101)
(A) specifically, they looked at the spread between bid
and ask prices, or the difference between prices offered by buyers and sellers.
(B) High-visibility companies with lots of shareholders
usually have narrower spreads than lesser-known companies, an indicator of the
“information asymmetry” that plagues the lesser-known companies.
(C) Navigating through the Twitter data took some
detective work.
(D) Narrow spreads
mean that a stock is more liquid and easier to trade, often because investors
are more confident about what they know.
a. ADBC b. ABDC
c. BDCA d.
ADCB
102)
a) Twelve climbers
died on the North Side, the route my team had chosen to summit.
b) David sat down,
exhausted, above Camp 4 on his way down from the summit and never got up again.
c) It had been a
tough season.
d) Forty-three
climbers had passed by the body of David Sharp, a young engineer from the UK
who had often joined us for tea.
a) CADB b) CBAD
c) BCAD d) DACB e) DBCA
103) find the last
sentence.
So I set myself a goal: To climb the Seven Summits, the highest peaks in each of the seven continents. I started in 1998, with Kilimanjaro, at 5,895 metres, Africa’s highest mountain. I moved to the San Francisco area for work reasons, but also to be closer to the Sierras where there are many peaks over 4,000 m, the better for training. In time, I would also climb Kosciuszko (Australia, 2,228 m, 2006) and be the first from India on Elbrus (Europe, 5,642 m, 2000), Aconcagua (South America, 6,961 m, 2001), McKinley / Denali (North America, 6,194 m, 2003), Vinson Massif (Antarctica, 4,892 m, 2006, with Malli Babu).
So I set myself a goal: To climb the Seven Summits, the highest peaks in each of the seven continents. I started in 1998, with Kilimanjaro, at 5,895 metres, Africa’s highest mountain. I moved to the San Francisco area for work reasons, but also to be closer to the Sierras where there are many peaks over 4,000 m, the better for training. In time, I would also climb Kosciuszko (Australia, 2,228 m, 2006) and be the first from India on Elbrus (Europe, 5,642 m, 2000), Aconcagua (South America, 6,961 m, 2001), McKinley / Denali (North America, 6,194 m, 2003), Vinson Massif (Antarctica, 4,892 m, 2006, with Malli Babu).
a) And, as important, I have been able to immerse myself
in cultures around the world
b)These climbs, and others, gave me experience in various terrains and elevations
c) I have now travelled through 35 countries
b)These climbs, and others, gave me experience in various terrains and elevations
c) I have now travelled through 35 countries
d) None
104
a.
Indeed, Warren Buffett has joined pal Bill
Gates and 112 other billionaires in The Giving Pledge, a rarefied group that
has committed to giving the bulk of their fortunes to charity. So far Buffett
has dispensed with more than $17 billion.
b.
“Chapters 8 and 20 have been the bedrock of
my investing activities for more than 60 years,” he says. “I suggest that all
investors read those chapters and reread them every time the market has been
especially strong or weak.”
c.
“Money has given me the independence to do
what I love daily. Beyond that it has no real utility for me but enormous
utility for others. That is why I’m giving it away,” says Buffett, 82.
d.
When
asked what the best money advice he ever got was, it’s no surprise that Buffett
turned to his holy bible, The Intelligent Investor, written in 1949 by value
god Benjamin Graham.
e.
Do you have enough cash yet? Warren Buffett,
the third-richest person in the world, says that he had all the money he needed
by age 25, when his net worth reached $200,000.
a. EDCBA b. EBCDA c. ECADB d. none
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a. EDCBA b. EBCDA c. ECADB d. none
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105) Find the word
that is synonymous with the darkened/bold word.
Slated to succeed her father Shiv Nadar as chairman of
HCL Corporation, Roshni, 31, will continue to focus on managing her family’s
wealth through the Shiv Nadar Foundation, which straddles K-12 schools, universities and engineering colleges.
Closest to her heart are the VidyaGyan schools that provide education to
underprivileged children.
a) stride b) run c) non committal d) none of the above e) more than one of the above
a) stride b) run c) non committal d) none of the above e) more than one of the above
106) choose the sentence
that is likely to come after the paragraph.
He goes on to say that the recent disclosures around the
various spying programmes run by the US have made the private surveillance and
security industry very happy. “Each incident becomes a case-study to pit one
country against another, forcing each one to cherry-pick the worst global
practices in a dangerous race to the bottom.
a) Civil
society and privacy activists don’t have the resources to fight large vendors
and so the only thing that will stop this is the leak of large databases, like
that of 9 million Israeli biometric records a few years back.”
b) Recollecting
the news about a family-business break-up some years ago, where two brothers
agreed to split their businesses, the net result was one brother opted out of
telephony services offered by the other.
c) All
of that is now moot. “There are no more shadows now. Nobody will have refuge
and everybody will be exposed,” says Abraham
d) None
of the above
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107) which of the
words is not same as the word in bold.
A leading theory called the distraction hypothesis says that we choke because
we shift our attention from the task at hand to irrelevant thoughts. Thinking
“I better not choke” when you are about to putt for the win is an example.
Pressure and worries distract the mind from the attention required for optimum
performance. They cloud the working or short-term memory that is critical for
effective execution.
a) Presupposition
b) axiom c) basis
d) conjecture e) None of the
above
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Choose
the word which does not means the same as the one in bold.
108) Moderate Islamist
parties have denounced the coup while
distancing themselves from Mr. Morsi’s failings.
a)
Arraign b)
blacklist c) implicate d) abdicate
109) By contrast, puritanical
Salafists and jihadists across the region have seized on Mr Morsi’s
hounding from power to vindicate their long-held hostility to the ballot box.
“Democracy won’t give us Islam or God’s law,” tweeted the Syrian Islamic Front,
a coalition of rebel groups in Syria.
a) Austere b) priggish
c) moral d) titivate
110) The Palestinian Authority, run by the secular part of a
nationalist movement, endorsed the coup;
the leadership of its rival, Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that
rules the Gaza Strip, has so far remained sourly silent, but many of its
adherents have furiously condemned it.
a) stratagem b) overthrow c)
Save d) none of the above
