English Language
(Exam Held on 19-12-2010)
Directions—(Q. 1–10) 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.
When sound …(1)…, the world of cinema, mime
made a gracious exit. …(2)… then, it stood
proudly as a performing art in itself, independent
and …(3)… in style, approach, treatment and
performance not matched however, by …(4)…
acceptance. During the silent era, actors in silent
films had to …(5)… totally on mime as the only
way of …(6)… their emotions, expressions,
incidents, events and interactions between and
among characters. German Expressionist cinema,
the acting of classic performers like Charlie
Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton used
mime they had …(7)… as part of their theatrical …
(8)… in their films with great effect. A French
mime artist once said, “Mime is the poetry of
silence.” But once talking …(9)… entered the
scenario, mime was …(10)… ever used in films,
even through a character introduced as a mime
artist.
1. (A) entered
(B) came
(C) saw
(D) became
(E) featured
Ans : (A)
2. (A) From
(B) So
(C) Since
(D) By
(E) Until
Ans : (C)
3. (A) single
(B) fair
(C) dependent
(D) unique
(E) treacherous
Ans : (D)
4. (A) drama
(B) conclusion
(C) opinion
(D) judgement
(E) popular
Ans : (E)
5. (A) portray
(B) act
(C) rely
(D) depict
(E) earn
Ans : (C)
6. (A) mentioning
(B) designing
(C) stimulating
(D) expressing
(E) considering
Ans : (D)
7. (A) worked
(B) learnt
(C) qualified
(D) bought
(E) invested
Ans : (B)
8. (A) experience
(B) showings
(C) vision
(D) distance
(E) story
Ans : (A)
9. (A) toys
(B) worlds
(C) films
(D) people
(E) mimes
Ans : (C)
10. (A) and
(B) hardly
(C) then
(D) thus
(E) for
Ans : (B)
Directions—(Q. 11–15) Rearrange the following
five sentences (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) in the
proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph;
then answer the questions given below them.
(a) A small wooden nest box is all it has taken to
rekindle all the romance of bringing sparrows and
other birds back into our cities and halt them
from fading into the past like a forgotten folktale.
(b) There is something wrong with a city that
remains unperturbed even as its birds desert it.
(c) Thankfully, the situation is not as hopeless as
it seems.
(d) Much as we try to defend the seemingly
irreversible modern life of these cities, we can’t
stop our hearts from crying when we realize that
our rapidly degenerating urban eco-system isn’t
generous enough to let these delicate winged
creatures build tiny little nests in its nooks and
crannies, sit in solitude, and rear offspring.
(e) And this desertion seems to be true with most
metros in India where house sparrows have
almost become a thing of the past.
11. Which of the following should be the FIRST
sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(E) (e)
Ans : (B)
12. Which of the following should be the SECOND
sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) (e)
(B) (d)
(C) (c)
(D) (b)
(E) (a)
Ans : (A)
13. Which of the following should be the THIRD
sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(E) (e)
Ans : (D)
14. Which of the following should be the FOURTH
sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) (e)
(B) (d)
(C) (c)
(D) (b)
(E) (a)
Ans : (C)
15. Which of the following should be the FIFTH
sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) (a)
(B) (b)
(C) (c)
(D) (d)
(E) (e)
Ans : (A)
Directions—(Q. 16–20) Which of the phrases (A),
(B), (C) and (D) given below each sentence
should replace the phrase printed in bold in the
sentence to make it grammatically correct ? If the
sentence is correct as it is given and no
correction is required, mark (E) as the answer.
16. After keeping a ten-year-old in detention for
around six days, the police finally registered a
case of fraud against the child and sent him to
jail.
(A) has finally register
(B) final registered
(C) is finally registration
(D) is final registering
(E) No correction required
Ans : (E)
17. Whichever reasons, there is no denying the
changing attitudes to traditions as well as
livelihoods, and by implication to the environment
as well.
(A) Whichever the reasoning
(B) Whichever reasoned
(C) Whatever reasoning
(D) Whatever the reasons
(E) No correction required
Ans : (D)
18. Visiting the village is like be transported into
some other century.
(A) alike to transport
(B) like being transported
(C) likely to be transporting
(D) likes transport
(E) No correction required
Ans : (B)
19. Environmentalists has pay little heed to the
‘softer’ aspects of the movement, of which the
need to change our culture is one of the most
important.
(A) is paying little heed
(B) are paying little heeding
(C) has paid little heeds
(D) have paid little heed
(E) No correction required
Ans : (D)
20. Even in a changing world, we cannot wishes
away the Indian nation and replace it with a world
government overnight.
(A) Cannot wish away
(B) Can never wishing out
(C) Cannot wish out
(D) Never wishes out
(E) No correction required
Ans : (A)
Directions—(Q. 21–25) Each question below has
two blanks, each blank indicating that something
has been omitted. Choose the set of words for
each blank which best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
21. We can feel morally ……… when someone
insults us – as long as we do not ……… upon
those feelings by burning down houses.
(A) challenged, stand
(B) outraged, act
(C) bound, build
(D) obliged, think
(E) violated, harp
Ans : (B)
22. Human beings are biological ………, they need
to be grounded in time and place or else they
come ……….
(A) things, forward
(B) souls, back
(C) organisms, unhinged
(D) features, undone
(E) creatures, again
Ans : (E)
23. ……… their golden years of love and
togetherness, the couple ……… all their guests at
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
(A) Celebrating, welcomed
(B) Remembering, asked
(C) Rejoicing, promised
(D) Commemorating, brought
(E) Observing, greeted
Ans : (A)
24. Since it does not have the …… to do anything
beyond sending out notices, the corporation has
now decided to take steps to attach movable
properties such as cars so that people take the
notices more ……….
(A) authority, appropriately
(B) influence, justly
(C) guts, sincerely
(D) pressure, gravely
(E) power, seriously
Ans : (E)
25. A new law has been passed stating that no
actor would be allowed to shoot beyond twelve
hours in a day and those who ……… this norm
would henceforth be ……… for it.
(A) followed, punished
(B) accompanied, reprimanded
(C) flouted - penalized
(D) defied, applauded
(E) obeyed, disciplined
Ans : (C)
Directions—(Q. 26–35) Read each sentence to
find out whether there is any grammatical error or
idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in
one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is
the answer. If there is no error; the answer is (E).
(Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
26. It is only now, (A) / sixty years after
independence, that (B) / India is learning how to
negotiating (C) / the competing demands of
power and justice. (D) No error (E)
Ans : (C)
27. The graceful folk dance had performed (A) /
so beautifully by a dance group that nobody (B) /
seemed to notice that (C) / the show was two-
and-a-half hours long ! (D) No error (E)
Ans : (A)
28. The actor, that was (A) / busy meeting and
greeting people, (B) / made sure that this day
became (C) / an extra special one for his parents.
(D) No error (E)
Ans : (A)
29. Farmhouse owners in the city, (A) / who were
till now paid property tax (B) / for only the built-
up area of the plot, will soon (C) / have to pay
tax to the government for vacant land also. (D)
No error (E)
Ans : (B)
30. A time sheet diary is to be (A) / maintained
by every actor, since (B) / producers constantly
complain that they are (C) / forced shooting for
late hours because actors come very late. (D) No
error (E)
Ans : (D)
31. Injected into the blood, (A) / tiny bubbles of
gas can ease (B) / the passage of vital stroke
drugs into the brain, (C) / helping in prevent
damage to the grey matter. (D) No error (E)
Ans : (D)
32. Since universities have more (A) / space on
their campuses, they (B) / have been asked to
open fire detection control rooms (C) / as a
mandatory measure. (D) No error (E)
Ans : (C)
33. District police arrested (A) / a gang of
notorious robbers (B) / who were planning to
strike at (C) / a house in the vicinity. (D) No
error (E)
Ans : (A)
34. Households across the State are either opting
for (A) / a more modest lifestyle or compromising
on (B) / the nutritional value of their food in
efforts to negate (C) / the price rise of essential
commodities, cereals, vegetables and fruits. (D)
No error (E)
Ans : (C)
35. The fire that gutted (A) / years for research in
the chemistry and biochemistry labs (B) / of the
University building was (C) / due to short circuit.
(D) No error (E)
Ans : (B)
Directions—(Q. 36–50) Read the following
passage carefully and answer the questions given
below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed
in bold to help you locate them while answering
some of the questions.
In February 2010 the Medical Council of India
announced a major change in the regulation
governing the establishment of medical colleges.
With this change, corporate entities were
permitted to open medical colleges. The new
regulation also carried the following warning :
“permission shall be withdrawn if the colleges
resort to commercialization”. Since the regulation
does not elaborate on what constitutes “resorting
to commercialization”, this will presumably be a
matter left to the discretion of the Government.
A basic requirement for a new medical college is
a pre-existing hospital that will serve as a
teaching hospital. Corporate entities have
hospitals in the major metros and that is where
they will have to locate medical colleges. The
earlier mandated land requirement for a medical
college campus, a minimum of 25 acres of
contiguous land, cannot be fulfilled in the metros.
Not surprisingly, yet another tweak has been
made in the regulation, prescribing 10 acres as
the new minimum campus size for 9 cities
including the main metros. With this, the stage is
set for corporate entities to enter the medical
education market.
Until now, medical education in India has been
projected as a not-forprofit activity to be
organised for the public good. While private
bodies can run medical colleges, these can only
be societies or trusts, legally non-profit
organizations. In opening the door to corporate
colleges, thus, a major policy change has been
effected without changing the law or even a
discussion in Parliament, but by simply getting a
compliant MCI to change the regulation on
establishment of medical colleges. This and other
changes have been justified in the name of
addressing the shortage of doctors. At the same
time, over 50 existing medical colleges, including
15 run by the government, have been prohibited
from admitting students in 2010 for having failed
to meet the basic standards prescribed. Ninety
per cent of these colleges have come up in the
last 5 years. Particularly shocking is the
phenomenon of government colleges falling short
of standards approved by the Government. Why
are state government institutions not able to
meet the requirements that have been approved
by the central government ? A severe problem
faced by government-run institutions is attracting
and retaining teaching faculty, and this is likely to
be among the major reasons for these colleges
failing to satisfy the MCI norms. The crisis
building up on the faculty front has been flagged
by various commissions looking into problems of
medical education over the years.
An indicator of the crisis is the attempt to conjure
up faculty when MCI carries out inspections of
new colleges, one of its regulatory functions.
Judging by news reports, the practice of
presenting fake faculty – students or private
medical practitioners hired for the day – during
MCI inspections in private colleges is common.
What is interesting is that even government
colleges are adopting unscrupulous methods.
Another indicator is the extraordinary scheme,
verging on the ridiculous that is being put in place
by the MCI to make inspections ‘foolproof’.
Faculty in all medical colleges are to be issued an
RFID-based smart card by the MCI with a unique
Faculty Number. The card, it is argued, will
eliminate the possibility of a teacher being shown
on the faculty of more than one college and
establish if the qualifications of a teacher are
genuine. In the future, it is projected that
biometric RFID readers will be installed in the
colleges that will enable a Faculty Identification,
Tracking and Monitoring System to monitor
faculty from within the college and even remotely
from MCI headquarters.
The picture above does not even start to reveal
the true and pathetic situation of medical care
especially in rural India. Only a fraction of the
doctors and nursing professionals serve rural
areas where 70 per cent of our population lives.
The Health Ministry, with the help of the MCI, has
been active in proposing yet another ‘innovative’
solution to the problem of lack of doctors in the
rural areas. The proposal is for a three-and-a-
half year course to obtain the degree of Bachelor
of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS). Only rural
candidates would be able to join this course. The
study and training would happen at two different
levels – Community Health Centers for 18
months, and sub-divisional hospitals for a further
period of 2 years – and be conducted by retired
professors. After completion of training, they
would only be able to serve in their own state in
district hospitals, community health centres, and
primary health centres.
The BRMS proposal has invited sharp criticism
from some doctors’ organizations on the grounds
that it is discriminatory to have two different
standards of health care – one for urban and the
other for rural areas, and that the health care
provided by such graduates will be compromised.
At the other end is the opinion expressed by some
that “something is better than nothing”, that since
doctors do not want to serve in rural areas, the
government may as well create a new cadre of
medics who will be obliged to serve there. The
debate will surely pick up after the government
formally lays out its plans. What is apparent is
that neither this proposal nor the various stopgap
measures adopted so far address the root of the
problem of health care.
The far larger issue is government policy, the low
priority attached by the government to the social
sector as a whole and the health sector in
particular, evidenced in the paltry allocations for
maintaining and upgrading medical infrastructure
and medical education and for looking after
precious human resources.
36. What solution is being offered by the Health
Ministry for the shortage of doctors in rural
areas ?
(A) Increase the number of government run
hospitals in the rural areas thereby increasing the
number of doctors catering to the people in these
regions.
(B) Make it mandatory for doctors serving in the
urban areas to serve in the rural areas for a
specific number of years
(C) Set up increasing number of community
health centres in rural areas
(D) Hire retired professors of medicine to offer
medical help to people living in the rural areas till
the time more doctors are appointed
(E) Run a separate medical course for three and a
half years which can be taken up only by rural
candidates who would ultimately serve in the
rural areas
Ans : (E)
37. Why have some existing medical colleges
been prohibited from admitting students ?
(A) As these have adopted corrupt practices and
have been taking huge donations from their
students
(B) As all these colleges were illegally set up and
were not approved by the government in the first
place
(C) As the course offered by these colleges is not
in line with the course offered by the government
run colleges
(D) As these have failed to meet the norms set by
the central government for running the college
(E) As there are absolutely no faculty members
left in these colleges to teach students
Ans : (D)
38. Which of the following is/are the change/s
announced by the MCI in the regulation governing
the establishment of medical college?
(a) Allowing the commercialization of medical
colleges.
(b) Reducing the earlier mandated land
requirement for a medical college campus for
metros.
(c) Allowing corporate bodies to open medical
colleges.
(A) Only (b)
(B) Only (a) and (b)
(C) Only (c)
(D) Only (b) and (c)
(E) All (a), (b) and (c) are true
Ans : (D)
39. Which of the following are the different
opinions regarding the BRMS proposal ?
(a) At least a small step has been taken to
improve the healthcare facilities in the rural areas
through this proposal.
(b) There should be uniform healthcare facilities
available for people living in both rural and urban
area
(c) The healthcare providers through this
proposal would not be up to the mark.
(A) Only (a)
(B) Only (a) and (b)
(C) Only (b) and (c)
(D) Only (b)
(E) All (a), (b) and (c)
Ans : (C)
40. Which of the following is possibly the most
appropriate title for the passage ?
(A) Healthcare in India – The Questionable
Changes
(B) Medical Centres in Rural India
(C) Commercialization of Medical Education in
India
(D) The Medical Council of India
(E) The BRMS Proposal – The Way Out for Rural
India
Ans : (A)
41. What is one of the major problems faced by
the government–run medical institutions ?
(A) Dearth of land required for the setting up of
medical institutions
(B) Lack of funds for running the colleges
(C) Dearth of teaching faculty
(D) Excessive competition from colleges run by
corporate bodies
(E) Dearth of students opting for these colleges
Ans : (C)
42. What is the idea behind the MCI putting in
place the RFID-based smart card ?
(a) To monitor and track faculty from MCI
headquarters in the future.
(b) To put a stop to the practice of colleges of
presenting fake faculty members.
(c) To verify the authenticity of faculty member
qualifications.
(A) Only (a) and (b)
(B) All (a), (b) and (c)
(C) Only (c)
(D) Only (b) and (c)
(E) Only (b)
Ans : (B)
43. What is the author’s main intention behind
writing this passage ?
(A) To make the general public aware of the
healthcare facilities available in India
(B) To bring to light the problems faced by the
healthcare sector in India despite changes
suggested and goad the government into
attaching priority to the sector
(C) To bring to light the problems faced by rural
people in terms of healthcare facilities and thus
exhort urban doctors to serve in the rural areas
(D) To make the general public aware of the
benefits arising from the changes brought about
by the MCI in the healthcare sector
(E) To urge the corporate bodies to look into the
matter of healthcare facilities in the rural areas
Ans : (B)
Directions—(Q. 44–47) 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.
44. FLAGGED
(A) highlighted
(B) stopped
(C) bannered
(D) caused
(E) hoisted
Ans : (A)
45. FALLING SHORT
(A) remaining tiny
(B) limiting
(C) stumbling upon
(D) just satisfying
(E) not meeting
Ans : (E)
46. PERMITTED
(A) forbidden
(B) pressed
(C) allowed
(D) sent
(E) forced
Ans : (C)
47. SHOCKING
(A) wicked
(B) pleasing
(C) appalling
(D) electrifying
(E) scandalous
Ans : (C)
Directions—(Q. 48–50) Choose the word/group of
words which is most opposite in meaning to the
word/ group of words printed in bold as used in
the passage.
48. UNSCRUPULOUS
(A) corrupt
(B) even
(C) constant
(D) honest
(E) measured
Ans : (D)
49. SHARP
(A) mild
(B) thin
(C) blunt
(D) rounded
(E) pointed
Ans : (D)
50. COMPLIANT
(A) fixed
(B) unyielding
(C) stagnant
(D) obedient
(E) negative
Ans : (B)
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