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Passage 1 :
1. Agricultural collectivities such as group based farming can provide the rural poor.
Ans: (B)
1. Empowerment
2. Increased agricultural productivity.
3. Safeguard against exploitative markets.
2. What does the author imply by “gender impact”?
Ans: (C)
(c) Women benefiting from group farming.
3. Consider the following assumptions:
Ans: (B)
2. Agricultural productivity can be increased by group approach to farming.
Passage 2
4. According to the passage, what does “deepening of democracy” mean in the Western context?
Ans: (D)
(d) None of the statements (a), (b) and (c) given above is correct in this context.
5. Greater democratization in India has not necessarily led to
Ans: (B)
(b) Irrelevance of community identity as a governing force in Indian politics.
6. What is the “silent revolution” that has occurred in the Indian democratic process?
Ans: (C)
(c) Social change through transfer of power from upper caste elites to subaltern groups.
7. Which lecture is scheduled on Monday?
Ans: (D)
(d) Statistics
8. Which lecture is scheduled between Statistics and English?
Ans: (B)
(b) History
9. Which lecture is the last one in the week?
Ans: (C)
(c) Mathematics
10. Which lecture is scheduled on Wednesday?
Ans: (C)
(c) English
11. Which lecture is scheduled before the Mathematics lecture?
Ans: (A)
(a) Economics
12. Two glasses of equal volume are respectively half and three-fourths filled with milk. They are then filled to the brim by adding water. Their contents are then poured into another vessel. What will be the ratio of milk to water in this vessel?
Ans: (D)
(d) 5:3
13. Consider the following statements:
1. All machines consume energy.
2. Electricity provides energy.
3. Electrically operated machines are cheap to maintain.
4. Electrically operated machines do not cause pollution.
Which one of the following inferences can be drawn from the above statements?
Ans: (D)
(d) Electrically operate machines are preferable to use.
14. Examine the following statements:
1. None but the rich can afford air-travel.
2. Some of those who travel by air become sick.
3. Some of those who become sick required treatment.
Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
Ans: (D)
(d) All those who travel by air are rich.
15. In five flats, one above the other, live five professionals. The professor has to go up to meet his IAS officer friend. The doctor is equally friendly to all, and has to go up as frequently as go down. The engineer has to go up to meet this MLA friend above whose flat lives the professor’s friend.
From the ground floor to the top floor, in what order do the five professionals live?
Ans: (D)
(d) Professor, Engineer, Doctor, MLA, IAS officer
Passage-3
16. What do you understand by the ‘instrumentalist’ view of education?
Ans: (A)
(a) Education is functional and utilitarian in its purposes.
17. According to the passage, education must be respected in itself because:
Ans: (C)
(c) It is an inner process of moral and intellectual development.
18. Education is a process in which:
Ans: (C)
(c) Individuals develop self-critical awareness and independence of thought.
Passage-4
19. “The evolution of pesticide resistance is natural selection in action.” What does it actually imply?
Ans: (C)
(c) Some individuals in any given population show resistance after the application of pesticides.
20. With reference to the passage, consider the following statements:
Ans: (C)
(c) 1 and 3 only
1. Use of chemical pesticides has become imperative in all the poor countries of the world.
3. One pest can develop resistance to many pesticides.
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