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English Language Ability Quiz for XAT entrance exam

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This quiz consists of questions from past actual XAT papers. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below and soon we'll let you know the correct answers!

Analyse the following passage and  provide  an  appropriate  answer  for  the question  nos. 1 through 2 that follow. 

In  Hume's  eyes  productive labour  was the  greatest asset of  a  country, and foreign trade  was  valuable because it enabled a nation to use more and more varied labour than would otherwise be  possible. But commerce was of mutual advantage to the nations involved, not a benefit to one and injury to other. "The increase of riches and commerce in any one nation," added Hume, "instead  of hurting, commonly, promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours." "The emulation  in rival nations serves ... to keep industry alive in all of them." 

1. The importance of foreign trade, in eyes of Hume, was due to that:  

A. it allowed the employment of surplus labour in a nation. 

B. it allowed the diversion of labour to export oriented industries. 

C. it allowed the deeper specialisation of the same labour force. 

D. it allowed varied application of labour force in a nation. 

E. it allowed application of varied labour force in a nation.  

2. As per Hume, free trade between nations was made advantageous by the outcome of:  

A. mutual increases in riches and commerce. 

B. emulation of industrial activity by different nations. 

C. affable promotion of industrial activity among nations. 

D. productive employment of labour in different nations. 

E. higher wages received by labour in exporting nations.  

Questions (3-5): Identify the correct sentences from the options given below.   

3. 

A. When kite flying you can always tell when you lose a kite because the string feels loose. 

B. When kite flying you can always tell when you loose a kite because the string feels lose. 

C. When kite flying you can always tell when you loose a kite because the string feels loose.  D. When flying a kite, you can, always tell when you lose a kite because the string feels lose.  E. While flying a kite, you can always tell if you lost a kite when the string felt lose.  

4. 

A. If  XAT  aspirants had not taken so long  checking  each  question before  attempting  the next  question they might not have run out of time. 

B. If XAT aspirants had taken so long checking each question before attempting the next question  they might not have run out of time. 

C. Had XAT aspirants not took so long  checking every  question before  attempting  the next question they might not have run out of time. 

D. If  XAT  aspirants had took so long  checking  each and every  question before  attempting  the next question they might not have run out of time. 

E. Had XAT aspirants not  taken so long  checking  all  questions before  attempting  the next  question they might not have run out of time.  

5. 

A. The news channel agreed to report that next Sunday the couple had been married for 10 years. 

B. The news channel agreed to report that next Sunday the couple will have been married for 10  years. 

C. The news channel agreed to report that next Sunday the couple will be married for 10 years.  D. The news channel agreed to report that next Sunday the couple could have been married for 10 years. 

E. The  news channel agreed to report that next Sunday  the  couple has been married since  10 years.  

For questions 6 & 7 go through the following passage.  

The Yoga system is divided into two principal parts -- Hatha and Raja Yoga. Hatha Yoga deals  principally with the physiological part of man with a view to establish his health and train his will. The  processes prescribed to arrive  at this end are  so difficult  that only  a  few resolute  souls go  through all the stages of its practice. Many have failed and some have died in the attempt.  It is therefore  strongly  denounced by  all  the philosophers. The  most  illustrious Shankaracharya  has remarked in his treatise called Aparokshanubhuti that "the system of Hatha Yoga was intended for  those whose worldly desires are not pacified or uprooted."  

6. Which one  of  the following, if true, most  substantially  strengthens the idea  given in the passage?  

A. The percentage of people in a given ashram practicing Raja Yoga is more than the percentage  of people practicing Hatha Yoga. 

B. The number of  people in a  given  ashram practicing Raja Yoga  is more  that the number of  people practicing Hatha Yoga. 

C. The number of Yoga schools teaching Raja Yoga is more than the number of Yoga schools  teaching Hatha Yoga. 

D. The  number  of  teachers  teaching  Raja Yoga  is more  than the number  of teachers teaching Hatha Yoga. 

E. The  percentage  of  students who have  successfully  learnt Raja Yoga  is more  than the  percentage of students who have successfully learnt Hatha Yoga.  

7. Which of the following option best reflects Shankaracharya's comments on Hatha Yoga?  

A. Hatha Yoga is for those whose worldly desires are not placated. 

B. Hatha Yoga has disastrous consequences for Yoga practitioners. 

C. Practiced under the guidance of experts, Hatha Yoga is better than Raja Yoga for some people. 

D. Raja Yoga gives better results and in a shorter time period for most people, and therefore it  should be encouraged. 

E. Hatha Yoga is ill-suited for people with strong worldly desires.  

Analyse the following  passage and  provide  and  appropriate  answer  of  the questions 8  through 10 that follow.

The greens success has clear policy implications, especially on issues of nuclear power, ecological tax  reform, and citizenship rights. But success also has implications for  parties themselves. Greens have always faced a unique "strategic conundrum arising from their unique beliefs and movement roots. Put simply, how can they reconcile their radical alternative politics with participation in mainstream or "grey parliamentary and government structures? Throughout  the 1990s most parties shed their radical cloth in an attempt to capture votes, even at the expense  of party unity and purity. Most were rewarded with electoral success well beyond what had been  imaginable in the 1980s. The price to pay has been tortured internal debates about strategy, and new questions about green party  identity  and purpose. Today  the key  questions facing  green  parties revolve around not whether to embrace power, but what to do with it. More specifically,  green parties face three  new challenges in the new millennium: first, how to carve out a policy  niche  as established parties and governments become wiser to green demands, and as green  concerns themselves appear more  mainstream. Second, how to make  green ideas beyond the confines of rich industrialised states into Eastern Europe and the developing world where green  parties remain marginal and environmental problems acute. Third, how to ensure that the broader  role of green parties- as consciousness raisers, agitators, conscience of parliament and politics- is  not sacrificed on the altar of  electoral success. Green parties have  come  a  long  way  since  their  emergence and development in the 1970s and 1980s. They have become established players able  to shape  party  competition, government formation, and government policy. But this very  "establishment carries risk for a party whose core values and identities depend mightily on their ability  to challenge  the  conventional order, to agitate and to annoy. For  most  green  parties, the  greatest fear  is not electoral decline  so much  as the prospect of  becoming  a  party  with parliamentary platform, ministerial voice, but nothing to say. 

8. Which out of the following is closest in meaning to the first three challenges mentioned in the  paragraph?  

A. Niche of green parties is being eroded by mainstream parties. 

B. Green parties are finding it difficult to find new strategy. 

C. Green parties have become stronger over a period of time. 

D. Some green parties are becoming grey. 

E. Non green parties are becoming less relevant than green parties.  

9. Which of the following is the most important point that author highlights?  

A. Challenges  before  green parties  to change  their strategy  from green  activism  to green  governance. 

B. How should green parties win confidence and support of governments? 

C. Transformation of green parties in recent decades. 

D. Green movement is not strong in developing countries. 

E. Non green parties are becoming less relevant than green parties.  

10. How best can mainstream political parties, in India, keep green parties at bay?  

A. By imposing a green tax. 

B. By allowing carbon trading. 

C. By including green agenda in their governance. 

D. By hiring Al Gore, the Nobel prize winner, as an ambassador. 

E. By not letting green parties fight elections. 

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