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Fill up the blanks in the passage given be most appropriate word from the options given for each blanks:Although John Wisdom?s writings in Philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a(1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful re

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Fill up the blanks in the passage given be most appropriate word from the options given for each blanks:
Although John Wisdom?s writings in Philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a(1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom (3) He is unique kind of genius in Philosophy.This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom?s repeated attempts to (4) the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is (5) interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel (6) to utter such strange sentence e.g. ?Time is unreal?, ?There are no material things?, etc. According to Wisdom such sentences are both false (and perhaps meaningless) and year. (7) Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the ?Therapeutic conception of Philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where the emphasises that analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress (8) them with other kinds of problems.The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller (9) with Wisdom?s thought is referred to his famous article ?gods? in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Other Minds is most (10) discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.


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1). unprofitable
2). useful
3). advantageous
4). unreliable

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them.Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management i

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them.

Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organising, staffing, controlling, and problem-solving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles. This distinction is absolutely crucial for our purposes here: Successful transformation is 70 to 90 per cent leadership and only 10 to 30 per cent management. Yet for historical reasons, many organizations today don't have much leadership. And almost everyone thinks about the problems here as one of managing For most of this century, as we created thousands and thousands of large organizations for the first time in human history, we didn't have enough good managers to keep all those bureaucracies functioning. So many companies and universities developed management programmes, and hundreds and thousands of people were encouraged to learn management on the job. And they did. But, people were taught little about leadership. To some degree, management was emphasized because it's easier to teach than leadership. But even more so, management was the main item on the twentieth-century agenda because that's what was needed. For every entrepreneur or business builder who was a leader, we needed hundreds of managers to run their ever growing enterprises.Unfortunately for us today, this emphasis on management has often been institutionalized in corporate cultures that discourage employees from learning how to lead. Ironically, past success is usually the key ingredient in producing this outcome. The syndrome, as I have observed it on many occasions, goes like this: success creates some degree of market dominance, which in turn produces much growth. After a while keeping the ever larger organization under control becomes the primary challenge. So attention turns inward, and managerial competencies are nurtured. With a strong emphasis on management but not on leadership, bureaucracy and an inward focus take over. But with continued success, the result mostly of market dominance, the problem often goes unaddressed and an unhealthy arrogance begins to evolve. All of these characteristics then make any transformation effort much more difficult.Arrogant managers can over-evaluate their current performance and competitive position, listen poorly, and learn slowly. Inwardly focused employees can have difficulty seeing the very forces that present threats and opportunities. Bureaucratic cultures can smother those who want to respond to shifting conditions. And the lack of leadership leaves no force inside these organisations to break out of the morass.


Why, according to the author, is a distinction between management and leadership crucial?
1). Leaders are reactive whereas managers are proactive.
2). Organisations are facing problems of not getting good managers.
3). Organisations are pursuing the strategy of status quo.
4). In today's context, organisations need leaders much more than managers in transforming them.

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Which of the following cricket tournaments Indian team has won at Sharjah in November 1998?

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Which of the following cricket tournaments Indian team has won at Sharjah in November 1998?
1). Pepsi Cup
2). Wills Cup
3). Coca Cola Cup
4). Sahara Cup

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Read the following information and answer the questions given below. (I) Two wooden cubes ?A? and ?B? are placed adjacent to each other in front of you in such a way that ?A? is to your left and ?B? to your right. (II) One pair of opposite faces of cube ?A? is painted by the same colour, i.e., Red c

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Read the following information and answer the questions given below.
(I) Two wooden cubes ?A? and ?B? are placed adjacent to each other in front of you in such a way that ?A? is to your left and ?B? to your right.
(II) One pair of opposite faces of cube ?A? is painted by the same colour, i.e., Red colour. Another pair of opposite faces is painted by Blue and one of the remaining faces of Yellow and other one is Violet.
(III) Only two opposite faces of cube ?B? are painted by Blue colour. Remaining pairs of opposite faces are painted in such a way that opposite face of Brown colour is Green and one of the other two opposite faces is Black and the other is White.


If Red surface of ?A? and Blue of ?B? are touching the table and Yellow of ?A? and Black of ?B? are facing you, then which coloured side of ?B? is facing Blue side of ?A? ?
1). Brown
2). Green
3). White
4). Either Brown or Green

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Fill up the blanks in the passage given be most appropriate word from the options given for each blanks:Although John Wisdom?s writings in Philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a(1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful re

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Fill up the blanks in the passage given be most appropriate word from the options given for each blanks:
Although John Wisdom?s writings in Philosophy show clearly the influence of Wittgenstein, they nevertheless also display a(1) originality. Despite the (2) and difficulty of his style, a careful reading of Wisdom is seldom (3) He is unique kind of genius in Philosophy.This essay is an excellent example of Wisdom?s repeated attempts to (4) the ultimate bases of philosophical perplexity. A great deal of the time Wisdom is (5) interested in finding out why metaphysicians feel (6) to utter such strange sentence e.g. ?Time is unreal?, ?There are no material things?, etc. According to Wisdom such sentences are both false (and perhaps meaningless) and year. (7) Even more than Wittgenstein, Wisdom has stressed the ?Therapeutic conception of Philosophy, a view that comes out clearly in this essay where the emphasises that analogy between philosophical and neurotic distress (8) them with other kinds of problems.The reader who is interested in gaining a fuller (9) with Wisdom?s thought is referred to his famous article ?gods? in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Other Minds is most (10) discussion of a single topic and in many ways his finest work.


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1). concise
2). virtual
3). marked
4). limited