GENERAL AWARENESS
1.Anand Kumar was given which of the following awards in 2014?
1) Saraswati Samman
2) Krishi Karman Award
3) International Gandhi Award
4) Gandhi Peace Prize
5) None of these
2. Which country became the 18th member of Eurozone on 2014 January 1?
1) Estonia 2) Lithuania
3) Latvia 4) Slovenia
5) Bulgaria
3. Who is the Chairman of the com-mittee on Comprehensive Finan-cial Services for Small Business-es and Low-Income Households?
1) Urjit Patel 2) Nachiket Mor
3) Anand Sinha
4) P.J. Nayak 5) R. Gandhi
4. Who among the following is not a Padma Bhushan award winner in 2014?
1) Leander Paes 2) P.Gopichand
3) K. Radhakrishnan
4) Ruskin Bond
5) B.K.S. Iyengar
5. Karnataka won the Ranji Trophy Cricket for the seventh time by defeating which of the following teams in the final in January 2014?
1) Maharashtra 2) Punjab
3) Kerala 4) Mumbai
5) Baroda
6. Which of the following global majors is headed by an Indian?
1) Google 2) Yahoo!
3) Facebook 4) Microsoft
5) WhatsApp
7. How many languages in India have got classical language status at present?
1) 3 2) 2 3) 6 4) 4 5) 5
8. Who became the youngest Prime Minister of Italy in February 2014?
1) Enrico Letta
2) Silvio Berlusconi
3) Manuel Valls
4) Matteo Renzi
5) None of these
9. Which of the following is the capital city of Poland?
1) Lisbon 2) Warsaw 3) Prague
4) Bratislava 5) Pristina
10. Which country hosted the Winter Olympics in February 2014?
1) Norway 2) Denmark
3) Ireland 4) Netherlands
5) Russia
11. Ramesh Agarwal of India won which of the following awards in 2014?
1) Goldman Environmental Prize
2) Tang Prize 3) Templeton Prize
4) Abel Prize 5) Marconi Prize
12. Which country will host the Asian Games from 2014 September 19 to October 4?
1) China 2) South Korea
3) India 4) Thailand
5) Vietnam
13. Luis Guillermo Solis became the President of which of the follow- ing countries in May 2014?
1) Colombia 2) Portugal
3) Costa Rica 4) Brazil
5) Chile
14. Dalbir Singh Suhag will become India's next?
1) Army Chief 2) Navy Chief
3) Air Force Chief
4) Attorney General
5) None of these
15. The 3rd BIMSTEC Summit was held in March 2014 in which of the following cities?
1) New Delhi 2) Bangkok
3) Colombo 4) Nay Pyi Taw
5) Kathmandu
16. Which film won the Best Film award at the 86th Oscars in March 2014?
1) The Great Beauty
2) 12 Years A Slave
3) The Hunt
4) The Broken Circle
5) American Hustle
17. Crimea was seceded from which of the following countries in March 2014?
1) Georgia 2) Belarus
3) Ukraine 4) Russia
5) Kazakhstan
18. Which of the following teams won the Santosh Trophy Football in March 2014?
1) Kerala 2) Railways
3) Karnataka 4) Sikkim
5) Mizoram
19. Arjun Bahadur Thapa is the new Secretary General of which of the following organizations?
1) BIMSTEC 2) SAARC
3) ASEAN 4) IBSA
5) None of these
20. Who is the inaugural winner of the Genesis Prize in May 2014?
1) Tomas Halik 2) BarackObama
3) Angela Merkel
4) Michael Bloomberg
5) Bill Clinton
21. Rajiv Mathur is the new?
1) CBI Director 2) IB Director
3) Chief Information Commiss- ioner
4) Attorney General
5) Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister
22. The Finance Commission is constituted every?
1) Five years 2) Two years
3) Three years 4) Ten years
5) Four years
23. To look into the issue of black money a Special Investigation Team (SIT) is constituted which is headed by?
1) Justice A.K. Patnaik
2) Justice M.B. Shah
3) Justice P.C. Ghose
4) Justice Kurian Joseph
5) None of these
24. What is the present Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)?
1) 22% 2) 22.5% 3) 23%
4) 23.5% 5) 24%
25. The Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) holders will be allowed a maximum of how many withdrawals in a month?
1) Ten 2) Two 3) Three
4) Four 5) Five
26. Jitan Ram Manjhi became the new Chief Minister of which of the following States in May 2014?
1) Jharkhand 2) Chhattisgarh
3) Bihar 4) Meghalaya
5) Manipur
27. Who is the author of the book 'Gandhi Before India'?
1) Bipan Chandra
2) Romila Thapar
3) Kushwant Singh
4) Ramachandra Guha
5) None of these
28. Which of the following States does not have a woman Chief Minister at present?
1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat
3) Tamil Nadu 4) West Bengal
5) Himachal Pradesh
29. On 2014 May 21 the Bharatiya Mahila Bank was included in the second schedule to the Reserve bank of India Act, ___
1) 1935 2) 1937 3) 1934
4) 1949 5) 1950
30. Which of the following bowlers won the purple cap in the Indian Premier League 7 season?
1) Mohit Sharma 2) Sunil Narine
3) Ravindra Jadeja
4) Sandeep Sharma
5) Mitchell Johnson
31. World Food Day is observed every year on?
1) July 18 2) October 16
3) October 18 4) September 18
5) August 9
32. Madhuri Dixit has been appointed the brand ambassador for Mamta Abhiyaan campaign by which of the following States? 1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Chhattisgarh 5) Bihar
33. Vishal Sikka will become the next Chief Executive Officer of which of the following IT majors?
1) Wipro 2) TCS 3) Cognizant 4) Infosys 5) HCL
34. Uma Bharati is the Union Cabinet Minister for?
1) Consumer Affairs
2) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
3) Women and Child Develop- ment
4) Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation
5) None of these
35. Who is the Solicitor General of India at present?
1) Harish Salve
2) Rohinton Nariman
3) Ranjit Kumar
4) Gopal Subramaniam
5) Ram Jethmalani
36. Who amongst the following is the founder of Amazon.com?
1) Steve Jobs 2) Steve Ballmer
3) Mark Zuckerberg
4) Bill Gates 5) Jeff Bezos
37. The 2014 Men's World Cup Hockey was won by Australia. Which team did it defeat in the final?
1) Netherlands 2) India
3) Argentina 4) Spain
5) Germany
38. The 49th Jnanpith Award was given in June 2014 to an author of which of the following languages?
1) Telugu 2) Hindi 3) Kannada 4) Malayalam 5) Tamil
39. How many countries are the members of the World Trade Organization?
1) 158 2) 159 3) 160
4) 161 5) 162
40. Novak Djokovic defeated which of the following players to win the 2014 Wimbledon men's singles title?
1) Rafael Nadal 2) Andy Murray
3) Stanislas Wawrinka
4) Roger Federer 5) David Ferrer
General English
Directions (Questions 41- 50): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
As Augustine contemplates his own nature as well as that of his fellow men, he sees wickedness and corruption on every hand. Man is a sinful creature and there is nothing that is wholly good about him. The cause is to be found in original sin, which mankind inherited from Adam. If Adam is regarded as a particular human being, it would make no sense at all to blame his descendants for the mistakes that he made. But Adam is interpreted to mean the universal man rather than a particular individual. Because the universal necessarily includes all of the particulars belonging to the class, they are involved in whatever the universal does. The total corruption of human nature as taught by Augustine did not mean that man is incapable of doing any good deeds. It meant that each part of his nature is infected with an evil tendency. In contrast to the Greek notion of a good mind and an evil body, he held that both mind and body had been made corrupt as a result of the fall. This corruption is made manifest in the lusts of the flesh and also in the activities of the mind. So far as the mind is concerned, the evil tendency is present in both the intellect and in the will. In the intellect it is expressed in the sin of pride and in the will, there is the inclination to follow that which is pleasant at the moment rather than to obey the demands of reason.
41. According to the passage, in order for modern man to be guilty of original sin?
1) He must be corrupt in both mind and body
2) He must be guilty of intelle- ctual and physical errors.
3) Adam must be regarded as a unique human being.
4) Adam must be regarded as a universal man.
5) Adam must be regarded as responsible for Eve's fall.
42. Which of the following is a logi- cal inference from the passage?
1) The earlier in history a man is born, the more sinful he is likely to be.
2) The later in history a man is born, the more sinful he is likely to be.
3) Augustine would not agree with the phrase "as innocent as a newborn child."
4) Augustine would agree that animals inherit original sin from Adam.
5) At birth, a female is less guilty of sin than a male.
43. Which of the following would Augustine be most likely to regard as a consequence of the infected will?
1) Pride in one's ancestry.
2) Envy of another's wisdom.
3) Overeating
4) Vanity about one's appea- rance.
5) Temper tantrums.
44. According to the passage, the Greek idea of man differs from Augustine's because it believed that?
1) Man is incapable of performing good deeds.
2) Man possesses an evil body but a good mind.
3) Corruption proceeds from the infected will.
4) Man possesses a good body and a good mind
5) Man is incapable of following the dictates of reason.
Directions (Questions 45-47): Each of the following questions contains a word in capital letters followed by five words. Select the word that is most similar in meaning to the main word in capital letters.
45. ORIGINAL
1) Hackneyed 2) Latest
3) Worn 4) Archetypal
5) Last
46. CORRUPTION
1) Honor 2) Kind 3) Fraud
4) Sterility 5) Pure
47. LUST
1) Fervor 2) Apathy 3) Dislike
4) Chastity 5) Disgust
Directions (Questions 48-50): Each of the following questions cont-ains a word in capital letters followed by five words. Select the word that is most opposite in meaning to the main word in capital letters.
48. CONTEMPLATE
1) Ponder 2) Consider 3) Think
4) Mull 5) Scorn
49. WICKED
1) Nasty 2) Moral 3) Devilish
4) Vicious 5) Evil
50. PRIDE
1) Ego 2) Delight 3) Pleasure
4) Gloom 5) Joy
Directions (Questions 51-55): 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 number of that part will be the answer. Mark (5) as your answer, if there is no error (Ignore punctuation errors if any.)
51. There are not many men (1)/ who are so famous that (2)/ they are frequently referred to (3)/ by their short names only. (4)/ No error (5)
52. They were (1)/ all shocked (2)/ at his failure (3)/ in the competition. (4)/ No error (5)
53. I need not offer (1)/ any explanation regarding (2)/ this incident my behaviour (3)/ is speaking itself. (4)/ No error (5)
54. In addition to enhanced their reputations (1)/ through strategic use of philanthropy, (2)/ companies are sponsoring social initiatives(3)/ to open new markets. (4)/ No error (5)
55. He never (1)/ has and ever will (2)/ take such (3)/ strong measures. (4)/ No error (5)
Directions (Questions 56-60): Five alternatives 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are given under each sentence. You are requi-red to select the most suitable alternative to fill in the blank/ blanks in the sentence to make it meaningful.
56. The _____ problem of piracy has the music industry worried, because the pirates overseas are _____ by the crackdown in the United States.
1) burgeoning, unabashed
2) widespread, intimidated
3) immaterial, incriminated
4) minor, untroubled
5) evanescent, undeterred
57. The writing is awkward, even ____, but the novel has nonethe- less attracted a large _____.
1) felicitous, following
2) grotesque, vacuity
3) elegant, repertoire
4) graceful, audience
5) ungainly, readership
58. He___ into the room as if he had just been ____ from a deep sleep.
1) strode, ejected
2) proceeded, summoned
3) minced, fomented
4) shambled, roused
5) swaggered, awakened
59. Rather than ____ the commuter delays, the new toll road has ___ the problems and the traffic jams are worse than ever.
1) minimize, extenuated
2) extol, compounded
3) abate, decimated
4) alleviate, aggravated
5) emend, increased
60. My wealthy aunt is more than economical; she is so _____ that she washes paper plates to be used again.
1) affluent 2) parsimonious
3) indigent 4) impoverished
5) selfish
Directions (Questions 61-65): Re-arrange the following six sentences in proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions given below them which are labelled as A, B, C , D, E and F to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence.
A. I never took payment for speaking.
B. In this way I secured perfect freedom of speech, and was armed against the accusation of being a professional agitator.
C. The Sunday Society would then assure me that on these terms I might lecture on anything I liked and how I liked.
D. It often happened that provincial Sunday societies offered me the usual ten guinea fee to give the usual sort of lecture, avoiding co-ntroversial politics and religion.
E. Occasionally to avoid embarra- ssing other lecturers who lived by lecturing, the account was set-tled by a debit and credit entry that is; I was credited with the us-ual fee and expenses, and gave it back as a donation to the society.
F. I always replied that I never lectured on anything but very co-ntroversial politics and religion, and that my fee was the price is my railway ticket third class if the place was further off than I could afford at my own expense.
61. What is the second sentence?
1) C 2) D 3) A 4) E 5) F
62. What is the third sentence?
1) D 2) B 3) A 4) E 5) F
63. What is the fourth sentence?
1) B 2) C 3) A 4) E 5) F
64. What is the fifth sentence?
1) C 2) D 3) B 4) E 5) F
65. What is the last sentence?
1) C 2) B 3) A 4) E 5) F
Directions (Questions 66 to 70): Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3), (4) and(5) given below each sentence sh-ould 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(5) as the answer.
66. During his long discourse, he did not touch that point.
1) touch upon 2) touch on
3) touch to 4) touch of
5) No improvement
67. He died in the year 1956 at 10 p.m. on 13 July.
1) on 13 July in the year 1956 at 10 p.m.
2) in the year 1956 on 13 July at 10 p.m.
3) at 10 p.m. on 13 July in the year 1956
4) on 13 July at 10 p.m. in the year 1956
5) No improvement
68. For all our powers of reason and understanding we know a little about life's secrets.
1) little of life's secrets
2) little about life's secrets
3) nothing about life's secrets.
4) all but life's secrets
5) No improvement
69. You have come here with a view to insult me.
1) to insulting me.
2) on insulting me.
3) for insulting me.
4) in insulting me
5) No improvement
70. This matter admits of no excuse.
1) admits to 2) admits from
3) admits 4) admitted
5) No improvement
Directions (Questions 71-80): 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/ phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/ phrase in each case and mark your answer.
Newcomers may go through different stages of adjustment to their new (71) ___. At (72) ___ it may seem wonderful to be in the united (73) ____. For some people, it is a (74) ____ come true. Then the (75) _____ starts to add up. There are too many problems to (76) _____. Learning English seems (77) ____. The whole family is always tired. Then there may be a period of depression. The newcomers may think it was a (78) ____ to come to The U.S. After some years, life starts to look better. The (79) ____ for hard work start to come in. The immigrants become more (80) ______. They can speak English. They feel that they are a part of America.
71. 1) life 2) live 3) laugh
4) laughs 5) lives
72. 1) most 2) must 3) first
4) second 5) last
73. 1) States 2) state 3) straight
4) street 5) strait
74. 1) life 2) might 3) dream
4) night 5) day
75. 1) time 2) stress 3) rewards
4) points 5) award
76. 1) handle 2) take 3) own
4) manipulate 5) maintain
77. 1) possible 2) impossible
3) plausible 4) probable
5) reward
78. 1) mistake 2) faulty 3) bond
4) flight 5) fortunate
79. 1) recognize 2) rewards
3) region 4) recess 5) spirits
80. 1) comforts 2) edges
3) ease 4) relieve
5) comfortable
Key
1) 5; 2) 3; 3) 2; 4) 5; 5) 1;
6) 4; 7) 3; 8) 4; 9) 2; 10) 5;
11) 1; 12) 2; 13) 3; 14) 1; 15) 4;
16) 2; 17) 3; 18) 5; 19) 2; 20) 4;
21) 3; 22) 1; 23) 2; 24) 2; 25) 4;
26) 3; 27) 4; 28) 5; 29) 3; 30) 1;
31) 2; 32) 3; 33) 4; 34) 4; 35) 3;
36) 5; 37) 1; 38) 2; 39) 3; 40) 4;
41) 1; 42) 3; 43) 3; 44) 2; 45) 4;
46) 3; 47) 1; 48) 5; 49) 2; 50) 4;
51) 1; 52) 5; 53) 4; 54) 1; 55) 1;
56) 1; 57) 5; 58) 4; 59) 4; 60) 2;
61) 4; 62) 1; 63) 5; 64) 1; 65) 2;
66) 2; 67) 3; 68) 5; 69) 1; 70) 5;
71) 1; 72) 3; 73) 1; 74) 3; 75) 2;
76) 1; 77) 2; 78) 1; 79) 2; 80) 5.
