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1. 1971 war changed the political geography of the subcontinent
2. Despite the signicance of the event. There has been no serious book about the conict
3. Surrender at Dacca aims to ll this gap
4. It also profoundly altered the geo-strategic situation in South-East Asia
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A. Cleaner nations will become richer and their economies grow faster than dirty nations.
B. If Africa were to burn its own coal reserves, the resultant carbon emissions would cause
trillions of dollars of damage to the rest of the world.
C. . A global carbon market will create a new global system of economic values
D. But if the developed world can't clean up the globe on its own, it can create market
conditions that make reduction in carbon emissions an economic priority for every nation
E. Of course, the US – and all developed nations for that matter – can't solve the emissions
problem alone
EBDCA
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(A) When the boy was twelve years old he attended a party given by his parents.
(B) A boy was considered a dunce and his usual place in class was standing in a corner as
punishment.
(C) The boy timidly quoted the rest of the poem and named the author.
(D) The guest, a famous writer, was delighted and said “You are a bright boy who will
achieve a lot one day”.
(E) This is one word of encouragement changed the boy’s life – he went on to become a
famous poet.
(F) One of the guests saw two lines of poetry underneath a painting and wanted to know
who the poet was, but no one knew.
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1). Let us take a look at the manner in which the traditional bank adds value to the
customer.
2). The ability to retain deposits, in itself, is not enough to ensure long-term survival and
growth.
3). The ability to deploy invested funds into productive economic activity at a higher rate
of return, hence contributing to the prosperity of both the economy and the institution, is
the other loop in the banking cycle.
4). Further, as only a small portion of the actual deposit base is retained with the bank in a
liquid form, the very survival of the bank lies in building enough trust with its clientele so as
to prevent the occurrence of a sizeable chunk of simultaneous customer withdrawal (a run
on the bank).
5). The bank's basic job is risk absorption- it takes money, which has a lot of attached risk,
and provides the customer an assured rate of return.
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A. In the case of King Merolchazzar‘s courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a
regrettable hitch.
B. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
C. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighbouring princess, dispatches messengers with gifts to
her court, beseeching an interview.
D. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along
pretty smoothly.
E. Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.
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A. The two neighbours never fought each other.
B. Fights involving three male ddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was
unknown.
C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was ghting an intruder was joined by an immediate
neighbour, an ally.
E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them ghting a resident male
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A. From what we eat to how much energy we consume: everything is trackable, not least because our
gadgets come equipped with clever sensors.
B. Take the recent obsession with self-tracking.
C. Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in
theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
D. But it won’t take long for governments to start exploring self-tracking as a solution to problems that
could, and probably should, be tackled differently.
E. Right now, most of such self-tracking efforts come from the grass-roots enthusiasts.
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A. This is now orthodoxy to which I subscribe— up to a point.
B. It emerged from the mathematics of chance and statistics
C. Therefore the risk is measurable and manageable.
D. The fundamental concept: Prices are not predictable, but the mathematical laws of chance can
describe their uctuations.
E. This is how what business schools now call modern nance was born.
EBDCA
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1). Over the years, I have had the opportunities to observe and understand the thought processes
behind the ads that have been ooding both the print and the TV media . 2). Although there is a huge
shift in the quality of ads that we come across on a daily basis-- thanks essentially to improvement in
technology--I somehow can't help but feel that the quality of communication of the message has
become diluted.
3). Proportionally, the number of ads that lack in quality, have gone up exponentially as well!!
4). There is an increasing attempt by most companies to be seen as cool and funky.
5). Another reason could be the burgeoning number of companies, which means an exponential
increase in the number of ads that are being made.
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1). the main difference is that efciency is a ration and effectiveness is not.
2). But they reach efciency in a different way than American businesses.
3). The Japanese are very efcient and such concepts as "just in time" are a witness to their efciency.
4). They reach efciency through the route of effectiveness.
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A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly dened at
least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question: “Is this a private ght or can anyone join in?”
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors
and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will
be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed
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1). Wonder is marvellous, but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel.
2). We have paid a terrible price for our education, such as it is.
3). Of course, wonder is costly because it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshipped security.
4). The Magian World View, in so far as it exists, has taken ight into science.
5). We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder has been banished.
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1. Scientists used to think vagal tone was largely stable, like your height in adulthood.
A. To appreciate why this matters, here’s a quick anatomy lesson.
B. Subtle variations in your heart rate reveal the strength of this brain-heart connection, and as such,
heart-rate variability provides an index of your vagal tone.
C. Your brain is tied to your heart by your vagus nerve.
D. Our data show that this part of you is plastic, too, and altered by your social habits.
6. By and large, the higher your vagal tone the better.
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A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.
B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate
property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).
C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain
control over property
. D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds
. E. A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to
invest further in safecracking equipment.
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) 1. A charge on private vehicles in selected areas and at particular times of day would be a
reasonable response to externalities they create.
A. Choosing to drive one’s own car or other vehicle into a city centre puts pressure on limited road
space, contributes to pollution and global warming, and results in reduced mobility for all.
B. The cumulative time spent in trafc is a major economic loss.
C. Congestion charging schemes therefore levy a premium for the privilege of using a personal car, and
the funds thus collected should be ploughed back exclusively into public transport options.
D. This makes them robust, affordable and sustainable.
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A. Many centre around practical needs – getting meat out of re, speed, using whatever is around.
B. There are also many superstitions attached to them: dropping chopsticks is bad luck, sticking them
upright in your rice is taboo because of the imagery of incense sticks at funeral altars.
C. Among the favourite customs are using them to sh cooked bits of meat and vegetables from boiling
broth while eating "hot pot" with friends, and serving choice pieces to show affection or respect.
D. Then there is the long list of chopsticks don'ts: don't point with them, don't spear food with them,
don't use them to tap your bowl; only beggars do that.
E. There are many stories of the provenance of chopsticks, which in some form have been entrenched
in Chinese history for thousands of years.
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A. Cleaner nations will become richer and their economies grow faster than dirty nations.
B. If Africa were to burn its own coal reserves, the resultant carbon emissions would cause trillions of
dollars of damage to the rest of the world.
C. . A global carbon market will create a new global system of economic values
D. But if the developed world can't clean up the globe on its own, it can create market conditions that
make reduction in carbon emissions an economic priority for every nation
E. Of course, the US – and all developed nations for that matter – can't solve the emissions problem
alone
EBDCA
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A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to nd a large number of people sitting
here and there and doing nothing.
B. Once in ofce, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior
appointment.
C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes,
procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the ofce and leave early unless they are forced to
be punctual.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help them in their
personal matters even during ofce hours.
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1). Otherwise the Congress would not have opposed PSU disinvestment today.
2). It is clear that there is not consensus on economic reform.
3). Nor would allies of ruling NDA opposes privatisation.
4). All this would stop India from becoming the next superpower.
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1). I suggested that Ford should buy up a company called NCP, which owned most of the car parks in
the city centres throughout the UK.
2). We were discussing competing in the European market.
3). If NCP became a Ford company, a notice could be placed at the entrance to all city centres car
parks indicating that only Ford cars could use them
4). At one time I was giving a seminar for the British marketing department of Ford, the biggest Ford
operation outside of Detroit.
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1). His political career came to an abrupt end with China's military operation.
2). He attracted as as repelled.
3). He was responsible for the debacle
.4). A man of paradoxes, Menon remained an enigma
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A. Similarly, turning to caste, even though being lower caste is undoubtedly a separate cause of
disparity, its impact is all the greater when the lower-caste families also happen to be poor.
B. Belonging to a privileged class can help a woman to overcome many barriers that obstruct women
from less thriving classes. Got any questions? I'm happy to help.
C. It is the interactive presence of these two kinds of deprivation—being low class and being female—
that massively impoverishes women from the less privileged classes.
D. A congruence of class deprivation and gender discrimination can blight the lives of poorer women
very severely.
E. Gender is certainly a contributor to societal inequality, but it does not act independently of class
BECDA
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A. If you are used to having your stimulation come in from outside, your mind never develops its own
habits of thinking and reecting.
B. Marx thought that religion was the opiate because it soothed people’s pain and suffering and
prevented them from rising in rebellion.
C. If Karl Marx was alive today, he would say that television is the opiate of the people.
D. Television and similar entertainments are even more of an opiate because of their addictive
tendencies.
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A. He felt justied in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves . B. At times he was ghting the
entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not ghting just the democrats.
E. Representative democracy is a messy busin ess, and a CEO of the White House does not like a
legislature of second guessers and time wasters
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1). arrived here on Sunday by an early morning ight.
2). Dubai-based Win Gautam who is the
3). accused in the Rs 50 crore Before guns kickback case.
4). He is scheduled to appear in the trial court By Wednesday.
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A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany‘s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been
completed.
D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
CEDAB
BEDAC
BDECA
EDACB
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