Verbal and logical question

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1. Identify the incorrect sentence/sentences.
A. Everyone appreciated the headmaster's
implication in raising flood relief in the
village.
B. This syrup will help your cold.
C. Do you know how many trees are killed
to make a truckload of paper?
D. It's a service lift; don't get into it.
(a) A and B (b) Only C
(c) Only A (d) C and D
A. If we advertise we will get twice as much
business as we have now.
B. Your suggestions look great on the paper,
but are absolutely impractical.
C. The shopkeeper showed us a bolt of fine
silk.
D. Nagasaki suffered from the fallout of
nuclear radiation.
(a) Only A (b) Only B
(c) Only C (d) A, C and D
A. She did not have passing marks in
mathematics.
B. I got there just after you left – a near miss!
C. I have my hand full, I cannot do it today.
D. He has a great eye for detail.
(a) A and B (b) Only C
(c) B and C (d) A and D
A. Our team scored a goal against the run of
play.
B. The police fired a round of tear gas shells.
C. After the long hike our knees were
beginning to buckle.
D. You will find the paper in the file under C.
(a) A and C (b) B and C
(c) A, B and D (d) None of these
5. In the following sentence, a part of the
sentence is underlined. Beneath each
sentence, four different ways of paraphrasing
the underlined part are indicated. Choose the
best alternative among the four options.
The Romanians may be restive under Soviet
direction — but they are tied to Moscow by
ideological and military links.
(a) they are tied to Moscow by ideological
and military links
(b) they are preparing for a great revolution
(c) secretly they rather enjoy the prestige of
being protected by the mighty Soviets
(d) there is nothing they can do about it
In a penetrating study, CBS-TV focuses on
these people without hope, whose bodies are
cared for by welfare aid, but whose spirit is
often neglected by a disinterested society.
(a) whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid
(b) who do not have enough to eat
(c) whose hopelessness may be alleviated
(d) who may be physically satiated
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Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
No of questions: 60 Marks for correct answer: 3
Time: 90 minutes Negative mark: 1

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Contemplating whether to exist with an
insatiable romantic temperament, he was the
author and largely the subject of a number of
memorable novels.
(a) Contemplating whether to exist
(b) Combining realistic details
(c) Miscegenating a brilliant mind
(d) Aware that he had been born
In Martin Amis' new novel, the narrator is
trapped — and hurtling towards a terrible
secret. Its resolution, and the dreadful
revelations it brings, ally to give an
excruciating vision of guilt.
(a) ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt
(b) to us give a vivid picture of guilt
(c) is a painful picture of a guilt-ridden world
(d) does not really solve all the questions in
the narrator's mind
Directions for questions 9 to 12: Read the passage
to answer the following questions.
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King
George III, the British Government sent a fleet to
colonize Australia. Never had a colony been founded
so far from its parent state, or in such ignorance of
the land it occupied. There had been no
reconnaissance. In 1770, Captain James Cook had
made landfall on the unexplored east coast of this
utterly enigmatic continent, stopped for a short while
at a place named Botany Bay and gone north again.
Since then, no ship had called – not a word, not an
observation, for 17 years, each one of which was
exactly like the thousands that had preceded it,
locked in its historical immensity of blue heat, bush,
sandstone and the measured booming of glassy
pacific rollers.
Now, this coast was to witness a new colonial
experiment, never tried before, not repeated since.
An unexplored continent would become a jail. The
space around it, the very air and sea, the whole
transparent labyrinth of the South pacific, would
become a wall 14,000 miles thick.
The late 18th century abounded in schemes of social
goodness thrown off by its burgeoning sense of
revolution. But here, the process was to be reversed:
not utopia, but Dystopia; not Rousseau’s natural man
moving in moral grace amid free social contract, but
man coerced, deracinated, in chains. Other parts of
the Pacific, especially Tahiti, might seem to conform
Rousseau. But the intellectual patrons of Australia,
in its first colonial years, were Hobbes and Sade. In
their most sanguine moments, the authorities hoped
that it would eventually swallow a whole class-the
“criminal class”, whose existence was one of the
prime sociological beliefs of late Georgian and early
Victorian England. Australia was settled to defend
English property not from the frog-eating invader
across the Channel but from the marauder within.
English lawmakers wished not only to get rid of the
“Criminal class” but if possible to forget about it.
Australia was a Cloaca, invisible, its contents filthy
and unnamable.
To most Englishmen this place seemed not just a
mutant society but another planet-an exiled world,
summed up in its popular name, “Botany Bay”. It
was remote and anomalous to its white creators. It
was strange but close, as the unconscious to the
conscious mind. There was as yet no such thing as
“Australian” history or culture. For its first forty years,
everything that happened in the thief-colony was
English. In the whole period of convict transportation,
the Crown shipped more than 160,000 men, women
and children (due to defects in the records, the true
number will never be precisely known) in bondage to
Australia. This was the largest forced exile of citizens
at the behest of a European government in pre-
modern history. Nothing in earlier penology compares
with it. In Australia, England drew the sketch for our

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own century’s vaster and more terrible fresco of
repression, the Gulag. No other country had such a
birth, and its pangs may be said to have begun on
the afternoon of January 26, 1788, when a fleet of
eleven vessels carrying 1,030 people, including 548
male and 188 female convicts, under the command
of captain Arthur Phillip in his flagship Sirius, entered
Port Jackson or, as it would presently be called,
Sydney Harbor.
9. When the author refers to “the marauder
within”, he is referring to:
(a) the working class.
(b) the lower class.
(c) the criminal class.
(d) the Loch Ness monster.
10. According to the passage, the intellectual
mentors of Australia could be :
(a) Hobbes and Cook
(b) Hobbes and Sade
(c) Phillip and Jackson
(d) Sade and Phillip
11. Which of the following does not describe what
the English regarded Australia to be :
(a) a mutant society.
(b) an exiled world.
(c) an enigmatic continent.
(d) a new frontier.
12. Elsewhere, according to the author, the late
eighteenth century saw a plethora of:
(a) moral grace
(b) social welfare programs
(c) free social contracts
(d) social repression
Directions for questions 13 to 16: Read the
passage to answer the following questions:
Humans have probably always been surrounded by
their kin – those to whom they have been related by
blood or marriage. But the size, the composition,
and the functions of their families and kinship groups
have varied tremendously. People have lived not only
in the “nuclear family”, made up of just the parents
and their offspring, which is standard in the West
and has been found almost everywhere, they have
lived in extended families and in formal clans; they
havebeen“avunculocal”;theyhavebeen“ultrolateral”,
they have been conscious of themselves as heirs of
lineages hundreds of generations deep. However
constructed, the traditional kinship group has usually
provided those who live in it with security, identity,
and indeed with their entire scheme of activities and
beliefs. The nameless billions of hunter-gatherers
who have lived and died over the past several million
years have been embedded in kinship groups, and
when people started to farm about ten thousand
years ago, their universe remained centered on
kinship. Now that there was a durable form of wealth
which could be hoarded-grain–some families became
more powerful than other; society became stratified,
and genealogy became an important means of
justifying and perpetuating status.
During the past few centuries, however, in parts of the
world-in Europe and the countries that have been
developing along European lines-a process of
fragmentation has been going on. The ties and the
demands of kinship have been weakening, the family
has been getting smaller and, some say, less
influential, as the individual, with a new sense of
autonomy and with new obligations to himself (or,
especially in the last decade and a half, to
herself),has come to the foreground. A radically
different mental order-self-centered and traceable not
to any single historical development as much as to
the entire flow of Western history since at least the
Renaissance-has taken over. The political and
economic effects of this rise in individual self-
consciousness have been largely positive: civil rights
are better protected and opportunities are greater in
the richer, more dynamic countries of the West; but
the psychological effects have been mixed , at best.
Something has been lost: a warmth, a sanity, and a
supportiveness that are apparent among people
whose family networks are still intact. Such qualities
can be found in most of the Third World and in rural
pockets of the U.S., but in the main stream of post-
industrial society the individual is increasingly left to
himself, to find meaning, stability, and contentment
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An indication of how far the disintegration of traditional
kinship has advanced is that a surprising number of
Americans are unable to name all four of their
grandparents. Such people have usually grown up
in step-families, which are dramatically on the rise.
So is the single – parent family-the mother-child unit,
which some anthropologists contend is the real
nucleus of kinship, having already contracted to the
relatively impoverished nuclear family, partly as an
adaptation to industrialization. Kinship seems to be
breaking down even further. With the divorce rate in
America at about fifty percent and the remarriage
rate at about seventy five, the traditional Judeo-
Christian scheme of marriage to one person for life
seems to be shading into a pattern of serial
monogamy, into a sort of staggered polygamy, which
some anthropologists, who believe that we aren’t
naturally monogamous to begin with, see as “a return
of normality”. Still other anthropologists explain what
is happening somewhat differently; we are adopting
delayed system of marriage, they say, with the
length of the marriage chopped off at both ends. But
many adults aren’t getting married at all; they are
putting “self-fulfillment” before marriage and children
and are having nothing further to do with kinship after
leaving their parents’ home; their family has become
their work associates or their circle of best friends.
This is the most distressing trend of all; the decline
in the capacity of long-term intimate bonding.
13. The traditional kinship group provides:
(a) security
(b) identity
(c) entire scheme of activity
(d) All of the above
14. Which of the following is indicative of the
extent of disintegration of kinship groups?
(a) A large number of Americans are unable
to name all four of their grandparents
(b) Growing number of single-parent families
(c) Increase in the average age at which
males get married
(d) Both (a) and (b)
15. Which of the following statements is not true?
(a) When people started to farm ten thousand
years ago, kinship became less important.
(b) Somefamiliesbecamemorepowerfulthan
others after farming was initiated.
(c) Genealogy became an important means
of perpetuating status after the advent of
farming.
(d) Stratification of society was a result of
hunter – gatherers taking up farming.
16. According to the author, what has been
sacrificed with the rise in individual self-
consciousness?
(a) Sanity (b) Supportiveness
(c) Warmth (d) All of the above
Directions for questions 17 to 20: Read the
passage to answer the following questions.
The great galleon lay in semi-retirement under the
sand, weed and water of the northern bay where the
fortune of war and weather had long ago ensconced
it. Three and a quarter centuries had passed since
the day when it had taken to the high seas as an
important unit of a fighting squadron—precisely which
squadron the learned were not agreed. The galleon
had brought nothing into the world, but it had,
according to tradition and report, taken much out of
it. But how much? There again the learned were in
disagreement. Some were as generous in their
estimate as an income-tax assessor, others applied
a species of higher criticism to the submerged
treasure chests, and debased their contents to the
currency of goblin gold. Of the former school was
Lulu, Duchess of Dulverton.
The Duchess was not only a believer in the existence
of a sunken treasure of alluring proportions; she also
believed that she knew of a method by which the
said treasure might be precisely located and cheaply
disembedded. An aunt on her mother’s side of the
family had been Maid of Honour at the Court of
Monaco, and had taken a respectful interest in the
deep-sea researches in which the Throne of that
country, impatient perhaps of its terrestrial
restrictions, was wont to immerse itself. It was
through the instrumentality of this relative that the

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Duchess learned of an invention, perfected and very
nearly patented by a Monegaskan savant, by means
of which the home-life of the Mediterranean sardine
might be studied at a depth of many fathoms in a
cold white light of more than ball-room brilliancy.
Implicated in this invention (and, in the Duchess’s
eyes, the most attractive part of it) was an electric
suction dredge, specially designed for dragging to
the surface such objects of interest and value as
might be found in the more accessible levels of the
ocean-bed. The rights of the invention were to be
acquired for a matter of eighteen hundred francs,
and the apparatus for a few thousand more. The
Duchess of Dulverton was rich, as the world counted
wealth; she nursed the hope of being one day rich at
her own computation. Companies had been formed
and efforts had been made again and again during
the course of three centuries to probe for the alleged
treasures of the interesting galleon; with the aid of
this invention she considered that she might go to
work on the wreck privately and independently. After
all, one of her ancestors on her mother’s side was
descended from Medina Sidonia, so she was of the
opinion that she had as much right to the treasure
as any one. She acquired the invention and bought
the apparatus.
17. Why does the author refer to the home life of
the Mediterranean Sardine?
(a) To give the reader an idea of the
importance of the invention.
(b) Scientists across the world are busy
studying the Mediterranean Sardine.
(c) The home of sardines is on the sea bed
i.e. at a great depth. The invention allows
the observer to see clearly at that depth.
(d) Details of the home life of sardines is
highly useful in sardine farming.
18. What is meant by the rights of the invention?
(a) Rightsoftheinventionmeansthedrawings
of the invention
(b) Patent rights
(c) The right to do further research on the
invention
(d) The inventor’s equity
19. How did the galleon take much out of the
world?
(a) The loss of the galleon was a great loss
to the world
(b) Many sailors died when the galleon sank
(c) The sinking of the galleon was a great
setback to the builders
(d) A large quantity of bullion sank with the
ship
20. Why is the galleon said to be lying in
semi-retirement?
(a) It will never see active service again
(b) It may be salvaged for service again some
day
(c) People have not forgotten the ship. Driven
by curiosity people visit the ship from time
to time.
(d) Retired ships are cannibalized. This ship
has not been cannibalized yet
21. If L is the brother of the son of P’s son, then
how is L related to P?
(a) Grand son (b) Uncle
(c) Brother (d) Father
22. If Teena’s mother was Uday’s mother’s only
daughter, then how was Uday related to
Teena?
(a) Maternal grand father
(b) Maternal Uncle
(c) Cousin
(d) Son
23. R told S that U is T‘s sibling but not brother of
T. How is U related to T?
(a) Mother (b) Father
(c) Aunt (d) Sister
24. If Akshay is the brother of the son of Sunil’s
son, then what relationship is there between
Akshay and Sunil?
(a) Nephew (b) Brother
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25. If P is the mother of Q and R, and S is the
husband of R, then how is P related to S?
(a) Mother (b) Aunt
(c) Son-in-law (d) Mother-in-law
26. Hema, who is Sahil’s daughter, says to Anjali,
“Your mother, Rekha, is the younger sister of
my father Sahil”. How is Sahil’s father related
to Anjali?
(a) Father (b) Grandfather
(c) Father-in-law (d) Brother
27. Ashish said to Himani, “Son of your father’s
only son is my wife’s brother”. How is Himani
related to wife of Ashish?
(a) Sister (b) Aunt
(c) Mother (d) Cannot be explained
28. Among her children, Ganga’s favourites are
Ram and Rekha. Rekha is the mother of
Sharat, who is loves most by his uncle Mithun.
The head of the family is Ram Lal, who is
succeeded by his sons Gopal and Mohan.
Gopal and Ganga has been married for 35
years and have 3 children. What is the relation
between Mithun and Mohan?
(a) Uncle (b) Son
(c) Brother (d) No relation
29. Rahul and Robin are brothers. Pramod is
Robin’s father. Sheela is Pramod’s only sister.
Prema is Pramod’s niece. Shubha is Sheela’s
granddaughter. How is Rahul related to
Shubha?
(a) Brother (b) Cousin
(c) Uncle (d) Nephew
30. Mr.andMrs.Gopalhave3daughtersandeach
daughter has one brother. How many persons
are there in the family?
(a) 5 (b) 6
(c) 7 (d) 8
31. A walks 2 km Southward then takes a right
turn and walks 5 km, then turns left and walks
3 km then turns left and walks 5 km. In which
direction is he now from the starting point?
(a) East (b) South
(c) North (d) West
32. Aman walks Southwards, then turns by 45°
in his right direction and then take a left turn.
In which direction is he walking now?
(a) South (b) East
(c) South-west (d) South-east
33. Mr Ajay started from his house, walked 4 km
in North, then 6 km in West, then 12 km in
South. How far was he from his home?
(a) 10 km (b) 12 km
(c) 22 km (d) 6 5 km
34. Mr P stands with his face pointing to South-
east. P walks 25 m and then turns Northwards
and walked another
25
m.
2
How far was he
then from the starting point?
(a) 20 m (b)
25
m
2
(c) 25 m (d) 25 34 m
35. Aditya faces North and covers 24 km, turns
West and covers 12 km, then turns South
and covers 6km, and turns West again and
covers 12 km. How far is he from the starting
point (in km) and in which direction?
(a) 24 2 km, North-west
(b) 30 km, North-west
(c) 24 km, North-east
(d) 30 km, North-east
36. Rajesh walks 40 km towards North. He then
turns left and walks 80 km. He again turns
left and walks 40 km. Then he moves 40 km
after turning to the right. How far is he from
the stating point?
(a) 80 km (b) 100 km
(c) 120 km (d) 160 km
37. Starting from O, Vivek walked 40 m towards
South, then he turned left and walked 60 m.
He again turned left and walked 40 m. He
once again turned left and walked 80 m and
reached at D. How far and in which direction
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(a) 20 m, East (b) 40 m, West
(c) 20 m, West (d) 20 m, South
38. Krishna walks 40 m towards North. Then after
turning right he walks 60 m. Then he turns
right and walks 70 m. After that he turns left
and walks 30 m. Then he again turns left and
walks 30 m. In which direction with respect
to the initial position and at how much
distance is he from the starting point?
(a) 60 m, East (b) 90 m, East
(c) 60 m, North (d) 30 m, West
39. Uttam ran 40 m east, then turned right and
ran 20 m and then turned to right and ran
18 m and turned to left and ran 10 m and then
turned to left, ran 24 m and finally turned to
left and ran 12 m. Now he is running towards
which direction?
(a) West (b) North
(c) South (d) East
40. Narendra travels 20 km to the North, then he
turns left and travels 8 km, then he turns right
and covers another 10 km and then he turns
right and travels another 8 km. How far is he
from the starting point?
(a) 8 km (b) 40 km
(c) 30 km (d) 20 km
41. An accurate clock shows 8 O’clock in the
morning. Through how many degrees will the
hour-hand rotate when the clock shows
2 O’clock in the afternoon?
(a) 30° (b) 180°
(c) 90° (d) 150°
42. At 3 : 40, the hour-hand and the minute-hand
of a clock form an angle of:
(a) 120° (b) 125°
(c) 130° (d) 140°
43. The angle between the minute-hand and the
hour-hand of a clock when the time is
4 : 20, is:
(a) 10° (b) 15°
(c) 5° (d) 20°
44. How many times do the hands of a clock
coincide in a day?
(a) 24 times (b) 22 times
(c) 20 times (d) 23 times
45. How many times in a day, do the hands of a
clock form a right angle?
(a) 24 times (b) 48 times
(c) 22 times (d) 44 times
46. Which among the following years is a leap
year?
(a) 1900 (b) 1800
(c) 1700 (d) 2800
47. The first Republic Day of India was celebrated
on 26th January, 1950. What was the day of
the week on that date?
(a) Wednesday (b) Thursday
(c) Friday (d) Saturday
48. Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October,
1869. The day of the week was
49. India got Independence on 15th August 1947.
What was the day of the week on that day?
50. If today is Saturday, then what day of the week
will be on the 338th day from today?
(a) Monday (b) Friday
(c) Sunday (d) Saturday
51. In a row of 70 students, Ram is 23rd from the
front end and Komal is 38th from the back
end. What is the position of a student from
the front who is standing exactly between Ram
and Komal?
(a) 30th (b) 25th
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52. Some children are sitting in a row. If Karan is
shifted two positions to his right, he will
become 13th from the right end. If he is shifted
3 positions to his left, he will be 12th from the
left end. How many children are sitting in this
row?
(a) 29 (b) 30
(c) 28 (d) 31
53. In a row there were 45 students. If Manish is
17th to the right of Ravi, who is 10th from left
end. Then what will be the position of Renu
from right, who is sitting 8 positions to the
left of Manish?
(a) 26th (b) 28th
(c) 19th (d) 27th
54. In a queue, Rahul is just behind 9 people from
the front end. Ajay is 6 places behind Rahul.
If two people between Rahul and Ajay leave
and 3 persons are added before Rahul, then
what will be the new position of Ajay from the
front end?
(a) 16th (b) 17th
(c) 15th (d) 18th
55. If Rajesh is standing at 8th position from the
right end of a row and Sheetal is standing at
17th position from the left end. Then what
is the number of students in the row, if there
were exactly 5 students between Rajesh and
Sheetal?
(a) 18 (b) 30
(c) Either (a) or (b) (d) 31
56. Rajul is 7 ranks ahead of Suman in a class of
39 students. If Suman’s rank is seventeenth
from the last, what is Rajul’s rank from the
start?
(a) 15th (b)16th
(c)17th (d)14th
57. In a row of girls, Rashmi is nineteenth from
the left end and tenth from the right end.
Prajakta is fourteenth from the right end in
that row. How many girls are there between
Rashmi and Prajakta?
(a) 4 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 5
58. Among P, Q, R, S and T each one has scored
different marks in an examination, Q scored
more than R and T, and less than P and S.
R’s marks are not the lowest. Who scored
the lowest marks?
(a) S (b) R
(c) Q (d) None of these
59. In a queue of 20 people, K is fourteenth from
the front and M is ninth from the bottom. How
many persons are there between K and M?
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 4 (d) None of these
60. In a group of six children, F is taller than E
but not as tall as A. B is taller than C and D,
but not as tall as E. Who is the shortest
among them?
(a) C (b) D
(c) B (d) Data inadequate

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