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Q1.
The worst market sell-off in _____________ history may be around the corner. Just don’t blame China alone for it. Since 2007, the aggregate size of central banks’ balance sheets has tripled to $22 trillion; _____________ by asset repurchases to stave off a deeper crisis. After Lehman Brothers’ collapse _____________ a rout, the biggest central banks around the world _____________ ‘quantitative easing’, or huge wads of cheap money, to encourage investment and bolster confidence.
(a) Recent – bloated – triggered – unleashed
(b) Current – bloated – triggered – unleashed
(c) Recent – compressed – triggered – unleashed
(d) Recent – bloated – influenced by – unleashed
(e) Recent – bloated – triggered – enlarged
Q2.
The target to achieve “full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men” appears admirable — but making zero unemployment a global policy is foolish. Every economy needs some unemployment _____________ workers to change jobs. All governments are already focused _____________ people into work. Moreover, studies show such language is used by interest groups to create great jobs for a minority while leaving others out in the cold, often pushing _____________ workers back into the informal economy and increasing poverty. The costs of this target will _____________ the benefits.
(a) To be allowed – on getting more – vulnerable – likely outweigh
(b) to allow – on getting more – vulnerable – likely outweigh
(c) to allow – to get more – vulnerable – likely outweigh
(d) to allow – on getting more – qualified – likely outweigh
(e) to allow – on getting more – vulnerable – likely weigh
Q3.
Take achieving _____________ access to contraception and family planning: it will mean _____________ orphans and
mothers dying in childbirth. It will also generate a _____________, with more people of productive age. In total, every dollar spent will mean $120 of benefits to society. _____________, with ending tuberculosis by 2030 (saving nearly 1.5 million lives a year, with each dollar leading to $43 worth of benefits) and completing the Doha free trade deal (lifting incomes and cutting poverty especially in developing countries, the benefits would be worth $2,000 more than the costs).
(a) global – fewer – demographic dividend – Likewise
(b) universal – more – demographic dividend – Likewise
(c) universal – fewer – demographic dividend – Likewise
(d) universal – fewer – demographic profit – Likewise
(e) universal – fewer – demographic dividend – unlike
Q4.
Analysis of all the benefits and costs shows that focusing on the top 19 targets _____________ the Copenhagen Consensus Centre would achieve four times more than if we sprayed all the development spending around 169 targets. In other words, _____________ would have the same effect as quadrupling the entire budget. Even here on the floor of the United Nations, I find that global leaders, ambassadors, and those who work in development agree that the targets _____________ severely pruned. They just all want their targets. But _____________ of making this a game of
who got the most of their targets into the final declaration, it should be all about getting the most effective targets in there.
(a) identify by – prioritising – should have been – instead
(b) identified by – prior to – should have been – instead
(c) identified by – prioritising – should have – instead
(d) identified by – prioritising – should have been – instead
(e) identified by – prioritising – should have been – along with
Q5.
Will they succeed? No harm trying. Does India weaken its case by aligning with the G4? Nonsense. China’s argument
that it would support India _____________ were to break ranks with Japan; and the US argument that it has no problem with India’s candidature but remains conflicted on Germany over Italy and Brazil over Mexico, are all divide-and-rule _____________ and have to be exposed as such. None of the P5 countries _____________ cast-iron guarantees to India that it would get India into the UNSC if it abandons the G4. So, the argument that the G4 route weakens India’s case is a _____________
(a) iff – tactics – has given – red herring.
(b) if it – planning – has given – red herring.
(c) if it – tactics – had been given – red herring.
(d) if it – tactics – has given – red tape.
(e) if it – tactics – has given – red herring.
Q6.
On its part, China created the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) _____________ its geopolitical and geoeconomic interests in Eurasia. The US _____________ to created mega-regional trade groups, the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), to deal with the Chinese trade threat. Diplomats and analysts will debate forever on the _____________ of these and other such associations, groups, alliances and partnerships. Some succeed in their objectives, many fail. _____________, more are getting created.
(a) to pursue – has not hesitated – usefulness – Yet
(b) to argue – has not hesitated – usefulness – Yet
(c) to pursue – has not been hesitated – usefulness – Yet
(d) to pursue – has not hesitated – useful – Yet
(e) to pursue – has not hesitated – usefulness – indeed
Q7.
Over 300 million people in India are _____________ and have no access to electricity. _____________ building grids or
nuclear plants, Valley companies like Simpa Networks and Tesla have renewable solar battery packs and can light up
every home with 24×7 efficient and low-cost energy. Simpa has already brought solar battery powered electricity to over 10,000 homes in Mathru district in just less than 12 months. These are the kind of new micro-grid and micro-power wall solutions that _____________ the common man’s problem to bring _____________ and clean energy.
(a) on-grid – Rather than – will solve – affordable
(b) off-grid – Rather than – will solve – affordable
(c) off-grid – Rather then – will solve – affordable
(d) off-grid – Rather than – will be solved – affordable
(e) off-grid – Rather than – will solve – good
Q8.
Goldman Sachs claimed _____________ no law. That’s precisely the problem. Our societies are _____________ by legal corruption. University professors are in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies that think nothing of _____________ hundreds of thousands of dollars for life and death products that _____________ hundreds. And economists who cannot see past markets support such nonsense.
(a) to be broken – being destroyed – charging – cost them
(b) to have broken – been destroyed – charging – cost them
(c) to have broken – being destroyed – charging – cost them
(d) to have broken – being destroyed – costing – cost them
(e) to have broken – being destroyed – charging – charge them
Q9.
We are _____________ on foreign sources of defence and other hi-tech technology than perhaps ever before. Creating an app or an e-commerce service doesn’t qualify as hi-tech _____________. Narendra Modi and his team seem to think
that shaking hands with Jack Ma and Mark Zuckerberg are crucial steps in _____________ a culture of innovation in India. The result is that our PM signs up for a town hall meeting at the Facebook office _____________ investigating the ins and outs of hi-tech research at US institutions.
(a) mere reliant – innovation – fostering – instead of
(b) more reliant – innovatively – fostering – instead of
(c) more reliant – innovation – growing – instead of
(d) more reliant – innovation – fostering – instead of
(e) more reliant – innovation – fostering – yet
Q10.
Organisations are gradually _____________ the importance of creating strong brands that provide real customer benefits so they can avoid falling prey to commoditisation. In other words, companies are realising that it’s the only way _____________. To a point, marketing and brand building exercises can help _____________ one’s products and services and break the monotony and commoditisation but after that one often needs to turn to innovation and constant technological upgrades _____________ mind share.
(a) Has realised – to survive – differentiate – to retain
(b) realising – to be survived – differentiate – to retain
(c) realising – to survive – contrasting – to retain
(d) realising – to survive – differentiate – to gain
(e) realising – to survive – differentiate – to retain
