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23. With the discovery of a/an .... alternative fuel
source, oil prices dropped significantly .....
thereby increasing the chances of competition.
1. inexpensive, worldwide
2. variant, everywhere 3. possible, globally
4. feasible, universally 5. potential,
ubiquitously
24. That they are endowed by their creator with
..... right to life, liberty and the ..... of
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happiness.
1. impeccable; road
2. non-partisan; adequacy 3. inalienable; pursuit
4. legitimate; bountiful
5. creative; pursuit
25. A compact crowd, ..... but orderly, was held in
place by a lone policeman.
1. anomalous
2. Clamorous
3. Embryonic
4. veracious
5. lumpy
Building on this momentum
PO’s Mock Test
Directions (1-10): Read the passage to
answer the question given below.
Efforts to promote green growth as a new
source of growth have been escalating in
recent years in the face of acute economic
and environmental challenges. Building
on this momentum can help to expedite
progress towards poverty reduction and
sustainable development by using natural
resources and other energy forms
effectively and efficiently. Green
technologies like low carbon technologies
are being used in an effort to achieve
green growth.
Green growth is an outcome of
sustainable development policy and it
handles two key imperatives:
comprehensive financial development
needed by developing nations to reduce
poverty and enhance prosperity and
improved environmental management
needed to handle scarcity of resources
and unpredictable climate changes. The
idea of green growth was taken
differently by different governments.
Some governments approached it from a
short term growth perspective while
others approached it from an
environmental perspective.
The main objective of growth mindset is
to boost jobs and incomes through
investment in green technologies and the
environmental perspective is aimed at
internalising environmental externalities
by mainstreaming sustainable
development requirements into economic
decision making.
Apart from these two imperatives, few
developing countries have proposed the
idea of equity and inclusion in green
growth. According to this notion, green
growth should also serve those who are
excluded by current economic system.
Informal economy is very large in many
developing countries, which leads to a
growing convergence around the notion
that current economic system is unsound
in terms of sustainable resource use and
distributing costs and benefits equally.
In order to achieve sustainability and to
identify and develop particular areas of
opportunity and comparative advantage,
governments of few developing countries
have recently embarked on domestic
processes like carbon taxes, green energy
funds, renewable energy initiatives, etc.
However, there are few holistic “green
growth” policies, strategies and
institutional systems in place. Some
developing country strategies stand out.
For most countries, however, national
sustainable development strategies go
some way in forming an integrated green
growth policy framework, though green
growth has rarely been addressed in
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
momentum”. In what sense has this
mainstream economic, budget and fiscal
phrase been used?
policies.
1. Handling all the energy forms
What is the meaning of the
efficiently
phrase 'internalising
2. Making efforts towards
environmental externalities'
BANKING
advancing green growth
according to the passage?
SPECIAL
3. Progressing steadily towards
1. Using sustainable resources of
poverty reduction
energy only
4. Progressing towards economic
2. Covering up the cost of resource
growth by unsustainable use of
consumption through fines or impositions
natural resources
3. Integrating environmental needs in the
5. Facing economic and environmental
stage of economic decision making
challenges valiantly
4. Limiting the use of natural resources
7. Which word is nearly the same in meaning
5. Ensuring no environmental damage
as 'holistic' as used in the passage?
What is the main reason behind
1. Balanced
2. Particular
advancing green development in the
3. Comprehensive
4. Healthy
course of recent years?
5. Sustainable
1. Inefficient usage of energy resources
8. Which of the following is most nearest
2. Inefficient management of environment
in meaning to the word 'imperative' as
3. Unsteady environmental changes
used in the passage?
4. Increasing poverty in developing
1. Requirement
countries
2. Directive
3. Request
5. Pressing environmental and financial
4. Command
5. Organisation
problems
9. In context of the above passage, choose
Which of the following statements is
the word which is most opposite in
TRUE about the proponents of growth
meaning to the given word. “Embarked”
perspective?
1. Stalled
2. Extinguished
1. They do not want the developed section
3. Quenched 4. Destroyed
5. Left
to enjoy benefits of green growth.
10. In context of the above passage, choose
2. They are entirely focused in enhancing
the word which is most opposite in
job availability in developing countries.
meaning to the given word.“Unsound”
3. They believe in equal distribution of
1. Healthy
2. Sensible
wealth in all the developing countries.
3. Reasonable 4. Balanced 5. Sustainable
4. They aim at boosting incomes by
Directions(11-15): Rearrange the following
investing in low-carbon technologies.
five sentences (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) in
5. They believe in including
the proper sequence to form a meaningful
environmental impacts in economic
paragraph and then answer the question
decision making.
given below them.
Which of the following is an initiative
1) His discovery that the firebrand, from
by governments of some developing
which the torch may well have developed,
countries to ensure sustainable
could be used for illumination was
development?
probably incidental.
1. Formulation of holistic programmes at
2) Before primitive man discovered less
the national level
laborious ways of making fire, he had
2. Cutting down emissions by penalising
to preserve it.
or providing funds
3) He may have had his first conception
3. Exclusion of developed countries from
of how lamps could be made while
green growth benefits
watching a twig or fibre burning in the
4. Handling unpredictable environmental
molten fat dropped from roasting carcass.
changes in a sustainable way
4) Whenever he went on a journey, he
5. Providing funds to interested
carried a burning stick with him.
individuals to develop holistic
5) Similarly, lamps too were probably
institutional systems
discovered by accident.
Why do more and more people think
11. Which of the following should be the
that the economic system of the world
SECOND sentence after the
is not functioning smoothly?
rearrangement?
1. Developing countries do not cater to
1. 1 2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
the economic needs of every individual.
12. Which of the following should be the
2. Resource usage is not a viable one and
FIFTH sentence after the rearrangement?
presence of uneven distribution of costs.
1. 1 2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
3. Green growth does not serve left out
13. Which of the following should be the
communities.
FOURTH sentence after the
4. The idea of green growth is implemented
rearrangement?
completely in all the countries.
1. 1 2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
5. Developing countries have to come up
14. Which of the following should be the
with their own strategies for equitable
THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?
resource usage.
1. 1 2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
The author talks of “building on this
Neelakantam Shekhar
Director
Shekhar’s Institute
Nalgonda
15. Which of the following should be the
FIRST sentence after the rearrangement?
1. 1 2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
Directions (16-20): The following sentence
has been divided into four parts labelled
(A), (B), (C) and (D). Identify the part
that contains an error. If there is no error
in any part of the sentence, mark your
answer as (E).
16. It’s not just minor things (A)/ that
decline with size, (B)/ and major issues
(C)/ having significant economic
impact. (D)/ No error (E)
1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (E)
17. Never I have listened (A)/ to such
beautiful music (B)/ as the piece we
heard on the radio (C)/ last night. (D)/
No error (E)
1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (E)
18. Most adolescents struggle (A)/ to be
free both of (B)/ parental domination
(C)/ but also from peer pressure. (D)/
No error (E)
1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (E)
19. When his overall performance (A)/ has
been good, (B)/ he needs to work
harder (C)/ on the theoretical concepts.
(D)/ No error (E)
1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (E)
20. The glass tube (A)/ in the fluorescent
lamp (B)/ contains mercury vapour (C)/
under small pressure. (D)/ No error (E)
1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (E)
Directions(21-25): The sentence below has one
or two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Beneath the
sentence are five words or sets of words
labelled (1) through (5). Choose the word or
set of words that, when inserted in the
sentence, best fits the meaning of the
sentence as a whole.
21. He demanded ..... obedience from us
and told us that we must be .... subjects.
1. qualified, obsequious
2. downright, inane
3. formal, rigorous
4. complete, compliant 5. marginal, loyal
22. Tempers ran high among the old timers, who
.... the young mayor and his .... city council.
1. despised, bewitching
2. applauded, elite
3. resented, revolutionary
4. forgave, activist 5. feared, indolent
Answers
1- 3,
2 – 5,
3 – 4,
4 - 2,
7 - 3,
8 – 1,
9 - 1,
10 – 4, 11 - 4, 12 -3,
5 – 2, 6 – 2,
13–5, 14 – 1, 15 – 2, 16 – 3, 17 – 1, 18 –4,
19–1, 20–4, 21–4, 22– 3, 23–1, 24– 3, 25-2