11. A. Stop criticizing other people.
    B. Eliminate negative thought patterns and speech habits.
    C. The word “should” can sap your energy if you use it to chastise or blame yourself, so get rid of it.
    D. Negative thoughts cloud your judgment.
    E. Banishing words like “can’t,” “won’t” and “shouldn’t” from your vocabulary will have an immediate impact on people’s impression of you.

1. 1. B C A E D

   
   
   

   2. C D E B A

   
   
   

   3. A B C D E

   
   
   

   4. B E C D A

   
   
   

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   Correct Option: D

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12. A. They are right.
    B. It goes without saying that friends and money don’t go hand in hand.
    C. When you are talking about money or a favor with some kind of financial value, it never ends well.
    D. They say a favor will kill you faster than a bullet.
    E. I don’t care how chummy you are, how close you are, or how many hookers you’ve shared with a friend. When it comes to money, friendships are always put aside and ego comes into play.

1. 1. B D E A C

   
   
   

   2. A C B D E

   
   
   

   3. B E C D A

   
   
   

   4. B A D E C

   
   
   

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   Correct Option: C

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13. 1. Today, India is in this sad condition because in the past the children seem to have been neglected.
    A. There seem to be no intellectuals in our country and a country without intellectuals has no future.
    B. In our country today, however, wherever I look, I only see ‘animal’ human beings, extremely selfish, never caring for other people or having a vision for the country, love for the nation or love for the people.
    C. In the past I feel they must have been neglected because of the texture of the people I see around me today.
    D. All the progressive countries in the world are such because their progress is guided by, decided by, thought of and planned by the intellectuals of the generation.
    6. These higher ideals have all been dried up.

1. 1. C A D B

   
   
   

   2. C D A B

   
   
   

   3. C B D A

   
   
   

   4. C A B D

   
   
   

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   Correct Option: A

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14. 1. If all this sounds like the makings of a paperback thriller, that’s hardly a coincidence.
    A. But to Africa watchers the tale of treachery is closer to Danielle Steel, revolving around an ugly family feud raging within Obiang’s place.
    B. Like Thatcher, Archer has denied involvement.
    C. At stake is who will succeed the President after 25 years of iron rule.
    D. One of the alleged coup financers was thriller author and former British politician Jeffrey Archer.
    6. “These guys thought it was ripe for a coup, because there was nonstop squabbling in the family”, says Vasset.

1. 1. D B A C

   
   
   

   2. A C D B

   
   
   

   3. C B D A

   
   
   

   4. A B C D

   
   
   

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   Correct Option: A

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15. 1. How do you find out what the solution to an equation looks like when you are not solving it?
    A. The mathematicians discovered that it is possible to visualize the solution, even if you cannot write down a formula.
    B. Although Poincare made little progress on chaos beyond the realization that it can occur, he introduced a powerful new method for studying dynamic systems.
    C. The idea gained serious currency in the astronomical investigations of Poincare and it led him to one of the first discoveries of what we now call chaos.
    D. Obviously you have to approach the whole problem from some other direction.
    6. It was based upon a new kind of geometry, topology: the qualitative geometry of the continuous.

1. 1. A B C D

   
   
   

   2. D C A B

   
   
   

   3. D A C B

   
   
   

   4. D C B A

   
   
   

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   NA

   Correct Option: C

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