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Deriving Conclusions Test

20. Which one of the following is correct? 25. Typically, the entrepreneur is seen as individual who
(A) Caroline had been penalised many times before for owns and operates a small business. But, simply to
driving offences. own and operate a small business or even a big
(B) Caroline was an officer of the law. business does not make someone an entrepreneur. If
( C) Caroline was a prospective juror. this person is a true entrepreneur, then new products
(D) Caroline was undergoing police training. are being created, new ways of providing services are
being implemented.
Each of the following questions contains a small passage Which of the following conclusion can best be drawn
and an instruction at the end. Tick the right option as per from the above passage?
requirement of given instructions. (A) An owner of a large business can be an
entrepreneur.
21. The movement to ownership by unions is the latest step
(B) Someone who develops an enterprise may be
in the progression from management ownership to considered an entrepreneur.
employee ownership. Employee ownership can save ( C) Entrepreneurs do not own and operate small
depressed and losing except : businesses.
(A) Employee-owned companies generally have (D) Entrepreneurs are the main factors in economic
higher productivity. growth.
(B) Employee participation in management raises
morale.
( C) Employee union ownership drive up salaries and 26. Buy Plenty, a supermarket chain, had successfully
wages. implemented an in-store promotional campaign based
(D) Employee union ownership enables workers to on video messages flashed on a large screen. The
share in the profits. purpose of the campaign was to motivate customers to
purchase products which they had not planned to buy
before they entered the store. The sales manager of
22. When Herodotus wrote his history of the ancient
Build-it Inc., a chain of do-it yourself hardware
world, he mixed the lives of the famous with those of stores, saw the campaign and plans to introduces it in
the everyday. He wanted not only to record the events Build-it locations. Three sales manager plan assumes
that shaped his work but also give his readers a taste of that :
life in past times and far away places. (A) Supermarket and hardware products are the same.
(A) Herodotus performed the tasks of both historian (B) Products cannot be sold successfully without a
and journalist. video campaign.
(B) Historians alone cannot reconstruct times and ( C) Supermarket chains do not sell hardware
social circles.
( C) Herodotus’s history was based of scanty evidence. products.
(D) None of these. (D) Consumers decision makings to buy a product
does not substantially change when it comes to
both supermarket and hardware products.
23. “The United States gives billions of dollars in foreign
aid to Balonia. Leaders of Balonia resent foreign aid.
Read the following passages and choose the right option :
The United States should discontinue direct foreign aid
to developing countries.” 27. Try before you pay. We use this memorable saying to
Which of the following statements, if true, would urge you to experience the consequences of an
weaken the above arguments? alternative before you choose it, whenever this is
(A) Balonia doesn’t need foreign aid. feasible. If you are considering buying a van after
(B) Balonia isn’t a developing country. having always owned sedans, rent one for a week or
( C) Balonia is ruled by a dictator. borrow a friend’s. By experiencing the consequences
(D) Balonia’s balance of payments is in surplus. first hand, they become more meaningful. In addition,
you are likely to identify consequences you had not
24. In winning its bitter, protracted battle to acquire Blue even thought of before. May be you will discover that
Industries, Inc., Belle Industries has fulfilled its it is difficult to park the van in your small parking
reliance on tobacco holdings, while the $5.2 billion deal space at work, but that, on the other hand, your elderly
may spin more takeover activity in the insurance father has a much easier time getting in and out of it.
industry, analysts said. (A) If you are planning to buy a van after being used
Which of the following can be inferred from the to sedans, borrow a van or rent it and try it before
passage? deciding to buy it. Then you may realize that
(A) Blue industries are in the tobacco industry. parking a van is difficult while it is easier for your
(B) Belle industries are in the insurance business. elderly father to get in and out of it.
( C) Blue industries are in the insurance business.
(D) More investment takes place in the tobacco
industry than in the insurance industry.

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