Q1- Comprehension:
There is little that is surprising about India’s recent refusal to allow Google to launch its Street View service, which gives users a 360-degree view of public spaces. As this newspaper has reported, the proposal was rejected following objections raised by the Defence Ministry. The decision is said to have come in the backdrop of the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase in January, with investigators suspecting that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area. Barely days after the airbase attack, the Delhi High Court asked the government to examine the issue of sensitive locations such as defence installations and nuclear power plants showing on Google Maps. It isn’t clear if these concerns have been addressed. Street View goes a step further than the maps. It displays panoramic views of public spaces, thanks to images captured by Google’s moving vehicles, adding a layer of depth and reality to the maps. India has hinted that its refusal is not final and that such issues could be resolved once the Geospatial Bill, which seeks to regulate map-creation and sharing, comes into force. But it is unclear whether this will help, given that the proposed legislation is somewhat overenthusiastic about regulation. India isn’t the first country to seem troubled by Street View. Since its launch in 2007 in the U.S., the service has faced roadblocks in many countries. In the U.S., for instance, both the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense had concerns over Google capturing images of sensitive locations. In Europe, especially Germany, concerns over loss of privacy took centre stage. The script wasn’t different in Japan.
And yet, Street View is available in all these countries. Solutions were eventually found. Before long, the service figured out a way to blur people’s faces and licence plates automatically before the pictures were made public. In the U.S., Google was asked to remove sensitive information, and its image-capturing cars were ordered to keep off military bases. In Germany, households were given the option of blurring their buildings. In Japan, the height from which the cameras scanned the neighbourhoods was lowered and local governments were notified prior to Google’s photography. Even Israel, which takes internal security very seriously, gave the green signal to Street View five years ago, reportedly making sure Google doesn’t show images in real-time and only photographs public spaces open to all. While there is an obvious tourism angle involved, Google representatives have spoken of Street View’s usefulness in disaster management. All things considered, it might not be in India’s best interests to keep out this technology for long.
2) It might be in India’s best interests to keep out this technology for long.
3) Google was asked to remove sensitive information, and its image-capturing cars were ordered to keep off military bases.
4) None of the above
Please read the lines: "The decision is said to have come in the backdrop of the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase in January, with investigators suspecting that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area."
So, it's clear that Google’s Street View service proposal was rejected because it was suspected that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area in order to carry out terror attack on the Pathankot airbase.
Ans: Option A
Explanation: (i) India’s growth strategy has focused on domestic demand and high-value service exports, which generate too few employment opportunities for women, particularly *those* with medium levels of education.
Q3- Sentence-improvement:
The political masters of the healthcare system have not listened to professional health planners because it has not been profitable for them to do that thing.
Ans- (b) has not been profitable for them to do so.
The end part of this phrase ‘to do so’ completes the meaning and gives us the hint.
Correct: The political masters of the healthcare system have not listened to professional health planners because it *has not been profitable for them to do so*.
Q4: In the following question, two sentences are given. Each sentence has blank in it. Five words A),(B), (C) , (D) and (E) are suggested. Out of these, only one fits at both the places in context of each sentence. Number of that word is the answer.
I. The clown at the party was so ________ that all I heard for 3 hours was his annoying laugh.
II. The basketball fans were ______ throughput the championship match.
A) tranquil
B) serene
C) bluster
D) obstreperous
E) None of these.
Answer: D) obstreperous
Explanation:
Obstreperous means noisy and difficult to control.
Tranquil means calm
Serene means calm or composed
bluster means talk in a loud, aggressive way
So,
I. The clown at the party was so *obstreperous* that all I heard for 3 hours was his annoying laugh.
II. The basketball fans were *obstreperous* throughput the championship match.
Q5: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow:
There is little that is surprising about India’s recent refusal to allow Google to launch its Street View service, which gives users a 360-degree view of public spaces. As this newspaper has reported, the proposal was rejected following objections raised by the Defence Ministry. The decision is said to have come in the backdrop of the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase in January, with investigators suspecting that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area. Barely days after the airbase attack, the Delhi High Court asked the government to examine the issue of sensitive locations such as defence installations and nuclear power plants showing on Google Maps. It isn’t clear if these concerns have been addressed. Street View goes a step further than the maps. It displays panoramic views of public spaces, thanks to images captured by Google’s moving vehicles, adding a layer of depth and reality to the maps. India has hinted that its refusal is not final and that such issues could be resolved once the Geospatial Bill, which seeks to regulate map-creation and sharing, comes into force. But it is unclear whether this will help, given that the proposed legislation is somewhat overenthusiastic about regulation. India isn’t the first country to seem troubled by Street View. Since its launch in 2007 in the U.S., the service has faced roadblocks in many countries. In the U.S., for instance, both the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense had concerns over Google capturing images of sensitive locations. In Europe, especially Germany, concerns over loss of privacy took centre stage. The script wasn’t different in Japan.
Q- Why Google’s Street View service proposal was rejected?
1) Because it was suspected that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area in order to carry out terror attack on the Pathankot airbase. 2) It might be in India’s best interests to keep out this technology for long.
3) Google was asked to remove sensitive information, and its image-capturing cars were ordered to keep off military bases.
4) None of the above
Ans: 1) Because it was suspected that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area in order to carry out terror attack on the Pathankot airbase.
Explanation:
Explanation:
Please read the lines: "The decision is said to have come in the backdrop of the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase in January, with investigators suspecting that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area."
So, it's clear that Google’s Street View service proposal was rejected because it was suspected that terrorists used Google Maps to study the topography of the targeted area in order to carry out terror attack on the Pathankot airbase.
Q2- Spotting-Errors:
(i) India’s growth strategy has focused on domestic demand and high-value service exports, which generate too few employment opportunities for women, particularly that with medium levels of education.
(i) India’s growth strategy has focused on domestic demand and high-value service exports, which generate too few employment opportunities for women, particularly that with medium levels of education.
(ii) Policies will be needed to tackle the social stigma that appears to prevent particularly educated women from engaging in outside employment.
A) Only (i) contains error
B) Only (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contain error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free
A) Only (i) contains error
B) Only (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contain error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free
Ans: Option A
Explanation: (i) India’s growth strategy has focused on domestic demand and high-value service exports, which generate too few employment opportunities for women, particularly *those* with medium levels of education.
Q3- Sentence-improvement:
The political masters of the healthcare system have not listened to professional health planners because it has not been profitable for them to do that thing.
(a) has not been profitable for them to do that thing
(b) has not been profitable for them to do so
(c) has been unprofitable for them to do that thing
(d) has been profitable for them to do so
(e) doing so had not been profitable for them
Ans- (b) has not been profitable for them to do so.
The end part of this phrase ‘to do so’ completes the meaning and gives us the hint.
Correct: The political masters of the healthcare system have not listened to professional health planners because it *has not been profitable for them to do so*.
Q4: In the following question, two sentences are given. Each sentence has blank in it. Five words A),(B), (C) , (D) and (E) are suggested. Out of these, only one fits at both the places in context of each sentence. Number of that word is the answer.
I. The clown at the party was so ________ that all I heard for 3 hours was his annoying laugh.
II. The basketball fans were ______ throughput the championship match.
A) tranquil
B) serene
C) bluster
D) obstreperous
E) None of these.
Answer: D) obstreperous
Explanation:
Obstreperous means noisy and difficult to control.
Tranquil means calm
Serene means calm or composed
bluster means talk in a loud, aggressive way
So,
I. The clown at the party was so *obstreperous* that all I heard for 3 hours was his annoying laugh.
II. The basketball fans were *obstreperous* throughput the championship match.
Q5: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow:
(a) Long-term damage to the highly productive mangroves on the Indian side occurred during the colonial era, when forests were cut to facilitate cultivation.
(b) The Sundarbans present a stark example of what loss of ecology can do to a landscape and its people.
(c) Fresh evidence of loss of forest cover in the Indian Sundarbans, which represent a third of the largest contiguous mangrove ecosystem in the world, is a reminder that an accelerated effort is necessary to preserve them.
(d) There is also a unique population of tigers that live here, adapted to move easily across the land-sea interface.
(e) As a recent Jadavpur University study has pointed out, climate change appears to be an emerging threat to the entire 10,000 sq km area that also straddles Bangladesh towards the east, and sustains millions of people with food, water and forest products.
Answer: bcaed(b) The Sundarbans present a stark example of what loss of ecology can do to a landscape and its people.
(c) Fresh evidence of loss of forest cover in the Indian Sundarbans, which represent a third of the largest contiguous mangrove ecosystem in the world, is a reminder that an accelerated effort is necessary to preserve them.
(d) There is also a unique population of tigers that live here, adapted to move easily across the land-sea interface.
(e) As a recent Jadavpur University study has pointed out, climate change appears to be an emerging threat to the entire 10,000 sq km area that also straddles Bangladesh towards the east, and sustains millions of people with food, water and forest products.
The correct sequence is:
(b) The Sundarbans present a stark example of what loss of ecology can do to a landscape and its people.
(c) Fresh evidence of loss of forest cover in the Indian Sundarbans, which represent a third of the largest contiguous mangrove ecosystem in the world, is a reminder that an accelerated effort is necessary to preserve them.
(a) Long-term damage to the highly productive mangroves on the Indian side occurred during the colonial era, when forests were cut to facilitate cultivation.
(c) Fresh evidence of loss of forest cover in the Indian Sundarbans, which represent a third of the largest contiguous mangrove ecosystem in the world, is a reminder that an accelerated effort is necessary to preserve them.
(a) Long-term damage to the highly productive mangroves on the Indian side occurred during the colonial era, when forests were cut to facilitate cultivation.
(e) As a recent Jadavpur University study has pointed out, climate change appears to be an emerging threat to the entire 10,000 sq km area that also straddles Bangladesh towards the east, and sustains millions of people with food, water and forest products.
(d) There is also a unique population of tigers that live here, adapted to move easily across the land-sea interface.
Please note: "Straddle" means sit or stand with one leg on either side of.
Stark means serious
Q6: Cloze Test:
Google on Wednesday announced an (Q6) (overhaul) of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalised feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competition with social networks such as Facebook.
1) ripen into
2) derange
3) disarrange
4) unsuit
5) No correction required.
Answer: 5 (No correction required.)
Explanation:
No correction required.Given word is correct as per its usage.
Google on Wednesday announced an *overhaul* of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalised feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competition with social networks such as Facebook.
Q7: Which option can replace the words in asterisk/bold so that the meaning will remain same.
One should not stay idle at home; but be *up and doing*.
Answer: (b) Active
4) unsuit
5) No correction required.
Answer: 5 (No correction required.)
Explanation:
No correction required.Given word is correct as per its usage.
Google on Wednesday announced an *overhaul* of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalised feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competition with social networks such as Facebook.
Q7: Which option can replace the words in asterisk/bold so that the meaning will remain same.
One should not stay idle at home; but be *up and doing*.
(a) Sleeping
(b) Active
(c) Working
(d) Reading
(e) None of these
Answer: (b) Active
Explanation:
up and doing means "active"
up and doing means "active"
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