Rearrange the following EIGHT sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G) and (H) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph then answer the questions given below them.
A. American banks have passed the stress test that the Federal Reserve conducts.
B. European banks remain fragile.
C. But, when the booms end, banks will be worse off. Eurozone banks have another and bigger vulnerability.
D. That is a reason why the European Central Bank is forced to keep interest rates so low and why it risks keeping alive real estate booms in many European cities.
E. An IMF blog post points out that European and Japanese banks, and not American banks, dominate international banks’ lending in dollars.
F. These banks cannot easily tap the dollars deposited at their American subsidiaries to fund themselves.
G. In terms of economic strength, the eurozone looks brittle.
H. While America’s cyclical expansion is going strong in its 10th year, eurozone recovery has fizzled out.
Which sentence should be the SEVENTH in the paragraph?
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Paragraph 1: Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, had once said: ’Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.’ Today this combination of art and science is ubiquitous, used in a variety of everyday products. However, has software really affected the production process in traditional manufacturing industries, like automobiles and aerospace? A recent working paper, ’Get With the Program: Software-driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing’ by Lee G. Bransetter and Namho Kwan (Carnegie Melon University), and Matej Drev (Georgia Institute of Technology), has documented the increasing prevalence of software in traditional manufacturing industries, at the cost of traditional processes like mechanical and chemical engineering, to develop and innovate products. The researchers find that firms resistant to adopting software based techniques are being outperformed by their peers.
Paragraph 2: The importance of software in the innovation process has been measured by the patents citing software-based technologies in these industries. These have seen a large uptick over the last few decades. In the US, for example, the share of software patents has increased threefold over a 20-year period, from only 5% of all patents in the 1980s to around 15% in 2005. More importantly, the share of patents citing previous software patents has also doubled over this period. These are patents in non-software industries like automobiles, and these are an important measure of software intensity in traditional manufacturing. The researchers use some insightful anecdotes to give the readers an idea. Up to 40% of the cost of a new car is determined by electronics and software content, and most premium cars are equipped with 70-80 microprocessors. The Boeing 777 contains no less than 1,280 on-board processors that use more than four million lines of computer code. More than 50% of medical devices contain software, with a modern pacemaker containing up to 80,000 lines of computer code.
Paragraph 3: These findings beg the question: If there are so many benefits of being software-intensive, why aren’t all firms using more software? Why are some firms lagging behind? Armed with the fact that US firms tend to be much more software-intensive than European and Japanese firms, the researchers argue that availability of talented human resources is a crucial reason why this phenomenon exists. In fact, they argue, the availability of talented and inexpensive software engineers from India is one of the key reasons the US has a competitive advantage over these other nations.
Paragraph 4: A focus on software intensity in a country with surplus labour like India may raise a few eyebrows. But, a look at some recent trends highlights the importance of patents. Manufacturing growth and patent filing growth by Indian residents has shown strong positive correlation over the last decade, with a correlation coefficient of 0.62. Both of them plummeted to the 2% mark in 2008-09, followed by a period of resurgence, where patent and manufacturing growth increased to 17% and 8.5%, respectively, in 2010-11. Both shrank sharply in 2011-12, and since then have stabilised and continued to move in tandem. The relationship between growth of patent filing by Indian citizens and growth in gross domestic product shows a similar picture, with a positive correlation coefficient of 0.53. Further, the growth rates almost converged in 2015-16, indicating a crucial role played by software and patents in assessing the health of an economy.
Paragraph 5: India’s quest to become a manufacturing powerhouse will, to a large extent, depend on how it embraces software and technology. India is already losing its low-cost advantage in employment generating sectors, like textiles and electronic equipment, to Bangladesh and Vietnam, respectively. But it can certainly take the lead in software engineers’ labor market. Information technology (IT) and software professionals from India are regarded among the best in the world. But hardly any of the most skilled professionals stay back in India. The US has earned great dividends by attracting and retaining the top software talent from India, and around the world, through its prestigious universities and attractive STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) visa programmes. Thus software can allow India to differentiate its products from the low-end products of its competitors and enjoy a lasting manufacturing boom.
What of the following sentences correctly characterize the software as mentioned in the passage? (I) Software industries are performing well than any other industry. (II) The combination of art and science is software that is prevalent in various products. (III) Nearly all the manufacturing industries have realized the importance of software. (IV) The software- intensive firms have more value than less software intensive firms.
How is it correct to say that manufacturing industries are increasingly using software? (I) All the research equipments contain large number of microprocessors. (II) Most cars are equipped with software that determines its cost. (III) There are large number of medical devices that contain software. (IV) There is a rise in share of software patents in manufacturing industries.
Which of the following alternatives among the five options provides the most similar meaning(s) of the word given in BOLD as used in the passage?
Ubiquitous
(I) pervasive (II) Taper
(III) omnipresent (IV) concoction
There are three sentences given in each question. Find the sentence(s) which is/are grammatically correct and mark your answer choosing the best possible alternative among the five given below each question. If all sentences are correct, choose (e) i.e., ’all are correct’ as your answer choice.
(I) I could have gone directly to college, but I decided to travel through a year.
(II) The construct of Indian nationalism is constitutional patriotism, which consist of an appreciation of our inherited and shared diversity.
(III) Citizens are being forced to queue up to collect water from tankers.
(I) He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green.
(II) When I was a child, my father will tell me great stories about his adventures.
(III) The gorilla as well as the orangutan are primates
(I) Both campaigns are deploying volunteers to the cities to encourage people to vote.
(II) She had been working at that company for three years when it went out of business.
(III) I had had my car for four years before I ever learned to drive it
(I) A fine supper was prepared, and the innkeeper himself waited upon his guest.
(II) There is an urgent need for understanding how climate change will effect our lives.
(III) Despite the water, her mouth was dry and aching almost to the point of pain.
(I) It is when he is talking about his immediate and extended family then he comes closest to taking responsibility for ’doing’ rather than letting things happen.
(II) If these were not at hand he might adjourn the case for their production, specifying a time up to six months.
(III) She told Sam what happened, including the part where she disobeyed Alex and rode up into the hills alone.
In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond ourselves. I call this sciencuality, a neologism that (26) the sensuality of discovery. ’Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us,’ the astronomer Carl Sagan declared, waxing poetic in the opening scene of his documentary series ’Cosmos,’ one of the most spiritual (27) of science ever produced. ’There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the (28) of mysteries.’ Science needs its poets, and Alan Lightman is the perfect (29) of scientist (an astrophysicist) and humanist (a novelist who’s also a professor of the practice of humanities at M.I.T.), and his latest book, ’Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine,’ is an elegant and moving (30) to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science.
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Which of the following alternatives among the five options provides the most opposite meaning(s) of the word given in BOLD as used in the passage?
Embrace
(I) repudiate (II) reticent
(III) reject (IV) nuance
In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below in each sentence, there are five options and each option consists of two words which can be filled up in the provided blanks respectively to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate set of words that fit into the blanks contextually.
The______________ surfaced after Congress decided to explore ways to overhaul the______________ federal tax system.
She was a healthy, vigorous woman, and, by______________ of great pains, succeeded in ______________ her beauty late into life.
The head of the country ______________ parliament so he could establish a/ an ______________ and rule without restriction.
______________ of capitalism across the border ______________ the entire economy of the once struggling country.
Despite a huge ______________ of Jews from Russia, the congestion within the pale is the cause of terrible ______________ and misery.