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DIRECTIONS (Qs. 121-125) : In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).

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After two years, high inflation moderated in the later part of 2011-12 in response to past monetary tightening and growth deceleration. High inflation had adverse consequences on welfare and on saving and investment, particularly household saving in financial assets. The most serious consequence of inflation is …………………… As growth slowed down, in part due to high inflation, it further reduced the welfare of the common man through adverse impact on employment and incomes.

A. its destructive allocation impact on the industries that were lately coming up.

B. its negative impact on the rich and high-profile people.

C. its adverse distributional impact on the poor, people without social security and pensioners.

D. its unfavourable bearing on day to day commodities that are used by the common man.

Correct Answer :

D. its unfavourable bearing on day to day commodities that are used by the common man.


The most serious consequence of inflation is its unfavourable bearing on day to day commodities that are used by the common man.

Related Questions

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Two Person P and Q are separated by a distance of 20 meter in west-east direction respectively. Now P and Q start walking in north and south direction respectively and walked for 5 meter. Now P and Q took a right turn and walked 10m each. Now P and Q took left turn and after walking 5 meter both of them stopped. Find the distance between them

A. 15

B. 25

C. 30

D. None of these

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Who among the following sits second to the right of the person who faces the vacant seat ?

A. One who likes Cricket

B. One who likes Boxing

C. Sardana Singh

D. P.V.Sindhu

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Who among the following have seminar on Friday?

A. I, E

B. H, J

C. B, A

D. D, E

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Which of the following error occurs when software tries to access protected memory?

A. Segmentation Fault

B. Display time Error

C. IO Error

D. Runtime Error

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Which among the following is the difference in value between a country's imports and exports?

A. Balance of Trade

B. Balance of Payment

C. Balance of power

D. Credit Balance

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Who is Y's husband ?

A. Q

B. P

C. X

D. Can't be determined

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A five digit number is formed with the digits 0,1,2,3 and 4 without repetition. Find the chance that the number is divisible by 5.

A. 3/5

B. 1/5

C. 2/5

D. 4/5

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EMBEZZLE

A. Misappropriate

B. Balance

C. Remunerate

D. Clear

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Statements : No photo is frame. All frames are sites. Some buckets are photos. Some sites are buckets.
Conclusions:
I. No photo is site.
II. All buckets being frames is a possibility
III. Some sites are photos
IV. Some buckets are frames.

A. All follows

B. Only II and III follow

C. Only II, III and IV follow.

D. Only either I or III follows

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NONDESCRIPT

A. Conducive

B. Discern

C. Tantamount

D. Defined

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Statement : X × W, W @ Z , Z % Y
Conclusion:
I.Y $ W II.Z $ W III.X � Y

A. Only I is true

B. Ony II is true

C. Both I and II are true

D. Both I and III are true

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Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to the group?

A. G - HP

B. C - Apple

C. F - Samsung

D. H - TOSHIBA

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After two years, high inflation moderated in the later part of 2011-12 in response to past monetary tightening and growth deceleration. High inflation had adverse consequences on welfare and on saving and investment, particularly household saving in financial assets. The most serious consequence of inflation is …………………… As growth slowed down, in part due to high inflation, it further reduced the welfare of the common man through adverse impact on employment and incomes.

A. its destructive allocation impact on the industries that were lately coming up.

B. its negative impact on the rich and high-profile people.

C. its adverse distributional impact on the poor, people without social security and pensioners.

D. its unfavourable bearing on day to day commodities that are used by the common man.

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An inspector is 228 meter behind the thief. The inspector runs 42 meters and the thief runs 30 meters in a minute. In what time will the inspector catch the thief?

A. 19 minutes

B. 20 minutes

C. 18 minutes

D. 21 minutes

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4

Ashok can row upstream at 8 kmph and downstream at 12 kmph.What is the speed of the stream ?

A. 6 km/hr

B. 3 km/h

C. 2 km/hr

D. 4 km/hr

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However, it is possible that the non -resident entity may have a business connection with the resident Indian entity. In such a case, the resident Indian entity could be treated as Permanent Establishment of the nonresident entity. ……………During the last decade or so, India has seen a steady growth of outsourcing of business processes by non residents or foreign companies to IT -enabled entities in India. Such entities are either branches or associated enterprises of the foreign enterprise or an independent India enterprise. The nonresident entity or foreign company will be liable to tax in India only if the IT -enabled BPO unit in India constitutes its Permanent Establishment.

A. The tax treatment of the Permanent Establishment in such a case is under consideration

B. How would the profit would be shared is not decided yet?

C. A lengthy and cumber some process requiring a lot of application of mind and revenue principles is ahead for the tax department of India

D. A new trend is seen in last decade.

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8 litres are drawn from a flask containing milk and then filled with water. The operation is performed 3 more times. The ratio of the quantity of milk left and total solution is 81/625. How much milk the flask initially holds?

A. 10 ltr

B. 20 ltr

C. 30 ltr

D. 40 ltr

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Find the average number of males in all the 7 states ?

A. 5 lak

B. 6 lak

C. 5.57 lak

D. 6.57 lak

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What is Cash Reserve Ratio?

A. Deposits of banks in government securities

B. Rate at which banks borrow funds from the RBI

C. Deposits (as cash) which banks have to keep/maintain with the RBI

D. Rate at which RBI borrows money from the banks

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Statements: Some trees are plants. All trees are houses. No plant is pot. All tools are pots.
Conclusions:
I. Some plants are tools is a possibility.
II. All trees are tools is a possibility.
III. No plant is house.
IV. All plants are houses is a possibility.

A. Only I and III follow.

B. Either III or IV follows

C. Only IV follows

D. None follows.

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According to the 2016 Jane's Defence Budgets Report, India's position among the global defence spender is _____________.

A. Fourth

B. Third

C. Ninth

D. Fifth

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Assembly is a _______ based low-level language replacing binary machine-code instructions, which are very hard to remember, it is the classic and uncontroversial example of a low level language.

A. Memory

B. High Level

C. Key

D. Mnemonic

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According to the Constitution (122nd Amendment) GST Bill 2014, which of the following is exempted from its purview?

A. Tobacco Products

B. Alcohol

C. Steel

D. Jute Products

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Which among the following is an important circuitry in a computer system that directs the operation of the processor?

A. Memory

B. Address Bus

C. Accumulator

D. Control Unit

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If D and F interchange their places then who among the following is on the immediate left of G?

A. B

B. D

C. H

D. F

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Statements: All seats are covers. No cover is bun. Some buns are roofs. Some sites are covers.
Conclusions:
I. All sites being buns is a possibility
II. All sites being roof is a possibility
III. Some sites are not buns.
IV. No seat is bun

A. Only II, III and either I or IV follow.

B. Only III follows

C. All follows.

D. Only II, III and IV follow

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14 8 6 6 7 ?

A. 6.5

B. 7.5

C. 8.5

D. 9.5

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James' present age is 2/7th of his father's present age. James' brother is three year older to James. The respective ratio between present ages of James' father and James' brother is 14:5. What is the present age of James?

A. 12 years

B. 23 years

C. 19 years

D. 27 years

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Though private ferry systems have made going to holy places easy, today many pilgrims died in a stampede while boarding a private ferry.
I. The state government should cancel the licenses of all such private ferry operators.
II. The state government should deploy some people to guide the pilgrims on their journey to the holy place.

A. If only course of action I follows

B. If only course of action II follows

C. If either course of action I or II follows.

D. If neither course of action I nor II follows.

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What is the total population of State J & K ?

A. 11.55 lak

B. 10.65 lak

C. 10.55 lak

D. 9.78 lak