(a) Only D-A (b) Only C-B (c) Both A-C
(d) Only C-D (e) All are correct
(a) Only D-A
(b) Only C-B
(c) Both C-A and D-B
(d) Only C-D
(e) All are correct
Directions (3-10) Read the following passage and answer the following questions based on the given passage. Some of the words are highlighted which would help you to answer some of the questions given.
People who have been yearning for major economic reforms from the Narendra Modi government, it seems, will have to wait to have their dreams come true. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday presented the third round of stimulus measures to resuscitate the struggling economy, but once again these have largely failed to live up to the initial hype around them. The previous two rounds of the stimulus plan, presented at press conferences held by the Minister over the last few weeks, focused primarily on reviving the automobile sector, boosting the confidence of foreign investors who were spooked by the Budget announcements in July, and improving the health of dangerously fragile state-owned banks by doing everything short of privatising them. This time around the focus has been on helping out the underperforming export and real estate sectors through piecemeal fiscal reforms. Among other things, Ms. Sitharaman announced a new tax refund scheme and greater priority sector lending for the export sector to incentivise exports. It is expected that the new tax breaks to the exports sector will cause a dent of up to ₹50,000 crore to the government’s revenue. Further, external commercial borrowing norms have been eased to make it easier for Indian real estate companies to tap funds from abroad, and funds worth ₹10,000 crore have also been allocated to aid the completion of affordable housing projects. With lack of demand and major supply-side stoppage being the primary issues facing exports and real estate, it is doubtful whether the present measures will be enough to revive these flailing sectors.
Overall, cutting across all three stimulus rounds announced till date, the government has been relying almost entirely on providing fiscal relief, in the form of tax cuts coupled with a tiny amount of government spending, to wade through what seems like a structural crisis in the economy. The hope seems to be that these measures combined with a looser monetary policy stance adopted by the RBI will boost spending and revive growth. This is, however, a far cry from what many expected from a government that promised radical structural reforms when it rose to power in 2014. Without enacting any major supply-side reforms like land and labour reforms that can raise potential growth, it is also hard to see how greater spending can raise growth for very long. The government may believe that the present slowdown, marked by five consecutive quarters of dropping growth, is merely a cyclical one. But given the size of its victory in two consecutive elections, the government should aim higher by trying to push through long-pending structural reforms that can raise India’s growth trajectory to the next level.
(I) Encouraging the foreign investors.
(II) Privatising the state owned banks.
(III) Resuscitating the automobile sector.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Both (I) and (II)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) All (I), (II) and (III)
(a) The products produced will be of inferior quality.
(b) The GDP of the country would be enhanced.
(c) The end users will have to bear the burden and will have to adjust accordingly.
(d) The government revenue would shrunk by huge margin.
(e) None of these
(a) Holding elections with a quantified budget.
(b) Providing funds to the schemes like affordable housing.
(c) Growth can be increased drastically by implementing supply-side reforms.
(d) Both (b) and (c)
(e) None of these
(a) The stimulus incentives hold promise, but structural reforms are nowhere on the horizon
(b) Taking one step forward and two steps back undermines the legitimacy of policy change
(c) While RBI looks at how to create a broad-based debt market, it should lay the regulatory groundwork
(d) A ₹50,000-crore package for housing, half funded by the Centre, is expected to rescue affordable housing projects that haven’t yet gone bust
(e) None of these
(a) The automobile sector and banking sector are still under huge debt.
(b) The export sector is facing an issue lack of supply.
(c) The prominent bottlenecks at the supply-side.
(d) Both (b) and (c)
(e) None of these
(I) The enemy waded through the power and yielded to them.
(II) The officials had to wade through pages of legal jargon before we could sign the contract.
(III) Wading through waist-high water is quite a workout.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (III)
(c) Both (I) and (III)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) All of these
(a) married (b) conjoined (c) adjourned
(d) prorogued (e) None of these
(a) temperate (b) exorbitant (c) nominal
(d) subjugate (e) None of these
Directions (11-20): In the following questions, a sentence is divided into four parts consisting of a highlighted word in each part. Choose the option reflecting the word which is either misspelt or grammatically incorrect. If all the highlighted words are correct, choose option (e) i.e. “all are correct” as your answer choice.
(a) unconventional
(b) intereste
(c) Reserve
(d) returned
(e) All are correct
(a) gorment (b) joblessness (c) dwindling
(d) visible (e) All are correct
(a) commuted
(b) imprisonment
(c) recommendations
(d) Ministry
(e) All are correct
(a) sort (b) petition (c) challenging
(d) rejected (e) All are correct
(a) embatled (b) emergency (c) dramatic
(d) quell (e) All are correct
(a) shadow (b) announce (c) oversees
(d) trustee (e) All are correct
(a) stoke (b) slumped (c) afternoon
(d) falling (e) All are correct
(a) review (b) detailed (c) applications
(d) exist (e) All are correct
(a) began
(b) campaign
(c) rousing
(d) overwhelming
(e) All are correct
(a) people (b) credit (c) aniversary
(d) rigour (e) All are correct
Directions (21-25): Two columns are given in each question and each column has three parts of a sentence. Choose the most suitable pair, which makes a grammatically correct and contextually coherent statement.
(A) The Delhi Cabinet approved a Bill to set up “India’s first” sports university in Delhi,
(B) Making the announcement, the CM said that the university will come up in 90 acres of land
(C) A passionate sportsperson can now devote all his time to playing and excelling in sports
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(D) emphasis on sports and to groom the students for a career in sports.
(E) which will offer graduation, post graduation and doctorate degrees in different sports.
(F) then it will be passed in the winter session of the Assembly.
(a) A-E (b) B-E (c) C-F
(d) Both (a) and (b) (e) None of these
(A) They were joined by students in a protest march through
(B) The protesters were against a recent circular by the university
(C) The teachers have been protested lack of promotions over the last 10 years,
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(D) will have major implications on the quality of teaching.
(E) of over 3,000 teachers are due for years now.
(F) which allows only guest appointments against full-time regular vacancies.
(a)A-E (b) B-F (c) C-F
(d) C-D (e) None of these
(A) Now every working professional here
(B) I am happy that from now on the officials working here will be
(C) The initiative will ensure working women spend quality time with the
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(D) children which will create a favourable atmosphere for both.
(E) who has a child at home and wants to spend quality time with him or her can do so.
(F) able to stay closer to their children, visit them, feed them and play with them.
(a) A-E (b) B-F (c) C-D
(d) A-E, B-F and C-D (e) None of these
(A) The Grey Line is a standard-gauge section and out of the 4.295 km, 2.57 km is elevated
(B) The Grey Line of Delhi Metro, which will connect Najafgarh to the rapid transit network,
(C) The Dwarka-Najafgarh corridor of Delhi Metro will be formally
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(D) inspecting the corridor for safety on Wednesday.
(E) the Delhi Metro network will expand to 377 km with 274 stations.
(F) will be opened for services on Friday, officials said.
(a)A-E (b) B-F (c) C-F
(d) C-D (e) None of these
(A) Though Mr. Narbir’s name did not figure in the first list of 78 candidates,
(B) The most surprising exclusion was Haryana PWD Minister Rao Narbir Singh,
(C) Though ticket was denied to Mr. Inderjit Singh’s daughter Arti Rao Singh
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(D) ticket to his daughter and supporters could proved harmful.
(E) it was expected that he could be fielded from Rewari or Kosli.
(F) had openly opposed him in Lok Sabah election.
(a) A-E (b) B-F (c) C-F
(d) C-D (e) None of these
Directions (26-30): In the following questions a sentence is given, some parts of the sentence are given in bold which may have grammatical or spelling error or they may be contextually incorrect. Two columns (A) and (B) are given, column (A) consists of bold parts of the sentence and column (B) consists of the appropriate replacement for the bold parts. Match the correct replacements. If the sentence is correct mark no error as your answer.
COLUMN (A) | COLUMN (B) |
(1) against | (4) on |
(2) many a country | (5) many country |
(3) agenda | (6) perspective |
(a) 1-4 (b) 3-6 (c) 2-5
(d) (a), (b) and (c) (e) No error
COLUMN (A) | COLUMN (B) |
(1) citing | (4) siting |
(2) inadequate | (5) inadequately |
(3) aggregate | (6) aggregating |
(a) 1-4 (b) 2-5 (c) 3-6
(d) 2-5 and 3-6 (e) No error
COLUMN (A) | COLUMN (B) |
(1) unequivocal | (4) unequivocally |
(2) issues had meant | (5) issues has meant |
(3) on the international stage | (6) form the international stage |
(a) 1-4 (b) 3-6 (c) 2-5
(d) 1-4 and 2-5 (e) No error
COLUMN (A) | COLUMN (B) |
(1) has generated | (4) generates |
(2) euphoria | (5) euthanasia |
(3) had casted | (6) had cast |
(a) 1-4 (b) 2-5 (c) 3-6
(d) (b) and (c) (e) No error
COLUMN (A) | COLUMN (B) |
(1) could | (4) is to |
(2) sampling | (5) sampled |
(3) habitat | (6) habbitat |
(a) 1-4 (b) 3-6 (c) 2-5
(d) 1-4 and 2-5 (e) No error
SOLUTIONS
Adjourn: break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.
Prorogue: discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it.
Subjugate: to bring under one’s control by force of arms.
Whereas sort means (V) to arrange systematically in groups; separate according to type.
Stoke means “encourage or incite (a strong emotion or tendency).”
Thus, correct answer will be (a).
Sentences thus formed are:
A-E: The Delhi Cabinet approved a Bill to set up “India’s first” sports university in Delhi, which will offer graduation, post graduation and doctorate degrees in different sports.
B-E: Making the announcement, the CM said that the university will come up in 90 acres of land, which will offer graduation, post graduation and doctorate degrees in different sports.
Sentence thus formed by combining B-F is:
The protesters were against a recent circular by the university which allows only guest appointments against full-time regular vacancies.
Sentences thus formed are:
A-E: Now every working professional here who has a child at home and wants to spend quality time with him or her can do so.
B-F: I am happy that from now on the officials working here will be able to stay closer to their children, visit them, feed them and play with them.
C-D: The initiative will ensure working women spend quality time with the children which will create a favourable atmosphere for both.
Sentence thus formed by combining B-F is :
The Grey Line of Delhi Metro, which will connect Najafgarh to the rapid transit network, will be opened for services on Friday, officials said.
Sentence thus formed by combining A-E is:
Though Mr. Narbir’s name did not figure in the first list of 78 candidates, it was expected that he could be fielded from Rewari or Kosli.