1. In the frames that follow, you will see a short passage with some text missing either at the end or somewhere in between . Among the options given below the passage, choose the one that best fits into the blank, keeping in view the overall tone of the passage.

2. Particulars of caste, position and designation limit us. You belong to the wider human fraternity but by focusing on being an Indian, your identity gets reduced drastically. By considering yourself as someone belonging to Uttar Pradesh, you further confine your ambit._________________________. (1) By regarding yourself as someone who belongs to North India, you limit yourself further. (2) By remembering, all the while, that you are proud to be an Indian, you break free from a regional identity. (3) By believing yourself as someone who belongs to Rae Bareilly, you limit yourself further. (4) By marrying outside your caste and adjusting to a diametrically different culture than the one prevalent in your parental home, you unshackle yourself from caste bonds.

3. See the passage once again: “ Particulars of caste, position and designation limit us. You belong to the wider human fraternity but by focusing on being an Indian, your identity gets reduced drastically. By considering yourself as someone belonging to Uttar Pradesh, you further confine your ambit._________________________. ” According to the passage, even when you focus on being an Indian , your identity gets reduced drastically. Therefore Options 1, 2, and 4 will not work which talk about either regional limitations, caste limitations, or being an Indian. So Option 3: “By believing yourself as someone who belongs to Rae Bareilly, you limit yourself further.”

4. The Swat valley is a pretty part of Pakistan. Tourists used to flock there to take in serene mountain views and enjoy the hospitality of the generous local folk who were moderate in their beliefs and attitudes. Today, Swat is a base for militants. As Swat reels under the floods that have devastated swathes of Pakistan, the federal government and the army are trying hard to provide relief and gain back some of the confidence of local residents. They lost that support because, as press reports in Pakistan say, radicals moved in by capitalizing on the locals’ ________ towards a government they saw as distant and indifferent. (1) hostility (2) indifference (3) concern (4) impassivity

5. A recent report on scientists tracking down to Indian hospitals a drug-resistant super-bug that infects patients and causes multiple-organ failure is _______________, even if exaggerated. (1) interesting (2) disconcerting (3) extremely alarming (4) malicious

6. See the passage once again: A recent report on scientists tracking down to Indian hospitals a drug-resistant super-bug that infects patients and causes multiple-organ failure is _______________, even if exaggerated. (1) interesting (2) disconcerting (3) extremely alarming (4) malicious . When something is exaggerated , it is overstated . If someone were to tell you that they had to camp out the whole night in an open car in -8 degrees C when they went to Mount Abu on 1 st January last year, he may have overstated the temperature. It might have been, say, -2 degrees Celsius. But the fact remains that it was very cold. Similarly, the fact remains that the super-bug very nearly causes multiple-organ failure. That is why the report could either be disconcerting (disturbing) or alarming (frightening). However, having known that the report is exaggerated, it would be disturbing but not alarming.

7. For all its reported _________, not to speak of that veil of secrecy that sometimes parts only to reveal stories of surreal realities, North Korea might just have come up with a brilliant idea that could have implications for global trade and how nations can diplomatically put each other down. The communist state has apparently offered to pay off an old debt, not in cash but with ginseng, supposedly aphrodisiacally-inclined roots. (1) radiance (2) openness (3) drabness (4) hostility

8. Look at the passage once again: For all its reported _________, not to speak of that veil of secrecy that sometimes parts only to reveal stories of surreal realities, North Korea might just have come up with a brilliant idea that could have implications for global trade and how nations can diplomatically put each other down. The communist state has apparently offered to pay off an old debt, not in cash but with ginseng, supposedly aphrodisiacally-inclined roots. (1) radiance (2) openness (3) drabness (4) hostility . Imagine that someone says about his brother as follows: “For all his apparent sympathy towards our old aunt, the real reason behind his visiting her so frequently is to get her to will her property to him.” What does the word “for” mean here”? It means “notwithstanding”.

9. Look at the passage once again: For all its reported _________, not to speak of that veil of secrecy that sometimes parts only to reveal stories of surreal realities, North Korea might just have come up with a brilliant idea that could have implications for global trade and how nations can diplomatically put each other down. The communist state has apparently offered to pay off an old debt, not in cash but with ginseng, supposedly aphrodisiacally-inclined roots. (1) radiance (2) openness (3) drabness (4) hostility . Who is that “it” in “….its reported___, ….”? North Korea, of course. If North Korea might come up with a brilliant idea notwithstanding something in the blank, the word in the blank should be opposite in meaning to “brilliant”. Only DRABNESS will work.

10. It’s the final countdown for the Commonwealth Games’ October 2010 curtain-raiser. Yet, here we are, still plugging leaks, fixing collapses and shoveling debris at Games venues. Merry England, meantime, is discussing ________ stuff. Like whether the Beatles or Rolling Stones will do the kick-off gig at the London Olympics in futuristic 2012! In that clash of the musical Titans, one side will exit, sighing Stones-like: “You can’t always get what you want…” (1) esoteric (2) futuristic (3) concrete (4) musical

11. Let us see the relevant portion of the passage: It’s the final countdown for the Commonwealth Games’ October 2010 curtain-raiser. Yet, here we are, still plugging leaks, fixing collapses and shoveling debris at Games venues. Merry England, meantime, is discussing ________ stuff. Like whether the Beatles or Rolling Stones will do the kick-off gig at the London Olympics in futuristic 2012! (1) esoteric (2) futuristic (3) concrete (4) musical . We are still plugging leaks, fixing collapses and shoveling debris at the Games venues. The word “meantime” in “Merry England, meantime, is discussing _____ stuff” indicates that England is doing something other than doing routine work, that England is doing something other than construction and repairs and so on. What, therefore, England is doing is something abstract. That is why Option 1 will do very well. “Futuristic” means “something pertaining to the future” and if employed in the blank would be stressing the obvious (such as asking the ice-cream vendor for “cold” ice-cream) and hence would be logically inappropriate.

12. Prof. Smith once posed this question to his students at Cambridge: “ In the year 1928, there were four dates, which, written in the well-known manner of DD/MM/YY, the day multiplied by the month will be equal to the year. These are 28/1/28, 14/2/28, 7/4/28 and 4/7/28. In this century, 1901-2000, inclusive, which year gives the largest number of dates that complies with the above condition ?”

13. As regards DD/MM/YY, where DD*MM=YY, for DD the limit is 31, for MM the limit is 12 and hence with these two limitations, the largest number of dates that comply with the above condition is 1924. As such the matter is about the highest number if factors of YY, which would be highest in the case of 1996 but because of the constraints, 1924 will have the largest number of dates that comply with the conditions stated in the question.

14. If one-fifth of the number of children out on a picnic to the seashore is busy making sandcastles, one-third of these schoolchildren is playing beach-volleyball and three times the difference between those making sandcastles and those playing beach volleyball is out surfing, and three little girls from this group of schoolchildren, is playing hide and seek, how many are in this group of schoolchildren?

15. If one-fifth of the number of children out on a picnic to the seashore is busy making sandcastles, and one-third of these schoolchildren is playing beach-volleyball, this means the number of children in the group is a multiple of both 3 and 5, the least of which is 15. So if there are 15 children, 3 are making sandcastles, 5 are playing beach volleyball then 6 are surfing. This should mean that there would be one left from a group of 15. If there are 3 left, the group had 45 students.

16. Grandpa: "My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 160 years. Can you tell me my age in years?"

17. The ratio of the age of the grandpa: the age of the father: the age of the grandson is 12:7:1. If their ages add up to 160, the grandfather is 96, the son is 56 and the son is 8 years old.

18. A naturalist, who was trying to pull the leg of Colonel Crackham, said that he had been investigating the question of blindness in bats. “ I find,” he said, “that their long habit of sleeping in dark corners during the day, and only going abroad (meaning travelling far and wide) at night, has really led to great prevalence of blindness among them, though some had perfect sight and others could see out of one eye. Two of my bats could see out of the right eye, just three could see out of the left eye, four could not see out of the left eye, and five could not see out of the right eye.” What is the smallest number of bats that he must have examined in order to get these results?

19. 3 bats that could see out of the left eye alone 2 bats that could see out of the right eye alone 2 bats that were completely blind The least possible number of bats was 7 as per the above Venn Diagram .

20. The square root of half of the total number of bees in a swarm has flown far out to a Jasmine bush; one female bee is trying to rescue a male bee that is buzzing within the lotus flower into which he was allured by its fragrance but is now imprisoned in it, whereas 8/9 th of the total number of bees in that swarm is watching the lone female bee doing the rescue act as above. How many bees were in the swarm if the total number of bees in the swarm is less than 300?

21. Since 8/9 th of the number of bees is watching the rescue act, the total number of bees is divisible by 9. Secondly half of the number is a perfect square. The square root of a number divisible by 9 would always be divisible by 3. So the number of bees out to the jasmine bush could be 3 (when the total number of bees would be 18), 6(when the total number of bees would be 72), 9(when the total number of bees would be 162), or 12 (when the total number of bees would be 288). So the number of bees, which is less than 300, could be 18, 72, 162, and 288. If the number of bees were to be 18 and the square root of half of the total number of bees has flown to a Jasmine bush, this means 3 bees are out to the jasmine bush, two bees are around the lotus and that leaves 13 bees watching the rescue. Is 13 the 8/9 th of 18? No.

22. The number of bees, which is less than 300, could be 18, 72, 162, and 288. If the number of bees were to be 72 and the square root of half of the total number of bees has flown to the Jasmine bush, this means 6 bees are out to the jasmine bush, two bees are around the lotus and that leaves 64 bees watching the rescue. Is 64 the 8/9 th of 72? Oh yes, is its. So the answer is: 72 bees in the swarm.