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Question : 21

Consider this target: “By 2030 ensure all learners _____________ knowledge and skills _____________ promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s _____________ to sustainable development”. It is hard to know what is promised, _____________ how it will be implemented, monitored or evaluated.

a) acquire - needed to - contribution - recent

b) Has been acquired – require to - contribution - recent

c) Has been acquired – require to - contribution - recent

d) acquire - needed to - support - recently

e) acquire - needed to - support – at present

Question : 22

Birds migrate long stretches, sometimes even thousands of miles between its breeding and non-breeding ground, a journey _____________ many hiccups, often perilous, but it doesn’t have the luxury to reproduce and blossom in a fixed habitat. It has to fly to a new spot, sometimes _____________ food, some other times to escape harsh winters, the reasoning the same each time-the desire to survive. Migration as a phenomenon is nature’s remarkable way of _____________ Darwin’s theory-‘Survival of the fittest’; the Syrian migrants _____________ the theory even more vehemently.

a) encompassing - in search of - validating - authenticating

b) encompass - in lieu of - validating - authenticating

c) encompass - in lieu of - validating - authenticating

d) encompassing - in search of - including - approving

e) encompassing - in search of - including - approving

Question : 23

We constantly ask when India _____________ the next Google, Facebook or Uber. _____________ are given but I believe it starts with the thinking. You must, right at the start, think and believe that your product, your company, is global. Google didn’t say it wants to index all information in Mountain View, or California, or the United States. No. It said it wants to _____________ all the information in the world — global from Day One. Similarly, Uber _____________ it is the private driver for everyone in the United States. It said ‘Everyone’s private driver.’ Global from Day One.

a) will be produced - some reasons - index - didn’t say

b) will be produced - some reasons - index - didn’t say

c) will produce - Many reasons - tabulated – doesn’t say

d) will produce - Many reasons - tabulated – doesn’t say

e) will produce - Many reasons - index - didn’t say

Question : 24

This heavy taxation _____________ in beer being seen as a ‘high-end’ drink driving drinkers to hard spirits. The current policies of each and every state government are _____________ aimed at raising revenues from the alcoholic beverage sector without differentiating between categories of low and high alcoholic beverages. These policies _____________ social needs and objectives, thereby driving drinkers to opt for liquor consumption. One must appeal to the states to stop looking _____________ at beer producers to fund their coffers.

a) has been resulted - indiscriminate- overlook - overwhelmingly

b) has been resulted - indiscriminate - overlook - overwhelmingly

c) has resulted - indiscriminately - overlook - overwhelmingly

d) has resulted - indiscriminately - overturn - increasingly

e) has resulted - indiscriminately - overturn - increasingly

Question : 25

Three actions troubled the pharma lobby: In 2012, the Indian Patent Office granted India’s first compulsory licensing order in favour of Natco Pharma, allowing it to manufacture Nexavar, an anti-cancer drug patented by Bayer In 2005, Parliament _____________ Section 3(d) of the Patents Act and declined to provide intellectual property patent protection _____________ changes in drug formulations that did not result in “enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance“, a practice that is called “evergreening” In 2013, the Supreme Court refused to grant a patent for Novartis’ cancer drug Glivec, citing and upholding Section 3(d) Compulsory licensing is a provision governments can use to ensure _____________ of medicines in case of public health emergencies. Many in the government _____________ the 2012 order did not meet these rigorous benchmarks and was probably unnecessary. However, on Section 3(d) it would appear India is on good ground and the case against “evergreening” is strong.

a) amend - to incremental - mass manufacture - concede

b) amended - to increment - mass manufacture - concede

c) amended - to incremental - mass manufacturing – concede

d) amended - to incremental - mass manufacture - concede

e) amended - to incremental - mass manufacture – has conceded