DPM 15

A to E

A. Words along with their meaning, Pronunciation and usage

Knick-knack /ˈnɪknak/ (n) :small worthless objects, bauble, memento , trinket.

The knick-knacks she had collected on her travels, gave her home a quaint & interesting
look.

Kleptomaniac /klep.təˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (n) : pilferer, shoplifter, a person having a compelling desire to

steal ( considered a kind of mental disorder).

The neighbours knew of his kleptomaniac nature and were careful whenever he visited
them.

Kindred /ˈkɪn.drəd/ (n) : one’s family and relations, As an adjective, it means related,
affiliated ,allied.

Their love for country music bound them together as kindred souls.

Kafkaesque /ˌkæf.kəˈesk/ (adj) : a senseless disorienting often menacing complexity.

(Oppressive or nightmarish qualities characteristic of Franz Kafka’s fictional world )

Stranded on the inhospitable island , was a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Kamikaze /ˌkæm.iˈkɑː.zi/ (n/adj) : A person who behaves in a wildly reckless or destructive

manner, hara-kiri.

During the World War II, the kamikaze bombers won the war for their country.
Keepsake /ˈkiːp.seɪk/ (n) : anything kept ,or given to be kept, as a token of friendship or
affection.

The silver chain she wore was a keepsake given to her by her grandmother.

Kingpin /ˈkɪŋ.pɪn/ (n) : a person of chief importance in a movement or corporation.

As a kingpin of the drug cartel, he was the prime suspect in the murder of police man.

Knucklehead /ˈnʌk.əl.hed/ (n) : a stupid, bumbling , inept person.

The knucklehead that he is, he keeps transgressing the orders and getting into trouble
with the authorities.

Knell /nel/ (n) : the sound made by a bell rung slowly.

The fraud committed by his partner rang the death knell for their business.

Kickback /ˈkɪk.bæk/ (n) : bribe, a sudden uncontrolled movement of a machine.

The deal finalized between the two parties was clean and did not involve any kickbacks.
B. RC Passage (with Link)

Article 1: https://www.siasat.com/muslim-scholar-ibn-sina-first-came-idea-quarantine-1870313/

Summary : This article enlightens the curious reader that it was the Persian polymath, Ibn Sina
(980–1037AD), who was the first person ever to recommend the idea of ‘quarantine,’ i.e. isolation
from others, as a means to prevent the spread of diseases due to human-to-human contact. He
called this method al-Arba’iniya (‘the forty’). The containment methods being widely deployed in
most countries today to deflate the current COVID-19 pandemic, thus, has its origins in the Islamic
world. The article is an interesting profile of the man regarded as one of the most significant
physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early
modern medicine.

Article 2:https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/coronavirus-india-lockdown-migrant-
workers-ration-cards-food-siraj-hussain-ajit-ranade-6348809/

Summary : The brunt of the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt by migrant
workers, who constitute one-fifth of India’s labour force. They are completely dependent on the
support of the government and charitable organisations for meeting their day-to-day needs in the
face of the sudden nation-wide lockdown. The article argues that the government must step up
by releasing the abundant stock of food grain available in its FCI warehouses. It exhorts the state
to coordinate with NGOs and other social and religious organisations to raise funds for meeting
the expenditure on people’s essential needs during these challenging times.

Article 3: Mind the gap: on India’s focus what needs to be done: India must focus on what
needs to be done, not on whom to blame for the virus spread.

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/mind-the-gap-on-indias-focus-what-needs-to-be-
done/article31274661.ece

Summary: In the history of humankind, no pestilence has spread as fast and as far as the novel
coronavirus, for the singular reason that China, its source, is at the centre of world trade and
economy. China is the biggest trading partner for at least 120 countries and regions, much of
Europe and the U.S. included. The whirlwind of global travel, goaded by an intense human
hunger for new economic opportunities and pleasure, has taken the virus to at least 180
countries on last count.

Article 4: The Long, Fraught History of the Bulletproof Vest: The question of bulletproofing
vexed physicians and public figures for years, before pioneering inventors experimented with
silk.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/long-fraught-history-bulletproof-vest-180974564/

Summary: Civil, foreign and World Wars were fought in a period when even the toughest armor
could not stop the most lethal weapon. At the turn of the century, it is observed that protective
gear was greatly scaled back, retreating once more from full-body armor to strategically placed
metal plates.

Article 5: https://www.iep.utm.edu/epistemo/

Summary: The term “epistemology” comes from the Greek “episteme,” meaning “knowledge,” and
“logos,” meaning, roughly, “study, or science, of.” “Logos” is the root of all terms ending in “-ology”
– such as psychology, anthropology – and of “logic,” and has many other related meanings.
C. RC Passage (with Questions)

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as its possible, from the tyranny of the
here and the now. We cannot help the egoism of our senses. Sight and sound and touch are
bound up with our own bodies and cannot be made impersonal. Our emotions start similarly
from ourselves. An infant feels hunger or discomfort, and is unaffected except by his own
physical condition. Gradually with the years, his horizon widens, and, in proportion as his
thoughts and feelings become less personal and less concerned with his own physical states,
he achieves growing wisdom. This is of course a matter of degree. But it is possible to make a
continual approach towards impartiality, on the one hand, by knowing things somewhat remote
in time or space, and on the other hand, by giving to such things their due to weight in our
feelings. It is this approach towards impartiality that constitutes growth in wisdom.

Can wisdom in this sense be taught? And, if it can, should the teaching of it be one of the aims
of education? I should answer both these questions in the affirmative. We are told on Sundays
that we should love our neighbour as ourselves. On the other six days of the week, we are
exhorted to hate him. You may say that this is nonsense, since it is not our neighbour that we
are exhorted to hate. But you will remember that precept was exemplified by saying that the
Samaritan was our neighbour. We no longer have any wish to hate Samaritans and so we are
apt to miss the point of the parable. If you want to get to its point, you should substitute
Communist or anti-Communist, as the case may be, for Samaritan. It might be objected that it is
the right to hate those who do harm. I do not think so. If you hate them, it is only too likely that
you will become equally harmful; and it is very unlikely that you will induce them to abandon
their evil ways. This way out is through understanding, not through hate. I am not advocating
non-resistance. But, I am saying that resistance, if it is to be effective in preventing the spread of
evil, should be combined with the greatest degree of understanding and the smallest degree of
force that is compatible with the survival of the good things that we wish to preserve.

I have said that in some degree wisdom can be taught. I think that this teaching should have a
larger intellectual element that has been customary in what has been thought of as a moral
instruction. I think that the disastrous results of hatred and narrow-mindedness to those who feel
them can be pointed out incidentally in the course of giving knowledge. I do not think that
knowledge and morals out to be too much separated. It is true that the kind of specialized
knowledge which is required for various kinds of skill has very little to do with wisdom. But it
should be supplemented in education by wider surveys and calculated to put it in its place in the
total of human activities. Even the best technicians should also be good citizens; and when I say
“citizens”, I mean citizens of the world and not of this or that sect or nation. With every increase
of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments
our capacity of realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our
purposes are unwise. The world needs wisdom as it has never needed before.

Que 1) The author of the passage is primarily concerned with

A. Advocating and education in wisdom.

B. Discussing the comprehensiveness that constitutes wisdom.
C. Clarifying the definition of wisdom.
D. Arguing that the world needs wisdom now more so than ever.

Que 2)) Which of the following statements about Samaritans is supported by information in the
passage?

A. Samaritans are people whose knowledge is wide but whose feelings are narrow.
B. If one views humankind as Samaritans, it is difficult to distinguish good from evil.
C. Samaritans despite their political beliefs are our neighbours, so we must not hate them.
D. If one views humankind as Samaritans, one can be emancipated from personal
prejudices.

Que 3)) Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about specialized knowledge?

A. Specialists have little time to consider the effects their knowledge have on the world at
large.
B. The pursuit of specialized knowledge can be disastrous without a philanthropic outlook.
C. Specialists can be good citizens only when they receive moral instruction.
D. Wisdom is not necessarily present in specialists who pursue knowledge.
D. Quantitative Aptitude

1. Once some cats saw some rats. If each cat caught one rat, there would be a cat without
rat. Should each rat now be shared by two cats there would be a rat not caught by the
cats.
Tell me, how many cats am I talking about?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7

2. Ramanand bought a bag at 30% discount on the list price. He then sold it at a price
which is 160% of the list price thereby making a profit of Rs.81. What is the list price of
the bag? (in Rs.)

3. One- fifth of a troop of monkeys were waiting on the road side for passers-by, while eight
times the square root of the remaining were playing inside the forest. The remaining 20,
which were old, were sitting on the top of the trees watching the antics of younger
members. How many monkeys were there in the troop?

4. A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 7 and when divided by 3D leaves a

remainder of 35. What is the remainder left when twice the number is divided by 3D?
(A) 1 (B) 20 (C) 13 (D) cannot be determined

5. Find the last two digits of the series.

70 + 71 + 72 + 73 + …………..+ 711 + 712

(A) 21 (B) 35 (C) 43 (D) None of these

 Directions for questions 6 and 7:
On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week - Sunday to Saturday and another day
called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 minutes while each
minute has 60 seconds. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day.

6. Find the approximate angle between the hands of clock on Oz when the time is 16:50
a.m.
(A) 189° (B) 131° (C) 320° (D) 165°

7. At what time between 14 o’clock and 15 o’clock will the two hands of the clock be at an
angle of 60°?

8. If sinA + cosA = √2, find tannA + cotnA.

9. If (x-2) and (x-3) are two factors of f(x) = x3 + ax + b, then find the remainder when f(x) is
divided by (x-5).

10. How many terms, at the maximum, of progression 2, 5, 8, …….can be considered, if the
sum of the terms is to be less than 3000?
(A) 60 (B) 44 (C) 68 (D) 70
E. DILR – 1 Set

Directions for questions 1 to 4 : Answer these questions on the basis of the information given
below.
1. The approximate consumption of tea per person in the year 2016 was -

(A) 3 Kg (B) 2 Kg (C) 4 Kg (D) 5 Kg

2. In which year was the per capita consumption of tea the highest?

(A) 2018 (B) 2014 (C) 2016 (D) 2017

3. In which year was the consumption of tea as a percentage of the production the highest?

4. What was the approximate total export of tea by country A during the given five years? (in
'000 tonnes)