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Directions (1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
The hotline conversation between the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan and their agreement “to undertake sincere measures to improve the existing situation ensuring peace and avoidance of hardships to the citizens”, and to “fully implement the ceasefire understanding of 2003 in letter and spirit forthwith” is a long-awaited development. The wording of the near-identical statements issued by India and Pakistan is the most promising heard from the bilateral front in the last two years, especially the recommitment to the 2003 ceasefire. It was the ceasefire that paved the way for the Vajpayee-Musharraf statement of 2004 and a dialogue that lasted until the Mumbai attacks. What Tuesday’s agreement may lead to is still uncertain. It is sufficient that the two sides have unequivocally said they will respect the ceasefire. Scores of civilians living along the LoC have perished in these incidents, which spiked after the 2016 attack on the Uri garrison and the subsequent strike by India inside PoK. In the same period, India has lost more soldiers in ceasefire violations than at any other period of peace time. On the same day as the DGMOs spoke, the Kashmiri separatist leadership, responding to Union Minister Rajnath Singh’s offer of talks, indicated it was open to dialogue with the Centre, without any mention of its usual preconditions.
If all this does not square with the Pakistan Army-created kerfuffle over a book length conversation between two long retired spy bosses of India and Pakistan in which neither says anything that is not already in the public realm, it is because in India-Pakistan relations, trying to reconcile everything is near impossible. The Pakistan Army’s decision to pull in its former DG ISI and put him on the “exit control list” for shooting the breeze with his friend, a former head of RAW, on Kargil among other things, should be seen as of a piece with the power struggle in Pakistan.
A general election is due to be held in Pakistan in a couple of months, and a former chief justice has been appointed to head the caretaker government. The disqualified-for-life Nawaz Sharif has been addressing rallies and public meetings, alleging the Army was behind his removal, and indeed, behind all Pakistan’s problems. His remarks that “non-state actors” had been allowed to cross Pakistan’s borders and kill “common people” in Mumbai have not gone down well with the Army. The former DG ISI, not particularly known as a friend of Pakistan’s civilian governments, broadly vindicates Sharif’s position in the book co-authored with his Indian friend. His former institution had to act quickly, before the carefully built up narrative against the “anti-national” Sharif started disintegrating. For the Pakistan Army, though, the real message is that narratives cannot be controlled beyond a point. That the entire drama unfolded at a time when India and Pakistan have taken steps to reduce hostilities only makes the self-serving nature of nationalist narratives more obvious.
Q1. As per the passage, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from his duties. Whom did he allege for his disqualification?
(a) The DG, ISI
(b) The Government
(c) The Army
(d) Civilians
(e) None of the Above
S1. Ans.(c)
Sol. Refer 3rd paragraph 2nd line.
Q2. Which of the following statements is/are correct in context to the passage?
(I) Ceasefire paved the way for the Vajpayee-Musharraf statement of 2004.
(II) The former DG ISI justifies Sharif’s position in a book co-authored with his Indian friend.
(III)A general election is due to be held in Pakistan in a couple of months, and a former chief justice has been appointed to head the caretaker government.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Both (II) and (III)
(d) All are correct
(e) None of the Above.
S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. All are correct.
(I) Refer 1st para 6th line.
(II) Refer 3rd para 6th line.
(III) Refer 3rd para 1st line.
Q3. As per the passage, what were the postulates of agreement that awaited development between India and Pakistan?
(a) Improving the existing situation and ensuring peace to citizens.
(b) Full implementation of the ceasefire understanding of 2003 in letter and spirit forthwith.
(c) To successfully conduct general elections to be held in Pakistan.
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) All are correct.
S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. Refer 1st para 1st four lines.
Q4. What is meant by the idiom “shooting the breeze” used in the passage?
(a) Enjoying a pleasant weather.
(b) Spend time thinking about good times.
(c) To spend time talking about things that are not important.
(d) To do something different and amazing.
(e) None of the Above
S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. Shooting the breeze: To spend time talking about things that are not important.
Q5. Which of the following statements cannot be inferred from the following passage?
(I) Scores of deaths of civilians along the LOC spiked after the 2016 attack on the Uri garrison.
(II) India lost less soldiers in ceasefire violations than at any other period of peace time.
(III) Restoring friendly relations between India and Pakistan is near to impossible.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Both (I) and (III)
(d) Only (III)
(e) All (I), (II) and (III)
S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. Statement (II) is incorrect. Refer 1st para last 4 lines.
Q6. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR to the word given in passage.
PERISH
(a) Revive
(b) Flourish
(c) Succumb
(d) Thrive
(e) Subsist
S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Perish: to cause to die
Succumb: fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force/ die from the effect of a disease or injury.
Q7. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR to the word given in passage.
VINDICATE
(a) Refute
(b) Exonerate
(c) prolific
(d) Condemn
(e) Accuse
S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. Vindicate: show or prove to be right, reasonable, or justified.
Exonerate: (of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing.
Q8. Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR to the word given in passage.
HOSTILITY
(a) Amiability
(b) Empathy
(c) Civility
(d) Cordiality
(e) Animosity
S8. Ans.(e)
Sol. Hostility: hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition.
Animosity: strong hostility.
Q9. Choose the word which is most opposite to the following word given in bold in the passage
RECONCILE
(a) Attune
(b) Harmonize
(c) Agitate
(d) Resolve
(e) Pacify
S9. Ans.(C)
Sol. Reconcile: restore friendly relations between.
Agitate: make (someone) troubled or nervous.
Q10. Choose the word which is most opposite to the following word given in bold in the passage
UNEQUIVOCAL
(a) Assured
(b) Inexorable
(c) Explicit
(d) Dubious
(e) Certain
S10. Ans.(d)
Sol. Unequivocal: in a way that leaves no doubt.
Dubious: something you have doubts about or you suspect is not true
Directions (11-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
Q11. In the red
(a) in debt
(b) successful
(c) an absolute failure
(d) in jail
S11. Ans. (a)
Sol. In the red means to lose money or to be in debt.
Q12. Square the circle
(a) drive too recklessly
(b) train oneself without success
(c) drive around in circles
(d) do the impossible
S12. Ans. (d)
Sol. Square the circle means try to do the impossible.
Q13. Once in a blue moon
(a) on full moon nights
(b) once in two weeks
(c) rarely
(d) everyday
S13. Ans. (c)
Sol. Once in a blue moon means rarely.
Q14. At the end of one’s tether
(a) receiving money
(b) emotionally exhausted
(c) at the end of dark days
(d) achieving the result
S14. Ans. (b)
Sol. At the end of one’s tether means emotionally exhausted means having no strength or patience left.
Q15. A man of his word
(a) a straightforward man
(b) a man of high profile
(c) a person who keeps a promise
(d) a person with a vast stock of vocabulary
S15. Ans. (c)
Sol. A man of his word means someone who keeps their promises.
