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2021-10-16 07:13:15 CLOZE TEST


The Indian economy is not (1) “in a bright spot”. That is what most (2), barring those like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), appear to think. One can, of course, see (3) the IMF is coming from. Multilateral agencies, (4) armed with a cookie-cutter approach, do take a (5) view and it is true that India is today the world’s fastest-growing (6) economy.

Cheer on this front must, however, be (7) by an awareness that India has a far (8) per capita income compared to other countries in the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) grouping. (9), early indications are that India’s growth rate is slowing this (10) year.




a. altogether
b. exactly
c. quitely
d. same
e. truly



a. observers
b. followers
c. Viewers
d. spectators
e. watchers



a. what
b. why
c. that
d. where
e. which



a. although
b. despite
c. in spite of
d. despite of
e. though



a. world
b. whole
c. global
d. complete
e. overall



a. large
b. largest
c. highest
d. biggest
e. big



a. artifical
b. mediteted
c. settled
d. moderated
e. resolved



a. higher
b. moderate
c. lower
d. reduced
e. arguable




a. whatsoever
b. however
c. moreover
d. nonetheless
e. anyhow



a. current
b. fiscal
c. purgatory
d. financial
e.commercial

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2021-10-16 07:12:54 PARA JUMBLE


A)  In his order dated November 2, Information Commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu has come down heavily on the RBI and its chief for failing to uphold the interest of the public at large and not fulfilling its statutory duty to the depositors, the economy and the banking sector, by privileging individual banks’ interests over its obligation to ensure transparency.

B)  While the central bank has repeatedly acknowledged the gravity of the problem it faces, including in ensuring more accountability from the more numerous public sector banks over which it wants greater control, it has consistently invoked both the risk to the country’s “economic interest” and its “fiduciary” relationship with lenders to avoid sharing information on the largest defaulters with RTI applicants.

C)  The Reserve Bank of India finds itself in the midst of another tangle.

D) The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed RBI Governor Urjit Patel to show cause “why maximum penalty should not be imposed on him for” the central bank’s ostensible “defiance” of Supreme Court orders on disclosing the names of willful defaulters on bank loans worth hundreds of crores of rupees.

E)  At the heart of the matter is the issue of burgeoning bad loans at the country’s commercial banks, which by the RBI’s own admission had, at the gross level, surged to 11.6% of all advances as on March 31, 2018, from September 2017’s 10.2% level.

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2021-10-16 07:12:29 Which of the following titles best summarizes the contents of the passage?

(a) Neurotransmitters: Their Crucial Function in Cellular Communication
(b) Diet and Survival: An Old Relationship Reexamined
(c) The Blood Supply and the Brain: A Reciprocal Dependence
(d) Amino Acids and Neurotransmitters: The Connection between Serotonin Levels and Tyrosine
(e) The Effects of Food Intake on the Production and Release of Serotonin: Some Recent Findings

According to the passage, the speed with which tryptophan is provided to the brain cells of a rat varies with the

(a) the amount of protein presents in a meal
(b) the concentration of serotonin in the brain before a meal
(c) the concentration of leucine in the blood rather than with the concentration of tyrosine in the blood after a meal
(d) the concentration of tryptophan in the brain before a meal
(e) number of serotonin-containing neurons

According to the passage, when the authors began their first studies, they were aware that

(a) they would eventually need to design experiments that involved feeding rats high concentrations of protein
(b) tryptophan levels in the blood were difficult to monitor with accuracy
(c) serotonin levels increased after rats were fed meals rich in tryptophan
(d) there were many neurotransmitters whose production was dependent on metabolic processes elsewhere in the body
(e) serotonin levels increased after rats were injected with a large amount of tryptophan

According to the passage, one reason that the authors gave rats carbohydrates was to

(a) depress the rats’ tryptophan levels
(b) prevent the rats from contracting diseases
(c) cause the rats to produce insulin
(d) demonstrate that insulin is the most important substance secreted by the body
(e) compare the effect of carbohydrates with the effect of proteins

According to the passage, the more protein a rat consumes, the lower will be the

(a) the ratio of the rat’s blood-tryptophan concentration to the amount of serotonin produced and released in the rat’s brain
(b) the ratio of the rat’s blood-tryptophan concentration to the concentration in its blood of the other amino acids contained in the protein
(c) the ratio of the rat’s blood-tyrosine concentration to its blood-leucine concentration
(d) number of neurotransmitters of any kind that the rat will produce and release
(e) number of amino acids the rat’s blood will contain

The authors’ discussion of the “mechanism that provides blood tryptophan to the brain cells” is meant to

(a) stimulate further research studies
(b) summarize an area of scientific investigation
(c) help explain why a particular research finding was obtained
(d) provide supporting evidence for a controversial scientific theory
(e) refute the conclusions of a previously mentioned research study

According to the passage, an injection of insulin was most similar in its effect on rats to an injection of

(a) tyrosine
(b) leucine
(c) blood
(d) tryptophan
(e) protein

It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following would be LEAST likely to be a potential source of aid to a patient who was not adequately producing and releasing serotonin?

(a) Meals consisting almost exclusively of protein
(b) Meals consisting almost exclusively of carbohydrates
(c) Meals that would elicit insulin secretion
(d) Meals that had very low concentrations of tyrosine
(e) Meals that had very low concentrations of leucine

It can be inferred from the passage that the authors initially held which of the following hypotheses about what would happen when they fed large amounts of protein to rats?

(a) The rats’ brain serotonin levels would not decrease.
(b) The rats’ brain tryptophan levels would decrease.
(c) The rats’ tyrosine levels would increase less quickly than would their leucine levels.
(d) The rats would produce more insulin.
(e) The rats would produce neurotransmitters other than serotonin.

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2021-10-16 07:12:29 READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the five given alternatives.

It was once believed that the brain was independent of metabolic processes occurring elsewhere in the body. In recent studies, however, we have discovered that the production and release in brain neurons of the neurotransmitter serotonin (neurotransmitters are compounds that neurons use to transmit signals to other cells) depend directly on the food that the body processes. Our first studies sought to determine whether the increase in serotonin observed in rats given a large injection of the amino acid tryptophan might also occur after rats ate meals that change tryptophan levels in the blood.

We found that immediately after the rats began to eat, parallel elevations occurred in blood tryptophan, brain tryptophan, and brain serotonin levels. These findings suggested that the production and release of serotonin in brain neurons were normally coupled with blood-tryptophan increases. In later studies, we found that injecting insulin into a rat’s bloodstream also caused parallel elevations in blood and brain tryptophan levels and in serotonin levels.

We then decided to see whether the secretion of the animal’s own insulin similarly affected serotonin production. We gave the rats a carbohydrate containing meal that we knew would elicit insulin secretion. As we had hypothesized, the blood tryptophan level and the concentrations of tryptophan and of serotonin in the brain increased after the meal. Surprisingly, however, when we added a large amount of protein to the meal, brain tryptophan, and serotonin levels fell.

Since protein contains tryptophan, why should it depress brain tryptophan levels? The answer lies in the mechanism that provides blood tryptophan to the brain cells. This same mechanism also provides the brain cells with other amino acids found in protein, such as tyrosine and leucine. The consumption of protein increases the blood concentration of the other amino acids much more, proportionately, than it does that of tryptophan.

The more protein is in a meal, the lower is the ratio of the resulting blood-tryptophan concentration to the concentration of competing for amino acids, and the more slowly is tryptophan provided to the brain. Thus the more protein in a meal, the less serotonin subsequently produced and released.

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