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Analyse
the following passage and provide an appropriate answer for the questions 1
and  2

Since
power is itself a value, forms of influence which include power in their scope
are usually  themselves forms of power.
The king’s mistress, though she has only influence, not power, over  the king, may have power over his subjects in
the degree of that influence. Forms of influence  based on power are  themselves forms of  power 
only  if the scope  of  the
influence  is included  within that of the power in question. The
king may exercise influence over standards of morality,  say, by virtue of his power position, but he
does not necessarily exercise power over morality. 

1. Which combination of  following 
statements best summarises the idea 
expressed in the  paragraph?  

1. Strength of an influence determines its
power. 

2. Influence always contributes power to
the welder of influence beyond the scope of influence.  3. Proximity to authority is itself a source
of power. 

4. Forms of influence are power only if
they can influence behaviour. 

A.
1, 2              B.
1, 3              C.
1, 4                          D.
1, 3, 4          E.
1, 2, 4  

2.
Which of the following is similar to ideas expressed in the paragraph?  

A. A king can influence what dramas are
enacted by artists. 

B. A king can influence who acts in dramas
in his kingdom. 

C. A king can indicate the appropriateness
of dramas enacted. 

D. A king can influence the prices charged
from drama groups by actors. 

E. A king can influence on what drama
audience spend their money.   

Questions
3-15: Go through the questions below and answer them.

3.
As man casts off worn-out garments and puts on others which are new, similarly
the embodied  soul, casting off worn-out
bodies, enters into others which are new. Of the following, which  one best typifies the argument?  

A. Inductive generalization 

B. Predictive argument 

C. Argument from authority 

D. Causal argument 

E. Argument from analogy

4.
All the parliamentarians whom the reporter interviewed told that they had voted
as per their  conscience. Therefore,
probably  all  the 
parliamentarians voted as per their conscience.  This 
argument is an example of:  

A. Inductive generalization 

B. Predictive argument 

C. Generalization based on authority 

D. Deduction generalizationz

E. Argument from analogy

5.
Nature  lovers are  attracted to forests  and nature 
parks. Just look at the 
number  of  people 
visiting the Corbett national park. Which of the following exhibits a
pattern of reasoning least  dissimilar to
the one exhibited in the argument above?  

A. Defence 
personnel who  are  trained in extremely  rigorous procedures  often end up 
as  dysfunctional members of the
society. Hence if an officer is not trained rigorously, such an officer is more
likely to be useful to the society. 

B. This machinery has increased the work
efficiency of the workers. As a result, some of these  workers are surplus to the company. 

C. Fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas 
more so than during cooler weather. 

D. Cigarette smoking is known to cause lung
cancer in some people. However, most victims of 
lung cancer live in regions where smoking is uncommon. 

E. Alcoholics and teetotalers usually
appear at the same restaurant at the same time of the day.  Therefore, alcoholics are teetotalers must be
hungry at the same time.   

6.
In this era of global capital flows, so much money is now flowing throughout
the world that no  single country can
fight the problem of inflation effectively by tightening its monetary policy.  

If
above is true, which of the following could be most logically concluded?  

A. Changes in cash reserve ratio by Reserve
Bank of India will control the rate inflation in India.  B. Countries finance ministers have
sufficient control over their respective economies. 

C. Countries finance ministers have
insufficient control over their respective economies. 

D. Inflation does not matter as long as
incomes increase. 

E. Citizens should limit their consumption
which will  reduce  the demand 
of  products, thus  reducing inflation.   

7.
Many  entrepreneurs try  to control the  composition of  their boards of  directors, but more  experienced entrepreneurs tend to share  control, inviting  participation from institutional  investors and outside directors.   

Which
option best summarizes the idea  that
might be  guiding  experienced entrepreneurs

behaviour? 

A. The 
experienced entrepreneurs expect experienced directors to monitor
the  performance  of  the
enterprise and be a sounding board. 

B. The 
experienced entrepreneurs expect the institutional investors to support
the opinion of  entrepreneurs on all
major decisions. 

C. The experienced entrepreneurs expect the
institutional investors and outside directors to agree  to higher remuneration for the board
members. 

D. Experienced entrepreneurs expect the
experienced directors to engage  in
day-to-day  management of the
company. 

E. More the number of influential people on
board, the easier it is to raise finances. 

8.
“There  is nothing  so stupid as an educated man, if you can get
him  off the thing  he  was
educated in.” 

Which
of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the author’s
contention? 

A. True education implies a well-rounded
exposure to major subjects. 

B. An educated man will not discuss things
which he does not understand. 

C. The cost of a  general education has led to the unfortunate  fact that a person’s education is 

confined to one field. 

D. Stupidity, like  intelligence, is relative and therefore  depends on the  intelligence 
of the  persons peers. 

E. Education is one of the main causes of
people recognizing their capabilities and developing them further.  

9.
Ram, an economist, and Ramesh, an astrologer, had a debate. Ram said “Astrology
does not  work. It just cannot predict.”
“It can predict better than your subject” rebutted Ramesh. 

The
evidence that best resolves the above debate will be: 

A. Conduct a survey  among scientists asking which one of the  two should be 
considered as a  science. 

B. Compare past performance of astrologers
and economists in terms of number of predictions  which have come true. 

C. Conduct a survey among economists asking
their opinion regarding the ability of economic 
theory to predict economic phenomena. 

D. Conduct an experiment where both
astrologers and economists would be asked to predict the future. Compare the
number of predictions that come true. 

E. Conduct an experiment where both
astrologers and economists would be asked to predict the  future. Compare the percentage of predictions
that come true.  

10.
Which of the following sentences draws a metaphor?  

A. Karl Marx  argued that the interests  of two classes –  the 
proletariat and  the  bourgeois – 
are  always in conflict and
irreconcilable. 

B. Karl Marx labelled the capitalist a
parasite on the back of labour because the whole value or  produce created by the labouring man was
expropriated by the capitalist. 

C. Weber held that the protestant
ethic  was responsible for  the rise 
of  capitalism in medieval  Europe. 

D. Galbraith argued for a better balance
between private affluence and public poverty, including measures to protect the
environment against the excesses of private companies. 

E. Schumpeter argued that changes in
economy are brought about by creative destruction.   

11.
Which sentence includes an example of personification?  

A. Banjaras 
of  Rajasthan are  the human equivalent of  an endangered species and have  no 
defence against the encroachment of farmers onto their ancestral
lands. 

B. Take airline pilots for example; they do
not need to be graduates to qualify for this job and  most pilots are on a salary of Rs. 300,000
per month or more.  

C. Recent research provided stark evidence
that in education money still plays an important role;  it was found that children from poor
households could not perform as well as children from  rich households. 

D. Girls in the family should have a share
in the ancestral property as a matter of right whether  the will includes it explicitly or not. 

E. Democracy does not help the common
citizen and it ultimately degenerates into an oligarchy.   

12.
Which sentence suffers most from hyperbole?  

A. Most 
collectors of coins would give 
the Earth to own one  of  the 
copper coins issued  by  Mohammad Bin Tughlaq. 

B. It is thought that eating  raw tomatoes would greatly  reduce 
the risk of  cancer, but tomato  sauce can have a greater effect since it is
made from many raw tomatoes. 

C. Cricket has a great following in India,
but the twenty-twenty format took the game to nook and corner of the
world. 

D. We face an imminent drinking water
crisis in India as the population growth is accompanied  by a general decrease in rainfall. 

E. Nuclear fusion has potential to solve
the energy crisis of not only our country, but that of the  entire world.   

13.
Which sentence includes a euphemism?  

A. Cell phone network signals are weak in
the hilly regions. 

B. Bottled water is reputed to be safe for
drinking under all circumstances. 

C. A cemetery is a place where people are
buried when they pass away. 

D. It is stupid to cry over split
milk. 

E. Criminal court arbitrates between the
parties to the case.

14.
Which of the following contains a non-sequitur?  

A. If 
statisticians are  made  judges, they 
will  accept or  reject arguments based on probability  analyses. 

B. Public trust in politicians is at an all
time low and we can’t insist that the politicians go back 

to school. 

C. Before preparing the annual budget, the
CEO of XYZ Steel Limited takes opinion of all the stakeholders. 

D. In cricket, the batting average does not
always reflect a batsman’s ability because it does not 

reflect how many wins he was instrumental
for. 

E. Ordinary 
citizens do not have sufficient grasp of economic indicators to validate
published  inflation data.   

15.
Recommence is to suspend as: nonchalant is to:  

A. carefree 

B. beleaguered 

C. tirade 

D. agreement 

E. disagreement

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Answers

1(c)    2(c)    
3(e)    4(a)     5(c)    
6(c)   7(a)    8(a)    
9(e)    10(b)    11(c)     
12(a)      13(c)       14(b)    
15(b)

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