Accenture - Verbal & Reasoning

Accenture – Verbal & Reasoning

Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror. Experts are calling it ‘Sanitised Barbarism’. Demographic trends indicate the country is fast heading towards a million foetuses aborted each year.

Although foetal sex determination and sex selection is an offence in India, the practice is rampant. Private clinics with ultrasound machines are doing brisk business. Everywhere, people are paying to know the sex of the unborn child, and paying more to abort the female child. The technology has reached even remote places through mobile clinics. Dr. Puneet Bedi obstetrician and specialist in foetal medicine, says these days he hardly sees a family with two daughters. People are getting the sex determination even for the first child, he says.

In the 1991 census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number of girls per thousand boys) less than 850; by 2001 it was 51 districts. Child rights activist Dr. Sabu George says foeticide is the most extreme form of violence against women. ‘Today a girl is several times more likely to be eliminated before birth than die of various causes during the first year. Nature intended the womb to be a safe space. Today Doctors have made it the most unsafe space for the female child, ‘he says’. He believes that Doctors must be held responsible – “They have aggressively promoted the misuse of technology and legitimised foeticide.”

Akhila Sivadas, Centre for Advocacy and Research, Delhi, feels that the PCPNDT Act (Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques – Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) is very well conceived and easy to use. The need of the hour is the legal literacy to ensure the law is implemented. “The demand and supply debate has been going on for some time. Doctors say there is a social demand and they are fulfilling it. They argue that social attitudes must change. However, in this case supply fuels demand. Technology will have to be regulated. Technology in the hands of greedy, vested interests cannot be neutral. There is a law to prevent misuse and we must be able to use it,” she says.

On the ‘Demand’ side, experts such as Dr. Agnihotri argue that women’s participation in workforce, having disposable incomes and making a contribution to the larger society will make a difference to how women are seen. Youth icons and role models such as Sania Mirza are making an impact, he says.

Others feel there needs to be widespread visible contempt and anger in society against this ‘Genocide’- “the kind we saw against the Nithari killings,” says Dr Bedi. “Today nobody can say that female foeticide is not their problem.” Time we all did our bit to help save the girl child. Time’s running out.

Select the correct answer option based on the passage.   

1.       What does the word ‘sanitised’ imply in the first paragraph of the passage?

a)      Unforgivable      b) Legitimate     c) Free from dirt               d) None of these

2.       Which demand the author refers to in paragraph 5?

a)      Demand for principled doctors                 

b)      Demand for high income jobs for women

c)       Demand for youth icons

d)      Demand for sex determination and abortion

3.       Which of the two people mentioned in the passage suggest similar solution to the problem?

a)      Dr. Agnihotri and Dr. George

b)      Dr. Bedi and Dr. Agnihotri

c)       Dr. George and Dr. Bedi

d)      Dr. George and Miss. Sivadas

4.       What is the Doctors’ explanation for foeticide?

a)      They think it is legitimate

b)      They do it because people demand it

c)       The technology is available and there is no harm using it

d)      None of these

Based on the given passage find out which of the statement can be inferred from the passage

Education is the gateway to everyone’s own brave new world. When Raja Ram Mohan Roy pursued Sanskrit, Arabic, French and English with equal zeal in the 19^th century, his inner compulsion was to dispel the darkness which had kept his era in thrall.

5.       a) Inner darkness results due to the circumstances prevalent in an area. Education can do something about it.

b)      Any era has its own compulsions and difficulties. Education helps to overcome them so the subjects of education should be suitable, in keeping with the times.

c)       Not everyone wants to bring about a change in the world according to his perception. Education is the key to it.

d)      Keeping an era in thrall was the inner compulsion of Raja Ram Mohan Roy.     

From Chennai to Himachal Pradesh, the new culture vultures are tearing down acres of India’s architectural treasures. Ancestral owners are often fobbed off with a few hundred rupees for an exquisitely carved door or window, which fetches fifty times that much from foreign dealers, and yet more from the drawing shop sophisticates of the Western Countries. The reason for such shameless rape of the Indian architectural wealth can perhaps, not wrongly, be attributed to the unfortunate blend of activist disunity and the local indifference.

6.       a) India provides a rich market for unscrupulous antique dealers.

b)    Most Indian families have heirlooms which can be sold at high prices to Europeans and Americans.  

c)    Only Indians are not proud of their cultural heritage and are hungry for foreign currency that is easily available in return of artefacts.

d)    The environment created by the meeting between activist disunity and local indifference is ideal for antique dealers to strive in India.   

Based on the following information, answer th questions that follow:

There are six teachers A, B, C, D, E, and F in a school. Each of the teachers teaches two subjects, one compulsory and the other optional. D’s optional subject was History while three others have it as compulsory subject. E and F have Physics as one of their subject. F’s compulsory subject is Mathematics which is an optional subject for both C and E. History and English are A’s subjects and in terms of compulsory and optional, they are just reverse of D’s. Chemistry is an optional subject to only one of them. The only female teacher in the school has English as her compulsory subject.

7.       What is C’s compulsory subject?

a)      History         b) Physics            c) Chemistry       d) English             e) Mathematics

8.       Which of the following has the same compulsory and optional subjects as of F?

a)      D                     b) B                        c) A                        d) C                        e) None of these

9.       Who is the female member in the group?

a)      A                     b) B                        c) C                         d) D                        e) E

10.   Disregarding which are the compulsory and optional subjects, who has the same two combination of subjects as F?

a)      A                     b) B                        c) E                         d) D                        e) None of these

11.   From the given choice select the odd man out.

a)      LDCM            b) TMNU             c) MJIN                 d) PLKQ

12.   Find the next number in the series:  5, 9, 16, 29, 54, 103, ……..

a)      300                 b) 200                    c) 150                    d) 330

13.   If MACHINE is coded as 19 – 7 – 9 - 14 – 15 – 20 – 11 then how is DANGER coded?

a)      10 – 7 – 20 – 13 – 11 – 24

b)      11 – 7 – 20 – 16 – 11 – 24

c)       13 – 7 – 20 – 9 – 11 – 25

d)      13 – 7 – 20 – 10 – 11 – 25

14.   Find the next number in the series:  8, 27, 64, 125, ….

a)      250                 b) 272                    c) 625                    d) 216  

15.   If SHARP is coded as 58034, PUSH as 4658 then what is the code for RUSH?

a)      3568               b) 3658                 c) 3685                  d) 3583