Directions (Next Ten Question) : In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
We have worked really …(Question 1)… on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the …(Question 2)… of much aid spending was not “ ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty” but “…(Question 3)… a fairer and more equitable world.” Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable …(Question 4)… If we took the wealth of the world’s richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world’s poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and …(Question 5)… of better, fuller lives.
Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, …(Question 6)…us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial …(Question 7)… Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of “development”. It si not possible without …(Question 8)… inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forwards but achieving them will not …(Question 9)… success, which is why - …(Question 10)… its important role as an aspiration – we shouldn’t be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.
Directions (Next Five Questions) : Rearrange the following seven sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the given questions.
(A) Furthermore, many cities in China and India are continually modernizing their retail and distribution infrastructures, many market entry less complex than it would be in rural areas.
(B) These companies feel that the capital base of these two countries isn’t sufficient for a credible entry or that their competitive environment is already too tough for new entrants.
(C) The juice market, for instance, will grow more than three times as fast in Shanghai, alone as in all of Malaysia.
(D) Instead, they should ascertain whether building a presence in only a few selected cities is feasible.
(E) But companies shouldn’t dismiss these markets outright.
(F) Once, this feasibility is ensured, for specific product categories with low minimum scale requirements, even a limited entry in China or India can yield returns equivalent to countrywide coverage in other emerging economies, or higher.
(G) Some companies have written off China and India as unrealistic expansion opportunities.