Answers to Para Jumbles .. Part 1

Question 1

A.When I got to IBM's sales school in Endicott,New York,I was hoping that people would treat me like any other Joe Blow just starting out.

B.Dad was such a tremendous force in that town that as I walked down the street with my books under my arm.people would point and say,"Mr Watson's Son."

C.How I could think that was possible I do not know.

D.During the first week I caused a stir by going into a bar after school to get a drink.

options: a.ABDC b.ACBD c.ADBC d.BADC e.BDAC

Question 2

A)The concept is termed 'intellectual' because it applies to products of the mind and 'property' because the products belong to the person whose mental efforts created them
B)What exactly is intellectual property?
C)Control over access to certain types of knowledge /information is referred to as intellectual property
D)Knowledge is free but its flow is restricted
E)The 20th century could be summed up as the age of information revlution

1)ABCDE 2)BCDEA 3)DCBAE4)EDCBA

Question 3


A)while HLL scours high and low just to turn a positive topline ,Amway schorches ever upward-in another five years,Amway could even be the country's second largest FMCG player,reckons Amway's former country chief Sudershan banerjee
B)yet,business is about growth,and the contrast in pace is dizzing
C)not that one is eating the other's lunch;their markets do not overlap much,and India offers enormous potential
D)but William Pickney,the MD and CEO,Amway India gets to sleep a lot easier than Lever chief MS Banga.
E)in absolute terms,thats not even as large as the ad budget of hindustan lever ltd(HLL).

1)EDCBA 2)AEDBC 3)EADBC 4)ABEDC


Question 4

1. Fine, Hyderabad has an efficient administration and is the capital of a state that has a laptop toting power point friendly Chief Minister, but for a long time, barring an odd Microsoft or two, that was all it had.
(A) Oracle, for instance, is acquiring 7.5 acres of land to build its largest campus outside the US–an official at the state IT department says the 8,00,000 sq ft centre will dwarf the company’s 2,50,000 sq ft one in Bangalore.
(B) Now, circa 2003, the city may finally be able to live up to the hype that was built around it.
(C) Now, there’s talk of Boeing and Bombardier exploring options of touching down in erstwhile Hyderabad; Oracle and Dell are hitting the city soon; and Hyderabad has emerged a favorite destination of IT-enabled services companies.
(D) In January this year, Infosys opened a 30-acre facility, (3,11,000 square ft of built up space in the city.
6. And Dell’s ITes operations will soon start in Hyderabad’s HiTec city. “There are some other big names,” says Col M. Vijay Kumar, the Hyderabad Director of the Software Technology Parks of India, displaying a reticence that is uncharacteristic of the city.

(1) BDAC (2) BCDA (3) DCBA (4) CBDA

Question 5

(A) But over the years, as clients turned the screws on their advertising budgets, expecting an ever-increasing bang from their ad buck, the person who is helping put the most effective advertising together is the researcher.
(B) And when screw-ups happen, it’s usually because the consumer has not been researched adequately.
(C) For instance, at her employer WPP Media World Wide, where Byfield heads consumer insight, there’s more than $16 billion (Rs.76,464 crore) of advertising spend at stake each year.
(D) Says, Byfield : “We have enough of data, but sometimes we may be lacking in, insights.”
(E) When Sheila Byfield began researching media 12 years ago, it was a job that got the smallest and the remotest cabin in the offices of major advertising agencies.

(1) EACBD (2) DEACB (3) ECABD (4) DAECB

Question 6

AThey are particularly furious because they believe the sanctions–which they blame on another US-led war–have ruined their lives, and their future.
(B) “They stopped us from thinking and dreaming like others do.”
(C) “The sanctions were economic, intellectual, scientific, and even in sport,” said one young man who attended the rally.
(D) Ever since the 12th anniversary of the 1991 war against Iraq on January 17, 2003, groups of Iraqis had expressed their anger in government-sanctioned protests–denouncing the UN inspectors or the US for planning war against them.
(E) On the night of the anniversary, it was students and youth.

(1) DEACB (2) DAECB (3) EDACB (4) EADCB
Question 7

A“You are the crucial component in the transformation of the US-India relationship,” said ambassador Blackwill.
(B) Mani summed it up: “If we can sustain the cohesion reflected here and successfully act on our collective vision as alumni of a world class institution we will become a ‘tour de force’ in enhancing India’s well-being and engagement with the US and the rest of the world.”
(C) The US-India trade relationship, which he describes as “flat as a chapati,” needs a leavening agent.
(D) What better than the IITs and their alumni ?
(E) Now that the IIT alumni have defined their charter it is up to them to step up to the plate and deliver on the promise.

(1) EBACD (2) DEBAC (3) BDEAC (4) BEACD

Question 8

1.But to achieve 8 per cent economic growth, India needs to power-lift its exports from $46 billion now to about $100 billion.
(A) L.Mansingh, feels that the industrial cluster towns with exports potential like Tiruppur (hosiery) Panipat (woollen blankets) and Ludhiana (woollen knitwear), which have efficient assembly-line production facilities, only need to be promoted and their infrastructure upgraded to transform them into export zones.
(B) Even then, we’d do less than what China does now.
(C) But Mansingh, director-general for foreign trade is optimistic, even as he acknowledges that the new SEZ scheme may not have a significant impact on trade or economy or offset the high transaction cost problem that plagues our exports.
(D) Ajanta Clocks, for instance, saw drastic cut in production cycle from one month in India to two days when it went to China.
6. It’s hard uphill road ahead if India wants to increase its share in world trade from the present 0.65 per cent.

(1) DCBA (2) DABC (3) ADCB (4) ADBC
Question 9

(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 fluctuations.
(E) This is how what business schools now call modem finance was born.

1. ADCBE 2. EBDCA 3. ABDCE 4. DCBEA