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103.
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March 12,1992 Mauritius becomes a republic and is tipped as the first 'tiger' of the Indian Ocean and Africa. Population density is still high at 1500 persons per square mile but the population growth rate has been contained at less than two per cent per year in the 1990s. The structure of the economy has undergone substantial transformation. Diversification. away from sugar (but not at its expense) has been achieved. Textile and garment, and tourism are the two other leading sectors today. The major challenge today is not finding jobs but finding enough skilled labour to maintain the competitiveness of the economy. The unemployment rate stands at less than three per cent. The overall balance of payments is positive. Income per capita is Rs.25000, placing. Mauritius among the middle income group of countries. Mauritius is now poised to move to a higher development phase.[1] The main industry of Mauritius still is
(a) textiles
(b) tourism
(c) sugar
(d) cement[2] One of the chief concerns of the country now is to
(a) find skilled workers
(b) find jobs for the unemployed
(c) diversify industrial growth
(d) change the economic structure[3] Which one of the following statements does NOT directly refer to the economic development of the country?
(a) Population growth rate has been contained
(b) Industry has become competitive
(c) Income per capita is nearly Rs. 25000
(d) It has become a Republic[4] The population growth rate per year in the 1990s is
(a) less than three percent
(b) three percent
(c) less than two percent
(d) two percent[5] That Mauritius is tipped as the first 'tiger' of the Indian Ocean and Africa suggests it
(a) can fight its own battles
(b) has developed a good image
(c) can help other countries solve their problems,
(d) has transformed its environmental featuresasked in General Ability, 2003
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104.
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As time passed, signs of age and weariness started showing in Galatea's appearance. This made Pygmalion very unhappy for he believed that beautiful creations must remain permanent. Pygmalion foresaw her inevitable fate and when night came he took his chisel and struck her bosom a blow and lo! Galatea returned to the original marble. All that night he chiselled. Next morning he saw something quite different compared to the original. The lips had lost their great beauty; the eyes told of the grief of living; the whole body was bent towards the earth. The whole night, in the dark, he had been sculpting the very face of grief.
And Pygmalion wept.[1] Galatea's face started showing signs of
(a) satisfaction
(b) happiness
(c) age and weariness
(d) fun and frolic[2] Pygmalion believed like a true artist that
(a) perfect beauty was impossible
(b) beautiful creations must remain permanent
(c) ugliness was the real thing
(d) all art was meaningless[3] The artist reconverted Galatea to stone because
(a) he was jealous of her exceptional beauty
(b) he was tired of her
(c) he had fallen in love with another person
(d) she was growing old and haggard[4] Pygmalion re-chiselled Galatea's statue
(a) to make it more beautiful
(b) to make it more real with a look of suffering and grief
(c) to make it look like a Goddess
(d) to give it a funny look[5] Pygmalion wept after recasting the statue because
(a) he had realized that human life was a drama of pain
(b) he was extremely upset at having destroyed his original creation
(c) he could not bear his self-inflicted loss
(d) he was happy and the tears indicated his joyasked in General Ability, 2003
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105.
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Our busy and absent-minded father would never worry about us children; our mother did worry. Yet she allowed us to go off into the hills immediately after breakfast, and did not complain when we came back long after suppertime. Though she had a bad head for heights, she never restrained us from climbing in dangerous places; and we never got hurt. Having a bad head for heights myself, I trained myself deliberately and painfully to overcome it.
[1] The children regularly went to the hills
(a) for the greater part of the day
(b) for a couple of hours
(c) for the afternoon only
(d) after sunset till supper-time[2] In this passage, 'restrained' implies:
(a) Refused
(b) Suspected
(c) Forced
(d) Held back[3] The phrase 'deliberately and painfully' implies:
(a) Pleasure
(b) Fear
(c) Determination
(d) Effort
[4] The father did not worry about the children because
(a) he was involved in his business
(b) he knew their mother did
(c) he did not care about them
(d) men worry less than women do[5] Which of the following statements best expresses the main thought in this passage?
(a) The indifference of the parents led to the children's growing up wild.
(b) The mother trusted her children and in spite of normal anxiety, gave them freedom to explore the countryside and they came to no harm.
(c) His mother's fear of heights spurred on the author to conquer the same fear in himself.
(d) The mother never complained when her children were climbing.asked in General Ability, 2003
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106.
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Job enlargement stems from the thinking of industrial engineers. The idea is to break up the monotony of a limited routine and work cycle by increasing a job's scope. Work functions from a horizontal slice of an organizational unit are combined, thereby giving each employee more operations to perform. For example, the work from two or more positions may be combined to restore some sense of the wholeness of the Job. Another basic strategy was inspired by motivational theory. Job enrichment tries to deal with dissatisfied workers by increasing the depth of their jobs; Work activities from a vertical slice of the organizational unit are combined into one position to give employees more autonomy on the job. The idea is to develop a stronger sense of accountability by allowing workers to set their own work pace, correct their own errors, and decide the best way to perform various tasks. Workers may also be shifted routinely from job to job within the same company so that they can develop a variety of skills. Job rotation of this sort motivates workers by challenging them and enabling them to learn new skills. Job rotation may be combined with job enlargement and job enrichment.
[1] Job rotation
(a) increases workers' punctuality
(b) spurs the workers to learn new skills
(c) enables the management to reduce losses
(d) increases an organization's competitive edge[2] Job enrichment
(a) motivates the workers to decide the best way to perform different tasks
(b) enhances the quality-consciousness of the workers
(c) is best developed during brainstorming sessions
(d) helps the workers to get enhanced wages[3] Job enlargement is practised mainly
(a) to increase volume of sales
(b) to combine work functions so as to increase job's scope
(c) to reduce the manpower requirement
(d) to stimulate workers' innovative thinking[4] Select the correct statement:
(a) Job enlargement increases the depth of the job for dissatisfied worker
(b) A basic premise of job enrichment is that it permits the workers to set their own work pace
(c) Job enlargement and job enrichment are synonyms for the same approach
(d) Job enlargement and job rotation cannot be combinedasked in General Ability, 2003
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