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51. A meeting of the Nepal-India Exchange Committee took place in Kathmandu on June 7, 2007, to deal with problems related to sharing of electricity between the two countries. When was this Committee first established ?
52. The most significant oil and gas discoveries of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) as announced on June 7, 2007, is in the………….. basin.
53. With which of the following Australian firms did, Sify, an Internet service provider, announced its tie-up on June 7, 2007 ?
54. The U.S.-based Signet Solar on June 7, 2007, announced plans to invest $ 2 billion in India for establishing its manufacturing base. Which of the following Indian cities will serve as headquarters of the company for its Asian market ?
55. Which of the following recent Bollywood movies bagged the honour of ‘Best Film’ In the eighth IIFA Awards ceremony at Sheffield (Yorkshire) on June 9, 2007 ?
56. Who among the following took over as executive director of Punjab National Bank on June 9, 2007 ?
57. The Hindi film-music composer of yesteryears who, on June 9, 2007, died in Mhavlingem, on June 9, 2007, is
58. The famous criminal lawyer, who, on June 9, 2007, served notice on NDTV asking it to immediately stop telecasting any news story relating to him, is
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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases in the passage have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.Marc Rodin flicked-off the switch of his transistor radio and rose from the table, leaving the breakfast tray almost untouched. He walked over to the window, lit another in the endless chain of cigarettes and gazed out at the snow-en-crusted landscape which the late arriving spring had not yet started to dismantle. He murmured a word quietly and with great venom, following up with other strong nouns and epithets that expressed his feeling towards the French President, his Government and the Action Service.
Rodin was unlike his predecessor in almost every way. Tall and spare, with a cadaverous face hollowed by the hatred within, he usually masked his emotions with an un-Latin frigidity. For him there had been no Ecole Polytechnic to open doors to promotion. The son of a cobbler, he had escaped to England by fishing boat in the halcyon days of his late teens when the Germans overran France, and had enlisted as a private soldier under the banner of the Cross of Lorraine.
Promotion through sergeant to warrant officer had come the hard way, in bloody battles across the face on North Africa under Koenig and later through the hedgerows of Normandy with Leclerc. A field commission during the fight for Paris had got him the officer’s chevrons his education and breeding could never have obtained and in post-war France the choice had been between reverting to civilian life or staying in the Army. But revert to what ? He had no trade but that of cobbler which his father had taught him, and he found the working class of his native country dominated by Communists, who had also taken over the Resistance and the Free French of the Interior. So he stayed in the Army, later to experience the bitterness of an officer from the ranks who saw a new young generation of educated boys graduating from the officer schools, earning in theoretical lessons carried out in classrooms the same chevrons he had sweated blood for. As he wanted them pass him in tank and privilege the bitterness started to set in.
There was only one thing left to do, and that was join one of the colonial regiments, the tough crack soldiers who did the fighting while the conscript army paraded round drill squares. He managed a transfer to the colonial para-troops. Within a year he had been a company commander in Indo-China, living among other men who spoke and thought as he did. For a young man from a cobbler’s bench, promotion could still be obtained through combat, and more combat. By the end of the Indo-China campaign he was a major and after an unhappy and frustrating year in France he was sent to Algeria.
The French withdrawal from Indo-China do the year he spent in France had turned his latent bitterness into a consuming loathing of politicians and Communists, whom he regarded as one and the same thing. Not until Franco was ruled by a soldier could she ever be weaned away from the grip of the treators and lickspittles who permeated her public life. Only in the Army were both breeds extinct.
Like most combat officers who had seen their men die and occasionally buried the hideously mutilated bodies of those unlucky enough to be taken alive. Rodin worshipped soldiers as the true salt of the earth, the men who sacrificed themselves in blood so that the bourgeoisie could live at home in comfort. To learn from the civilians of native land after eight years of combat in the forests of Indo-China that most of them cared not a fig for the soldier, to read the denunciations of the military by the left-wing intellectuals for more trifles like the toturing of prisoners to obtain vital information, had set off inside Marc Rodin a reaction which combined with the native bitterness stemming from his own lack of opportunity, had turned into zealotry.
He remained convinced that given enough backing by the civil authoritieS on the spot and the Government and people back home, the Army could have beaten the Viet-Minh. The cession of Indo-China had been a massive betrayal of the thousands of fine young men who had died there seemingly for nothing. For Rodin there would be, could be, no more betrayals. Algeria would prove it. He left the shore of Marseilles in the spring of 1956 as ner a happy man as he would ever be, convinced that the distant hills of Algeria would see the consummation of what he regarded as his life’s work, the apotheosis of the French Army in the eys of the world.What was the period when Rodin escaped to England ?
60. Which of the following best describes the phrase….cared not a fig…. as used in the passage ? (A) Ignoring the contribution made by a person or group (B) Under estimating the hidden potential (C) Overlooking the service rendered ‘ by an employee
61. Which factors made Rodin stay in the Army ? (A) He did not have any big business in civil life (B) The parent country had Communist domination (C) He wanted to experience the bitterness of officer rank.
63. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the phrase officer from the ranks as used in the passage ?
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Choose the word which has most nearly the SAME meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.chevrons
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Choose the word which has most nearly the SAME meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.conscript
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Choose the word which has most nearly the SAME meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.lickspittles
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Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.frigidity
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Choose the word which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.denuciations
74. In each question, a sentence with two words/ groups of words printed in bold type are given. One of them or both may have certain error. You have to find out the correct word or group of words from among the three choices A, B or C given below each sentence which can replace the wrong word/group of words. if any, and makes the sentence grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as It is, mark e: i.e. ‘No Correction Required’ as your answer.Aerobics are found to be of exreme helpful to diabetes patients. (A) extremely helpful (B) of extreme help (C) of extremely helpful
75. Our emphasis is also on the quality of the product but not on its appearance alone. (A) emphasizing …………and (B) stress …………….but (C) emphasis…………. and
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