(Paper) The Review of CET Sample Paper
The Review of CET Sample Paper
21. The stock markets ________ . The state they are in right now speaks volumes about this fact.
(a) is the barometer of public confidence.
(b) are the best indicators of public sentiment.
(c) are used to trade in expensive shares.
(d) are not used to taking stock of all markets.
Directions for Q. 22 to 24: Choose the pair, which does not exhibit the relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalised pair.
22. TEMPERATURE: HEAT
(a) votes : popularity (b) IQ : intelligence
(c) ohms : resistance (d) speed : distance
23. STUBBORN: ADAPTABLE
(a) stupid : bright (b) moral : amoral
(c) inherent : extraneous (d) friend : enemy
24. PROGRESS: PROGRESSIVE
(a) terror : terrorist (b) sympathy : sympathizer
(c) revolution : revolutionary (d) reform : reformist
Directions Q 25 to 34: Pick out the most effective words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
25. Indications are that the government is …… to the prospect of granting bonus to the striking employees.
(a) aligned (b) obliged (c) reconciled (d) relieved
26. Shivalal ……. classical music. He always prefers Bhimsen Joshi to Asha Bhonsale, and Pandit Jasraj to Kumar Sanu.
(a) adores (b) apprehends (c) encompasses (d) cultivates
27. As a general rule, politicians do not ……. centre stage
(a) forward (b) forbid (c) forgive (d) forsake
28. The ……. study on import of natural gas from Iran through a pipeline would be completed shortly.
(a) natural (b) calculated (c) economic (d) feasibility
29. His party is solely to be blamed for the political ……. in the country.
(a) devaluation (b) revival (c) advocacy (d) stalemate
30. His face was not made up of ………. and ……… but by the sheer force of thinking.
(a) powder, rouge (b) mouth, eyebrows
(c) skin, bone (d) textures, complexion
31. It has been universally ………. that widespread destruction must be necessary….. with modern warfare.
(a) realised, appendage (b) accepted, antidote
(c) acknowledged, concomitant (d) understood, threshold
32. For a ………… reader, the author’s influence is like a …………
(a) discerning, spell (b) cold, force
(c) good, revelation (d) perceptive, panorama
33. If you have come to the conference table with such an ……….. attitude, we cannot expect to reach a …………. agreement.
(a) ancillary, lasting (b) effervescent, conclusive
(c) indolent, steadfast (d) obdurate, harmonious
34. It is true that the kind of specialised knowledge which is required for various kinds of skills, has little to do with wisdom. With every increase of knowledge and skill, knowledge becomes more necessary, for every such increase ………. our capacity for evil.
(a) augments (b) incites (c) excites (d) makes
Directions for Q. 35 to 39: Each of these questions contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of three. Choose the set in which the statements are most logically related
35.
A. No fishes breathe through lungs. B. All fishes have scales.
C. Some fishes breed upstream. D. All whales breathe through lungs.
E. No whales are fishes. F. All whales are mammals.
(a) ABC (b) BCD (c) ADE (d) DEF
36.
A. All men are men of scientific ability.
B. Some women are women of scientific ability.
C. All men are men of artistic genius.
D. Some men and women are of scientific ability.
E. Some men of artistic genius are men of scientific ability.
F. Some women of artistic genius are women of scientific ability.
(a) ACD (b) ACE (c) DEF (d) ABC
37.
A. Some mammals are carnivores. B. All whales are mammals.
C. All whales are aquatic animals. D. All whales are carnivores.
E. Some aquatic animals are mammals. F. Some mammals are whales.
(a) ADF (b) ABC (c) AEF (d) BCE
38.
A. All roses are fragrant. B. All roses are majestic.
C. All roses are plants. D. All roses need air.
E. All plants need air. F. All plants need water.
(a) CED (b) ACB (c) BDC (d) CFE
39.
A. All candid men are persons who acknowledge merit in a rival.
B. Some learned men are very candid.
C. Some learned men are not persons who acknowledge merit in a rival.
D. Some learned men are persons who are very candid.
E. Some learned men are not candid.
F. Some persons who recognize merit in a rival are candid.
(a) ABE (b) ACF (c) ADE (d) BAF
40.
A. All bartenders are wine tasters.
B. Some bartenders are wine tasters.
C. No wine tasters die of heart attack.
D. No bartenders die of heart attack.
E. Some wine tasters do not die of heart attack.
F. Some who do not die of heart attack are wine tasters.
(a) FDE (b) CAD (c) BCD (d) BFE
PASSAGE- 1
Modern computers are masters of disguise. They have to be. For although technological progress is good at making computer hardware quicker, smaller and cheaper, it often leaves behind the software that made the machines useful, in the first place. Since many people resent having to junk perfectly good programs when they buy the latest computer, a host of tricks has been developed over the past few years to stop software becoming redundant. The idea is to get modern computers to impersonate or emulate older ones, providing the appropriate environment in which to run old-fashioned software.
Emulation, once confined to a few niches of the computer industry, is now widespread. Indeed, it goes on inside many computers all the time, bridging the gap between different processors and operating systems. Intel’s Pentium Pro, Pentium II and the new Pentium III chips contain special hardware to provide backwards compatibility with older processors while allowing for improvements in performance. Since 1994, Apple’s Macintosh computers have contained software to enable them to emulate older models that used a different microprocessor. And perhaps the best-known example is Sun’s cross-platform language, Java. Called a Java virtual machine, something that does not even physically exist, it allows software to run on any device capable of emulating a fictitious computer.
The simplest sort of software emulator, called an interpreter, works by looking up each instruction from the foreign program to find how to carry out the equivalent operation on the host machine. This slow but reliable method allows modern PCs, for example, to emulate arcadegames machines from the 1980s whose microprocessors ran at a fraction of the speed. More sophisticated are just-in-time compilers, or JITs. After examining each instruction and translating it into the native format of the system that it is running on, JITs keep the translated code around in case it is needed again. And since most software repeats itself and small chunks of code are typically run many times in a program, the chances are high that the translated code will indeed be re-used. That usually makes a JIT faster than an interpreter.
The power of the modern computer means, however, that even cleverer emulators are now being developed. Dynamic Recompiling (DR) emulators do not stop at translating instructions; they go on to analyze how the new code works and translate the clumsiest bits all over again in order to improve efficiency. Connectix, a company based in California, developed one such emulator, the Virtual Game Station (VGS). It emulates Sony’s Play Station on a Macintosh personal computer. Sony, which launched a new Play Station 2, is cross about this, but not because VGS might affect the sales of consoles, which are sold at a loss, and encourage people to buy the games. It is cross, the firm claims, because VGS might not be up to the job and customers might accordingly get an inferior impression of Sony games. The American courts have so far, however, ruled in favour of Connectix.
Connectix is a veteran of the emulator business. It sells also a program that enables a Macintosh to impersonate a PC. But emulation is encouraging entrepreneurs also to start new companies. That is a sure sign that something significant, and possibly lucrative, is happening. Two of these start-ups—TeraGen and a secretive outfit called Transmeta—are following the hardware route. They have adopted a variation on the approach used by Intel to make its new chips faster while remaining compatible with earlier microprocessors. This involves translating the intricate instructions favoured by earlier chip designers into simpler rudimentary instructions, called micro-operations that can be rearranged by the processor to improve performance. TeraGen’s approach builds on this idea, but generalizes it so that the company’s custom-built chips can translate instructions from, and hence emulate, more than one kind of processor at a time.
Although Transmeta has not disclosed its plans, a patent granted to the company in November 1998 suggests that it, too, is working on a processor based on generalized micro-operations. In addition, Transmeta’s technology appears to be a hybrid. The original code is translated using software, while the hardware handles the housekeeping associated with emulating multiple chips at once, a trick that could enable computers to don a host of new disguises in the future.
41. According to the author, modern computers are masters of disguise because
(a) computer hardware is ever quicker, smaller and faster
(b) some people resent having to junk perfectly good programs
(c) modern computers either impersonate or emulate older ones
(d) none of the above
42. The passage is most likely to be
(a) the continuation of a preceding passage
(b) the continuation of a subsequent passage
(c) the last part of a bigger passage
(d) none of the above
43. Emulation
(a) goes on inside many computers all the time
(b) provides backwards compatibility with older processes
(c) bridges the gap between different processors and operating systems
(d) all of the above.
44. The word ‘emulate,’ as used in the passage, can best be replaced by
(a) imitate (b) work as well or better than
(c) impersonate (d) disguise
45. What is Java, according to the passage?
(a) A software program
(b) A language that runs on a fictitious computer
(c) A computer language that enables software to run on different processors
(d) All of the above
46. Why is a JIT faster compared to an interpreter?
(a) It is the more sophisticated computer
(b) It keeps the translated code around in case the latter is needed again
(c) It translates each instruction and adapts it to the native format of the system.
(d) None of the above
47. Why is Sony cross about the VGS developed by Connectix?
(a) VGS might affect Sony’s sales.
(b) VGS might be sold at a loss to encourage people to buy it
(c) VGS might not be up to customer expectations
(d) All of the above
48. The tone of the authorial voice can best be described as being
(a) matter-of-fact (b) laudatory (c) sardonic (d) none of the above
49. Which of the following statements is not true?
(a) Interpreters have helped to emulate arcade games machines right from the 1980s onwards
(b) Trans Meta is working on designing a processor based on generalised microoperations
(c) The VGS developed by Connectix can be used only on a Macintosh personal computer.
(d) None of the above
50. An ideal title for the passage would be:
(a) Connectix vs. Sony (b) Emulation is the key
(c) All about modern compilers (d) None of the above
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