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English Language - 12.05.2016

Mahendra Guru
                                      

Q.1-10.      Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

           Most people believe that the potential for our country to succeed is huge. They are disappointed at the inability to convert the natural advantages we possess into tangible benefits. The recent success of our Info tech industry globally has reinforced the belief that when we put our mind to it we can and do succeed. Now, the expectation is that this success will be replicated in other areas.
                 There is no doubt that India’s further will be driven by the intellectual capital of its people. Even though many of the billion Indian people are and will continue for the foreseeable further to live in a third world setting, there are many Indians with the skill, ability and aspiration to prosper and flourish in a first world environment. It is, therefore, likely that India will, at the same time, belong to both the first and third worlds.
                 That first – world environment will be powered increasingly by knowledgeable workers and brain ware India clearly has the numbers. It needs to invest in training and skill-building and also encourage entrepreneurship and risk-taking.
                 I have no magic recipe to convert India’s people power into a competitive advantage on global basis. Also, I am now where near qualified to address macro issues like universal education and school curricula. Therefore, I have to shrink the issue into a familiar framework of ‘growing our people.’
                 It is imperative that Indian business pay more than lip service to the empowerment of their employees. We have to break the ‘do-as- you are told’ mentality which inhibits creativity and promotes the culture of servitude long after our ‘foreign masters’ are gone. Together with empowerment, there has to be a culture of personal accountability so that every one realizes the necessity of valuing commitment.
                 In all areas of activity, seniority and hierarchies (if any) must be based purely on merit, Seniority, like respect, must be earned and not ‘termed,’ i.e., based on the length of service.
                 Future organizations will be based on communities and interaction between individuals and teams both within and outside the organization. The work environment both with respect to physical space as well as culture, must be barrier less/ boundless, allowing the impromptu and regular and regular interaction across workgroups.
                 Organization must be as transparent as possible with their employees. Both good and bad news must be shared. Often organizations and their leadership wrongly believe that the employees aren’t interested in certain information or, more arrogantly, decide that information is best withheld as it is beyond the comprehension of their employees.
                 Knowledge sharing must be pushed at all levels through a carrot-and-stick approach. Those who continuously hoard knowledge must be weeded out. Everyone must come to work thinking that they will learn and add to their skills.
                 Performance management must be institutionalized to give everyone a clear understanding of organizational goals, team goals, the individual’s role or goals within a team, rewards which follow from meeting goals, and career opportunities in the organization.
                 Encourage a sense of commitment to the community among your employees. Apart from making them feel good about themselves it also affords opportunities for them to work as teams in a non-work environment.
                 Above all, make work fun. If people, however talented, show up at work because it is a job, then they are unlikely to realize their full potential.
                 The above is not an exhaustive list for each organization to get the best out of its people. But if each organization addresses some of these issues then people will grow individually and collectively. Thus is bound to have a beneficial effect on harnessing and driving their intellectual capital.
Q.1.     Which of the following is the best way for organizations to be transparent?
           (1) Share both good and bad news.
           (2) Share only that information which employees can understand.
           (3) Share only good news and withhold bad news.
           (4) Only relevant information should be shared.
           (5) None of these
Q.2.     The author attributes success of India in InfoTech industry to -
           (1) Do-as- you are told mentality.                   (2) Lazy and intolerant attitude of Indians.
           (3) Growing global economy.                        (4) Realizing the latent intellectual capital
           (5) None of these
Q.3.     Which of the following can be inferred from the given passage?
           (A) The seniority must reflect the expertise.
           (B) The earning of seniority should be related to the length of services.
           (C) Merit should decide seniority.
           (1) Only A and C   (2) Only A and B   (3) Only B and C    (4) All A,B and C   (5) Only C
Q.4.     Which of the following provides good learning opportunities?
           (1) High level of tolerance for failure.               
           (2) Repeating the mistakes till learning takes place.
           (3) Overlooking the mistakes of the employees.
           (4) Making efforts not to do the same mistake again.
           (5) None of these
Q.5.     How does sense of commitment to community among employees help people?
           (1) It develops competition felling in them.
           (2) People learn risk – taking even in non-working situation.
           (3) It encourages accountability in them.
           (4) People start perceiving opportunities for them to work as teams in non-work situation also.
           (5) None of these
Q.6.     What does the word impromptu communicate in the passage ?
           (1) The communication should be unprovoked.
           (2) Employees interaction should be spontaneous and natural.
           (3) The work groups should be prompted to talk less, work more.
           (4) Work groups and teams should interact only if it is necessary
           (5) None of these
Q.7.     What is the expectation of the author from the Indians?
           (1) They will realize their potential in areas other than Information Technology.
           (2) Despite being slow they will think fast.
           (3) They will stop working and if they are forced to like do as you are told.                         
           (4) Indian will turn natural disadvantage to advantage
           (5) None of these
Q.8.     Which of the following is not true in context of the passage?
           (1) India has huge potential to succeed.
           (2) To empower its employees Indian business pay more for the services of the employees.
           (3) The seniority should be based on age.
           (4) India should encourage the risk taking behaviour.
           (5) Business bodies of future will have more knowledge able workers.
Q.9.     Which of the following can be taken as an objective of the carrot and stick method?
           (1) The accountability of the employees will improve.
           (2) The confidential information will remain as guarded secret.
           (3) There will be an improvement in the earning of employees.
           (4) The free flow of knowledge and information will improve.
           (5) It will increase the quality of employees' output.
Q.10.   Which of the following can replace the word replicated in the given passage?
            (1) transferred   (2) copy            (3) duplicate      (4) repeated      (5) applied

ANSWERS

Q.1.(1)    The answer is clearly given in the 9th paragraph first line.
Q.2.(5)    Author  wants us to concentrate on our work and then only we will be succeed (as in the case of InfoTech industry)
Q.3.(5)
Q.4.(4)
Q.5.(4)    The answer is given in the 12th paragraph.
Q.6.(2)    impromptu means done without preparation or panning so here it means Employees in traction should be spontaneous and natural.  
Q.7.(5)    Because in the first paragraph the author has said Indian can change natural advantages in to tangible benefits.
Q.8.(3)    It is given in the 6th paragraph that according to author seniority should be based on merit.
              So sentence (3) is not true.
Q.9.(5)    Carrot and stick is an idiom that refers to a policy of offering a combination of rewards and punishment to induce behaviour.
Q.10.(4)   Repeated
              For other option:
              Duplicate is also synonym but cannot be used according to context.

               And copy is eliminated because third form of word is required.

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