Read the following information and five statements given below it carefully and answer the questions which follow.

Excerpt from a research report-‘Average life expectancy in southern part of India is far more than that in Western India. While the average life of a native of South India is 82 years, the average life of a native of Western India is only 74 years.’ Based on the above fact, the proposal that the above study makes is that if an individual moves from Western India to South India, his/her life expectancy would immediately increase by eight years.
Which of the following statements would weaken the above-mentioned study’s proposal that people belonging to Western parts of India should move to South India to increase their life expectancy?

For the following 5 Questions

Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it You have to decide whether the data provide in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and give answer

1) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
2) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
3) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.
4) if the data even in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.
5) if the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

For the Following 11 Question,In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/ phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.The economics of owning and running a Ration Shop, the familiar name for the outlets in our Public Distribution System (PDS), are such that under normal business terms, the shop-owner could never make a profit. Yet, ...(6)... the government announces that new permits for ration shops will be given out, there is frenzy in the market to grab one of these. ...(7)...? The answer is obvious: the business is not for the honest and if one knows the ...(8)..., there is a fortune to be made. What are these tricks of the trade? • Getting fake names into the user list is the most obvious option; the State seems to be ...(9)... a losing battle against this practice, judging by the endless efforts to weed out bogus ration cards.• The next is to get the ‘right customers’ on the list, not just more customers: These are people who are registered but who do not have any interest in ...(10)... on their entitlements. In a system where caste and income certificates are for sale, it is not ..(11)... to ‘produce’ these documents for mutual benefit. Receipts are duly made in their names, and the rations thus ‘drawn’ are ...(12)... off into the open market. The sale price of an item like rice makes clear the...(13)... economics—it costs Rs. 8 in a ration shop while in the latter it is Rs. 30 or above. There are also customers who would rather exchange their entitlements for hard cash at the beginning of the month. • As the degradation progresses, the shopkeeper, in ...(14)... with the official machinery, manages to withhold effectively the entitlements from even the genuine beneficiaries, and diverts them to the open market. The targeted group is usually not in a position to ...(15)... itself to .get its due. And thus one has all the ...(16)... of a good PDS business.