Indian Civil Services Exam - 2011- CSAT-Paper 2- Model Test 1-Part two
Directions: The Questions in this section are based on the contents of the passages. After reading the passages, the candidates should choose the best answer to each question.
Questions 60-65 are based on the following passages :-
PASSAGE – 1
Studies of the factors governing reading development in young children have achieved a remarkable degree of consensus over the past two decades. This consensus concerns the causal role of phonological skills in young children’s reading progress. Children, Who have good phonological skills or good phonological awareness, become good readers and good spellers. Children with poor phonological skills progress more poorly. In particular, those who have a specific phonological deficit are likely to be classified as dyslexic by the time that they are 9 or 10 years old.
Phonological skills in young children can be measured at a number of different levels. The term phonological awareness is a global one, and refers to a deficit in recognizing smaller units of sound within spoken words. Developmental work has shown that this deficit can be at the level of syllables, of onsets and rimes, or of phonemes. For example, a 4- year old child might have difficulty in recognizing that a word like valentine has three syllables, suggesting the lack of syllabic awareness. A 5-year old child might have difficulty in recognizing that the old word out in set of words fan, cat, hat and mat is fan. This task requires an awareness of the sub-syllabic units of the onset and the rime. The onset corresponds to the vowel and to any following consonants. Rimes correspond to rhyme in single-syllable words, and so the rime in fan differs from the rime in cat, hat and mat. In longer words, rime and rhyme may differ.
A 6-year old might have difficulty in recongnizing that plea and pray begin with the same initial sound. This is phonemic judgment. Although the initial phoneme / p / is shared between the two words, in plea it is part of the onset and in pray it is part of the onset. Until childrren can segment the onset (or the rime), such phonemic judgments are difficult for them to make. In fact, a recent survey of different development studies has shown that the different levels of phonological awareness appear to emerge sequentially. The awareness of syllables, onsets, and rimes appears to emerge at around the ages of 3 and 4, long before most children go to school. The awareness of phonemes, on the other hand usually emerges at around the age of 5 or 6, when children have been taught to read for about a year. An awarness of onsets and rimes thus appears to be a precursor of reading, whereas an awareness of phonemes at very serial position in a word only appears to develop as reading is taught. The onset-rime and phonemic levels of phonological structure, however, ae not distinct. Many onsets in English ae single phonemes, and so are some rimes (e.g. sea, go, zoo).
The early availability of onsets and rimes is supported by studies that have compared the development of phonological awareness of onsets, rimes and phonemes in the same subjects using the same phonological awareness tasks. For example, a study by Treiman and Zudowski used as same-different judgment task based on the beginning or the end sounds of words. In the beginning sound task, the words either began with the same onset, as in plea and plank. or shared only the initial phoneme, as in plea and pray. In the end-sound task, the words either shared the entire rime. as in spit and wit, or shared only the final phoneme, as in rat and wit. Treiman and Zudowski showed that 4- and 5- year old children found the onsetrime version of the same / different task significantly easier than the version based on phonemes. Only the 6 year olds, who had been learning to read for about a year, were able to perform both versions of the tasks with an equal level of success.
60. What is the purpose of the writer behind writing this passage?
a) To analyse the phonological awareness and its levels in children that can affect their reading
process.
b) To introspect deep into the psychology of a child and find out the capabilities of 3 to 6 year olds.
c) To trace the skills of a child to reognize different words of a lanuage.
d) To compare the development of reading skills amongst children in good and poor readers.
Ans: A
61. Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
a) A child’s ability of reading is independent of his phonological skills.
b) Syllables, onsets, rimes and phonemes are thesmaller components of sound from which words
are formed.
c) The developement of phonological awareness is independent of factors like age.
d) Phonological awareness adds to the ability of clear speach of a child.
Ans: B
62. Provide a suitable title for the passage?
a) Developement of Reading Habit in Children
b) Developement of Language in Children
c) Importance of Reading Progress
d) Phonological Awareness Amongst Children
Ans: D
63. What can be concluded from the study done by Treiman and Zudowski?
a) That 4-5 year Old Children found the task based on phonemes easy.
b) That 6-year old children find it easier to read since they have been learning for a year.
c) That the same-different task, where words like spit and wit were compared, was comparatively
easier for 4 to 5 years old, than the task where plea and pray were compared.
d) That the same-different task, where words like plea and plank or where plea and pray were
compared were easier for 4-5 year olds then the task where wit and spit were compared.
Ans: C
64. Fill in the blanks: According to the passage...
The ............... around the ages of 41/2 5, where as ............... at around the age of 5-6.
a) phonological awareness begins, reading and writing skills develop.
b) knowledge of syllables, onsets and rimes generally begins phonemic juegement.
c) specific phonological deficit can be found in children, it can be overcome.
d) difficulty in recognizing a word with one syllable happens, difficulty in recognizing a word with three sylables happens.
Ans: B
65. What is the synonym of the word precursor mentioned in the third paragraph?
a) Requirement
b) Forunner
c) Descendant
d) Obstacle
Ans: B
Questions 66-70 are based on the following passage
Passage – 2
Above all, colonialism was hated for its explicit assumptions that the civilizations of colonized people were interior. Using slogans like The White Man’s burden and La-Mission Civilicatrice, European asserted their moral obligation to impose their way of life on those endowed with inferior cultures. This orientation was particularly blatant among the French. In the colonies, business was conducted in French. Schools used that language and employed curricula designed for children in France One scholar suggests that Muslim children probably learned no more about the Maghreb than they did about australia Tunisia North Africa , nationalistmade the defence of Arabic-Islamic civilization a major objective, a value in whose name they demanded independence. Yet the crisis of identity provoked by colonial
experiences, has not been readily assured and lingers into the post-colonial period. A French scholar describes the devastating impact of colonialism by likening it to”the role played for us (in Europe) by the doctrine of original sin”.Frantz fanon, especially in his Studies in a dying colonialism, well expresses the North African perspective. Factors producing militant and romantic cultural nationalism are anchored in time. Memories of colonialism are already beginning to fade and, when the Maghreb has had a few decades in which to grow, dislocations associated with social change can also be expected to be fewer. Whether this means that the cultural nationalism characteristic of the Maghreb today will disappear in the future cannot be known. But a preocupation with the identity and the culture and an affirmation of Arabism and Islam have characterized the Maghreb since independence and these still remain today important elements in north African life.
A Second grade proccupation in the independent North Africa is the promotion of a modernist social revolution. The countries of the Maghreb do not pursue development in the same way and there have been variations in the policies within each country. But all the three spend heavily on development. In Tunisia
66. Which of the following titles best described the content of the passage?
a) Education in Levant
b) Nationalism in North Africa
c) Civilization in the Middle East
d) Muslim Science
Ans: B
67. Which of the following is not used by the author in the presentation of his argument?
a) Colonialism demoralized the local inhabitants
b) Colonialism produced an identity crisis
c) Cultural nationalism will soon disappear
d) De-colonization does not always run smoothly
Ans: C
68. The author’s attitude towards the colonialism is best described as one ....?
a) Sympathy
b) Bewilderment
c) Support
d) Healthy
Ans: D
69. Which of the following does does the author mention as evidence of cultural colonialism?
a) Native children in North Africa Learned little about local culture
b) Science was not taught in the Arabic language
c) Colonical policy was determined in France
d) Colonialist spent little on development
Ans: A
70. The author provides information that would answer whichof the following questions?
a) What was the difference between French and German attitudes towards their colonies?
b) Why did Europeans impose their way of life on their colonies?
c) Why was colonialism bad?
d) Why was colonialism disliked?
Ans: D
Questions 71-77 are based on the following passage
Passage – 3
The history of mammals dates back at least to Triassictime. Developemt was retarded, however, until the sudden acceleration of evolutional change that occurred in the oldest Paleocene. This led in Eocene time to increase in average size, larger mental capacity, and special adaptation for different modes of life. In the Oligocene Epoch, there was further improvement, with appearance of some new lines and extinction of others, Miocene and Pliocene time was marked by culmination of several groups and continue approach toward modern characters, The peak of the the carrier of the mammals in variety and average large size was attend in the Miocene.
The adaptation of mamals to almost all possible modes of life parallels that of the reptiles in Mesozoic time, and except for greater intelligence, the mammals do not seem to have done much better than corresponding reptilian forms. The bat is doubtless a better flying animal than the pterosaur, but the dolphin and whale are hardly more fishlike than the
inchthyosaur. Many swift running mammals of the plains,like the horse and the antelope, must excel any of the dinosaurs. Tyrannosaur was a more ponderous and powerful carnivore than any flesh eating mammal, but the lion or tiger is probably is more efficient and dangerous beast of prey because of a superior brain. The significant point to a\observe is that the different branches of the mammals gradually fitted themselves for all sorts of life, grazing on the palins and able to run swiftly (horse, deer, bison), living in rivers and swamps (hippopotamus, beaver) dwelling in the trees, (sloth, monkey) digging underground (mole, rodent), feeding on flesh in the forest (tiger) and on the plain (Wolf) swimming in the sea (whale, dolphin, seal) and flying in the air(bat). Man is able by mechanical means to conquer the physical world and to adapt himself to almost any set of conditions. This adaptation produce gradual changes of form and structure. It is biologically characteristic of youthful, plastic stage of a group. Early in its capacity for change, which as the unit becomes old and fixed, disappears. The generalized types of organisms retain longest the ability to make adjectments when required, and it is from them that new, fecund stock that origin-certainly not from any specialized end products. So, in the mammals, we writness the birth, plastic spread in many directions, the extinction, which we have learned from observation of the greologic record of life is a characteristc of the evolution of life.
71. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title of the passage?
a) From Dinosaurs to Man
b) Adaptin and Extinction
c) The Superiority of Mammals
d) the Geologic life span
Ans: B
72. It can be inferred from the passage that the chronological order of the geologic periods is..?
a) Paleocene, Miocene, Triassic, Mesozoic
b) Paleocene, Miocene, Mesozoic, Triassic
c) Miocene, Mesozoic, Triassic, Paleocene
d) Mesozoic, Oligocene, Paleocene, Miocene
Ans: D
73. It can be inferred from the passage that the Pterosour...?
a) Resembled the bat
b) Was a Mesozoic mammal
c) Was a flying reptile
d) Lived in the sea
Ans: C
74. According to the passage in greatest number of forms of mammalian life is found in the ....?
a) Triassic age
b) Ecocene age
c) Oligocene age
d) Miocene age
Ans: D
75. Which of the following statements, if true, would weaken the statement made by the author....?
a) Tyrannosaur has been found to have large brain than was previously thought
b) Memmals will become extinct whith the next 1000 years.
c) Forms of flying inchthyosaurs have recently been discovered
d) The tiger has now been proved to be more powerful than the carnivorous reptiles.
Ans: A
76. It can be inferred from the passage that the evidence the author uses in discussing he life of past time periods...?
a) Was developed by Charles Darwin
b) Was uncovered by the author
c) Has been negated by more recent evidence
d) Is based on fossil remains.
Ans: D
77. With which of the following proverbial expressions about human existence would the auther be most likely to agree?
a) It’s a cruel world
b) All the world’s a stage
c) The more things change, the more they remain the same.
d) Footprints in the sands of time.
Ans: D
78. In a happy, somewhat boisterous celebrationdiscovery of America
a) A slow
b) a rousing
c) a reluctant
d) An indifferent
Ans: B
79. In shocking instance of.............................. research one of the nation’s most influential researchers in the fiels of genetics reported on experiments that were carried on and published deliberately .......... scientific
papers on his non-existent work.
a) comprehensive ....abstract
b) theoretical ....challenging
c) fraudulent ............ deceptive
d) derivative ....... authoritative
Ans: C
80. Measurement is, like any other human endeavor, a complex, activity, subject to error, not always used......and frequently misinterpreted and...... a) Mistakenly ............ derided
b) erratically...... analyzed
c) systemeatically........ organized
d) properly..... misunderstood
Ans: D
81. In a revolutionary development in technology, several manufacturers now make bio-degradable forms of plastic, some plastic six pack rings, for example gradually....... when exposed to sunlight.
a) Harden
b) stagnate
c) inflate
d) decompose
Ans: D
82. To alleviate the problem of contaminated chicken, the study panel recommends that the federal government shift its inspection emphasis from cursory bird-by-bird visual checks to a more........ random sampling for bacterial and chemical contamination.
a) rigorous
b) perfunctory
c) symbolic
d) discrete
Ans: A
83. Her novel published through universal acclaim, her literally gifts acknowledge by the chief figures of the Harlem Renaissance, her reputation as yet................by envious, slights, Hursion clearly was at the ...........
of her carrier.
a) Undamaged..................................dbb
b) untarnished ........................zenith
c) untainted ..........................extremity
d) blackened.................... mercy
Ans: B
84. To the dismay of the student body, the class president was....... berated by the principal at the school
academy.
a) ignominiously
b) privately
c) magnanimously
d) fortuitously
Ans: A
85. Aimed at curbing Europeans attempts to seize territory in the Americas
a) pertinacious
b) credulous
c) remote
d) Predatory
Ans: D
86. Sign: Zodiac
a) Poster Biullboard
b) Letter : Alphabet
c) Prediction Prophecy
d) Signal: Beacon
Ans: B
87. Trailer : Motion Picture
a) Truck : Cargo
b) Theatre : Play
c) Addition Novel
d) Commercial Product
Ans: D
88. Citadel : Defence
a) Chapel : Refreshment
b) Gazebo : Refugee
c) Marina
d) Warehouse: Storage
Ans: D
89. Ricochet : Bullet
a) Soar : Falcon
b) Aim : Crossbow
c) Pierce : Dart
d) Crom : Ball
Ans: D
90. Juggernaut: Inexorable
a) Cosmonaut: Worldly
b) Colossus: Gigantic
c) Demagogue: Liberal
d) Philistine: Cultivated
Ans: B
Directions for Questions 91-93 The table below reports the gender, designation and age-group of the employees in an organisation. It also provides information on their commitment to projects coming up in the months of January
Sl.No | Name | Gender | Designation | Age group | Committed to projects during | Interested in workshop on |
1 | Anshul | M | Mgr | Y | Jan, Mar | CS, EG |
2 | Bushkant | M | Dir | I | Feb, Mar | BO,EG |
3 | Charu | F | Mgr | I | Jan, Feb | BO, CS |
4 | Dinesh | M | Exe | O | Jan, Apr | BO,CS,EG |
5 | Easwaran | M | Dir | O | Feb, Apr | BO |
6 | F | Mgr | Y | Jan, Mar | BO, CS | |
7 | Gayatri | F | Exe | Y | Feb, Mar | EG |
8 | Hari | M | Mgr | I | Feb, Mar | BO,CS,EG |
9 | Indira | F | Dir | O | Feb, Apr | BO,EG |
10 | John | M | Ori | Y | Jan, Mar | BO |
11 | Kalindi | F | Exe | I | Jan, Apr | BO,CS,EG |
12 | Lavanya | F | Mgr | O | Feb, Apr | CS, EG |
13 | Mandeep | M | Mgr | O | Mar, Apr | BO,EG |
14 | Nandlal | M | Dir | O | Jan, Feb | BO,EG |
15 | Parul | F | Exe | Y | Feb, Apr | CS, EG |
16 | Rahul | M | Mgr | Y | Mar, Apr | CS, EG |
17 | Sunita | F | Dir | Y | Jan, Feb | BO,EG |
18 | Urvasi | F | Exe | I | Feb, Mar | EG |
19 | Yamini | F | Mgr | O | Mar, Apr | CS, EG |
20 | Zeena | F | Exe | Y | Jan, mar | BO,CS,EG |
M = Male, F = Female; Exe = Executive, Mgr = Manager, Dir = Director,; Y = Yound, I = In - between, O = Old. For each workshop, exactly four employees are to be sent, of which at least two should be Females and at least one should be Yound, No employees can be sent to a workshop
- Which he/she is not interested in. An employee cannot attend the workshop on
- Communication Skills, if he/she is committed to internal projects in the month of January;
- Business Opportunities, if he/she is committed to internal projects in the month of February;
- E-grovernance, if he/she is committed to internal projects in the month of March.
91. Assuming that Parul and Hari are attending the workshop on Communication Skills (CS), then which of the following employees can possibly attend the CS workshop?
1) Rahul and Yamini
2) Dinesh and Lavanya
3) Anshul and Yamini
4) Fatima and Zeena
Ans: 1
92. How many Executives (Exe) cannot attend more than one workshop?
1) 2
2) 3
3) 15
4) 16
Ans: 2
93. Which set of employees cannot attend any of the workshops?
1) Anshul, Charu, Eashwaran and Lavanya
2) Anshul, Bushkant, Gayatri and Urvashi
3) Charu, Urvashi, Bushkant and Mandeep
4) Anshul, Gayatri, Eashwaran and Mandeep
Ans: 2
Directions for Questions 94-97 A management institute was established on January 1, 2000 with 3, 4, 5 and 6 faculty members in the Marketing, Organisational Behaviour (OB), Finance and Operations Management (OM) areas respectively, to start with. No faculty member retired or joined the institute in the first three months of the year 2000. In the next four years, the institute recruited one faculty members in each of the four areas. All these new faculty members, who joined the institute subsequently over the years, were 25 years old at the time fo their joining the institute. All of them joined the institute on April 1. During these four years, one of the faculty members retired at the age of 60. The following diagram gives the areas-wise average age (in terms of number of completed years) of faculty members as on April 1 of 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
94. In which year did the new faculty member join the Finance area?
1) 2000
2) 2001
3) 2002
4) 2003
Ans: 3
95. What was the age of the new faculty member, who joined the OM area, as on April 1, 2003?
1) 25
2) 26
3) 27
4) 28
Ans: 1
96. From which area did the faculty member retire?
1) Finance
2) Marketing
3) OB
4) OM
Ans: 1
97. Professors Naresh and Devesh, two faculty members in the Marketing area, who have been with the Institute since its inception, share a birthday, which falls on 20th November. One was born in 1947 and the other one in 1950. On April 1, 2005, what was the age of the third faculty member, who has been in the same area since inception?
1) 47
2) 50
3) 51
4) 52
Ans: 4
Directions for Questions 98-100 The table below reports annual statistics related to rice production in select states of India
State | Total Area in Million hactares | %of Area Under Rice Cultivation | Production (in Million tones) | Population (In Million) |
Himachal Pradesh | 6 | 20 | 1.2 | 6 |
Kerala | 4 | 60 | 4.8 | 32 |
Rajastan | 43 | 20 | 6.8 | 56 |
10 | 60 | 12 | 83 | |
Karnataka | 19 | 50 | 19 | 53 |
Haryana | 4 | 80 | 19.2 | 21 |
9 | 80 | 21.6 | 80 | |
20 | 60 | 24 | 51 | |
5 | 80 | 24 | 24 | |
Madhya Pradesh | 31 | 40 | 24.8 | 60 |
Tamil Nadu | 13 | 70 | 27.3 | 62 |
31 | 50 | 48 | 97 | |
Uttar Pradesh | 24 | 70 | 67.2 | 166 |
Andhra Pradesh | 28 | 80 | 112 | 76 |
98. How many states have a per capita production of rice (defined as total rice production divided by its population) greater than Gujarat ?
1) 3
2) 4
3) 5
4) 6
Ans: 2
99. An intensive rice producing state is defined as one whose annual rice production per million of population is at least 400,000 tonnes. How many states are intensive rice producing states?
1) 5
2) 6
3) 7
4) 8
Ans: 4
100. Which two staes account for the highest productivity of rice (tonnes produced per hectare of rice
cultivation)?
1) Haryana and Punjab
2) Punjab and Andhra Pradesh
3) Andhra Pradesh and Haryana
4) Uttar Pradesh and Haryana
Ans: 1
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