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ASET-Employability & Skill Enhancement Course

(Amity University, Noida)
CLASS-2
Logical Ability-I
Directions for questions 1 to 3: Each question consists of a group of sentences followed by a suggested
sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence that forms a coherent paragraph.

1. A. For people living in Bangalore, however, this doesn’t seem to pose too much of a problem.

B. Bangalore is becoming an increasingly expensive place to live in.

C. While the city offers a lot, everything comes at a price.

D. This is because a large number of transient are those with well-paying jobs and high disposable
incomes.

(a) BDCA (b) BDAC (c) BCAD (d) CBAD

2. A. Gabrielle Lord published her first novel, Fortress, to instant acclaim in her native Australia.
B. The eldest of six children, she grew up in Sydney and attended the University of New England, in
Armidle, New South Wales.
C. Success did not come easily, however.
D. Writing appealed to her even as a child–she was composing stories at nine.
E. But it wasn’t until she was thirty that she completed her first book, a literary novel that was rejected
by every publishing firm to which it was sent.
(a) ADBCE (b) CDEBA (c) ACBDE (d) DEBAC
3. A. I can still hear Mother calling from the staircase landing. “Mary, is your light out?”
B. Then I would set the alarm so that in the morning I could get up early, fix a cup of hot cocoa and
snuggle back in bed for a blissful hour with my current book.
C. Yes, it was–but the street-light in front of my window threw a very satisfactory beam on my pillow,
and most evenings I would manage to sneak in a little extra reading.
D. It was heaven!
(a) ABCD (b) DABC (c) BCAD (d) ACBD

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Directions for questions 4 to 8 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence.
4. A. What they were basically interested in was the usefulness of the product, which was the compelling
factor for buying it.
B. Women from lower socio-economic strata had mixed feelings about the product being produced with
American collaboration.
C. On the other hand it meant that it would be very expensive.
D. On the one hand, this was an assurance for them that it would be good quality and free from
adulteration.
(a) CDBA (b) ABCD (c) DCBA (d) BDCA
5. A. At least one person was killed and crops worth lakhs of rupees were destroyed in the past in such
encounters.
B. The zoning has been prompted by man-elephant encounters in Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal.
C. Red represents the zone where the human casualty is high.
D. Project elephant envisages creating three zones - green, yellow and red.
(a) BADC (b) DCBA (c) DCAB (d) BDCA
6. A. If you wish to make real progress, know your own being which is in constant union with the divine.
B. Then alone will transformation be possible.
C. There are so many clashing forces working in you.
D. Before the true self is known, you are a public place, not a being.
(a) ACDB (b) BADC (c) DCAB (d) ACBD
7. A. Realising the importance of wetlands in India, the Ministry of Environment and Forests published a
directory of wetlands in 1990 based on a survey carried out during 1972.
B. The total area of wetlands (including rivers) in India is 58,286,00 ha. or 18.4% of the country’s total
area.
C. India has a rich variety of wetland habitats.
D. Many inland wetlands have not been included in the compilation.
E. However, the survey is not comprehensive.
(a) CBAED (b) CAEBD (c) ABDEC (d) BCADE
8. A. The Prime Minister who is the head of the cabinet, regards other members as his colleagues.
B. An analysis of the cabinet and presidential type of chief executive reveals many points of difference.
C. To begin with, in countries where parliamentary system of government prevails, the real chief
executive is the cabinet, which is a plural body.
D. The US president has several secretaries in charge of independent departments. But they are not
colleagues and can be removed by him.
E. Unlike this, the chief executive in the presidential system of government is a single individual, the
President.
(a) ADECB (b) EBACD (c) DEACB (d) BCAED

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Directions for questions 9 and 10 : Arrange the sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence
between sentences 1 and 6.
9. 1. It was a late spring night on the Rhine a hundred years ago.
A. Fishermen on their boats were looking for salmon upstream.
B. In the still of the night an eagle owl glided down across the river.
C. People began to complain about the taste of petroleum in fish.
D. The river was polluted with domestic and industrial waste water.
6. Fish mortality had begun.
(a) DCAB (b) BACD (c) BADC (d) DABC
10. 1. Upgradation is the watchword in Singapore.
A. Following a steady deterioration in the performance of students from the Singapore Indian community,
the leaders of the community decided to do something about it.
B. An action committee was set up to go into all the aspects of the problem - not only to assess the
magnitude of the problem, but also to evolve an action plan.
C. Individual houses or apartments, residential colonies, roads and infrastructure, or even the performance
of a community - this is the case in any sector.
D. The findings were startling to say the least.
6. The report of the committee noted that the performance of Indian students is lagging behind the
national average.
(a) ABCD (b) BACD (c) DCBA (d) CABD
Directions for questions 11 to 19 : In each question below a statement is given followed by two
conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the statement to be true. Read both the conclusions and
decide which of the two or both follow from the given statement.
Mark your answer as
(a) If only conclusion I follows.
(b) If only conclusion II follows.
(c) If neither I nor II follows.
(d) If both conclusions I and II follow.
11. Statement :
Children nowadays prefer watching TV programmes, meant for adults, to studying in the evenings.
Course of action :
I. Parents should switch off TV sets during their child’s study hours.
II. Children who insist on watching these type of programmes should be whipped.

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12. Statement :

Most of the pavements are crowded with the display of various articles, sold by hawkers at cheap rate,
thus causing traffic congestion.

Courses of action :

I. Passersby buying such articles on the road should be prosecuted.

II. The local authorities should try and provide a market place for these hawkers so that they too can
earn their living without causing inconvenience.

13. Statement :

As per a survey conducted by the Ministry of Tourism, it has been found that leading hotels in the country
have incurred a cumulative loss of 175 crores as a result of a sharp drop in tourist inflows on account
of the tension prevailing in Kashmir and the related terrorist activities.

Courses of action :

I. The government should provide financial assistance to the tourism industry.

II. The government should inform all the tourists who intend to travel to India, to safeguard themselves.

14. Statement :

A major rail accident, involving a passenger train, was averted by the prompt action of a wayside
signalman, who, on noticing two trains on the same track, promptly diverted one of the trains to the other
track.

Courses of action :

I. The latest technology in automatic signalling, using a network of computers, should be adopted to
eliminate maximum errors from the system.

II. The alert signalman should be rewarded to encourage this trait among other employees.

15. Statement :

The Indian cricket team reached the finals of the previous six major tournaments, but failed to win even
a single tournament.

Courses of Action :

I. The Indian cricket board should set up a committee to find out the reasons.

II. The team should change its game plan.

16. Statement :

In the road accidents the pillion riders are receiving more head injuries than the driver.

Courses of Action :

I. Pillion riders should also wear helmet.

II. The rule should be changed so that the helmet is made compulsory for the pillion riders but not the
drivers.

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17. Statement :
Now-a-days, the number of suicide cases is increasing.
Courses of Action :
I. We should change our education system, where the people can learn the basic values of life.
II. Mostly the suicides are seen in youngsters due to stress. The life-style, which the youngsters
experiencing, is the cause. There is no solution for it.
18. Statement :
The Government is worried by the sudden collapse of an under construction bridge, which is under
construction, which led to death of 16 people and injuries to many.
Courses of Action :
I. The government should set up an inquiry committee to investigate the reasons for collapse.
II. The authorities should shift the injured people to the hospital and clear the debris to see if someone
is trapped.
19. Statement :
Two thirds or even more of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050 due to the shrinking summer
sea ice, even under moderate projections caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Courses of Action :
I. We should control environmental pollution by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and make
people aware of effects of greenhouse gases through media.
II. Shift the polar bears to the other parts of the world, like Antarctica, where thick layer of ice is
available.
Directions for questions 20 to 21: From the alternatives, choose the one which correctly classifies the four
sentences as:
F: Fact: if it relates to a known matter of direct observation, or an existing reality or something known to
be true.
J: Judgement: if it is an opinion or an estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention.
I: Inference: if it is a logical conclusion or deduction of something, based on the knowledge of facts.
20. 1. People live in fear of nuclear annihilation.
2. Man’s history must have started with an act of disobedience.
3. Fearing large-scale unrest, the government amended the act.
4. The Mona Lisa is the most beautiful painting in the world.
(a) FJIJ (b) JFFI (c) FIJJ (d) FJII
21. 1. We will have to move forward or slip back.
2. Films may help in exposing follies and stupidities.
3. Only forty Rolls-Royce cars are manufactured every year.
4. She will answer his call only if he gives her and rose.
(a) JFFI (b) FIFI (c) FJFI (d) JJFI

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Direction for question 22 to 25: Read each of the statements given below and answer the question that
follows the statement.
22. Cricket is the most popular sport in India. However its popularity has adversely affected the prospects of
other sports like hockey and football. In order to correct the imbalance the Ministry of Sports should stop
funding cricket and allot those resources to other sports.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the above argument?
(a) The popularity of a sport is determined to a large extent by the investments made in promoting it.
(b) Ministry of Sports funding is used mainly to coach budding cricketers and is seldom used for promotional
activities.
(c) Cricket’s popularity will be very difficult to challenge as it has a longer history in India than most
other sports.
(d) The nature and format of a sport is the only fact that determines its popularity.
23. The editor of the ‘Tourism Industry of India’ had visited Ibiza and encountered a gang of young rowdies
en route who also happened to be staying at the same hotel where he was putting up. The editor concluded
that only hooligans frequent Ibiza.
The editor above makes the error of
(a) Visiting Ibiza at a peak season.
(b) Having a mindset that influenced his opinion.
(c) Over-reacting to an isolated incident.
(d) Generalizing from a specific incident.
24. Since our genes already determine, to some extent at least, our character, we cannot be fully responsible
for some of our actions, as we are not for the inherited diseases we develop.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn in the passage above?
(a) Our social environment and learning influence our personality to a great extent.
(b) Freedom can only be described negatively, i.e., we can argue that we were not unfree in certain
respects, e.g. free from our parents’ influence.
(c) Amongst certain conservative groups there has been a change in the attitude to homosexuality if it
was a (partly) genetic trait, as some recent evidence has suggested, then it should no longer be
considered a sing (— even though homosexual behaviour might still be.)
(d) None of these
25. Cricket Australia has introduced a new clause in the players contract that stipulates that players are not
to work as commentators for broadcasting companies, for a three-year period immediately after they
retire from international cricket. Observers have expressed concerns that this clause is unfair as it would
prevent retired cricketers from earning a livelihood for a three-year period immediately after their retirement.

Which of the following is an assumption that critics of the clause make?

(a) Cricket Australia has no right to legislate the activities of cricketers after they have retired.

(b) Only retired cricket take good commentators.

(c) Working as commentators is the only way in which retired cricketers can earn a living.

(d) The clause is the payers contract is legally enforceable.

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