science.

A E C B D

D E C B A

A C E B D

D C E B A

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Question 6

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1. Picture a termite colony, occupying a tall mud hump on an African

plain.

A. Hungry predators often invade the colony and unsettle the

balance.

B. The colony flourishes only if the proportion of soldiers to 

workers remains roughly the same, so that the queen and workers 

can be protected by the soldiers, and the queen and soldiers can 

be serviced by the workers.

C. But its fortunes are presently restored, because the immobile

queen, walled in well below ground level, lays eggs not only in 

large enough numbers, but also in the varying proportions required.

D. The hump is alive with worker termites and soldier termites 

going about their distinct kinds of business.

6. How can we account for her mysterious ability to respond like 

this to events on the distant surface?

DACB

BACD

DBAC

ABCD

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Question 7

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1. The concept of a ‘nation-state’ assumes a complete correspondence between the boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state. A. Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries, making a mockery of the concept. B. There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be (and often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation. C. Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided across several states. D. This, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere a fiction. 6. However, the fiction has been, and continues to be, at the basis of nationalist ideologies.

DACB

BACD

DBAC

ABCD

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Question 8

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A. Since then, intelligence tests have been mostly used to separate dull children in school from average or bright children, so that special education can be provided to the dull. B. In other words, intelligence tests give us a norm for each age. C. Intelligence is expressed as intelligence quotient, and tests are developed to indicate what an average child of a certain age can do: what a 5-year-old can answer, but a 4-year-old cannot, for instance. D. Binet developed the first set of such tests in the early 1900s to find out which children in school needed special attention. E. Intelligence can be measured by tests.

EDACB

DECBA

ACBED

DBCAE

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Question 9

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A. If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught another lash of the whip. B. The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise. C. Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training. D. This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivations of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse, starvation so that they would be forced to steal food to survive. E. Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure.

ECDAB

BECDA

BCDAE

ECADB

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Question 10

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A. A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like. B. I would go to sleep in my hotel room around midnight each night, and when I awoke, my mailbox would be full of replies—sent at 1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m. C. One senior told me that she went to bed around two and woke up each morning at seven; she could afford that much rest because she had learned to supplement her full day of work by studying in her sleep. D. Faculty members gave me the names of a few dozen articulate students, and I sent them e-mails, inviting them out to lunch or dinner in small groups. E. As she was falling asleep she would recite a math problem or a paper topic to herself; she would then sometimes dream about it, and when she woke up, the problem might be solved.

DABCE

ADBCE

AECBD

DACEB

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