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Question No. 1-0.25+1 Marks
Direction: In the following passage there are highlighted words, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five options are given. In four options, one word is suggested in each option. Find out the appropriate word which can replace the highlighted word. If the highlighted word fits the passage, choose option ‘e’ (No correction required) as the correct choice.
Question: The Supreme Court allowed the government’s abrogation (131) to take over the management of the thriving (132) real estate major Unitech Ltd. and appointed a new board of directors to steer the completion of pending projects and provide homes for over 12,000 investors in dire straits. A Bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and M.R. Shah appointed former IAS officer Yudvir Singh Malik as the chairman and managing director of the new board while refusing to give a/an vacant (133) on the board to Unitech Group founder Ramesh Chandra at this stage. “The idea of a professional board is to allow them to take control of the company and complete the pending projects in the interest of homebuyers,” the court said. The board includes A.K. Mittal, ex-CMD of National Buildings Construction Corporation; Renu Sud Karnad, chairman of HDFC Credila Finance Service Pvt Ltd.; Jitu Virwani, CMD of Embassy Group; and Niranjan Hiranandani, managing director of Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group.The court subjugated (134) the institution of any fresh cases against Unitech for two months. Old orders and enforcement of them also stand suspended for the period. Unitech promoters Sanjay Chandra and his brother Ajay Chandra are currently granted (135) in Tihar jail for allegedly laying (136) off homebuyers’ money. The court said the probe into irregularities in the company would continue and said the work of a panel led by former Delhi High Court judge, Justice S.N. Dhingra, appointed to sell the company’s assets and use the money in completion of pending projects, would continue to work till the new board comes up with a resolution (137) framework. The court indicated that it would appoint a retired SupremeCourt judge to monitor the preparation of resolution framework. The top court directed the present management of the company, forensic auditors, asset reconstruction companies, banks and financial institutions and state governments to intend (138) cooperation to the new board.
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Environmental or genetic influences antisocial conduct of a human being, which has an impact on behaviour, such as conduct disorder. In a recent study conducted, young people with conduct disorders had their brains examined, along with controls that were healthy and did not have the disease. The thickness of various regions of the cortex and the brain's outer layer was measured using the scanned images. It was demonstrated in the study that conduct disorder is a psychiatric condition rather than adolescent disobedience. Awareness, perception, attention, memory and language are all impacted by the cortex. The findings of the study were unexpected. They demonstrated distinct disparities between adolescents whose behavioural issues began in adolescence and those whose issues began earlier in life. Although both groups were different from healthy controls, it was discovered that distinct regions of the cortex in the teenagers who had experienced early-onset behavioural issues were thicker in comparison to the healthy participants.
Question:
Which of the following is NOT impacted by the cortex?
In each of the questions given below a sentence is given with three words in bold. Choose the option which gives the correct sequence of these words to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
The Supreme Court has been asking States to reservation (A)quantifiable data to justify (B) their levels of produce (C).
Direction: In each sentence four words are given in bold. In which one word is either misspelt
or grammatically inappropriate, choose it as your answer. If all the words are correct choose option (E), i.e., No Error.
Question: During the framing of the Indian(A) Constitution, it was
proposed that any petition alleging a (B) brech of (C) fundamental
rights by the state ought to be(D) judicially decided within one
month.
Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
There are many other takeaways. While pre-poll surveys suggested that inflation topped voters’ ___(1)___, abortion rights came second. While the Republicans tried to cash in on voter ___(2)___ over high inflation, many of their candidates’ anti-abortion positions did not help them in the polls. Second, the results showed that Donald Trump is not as powerful as he appeared to be. During the Republican primaries, the former U.S. President’s endorsement mattered a lot. But it does not carry the same weight in the general elections. Several of the candidates he ___(3)___ were defeated, while at least two Republican winners were unwelcome to him — Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. While Mr. Trump is expected to make his 2024 bid this week, many Republicans are already ___(4)___ him for the party’s less-than-expected performance. The results have also underscored the unstoppable ___(5)___ of Mr. DeSantis. His landslide win in what was called a swing State has ___(6)___ calls by Republican donors for his presidential bid. Many see Mr. DeSantis as a more ideologically disciplined right-winger than Mr. Trump (who, in their view, could lead the party to victory). The midterm has set the stage for 2024. The Democrats have lost ground, but still stay strong. The Republicans are set to take the House but are internally divided, and right-wing extremism is not winning the party votes. How the parties address these challenges will ___(7)___ their fate in 2024.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
Direction: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5) i.e. 'No Error'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
Question: Many multinational companies (1)/ have not been as (2) /successful in India (3) /than we expected. (4)/ No error (5).
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the given questions based on the
information provided in the passage.
New employee orientation programs have been shown to socialize newcomers and increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities upon completion. These types of programs are perhaps the most influential piece of an employees development. Although many organizations include orientation as part of their new employee development tactics, few truly utilize its full scope. New employee orientation programs are deliberate attempts by an organization to introduce a new employee to what working for the organization will be like. Although orientations can teach some important skills and
abilities, they also teach new employees about the organization’s history, goals, values, people, politics, and language. Orientation programs start off the socialization process and help the new employee fit into his or her new surroundings. New employee orientation programs may sometimes feel like a stale period of high anxiety and stress while training takes place when these potentially harmful feelings
have most likely been resolved. A great deal of time and money is spent every year socializing and technically training employees.
Making sure this investment is well spent should be a central concern. However, this is not always the case. Because training is expensive, organizations should make sure they are effectively preparing employees to run for on-the-job success by delivering the proper training content and teaching it the right way. Assessing the training needs of new employees consumes time and money, but it sends the message that the organization is committed to the development of its employees, to giving them the
right tools to perform and putting them in a position where they can succeed, all of which are recognized goals of new employee orientation programs. Helping a new employee fit into his or her job and organization is important when considering job satisfaction, commitment, and retention.Whether potential candidates accept the job or not is somewhat influenced by how well they believe they will fit into that company. Thus, developing an orientation program that will not only properly
train new hires, but successfully introduce them to their new organization is extremely important. The attributes an employee needs to succeed on the job, including those desired upon entry into the job, can be found through an analysis of the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential functions of the job. Since technical skills training is meant to enhance those skills and abilities needed for a job, it makes sense that training should have a close___________(I)___________ to whether or not a new employee fits into his or her environment. A big difference between Japanese and western organizations is that orientation programs are much more important to Japanese organizations because they want to cement a lasting relationship with new employees. Thus, the Japanese approach to selection and recruitment also works hand in hand. Japanese firms hire almost entirely at the entry-level. This is done so that the new arrival can be properly trained and socialized into the organization to be a good fit. The length of this process can vary from six months to three years, whereas in many western organizations a new employee merely completes the required HR paperwork and is then suddenly expected to execute the role for which he or she was hired.
Question: Why do most organizations invest in orientation programs, despite the fact that assessing the training needs of new employees consumes time and money?
Direction: The following questions consist of a sentence with a highlighted phrase which may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the most suitable option that will replace the incorrect highlighted phrase to form a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence. If the given highlighted phrase is correct, choose option (e) i.e. “no replacement required” as your answer choice.
Question: If this is freedom of speech, then it must been curtailed immediately.
The sentence has been divided into three parts, identify the error segment in the sentence given below. Choose no enur if there is no error in the sentence.
Before the meeting/ began, he will have already /left for his lunch break.
In the following passage some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The study, published today in a magazine, finds that kids (1)______played only indivishal sports, like tennis or gymmanstics, tended to (2)______more mental health difficulties. As a researches, Hoffman has long been interested in how sports (3)_______the psychological health of young people, partly because studies have (4)_____both positive and negative associations between mental health and sporta (5)______in children and adolescents.
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 5.
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the questions as directed.Start-ups troubled by the so-called angel tax may soon receive some (A)……….. from the government. On Monday, the Centre set up a five-member working committee to look into revising the (B)norms of the angel tax imposed on start-ups. The tax, which was first introduced in 2012 to curb money-laundering through the (i) at bloated prices, has caused a lot of anguish among start-up investors in the country. Startup owners have complained that income tax officials have asked many start-ups to cough up money when they try to attract capital into their entities by issuing new shares. For its part, the IT department fears that start-ups may be used as convenient tools to launder illegally acquired money, so a tax on investments beyond a certain threshold is (ii). (C) But while the (1) unintended of such an angel tax may be (2) benefits, the arbitrary nature of it means the cost of (3) intent consequences could be larger than the supposed (4) justifiable. In trying to curb money-laundering, Section 56(2)(viib) of the Indian Income Tax Act, 1961 gives income tax officials a free hand to harass even genuine start-ups looking to raise investments for their growth. Under the Act, the IT department is free to arbitrarily decide the fair value of a company’s share and tax start-ups if the price at which their new shares are sold to investors is higher than the fair value of these shares. The broad-brush tax on all investments means an unnecessary cost is (iii)community simply because of the lack of better means at the government’s disposal to tackle black money.The committee set up by the government will, among other things, consider raising the threshold beyond which new investments into start-ups will be taxed. It is expected that start-ups with aggregate paid-up share capital and share premium of less than ?25 crore, against the previous threshold of only ?10 crore, will not be taxed while attracting new investment. This would definitely make life easier to a certain extent for angel investors and start-ups. But it will not address the real problem with the angel tax, which has to do with the unbridled power that it vests in the hands of the income tax authorities. Investors, foreign or domestic, may become wary of investing in new ideas when they are taxed while risking money on untested ventures. So the government should look to withdraw the angel tax and focus instead on building the capability to better identify and rein in illegal wealth. Otherwise it risks killing the nascent start-up ecosystem in the country.
Question: Which of the following words should fill in the blank in (A) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?
Direction: In each of the questions given below a sentence is given with one blank. Below each sentence FOUR words are given out of which two can fit the sentence. Five options are given with various combinations of these words. You have to choose the combination with the correct set of words which can fit in the given sentence.
Question: The Dysart Unified School District says they are investigating threats made _____________ the district and Dysart High School. (A) Towards (B) Against (C) For (D) After
