(2) Experts such as Larry
Burns,head of research at GM,reckon that
only such a full hearted leap will allow the
world to cope with the mass motorisation
that will one day come to China or India.
But once hydrogen is being produced from
biomass or extracted from underground coal
or made from water,using nuclear or
renewable electricity,the way will be open
for a huge reduction in carbon emissions
from the whole system.
In theory,once all the bugs have been stored
out,fuel cells should deliver better total
fuel economy than any existing system.
That is twice as good as the internal
combustion engine,but only five percentage
points better than a diesel hybrid.
Allowing for the resources needed to extract
hydrogen from hydrocarbon,oil,coal or
gas,the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30%. |
| A. CEDBA |
| B. CEBDA |
| C. AEDBC |
| D. ACEBD |
ans: A |
| |
(1) But this does not mean
that death was the Egyptians''only
preoccupation.
Even papyri come mainly from pyramid
temples.
Most of our traditional sources of
information about the Old kingdom are
monuments of the rich like pyramids and
tombs.
Houses in Which ordinary Egyptians lived
have not been presserved,and when most
people died they were buried in simple
graves.
We know infinitely more about the wealthy
people of Egypt than we do about the
ordinary people,as most monuments were made
for the rich. |
| A. CDBEA |
| B. ECDAB |
| C. EDCBA |
| D. DECAB |
ans: C |
| |
(1) In the west,Allied
Forces had fought their way through southern
Italy as far as Rome.
In June 1944 Germany''s military position in
World War Two appeared hopeless.
In Britain, the task of ammassing the men
and materials for the liberation of northern
Europe had been completed.
The situation on the eastern front was
catastrophic. |
| A. EDACB |
| B. BEDAC |
| C. BDECA |
| D. CEDAB |
ans: B |
| |
(2) The two neighbours never
fought each other.
Fights involving three male fiddler crabs
have been recorded,but the status of the
participants was unknown.
They pushed or grappled only with the
intruder.
We recorded 17 cases in which a resident
that was fighting an intruder was joined by
an immediate neighbour,an ally.
We therefore tracked 268 intuder males until
we saw them fightingt a resident male. |
| A. BEDAC |
| B. DEBAC |
| C. BDCAE |
| D. BCEDA |
ans: A |
| |
(1) He felt justified in
bypassing Congress altogether on a variety
of moves.
At time he was fighting the entire Congress.
Bush felt he had a mission to resore power
to the prsidency.
Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
Representive democracy is a messy
business,and a CEO of the White House does
not like a legislature of second guessers
and time wasters. |
| A. CAEDB |
| B. DBAEC |
| C. CEADB |
| D. ECDBA |
ans: C |
| |
(6) The celebrations of
economic recovery in Washington may be as
premature as that "Mission
Accomplished"banner hung on the USS Abraham
Lincoln to hail the end of the Iraq war.
Meanwhile,in the real world,the struggles of
families and communities continue unabated.
Washington responded to the favourable turn
in economic news with enthusiasm.
The celebrations and high-fives up and down
Pennsylvania Avenue are not to be found
beyond the Beltway.
When the third quarter GDP showed growth of
7.2% and the monthly unemployment rate
dipped to 6%, euphoria gripped the US
capital. |
| A. ACEDB |
| B. CEDAB |
| C. ECABD |
| D. ECBDA |
ans: D |
| |
(5) Call it the third wave
sweeping the Indian media.
Now,they are starring in a new role,as suave
dealmakers who are in a hurry to strike
alliances and agreements.
Look around and you will find a host of
deals that have been inked or are ready to
be finalized.
Then the media barons wrested back control
from editors and turned marketing warriors
with the brand as their missile.
The first came with those magnificient men
in their mahogany chambers who took on the
world with their mightly fountain pens. |
| A. ACBED |
| B. CEBDA |
| C. CAEBD |
| D. AEDBC |
ans: D |
| |
(4) Luckily the tide of
battle moved elsewhere after the American
victory at Midway and an Australian victory
over Japan at Milne Bay.
It could have been no more than a delaying
tactic.
The Australian military,knowing the position
was hopeless,planned to fall back to the
south-east in the hope of defending the main
cities.
They had captured most of the Solomon
Islands and much of New Guinea and seemed
poised for an invasion.
Not many people outside Australia realize
how close the Japanese got. |
| A. EDCBA |
| B. ECDAB |
| C. ADCBE |
| D. CDBAE |
ans: A |
| |
(3) The wall does not simply
divide Israel from a putative Palestinian
state on the basis of the 1967 borders.
A chilling omission from the road map is the
gigantic ''separation wall'' now being built
in the West Bank by Israel.
It is surrounded by trenches,eletric wire
and moats; there are watchtowers at regular
intervals.
It actually takes in new tracts of
Palestinian land,sometimes five or six
kilometers at a stretch.
Almost a decade after the end of south
African apartheid,this ghastly racist wall
is going up with scarcely a peep from
Israel''s American allies who are going to
pay for most of it. |
| A. BCADE |
| B. BADCE |
| C. AEDCB |
| D. ECADB |
ans: B |
| |
(2) Events intervened,an in
the late 1930s and 1940s,Germany suffered
from"over-branding".
The British used to be fascinated by the
home of Romanticism.
But reunification and the federal
government''s move to Berlin have prompted
Germany to think again about its image.
The first foreign package holiday was a tour
of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in 1855.
Since then,Germany has been understandably
nervous about promoting itself abroad. |
| A. ACEBD |
| B. DECAB |
| C. BDAEC |
| D. DBAEC |
ans: D |
| |
(1) Who can trace to its
first beginnings the love of Damon for
Pythias,of David for Johathan,of Swan for
Edgar?
Similarly with men.
There is about great friendships between man
and man a certain inevitability that can
only be compared with the age old
association of ham and eggs.
One simply feels that it is one of the
things that must be so.
No one can say what was the mutual magnetism
that brought the deathless partnership of
these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs
about. |
| A. ACBED |
| B. CEDBA |
| C. ACEBD |
| D. CEABD |
ans: B |
| |
(2) In the case of king
Merolchazzar''s courtship of the Princess of
the Outer Isles,there occurs a regrettable
hitch.
She acknowledges the gifts,but no word of a
meeting date follows.
The monarch,hearing good reports of a
neighbouring princess,dispatches messengers
with gifts to her court,beseeching an
interview.
The princess names a date,and a formal
meeting takes place;after that everything
buzzes along pretty smoothly.
Royal love affairs in olden days were
conducted on the correspondence method. |
| A. ACBDE |
| B. ABCDE |
| C. ECDAB |
| D. ECBAD |
ans: C |
| |
(1) To much of the Labour
movement,it symbolises the brutality of the
upper classes.
And to everybody watching,the current mess
over foxhunting symbolises the government''s
weakness.
To foxhunting''s supporters,Labour''s 1991
manifesto commitment to ban it symbolises
the party''s metropolitan roots and
hostility to the countryside.
Small issues sometimes have large symbolic
power.
To those who enjoy thundering across the
countryside in red coats after
foxes,foxhunting symbolises the ancient
roots of rural lives. |
| A. DEACB |
| B. ECDBA |
| C. CEADB |
| D. DBAEC |
ans: A |
| |
(4) The situations in which
violence occurs and the nature of that
violence tends to be clearly defined at
least in theory,as in the proverbial
Irshman''s question: ''Is this a private
fight or can anyone join in ?''
So the actual risk to outsiders,though no
doubt higher than our societies,is
calculable.
Probably the only uncontrolled applications
of force are those of social superiors to
social inferiors and even here there are
probably some rules.
However binding the obligation to
kill,members of feuding families engaged in
mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled
if by some mischance a by7stander or
outsider is killed. |
| A. DABC |
| B. ACDB |
| C. CBAD |
| D. DBAC |
ans: A |
| |
(3) Passivity is not,of
course,universal.
In areas where there are no lords or laws,or
in frontier zones where all men go armed,the
attitude of the peasantry may well be
different.
So indeed it may be on the frings of the
unsubmissive.
However,for most of the soil-bound
peasants,the problem is not whether to be
normally passive or active,but when to pass
from one state to another.
This depends on an assessment of the
political situation.
|
| A. BEDAC |
| B. CDABE |
| C. EDBAC |
| D. ABCDE |
ans: D |
| |
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