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One World Trade Centre is viewed as a statement of hope, a marvel of persistence and a miracle of logistics. As years passed after the tragedy at the site at which it was since constructed and the delays kept mounting. Americans began to _____1_____ what’s taking so long ? Have we lost the capacity to rebuild ? The answer in part was the sheer _____2_____ of the project – 10000 workers at-tempting one of the most difficult construction projects ever in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth _____3_____ the funds allotted for the project were estimated as $ 1.5 billion when he design was unveiled but the price tag just kept going up. Other _____4_____ included the weather in the harsh sun of summer the steel beams could reach temperatures that were not enough to singe skin added to which a hurricane _____5_____ the construction site. The monument may not be all things to all people, but its completion signifies that ambition coupled with determination of people in the face of odds is intact and will always win the day.(1)
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In the given passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.If China’s state owned commercial banks seem burdened by bad debts, the country’s rural financial sector is even worse. In the villages, the only formal banking institutions are what are known as rural credit co-operatives. These ___(1)___the distinction in China of having been officially declared insolvent. The rural credit co-operatives are ill named. They are often reluctant to___(2)___ and they are not run as cooperatives as they do not ___(3)___ any profits and their customers have no say in their operations. Until 1996, they were offshoots of the Agricultural Bank of China.. Since then they have been ___(4)___by the Central Bank, though they are in reality run by county governments. Even the word ‘rural’ is misleading. ___(5)___ of their deposits are sucked up and put in the urban banking system. Farmers usually find it easier to ___(6)___ from friends or relatives or black market moneylenders. Yet the co-operatives remain a big part of China’s financial system. Last year, they___(7)___1 for 12 percent of deposits and 11 percent of loans. In recent years, commercial banks (in eluding the Agricultural bank) have closed down___(8)___in the countryside. Yet some 40,000 credit co-operatives remain in place with one in almost every township (as the larger villages or smaller) rural loans are___(9)___. If as the government claims, the credit co-operatives are beginning to turn a profit after six years of losses, it is not because they are any better run. In an effort to ___(10)
___ a stagnant rural economy, the central bank has pumped more than $9 billion into them hoping that they will lend more to farmers. But the root causes of their problems remain and the real solution may have to involve a mix of approaches from commercial banking to real cooperatives.(10)
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(A) When these millennium development goals were first formulated in 1990, 53.5 percent of all Indian children were malnourished.
(B) This would still be below that target of reducing malnourishment to 28.6 percent.
(C) India has been moderately successful in reducing poverty.
(D) Since then, progress has been slow.
(E) Today, it is estimated that malnourishment could decline to 40 percent by the end of 2015.
(F) However, eradicating hunger along with malnourishment still remains a key challenge, according to the millennium Development Goals.Which of the following should be the fourth sentence after rearrangement ?
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What will come in place of the question mark (?) in each of the following number series ?6, 11, 31, 121, 601, ?
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Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :
Eight persons A, B, C. D, E, F, G and H live on eight different floors of a building not necessarliy in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 8. A lives on one of the floors above D. Only four persons live between A and D. E lives immediately above D’s floor. H lives on an odd numbered floor below E. Only three persons live between H and G. C lives immediately below B’s floor.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and hence form a group. Which of the following does not belong to that group ?
22. Which of the following Indian Universities has a unique tradition of having the Incumbent Prime Minister as its Chancellor ?
23. Who amongst the following holds the majority stake in the share capital of the recently opened ‘Bhartiya Mahila Bank’ ?
25. A representative of the insurance company licensed by the state who solicits, negotiates or effects contact of insurance and provides service to the policyholder for the insurer is known as
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