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Question : 1

Although the World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ report may not _____________ its analysis such anomalous situations like a government’s arbitrary action and diktat fuelled by some lobby or another affecting business, this _____________ makes any analysis on a comprehensive ‘ease of doing business’ report incomplete. The case in point being that _____________ the widespread and competitive meat bans in various states last week, the issue won’t reflect in India’s ranking, despite business on the ground being severely affected. This means that corporate institutions will look at the actual ground _____________ in India rather than just World Bank rankings, and decide for themselves whether doing business in India is worth their efforts or not.

a) corporate into - separation - despite - realities

b) corporate into - separation - despite - realities

c) incorporate in - exclusion - indeed - reality

d) incorporate in - exclusion - indeed - reality

e) incorporate in - exclusion - despite - realities

Question : 2

Let’s simply decode the first verse of the Rig Veda. Language experts have concluded that there are older verses in the Rig Veda, _____________ when the books were re-organized, this verse was located as the first one. A traditionalist will try to exclude general public people from the decoding exercise using various _____________ reasons. These isolationist rules were created to protect the _____________ of hymns, but _____________ breeding corruption in the priestly class, much like the License Raj. Again it is a burden we do not bear in the 21st century. The hymn is identified as Rig Veda 1.1.1, meaning it is the first hymn (rig) of the first poem (sukta) of the first of the ten books (mandala).

a) So - devout - sanctity - ended up

b) So - devout - sanctity - ended with

c) but - orthodox - sanctity - ended up

d) but - orthodox - religiousness - closed

e) but - orthodox - religiousness - closed

Question : 3

But our research _____________ that investors cannot operate on divided attention. Major non-market attention-grabbing events overwhelm firm _____________ information carrying strong sentiment. For example, when Hazare was on his fast, a positive news item on Coal India gaining Maharatna status _____________ negative sentiment. Its price fell by almost 2 per cent over the next two days. Around the same period, there was neutral-to positive news on Infosys with officials _____________ in talks to have the IT company set up local presence. Strangely, the stock reported a negative cumulative abnormal return (CAR) of 1 per cent in the two days around the Hazare event.

a) has been shown – in particular - generated - reportedly

b) has shown - specific - generated - reportedly

c) has been shown – in particular - generated - reportedly

d) has shown - specific - develop - reported

e) has shown - specific - develop - reported

Question : 4

Companies are acquiring stakes in technologies unrelated to their core business that holds _____________ the future. Google is _____________ such acquisitions, buying the satellite imaging technology firm Skybox Imaging in 2014 for USD 500 million to enhance its project Loon that intends to provide internet access in _____________ of the world. With the acquisition of Nest Labs for USD 500 million, Google showed its _____________ home monitoring. Facebook acquired the Britain-based Ascenta to provide internet access through unmanned aerial vehicles. We are yet to see such high-risk, long-term investment types of acquisitions in India.

a) promise for - well known for - remote parts - appetite for

b) promise of - well known for - remote parts - appetite for

c) promise for - know how to - remote parts - appetite for

d) promise for - well known for - accessible parts - appetite for

e) promise for - well known for - remote parts - appetite to

Question : 5

The Americans remain officially optimistic, even if a little impatient, at India’s pace of economic reforms. But when two countries as _____________ as India and the US get together to face complex _____________the world, there will be things that don’t work. The focus, say US officials, is and should be on implementation. Both Barack Obama and Modi are sensitive that past _____________ about the world’s most powerful and the largest democracies walking into the sunset together has begun sounding _____________. When they last met, they agreed to focus on getting things done.

a) mix - restrictions of - rhetoric - hollow

b) mix - restrictions for - rhetoric - hollow

c) diverse - challenges of - oratory – hollowness

d) diverse - challenges of - rhetoric - hollow

e) diverse - challenges of - oratory – hollowness