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Directions (Q. 1-10) In the following
passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage
and against each five words are suggested one of which fits the blank
appropriately. Find out the appropriate
word in each case.
The chasm between India’s flourishing
cities and bleak rural hinterland is narrowing.
Spread across 650000 villages, with an average population of 1100, rural
villagers were long (1) by city dwellers as primitive, impoverished and
irrelevant, something to drive past on the way to something else. That is no longer the (2). A new prosperity is (3) in rural India, with
tens of millions entering the pressure-cooker and television-owning class and
tens of thousands becoming sippers of Scotch, (4) of premium tractors and
drivers of multiple sedans.
The opening of this new frontier of
consumer demand from 700 million people could tip India’s role in the global
economy from seller to buyer, from a vendor of outsourced skills to a source of
consumers for the world’s (5).
Multinational corporations, appear increasingly (6) to understand Indian
villagers. Rural dwellers are now nearly
twice as likely to be crorepatis as city dwellers in Bangalore, the
high-technology hub, according to the National Council for Applied Economic
Research. It may be a trickle, but
India’s urban prosperity is flowing to the countryside and well-to-do villages are
early testing grounds of (7) the benefits of India’s economic makeover and
opening to the world will flow to its villagers, many of them living in its
poorest rural nooks. The (8) of such
villages will also add fuel to the debate over democracy’s influence on
economic development. Indian has been
faulted for growing more lethargically than China, in part because of its
democracy. But the new rural prosperity
(9) that the high cost of democracy also has a hidden benefit. By compelling each politician to (10) results
to his own narrow constituency, democracy spreads economic change more
thinly. But that in turn broadens the
consensus in favour of change, perhaps making liberalzation more sustainable in
India than in China.
1.
(a) wished
(b) awaited
(c) imagined
(d) abolished
(e) drawn
2.
(a) question
(b) case
(c) feature
(d) issue
(e) views
3.
(a) emerged
(b) visual
(c) associating
(d) sprouting
(e) instilling
4.
(a) sellers
(b) owners
(c) makers
(d) marketers
(e) hirers
5.
(a) price
(b) wares
(c) stuff
(d) commodity
(e) today
6.
(a) aware
(b) disinterested
(c) keen
(d) intend
(e) tough
7.
(a) really
(b) about
(c) since
(d) if
(e) whether
8.
(a) transformation
(b) propensity
(c) downfall
(d) revolution
(e) decrease
9.
(a) suggests
(b) narrates
(c) says
(d) shows
(e) remarks
10.
(a) derive
(b) distribute
(c) give
(d) seek
(e) deliver
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Answers
1(c) 2(b) 3(d)
4(b) 5(d) 6(c)
7(e) 8(a) 9(a)
10(c)