Infosys - Verbal Ability - 7

Infosys – Verbal Ability – 7

Directions (Questions 1- 8): Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

1.       Catching the earlier train will give us the ...... to do some shopping.
A. chance
B. luck
C. possibility
D. occasion
Ans: A

2.            Many of the advances of civilization have been conceived by young people just on the ...... of adulthood

A. boundary
B. threshold
C. peak
D. horizon
Ans: B

3.            If I take a state roadways bus, I'll get late...?

A. isn't it
B. won't I
C. will I
D. s it
Ans: B

4.            The paths of glory lead ...... to the grave.
A. straight
B. but
C. in
D. directly
Ans: B

5.            Wheat ...... carbohydrates, vitamins, proteins, and dietary fiber in our daily diet.
A. has
B. gives
C. yields
D. provides
Ans: C

6.            ...... all intents and purposes, the manager is the master of the firm.
A. in       B. upon                                C. with                  D.to

Ans: D

7.            He ...... in wearing the old fashioned coat in spite of his wife's disapproval.
A. insists
B. persist
C. desists
D. resists
Ans: B

8.            We shall not to be able to use your ability in court unless we can find someone to ......  statements.
A. corroborates
B. avouch
C. verifies
D. approve
Ans: A

Directions (Questions 9 - 14): Each of the following questions contains a small paragraph followed by a question on it. Read each paragraph carefully and answer the question given below it.

Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of persons have been attracted towards this anti-national activity. Some of them became millionaires overnight. India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Western Coast. It has been a heaven for smugglers who have been carrying on their activities with great impunity. There is no doubt, that from time to time certain seizures were made by the enforcement authorities, during raids and ambush but even allowing these losses the smugglers made huge profits.

9.            The passage best supports the statement that

A. Smuggling hampers the economic development of a nation.
B. Smuggling ought to be curbed.
C. Authorities are taking strict measures to curb smuggling.
D. Smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.
Ans: D

Industrial exhibitions play a major role in a country's economy. Such exhibitions, now regularly held in Delhi, enable us to measure the extent of our own less advanced industrial progress and the mighty industrial power and progress of countries like the U.K., U.S.A. and Russia whose pavilions are the centers of the greatest attention and attractions.

10.          The passage best supports the statement that industrial exhibitions

A. Greatly tax the poor economies.
B. Are more useful for the developed countries like U.S.A. whose products stand out superior to those of the developing countries.
C. Are not of much use to the countries that is industrially backward.
D. Boost up production qualitatively and quantitatively by analytical comparison of a country's products with those of the developed countries.
Ans: D

It is up to our government and planners to devise ways and means for the mobilization of about ten crore workers whose families total up about forty crore men, women and children. Our agriculture is over-manned. A lesser number of agriculturists would mean more purchasing or spending power to every agriculturist. This will result in the shortage of man-power for many commodities to be produced for which there will be a new demand from a prosperous agrarian class. This shortage will be removed by surplus man-power released from agriculture as suggested above.

11.          The passage best supports the statement that:
A. Employment in production is more fruitful than employment in agriculture.
B. Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilization of man-power.
C. A shift of labour from agricultural sector to the industrial sector would uplift the living standard.
D. The industrial sector is labour-deficient while the agricultural sector is over-manned in our country.
Ans: B

The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling, and to conceive him from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs.

12.          The passage best supports the statement that real education
A. Will take place if the children imbibe action and feeling.
B. Will take place if the children are physically strong.
C. Is not provided in our schools today.
D. Comes through the interaction with social situations
Ans: D

                The virtue of art does not allow the work to be interfered with or immediately ruled by anything other than itself. It insists that it alone shall touch the work in order to bring it into being. Art requires that nothing shall attain the work except through art itself.

13.          This passage best supports the statement that:
A. Art is governed by external rules and conditions.
B. Art is for the sake of art and life.
C. Art is for the sake of art alone.
D. Artist realizes his dreams through his artistic creation.

Ans: C

The attainment of individual and organizational goals is mutually interdependent and linked      by a common denominator - employee work motivation. Organizational members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and they contribute their efforts to the attainment of organizational objectives as means of achieving these personal goals.

14.          The passage best supports the statement that motivation -
A. Encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organizational goals.
B. Is crucial for the survival of an individual and organization.
C. Is the product of an individual's physical and mental energy?
D. Is the external force which induces an individual to contribute his efforts?

Ans: A