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Answer: Option D. -> Nike's use of Swoosh logo at Atlanta in the arena when it was sponsored by Champion
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D
This term is used in the third para where the author mentions – “Eight years ago in Atlanta, Nike ambushed basketball sponsor Champion by sneaking giant Swoosh signs into the arena. When the cameras panned the stands, TV audiences saw the Nike logo loud and clear, while Champion had nothing”. This is indicative of guerrilla tactics where Nike used clever tricks to steal Champion’s thunder. This makes choice (d) correct.
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D
This term is used in the third para where the author mentions – “Eight years ago in Atlanta, Nike ambushed basketball sponsor Champion by sneaking giant Swoosh signs into the arena. When the cameras panned the stands, TV audiences saw the Nike logo loud and clear, while Champion had nothing”. This is indicative of guerrilla tactics where Nike used clever tricks to steal Champion’s thunder. This makes choice (d) correct.
Answer: Option B. -> 2,3 but not 5
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B
Look at these lines in the second paragraph “Incompatibility or incommensurability are then seen as a grave threat to vested interests”.
1) is too strong. You cannot conclude that functionalism is held by people with vested interests. The author states that incompatibility is a threat to vested interests. The author also states that functionalism does not give a solution to incompatibility.
That does not mean that functionalism is a concept held by people with vested interests.
2) Look at these lines -
“If, however, knowledge management and therefore also management education wish to be able to pride themselves on the fact that they aspire to continuous innovation and learning in organizations, then the management of irreconcilability and pluriformity will be an unavoidable and indispensable prerequisite for its success.”
The author also states that functionalism does not give a solution to incompatibility.
So we can safely conclude that (2) is correct.
3) Look at these lines -
“Such concepts as deuteron learning, n-th order changes, and innovation (instead of improvements) do not fit into the latter approach”.
The latter approach refers to the functional approach.
So (3) is correct.
4) Look at these lines in the first paragraph.
“In order to manage the cognitive and normative differences and preferences as part of organizational practice, knowledge management and thus management education will have to detach themselves from a functionalist management ideology”
The lines state that knowledge management and management education will not be able to manage the cognitive and normative difference if it uses functionalist management ideology.
It does not state that functionalism is not able to manage the difference.The point to be noted is that knowledge management and management education has the role to manage cognitive and normative differences. Functionalism is not able to manage incompatibility.
So (4) is not true w.r.t. to functionalism.
5) Let us have a look at these lines from the first paragraph
“From a functionalist management ideology, and the positivistic idea of knowledge and rationality which is associated with it”
So the author states that there is a positive relation between knowledge and rationality.
So (5) is not true.
So the best answer option would have been “2, 3, not 1, not 4 and not 5”
Only (b) comes closest to the best answer.
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B
Look at these lines in the second paragraph “Incompatibility or incommensurability are then seen as a grave threat to vested interests”.
1) is too strong. You cannot conclude that functionalism is held by people with vested interests. The author states that incompatibility is a threat to vested interests. The author also states that functionalism does not give a solution to incompatibility.
That does not mean that functionalism is a concept held by people with vested interests.
2) Look at these lines -
“If, however, knowledge management and therefore also management education wish to be able to pride themselves on the fact that they aspire to continuous innovation and learning in organizations, then the management of irreconcilability and pluriformity will be an unavoidable and indispensable prerequisite for its success.”
The author also states that functionalism does not give a solution to incompatibility.
So we can safely conclude that (2) is correct.
3) Look at these lines -
“Such concepts as deuteron learning, n-th order changes, and innovation (instead of improvements) do not fit into the latter approach”.
The latter approach refers to the functional approach.
So (3) is correct.
4) Look at these lines in the first paragraph.
“In order to manage the cognitive and normative differences and preferences as part of organizational practice, knowledge management and thus management education will have to detach themselves from a functionalist management ideology”
The lines state that knowledge management and management education will not be able to manage the cognitive and normative difference if it uses functionalist management ideology.
It does not state that functionalism is not able to manage the difference.The point to be noted is that knowledge management and management education has the role to manage cognitive and normative differences. Functionalism is not able to manage incompatibility.
So (4) is not true w.r.t. to functionalism.
5) Let us have a look at these lines from the first paragraph
“From a functionalist management ideology, and the positivistic idea of knowledge and rationality which is associated with it”
So the author states that there is a positive relation between knowledge and rationality.
So (5) is not true.
So the best answer option would have been “2, 3, not 1, not 4 and not 5”
Only (b) comes closest to the best answer.
Question 93. A. In general, the British Internet boom mirrored what had happened on the other side of the Atlantic a year or two earlier.
B. Lastminute.com shared all of these attributes.
C. This was a replay of events twelve months previously, when the US market witnesses Priceline.com issuing stock on the NASDAQ and ending its first day as a public company worth almost 10 bn $.
D. In March 2000, for example, Lastminute.com, the most widely-hyped of all British companies, issued stock on the London Stock Exchange and achieved a valuation, albeit fleetingly, of more than 800 mn $.
E. Priceline.com allowed airlines and hotels to unload their spare capacity cheaply online; it made heavy losses; and Morgan Stanley, a leading Wall Street investment bank, marketed its shares to the public.
F. The principal difference between the British bubble and the American bubble was one of scale
B. Lastminute.com shared all of these attributes.
C. This was a replay of events twelve months previously, when the US market witnesses Priceline.com issuing stock on the NASDAQ and ending its first day as a public company worth almost 10 bn $.
D. In March 2000, for example, Lastminute.com, the most widely-hyped of all British companies, issued stock on the London Stock Exchange and achieved a valuation, albeit fleetingly, of more than 800 mn $.
E. Priceline.com allowed airlines and hotels to unload their spare capacity cheaply online; it made heavy losses; and Morgan Stanley, a leading Wall Street investment bank, marketed its shares to the public.
F. The principal difference between the British bubble and the American bubble was one of scale
Answer: Option C. -> ADCEBF
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C
The first sentence describes an observation. Out of the options provided, sentence D presents an example of a company in London issuing stock and is the next sentence. Sentence C comments introduce an analogy with an American company which went through the same "sequence of events”. Sentence E then goes on to describe the fate of Priceline and sentence B mentions how these attributes were shared with Lastminute.com. Sentence F qualifies the comment made in the first sentence by highlighting a difference between the two bubbles. This makes option (c) correct
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C
The first sentence describes an observation. Out of the options provided, sentence D presents an example of a company in London issuing stock and is the next sentence. Sentence C comments introduce an analogy with an American company which went through the same "sequence of events”. Sentence E then goes on to describe the fate of Priceline and sentence B mentions how these attributes were shared with Lastminute.com. Sentence F qualifies the comment made in the first sentence by highlighting a difference between the two bubbles. This makes option (c) correct
Question 94. __________________________________________________________; a hungry man has to eat food to appease his hunger. Another example is the case of a sick person. He will be able to regain health only if he takes the prescribed medicine and follows the recommended diet strictly. If one wants to know how the moon looks like it is possible only if one sees it with one's eyes and not by another's description.
Answer: Option D. -> If someone is carrying a heavy load on his head another person can help him by relieving him of the burden but not so his pangs of hunger
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D
The introductory line must introduce the ideas that are elaborated in the passage. The passage talks about how each man must take care of his own needs and nobody else can do it for him. The first example is about a hungry man and how only food can appease his hunger. Option (d) is the introduction to this example. Even if we carry a man's burden nobody can satisfy his hunger. It is also in keeping with the idea given in the entire passage about how the sick man can only get better if he takes his medicines regularly and also the analogy with the moon. Option (a) talks about money which is irrelevant here. Option (b) only talks of certain cases but this is true always. Hence it is eliminated. Option (c) is too vague.
Hence option (d) is the correct answer.
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D
The introductory line must introduce the ideas that are elaborated in the passage. The passage talks about how each man must take care of his own needs and nobody else can do it for him. The first example is about a hungry man and how only food can appease his hunger. Option (d) is the introduction to this example. Even if we carry a man's burden nobody can satisfy his hunger. It is also in keeping with the idea given in the entire passage about how the sick man can only get better if he takes his medicines regularly and also the analogy with the moon. Option (a) talks about money which is irrelevant here. Option (b) only talks of certain cases but this is true always. Hence it is eliminated. Option (c) is too vague.
Hence option (d) is the correct answer.
Question 95. 1. So a part of the idea of near-zero interest rates in the US is to discourage saving and to encourage borrowing.
2. It seems hard these days to find anyone who has a good word for savings, or savers.
3. There has been talk of a global "savings glut" for a decade now, and Ben Bernanke the former chief of the US Federal Reserve, one of the original proponents,still sees the concept as a "useful perspective" for understanding current economic conditions.
4. The perceived problem is that money saved is not money spent and thus the effect of saving is to reduce aggregate demand; by keeping a dollar in your pocket, you deprive a neighbor of employment.
5. This is the "paradox of thrift"; if everyone tries to save too much, the economy will contract and the average person will be poorer, not richer.
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2. It seems hard these days to find anyone who has a good word for savings, or savers.
3. There has been talk of a global "savings glut" for a decade now, and Ben Bernanke the former chief of the US Federal Reserve, one of the original proponents,still sees the concept as a "useful perspective" for understanding current economic conditions.
4. The perceived problem is that money saved is not money spent and thus the effect of saving is to reduce aggregate demand; by keeping a dollar in your pocket, you deprive a neighbor of employment.
5. This is the "paradox of thrift"; if everyone tries to save too much, the economy will contract and the average person will be poorer, not richer.
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Sentences 4 and 5 form a continuum as sentence 5 further explains the paradox posed and answered by sentence 4. Now sentences 2 or 3 can start the paragraph but sentence 2 is more appropriate as a starting sentence as it introduces the topic of problem with savings rather than starting straight away with the explanation. Sentences 3 and 1 have the link of US between them and 4 follows 1 as it mentions why saving is discouraged.
So, 23145 is the correct sequence.
Answer: Option A. -> "Emotional Stakes” in the deck of cards.
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A
This is a tough question.
Option (b) is wrong because it states that the game is an example for mindfulness. The whole passage talks about the emotions in that game which can be used to explain mindfulness. The game itself is not an analogy for mindfulness.
Option (d) is also wrong because solitaire is not a game of emotions and mindfulness. It is a game of cards filled with emotions and mindfulness.
It is a very close call between options (a) and (c).
The whole passage is about the plethora of emotions in this game. It is more like a gambling of emotions in a cards game. One emotion comes and goes which is then followed by a contrasting emotion coming up and going.
It is more like a gambling of emotions in the author's mind when he is playing the game of solitaire. So the better answer is option (a) rather than option (c). It is more a narrative passage rather than a descriptive passage. Option (a) is an apt heading for a narrative passage and option (c) is more of a title for a descriptive passage.
So option (a) is the correct answer.
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A
This is a tough question.
Option (b) is wrong because it states that the game is an example for mindfulness. The whole passage talks about the emotions in that game which can be used to explain mindfulness. The game itself is not an analogy for mindfulness.
Option (d) is also wrong because solitaire is not a game of emotions and mindfulness. It is a game of cards filled with emotions and mindfulness.
It is a very close call between options (a) and (c).
The whole passage is about the plethora of emotions in this game. It is more like a gambling of emotions in a cards game. One emotion comes and goes which is then followed by a contrasting emotion coming up and going.
It is more like a gambling of emotions in the author's mind when he is playing the game of solitaire. So the better answer is option (a) rather than option (c). It is more a narrative passage rather than a descriptive passage. Option (a) is an apt heading for a narrative passage and option (c) is more of a title for a descriptive passage.
So option (a) is the correct answer.
Answer: Option A. -> I only
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A
Look at these lines from the third paragraph -
“with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society.”
So definitely (I) is true.
Look at these lines from the last paragraph-
“If she wishes to construct a theory of feminist criticism, she would be well advised to place it within the framework of a general theory”
The author states that women literary critics must place her theory within the framework of a general theory. He does not advise them to develop a new theory.
So (II) is wrong.
The following lines from the third paragraph
“women scholars—only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers”
Make (III) a very good option. But option III states that “Earlier, there were very few women in academic profession “
We know that women are entering in great numbers now. That does not indicate that there were very few women earlier in academic profession.
So (III) is also wrong. The correct answer is (a).
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A
Look at these lines from the third paragraph -
“with them the chances for a distinctive contribution to humanistic understanding, a contribution that might be an important influence against sexism in our society.”
So definitely (I) is true.
Look at these lines from the last paragraph-
“If she wishes to construct a theory of feminist criticism, she would be well advised to place it within the framework of a general theory”
The author states that women literary critics must place her theory within the framework of a general theory. He does not advise them to develop a new theory.
So (II) is wrong.
The following lines from the third paragraph
“women scholars—only now entering the academic profession in substantial numbers”
Make (III) a very good option. But option III states that “Earlier, there were very few women in academic profession “
We know that women are entering in great numbers now. That does not indicate that there were very few women earlier in academic profession.
So (III) is also wrong. The correct answer is (a).
Answer: Option C. -> It is possible to observe transient mental and emotional phenomena in a game of solitaire cards.
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C
Read the question properly. Don't be in a hurry. The question is - "Which of the following views are endorsed by the author”?
So the answer demands an endorsement from the author.
Look at these lines -
For option (a): 2nd Paragraph - "Compared to classical vipassana meditation, considerable activity of physical motion, counting, and decision making is added, thus moving closer to life.”
For Option (b): 1st paragraph - "The very idea of playing cards to cultivate mindfulness has some shock value in itself!”
For Option (c): 3rd paragraph - "Observations of transient mental and emotional phenomena that apply in many areas of life is possible in this rich situation, as I will illustrate by describing a typical experiential sequence for me. "
It looks like all the three options are correct. So you might feel that (d) is the right option.
But looking at all the lines very closely, we find the endorsement only in (c). The author has personally said that he will illustrate he can observe the transient and emotional phenomena in this game. All the other lines are generic statements without any particular endorsements by the author (The answer demands that the pronoun "I” be there in the line).
It is a very tricky question. It is very easy provided you know this concept.
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C
Read the question properly. Don't be in a hurry. The question is - "Which of the following views are endorsed by the author”?
So the answer demands an endorsement from the author.
Look at these lines -
For option (a): 2nd Paragraph - "Compared to classical vipassana meditation, considerable activity of physical motion, counting, and decision making is added, thus moving closer to life.”
For Option (b): 1st paragraph - "The very idea of playing cards to cultivate mindfulness has some shock value in itself!”
For Option (c): 3rd paragraph - "Observations of transient mental and emotional phenomena that apply in many areas of life is possible in this rich situation, as I will illustrate by describing a typical experiential sequence for me. "
It looks like all the three options are correct. So you might feel that (d) is the right option.
But looking at all the lines very closely, we find the endorsement only in (c). The author has personally said that he will illustrate he can observe the transient and emotional phenomena in this game. All the other lines are generic statements without any particular endorsements by the author (The answer demands that the pronoun "I” be there in the line).
It is a very tricky question. It is very easy provided you know this concept.
Answer: Option C. -> Rapid
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C
This is a tricky question. The question is "Which adjective you will definitely associate with "emotions”?
Look at these lines from the last but one paragraph.
"Each was eternal when I lost mindfulness and was absorbed in it, yet I see they come and go like the wind as the play of the cards changes.”
He says the emotions are eternal but yet they are fleeting (changing). So you need to associate both eternal and fluctuating with "emotions”. You cannot associate only one of them.
So options (a), (b) and (d) are all ruled out.
Option (c) is correct . The emotions are rapid. Rapid means fast. It doesn't mean that they change rapidly.
Look at these lines in the last paragraph -
"If I am making this sound exciting, it can indeed be when you are mindful enough to see this rapid play of emotion”.
The emotions are rapid. So option (c) is the correct answer.
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C
This is a tricky question. The question is "Which adjective you will definitely associate with "emotions”?
Look at these lines from the last but one paragraph.
"Each was eternal when I lost mindfulness and was absorbed in it, yet I see they come and go like the wind as the play of the cards changes.”
He says the emotions are eternal but yet they are fleeting (changing). So you need to associate both eternal and fluctuating with "emotions”. You cannot associate only one of them.
So options (a), (b) and (d) are all ruled out.
Option (c) is correct . The emotions are rapid. Rapid means fast. It doesn't mean that they change rapidly.
Look at these lines in the last paragraph -
"If I am making this sound exciting, it can indeed be when you are mindful enough to see this rapid play of emotion”.
The emotions are rapid. So option (c) is the correct answer.
Question 100. Greece has both natural and cultural assets. But it has lacked in infrastructure -- be it inadequate, or unsuitable public transport from the airport, or poor service at a restaurant, or in a shop. Representatives from across the sector of the Greek tourism industry -- hoteliers, restaurant owners, travel agents, tour bus operators, tour guides, ferry companies, and so on -- have long touted the problems they have faced. From its first day in government, the New Democracy indicated its intention to address these problems. And in the first few months it has been in power, it has already gone beyond simply stating its intentions and has actually begun to do something.
Answer: Option A. -> Greece is a major tourist attraction albeit plagued by lack of basic transportation facilities and poor services, which are being addressed by the new order.
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A
option (a), (a) is obviously the correct answer. It is an exact restatement of what is stated in the paragraph. (b) is an isolated statement, (c) is only partially complete, it may not be pertinent to Greece, and (d) is a fact not mentioned in the paragraph.
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A
option (a), (a) is obviously the correct answer. It is an exact restatement of what is stated in the paragraph. (b) is an isolated statement, (c) is only partially complete, it may not be pertinent to Greece, and (d) is a fact not mentioned in the paragraph.
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