DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 6: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions.

Choose the best

Why is racism (or any kind of prejudice, bigotry, misogyny, etcetera) undesirable, beyond the obvious reasons of moral
and spiritual repugnance? Well, the answer to that question is also the story of American decline.

America was segregated until 1971. Today, it is still one of the most racist societies in the world. Any indicator you choose
- income, savings, life expectancy, any aspect of well-being - is dramatically lower for some groups than for others. Black
wealth is close to zero. Racism is not a problem America solved. It is not one Americans even came close to reckoning with
- it is a problem that Americans pretend doesn’t exist, to ease the shame of its lingering scars, and so a reckoning is put
off every day. So why should anyone be shocked that the President of one of the world’s most racist countries is a
flamboyant racist?

The performative outrage of leaders, left and right, doesn’t help. It is a denial of the problem, instead of an understanding
of it. I read many more tweets from politicians on both sides that said, “In America, we judge people by their ideas, not
the color of their skin!”, and so on. If that were true, I would like to live in such a society. But America is clearly not (even
anywhere remotely near) one - it is more like a mostly segregated society pretending not to be one. The point is not that
you are implicated. That is for you to decide. It is to establish that racism is something we should all know exists, but most
of us deny, at precisely the moment we must acknowledge its existence most fully - if we wish to ever reckon with it.

Why should we reckon with it? What happens if a society is racist? One consequence is that such a society cannot ever
really develop public institutions. Public goods must be administered by public institutions - and America never developed
a BBC or an NHS precisely because racism made it impossible. It was still segregated while the whole rest of the rich world
was building such great and now historic public institutions, which can only serve a whole society, or no one at all. And so
such great institutions can simply never emerge in racist societies, precisely because they are for all the people. Even
today, America cannot develop them, because its politics have been relatively stunted by decades and will perhaps never
mature to a point where such institutions can emerge.

Another consequence of racism is that a society can never really develop safety nets. Safety nets maximize human
possibility, what each life can give to every other, by allowing people to take risks to create cancer cures, make great art,
and so on. Safety nets shield and protect them from falling too far, so that failure does not become fatal. But because
racism sets the bar for what is acceptable so low that any kind of depredation is acceptable, a society never develops
safety nets of any kind - and in this way again, racism came back to haunt its very own practitioners in America, who
needed just those safety nets and investments, too.

Q1. What does the author attempt to do in the passage?

a) Raise an important question and answer it.

b) Address a situation that is beyond repair.

c) Acknowledge a societal evil.

d) Offer solution to an existing problem in the society.

Q2. What does the author imply by the statement '......why should anyone be shocked ..... flamboyant racist' (para 2)?

a) Since America is the most racist society in the world, their President has to be a racist.

b) Americans do not acknowledge the presence of racism in their society and their President being a racist is only an
outcome of this.

c) America is trying to ease the shame of its lingering scars and the best way of doing that is by having a President who is
not racist.
d) Americans yearned for a racist President and so, it is not shocking that their President is a racist.

Q3. Which of the following characteristics of a society best indicates that the society is racist?

a) The public institutions in the society function inefficiently.

b) The wealth of certain ethnic groups in the society is extremely low as compared to other groups.

c) Everyone in the society believes that failure in any endeavour is fatal.

d) The politicians elected by the people are all flamboyant racists.

Q4. Which of the following statements, is true, according to the passage?

a) America was segregated after 1971.

b) Because of racism, Black wealth in America is zero.

c) In America, people are judged by their ideas and not the color of their skin.

d) Americans should acknowledge the existence of racism.

Q5. Which of the following is the best example of a safety net as described in the last paragraph of the passage?

a) The government provides funding for research institutions that work on finding a cure for cancer.

b) The government provides monetary assistance to persons laid off from work.

c) The government provides good quality public infrastructure using the taxpayer’s money.

d) The government provides security to the people against external terrorist threats.

Q6. What is the primary reason that institutions like a BBC or an NHS cannot emerge in a racist society?

a) Public institutions provide better service to the ethnic minorities as compared to the rest.

b) In a racist society, only the politicians can benefit from institutions like BBC or NHS.

c) The politics in racist societies cannot mature to a point where such institutions emerge.

d) Institutions that serve everyone equally cannot be a part of a society that discriminates against a section of its people.
DIRECTIONS for questions 7 to 12: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

That’s how Albert Camus begins his essay The Myth of Sisyphus, in which he takes it on himself to question the meaning
of existence and the incentives we have for staying alive. Like many before him, he was sceptical of a purely objective view
of reality. He didn’t buy into the idea of a preordained purpose. Nor did he think that the answer was obvious. After all,
there is a lot that doesn’t make sense about life, and this lack of orientation isn’t always pleasant. In fact, quite often, it
involves pain, confusion, and sustained difficulty.

Camus goes on to talk about all of this at length, and he eventually answers the question. At the end of the essay, he
frames his conclusion into the story of Sisyphus, a character in Greek mythology who disobeyed the Gods and was
punished to pointlessly roll a boulder up a hill for eternity, only to watch it fall right back down, forcing him to repeat the
task.

“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me... I see that man going back down with a heavy yet
measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end... At each of those moments when he leaves the
heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock...One always
finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes
that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone,
each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to
fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” The essay ends as shockingly as it began. How is it possible for
Sisyphus to be happy?

Before we answer that, we have to first introduce the problem that Camus was trying to solve. It’s one that takes shape
in different forms in every life that has ever been lived.

The absurd condition is a product of us trying to reason with an unreasonable world. It occurs when our rational and
sensible ideas about what we want out of life collide with the cold indifference of an unsympathetic world that doesn’t
concern itself with any one person. Many of us would like to work jobs that ignite our imagination every day, but instead,
we’re stuck doing repetitive chores so we can pay the bills and keep doing more of the same. A lot of us would like a
reasonable shot at contentment and fulfilment, but due to things mostly outside of our control, we are instead forced to
deal with disorientation and confusion. Our expectations aren’t unreasonable nor do they fall outside of the realm of
possibility. Yet, due to factors larger than any one of us, we have to settle.

There are two obvious solutions. The first is to abandon our reasonable expectations, and the second is to pretend that
the world isn’t unreasonable at all and that everything is fine. These solutions to the predicament, however, don’t please
Camus. Abandoning reason is what he calls “philosophical suicide,” and it’s at odds with the actual reality. Similarly,
denying the unreasonability of the world is a form of acceptance that limits our experience.

Q7. What does the author imply by 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy'?

a) The Gods punished him expecting him to give up and commit suicide but Sisyphus did not do so. This made him happy
for he was negating the Gods.

b) Sisyphus was disobeying the Gods in his own way by tampering with the boulder making it simpler for him.

c) The absurdity of the task was so overwhelming for Sisyphus that it broke him as a person and the only choice he was
left with was to finish the task.

d) Although the task he performed was meaningless, Sisyphus embraced it and hence, he was happy.
Q8. What is the purpose of the book 'The Myth of Sisyphus'?

a) To answer the philosophical question about suicide.

b) To question the meaning of man's existence and the things that encourage man to stay alive.

c) To enunciate the idea as to why suicide is the only philosophical problem that man should be concerned about.

d) To explain the concept of happiness through Sisyphus's story.

Q9. Which of the following statements, according to the passage, is false?

a) A purely objective view of reality has been questioned by many people throughout history.

b) Camus did not believe in the existence of a preordained purpose.

c) The punishment that Sisyphus received was not a consequence of disobeying the Gods.

d) The lack of orientation in life leads to pain, confusion and sustained difficulty.

Q10. Which of the following statements is Albert Camus most likely to agree with?

a) One should never try to control one's fate.

b) Acting as if the world is unreasonable is perfectly reasonable.

c) The purpose of absurdity in life is to make one happy.

d) Not accepting the unreasonability of the world will confine our experiences.

11. What is the absurdity of life that the author is talking about?

a) Although many of us would like to work jobs that ignite our imagination every day, we are stuck doing repetitive chores
so we can pay the bills.

b) The reasonable world does not go hand in hand with the unreasonable expectations that we have.

c) Despite having rational and sensible ideas, the world will always deem them unreasonable.

d) Even though our desires are reasonable, we still cannot fulfill them because of factors that are not in our control.

Q12. Which of the following can be deemed 'philosophical suicide'?

a) Nurturing expectations.

b) Discarding rationality.

c) Relinquishing desires.

d) Denying the unreasonability of the world.

Can science and meditation, each dealing with different phenomena, have common ground? Physics deals with the
external world of matter, space and time, from the giant galaxies in outer space down to the infinitesimally small particles
which make up the atom. Meditation looks inward; its domain is that which is not physical. When we close our eyes in
meditation, we are cutting off the senses which connect us with the physical world. We are investigating the nature of the
inner consciousness which makes us alive, alert and aware of the world around us.

In the 1920s, quantum physics, through its revelations, was turning the world of science upside down - that light was both
a particle and a wave, that there no longer was a strict relation between cause and effect and that it was impossible to
measure both the position and the speed of a particle at the same time. Moreover, quantum theory was unable to predict
the outcome of an experiment. If there were, for example, two possible results of an experimental measurement - say A
and B - quantum theory could do no more than state the probability that a given measurement would turn up as A or B;
it could not predict what the actual result would be.

This problem was tackled by a mathematical physicist, John von Neumann, who reasoned that whatever was responsible
for choosing the outcome of a measurement had to be something which was not governed by the quantum theory, and
therefore had to be non-physical. He reasoned that all of the visible components in an experiment were physical. The only
non-physical element in the experimental set-up was the consciousness of the human being performing the measurement.
If the experiment were performed, common sense would prevail and only one result, either A or B, would be found. Von
Neumann had thus discovered consciousness as a vital ingredient in a quantum experiment.

It is here in consciousness that physics and meditation meet. Strange as it may seem, physics, by looking only at the
external physical world, had pointed to consciousness as an indispensable component of a quantum experiment.
Meditation, by looking inward, explores the nature of this consciousness. In meditation we find that there is a conscious
being, or Knower, which perceives the thoughts which rise and fall in our minds (and is there even when no thoughts exist)
- the same consciousness which von Neumann discovered as the perceiving element in an experiment.

Q13. According to John von Neumann, which of the following can aid in reaching an outcome of an experimental
measurement from all of the various possibilities?

a) The system being measured.

a) The system being measured.

b) Measuring probes and recording devices.

c) Quantum theory.

d) The consciousness of the experimenter.

Q14. Which of the following correctly captures the essence of the sentence “It is here in consciousness that physics and
meditation meet....” (last para)?

a) The very study of the non-physical world has led to the conclusion that the content of the physical world can be
meditated upon.

b) Physics explains that consciousness is a vital ingredient of a quantum experiment and meditation allows us to investigate
what consciousness is.

c) Meditation paves the route to consciousness and quantum physics enables us to understand the nature of this
consciousness.
d) Meditation alone cannot throw light on the immortal, infinite and unchanging canvas of consciousness; a scientific
study of the quantum world of matter, time and space is also required.

Q15. It can be inferred from the passage that, during meditation,

a) we find that even when there are no thoughts in the mind, the Knower remains.

b) our perceptions or ideas can be smelled, heard, tasted, touched or seen.

c) we are no longer alive to the world around us but the Knower in us is.

d) it becomes possible to measure both the position and the speed of a particle at the same time.

DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 21: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best
answer to each question.

For years, commercial fishermen in the US had believed that their catch limits were restricted by flawed sampling data
techniques employed by government scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They
had always joked that PhDs in Marine Science didn't necessarily know how to fish. ... A historic ruling by U.S. Federal
District Court Judge Gladys Kessler pushing the deadline for implementation of Amendment 13, which would set catch
limits on specific New England groundfish species, back from August 22, 2003 to May 1, 2004, was thus seen as a welcome
move by US fishermen. The decision was also a victory for several environmental groups who had asked that the rules be
delayed by nine months in order for the public to better understand the science behind the restrictions. The decision did
not, however, change the court's 2009 deadline for rebuilding groundfish stocks.

Groundfish are species such as cod, haddock, flounder that feed close to the bottom of the ocean from the Canadian
border to Cape Hatteras. The judge's decision was only the latest legal ruling in a battle for the future of New England
groundfish. Studies at that time indicated that 18 of 20 New England groundfish species were below healthy population
levels. Twelve of these species were at less than half of their sustainable population levels and eight species were at less
than one-fourth of such levels.

Amendment 13 was itself the product of a December 2001 ruling that the plan to manage New England groundfish was
not complying with the law. The court had set the August 2003 deadline for the onset of Amendment 13, which provided
a framework for overfishing and bycatch, as well as to set catch limits on specific New England groundfish species. The
lawsuit that successfully moved this date to May 2004 came in the wake of industry allegations that government scientists
had relied on flawed sampling data techniques to collect data for the new groundfish regulations.

In September 2002, a few scientists belonging to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) discovered that the NOAA's
ship Albatross IV, which was employed to collect data on New England groundfish, had done so with mismarked cables,
leaving some concerned that the net was set at an angle. The mismarking was on the cable used to deploy and haul back
the survey trawl net on the Albatross.

This caused some tows to be deployed with more cable out on one side of the net than the other, according to the NMFS.
The gear configuration affected eight resource surveys conducted between the winter of 2000 and the spring of 2002.

The fishing industry called the findings "trawlgate" and challenged the survey data, arguing that this configuration allowed
fish to escape, resulting in undercounted stocks and restrictions that were tighter than necessary. Lobbyists for the
industry had called for at least a two year delay to fully probe what they deem to be questionable science. They wanted
to conduct workshops that fostered further discussion of the impending restrictions and the groundfish conservation steps
that would be required. Opponents of Amendment 13 believed that the restrictions could be devastating to the livelihoods
of local fishermen.

NMFS completed an additional survey that included side-by-side comparisons of fishing by the Albatross and another
vessel. The survey, named Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program, was developed to augment NOAA surveys
in the shallow waters between 3 and 4 four miles offshore between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras.

Captain Jim Ruhle’s boat, F/V Darana R, with a full crew of scientists from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science,
documented numbers of fish that would seem unlikely to people who believed that the oceans were nearly fished out.
Mr. Ruhle took the Darana R into 60 feet of water just north of Montauk. Using an otter trawl with six sensors which made
sure it was properly deployed, he manned the helm and counted the number of skates he caught while fishing right next
to NOAA’s Albatross IV, which had the same rig and sampling instructions as his own boat. He caught 54 times the number
of skate that the Albatross IV caught, he said.

Q16. From the passage, it can be inferred that 'trawlgate' refers to

a) the fishing trawler used by the NOAA’s ship Albatross IV.

b) the discovery made by the scientists that a survey ship was dragging its net through the water lopsided, catching fewer
fish and leading to the conclusion that the fish needed fiercer protection.

c) the fact that 18-20% of New England groundfish were below healthy population levels mainly because of illegal trawlers
scrapping the sea floor.

d) the discovery made by the scientists that the NOAA’s ship Albatross IV was designed with too deep a draft to fish in
shallow waters.

Q17. The U.S. Federal District Court Judge Gladys Kessler pushed the implementation of Amendment 13 further by 9
months. Given below are some scientific findings in the interim 9 month period.

Which of these would weaken the apprehension that the future of the New England groundfish was at stake and thereby
repeal the implementation of Amendment 13?

Identify all that apply and enter the corresponding number(s) in the input box given below. You must enter your answer
in increasing order only. For example, if you think (1) and (2) apply, then enter 12 (but not 21) in the input box.

1. Fishermen caught thrice as many winter flounder as summer flounder and summer flounder was not considered to be
a species that was in danger.

2. During the nine month period, sea bottoms would be irreversibly ravaged by trawling gear and fishing boats, preventing
the recovery of groundfish.

3. Scientists have predicted flush times ahead for groundfish fishermen in the New England waters based on accurate
fishery data recorded daily in logbooks by experienced fishermen themselves.

4. The surveys that were conducted by Albatross IV used fishing nets that did not touch the bottom of the ocean and the
boats were always towed very fast.

Q18. According to the passage, which of the following is the least likely consequence of the US Federal District Court
judge's decision to delay the onset of new fishing restrictions for New England groundfish stocks?

a) The mentioned framework for overfishing and bycatch would have been implemented later.

b) Catch limits as specified on New England groundfish species would be made less restrictive in the interim.
c) Workshops and meetings that would foster further discussion of the impending restrictions on the fishing industry
would have been conducted.

d) The deadline for enhancing groundfish stocks would be extended.

Q19. Which of the following cannot be understood from the passage?

a) Fish stock, worldwide, was declining in 2003.

b) The gear configuration of the cables used to haul the survey trawl net onto the Albatross IV affected the outcome of
numerous resource fish surveys in the period 2000 to 2002.

c) The restrictions made by the U.S. Federal District Court would have been devastating to the subsistence of local
fishermen.

d) Poor sampling methods may lead to the imposition of unnecessarily tight restrictions on fishing.

Q20. The fishing industry challenged the survey data of the NOAA. Which of the following, if true, would weaken the
argument of the fishing industry?

a) The configuration used to collect data on the New England groundfish allowed the net to remain at an angle causing
many of the fish to escape.

b) Another government boat which had the correct surveying equipment reported an increase in the New England
groundfish population.

c) It was difficult to trap fish such as cod and haddock with the kind of nets used by Albatross IV.

d) None of these.

Q21. Which of the following is not true about Captain Jim Ruhle’s boat, F/V Darana R, as can be inferred from the
passage?

a) It was employed side-by-side with the Albatross IV to compare the fishing samples caught.

b) Unlike the Albatross IV, it was properly deployed for the desired purpose.

c) It corroborated the findings of the NMFS as far as the distorted reporting of fish stock numbers by the Albatross IV was
concerned.

d) The overcounted stocks in the surveys made from this boat have been attributed to the wasteful discarding practice of
fishermen.

DIRECTIONS for questions 22 to 24: The passage given below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the
best answer to each question.

Can modern art be a universal mode of communication that speaks directly to the ‘inner need’ of the human soul?

Every work of art is the child of its age and the mother of our emotions. Each period of culture produces an art of its own
which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will, at best, produce a still-born art. It is
impossible for us to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks. In the same way, those who strive to follow the Greek methods
in sculpture achieve only a similarity of form, the work remaining soulless for all ages. Such imitation is mere aping.
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a
similarity in inner tendency in the moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later
lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the
external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age. An example of this today is our sympathy,
our spiritual relationship, with the primitives. Like ourselves, these artists sought to express in their work only internal
truths, renouncing in consequence all consideration of external form.

This all-important spark of inner life today is, at present, only a spark. Our minds, which are now awakening after years of
materialism, are infected with the despair of unbelief. The nightmare of materialism is not yet past; it holds the awakening
soul still in its grip. Only a feeble light glimmers like a tiny star in a vast gulf of darkness. This feeble light is but a
presentiment, and the soul, when it sees it, trembles in doubt whether the light is not a dream, and the gulf of darkness a
reality. This doubt, and the still harsh tyranny of the materialistic philosophy, divides our soul sharply from that of the
primitives. Our soul rings cracked when we seek to play upon it, as does a costly vase, long buried in the earth, which is
found to have a flaw when it is dug up once more.

These two possible resemblances between art forms of today and those of the past will be at once recognized as
diametrically opposed to one another. The first, being purely external, has no future. The second, being internal, contains
the seed of the future within itself. After the period of materialist effort, which held the soul in check until it was shaken
off as evil, the soul is emerging, purged by trials and sufferings. Shapeless emotions will no longer greatly attract the artist.
He will endeavour to awaken subtler emotions, as yet unnamed, through his work.

Q22. Which literary device is employed in: .... as does a costly vase, long buried in the earth, which is found to have a
flaw when it is dug up once more. (para 4)?

a) Transferred epithet

b) Personification

c) Hyperbole

d) Metaphor

Q23. Which of the following best sums up the author's argument in the passage?

a) Artists do not doubt that the era of materialism is truly past and believe that it will now be possible to create works of
art that awaken subtle emotions.

b) Every art is a child of its age and modern materialism can serve as an impediment in resuscitating primitive art.

c) The primitives appreciated both the external and the internal forms of art while, we of the modern age, tend to focus
only on the external forms of art.

d) Today's artists merely ape the external character of the works of art of the past and do not focus on the inner feelings
that the work of art can evoke.

Q24. Which of the following best exemplifies the author's contention in the second para of the passage?

a) A journalist is aware of the possible twists and turns in his story but the external world does not influence his reporting.

b) A jazz opera uses primitive flutes, clarinets, bassoons, trombones and oboes to enhance the quality of the music in a
modern setting.

c) An orchestra uses tribal instruments to revive musical archetypes but fails to evoke any sort of feelings in the audience.
d) A sculptor and a painter are aware of the possible themes for their work of art when they see a marble block and a
canvas respectively.

Q25. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 and 26: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has
been left incomplete. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate
way.

In 2006, a baby polar bear named Knut was rejected by his mother, and raised by a keeper at the Berlin zoo in the spotlight
of the global media. Knut's besotted fans often asked how a parent could forsake such a cute cub. In the funny, subtle and
strangely moving fable 'Memoirs of a Polar Bear', Yoko Tawada, a Japanese-born author who has lived in Germany since
1982, gives a startling answer about the bonds that unite, and the gulfs that divide, humans and animals. Leaving her son
“wasn't an easy decision”, writes Knut's mother Tosca, “but because of my literary work I didn't have enough time for
him.” Besides, “historical greatness” beckoned her little beast. ______________________________________________

a) Poster-bear for climate change, Knut endures celebrity as the frail focus of “billions of worried eyes.”

b) Ms Tawada gives three separate memoirs from a talented dynasty of bears.

c) Ms Tawada respects the actual behaviour of bears even as her ursine authors inspect the vanity of humankind through
an outsider's or migrant's eyes.

d) Knut became a furry emblem of the dangers of global warming and the struggle for conservation.

Q26. DIRECTIONS for questions 25 and 26: The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has
been left incomplete. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate
way.

Sleep assassinates the person who might think about it. It's not just that it's a stretch to imagine how our sleep connects
us to other times and places; it's that we're not even there when it happens. Dreaming is a possible exception, since it's
sometimes recoverable by our waking selves, which is part of why dreaming has a much longer historiography than the
other 85% of the sleep cycle. But the other aspects of the sleeping self, characterized by non-productivity, maddening
lumpishness, and obliviousness, are about as unavailable to us as is being born or dying.
__________________________________

a) When do sleeping arrangements or patterns of sleep or inequities in the social distribution of sleep become notable
and contested?

b) Doesn't this interaction of the repetitive and the rhythmic sooner or later give rise to the dispossession of the body?

c) That is the challenge that a new subfield of humanities and social science - work on the sociocultural meanings of sleep
we might call critical sleep studies - has taken up.

d) Everything you thought couldn’t have a history now has one.

Q27. DIRECTIONS for questions 27 to 29: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of
the sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1. It went bankrupt after Japan's bubble-era splurge on new golf courses.

2. A few golf-courses have been turned into solar-panel plants, others into farmland.

3. But it is unlikely to revive its posh Japanese maker, Honma, which calls itself “golf's aristocracy”, presumably because it
crafts the world's most expensive clubs.
4. Seven years ago, a businessman from China bought the firm, hoping for an upswing.

5. The gold-coloured golf club priced at $4700 that Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, gave to Donald Trump, America's
president-elect, in their first meeting, was a piece of polished diplomacy.

Q28. DIRECTIONS for questions 27 to 29: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of
the sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1. Experiments were done by the steadiest hands in the darkest labs at the lowest achievable temperatures.

2. The theory's weirder predictions - spooky connections, tunnelling and the like - are not part of people's everyday
experience.

3. Quantum mechanics is one of science's most successful theories, superseding Sir Isaac Newton's “classical” physics, the
workaday version taught at school.

4. Once the quantum genie is out of the bottle, it is tempting to use it to explain all manner of phenomena.

5. They happen at a microscopic level and, it was thought, only under precisely controlled conditions.

Q29. DIRECTIONS for questions 27 to 29: The following question has five sentences. Each sentence is labelled with a
number. All but one of the sentences can be rearranged to form a logically coherent paragraph. Key in the number of
the sentence that does not fit contextually with the paragraph formed by the other four sentences.

1. This accelerative thrust has now reached a level at which it can no longer, by any stretch of the imagination, be regarded
as “normal”.

2. We see here a chain reaction of change, a long, sharply rising curve of acceleration in human social development.

3. But situations also involve a separate dimension which, because it cuts across all the others, is frequently overlooked.

4. Discovery. Application. Impact. Discovery.

5. The normal institutions of industrial society can no longer contain it, and its impact is shaking up all our social
institutions.

Q30. DIRECTIONS for questions 30 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in
this sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1. Just as staggering is the vast apron surrounding the stupa, able to hold 1 m worshippers.

2. Just north of Bangkok, the Thai capital, stands an enormous golden stupa designed to last 1000 years.

3. She thinks that the monument can be a meeting point for adherents from around the world.

4. Its gleaming exterior is made not from smooth tiles but from 3 lakh tightly-packed statues of the Buddha.

5. Worakate, a guide dressed in white, explains that followers of the Theravada school of Buddhism have never had a
gathering place as large as Mecca or the Vatican.
Q31. DIRECTIONS for questions 30 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in
this sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1. For a football-mad country, he argues, this constitutes a national disgrace.

2. There have been near-misses, in 1990 and 2002, but Henry Winter points out that England have failed to qualify for
these tournaments more often than they have reached the semi-finals.

3. Since then, much effort has gone into repeating this feat.

4. Following their ignominious exit on June 27th from Euro 2016, two questions are raised: why is the team now so
mediocre, and how did it once become the best in the world?

5. Almost exactly 50 years ago, England won football's World Cup for the first and only time.

Q32. DIRECTIONS for questions 30 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in
this sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1. Such man-made stones are virtually indistinguishable from the natural sort.

2. One process uses large presses to simulate the pressures and temperatures experienced deep underground.

3. Another process called chemical vapour deposition is used to grow diamonds as carbon atoms settle on top of each
other.

4. Synthetic diamonds can be made in laboratories using new technology.

5. They already dominate the market for industrial use; as technology improves and costs decline, they will become more
competitive in the jewellery market, too.

Q33. DIRECTIONS for questions 30 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in
this sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.

1. The most studied of these is anhydrobiosis.

2. Once these cell protectants are synthesized, the waterbear reduces, and at times suspends, its metabolism.

3. Under stressed conditions such as extreme dryness or elevated temperatures, the waterbear practices several forms of
cryptobiosis, a state in which metabolic activity is slowed or halted.

4. When conditions improve within the environment, the waterbear activates its metabolism once again, aided by
hydration from water intake.

5. The waterbear enters anhydrobiosis by contracting its body into something called a tun, whereby it loses more than
95% of its free and stored water; creating different proteins and sugars that help protect its cells.

Q34. DIRECTIONS for questions 30 to 34: The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a
coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in
this sequence of five numbers as your answer, in the input box given below the question.
1. Whoever controls the internet's address book has the power over life and death on the network.

2. Some argue that this amounts to giving away the internet and allowing autocratic governments to have greater control
over what is available online.

3. Delete a domain name (Economist.com, for example), and a website can no longer be found and an email no longer
delivered.

4. On October 1st 2017, the federal government is scheduled to let lapse a contract that gives it control over part of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that oversees the internet's address system.

5. Such authority currently falls under the auspices of America, but not for much longer.