Directions (1Q - 3Q): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain parts are given in bold to answer some of the questions based on the passage.
One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle-class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home and not at school. Most of us learn about money from our parents. Schools focus on scholastic and professional skills. This explains how smart bankers, doctors, and accountants, who earned excellent grades in school, may still struggle financially all their lives. Our staggering national debt is due in large part to politicians and government officials making financial decisions with little or no training on the subject of money.
I often look ahead to the new millennium and what will happen when we have millions of people who will need financial and medical assistance. Because I had two influential fathers, I learned from both of them. I had to think about each dad’s advice and in doing so I gained valuable insight into the power and effect of one’s thoughts on one’s life. For example, one dad had a habit of saying, “I can’t afford it.” The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I say “How can I afford it?” He did not mean you to buy everything you wanted. He was fanatical about exercising your brain, the most powerful computer in the world. He believed that automatically saying “I can’t afford it” was a sign of mental laziness. Although both dads worked hard, I noticed that one dad had a habit of putting his brain to sleep when it came to money matters and the other had a habit of exercising his brain. The long term result was that one dad grew stronger financially and the other grew weaker. It is not much different from a person who goes to the gymnasium to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chance for health, and proper mental exercise increases your chance for wealth. Laziness of both decreases health and wealth.
Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason why positive thinking alone does not work is that most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spent their lives working for money.
Q1. According to the author of the passage, a nation cannot progress to economic stability and independence if_______

A. mom and dad make financial decisions. B. the educated work only for money and nothing else. C. schools focus on scholastic and professional skills only. D. our parents keep on saying “how can we afford it?”. E. All the above

Answer - Option C
Explanation - schools focus on scholastic and professional skills only.
Q2. The phrase “how can I afford it?” used in the passage______

A. rejects things which one cannot afford. B. envisages how to make things happen. C. highlights the point that how one can afford something which is not in one’s control. D. emphasises the importance of positive thinking. E. None of these

Answer - Option D
Explanation - emphasises the importance of positive thinking.
Q3. Which of the following is true in the context of the passage?

A. Education and learning about money matters should be a must. B. One must learn how to gain power over money. C. Positive thinking, power over money and exercising brain are a must. D. School education must be improved on the topic “how to make money”. E. All the above

Answer - Option E
Explanation - All the above
Directions (4Q - 5Q): Read the following questions which are SENTENCE FILLERS and answer them below.
Q4. In the first instance, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the U.S. promoted economic integration among its European allies as an essential condition for the post-war revival of world trade. At war’s end, wealth had become concentrated in the new superpower — it accounted for 48% of world industrial capacity and 70% of gold reserves. ____________ Its European allies were too poor to provide a market and the notorious ‘meat-ax’ 80th Congress unwilling to undertake a program for European reconstruction.

A. Mainstream commentaries on Mr. Trump’s attacks on the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) do not place the trans-Atlantic relationship in the broader historical context. B. President Donald Trump’s incendiary tour of Europe has justly generated extensive coverage for his disregard for diplomatic niceties and attacks on his allies. C. In this context, Mr. Trump’s blistering attack on European states for not meeting their military spending obligations is misplaced. D. With the demobilization of some 10 million soldiers in the U.S., the shift to a peacetime economy needed allies to open their markets to U.S. products and investments. E. Unlike the U.S. which is bordered by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Europe has no need for navies to patrol distant oceans and match the U.S. in defense spending.

Answer - Option D
Explanation - With the demobilization of some 10 million soldiers in the U.S., the shift to a peacetime economy needed allies to open their markets to U.S. products and investments.
Q5. The political class manages a democracy. ____________ It is astounding that India’s political parties have had next to nothing to say on the repeal of Section 377 while the hearings are on. Even the Indian Psychiatric Society has rushed through a position paper stating that homosexuality is not a mental disorder. Though this has come a full 45 years after a similar ruling by its American counterpart, it at least reflects a concern with being seen as credible.

A. In the Westminster model that we follow, this opportunity goes to the political party that gains power every five years. B. Even as the hearings in the Supreme Court have been covered extensively in the media, it has willy nilly drawn attention to two related aspects — namely the role of the political class and the question of the democratic content of the Indian LGBT movement itself. C. Post-colonial India, though a democracy with some considerable achievements, has failed miserably to interrogate the laws under which it is governed. D. Post-colonial India, though a democracy with some considerable achievements, has failed miserably to interrogate the laws under which it is governed. E. The colonial administrator had an eagle eye, as he had even identified animals as potential partners of man in this unholy act.

Answer - Option A
Explanation - In the Westminster model that we follow, this opportunity goes to the political party that gains power every five years.

Directions (1Q - 2Q): Read the following questions which are SPOTTING ERRORS and answer them below.
Q1. Unfortunately a climate conducive to populist / bans, which do not think through / the consequences of radical legislation or / judicial decrees, has gripped the country.

A. Unfortunately a climate conducive to populist B. bans, which do not think through C. the consequences of radical legislation or D. judicial decrees, has gripped the country. E. No error

Answer - Option B
Explanation - Replace ‘do’ with ‘does’
Use does if the subject is third-person singular (he, she, it, Mike, Amanda, the car). Use do everywhere else i.e. plural nouns and with the pronouns I, we, you and they. Did is used for past tense.
Q2. As a result of the atmosphere of hysteria UP’s meat / business have been severely disrupted with / transportation of even buffaloes at a standstill / and an estimated 30,000 jobs lost so far.

A. As a result of the atmosphere of hysteria UP’s meat B. business have been severely disrupted with C. transportation of even buffaloes at a standstill D. and an estimated 30,000 jobs lost so far E. No error

Answer - Option B
Explanation - Replace ‘have’ with ‘has’, business is singular thing so ‘has’ will be appropriate helping verb.
Directions (3Q - 4Q): Read the following paragraph which are ClOZE TEST and answer them below.
The only other country where employers reported greater difficulties in finding required skills was Japan whose working-age population has been shrinking for a quarter-century. Meanwhile, India is awaiting a demographic dividend, which requires substantial investments in education and training.
Let immigration policy not be intrepid in attracting talent. It is likely that the welcome mat to foreign students will not immediately attract many from East Asia, Southeast Asia or Latin America. Our neighbors —Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka —will be the most..(3)..courageous source of talent. We should offer to give residency permits to graduating foreign students and skilled workers, including those from South Asia.
For security reasons, Pakistani students may have to be kept out. But we have the valiant to make India a highly attractive place of learning and work to the most talented students from Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Initiatives to receptive recruit the best PhDs, Indian or foreign, in Indian universities would make them more attractive to foreign students.
We get a large number of African students, who prefer India to the US or Europe. They find Indian universities academically strong without being bearing expensive. But they face racism and discrimination simply account of the color of their skin. The best of Africa is as good as the best of anywhere in the world. We have the potential to attract the best from Africa, train them for Indian needs, offer them permanent residency and a path to citizenship. In western countries, a substantial..(4).. succeeding of scientists and skilled professionals are foreign-born.
Switzerland tops the list with 57% of the scientists, working and studying, in the country being foreigners, according to the GlobSci Survey of 2011. The distance figure is 46% in Canada, 45% in Australia, 38% in the US, 33% in Britain, 23% in Germany, and 17% in France. The proportion of foreign scientists working or studying in India, in comparison, is negligible: less than 1%.
Q3.

A. bantam B. immediate C. ensuing D. heroic E. No correction required.

Answer - Option B
Explanation - immediate – occurring or done at once; instant.
Q4.

A. latent B. proportion C. daunted D. apathetic E. No correction required.

Answer - Option B
Explanation - proportion – a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.
Directions (5Q): Read the following question which are ANTONYMS and answer them.
Q5. Traction

A. unassertive B. abbreviate C. barnyard D. slipperiness E. None of these

Answer - Option D
Explanation - Traction – the action of drawing or pulling something over a surface, especially a road or track.
slipperiness – the quality or state of being slippery.

Directions (1Q - 3Q): Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph then answer the following questions.

A. Leading the charge are antagonistic forces – from populist political parties to separatist groups to terrorist organizations – whose actions tend to focus more on what they oppose than on what they support. B. Nowadays, globalization’s opponents seem increasingly to be drowning out its defenders. C. Every aspect of globalization – free trade, free movement of capital, and international migration – is under attack. D. If they get their way, the post-World War II international order – which aimed, often successfully, to advance peace and prosperity through exchange and connection – could well collapse. E. At first glance, the outlook appears grim. F. Can globalization be saved?

Q1. Which is the Second sentence after Rearrangement?

A. E B. F C. C D. D E. B

Answer - Option D
Explanation - The Correct Sequence is BDFECA
Q2. Which is the Fourth sentence after Rearrangement?

A. E B. A C. B D. F E. C

Answer - Option E
Explanation - The Correct Sequence is BDFECA
Q3. Which is the Fifth sentence after Rearrangement?

A. B B. A C. C D. E E. F

Answer - Option C
Explanation - The Correct Sequence is BDFECA
Directions (4Q - 5Q): In each of the following questions, one phrase has been given and it has been followed by four sentences. And answer them.
Q4. Hush money

A. Bribe paid to secure silence B. A task difficult to perform C. To take aim at D. Everything without distinction E. None of these

Answer - Option A
Explanation - Bribe paid to secure silence
Q5. To disabuse one’s mind

A. To take reckless risks B. To suffer humiliation C. To remove a misapprehension D. To have a slight encounter E. None of these

Answer - Option C
Explanation - To remove a misapprehension