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Passage-2

How best can the problems of floods and droughts be addressed so that the losses are minimal and the system becomes resilient? In this context, one important point that needs to be noted is that India gets too much water (about 75% of annual precipitation) during 120 days (June to September) and 'too little' for the remaining 245 days. This skewed water availability has to be managed and regulated for its consumption throughout the year.

53. Which one of the following best reflects the practical, rational and lasting solution?

a) Constructing huge concrete storage tanks and canals across country

b) Changing the cropping patterns and farming practices

c) Interlinking of rivers across the country

d) Buffer stocking of water through dams and recharging aquifers

54. If 15 x 14 x 13 x ... x 3 x 2 x 1 = 3m x n where m and n are positive integers, then what is the maximum value of m?

a) 7

b) 6

c) 5

d) 4

55. What is the value of X in the sequence 2, 12, 36, 80, 150, X ?

a) 248

b) 252

c) 258

d) 262 

56. One non-zero digit, one vowel and one consonant from English alphabet (in capital) are to be used in forming passwords, such that each password has to start with a vowel and end with a consonant. How many such passwords can be generated?

a) 105

b) 525

c) 945

d) 1050

57. There are 9 cups placed on a table arranged in equal numbers of rows and columns out of which 6 cups contain coffee and 3 cups contain tea. In how many ways can they be arranged so that each row should contain at least one cup of coffee?

a) 18

b) 27

c) 54

d) 81

58. The sum of three consecutive integers is equal to their product. How many such possibilities are there?

a) Only one

b) Only two

c) Only three

d) No such possibility is there

59. What is the number of numbers of the form 0. XY, where X and Y are distinct non-zero digits?

a) 72

b) 81

c) 90

d) 100

60. The average weight of A, B, C is 40 kg, the average weight of B, D, E is 42 kg and the weight of F is equal to that of B. What is the average weight of A, B, C, D, E and F ?

a) 40.5 kg

b) 40.8 kg

c) 41 kg

d) Cannot be determined as data is inadequate

Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answer to these items should be based on the passages only.

Passage 1

For two or three generations past, ever increasing number of individuals have been living as workers merely, not as human beings. An excessive amount of labor is rule today in every circle of society, with the result that man’s spiritual element cannot thrive. He finds it very difficult to spend his little leisure in serious activities. He does not want to think; or he cannot even if he wants to. He seeks not self - improvement, but entertainment that would enable him to be mentally idle and to forget his usual activities. Therefore, the socalled culture of our age is dependent on cinema than on theater, more on newspaper, magazines and crime stories than on serious literature.

61. The passage is based on the idea that

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 Directions for the following three items

Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answer to this item should be based on the passages only.

Passage 1

In an economic organisation, allowing mankind to benefits by the productivity of machines should lead to a very good life of leisure and much leisure is apt to be a tedious expect to those who have intelligent activities and interest. if a leisured population is to be happy, it must be an educated population, and must be educated with a view to enjoyment as well as to see the direction usefulness of technical knowledge.

41. Which of the following statements best reflects the underlying tone of the passage?

a) Only and educated population can best make use of a benefits of the economic progress.

b) All economic development should be aimed at the creation of the leisure

c) An increase in the educated population of a country leads to an increase in the happiness of the people

d) Use of machine should be encouraged in order to create a large Leisured population

Passage 2

If presence bring less thrill now that we are grown up, perhaps it is because we have too much already; or perhaps it is because we have lost the fullness of the joy of giving, and with it the fullness of a joy of receiving children's fear are poignant and their mistakes are acute, but they do not look too forward not too far backward. Their joys are clear and complete, because they have not yet learnt always to add 'but' to very proposition. Perhaps we are too cautious, to anxious, to sceptical. Perhaps some of our cares would shrink if we thought less about them and entered with more single-minded enjoyment into the happiness that Come our way.

42. with reference to the passage, which one of the following statements is correct?

a) it is not possible for adults to feet thrilled by presents.

b) There can be more than one reason why adults feel less 3 thrilled by presents.

c) The Author does not know why the adults feel less thrilled by presents.

d) adults have less capacity to feel the joy of loving or being loved.

43. The author of the passage is against

a) Worrying too much about the past and future

b) Being in the habit of thinking about presents

c) Not being thrilled by new things

d) Giving and receiving joy only partially

44. Let A, B and C represent distinct non-zero digits. Suppose x is the sum of all possible 3-digit numbers formed by A, B and C without repetition.