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Question : 11

While fundamentally the differentiated business pillars mentioned above should _____________ sufficient, we realised that the execution _____________ done differently as well. The Indian mass market consumer, was new to the internet as was the SME merchant — just bringing the marketplace model to them _____________. We created ShopClues as India’s First “Managed” marketplace — what this meant was to take a very considered though opposing _____________ being the first pure marketplace to intermediate shipping, customer service and many other supporting services from day one etc. Since then, many other ecommerce companies have “pivoted” to the model, but our clear differentiation has stood us in good stead.

a) have - had to be - was not enough - point of view of

b) have been - had to be - was not enough - point of view of

c) have been – has been - was not enough - point of view of

d) have been - had to be - was enough - point of view of

e) have been - had to be - was not enough - point of view

Question : 12

Indeed, as global pharmaceutical companies themselves come under pressure in their home countries as to just how expensive cutting-edge, patented medicines can be, _____________ generics versions, this is becoming a concern beyond just India. A story that came to _____________ recently was of an Australian academic who began suffering from Hepatitis C, his liver reaching a critical precancerous stage, and realised patented medicines down under _____________ him $100,000 for a course. He made his way to Chennai and bought generics versions of the same drug for less than $1,000. Completely cured, he is now running a _____________ the high price of patented medicines.

a) in relation to - prominence - would cost - campaign against

b) in comparison to - prominently - would cost - campaign against

c) in comparison to - prominence – would have been cost - campaign against

d) in comparison to - prominence - would cost - campaign in favour of

e) in comparison to - prominence - would cost - campaign against

Question : 13

In the Hindu Puranas, the problem is never with wealth. Wealth is a goddess, Lakshmi, one of the _____________, invoked in the Shri Sukta of the Rig Veda for cows and grain and gold and children. The problem is with our relationship with wealth. In the Puranas, Brahma’s son Indra is always chasing wealth. In contrast, Vishnu attracts wealth and Shiva is _____________ to wealth. The wealth chasers are not worshipped; the wealth-attractors and the wealth-ignorers are _____________ in temples. Vishnu is linked to householders and Shiva to hermits. But then Shiva is made to marry a princess of the mountains, Parvati, who is also the goddess of food, Anna-poorna, thus _____________ to the value of food, if not wealth, in human society. Even the hermit who shuns wealth needs food. Thus, production and distribution of food and wealth are separated, though both are seen as key to society.

a) oldest - different - enshrined - drawing attention

b) older - indifferent - enshrined - drawing attention

c) oldest - indifferent – enshrine - drawing attention

d) oldest - indifferent - enshrined - drawing attention

e) oldest - indifferent - enshrined - getting attention

Question : 14

The World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ report considers a number of factors in its assessment. These _____________ what it takes to start a business, procuring licences and permits to operate, registering properties, protection of minority investors, certainty in taxation, enforcement of contracts and resolving insolvency. The government _____________ to get India in the top 50 within the next two years. For that to be achieved, for starters, arbitrary bans and diktats need _____________. Meat sellers and businesses, both in the organised and unorganised sectors, have been _____________, as have the food chains selling meat-based food products. With revenues being lost, and unexpected impediments to doing business, this unpredictability and wanton disregard for the interests of businesses hardly bodes well.

a) Take into account - has to be vowed - to ban - affected

b) Take into account - has to be vowed - to ban - affected

c) include - has vowed – to be banned - effected

d) include - has vowed - to ban - affected

e) include - has vowed - to be banned - effected

Question : 15

While even the ILO refers only to ‘labour’, the fact is that today’s refugees and migrants are often _____________ labour. They deserve protection from social and political _____________ and economic discrimination in host nations. Be it in Europe or in China, in West Asia or North America, every modern nation must grant the ‘right of entry’ and human security to refugees and migrants, coming _____________ the laws of demographics and the human instinct for survival. Stringent visa systems and immigration laws are a 20th century _____________ that have no place in the 21st.

a) Future’s - hostile - to terms with - aberration

b) Future’s - hostile - to terms with – aberration

c) tomorrow’s - hostility - to terms with - aberration

d) tomorrow’s - hostility - along with – irregularity

e) tomorrow’s - hostility - to along with – irregularity