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Direction for [ Question No: 801 To 802 ] :

Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the 20th century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.

801.

Mahatma Gandhi's views opposed industrialisation of villages because

Answer: B

Correct answer: It would undermine self-sufficiency and destroy the beauty of life of the villager

The passage says Gandhi believed industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India's poor, and sets against it self-sufficiency in food and cloth and a life free of the century's temptations. What industrialisation threatens is therefore that self-sufficiency and that simplicity.

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802.

Mahatma Gandhi's dream of 'an idyllic and rural paradise' was not shared by

Answer: A

Correct answer: Those who inherited political powers after independence

The passage says the vision did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power. The option about those who disbelieved in industrialisation names people who would have shared the dream, not rejected it.

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Direction for [ Question No: 803 To 807 ] :

Organisations are institutions in which members compete for status and power. They compete for resource of the organisation, for example finance to expand their own departments, for career advancement and for power to control the activities of others. In pursuit of these aims, grouped are formed and sectional interests emerge. As a result, policy decisions may serve the ends of political and career systems rather than those of the concern. In this way, the goals of the organisation may be displaced in favour of sectional interests and individual ambition. These preoccupations sometimes prevent the emergence of organic systems. Many of the electronic firms in the study had recently created research and development departments employing highly qualified and well paid scientists and technicians. Their high pay and expert knowledge were sometimes seen as a threat to the established order of rank, power and privilege. Many senior managers had little knowledge of technicality and possibilities of new developments and electronics. Some felt that close cooperation with the experts in an organic system would reveal their ignorance and show their experience was now redundant.

803.

The theme of the passage is

Answer: D

Correct answer: Emergence of sectional interests in organizations

The passage traces one movement throughout: members compete, groups form, sectional interests emerge, and the goals of the organisation are displaced in favour of sectional interests and individual ambition. Groupism and individual ambition are stages in that account, and the senior managers' frustration is one illustration of its effects.

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804.

"Organic system" as related to the organization implies its

Answer: B

Correct answer: Growth with input from science and technology

The passage introduces organic systems immediately alongside the new research and development departments and the highly qualified and well paid scientists and technicians, and closes by describing close cooperation with the experts in an organic system. The term is therefore tied to bringing scientific expertise into the working of the firm.

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805.

Policy decision in organization would involve

Answer: C

Correct answer: Keeping in view the larger objectives of the organizations

The passage's complaint is that policy decisions may serve the ends of political and career systems rather than those of the concern. If that is the fault, then a proper policy decision is one that keeps the concern's own ends in view. Attracting qualified personnel is something the firms had already done, and it is described as the source of the trouble rather than as the remedy.

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806.

The author makes out a case for

Answer: A

Correct answer: Organic system

The passage says sectional preoccupations sometimes prevent the emergence of organic systems and then shows what is lost when senior managers avoid cooperating with the experts. The organic system is the thing being obstructed, and so the thing the author is arguing for; research and development departments already exist in the firms described.

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807.

The author presents the senior managers as

Answer: A

Correct answer: Ignorant and incompetent

The passage says many senior managers had little knowledge of technicalities and that some feared cooperation would reveal their ignorance and show their experience was now redundant. Both halves of that sentence are in the passage's own words, and together they give the harsher of the two readings offered.

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Direction for [ Question No: 808 To 810 ] :

Corduroy is fast establishing itself as this year's fabric, While the ribbed cotton itself provides utilitarian tenacity, texture and warmth. it is the fabric's long held associations may provide a hint to its current revival as a fabric for all seasons.
It is Corduroy's link with the good breeding and country living that made it an essential ingredient in the gentleman's wardrobe along with Wellington boots and decent woolly. It combines the comfortable no-nonsense appeal of cotton with the perfectly correct luxury finish of velvet. Corduroy has the ability to appear either supremely sophisticated or rough and ready.

808.

Which one of the following best describes the passage?

Answer: B

Correct answer: It tells us about the virtues of corduroy

The passage lists what corduroy offers - tenacity, texture, warmth, its association with good breeding, the comfort of cotton and the finish of velvet - without ever telling the reader to buy any. It is description rather than persuasion, and it covers far more than usefulness alone.

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809.

According to the author, the special quality of corduroy is that

Answer: D

Correct answer: It combines the virtues of both cotton and velvet

The passage says outright that corduroy combines the comfortable no-nonsense appeal of cotton with the perfectly correct luxury finish of velvet. That is a claim about the qualities it brings together, not about the fibres it is made of, which is why the correct mixture of cotton and velvet misreads it as a recipe.

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810.

Corduroy is a fabric for all seasons because

Answer: A

Correct answer: It can be worn not only in winter but also in summer

A fabric for all seasons is the phrase being explained, and a season-proof fabric is one that suits any of them. Texture and warmth are given as its utilitarian qualities, and the passage attributes the revival to the fabric's associations rather than to advertising.

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