** QUESTIONS ARE IN RANDOM ORDER **
PROGRAMMING
1.
Problem Statement
Given 2 strings S1 and S2, work on the strings such that both string has the same number of
characters.To adjust the length reduce number of exceeding characters from longer string.
Input Format
Take two strings as an input.
Constraints
1<=length of strings<=100
Output Format
Print concatenation of both the string with reduced number of exceeding characters from longer string.
In output s1 will come before s2
Sample Input:
insert delete
Sample Output:
insertdelete
PYTHON CODE:
s1,s2=input().split()
a=len(s1)
b=len(s2)
if(a<b):
print(s1+s2[:a])
else:
print(s1[:b]+s2)
2.
You are given an array F of focal lengths of size f, F0, F1,...Ff-1. You are asked to determine the indices of
the elements from the biggest element to the smallest element.
Input Format
The first line contains an integer f.
The next line contains f space separated integers Fi, (0 <= i <= f-1)
Note: The elements of Fi are pairwise distinct.
Output Format:
Print f space separated integers, denoting the indices of the elements, from biggest element to
smallest.
Constraints:
1<=f<=100
0<=Fi<=1000
Sample Input
12
23 9 25 5 29 33 7 40 3 31 27 35
Sample Output
7 11 5 9 4 10 2 0 1 6 3 8
python code:
n=int(input())
l=list(map(int,input().split()))
li=[]
for i in range(n):
li.append([l[i],i])
li.sort(reverse=True)
a=[]
for x in li:
a.append(x[1])
print(*a)
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Quantitative Ability
1.
Choose the correct answer
Number 1 is a:
Prime number
Both 1 and 3
Composite number
Not sure
Positive integer
2.
Choose the correct answer
The total number of prime factors of (7 x 2)24 x (4 x 5)21 is :
45
111
84
Not sure
90
3.
Choose the correct answer
-3.4 is a number on the real number line. If we subtract 1 from this number then the new number will be
Farther from the origin than -3.4
None of the above
Closer to the origin than -3.4
Not sure
Equally farther from the origin, as -3.4 is
4.
Choose the correct answer
What is the value of 15C13 ?
30
105
15
Not sure
210
5.
Choose the correct answer
If we permute 7 letters of word JUSTICE in 7! Ways. In how many words vowels do not come together ?
5,040
120
4,320
Not sure
720
6.
Choose the correct answer
If a = 4, b = 5 and c = 7, then what is the value of log4sqrt(a+b+c) ?
1
4
2
Not sure
3
7.
Choose the correct answer
Out of 5 men and 3 women , a committee of 4 members is to be formed. In how many ways can it be
done if the committee includes at least one woman ?
20
65
35
Not sure
30
8.
Choose the correct answer
How many 4 digit numbers can be made using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 with none of the digits being
repeated ?
7!
42
840
Not sure
4!
9.
Choose the correct answer
A bag contains 4 strawberries and 8 grapes. What is the probability that both the fruits drawn from it
are strawberries ?
1/3
1/6
1/11
Not sure
3/11
10.
Choose the correct answer
One gear of pulley rotates at a speed of 3 revolutions per second: another gear rotates at 5 revolutions
per second. If both start together, after how many seconds will they be together again ?
3
20
5
Not sure
15
11.
A sold an article to B at 25% profit and B sold to C at 20% loss. If A sold it to C at the selling price of B,
then A would make
6
No loss or Gain
4
5
12.
Choose the correct answer
What is the value of ( 5-2x10-4)/(2-5x5-6)
0
10
2
Not sure
5
13.
Choose the correct answer
What is X if 8-1 * X = (-4)-1 ?
2
-1
1
Not sure
-2
14.
Choose the correct answer
The value of p in log12144p=3 is
2
24
4
Not sure
12
15.
Choose the correct answer
If by selling 10 papayas, the cost of 8 papayas is realized, then the loss percent is :
20%
2%
10%
Not sure
8%
16.
Choose the correct answer
How many litres of a 90% solution of concentrated acid needs to be mixed with a 75% solution of
concentrated acid to get a 30 L solution of 78% concentrated acid ?
24 L
17.5 L
22.5 L
Not sure
6 L
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Logical Ability
1.
Choose the answer option that arranges the given set of words in the most meaningful order. The
words when put in order should make logical sense according to size, quality, quantity, occurrence of
events, value, appearance, nature, process etc.
(i). Community
(ii). Locality
(iii). Family
(iv). Country
(v). Person
4, 1, 2, 3, 5
5, 3, 4, 2, 1
4, 2, 1, 3, 5
5,3,2,1,4
2.
There are 2 questions based on the same data. Answer the questions based on the given information:
Following are the criteria for the allotment of residential accommodation by an organisation to its
employees. The employee must
1) Have completed atleast 10years in the organisation out of which atleast 4 years should have been
spent as a manager.
2) Not have more than 5 members in the family.
3) Have atleast 5 years of service remaining, the retirement age being 58 years.
4) Not have his/her own house.
5) Not be staying in a house owned by his/her spouse. In case of an employee who :
6) Satisfies all above criteria except (1) an d join the organisation as a Manager, should be referred to
Finance Director.
7) Satisfies all other criteria except (3) at present working as a Senior Manager, is to be referred to the
Managing Director.
8) Has been transferred from another city, the condition (1) may be waived
Should the given employee be provided with accommodation ? (The case is presented as o 31st July,
2001)
Choose the right answer.
Sanjeev Ranjan has three members in the family including himself. Neither he nor his wife owns a house.
He is at the post of Senior Manager since the last four years and has been working in the organisation
for the last for the 12 years. He will be retiring from the organisation in the year 2007.
The employees case is to be referred to the managing director
3.
Pointing to a girl child in a photograph, a woman said, Her mothers sister is the wife of my son. How is
the woman related to child
Mother
None of these
Daughter
Not sure
Sister
4.
Select the right option from the given alternatives. Introducing a man, a woman said, He is the husband
of my mothers daughter. How is the woman related to the man ?
Mother
None of these
Daughter
Not sure
Sister
5.
The question consists of a problem question followed by two statements I and II. Find out if the
information given in the statement(s) is sufficient in finding the solution to the problem.
Problem question :
P, Q, R, S are four friends. Who is the youngest among them ?
Statements :
I) The total age of P and Q is more than that of R.
II) The total age of P and S together is less than that of R.
Statement I alone is sufficient
Both the statements even put together are not sufficient
Statement II alone is sufficient
Not sure
Both statements.......................
6.
Given signs something and on that basis, assume the given statement to be true. Answer the question
basis the information provided.
P x Q denotes P larger than Q
P + Q denotes P equal to Q
P - Q denotes P not equal to Q
P / Q denotes P smaller than Q
P % Q denotes P not smaller than Q
P * Q denotes P not larger than Q
A * B implies
AxB
None of these
A/B
Not sure
A-B
7.
Eleven friends M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting in the first row of the stadium watching a
cricket match.
T is to the immediate left of P and third to the right of U. V is the immediate neighbour of M and N and
third to the left of S. M is the second to the right of Q, who is at one of the ends. R is sitting next to the
right of P and P is second to the right of O.
Which of the following statements is true with respect to the above arrangement?
There are three persons sitting between P and S
S and O are neighbours sitting to the immediate right of T
W is between M and V.
Not sure
N is sitting between v and u
8.
There are 2 questions based on the same data. Answer the questions based on the given information:
Following are the criteria for the allotment of residential accommodation by an organisation to its
employees. The employee must
1) Have completed atleast 10years in the organisation out of which atleast 4 years should have been
spent as a manager.
2) Not have more than 5 members in the family.
3) Have atleast 5 years of service remaining, the retirement age being 58 years.
4) Not have his/her own house.
5) Not be staying in a house owned by his/her spouse. In case of an employee who :
6) Satisfies all above criteria except (1) an d join the organisation as a Manager, should be referred to
Finance Director.
7) Satisfies all other criteria except (3) at present working as a Senior Manager, is to be referred to the
Managing Director.
8) Has been transferred from another city, the condition (1) may be waived Should the given employee
be provided with accommodation ? (The case is presented as o 31st July, 2001)
Choose the right answer.
Meena Thakur was promoted as a Manager five years back after joining the organisation in 1988 as a
clerk. She stays with her husband and children in a rented house and she does not own any house. She
was 42 years old as on 23rd April, 2000
Insufficient data
9.
Choose the correct answer From the given choices select the odd one out.
MQ2
DM3
RV2
Not sure
PS3
10.
Find the next number in the series.
3, 15, 35, 63, ...
101
98
121
Not sure
99
11.
Eleven friends M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting in the first row of the stadium watching a
cricket match.
T is to the immediate left of P and third to the right of U. V is the immediate neighbour of M and N and
third to the left of S. M is the second to the right of Q, who is at one of the ends. R is sitting next to the
right of P and P is second to the right of O. Q.1. Who is sitting in the center of the row?
N
U
O
Not sure
S
12.
Eleven friends M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting in the first row of the stadium watching a
cricket match.
T is to the immediate left of P and third to the right of U. V is the immediate neighbour of M and N and
third to the left of S. M is the second to the right of Q, who is at one of the ends. R is sitting next to the
right of P and P is second to the right of O.
Which of the following people are sitting to the right of S?
UOTPR
OTPR
None of these
UNVM
OTPQ
13.
Sales drives in big organisations many a times fall flat on the face. A research showed that an average
buyer remembers only 20% of the things discussed during a sales call. The saddest part is that the
sales team doesn't get to choose what those 20% of things would be. The world today is cluttered with
information and thus it is essential that the sales team represents their product/service in the best
possible manner. It is like answering questions that children ask. Expect basic and out of context
questions and reply to each one of them, patiently, in a way that the customers understand the
intricacies. You can use technical terms to explain your product and its features. No doubt, it will be an
accurate methodology but certainly not the right one. Simplify your message and see how well your
client remembers you presentation when you meet him to finally close the deal.
A regular buyer would remember more than 20% of the details after a sales meeting.
If you simplify your message, the customer would remember your entire presentation.
A customer is as gullible as a child and hence may ask many questions
Not sure
One should try/.....................
14.
Find the next number in series.
8, 8, 6, 2, ...
-4
4
-3
3
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Verbal Ability
1.
n the question, there is a sentence of which some parts have been jumbled up. Re-arrange these parts
which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence.
Choose the proper sequence.
We have to
P: as we see it
Q: speak the truth
R: there is falsehood and darkness
S: even if all around us
RQSP
QPSR
QRPS
Not sure
RSQP
2.
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
The Stratosphere, specifically, the lower Stratosphere has, it seems, been dying out. Water vapour is a
greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth's climate due to this desiccation may account for a
fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years.
The stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The
boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18km above your head, if you are in the tropics,
and a few kilometers lower if you are at higher latitudes ( or up a mountain ). In the Troposphere, the air
at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and
often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates
clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world's weather. In the Stratosphere, the air gets warmer at
higher altitudes, which provides stability.
The Stratosphere-which extends up to about 55 km, where the Mesosphere begins, is made even less
weather-prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it
leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water
vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere.
A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite
measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case
previously. Plugging the changes in water vapor into a climate model that looks at the way different
substances absorb and emit infrared radiation, they conclude that between 1000 and 2009 a drop in
the Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the
Earth s surface by about 25%.
Such a small change in Stratospheric water vapour can have a large effect precisely because the
Stratosphere is already dry. It is the relative change in the amount of a greenhouse gas, not its absolute
level, which determines how much warming it can produce.
Why is the situation in the troposphere defined as unstable ?
Because of the interaction ...................................
3.
Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
The company's relentless advertising campaign ($50 million budgeted this year) has made the
McDonald's jingle, you deserve a break today, almost as familiar as the Star-Spangled Banner. But the
chain's managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the
greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less
quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, pre-measured, super clean
production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought.
Machinery and equipment cannot do everything, of course. Human beings are involved too, some
130,000 employees in nine countries, from Western Europe to Japan and Australia. McDonald's has
grown from a uniquely American to a truly global operation. If a manager tries to sell his customers
hamburgers that have been off the grill more than ten minutes or coffee more than 30 minutes old. Big
Brother in Oak Brook will find out. Headquarters executives calculate exactly how much food each
restaurant can be expected to throw away each day, and are ready to chastise a chronically deviant
manager who has no good explanation
To some critics, the success of that machine is a devastating comment on American values. Harvard
nutritionist Jean Mayer warms that a steady diet of McDonald's fare and nothing else could give a
customer scurvy because it would lack sufficient vitamin C. Mayer also says that the menu provides
large amounts of fats and calories and contains almost no roughage.
Since no one is forced to eat at a McDonald's the chain must be giving multitudes exactly what they
want. For one thing, many people find the cheerily bland atmosphere re assuming. McDonald's has
designed a place to neutralize this anxiety, a place that does not make a customer feel he will not know
how to use his fork. Also, McDonald's is one of the few places left where a customer can buy a meal for
$1 or less.
What has been the achievement of managers in McDonald's?
Transforming the existing........................
4.
Select the correct option that dills the blanks (s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
He worked really hard and thus ____ to be promoted.
Warranted
Merit
Deserve
Not Sure
Deserves
5.
Select the correct option that dills the blanks (s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Salim could not make it to the party as he _ to finish his assignment.
Has
Want
Had
Not Sure
Have
6.
Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
SUFFOCATE (OPPOSITE)
Curb
Stifle
Restrain
Not Sure
Release
7.
Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
The company's relentless advertising campaign ($50 million budgeted this year) has made the
McDonald's jingle, you deserve a break today, almost as familiar as the Star-Spangled Banner. But the
chains managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the
greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less
quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, pre-measured, super clean
production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought.
Machinery and equipment cannot do everything, of course. Human beings are involved too, some
130,000 employees in nine countries, from Western Europe to Japan and Australia. McDonald's has
grown from a uniquely American to a truly global operation. If a manager tries to sell his customers
hamburgers that have been off the grill more than ten minutes or coffee more than 30 minutes old. Big
Brother in Oak Brook will find out. Headquarters executives calculate exactly how much food each
restaurant can be expected to throw away each day, and are ready to chastise a chronically deviant
manager who has no good explanation
To some critics, the success of that machine is a devastating comment on American values. Harvard
nutritionist Jean Mayer warms that a steady diet of McDonald's fare and nothing else could give a
customer scurvy because it would lack sufficient vitamin C. Mayer also says that the menu provides
large amounts of fats and calories and contains almost no roughage.
Since no one is forced to eat at a McDonald's the chain must be giving multitudes exactly what they
want. For one thing, many people find the cheerily bland atmosphere re assuming. McDonald's has
designed a place to neutralize this anxiety, a place that does not make a customer feel he will not know
how to use his fork. Also, McDonald's is one of the few places left where a customer can buy a meal for
$1 or less.
What accounts for the efficiency in McDonald s ?
Food is delivered on time
8.
Read the following passage and answer the following question:
My phone rings again. It is futile to ignore it anymore. Maneesha is persistent, She will continue to
bedevil me until I acquiesce.
Hello, I answer.
The circus, Atika? she says in her sing-song voice. When are we going ? Only two more days left!
I abhor the Circus. The boisterous crowds, the overwhelming smell of animal feces, the insanely long
lines with wailing children and the impossibility of finding a clean restroom all combine to make this an
event that I dread.
For Maneesha, my bestfriend since the angst of middle school, the Circus is a sign that divine powers
really do exist.
Really, Atika, where else can you pet an elephant, see a stuntman ride a horse, laugh till you are ready to
cry, see the worlds smallest person and eat fried potatoes and butter soaked popcorn? Maneesha asks
gleefully.
Hell? I guess.
The fried food at the circus is a gastronomical nightmare on its own. I once tried a fried Cottage
Cheese stick at the fair and was sick to my stomach for hours. And a fried burger with oil soaked
potato patty, cheese, multicolored sauces AND a greasy slice of cottage cheese ? how could that not
be deleterious to your health?
What does it mean to acquiesce ?
To give in
9.
Find the best suitable option for the underlined part.
They were going h++when it was starting to rain.++ain.
When it started to rain
No change
When it was raining
Not Sure
When it is starting to rain
10.
Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
PROFUSE
Defuse
Accept
Ample
Not Sure
Flimsy
11.
Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
AFFABLE (OPPOSITE)
Rude
Useless
Ruddy
Not Sure
Needy
12.
Fill the blank with the correct option.
There was __ in the country when their cricket team won the world cup.
Happiness
Jubilation
Energy
Not Sure
Shock
13.
Select the correct option that dills the blanks (s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Nothing ___ convinced her to cancel her trip to Goa
was going to
Will have
Could have
Not Sure
Could
14.
Read the paragraph given below and answer the questions given.
My phone rings again. It is futile to ignore it anymore. Maneesha is persistent, She will continue to
bedevil me until I acquiesce.
Hello, I answer.
The circus, Atika? she says in her sing-song voice. When are we going ? Only two more days left!
I abhor the Circus. The boisterous crowds, the overwhelming smell of animal feces, the insanely long
lines with wailing children and the impossibility of finding a clean restroom all combine to make this an
event that I dread.
For Maneesha, my best friend since the angst of middle school, the Circus is a sign that divine powers
really do exist.
Really, Atika, where else can you pet an elephant, see a stuntman ride a horse, laugh till you are ready to
cry, see the world's smallest person and eat fried potatoes and butter soaked popcorn? Maneesha
asks gleefully.
Hell? I guess.
The fried food at the circus is a gastronomical nightmare on its own. I once tried a fried Cottage
Cheese stick at the fair and was sick to my stomach for hours. And a fried burger with oil soaked
potato patty, cheese, multicolored sauces AND a greasy slice of cottage cheese ? how could that not
be deleterious to your health?
Why might the author have chosen to capitalize all the letters in the word and when writing about the
burger she ate ?
To emphasize how many...................
15.
Read the given passage and answer the questions given below.
My phone rings again. It is futile to ignore it anymore. Maneesha is persistent, She will continue to
bedevil me until I acquiesce.
Hello, I answer.
The circus, Atika? she says in her sing-song voice. When are we going ? Only two more days left!
I abhor the Circus. The boisterous crowds, the overwhelming smell of animal feces, the insanely long
lines with wailing children and the impossibility of finding a clean restroom all combine to make this an
event that I dread.
For Maneesha, my bestfriend since the angst of middle school, the Circus is a sign that divine powers
really do exist.
Really, Atika, where else can you pet an elephant, see a stuntman ride a horse, laugh till you are ready to
cry, see the world's smallest person and eat fried potatoes and butter soaked popcorn? Maneesha
asks gleefully.
Hell? I guess.
The fried food at the circus is a gastronomical nightmare on its own. I once tried a fried Cottage
Cheese stick at the fair and was sick to my stomach for hours. And a fried burger with oil soaked
potato patty, cheese, multicolored sauces AND a greasy slice of cottage cheese ? how could that not
be deleterious to your health?
How does Maneesha seem to feel about the circus ?
Jubliant
16.
Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The experiment lead to the emission of ____ vapour, which resulted in immediate termination of the
research
Noxious
Bland
Non-toxic
Not Sure
Innocuous
17.
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
The company's relentless advertising campaign ($50 million budgeted this year) has made the
McDonald's jingle, you deserve a break today, almost as familiar as the Star-Spangled Banner. But the
chain's managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the
greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less
quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, pre-measured, super clean
production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought.
Machinery and equipment cannot do everything, of course. Human beings are involved too, some
130,000 employees in nine countries, from Western Europe to Japan and Australia. McDonald's has
grown from a uniquely American to a truly global operation. If a manager tries to sell his customers
hamburgers that have been off the grill more than ten minutes or coffee more than 30 minutes old. Big
Brother in Oak Brook will find out. Headquarters executives calculate exactly how much food each
restaurant can be expected to throw away each day, and are ready to chastise a chronically deviant
manager who has no good explanation
To some critics, the success of that machine is a devastating comment on American values. Harvard
nutritionist Jean Mayer warms that a steady diet of McDonald's fare and nothing else could give a
customer scurvy because it would lack sufficient vitamin C. Mayer also says that the menu provides
large amounts of fats and calories and contains almost no roughage.
Since no one is forced to eat at a McDonald's the chain must be giving multitudes exactly what they
want. For one thing, many people find the cheerily bland atmosphere re assuming. McDonald's has
designed a place to neutralize this anxiety, a place that does not make a customer feel he will not know
how to use his fork. Also, McDonald's is one of the few places left where a customer can buy a meal for
$1 or less.
What is the meaning of "quintessentially" ?
Essentially stable
18.
Read the following passage and answer the following questions:
The Stratosphere, specifically, the lower Stratosphere has, it seems, been dying out. Water vapour is a
greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth s climate due to this desiccation may account for
a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years.
The stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The
boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18 km above your head, if you are in the tropics,
and a few kilometers lower if you are at higher latitudes ( or up a mountain ). In the Troposphere, the air
at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and
often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates
clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world's weather. In the Stratosphere, the air gets warmer at
higher altitudes, which provides stability.
The Stratosphere-which extends up to about 55 km, where the Mesosphere begins, is made even less
weather-prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it
leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water
vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere.
A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite
measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case
previously. Plugging the changes in water vapor into a climate model that looks at the way different
substances absorb and emit infrared radiation, they conclude that between 1000 and 2009 a drop in
the Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the
Earth s surface by about 25%.
Such a small change in Stratospheric water vapour can have a large effect precisely because the
Stratosphere is already dry. It is the relative change in the amount of a greenhouse gas, not its absolute
level, which determines how much warming it can produce.
What is the order of layers in the atmosphere, starting from the lowermost and going to the topmost ?
Troposphere,Tropopause,stratosphere,mesosphere
19.
elect the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
INFER
Deadly
Envious
Deduce
Not Sure
Interfere
20.
Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
CELLAR
Loft
Roof
Attic
Not Sure
Basement
21.
Select the word or phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
FUTILE (OPPOSITE)
Useful
Positive
Handy
Not Sure
Functiona
22.
Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
The company's relentless advertising campaign ($50 million budgeted this year) has made the
McDonald's jingle, you deserve a break today, almost as familiar as the Star-Spangled Banner. But the
chain's managers have wrought their greatest achievement by taking a familiar American institution, the
greasy-spoon hamburger joint, and transforming it into a totally different though no less
quintessentially American operation: a computerized, standardized, pre-measured, super clean
production machine efficient enough to give even the chiefs of General Motors food for thought.
Machinery and equipment cannot do everything, of course. Human beings are involved too, some
130,000 employees in nine countries, from Western Europe to Japan and Australia. McDonald's has
grown from a uniquely American to a truly global operation. If a manager tries to sell his customers
hamburgers that have been off the grill more than ten minutes or coffee more than 30 minutes old. Big
Brother in Oak Brook will find out. Headquarters executives calculate exactly how much food each
restaurant can be expected to throw away each day, and are ready to chastise a chronically deviant
manager who has no good explanation
To some critics, the success of that machine is a devastating comment on American values. Harvard
nutritionist Jean Mayer warms that a steady diet of McDonald's fare and nothing else could give a
customer scurvy because it would lack sufficient vitamin C. Mayer also says that the menu provides
large amounts of fats and calories and contains almost no roughage.
Since no one is forced to eat at a McDonald's the chain must be giving multitudes exactly what they
want. For one thing, many people find the cheerily bland atmosphere re assuming. McDonald's has
designed a place to neutralize this anxiety, a place that does not make a customer feel he will not know
how to use his fork. Also, McDonald's is one of the few places left where a customer can buy a meal for
$1 or less.
What is the reason for loyalists visiting this fast food chain ?
All of the above
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