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1. Identify the incorrect sentence/sentences.A. Everyone appreciated the headmaster's

implication in raising flood relief in thevillage.

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

2. Identify the incorrect sentence/sentences.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

3. Identify the incorrect sentence/sentences.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

4. Identify the incorrect sentence/sentences.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 werebeginning 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 thesentence is underlined. Beneath eachsentence, four different ways of paraphrasingthe underlined part are indicated. Choose thebest alternative among the four options.

The Romanians may be restive under Sovietdirection — but they are tied to Moscow byideological 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

6. In the following sentence, a part of thesentence is underlined. Beneath eachsentence, four different ways of paraphrasingthe underlined part are indicated. Choose thebest alternative among the four options.

In a penetrating study, CBS-TV focuses onthese people without hope, whose bodies arecared for by welfare aid, but whose spirit isoften 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

LPU Set - 2Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning

No of questions: 60 Marks for correct answer: 3Time: 90 minutes Negative mark: 1

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7. In the following sentence, a part of thesentence is underlined. Beneath eachsentence, four different ways of paraphrasingthe underlined part are indicated. Choose thebest alternative among the four options.

Contemplating whether to exist with aninsatiable romantic temperament, he was theauthor and largely the subject of a number ofmemorable novels.(a) Contemplating whether to exist(b) Combining realistic details(c) Miscegenating a brilliant mind(d) Aware that he had been born

8. In the following sentence, a part of thesentence is underlined. Beneath eachsentence, four different ways of paraphrasingthe underlined part are indicated. Choose thebest alternative among the four options.

In Martin Amis' new novel, the narrator istrapped — and hurtling towards a terriblesecret. Its resolution, and the dreadfulrevelations it brings, ally to give anexcruciating 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 passageto answer the following questions.

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of KingGeorge III, the British Government sent a fleet tocolonize Australia. Never had a colony been foundedso far from its parent state, or in such ignorance ofthe land it occupied. There had been noreconnaissance. In 1770, Captain James Cook hadmade landfall on the unexplored east coast of thisutterly enigmatic continent, stopped for a short whileat a place named Botany Bay and gone north again.Since then, no ship had called – not a word, not anobservation, for 17 years, each one of which wasexactly like the thousands that had preceded it,

locked in its historical immensity of blue heat, bush,sandstone and the measured booming of glassypacific rollers.

Now, this coast was to witness a new colonialexperiment, never tried before, not repeated since.An unexplored continent would become a jail. Thespace around it, the very air and sea, the wholetransparent labyrinth of the South pacific, wouldbecome a wall 14,000 miles thick.

The late 18th century abounded in schemes of socialgoodness thrown off by its burgeoning sense ofrevolution. But here, the process was to be reversed:not utopia, but Dystopia; not Rousseau’s natural manmoving in moral grace amid free social contract, butman coerced, deracinated, in chains. Other parts ofthe Pacific, especially Tahiti, might seem to conformRousseau. But the intellectual patrons of Australia,in its first colonial years, were Hobbes and Sade. Intheir most sanguine moments, the authorities hopedthat it would eventually swallow a whole class-the“criminal class”, whose existence was one of theprime sociological beliefs of late Georgian and earlyVictorian England. Australia was settled to defendEnglish property not from the frog-eating invaderacross 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 filthyand unnamable.

To most Englishmen this place seemed not just amutant society but another planet-an exiled world,summed up in its popular name, “Botany Bay”. Itwas remote and anomalous to its white creators. Itwas strange but close, as the unconscious to theconscious 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 wasEnglish. In the whole period of convict transportation,the Crown shipped more than 160,000 men, womenand children (due to defects in the records, the truenumber will never be precisely known) in bondage toAustralia. This was the largest forced exile of citizensat the behest of a European government in pre-modern history. Nothing in earlier penology compareswith it. In Australia, England drew the sketch for our

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own century’s vaster and more terrible fresco ofrepression, the Gulag. No other country had such abirth, and its pangs may be said to have begun onthe afternoon of January 26, 1788, when a fleet ofeleven vessels carrying 1,030 people, including 548male and 188 female convicts, under the commandof captain Arthur Phillip in his flagship Sirius, enteredPort Jackson or, as it would presently be called,Sydney Harbor.

9. When the author refers to “the marauderwithin”, 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 intellectualmentors 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 whatthe 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 lateeighteenth 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 thepassage to answer the following questions:

Humans have probably always been surrounded bytheir kin – those to whom they have been related byblood or marriage. But the size, the composition,and the functions of their families and kinship groupshave varied tremendously. People have lived not onlyin the “nuclear family”, made up of just the parentsand their offspring, which is standard in the West

and has been found almost everywhere, they havelived in extended families and in formal clans; theyhave been “avunculocal”; they have been “ultrolateral”,they have been conscious of themselves as heirs oflineages hundreds of generations deep. Howeverconstructed, the traditional kinship group has usuallyprovided those who live in it with security, identity,and indeed with their entire scheme of activities andbeliefs. The nameless billions of hunter-gathererswho have lived and died over the past several millionyears have been embedded in kinship groups, andwhen people started to farm about ten thousandyears ago, their universe remained centered onkinship. Now that there was a durable form of wealthwhich could be hoarded-grain–some families becamemore powerful than other; society became stratified,and genealogy became an important means ofjustifying and perpetuating status.

During the past few centuries, however, in parts of theworld-in Europe and the countries that have beendeveloping along European lines-a process offragmentation has been going on. The ties and thedemands of kinship have been weakening, the familyhas been getting smaller and, some say, lessinfluential, as the individual, with a new sense ofautonomy and with new obligations to himself (or,especially in the last decade and a half, toherself),has come to the foreground. A radicallydifferent mental order-self-centered and traceable notto any single historical development as much as tothe entire flow of Western history since at least theRenaissance-has taken over. The political andeconomic effects of this rise in individual self-consciousness have been largely positive: civil rightsare better protected and opportunities are greater inthe richer, more dynamic countries of the West; butthe psychological effects have been mixed , at best.Something has been lost: a warmth, a sanity, and asupportiveness that are apparent among peoplewhose family networks are still intact. Such qualitiescan be found in most of the Third World and in ruralpockets of the U.S., but in the main stream of post-industrial society the individual is increasingly left tohimself, to find meaning, stability, and contentmenthowever he can.

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An indication of how far the disintegration of traditionalkinship has advanced is that a surprising number ofAmericans are unable to name all four of theirgrandparents. Such people have usually grown upin step-families, which are dramatically on the rise.So is the single – parent family-the mother-child unit,which some anthropologists contend is the realnucleus of kinship, having already contracted to therelatively impoverished nuclear family, partly as anadaptation to industrialization. Kinship seems to bebreaking down even further. With the divorce rate inAmerica at about fifty percent and the remarriagerate at about seventy five, the traditional Judeo-Christian scheme of marriage to one person for lifeseems to be shading into a pattern of serialmonogamy, into a sort of staggered polygamy, whichsome anthropologists, who believe that we aren’tnaturally monogamous to begin with, see as “a returnof normality”. Still other anthropologists explain whatis happening somewhat differently; we are adoptingdelayed system of marriage, they say, with thelength of the marriage chopped off at both ends. Butmany adults aren’t getting married at all; they areputting “self-fulfillment” before marriage and childrenand are having nothing further to do with kinship afterleaving their parents’ home; their family has becometheir work associates or their circle of best friends.This is the most distressing trend of all; the declinein 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 theextent 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) Some families became more powerful than

others after farming was initiated.(c) Genealogy became an important means

of perpetuating status after the advent offarming.

(d) Stratification of society was a result ofhunter – gatherers taking up farming.

16. According to the author, what has beensacrificed 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 thepassage to answer the following questions.

The great galleon lay in semi-retirement under thesand, weed and water of the northern bay where thefortune of war and weather had long ago ensconcedit. Three and a quarter centuries had passed sincethe day when it had taken to the high seas as animportant unit of a fighting squadron—precisely whichsquadron the learned were not agreed. The galleonhad brought nothing into the world, but it had,according to tradition and report, taken much out ofit. But how much? There again the learned were indisagreement. Some were as generous in theirestimate as an income-tax assessor, others applieda species of higher criticism to the submergedtreasure chests, and debased their contents to thecurrency of goblin gold. Of the former school wasLulu, Duchess of Dulverton.

The Duchess was not only a believer in the existenceof a sunken treasure of alluring proportions; she alsobelieved that she knew of a method by which thesaid treasure might be precisely located and cheaplydisembedded. An aunt on her mother’s side of thefamily had been Maid of Honour at the Court ofMonaco, and had taken a respectful interest in thedeep-sea researches in which the Throne of thatcountry, impatient perhaps of its terrestrialrestrictions, was wont to immerse itself. It wasthrough the instrumentality of this relative that the

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Duchess learned of an invention, perfected and verynearly patented by a Monegaskan savant, by meansof which the home-life of the Mediterranean sardinemight be studied at a depth of many fathoms in acold white light of more than ball-room brilliancy.Implicated in this invention (and, in the Duchess’seyes, the most attractive part of it) was an electricsuction dredge, specially designed for dragging tothe surface such objects of interest and value asmight be found in the more accessible levels of theocean-bed. The rights of the invention were to beacquired for a matter of eighteen hundred francs,and the apparatus for a few thousand more. TheDuchess of Dulverton was rich, as the world countedwealth; she nursed the hope of being one day rich ather own computation. Companies had been formedand efforts had been made again and again duringthe course of three centuries to probe for the allegedtreasures of the interesting galleon; with the aid ofthis invention she considered that she might go towork on the wreck privately and independently. Afterall, one of her ancestors on her mother’s side wasdescended from Medina Sidonia, so she was of theopinion that she had as much right to the treasureas any one. She acquired the invention and boughtthe apparatus.

17. Why does the author refer to the home life ofthe 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 allowsthe observer to see clearly at that depth.

(d) Details of the home life of sardines ishighly useful in sardine farming.

18. What is meant by the rights of the invention?(a) Rights of the invention means the drawings

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 theworld?(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 insemi-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 timeto time.

(d) Retired ships are cannibalized. This shiphas not been cannibalized yet

21. If L is the brother of the son of P’s son, thenhow is L related to P?(a) Grand son (b) Uncle(c) Brother (d) Father

22. If Teena’s mother was Uday’s mother’s onlydaughter, then how was Uday related toTeena?(a) Maternal grand father(b) Maternal Uncle(c) Cousin(d) Son

23. R told S that U is T‘s sibling but not brother ofT. 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’sson, then what relationship is there betweenAkshay and Sunil?(a) Nephew (b) Brother(c) Cousin (d) Grandson

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25. If P is the mother of Q and R, and S is thehusband 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 ofmy father Sahil”. How is Sahil’s father relatedto Anjali?(a) Father (b) Grandfather(c) Father-in-law (d) Brother

27. Ashish said to Himani, “Son of your father’sonly son is my wife’s brother”. How is Himanirelated to wife of Ashish?(a) Sister (b) Aunt(c) Mother (d) Cannot be explained

28. Among her children, Ganga’s favourites areRam and Rekha. Rekha is the mother ofSharat, who is loves most by his uncle Mithun.The head of the family is Ram Lal, who issucceeded by his sons Gopal and Mohan.Gopal and Ganga has been married for 35years and have 3 children. What is the relationbetween Mithun and Mohan?(a) Uncle (b) Son(c) Brother (d) No relation

29. Rahul and Robin are brothers. Pramod isRobin’s father. Sheela is Pramod’s only sister.Prema is Pramod’s niece. Shubha is Sheela’sgranddaughter. How is Rahul related toShubha?(a) Brother (b) Cousin(c) Uncle (d) Nephew

30. Mr. and Mrs. Gopal have 3 daughters and eachdaughter has one brother. How many personsare there in the family?(a) 5 (b) 6(c) 7 (d) 8

31. A walks 2 km Southward then takes a rightturn and walks 5 km, then turns left and walks3 km then turns left and walks 5 km. In whichdirection 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 kmin North, then 6 km in West, then 12 km inSouth. 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

m2

(c) 25 m (d) 25 34 m

35. Aditya faces North and covers 24 km, turnsWest and covers 12 km, then turns Southand covers 6km, and turns West again andcovers 12 km. How far is he from the startingpoint (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 thenturns left and walks 80 km. He again turnsleft and walks 40 km. Then he moves 40 kmafter turning to the right. How far is he fromthe stating point?(a) 80 km (b) 100 km(c) 120 km (d) 160 km

37. Starting from O, Vivek walked 40 m towardsSouth, then he turned left and walked 60 m.He again turned left and walked 40 m. Heonce again turned left and walked 80 m andreached at D. How far and in which directionis D from O?

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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 afterturning right he walks 60 m. Then he turnsright and walks 70 m. After that he turns leftand walks 30 m. Then he again turns left andwalks 30 m. In which direction with respectto the initial position and at how muchdistance 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 andran 20 m and then turned to right and ran18 m and turned to left and ran 10 m and thenturned to left, ran 24 m and finally turned toleft and ran 12 m. Now he is running towardswhich direction?(a) West (b) North(c) South (d) East

40. Narendra travels 20 km to the North, then heturns left and travels 8 km, then he turns rightand covers another 10 km and then he turnsright and travels another 8 km. How far is hefrom the starting point?(a) 8 km (b) 40 km(c) 30 km (d) 20 km

41. An accurate clock shows 8 O’clock in themorning. Through how many degrees will thehour-hand rotate when the clock shows2 O’clock in the afternoon?(a) 30° (b) 180°(c) 90° (d) 150°

42. At 3 : 40, the hour-hand and the minute-handof a clock form an angle of:(a) 120° (b) 125°(c) 130° (d) 140°

43. The angle between the minute-hand and thehour-hand of a clock when the time is4 : 20, is:(a) 10° (b) 15°(c) 5° (d) 20°

44. How many times do the hands of a clockcoincide 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 aclock form a right angle?(a) 24 times (b) 48 times(c) 22 times (d) 44 times

46. Which among the following years is a leapyear?(a) 1900 (b) 1800(c) 1700 (d) 2800

47. The first Republic Day of India was celebratedon 26th January, 1950. What was the day ofthe 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(a) Wednesday (b) Thursday(c) Friday (d) Saturday

49. India got Independence on 15th August 1947.What was the day of the week on that day?(a) Wednesday (b) Thursday(c) Friday (d) Saturday

50. If today is Saturday, then what day of the weekwill 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 thefront end and Komal is 38th from the backend. What is the position of a student fromthe front who is standing exactly between Ramand Komal?(a) 30th (b) 25th(c) 28th (d) 27th

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52. Some children are sitting in a row. If Karan isshifted two positions to his right, he willbecome 13th from the right end. If he is shifted3 positions to his left, he will be 12th from theleft end. How many children are sitting in thisrow?(a) 29 (b) 30(c) 28 (d) 31

53. In a row there were 45 students. If Manish is17th to the right of Ravi, who is 10th from leftend. Then what will be the position of Renufrom right, who is sitting 8 positions to theleft of Manish?(a) 26th (b) 28th(c) 19th (d) 27th

54. In a queue, Rahul is just behind 9 people fromthe front end. Ajay is 6 places behind Rahul.If two people between Rahul and Ajay leaveand 3 persons are added before Rahul, thenwhat will be the new position of Ajay from thefront end?(a) 16th (b) 17th(c) 15th (d) 18th

55. If Rajesh is standing at 8th position from theright end of a row and Sheetal is standing at17th position from the left end. Then whatis the number of students in the row, if therewere exactly 5 students between Rajesh andSheetal?(a) 18 (b) 30(c) Either (a) or (b) (d) 31

56. Rajul is 7 ranks ahead of Suman in a class of39 students. If Suman’s rank is seventeenthfrom the last, what is Rajul’s rank from thestart?(a) 15th (b)16th(c)17th (d)14th

57. In a row of girls, Rashmi is nineteenth fromthe left end and tenth from the right end.Prajakta is fourteenth from the right end inthat row. How many girls are there betweenRashmi and Prajakta?(a) 4 (b) 2(c) 3 (d) 5

58. Among P, Q, R, S and T each one has scoreddifferent marks in an examination, Q scoredmore than R and T, and less than P and S.R’s marks are not the lowest. Who scoredthe lowest marks?(a) S (b) R(c) Q (d) None of these

59. In a queue of 20 people, K is fourteenth fromthe front and M is ninth from the bottom. Howmany 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 Ebut not as tall as A. B is taller than C and D,but not as tall as E. Who is the shortestamong them?(a) C (b) D(c) B (d) Data inadequate