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+ pleasures of physical media -- is the right one. While the makers of Blu-ray discs claim they have a shelf life
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+ of 100 years, such statistics remain largely theoretical until they come to pass, and are dependent on storage
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+ conditions, not to mention the continued availability of playback equipment. The humble DVD has already
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+ proved far less resilient, with many early releases already beginning to deteriorate in quality Digital movie
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+ purchases provide even less security. Any film "bought" on iTunes could disappear if you move to another
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+ territory with a different rights agreement and try to redownload it. It's a bold new frontier in the
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+ commodification of art: the birth of the product recall. After a man took to Twitter to bemoan losing access to
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+ Cars 2 after moving from Canada to Australia, Apple clarified that users who downloaded films to their
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+ devices would retain permanent access to those downloads, even if they relocated to a hemisphere where the
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+ [content was] subject to a different set of rights agreements. Thanks to the company's ironclad digital rights
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+ management technology, however, such files cannot be moved or backed up, locking you into watching with
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+ your Apple account.
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+ Anyone who does manage to acquire Digital Rights Management free (DRM-free) copies of their favourite
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+ films must nonetheless grapple with ever-changing file format standards, not to mention data decay -- the
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+ gradual process by which electronic information slowly but surely corrupts. Only the regular migration of files
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+ from hard drive to hard drive can delay the inevitable, in a sisyphean battle against the ravages of digital time.
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+ In a sense, none of this is new. Charlie Chaplin burned the negative of his 1926 film A Woman of the Sea as a
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+ tax write-off. Many more films have been lost through accident, negligence or plain indifference. During a
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+ heat wave in July 1937, a Fox film vault in New Jersey burned down, destroying a majority of the silent films
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+ produced by the studio.
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+ Back then, at least, cinema was defined by its ephemerality: the sense that a film was as good as gone once it
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+ left your local cinema. Today, with film studios keen to stress the breadth of their back catalogues (or to put in
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+ Hollywood terms, the value of their IPs), audiences may start to wonder why those same studios seem happy
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+ to set the vault alight themselves if it'll help next quarter's numbers.
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+
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+ 1.
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+ "Netflix had begun editing old episodes of Stranger Things to retroactively improve their visual effects." What
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+ is the purpose of this example used in the passage?
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+
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+ A. To show that art in the digital age, specifically film, is no longer sacrosanct, and may be changed to suit
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+ changing tastes or technology.
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+
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+ B. To show that streaming services are controlling access to the cultural commons rather than expanding it.
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+
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+ C. To show how unsubstantiated reports are leading to an increase in the level of distrust towards streaming
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+ services.
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+
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+ D. To show a practice that justifies the fears of people who feel streaming services cannot be trusted to be
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+ custodians of cultural artefacts like film.
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+ in perpetuity, without the need to keep migrating the files.
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+
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+ B. When moving to a different geographical location, customers can easily use Virtual Private
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+ Networks (VPNs) to bypass geo-blocking and regain access to their content on any streaming service.
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+
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+ being primarily immutable and easily available to the public.
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+
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+ B. Accepting retroactive changes to works of art is dangerous because it will encourage creators to not put
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+ enough effort into the original attempt, given that they can always edit or update their work later.
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+
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+ C. Works of art belong to the cultural commons and hence must remain available in perpetuity,
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+ irrespective of who pays for access to them.
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+
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+ D. As art is increasingly created, stored and distributed digitally, access to it is counter intuitively likely to be
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+
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+
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+
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+ made more difficult by the rapid churn in technology and the whims of host platforms.
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+
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+ 4.
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+ Which of the following statements is suggested by the sentence "Back then, at least, cinema was defined by its
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+ ephemerality: the sense that a film was as good as gone once it left your local cinema"?
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+
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+ A. Today, films are expected to be available for a long time, since they are no longer tied solely to their stay at
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+ the local cinema.
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+
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+ B. Cinema is now no longer as ephemeral as it used to be earlier, because the technology used for creating and
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+ preserving films has improved manifold.
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+
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+ C. Presently, there is no reason why film studios should remove access to films once they have left the local
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+ cinema.
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+
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+ D. Around a century ago, people were more accepting of not having access to films once they left the local
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+ cinema.
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+ DIRECTIONS for the question: There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the
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+ paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.
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+
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+ age of music as British literature was with Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth __(2)__. The rebirth in both
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+ literature and music originated in Italy and migrated to England; the
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+ English madrigal became more humorous and lighter in England as compared to Italy. Renaissance music was
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+ mostly polyphonic in texture. ___(3)___. Extreme use of and contrasts in dynamics,
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+ rhythm, and tone colour do not occur. __(4)__. The rhythms in Renaissance music tend to have a smooth, soft
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+ flow instead of a sharp, well-defined pulse of accents.
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+
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+ A. Option 3
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+
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+ B. Option 4
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+
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+ C. Option 1
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+
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+ D. Option 2 somewhere on our planet. In the past, cartographers did not worry too much about who was going
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+ to read their maps. Although some simple "usability" research was done--like comparing whether circle or bar
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+ symbols worked best--cartographers knew how to make maps. This has changed now,
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+ however, due to all kinds of societal and technological developments. Today, map readers are more
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+ demanding--mostly because of the tools they use to read maps. Cartographers, who are also influenced by
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+ these trends, are now more interested in seeing if their products are efficient, effective,
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+ and appreciated.
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+
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+ A. Maps are being used for a variety of reasons and therefore map readers have become more demanding.
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+
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+ B. Today, cartographers also need to look into the usability of maps because of the new technological
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+ developments.
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+
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+ C. New technological developments have prompted cartographers to experiment with their maps by applying
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+ these new innovations.
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+
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+ D. Modern mapmakers evaluate a map's effectiveness efficiency and satisfaction of the user through a series
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+ of experiments.
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+
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+ DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 10: The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the
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+
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+
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+
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+ passage, choose the best answer for each question.
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+ ... [T]he idea of craftsmanship is not simply nostalgic. .. . Crafts require distinct skills, an all-round approach
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+ to work that involves the whole product, rather than individual parts, and an attitude that necessitates devotion
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+ to the job and a focus on the communal interest. The concept of craft emphasises the human touch and
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+ individual judgment.
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+ Essentially, the crafts concept seems to run against the preponderant ethos of management studies which, as
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+ the academics note, have long prioritised efficiency and consistency. . . . Craft skills were portrayed as being
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+ primitive and traditionalist.
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+ The contrast between artisanship and efficiency first came to the fore in the 19 century when British
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+
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+ For workers, the appeal of craftsmanship is that it allows them the autonomy to make creative choices, and
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+ thus makes a job far more satisfying. In that sense, it could offer hope for the overall labour market. Let the
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+ machines automate dull and repetitive tasks and let workers focus purely on their skills, judgment and
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+ imagination. As a current example, the academics cite the "agile" manifesto in the software sector, an industry
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+ at the heart of technological change. The pioneers behind the original agile manifesto promised to prioritise
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+ "individuals and interactions over processes and tools". By bringing together experts from different teams,
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+ agile working is designed to improve creativity.
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+ But the broader question is whether crafts can create a lot more jobs than they do today. Demand for crafted
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+ products may rise but will it be easy to retrain workers in sectors that might get automated (such as truck
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+ drivers) to take advantage? In a world where products and services often have to pass through regulatory
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+ hoops, large companies will usually have the advantage.
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+ they don't get too organised.
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+
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+ 7.
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+ The author questions the ability of crafts to create substantial employment opportunities presently because
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+
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+ A. crafts guilds tend to resist new entrants and are unlikely to accept large numbers of trainees.
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+
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+ B. regulatory requirements could make it difficult for small crafts outfits to compete.
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+
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+ C. workers made redundant by automation are unlikely to opt for crafts-related work.
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+
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+ D. the low scale of crafts production will not be able to absorb the mass of redundant labour.
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+
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+ 8.
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+ We can infer from the passage that medieval crafts guilds resembled mass production in that both
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+
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+ A. focused excessively on product quality.
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+
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+ B. discouraged innovation by restricting entry through strict rules.
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+
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+ C. did not necessarily promote creativity.
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+
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+ D. did not always employ egalitarian production processes.
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+
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+ C. a greater interest in buying locally produced goods.
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+
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+ D. concerns about the environmental impact of mass production.
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+ 10.
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+ Which one of the following statements is NOT inconsistent with the views stated in the passage?
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+
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+ A. Creativity in the crafts could be stifled if the market for artisan goods becomes too organised.
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+
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+ B. The Arts and Crafts movement was initially inspired by the "American system" of production.
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+
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+ C. We need to support the crafts; only then can we retain the creativity intrinsic to their production.
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+
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+ D. The agile movement in software is a throwback to the tenets of the medieval crafts guilds.
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+ DIRECTIONS for the question: The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the
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+ option that best captures the essence of the passage.
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+
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+ 11.
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+ Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that
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+ dwarf ours. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart
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+ attacks and strokes. Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to
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+ communicate over long distances, often miles. Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including
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+ joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It's not surprising that
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+ animals share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures, located in the limbic system, that
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+ are the seat of our emotions.
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+
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+ A. Animals are more intelligent than us in sensing danger and detecting diseases.
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+
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+ B. The advanced sensory and motor abilities of animals is the reason why they can display wide-
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+ ranging emotions.
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+ C. The similarity in brain structure explains why animals show emotions typically associated with humans.
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+
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+ D. Animals can show emotions which are typically associated with humans.
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+ marsupials called bandicoots. "Their muzzle, which is much too long, gives them an air exceedingly stupid,"
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+ one naturalist noted in
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+
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+ ecosystem, particularly the onslaught of imported British animals, from cattle and rabbits that damaged
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+ delicate desert vegetation to ravenous house cats that soon developed a taste for bandicoots. Several of the
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+ dozen-odd bandicoot species went extinct, and by the 1940s the western barred bandicoot, whose original
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+ range stretched across much of the continent, persisted only on two predator-free islands in Shark Bay, off
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+ Australia's western coast.
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+ "Our isolated fauna had simply not been exposed to these predators," says Reece Pedler, an ecologist with the
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+ Wild Deserts conservation program.
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+ Now Wild Deserts is using descendants of those few thousand island survivors, called Shark Bay bandicoots,
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+ in a new effort to seed a mainland bandicoot revival. They've imported 20 bandicoots to a preserve on the edge
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+ of the Strzelecki Desert, in the remote interior of New South Wales. This sanctuary is a challenging place,
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+ desolate much of the year, with one of the world's most mercurial rainfall patterns--relentless droughts
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+ followed by sudden drenching floods.
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+ The imported bandicoots occupy two fenced "exclosures," cleared of invasive rabbits (courtesy of Pedler's
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+ sheepdog) and of feral cats (which slunk off once the rabbits disappeared). A third fenced area contains the
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+ program's Wild Training Zone, where two other rare marsupials (bilbies, a larger type of bandicoot, and
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+ mulgaras, a somewhat fearsome fuzzball known for sucking the brains out of prey) currently share terrain with
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+ controlled numbers of cats, learning to evade them. It's unclear whether the Shark Bay bandicoots, which are
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+ perhaps even more predator-naive than their now-extinct mainland bandicoot kin, will be able to make that
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+ kind of breakthrough.
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+ For now, though, a recent surge of rainfall has led to a bandicoot joey boom, raising the Wild Deserts
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+ population to about 100, with other sanctuaries adding to that number. There are also signs of rebirth in the
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+ landscape itself. With their constant digging, the bandicoots trap moisture and allow for seed germination so
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+ the cattle-damaged desert can restore itself.
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+ They have a new nickname--a flattering one, this time. "We call them ecosystem engineers," Pedler says.
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+ 12.
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+ According to the text, the western barred bandicoots now have a flattering name because they have
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+ A. led a revival in preserving the species.
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+ B. led to a surge and increase of rainfall.
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+ C. grown fivefold in terms of population.
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+ D. aided in altering an arid environment.
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+ 13.
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+ The text uses the word 'exclosures' because Wild Deserts has adopted a measure of
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+ A. ridding the main desert of feral cats and large bilbies.
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+ B. barring the entry of invasive species.
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+ 15.
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+ Which one of the following statements provides a gist of this passage?
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+
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+ A. The negligent attitude of the British colonists towards these bandicoots evidenced by the names given to
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+ them led to their annihilation.
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+
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+ B. A type of bandicoots was nearly wiped out by invasive species but rescuers now pin hopes on a remnant
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+ island population.
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+ C. Marsupials are going extinct due to the colonial era transformation of the ecosystem which also destroyed
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+ natural vegetation.
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+
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+ D. The onslaught of animals, such as cattle, rabbits and housecats, brought in by the British led to the
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+ extinction of the western barred bandicoot.
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+
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+ DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 19: The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the
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+ passage, choose the best answer for each question.
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+ Oftentimes, when economists cross borders, they are less interested in learning from others than in invading
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+ their garden plots. Gary Becker, for instance, pioneered the idea of human capital. To do so, he famously
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+ tackled topics like crime and domesticity, applying methods honed in the study of markets to domains of
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+ nonmarket life. He projected economics outward into new realms: for example, by revealing the extent to
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+ which humans calculate marginal utilities when choosing their spouses or stealing from neighbors. At the
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+ same time, he did not let other ways of thinking enter his own economic realm: for example, he did not borrow
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+ from anthropology or history or let observations of nonmarket economics inform his homo economic us.
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+ Becker was a picture of the imperial economist in the heyday of the discipline's bravura.
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+ Times have changed for the once almighty discipline. Economics has been taken to task, within and beyond its
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+ ramparts. Some economists have reached out, imported, borrowed, and collaborated--been less imperial,
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+ more open. Consider Thomas Piketty and his outreach to historians. The booming field of behavioral
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+
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+
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+
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+ economics--the fusion of economics and social psychology--is another case. Having spawned active subfields,
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+ like judgment, decision-making and a turn to experimentation, the field aims to go beyond the caricature of
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+ Rational Man to explain how humans make decisions....
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+ It is important to underscore how this flips the way we think about economics. For generations, economists
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+ have presumed that people have interests--'preferences," in the neoclassical argot--that get revealed in the
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+ course of peoples' choices. Interests come before actions and determine them. If you are hungry, you buy
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+ lunch; if you are cold, you get a sweater. If you only have so much money and can't afford to deal with both
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+ your growling stomach and your shivering, which need you choose to meet using your scarce savings reveals
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+ your preference.
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+ Psychologists take one look at this simple formulation and shake their heads. Increasingly, even some
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+ mainstream economists have to admit that homo economic us doesn't always behave like the textbook
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+ maximizer; irrational behavior can't simply be waved away as extra-economic expressions of passions over
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+ interests, and thus the domain of other disciplines... .This is one place where the humanist can help the
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+ economist. If narrative economics is going to help us understand how rivals duke it out, who wins and who
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+ loses, we are going to need much more than lessons from epidemiological studies of viruses or intracranial
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+
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+ A. had begun to borrow concepts from other disciplines but were averse to the latter applying economic
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+ principles.
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+ B. benefitted from the application of their principles and concepts to non-economic phenomena.
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+ C. used economics to analyse non-market behaviour, without incorporating perspectives from other areas of
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+ inquiry.
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+ D. tended to guard their discipline from poaching by academics from other subject areas.
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+ decisions.
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+ C. judgemental about the ability of economic tools to accurately manage crises leading to the downfall of this
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+ lofty science.
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+ D. disparaging of economists' inability to precisely predict market behaviour, and are now borrowing from
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+ other disciplines to remedy this.
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+ 18.
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+ The author critiques Schiller's approach to behavioural economics for
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+
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+ A. denigrating the role of institutions while creating a link between behavioural economics and perceptions.
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+ B. linking emotions and rational behaviour without considering the mediation of social institutions.
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+ C. ignoring the marginal role that media and politics play in influencing people's behaviour.
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+ D. relying excessively on storytelling as the main influence on the formation of perceptions.
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+ 19.
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+ We can infer from the passage that the term "homo economic us" refers to someone
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+ A. maximises their opportunities based on nonmarket choices.
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+ B. makes rational decisions based on their own preferences.
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+ C. believes in borrowing and collaborating with other disciplines in their work.
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+ D. is not influenced by the preferences and choices of others.
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+ DIRECTIONS for the question: Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are
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+ given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key
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+ in the number of that sentence as your answer.
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+
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+ Singer viewed himself as a utilitarian, and presents a direct moral theory concerning animal rights, in contrast
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+ to indirect positions, such as welfarist views.
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+
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+ 3.
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+ He argued for extending moral consideration to animals because, similar to humans, animals have certain
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+ significant interests.
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+ DIRECTIONS for the question: The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the
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+ option that best captures the essence of the passage.
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+
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+ 21.
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+ Certain codes may, of course, be so widely distributed in a specific language community or culture,
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+ and be learned at so early an age, that they appear not to be constructed -- the effect of an articulation between
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+ sign and referent -- but to be 'naturally' given. Simple visual signs appear to have achieved a 'near-universality'
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+ in this sense: though evidence remains that even apparently 'natural' visual codes are culture specific.
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+ However, this does not mean that no codes have intervened; rather, that the codes have been profoundly
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+ naturalized. The operation of naturalized codes reveals not the transparency and 'naturalness' of language but
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+ the depth, the habituation and the near-universality of the codes in use.
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+ They produce apparently 'natural' recognitions. This has the (ideological) effect of concealing the practices of
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+ coding which are present.
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+ A. All codes, linguistic and visual, have a natural origin but some are so widespread that they become
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+ universal. This is what hides the mechanism of coding behind signs.
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+
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+ B. Learning linguistic and visual signs at an early age makes all such codes appear natural. This naturalization
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+ of codes is the effect of ideology.
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+ C. Not all codes are natural but certain codes are naturalized and made to appear universal. Ideology aims to
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+ hide the mechanism of coding behind signs.
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+
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+ D. Language and visual signs are codes. However, some of the codes are so widespread that they not only
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+ seem naturally given but also hide the mechanism of coding behind the signs.
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+ DIRECTIONS for the question: Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are
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+ given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key
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+ in the number of that sentence as your answer.
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+
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+ When more people use buses or trains the service usually improves because public-transport agencies run
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+ more buses and trains.
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+
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+ 3.
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+ Worsening services on public transport, terrorist attacks in some urban metros and a rise in fares have been
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+ blamed for this trend.
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+ 4.
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+ It seems more likely that public transport is being squeezed structurally as people's need to travel is
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+ diminishing as a result of smartphones, video-conferencing, online shopping and so on.
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+
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+ survival benefit. There is no overarching, grand planner engineering the systems so that they work
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+ harmoniously together. __(3)__. The brain is more like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on
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+ every floor, and less like new construction ___4__.
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+
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+ A. Option 3
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+
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+ B. Option 1
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+
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+ C. Option 2
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+ D. Option 4
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+ 24.
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+ Sentence: Understanding central Asia's role helps developments make more sense not only across
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+ Asia but in Europe, the Americas and Africa.
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+ Paragraph: The nations of the Silk Roads are sometimes called 'developing countries', but they are actually
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+ some of the world's most highly developed countries, the very crossroads of civilization, in advanced states of
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+ disrepair.__(1)__. These countries lie at the centre of global affairs: they have since the beginning of history.
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+ Running across the spine of Asia, they form a web of connections fanning out in every direction, routes along
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+ which pilgrims and warriors, nomads and merchants have travelled, goods and produce have been bought and
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+ sold, and ideas exchanged, adapted and refined.__(2)__-- . They have carried not only prosperity, but also
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+ death and violence, disease and disaster.___(3)__. The Silk Roads are the world's central nervous system,
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+ connecting otherwise far-
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+ flung peoples and places....___(4)__. It allows us to see patterns and links, causes and effects that remain
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+ invisible if one looks only at Europe, or North America.
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+
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+ A. Option 1
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+
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+ B. Option 4
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+ C. Option 2
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+ D. Option 3
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+ The game of QUIET is played between two teams. Six teams, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, play in a QUIET
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+ tournament. These teams are divided equally into two groups. In the tournament, each team plays every other
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+ team in the same group only once, and each team in the other group exactly twice. The tournament has several
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+ rounds, each of which consists of a few games. Every team plays exactly one game in each round. The
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+ following additional facts are known about the schedule of games in the tournament.
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+
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+ 1.
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+ Each team played against a team from the other group in Round 8.
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+
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+
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+
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+ 4.
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+ Team 1 played Team 5 ONLY once and that was in Round 2.
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+
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+ 5.
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+ Team 3 played Team 4 in Round
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+
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+ 3.
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+ Team 1 played Team 6 in Round 6.
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+
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+ What is the number of the team that played Team 1 in Round 5?
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+
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+ 27.
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+ Which team among the teams numbered 2, 3, 4, and 5 was not part of the same group?
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+
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+ A. 4
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+
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+ B. 5
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+
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+ C. 3
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+
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+ D. 2
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+
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+ 28.
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+ What is the number of the team that played Team 1 in Round 7?
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+
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+
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+
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+ 2.
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+ USA (in ROW) is the only country that was visited by all three of them.
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+
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+ 3.
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+ China (in Asia) is the only country that was visited by both Dheeraj and Nitesh, but not by Samantha.
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+
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+ 4.
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+ France (in Europe) is the only country outside Asia, which was visited by both Dheeraj and Samantha, but not
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+ by Nitesh.
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+
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+ How many countries in Europe were visited only by Nitesh?
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+
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+ 32.
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+ How many countries in the ROW were visited by both Nitesh and Samantha?
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+
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+ 33.
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+ How many countries in Europe were visited by exactly one of Dheeraj, Samantha and Nitesh?
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+
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+ A. 5
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+
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+ B. 10
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+
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+ C. 12
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+
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+ D. 14 [IMAGE: image_1.png]
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+ particular day. The vertical axis shows the price of the share in rupees. A share whose closing price (price at
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+ the end of the day) is more than its opening price (price at the start of the day) is called a bullish share;
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+ otherwise, it is called a bearish share. All bullish and bearish shares are shown in green and red colour
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+ respectively.
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+
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+ C. F
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+
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+ D. D
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+
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+
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+
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+ 35.
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+ Daily Share Price Variability (SPV) is defined as (Day's high price - Day's low price) / (Average of the
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+ opening and closing prices during the day). How many shares had an SPV greater than 0.5 on that day?
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+
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+ 36.
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+ Daily loss for a share is defined as (Opening price -- Closing price) / (Opening price). Which among the shares
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+ A, B, F and G had the highest daily loss on that day?
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+
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+ A. G
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+
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+ B. F
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+
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+ C. A
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+
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+ D. B
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+
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+ 37.
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+ What would have been the percentage wealth gain for a trader, who bought equal numbers of all bullish shares
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+ at opening price and sold them at their day's high?
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+
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+ A. 50%
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+
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+ B. 100%
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+
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+ C. 72%
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+
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+ D. 80%
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+ [IMAGE: image_2.png]
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+ and
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+
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+ D. The number of stars received by A and B from the six web surfers is shown in the figure below.
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+ The following additional facts are known regarding the number of stars received by the bloggers from the
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+ surfers.
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+
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+ Each blogger received a different number of stars from M.
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+
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+ 4.
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+ Two surfers gave all their stars to a single blogger.
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+
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+
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+
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+ 5.
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+ D received more stars than C from Y.
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+
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+ B. 0
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+
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+ C. 5
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+
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+ D. cannot be determined
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+
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+ 40.
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+ How many surfers distributed their stars among exactly 2 bloggers?
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+
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+ 41.
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+ Which of the following can be determined with certainty?
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+ I. The number of stars received by C from M
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+ II. The number of stars received by D from O
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+
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+ A. Neither I nor II
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+
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+ B. Both I and II
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+
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+ C. Only I
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+
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+ D. Only II
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+ [IMAGE: image_3.png]
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+ Students will vote based on the intensity level of Amiya's and Ramya's campaigns and the type of campaigns
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+ they run. Each campaign is said to have a level of 1 if it is a staid campaign and a level of 2 if it is a vigorous
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+ campaign. Campaigns can be of two types, they can either focus on issues, or on attacking the other candidate.
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+ If Amiya and Ramya both run campaigns focusing on issues, then The percentage of students voting in the
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+ election will be 20 times the sum of the levels of campaigning of the two students. For example, if Amiya and
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+ Ramya both run vigorous campaigns,
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+ then 20 x (2+2)%, that is, 80% of the students will vote in the election.
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+ Among voting students, the percentage of votes for each candidate will be proportional to the levels of their
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+ campaigns. For example, if Amiya runs a staid (i.e., level 1) campaign while Ramya runs a vigorous (i.e., level
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+
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+ 2)
569
+ campaign, then Amiya will receive 1/3 of the votes cast, and Ramya will receive the other 2/
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+
571
+ have otherwise voted for Ramya, will not vote at all.
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+ If both run campaigns attacking each other, then 10% of the students who would have otherwise voted for
573
+ them had they run campaigns focusing on issues, will not vote at all.
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+
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+
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+
577
+ 42.
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+ If both of them run staid campaigns attacking the other, then what percentage of students will vote in the
579
+ election?
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+
581
+ A. 60%
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+
583
+ B. 64%
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+
585
+ C. 40%
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+
587
+ D. 36%
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+
589
+ 43.
590
+ What is the minimum percentage of students who will vote in the election?
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+
592
+ A. 32%
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+
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+ B. 40%
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+
596
+ C. 36%
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+
598
+ D. 38%
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+
600
+ 44.
601
+ If Amiya runs a campaign focusing on issues, then what is the maximum percentage of votes that she can get?
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+
603
+ A. 40%
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+
605
+ B. 36%
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+
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+ C. 48%
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+
609
+ D. 44%
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+
611
+ C. 12%
612
+
613
+ D. 18%
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+
615
+
616
+
617
+ 46.
618
+ What is the maximum possible voting margin with which one of the candidates can win?
619
+
620
+ A. 20%
621
+
622
+ B. 29%
623
+
624
+ C. 26%
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+
626
+ D. 28%
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+
628
+ A. 6
629
+
630
+ B. 1
631
+
632
+ C. 4
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+
634
+ D. 3
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+
636
+ 48.
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+ Two places A and B are 45 kms apart and connected by a straight road. Anil goes from A to B while
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+ Sunil goes from B to
639
+
640
+ A. Starting at the same time, they cross each other in exactly 1 hour 30 minutes.
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+ If Anil reaches B exactly 1 hour 15 minutes after Sunil reaches A, the speed of Anil, in km per hour,
642
+ is
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+
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+ A. 14
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+
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+ B. 12
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+
648
+ C. 16
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+
650
+ D. 18
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+
652
+ with each digit appearing exactly once in every number, is 153310 + n, where n is a single digit natural
653
+ number. Then, the value of (a + b + c + d + n) is
654
+
655
+ 51.
656
+ In September, the incomes of Kamal, Amal and Vimal are in the ratio 8 : 6 :
657
+
658
+
659
+
660
+ 5.
661
+ They rent a house together, and Kamal pays 15%, Amal pays 12% and Vimal pays 18% of their respective
662
+ incomes to cover the total house rent in that month. In October, the house rent remains unchanged while their
663
+ incomes increase by 10%, 12% and 15%, respectively. In October, the percentage of their total income that
664
+ will be paid as house rent, is nearest to
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+
666
+ A. 13.26
667
+
668
+ B. 14.84
669
+
670
+ C. 12.75
671
+
672
+ D. 15.18
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+
674
+ 52.
675
+ An amount of Rs 10000 is deposited in bank A for a certain number of years at a simple interest of 5% per
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+ annum. On maturity, the total amount received is deposited in bank B for another 5 years at a simple interest
677
+ of 6% per annum. If the interests received from bank A and bank B are in the ratio 10 :
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+ 13, then the investment period, in years, in bank A is
679
+
680
+ A. 4
681
+
682
+ B. 6
683
+
684
+ C. 3
685
+
686
+ D. 5 x2 x2 x2
687
+
688
+ 1
689
+
690
+ A. B. 3
691
+
692
+ C. 1
693
+
694
+ D. 4 1 3
695
+
696
+ 56.
697
+ In the XY-plane, the area, in sq. units, of the region defined by the inequalities x2 y2 y x + 4 and - 4 + +_ 5 (x
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+ - y) 0 is
699
+
700
+ A. 3
701
+
702
+ B. 2
703
+
704
+ C. D. 4
705
+
706
+
707
+
708
+ 57.
709
+ A glass is filled with milk. Two-thirds of its content is poured out and replaced with water. If this process of
710
+ pouring out two-thirds the content and replacing with water is repeated three more times,
711
+ then the final ratio of milk to water in the glass, is
712
+
713
+ A. 1 : 26
714
+
715
+ B. 1 : 80
716
+
717
+ C. 1 : 27
718
+
719
+ D. 1 : 81
720
+
721
+ C. 537
722
+
723
+ D. 665
724
+
725
+ 59.
726
+ The surface area of a closed rectangular box, which is inscribed in a sphere, is 846 sq cm, and the sum of the
727
+ lengths of all its edges is 144 cm. The volume, in cubic cm, of the sphere is
728
+
729
+ A. 1125
730
+
731
+ B. 750
732
+
733
+ C. 1125
734
+
735
+ D. 750 2 2
736
+
737
+ 60.
738
+ The selling price of a product is fixed to ensure 40% profit. If the product had cost 40% less and had been sold
739
+ for 5 rupees less, then the resulting profit would have been 50%. The original selling price,
740
+ in rupees, of the product is
741
+
742
+ A. 10 B.15
743
+
744
+ C. 20
745
+
746
+ D. 14
747
+
748
+
749
+
750
+ 61.
751
+ A shop wants to sell a certain quantity (in kg) of grains. It sells half the quantity and an additional 3 kg of
752
+ these grains to the first customer. Then, it sells half of the remaining quantity and an additional 3 kg of these
753
+ grains to the second customer. Finally, when the shop sells half of the remaining quantity and an additional 3
754
+ kg of these grains to the third customer, there are no grains left. The initial quantity, in kg, of grains is
755
+
756
+ A. 42
757
+
758
+ B. 18
759
+
760
+ C. 36
761
+
762
+ D. 50
763
+
764
+ D. 22
765
+
766
+ 63.
767
+ ABCD is a rectangle with sides AB = 56 cm and BC = 45 cm, and E is the midpoint of side CD. Then,
768
+ the length, in cm, of radius of in circle of ADE is 1 1 k 1 1 1 1 3 k
769
+
770
+ 65.
771
+ The sum of all real values of k for which , is 8 32768 8 32768 4 2 4 2
772
+
773
+ A. B.
774
+
775
+ C. D.
776
+ 3 3 3 3
777
+
778
+ 66.
779
+ Suppose x , x , x ,..... x are in arithmetic progression such that x = -4 and 2x , 2x = x + x .
780
+ 1 2 3 100 5 6 9 11 13
781
+ Then, x equals.
782
+ 100
783
+
784
+ A. 204
785
+
786
+ B. -194
787
+
788
+ C. 206
789
+
790
+ D. -196
791
+
792
+ Then the value of a + a + ....+a is 1 2 50