Directions for questions 1 to 5: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.a.  The shocking denial of access to basic facilities at the village level institutionalizes inequality of opportunity and has prevented the poor from rising.b.  Urban facilities provide some social mobility.c.  But rural facilities are so typically pathetic as to become poverty traps.d.  For this, our politicians are squarely to blame for these heroes are the zeroes who ensured continuing inequality of opportunity, poverty and powerlessness.e.  Their solution is to compete in offering caste-based reservations, not providing the equality of opportunity that might make caste irrelevant.a and ca, b and ec and db and c

Direction for questions 6 to 9: In the following questions, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.Politicians, who tend to be well-meaningbut bossy types, find it hard to resist intrudingat the private lives of their fellow-citizens, especiallywhen some of those private lives are conducted in a way that trouble respectable society.They meddle for their peril, however.

Five sentences related to a topic are given below in a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does not go with the four. Key in the number of the option that you choose.Unlike in previous decades, however, we now have a solution that can be scaled up rapidly to accelerate the end of  extreme poverty : direct cash transfers to the poorest households.                                                            The concept itself is not new as cash aid has proven effective, especially in the face of emergencies.For decades, the international community has grappled with the challenge of ending extreme poverty.Despite some progress, we remain far off track, with an estimated 700 million people still struggling to survive on less than $2.15 per day. Importantly, they neither reduce hours worked nor increase spending on temptation goods like tobacco and alcohol.

Question No. 2Directions for questions 1 to 5: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.a.  The bison was the largest and most plentiful of the mammals that competed for forageb.  with the settler's own domesticated cattle. However, other less conspicuous mammals,c.  Particularly the jack rabbits and the prairie dogs, also posed an economic threat – and they, too,d.  have been the object of unrelenting persecution. While rabbits and hares of one kind or another live all over the continent,e.  but of all of them, jack rabbits are the most characteristic of the prairies and plains.a, b and dc, d and eb, c and da and e

Directions for questions 1 to 5: In each question, there are five sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then, choose the most appropriate option.a.  The inland west knows that they must adjust to dry times rather than look for more water.b.  Colorado thinks it has at least one answer. Researchers at Colorado State University and thec.  University of Colorado are teaming to create a project called Drought lab. This will analyse rainfall patterns,d.  track the way water managers and federal range managerse.  are responding to drought, and keep a watch on both erosion and forest fires.

Directions for questions 1 to 4: The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and indicate the correct sequence in the box provided below each question.With 75 percent of the space rented to the multinationals, this exhibition had the participation of 13 companies from Europe.With 50 companies participating and looking at the $30 billion Indian market in the telecommunication sector, for the next eight years the latest technology was on display.Against the backdrop of a sweeping wave of liberalisation, this proved a bonanza for the multinationals and their Indian partners to exhibit their bag of telecommunication technology.India Comm'92  the second international exhibition and conference on tele-communication and computer equipment, systems and related services, was organised recently.