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The United States’ supposed grand strategy to thwart the rampaging Islamic State (IS) is seemingly in a shambles. Reports indicate that IS has not only foiled the U.S.-led attacks thus far, but has also perpetrated massive defeats on the Iraqi army. What’s more, the Syrian rebel coalitions that were working closest with the U.S. are also apparently beginning to turn against America. The attacks in Syria against IS — an extremist Sunni organisation — and Khorasan — a mysterious, and far lesser known, network began in the middle of September through a series of carefully planned air strikes; they were, to illustrate the magnitude of the assaults, the largest single operation by the U.S. military since NATO’s intervention in Libya in 2011. The on-going acts of aggression on Syrian territory, by many accounts, might only be the tip of the iceberg. The consequence, however, of a prolonged battle, analysts say, could backfire miserably on the U.S. It could, for instance, further strengthen the militantly oppressive regime of the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. But, all of these practicalities apart, what has been most telling about the American attacks, are the almost-mundane inevitability of them all. As the journalist Glenn Greenwald observed, it seems “Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason.”

Officially, although it seems to matter so little, the U.S. has sought to justify its attacks by invoking Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. “States must be able to defend themselves, in accordance with the inherent right of individual and collective self-defense … when, as is the case here, the government of the State where the threat is located is unwilling or unable to prevent the use of its territory for such attacks,” wrote U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power in a letter to the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. “The Syrian regime has shown that it cannot and will not confront these safe-havens effectively itself. Accordingly, the United States has initiated necessary and proportionate military actions in Syria in order to eliminate the ongoing [IS] threat to Iraq .…” While the attacks against IS have been sought to be justified as an act in exercise of collective self-defence of Iraq, the legal justification offered for strikes on Khorasan is different: those strikes are a response to what Ms. Power described as “terrorist threats that [Khorasan] pose to the United States and our partners and allies.” The international law on the use of force by states is governed both by treaty — the U.N. charter, to which the U.S. is a founding signatory — and customary law. The latter is a set of rules that acquire binding status by virtue of extensive practice by a number of states acting out of a sense of obligation over a sustained period of time. In this case, Ms. Power’s statements might look like legal justifications, but, in fact, they are almost completely shorn of reasonable basis under both treaty and customary law.

Insofar as treaty law is concerned, Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter states that members shall refrain in their international relations from “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state .…” Therefore, any armed attack by a state in a foreign territory is prohibited unless otherwise permitted by the charter. Article 51 of the U.N. Charter represents the general exception to this rule. It preserves every nation-state’s “inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations,” until the Security Council intervenes. Provided however that any such response ought to be immediately reported to the Security Council. Here, given that the Assad government has offered no express authorization to the U.S., the attacks are, without question, in violation of Syria’s sovereignty. Therefore, the aggressors ought to necessarily look towards the exceptions to the prohibited use of force under the U.N. Charter in justifying their actions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), as Kevin Jon Heller, a professor of criminal law at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, has pointed out, has taken a staunch view on the subject; it has held that Article 51 of the U.N. Charter permits acts in self-defence against non-state actors (such as IS and Khorasan) only in limited circumstances. In both Nicaragua v. the United States (1986) and the Advisory Opinion in the case of the Palestinian Wall (2004), the ICJ ruled that an action is justifiable under Article 51 only where the non-state actor’s armed attacks are attributable, in one way or another, to the state whose territorial integrity is being infracted. In this case, therefore, the U.S. will have to show that the acts of ISIS, and Khorasan, are attributable — either explicitly or implicitly — to the Syrian government.

America’s purported justification for the attacks, flowing from Ms. Power’s letter, however involves no such analysis. Instead, it merely states that because Syria is unwilling or unable — it doesn’t tell us which — to prevent the use of its territory for attacks by IS and Khorasan, the U.S. is justified in invoking its collective right of self-defence.
The problems with such an explanation are various. First, the “unwilling or unable” test that the U.S. seeks to invoke, as much as it would like us to believe otherwise, has no valid basis in international law. It neither finds any mention in Article 51 nor has it been accepted by a sufficient number of nation-states for it to acquire the status of customary law. As Prof. Heller has observed, international law has evolved tremendously since 9/11, but it may not have changed as much as to justify attacks against non-state actors purely because the host state is unwilling or unable to quell such an actor.

Second, even if one were to assume that the “unwilling or unable” test has acquired legal imprimatur, the attacks by the U.S. in Syrian territory remain on flimsy ground. Syria has offered no explicit consent for such attacks, and has certainly not stated that it is either unwilling or unable to counter the threat of IS. Quite to the contrary, the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid al-Muallem, who is also the country’s Deputy Prime Minister, has said, “Any strike which is not coordinated with the [Syrian] government will be considered as aggression.” In furtherance of the same statement, Mr. al-Muallem told the U.N. General Assembly that the attacks by the international community must be within “the frame of full respect of national sovereignty and in conformity with international conventions.” These statements, as are self-evident, are expressions neither of unwillingness nor inability. As the French President François Hollande  put it at a press conference following the U.S.’s initial air strikes in Syria: “We’re very concerned with the aspects of international law. We’ve been called in by the Iraqis; we’re not called on in Syria.”

Third, and possibly most frighteningly, as Mr. Greenwald has reported, it isn’t merely the fact that the U.S. has failed to show any evidence of an imminent attack on its homeland, which is worrying. It is that the Khorasan Group, that the U.S. originally referenced, might well be a figment of its imagination. Thus far, America has failed to display any proof that the Khorasan actually exists. To make matters worse, the White House has also confirmed that a standard that President Obama announced as part of a supposed U.S. drone policy, which would see the country launch drone strikes only when there was a “near certainty” that there would be no civilian casualties, would not apply to air strikes against IS. Just as it failed to do with Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine earlier this year, it is quite clear that the international law against the use of armed force — embodied in Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter — has fallen short of constraining, or even as much as defining, the ongoing attacks by the U.S. in Syria. It is possible that most civilized nations consider the American attacks as legitimate and necessary, even if illegal. But, if that were the case, shouldn’t such illegality matter more when it assaults the very foundation of our international legal order? And do not these attacks further negate any semblance of legitimacy that international law still enjoys? Sovereignty, once upon a time, used to be inviolable. If the lack of a global uproar against the American intervention in Syria represents a tacit acceptance of the necessity for these attacks, the question still remains: why is international law so weak as to be incapable of producing a lawfully tailored solution to counter the Islamic State’s most gruesome threats, including a potential genocide of Yazidis?

Asking these questions at a time such as this might appear, to some, imprudent. But it is important for countries that often seek to occupy a moral high ground when other countries indulge in illegal military interventions to set good examples. Maintaining a workable international legal order requires the most powerful countries to set the correct precedent; if the U.S. is indeed justified in using force in Syria, then it ought to offer a legally tenable defence for its participation in the conflict. When Barack Obama assumed office as the U.S. President, many believed that his administration would correct the policies of the disastrous Bush regime. But the Obama administration might well have created far more dangerous dogmas, as its vacuous defence of the attacks on Syrian soil shows. If countries treat these justifications by the U.S. as edicts, the already parlous state of international law could suffer far greater dents.

Q41. Which among the following explains the opinion of the author regarding the attack of US in Syria?

(a)  The author supports the move by US authorities because Syrian authorities have requested the US to do the same

(b)  The author thinks that the move by America will set a dangerous precedent for international law since it is more of an aggression than any help

(c)  US authorities should have consulted the Syrian government before doing anything on the soil of the country

(d)  US authorities have not done anything regarding the problems in Syria

(e)  Other than those given in options

Q42. Why, among the following, did the USA attack the Syrian country?

(a)  The Syrian soli was being confiscated by the IS rebels who were taking control of the country gradually

(b)  The Syrian government could not control the Khorasan group which was active in the country

(c)  The Syrian government could not take care of its citizens in the country in order to protect them from the rebels

(d)  Both (1) and (2)

(e)  All the above

Q43. Which among the following is a justification given by the US government with respect to its attacks on Syrian soil?

(a)  US Government is a military superpower and it has moral obligation to save all the countries of the world

(b)  The US authorities are of the view that every other country of the world needs to be protected from the rebels

(c)  US government is the most concerned country regarding protection of human rights in the world

(d)  US Government needed to step in since the Syrian government could not protect its own citizens

(e)  Other than those given in options

Q44. Which among the following could be a negative effect of the attacks of the US government on Syrian soil, according to the given passage?

(a)  The US government will lose a lot of its military power because of this attack and it will not be able to defend itself from other countries in the future

(b)  The US government can strengthen the stronghold of the aggressor government in Syria

(c)  The US government can weaken the capability of the Syrian Army because of no use of force by it

(d)  The US government could face backlash from the US president because of no permission taken from it

(e)  Other than those given in options

Q45. Which among the following may justify the attack on Syrian soil by the US Army as per the UN Charter on the subject of international law?

(a)  US should have taken the permission of Syrian government before attacking the country from outside

(b)  US should have done some homework against the IS group before attacking the Syrian government on the issue

(c)  The US government should have found a way to show that the attacks are actually sponsored and administered by the Syrian government

(d)  The US government should let its army do whatever it deems fit in the present circumstances

(e)  Other than those given in options

Q46. Which among the following is true regarding the US strikes in Syrian against the non state actors functioning out of the Syrian soil?

(a)   US strikes have no backing from the government of the country in which it is carrying out such strikes

(b)  US Government knows that it is doing something wrong and that is why, it has not bothered to give any explanation for the same

(c)  US government is well aware of the fact that ISIS does not need Syria to blossom as it has nothing to do with state aggression

(d)  Both (1) and (2)

(e)  All of the above

Q47. Which among the following is similar in meaning to the word thwart as used in the passage?

(a)  Extrovert

(b)  Intervene

(c)  Exacerbate

(d)  Calibrate

(e)  Prevent

Q48. Which among the following is similar in meaning to the word shambles as used in the passage?

(a)  Muddle

(b)  Organization

(c)  Satisfaction

(d)  Utilization

(e)  Other than those given in options

Q49. Which among the following is opposite in meaning to the word refrain as used in the passage?

(a)  Cancel

(b)  Cascade

(c)  Erase

(d)  Continue

(e)  Other than those given in options

Q50. Which among the following is opposite in meaning to the word quell as used in the passage?

(a)  Aggravate

(b)  Estimate

(c)  Tease

(d)  Cleanse

(e)  Other than those given in options

IBPS-PO 2018 ( Day -5)

IBPS-PO 2018 ( Day -5)

Answers to Day-4

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Puzzle::

Mar 13- T
Mar 22- W
Apr 13 -S 
Apr 22- P 
June 13 V 
June 22 R
July 13 Q 
July 22-U


Solve more and more puzzles per day to master the most difficult and scoring part of Reasoning Section.

Puzzles to solve:: 

Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow.

Eight friends - Dhaani, Eva, Kyra, Charvi, Nesara, Maliha, Sejal and Nikki - are sitting around a circular table but not facing the centre. Each of them has her birthday in different months, viz January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August, but not necessarily in the same order.

Nikki, whose birthday is in the month of April, sits third to the right of Sejal. The one whose birthday is in the month of June sits second to the left of Maliha, whose birthday is in the month of January. Kyra, whose birthday is in the month of July, sits between the persons whose birthday is in the months of February and June. Maliha sits second to the left of Eva, who cannot sit adjacent to Sejal. Nesara's birthday is in the month of August and sits second to the right of Dhaani, whose birthday is in the month of March.

16. What is the position of Maliha with respect to the person whose birthday is in the month of July?

(a) Third to the left

(b) Third to the right

(c) Second to the right

(d) Fifth to the right

(e) Four to the left

17. Which of the following combinations is definitely true?

(a) Nikki — June

(b) Dhaani — January

(c) Sejal — August

(d) Eva — May

(e) None of these

18. How many persons are sitting between Sejal and the person whose birthday is in the month of April? (If counted from Sejal in clockwise direction)

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) None

(e) None of these

19. Which of the following persons' birthday is in the month of February?

(a) Eva

(b) Maliha

(c) Sejal

(d) Charvi

(e) Dhaani

20. ‘Maliha’ is related to ‘June’ and ‘Nesara’ is related to ‘March’. In the same way, ‘Charvi’ is related to which of the following months?

(a) January

(b) February

(c) August

(d) July

(e) April

ANSWERS:

16. (b)

17. (d)

18. (b)

19. (c)

20. (b)

Directions (21-25): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below:

Seven Persons P, Q, R, S, T, U and V live on seven different floors of a building, but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one; the one above it is number two and so on till the topmost floor is number seven. Each of them also likes a different drink and fast-color i.e. drinks are- Pepsi, Miranda, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Thumps up, Frooti, Limca and fast-color are- Dosa, Idali, Burger, Bada-pao, Bread chaat, Chicken Baguette and Sandwich but not necessarily in the same order.

Only one person lives between the one who likes Thumps up and the one who likes Frooti. S does not like Thumps up. V does not like Pepsi. The one who likes Chicken Baguette lives immediate above the one who likes Thumps up. T lives on one of the floors below Q, but does not live on the lowermost floor. The one who lives 7th floor is immediate above the one, who lives immediate below the one who likes Sandwich. There are three persons between Q and T. The one who likes Sprite lives on one the odd-numbered floors below U. P lives immediately above U and does not like Coca-Cola. U does not like Bada-pao and Idali. The one who likes Burger lives immediate above the one who likes Bread chaat. The one who likes Frooti is also likes Idali. Only one person lives between Q and the one who likes Coca-Cola. The one who likes Bread chaat lives below the one who likes Dosa. Only two persons live between V and the one who likes Coca-Cola. The one who likes Miranda lives on one of the even-numbered floors above the one who likes Coca-Cola. The one who likes Limca lives immediately above V, who does not like Coffee. S lives on one of the floors above R.

21. Which of the following persons like Bada-pao?

(a) R

(b) The one who likes Miranda

(c) The one who likes Coca-Cola

(d) The one who likes Pepsi

(e) Q

22. Who lives on immediate above the one who likes Idali?

(a) The one who likes Coca-Cola

(b) Both (a) and (e)

(c) S

(d) Q

(e) The one who likes Dosa

23. Which of the following persons like Limca?

(a) Q

(b) P

(c) V

(d) T

(e) None of these

24. How money persons live between the one who likes Sprite and the one who likes Idali?

(a) None

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) None of these

25. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group?

(a) The one who likes Sprite

(b) The one who likes Chicken Baguette

(c) The one who lives on 5th floor

(d) The one who lives on 6th floor

(e) The one who likes Pepsi

Answers (21-25):
7	Q	Pepsi	Sandwich
6	P	Miranda	Bada-pao
5	U	Coca-Cola	Dosa
4	S	Frooti	Idali
3	T	Limca	Chicken Baguette
2	V	Thumps up	Burger
1	R	Sprite	Bread chaat

Directions (26-30): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:-

Five friends Pawan, Qureshi, Rajan, Sultan and Tango are Musician, Architect, Doctor, Engineer and Artist by profession and like White, Blue, Red, Yellow and Green colour but not necessarily in that order. Their hobbies are Net Surfing, Gardening, Reading, Painting and Dancing but not necessarily in the same order.

·                     The person whose hobby is dancing preferred lemonade to cola while others preferred cola to lemonade in beverages.

·                     The four friends who took cola were Pawan, the one who is an Engineer, the person whose favourite colour is Green and the one whose hobby is net surfing.

·                     Sultan did not take lemonade and his favourite colour is White.

·                     Qureshi’s favourite colour is Blue. He did not like lemonade.

·                     Tango’s hobby is not painting, reading or gardening.

·                     Sultan clicks a picture of his friend who is an Engineer.

·                     The person whose favourite colour is Red likes painting and the person who is artist likes gardening.

·                     Sultan is not a doctor. The person who is a doctor takes cola. The person who is an Engineer likes Blue colour.

·                     The musician’s favourite colour is not yellow. Rajan’s favourite colour is Green.

Q26. Who among the following is a Doctor?

a) Rajan

b) Pawan

c) Sultan

d) Can’t say

e) None of these

Q27. Qureshi’s hobby is

a) Reading

b) Painting

c) Gardening

d) Can’t say

e) None of these

Q28. The person who likes Blue colour is a/an

a) Architect

b) Musician

c) Engineer

d) Can’t say

e) None of these

Q29. Whose favouritecolour is Yellow?

a) Tango

b) Rajan

c) The one who is an artist

d) Can’t say

e) None of these

Q30. Which of the following combinations is not correctly matched?

a) Tango-Architect-Yellow-Dancing-Cola

b) Rajan-Artist-Green-Gardening-Cola

c) Qureshi-Engineer-Blue-Reading-Cola

d) Pawan-Doctor-Red-Painting-Cola

e) None of these

Answers

26) B

27) A

28) C

29) A

30) A

SET 7

Arti, Baby, Chandni, Dolly, Esha, Falguni, Gopi and Himani are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them sit at four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. The one who sits at the four corners face the centre of the table while those who sit in the middle of the sides faces outside.

Each of them likes a different subject - Mathematics, Hindi, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History and Geography. (None of the information given is necessarily in the same order)

·                     Chandni sits third to the left of the person who likes Geography.The one who likes Geography faces outside.There are only two persons sit between Chandni and Himani.

·                     Dolly sits on the immediate left of the one who likes Physics. Gopi does not likes Physics.

·                     Esha likes History. Esha is not immediate neighbour of Arti.

·                     The person who likes Hindi is an immediate neighbour of Esha.

·                     The person who likes Biology is an immediate neighbour of Falguni.

·                     The one who likes Mathematics sits in the immediate right of Himani. The one who likes Chemistry sits second to the right of Gopi. G is neither an immediate neighbour of Himani nor Chandni. Gopi does not like Geography.

·                     There is only one person sits between Arti and the one who likes Chemistry.

Q 31. Who among the following sits diagonally opposite the one who likes Mathematics?

1) The one who likes Hindi

2) Dolly

3) Arti

4) The one who likes English

5) The one who likes Biology

Q 32.Who among the following represent the immediate neighbours of the one who likes Chemistry?

1) Baby, Falguni

2) Chandni, Esha

3) Baby, Esha

4) Dolly, Falguni

5) Falguni, Himani

Q 33. Who among the followings select exactly between Himani and Baby?

1) Chandni

2) The one who likes Hindi

3) The one who likes Biology

4) Gopi

5) Arti

Q 34. Which of the following is true regarding Baby?

1) Baby is one of the immediate neighbours of Dolly

2) The one who likes Geography is an immediate neighbour of Baby

3) Baby sits second to the left of Himani

4) Baby likes History

5) Baby is the immediate neighbour of the one who like Mathematics.

Q 35. What is the position of the one who likes Physics with respect to Gopi?

1) Second to the Left

2) Third to the right

3) Fourth to the left

4) Second to the right

5) Third to the left

Q 36. Which of the following subjects does Dolly like?

1) Biology

2) Mathematics.

3) Hindi

4) Chemistry

5) English

Q 37. Who among the following likes Geography?

1) Baby

2) Faguni

3) Himani

4) Arti

5) Dolly

ANSWERS

31. 1

32. 3

33. 5

 34.5

35. 5

36.1

37. 2

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Reading Comprehension:: 

When times are hard, doomsayers are plenty. The problem is that if you listen to them too carefully, you tend to overlook the most obvious signs of change. 2011 was a bad year. Can 2012 be any worse? Doomsday forecasts are the easiest to make these days. So let’s try a contrarian’s forecast instead.Let’s start with the global economy. We have seen a steady flow of good news from the US. The employment situation seems to be improving rapidly and consumer sentiment, reflected in retail expenditures on discretionary items like electronics and clothes, has picked up. If these trends sustain, the US might post better growth numbers for 2012 than the 1.5-1.8 per cent being forecast currently.Japan is likely to pull out of a recession in 2012 as post-earthquake reconstruction efforts gather momentum and the fiscal stimulus announced in 2011 begins to pay off. The consensus estimate for growth in Japan is a respectable 2 per cent for 2012.

The “hard-landing” scenario for China remains and will remain a myth. Growth might decelerate further from the 9 per cent that it expected to clock in 2011 but is unlikely to drop below- 8-8.5 per cent in 2012.Europe is certainly in a spot of trouble. It is perhaps already in recession and for 2012 it is likely to post mildly negative growth. The risk of implosion has dwindled over the last few months – peripheral economies like Greece, Italy and Spain have new governments in place and have made progress towards genuine economic reform.Even with some of these positive factors in place, we have to accept the fact that global growth in 2012 will be tepid. But there is a flipside to this. Softer growth means lower demand for commodities and this is likely to drive a correction in commodity prices. Lower commodity inflation will enable emerging-market central banks to reverse their monetary stance. China, for instance, has already reversed its stance and has pared its reserve ratio twice. The RBI also seems poised for a reversal in its rate cycle as headline inflation seems well on its way to its target of 7 per cent for March 2012.

That said, oil might be an exception to the general trend in commodities. Rising geopolitical tensions, particularly the continuing face-off between Iran and the US, might lead to a spurt in prices. It might make sense for our oil companies to hedge this risk instead of buying oil in the spot market.As inflation fears abateand emerging market central banks begin to cut rates, two things could happen. Lower commodity inflation would mean lower interest rates and better credit availability. This could set a floor to growth and slowly reverse the business cycle within these economies. Second, as the fear of untamed, runaway inflation in these economies abates, the global investor’s comfort levels with their markets will increase.Which of the emergingmarkets will outperform and who will get left behind ? In an environment in which global growth is likely to be weak, economies like India that have a powerful domestic consumption dynamic should lead; those dependent on exports should, prima facie, fall behind. Specifically for India, a fall in the exchange rate could not have come at a better time. It will help Indian exporters gain market share even if global trade remains depressed. More importantly, it could lead to massive import substitution that favours domestic producers.

Let’s now focus on India and start with a caveat. It is important not to confuse a short-run cyclical dip with a permanent de-rating of its long-term structural potential. The arithmetic is simple. Our growth rate can be in the range of 7-10 per cent depending on policy action. Ten per cent if we get everything right, 7 per cent if we get it all wrong. Which policies and reforms are critical to taking us to our 10 per cent potential? In judging this, let’s again be careful. Let’s not go by the laundry list of reforms that Flls like to wave: increase in foreign equity limits in foreign shareholding, greater voting rights for institutional shareholders in banks, FDl in retail, etc. These can have an impact only at the margin. We need not bend over backwards to appease the Flls through these reforms – they will invest in our markets when momentum picks up and will be the first to exit when the momentum flags, reforms or not.The reforms that we need are the ones that can actually raise our. sustainable long-term growth rate. These have to come in areas like better targeting of subsidies, making projects in infrastructure viable so that they draw capital, raising the productivity of agriculture, improving healthcare and education, bringing the parallel economy under the tax net, implementing fundamental reforms in taxation like GST and the direct tax code and finally easing the myriad rules and regulations that make doing business in India such a nightmare. A number of these things do not require new legislation and can be done through executive order.

1. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

1) China’s economic growth may decline in the year 2012 as compared to the year 2011.

2) The European economy is not doing very well.

3) Greece is on the verge of bringing about economic reforms.

4) In the year 2012, Japan may post a positive growth and thus pull out of recession.

5) All are true

2). Which of the following will possibly be a result of softer growth estimated for the year 2012?

(A) Prices of oil will not increase.

(B) Credit availability would be lesser.

(C) Commodity inflation would be lesser.

1) Only (B)

2) Only (A) and (B)

3) Only (A) and (C)

4) Only (C)

5) All (A), (B) and (C)

3. Which of the following can be said about the present status of the US economy?

1) There is not much improvement in the economic scenario of the country from the year 2011.

2) The growth in the economy of the country, in the year 2012, would definitely be lesser than 1.8 per cent.

3) The expenditure on clothes and electronic commodities, by consumers, is lesser than that in the year 2011.

4) There is a chance that in 2012 the economy would do better than what has been forecast.

5) The pace of change in the employment scenario of the country is very slow.

4. Which of the following is possibly the most appropriate title for the passage?

1) The Economic Disorder

2) Indian Economy Versus The European Economy

3) Global Trade

4) The Current Economic Scenario

5) Characteristics of The Indian Economy

5. According to the author, which of the following would characterise Indian growth scenario in 2012?

(A) Domestic producers will take a hit because of depressed global trade scenario.

(B) On account of its high domestic consumption, India will lead.

(C) Indian exporters will have a hard time in gaining market share.

1) Only (B)

2) Only (A) and (B)

3) Only (B) and (C)

4) Only (A)

5) All (A), (B) and (C)

6. Why does the author not recommend taking up the reforms suggested by Flls?

1) These will bring about only minor growth.

2) The reforms suggested will have no effect on the economy of our country, but will benefit the Flls significantly.

3) The previous such recommendations had backfired.

4) These reforms will be the sole reason for our country’s economic downfall.

5) The reforms suggested by them are not to be trusted as they will not bring about any positive growth in India.

7. Which of the following is TRUE as per the scenario presented in the passage?

1) The highest growth rate that India can expect is 7 per cent.

2) The fall in the exchange rate will prove beneficial to India.

3) Increased FDI in retail as suggested by Flls would benefit India tremendously.

4) The reforms suggested by the author require new legislations in India.

5) None is true

8. According to the author, which of the following reform/s is/are needed to ensure long-term growth in India?

(A) Improving healthcare and educational facilities

(B) Bringing about reforms in taxation

(C) Improving agricultural productivity

1) Only (B)

2) Only (A) and (B)

3) Only (B) and (C)

4) Only (A)

5) All (A), (B) and (C)

Directions (Q. 9-12): Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.

9. DRAW

1) entice

2) push

3) decoy

4) attract

5) persuade

10. CLOCK

1) watch

2) achieve

3) time

4) second

5) regulate

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