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(2) UGC wants lecturers to spend minimum 22 hours a 63. What is the UGC directive to the universities?
week in direct teaching. (A) Improve the quality of teaching.
(3) Indian higher education system is in unsound state. (B) Spend time on research activities.
(A) Only (1) and (3) ( C) Do not appoint any permanent teacher.
(B) All (1), (2) and (3) (D) Provide computer and internet facilities.
( C) Only (3) (E) Do not spend money on counseling services to the
(D) Only (2) students.
(E) Only (2) and (3)
64. Choose the word which is similar in meaning as the
58. Besides direct teaching, University teachers spend word ‘sustained’ as used in the passage.
considerable time in/on ............. (A) Continuous
(A) administrative activities such as admissions. (B) Frequent
(B) supervising examinations and correction of answer ( C) Careless
papers. (D) Deliberate
( C) carrying out research in the area of their interest. (E) Sporadic
(D) maintaining research equipment and libraries.
(E) developing liaison with the user organization. Passage 8

59. Which of the following statements is not true in the The global interest in energy issues triggered off by the
context of the passage? sharp increases in oil prices in 1973 and 1979 has since
(A) UGC wants teachers to spend minimum 40 hours in waned. With the dramatic fall in oil prices is the late 1980s,
a week in teaching. there is a euphoric feeling the world over that energy is no
(B) Some college teachers do not engage their classes longer a problem. Vigorous policies instituted in the 1970s
regularly. to contain the growth of energy demand have been
( C) The average collect teacher in India does not have discontinued in many countries. In general, the attitude is
any office space. one of ‘business as usual’. India is no exception. There is
(D) UGC wants universities to abolish all posts which no evidence of appreciation at the policy level of the fact
have been vacant for more than a year. that, for India, the energy future is likely to be grim and
(E) All of these are true. that ensuring adequate availability to sustain even a modest
rate of economic growth will be a major challenge.
60. Between 1985 and 1997, the number of teachers in
Energy consumption is not an end in itself. Its importance
higher education per million population, in India ......
lies in the fact that it is an essential overhead for economic
(A) increased by 60% development. Energy plays a dual role : It is an input into
(B) increased by 20% the productive sectors of the economy, namely agriculture
( C) increased by 22% and industry and the supporting infrastructure of transport.
(D) increased by 10% It is also a consumer good : energy consumed in
(E) increased by 1%
households has a direct impact on the quality of life. It is
not surprising, therefore, that studies of energy
61. Which of the following statements is not true in the
context of the passage? consumption patterns across countries and over periods of
(A) Indian universities are financially neglected time clearly establish a correlation between per capita
(B) All over the world, the university lecturer hardly energy consumption and per capita income. Even within a
spend more than 12 to 15 hours a week in direct country, the affluent sections of society consume larger
teaching. amounts of energy per capita then the poorer sections. The
extent of access to energy sources and the availability of
( C) Indian universities are asked to reduce staff
energy at affordable prices have distributive implications.
strength by 10%. The equity aspect must, therefore, figure as an element of
(D) Public investment in higher education has energy policy.
increased in India.
(E) Malaysia spends more money on education than The basic features of India’s energy situation are well-
Thailand. known and do not require elaboration. Per capita
consumption of energy is low - about one-fourth of the
62. Choose the word which is similar in meaning as the world average and about one twenty-fifth that of the
word ‘freeze’ as used in the passage. U.S.A., and reflects the mass poverty still prevalent in the
(A) Cold country. Traditional fuels like fuelwood, animal drug and
(B) Halt crop residue account, even now, for as much as 35 to 40%
( C) Decay of the total energy consumption in the country.
(D) Control
(E) Power

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