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Re: Model Paper Of SNAP Test

Here I am providing the list of few questions of Symbiosis National Aptitude Test paper which you are looking for .

Symbiosis National Aptitude Test paper
1. Match the following idiomatic references to parts of the human anatomy
1)
2)
3)
4)
palm
foot
eye
stomach
5)
6)
7)
8)
could not tolerate the insult
to look at with envy and desire
to put the blame on someone else
forced to pay the bill
a.
b.
c.
d.
1-8, 2-6, 3-5, 4-7
1-5, 2-7, 3-6, 4-8
1-7, 2-8, 3-6, 4-5
1-6, 2-8, 3-5, 4-7
2. Find the maximum number of times any one of the given words fits the sets of sentences
RAISE
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
a.
b.
c.
d.
ARISE
AROSE
RISE
Opportunities will _______, and you must grab them.
A hot wind _______ from the desert.
I _______ at dawn on most days.
A mood of optimism _______ among the people.
in all four sentences
in 3 sentences
in 2 sentences
in 1 sentence
3. Which two sentences in the following convey the same idea? Choose from the combinations
listed below:
1)
2)
3)
4)
a.
b.
c.
d.
He is in a fool‘s paradise
He can‘t see the wood for the trees
He can‘t distinguish between reality and fancy.
He is unable to separate unimportant details from the really important ones
2, 3
2, 4
1, 4
1, 3
1
4. Find the correct match of grammatical function with usage for the word THEN.
Function
1)
2)
3)
4)
a.
b.
c.
d.
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
Conjunction
1-8, 2-5, 3-7, 4-7
1-6, 2-5, 3-8, 4-7
1-7, 2-5, 3-6, 4-8
1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5
Usage
5) He was the then King of Nepal.
6) I have not heard about him since then.
7) He is not feeling well, then how can he possibly go for the picnic.
8) He was not a graduate then.
5. We can never make our beliefs regarding the world certain. Even scientific theory of a most
rigorous and well-confirmed nature is likely to change over a decade or even tomorrow. If we
refuse to even try to understand, then it is likely resigning from the human race. Undoubtedly
life of an unexamined kind is worth living in other respects—as it is no mean thing to be a
vegetable or an animal. It is also true that a man wishes to see this speculation domain
beyond his next dinner.
From the above passage it is clear that the author believes that
a.
b.
c.
d.
men would do well not to speculate
progress in the scientific field is impossible
one should live life with the dictum ‗what will be will be‘
men are different from animals as far as their reasoning abilities are concerned.
For the following questions in this section, correct answers carry 1 mark each.
Directions for Question no. 6-11: Read the passage and answer within its context.
Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is getting nightmares
because of the Nano, Tata‘s soon-to-be-launched Rs. One lakh car. Sunita Narain of the centre for
science and Environment (CSE) says that it isn‘t the Nano by itself but cars overall that gives her
nightmares. The villains in my nightmares are either the Nano nor cars overall, but stupid
government policies that subsidize and encourage pollution, adulteration and congestion
Sanctimonious greens call the Nano disastrous because of its affordability millions more will now
clog roads and consume more fossil fuel. This is elitism parading as virtue. Elite greens own cars, but
cannot stand the poorer masses becoming mobile, since the consequent will eat into the time of the
elite!
More logical would be a protest against big cars that use more space and fuel, or highly polluting old
cars. Instead green hypocrites aim at a new car with the lowest cost, best mileage and least
emissions. The Nano will not burden us with too many cars. India has very few cars per person by
world standards. London and New York have ultra-high car densities, yet have clearer air than Delhi.
Our problem is too many policies, not too many cars.
We subsidize vehicles on a gargantuan scale invisible to lay folk. Roads and flyovers cost crores to
build and maintain, yet road use is free(save on a few toll roads). Traffic police and lights are costly,
yet are provided free. These invisible subsidies starve cities of funds to expand roads and public
transport.
Land in cities now costs lakhs per square metre. Yet parking is free in the suburbs, and often costs
just Rs. 10 day per day in city centres. A single parking space of 23 square meters land worth Rs. 40
lakhs. A car occupies more space than an office desk, yet the desk space pays full commercial rent
while parking space costs just about Rs. 10 per day.
Daily parking charges range from $30(RS.630) in Washington to $30(Rs. 1260) in New York, CSE
launched a sensible campaign to raise parking fees in Delhi to Rs. 120 per day, but was foiled. So,
parking space now exceeds green space, a scathing comment on priorities.
The world price of crude oil has risen 13 fold since 1998 to over %139 per barrel, but Indian petrol
prices have barely doubled. Left Front politicians, who once wanted to soak the rich, now want to
subsidize them. Under-recoveries of oil companies‘ total may be Rs. 2,00,000 crore, even after a
recent price hike. This is far more than the cost of Sarve Shiksha Abhiyan (education for all) and the
Employment Guarantee Scheme put together.
We sanctimoniously lecture rich countries to reduce their green house emissions, yet subsidize our
own. Diesel is subsidized to be cheaper than petrol. So, Indian car makers produce the highest
proportion of diesel cars in the world. Diesel fumes contain suspended particles that are highly toxic.
This subsidy kills.
So does kerosene provided at throwaway prices, ostensibly to benefit poor villagers. One third of all
kerosene is used to adulterate petrol and diesel. This causes horrendous pollution even in the greenest
of cars.
What‘s the way forward? We must abolish subsidies and raise taxes on vehicles and fuels to reflect
their full social cost. The biggest but least visible subsidy is for parking, and we should start there.
Many car owners in the West take public transport to work since parking space downtown is costly
and scarce. We should levy parking fees on an hourly, not daily, basis. Rs. 10 per hour could be a
starting point in the metros.
In parts of Tokyo, you cannot own a car unless you own a private parking space. This is too extreme
for India, but indicates the future path. If we charge owners the full social cost of parking, people
will buy smaller and perhaps fewer vehicles, and fewer still will take them to work. That will slash
congestion and pollution.
Cities should levy stiff annual taxes on vehicles, not a one-time tax, and use the revenue to
constantly expand public transport and roads. This will create economic synergy: Private transport
will finance public transport. London and New York have high density public transport as well as
high car density.
Apart from underground rail, cities need elevated roads to ease congestion and pollution. Lata
Mangeshkar helped kill a proposal for an elevated road near her Mumbai flat: perhaps she felt her
throat and singing would be affected. She did not care that the throats of poor people living on the
pavements were far worse affected by fumes, and might get relief if some fumes were diverted to a
higher level. What elitism!
Next, some medicine that will be really bitter, politically. The excise duty on all automotive vehicles
should be raised to reflect their social costs. Fuel subsidies should be abolished. Price differentials
between petrol, diesel and kerosene should be removed, ending incentives for adulteration. Diesel
cars should bear a heavy additional cess to finance improve healthcare for those affected by their
emission of harmful particulate matter.
That is a long, politically difficult agenda. Only part of it will ever be achieved. Yet that is the way
to go, rather than agitate the Nano.
6. By ’Sanctimonious greens‘ the writer refers to
a.
b.
c.
d.
aristocratic environmentalists
the rich
environmentalists with a ‘holier than thou‘ attitude
those who decry deforestation
7. The elite are
a. jealous of Nano owners
b. afraid of traffic jams and depletion of fossil fuel
c. afraid of reaching their destinations late
d. full of disdain that the poor can afford cars
8. The paradox of the situation is that
a. bigger cars mean more fuel, more space and more pollution
b. though India has fewer cars the Nano will bring more pollution
c. London and New York have more cars and less pollution
d. though India is smaller than the US its cars cause more pollution
9. In saying 23 square metres of parking space costs 40 lakhs, the writer is _____
a. caustic
b. exaggerating
c. sarcastic
d. ironical
10. The writer blames India for
a.
b.
c.
d.
subsidizing kerosene whereby greenhouse emissions are indirectly subsidized
subsidizing diesel
for increasing the cost of parking by the hour
for not making it mandatory for car owners to own parking space
11. The most suitable title for this passage is
a. Polluting Politics
b. No No Nano
c. Submerge Subsidies
d. More Cars, Less Pollution
12. The plural of Virus is
a.
b.
c.
d.
Viruses
Virae
Virii
Virus
13. If the following segments of a sentence are to be rearranged in logical order as A, B, C, D where
would ‗3‘ be placed
1) to see that students do not altogether forget to write especially during exam time
2) the education groups are now asking for hand writing classes
3) thanks to mobile testing and computer literacy
4) writing in long hand is becoming a vanishing art
a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D
14. If leaf is to leaves and knife is to knives, then belief is to --------
a.
b.
c.
d.
beliefs
believes
belief
believing
15. Choose the sentence where the underlined word is used correctly.
a.
b.
c.
d.
This latest novel is a pedestrian story about spies.
The exam paper is not pedestrian but difficult.
This is the pedestrian highway.
Every week we are forced to listen to a pedestrian lecture.
16. When the fire alarm rang _______ left the building immediately
a.
b.
c.
d.
all
everyone
all the people
every person
17. In the following sentence choose the erroneous segment/s
A
B
C
He is one of those people / who thinks / he owns the world
a.
b.
c.
d.
Error in segment A
Error in segment B
Error in segment A & C
Error in segment B & C
18. Choose the correct meaning for the word:
cynic-
a.
b.
c.
d.
the person who is selfish
the person who is concerned about others
the person who isn‘t misanthropic
the person who believes that people always act from selfish motives
19. Choose the word with correct spelling
a.
b.
c.
d.
categories
diarrhea
omission
inaugurate
20. Pick out the right sentences.
1.
2.
3.
4.
a.
b.
c.
d.
I will go with you.
There was nobody I could go with.
I have a glass with painting on it.
The curtains do not match with the furniture.
1&2
2&3
1&4
all
21. About the following pair of phrases, choose the correct option.
i.
ii.
a.
b.
c.
d.
A two days‘ visit
A two day‘s visit
The first phrase is erroneous
The second phrase is erroneous
Both phrases are erroneous
Both phrases are correct
Directions for Question No. 22 – 24: Read the following passage and answer within its context.
Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of
the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry
worries more about overbuilding than overcrowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected influx,
few inns would have managed to accommodate the weary guests. Now it is the census taker that does
the travelling in the fond hope that a highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a
good sampling. Methods of gathering, recording and evaluating information have presumably been
improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to obtain a simple head
count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated statistical series furnished
by governmental agencies and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages and
seers to get a clue for future events.
The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regards our more
immediate concern, the reliability of present-day economic forecasting, there are considerable
differences of opinion. They were aired at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the American
Statistical Association. There was the thought that business forecasting might well be on its way
from an art to a science, and some speakers talked about new-fangled computers and high-faulting
mathematical systems in terms of excitement and endearment, which we, at least in our younger
years when these things mattered, would have associated more readily with the description of a fair
maiden.
But others pointed to a deplorable record of highly esteemed forecasts and forecasters with a batting
average below that of the Mets and the President-elect of the Association cautioned that ―high-
powered statistical methods are usually in order where the facts are crude and inadequate,
statisticians assume.‖
We left his birthday party somewhere between hope and despair and with the conviction, not really
newly acquired, that proper statistical methods applied to ascertainable facts have their merits in
economic forecasting as long as neither forecaster nor public is deluded into mistaking the
delineation of probabilities and trends for a prediction of certainties of mathematical exactitude.
22. According to the passage, taxation in Roman times were based on
a.
b.
c.
d.
mobility
wealth
population
census takers
23. The author refers to the Mets primarily in order to
a.
b.
c.
d.
show that sports do not depend on statistics
contrast verifiable and unverifiable methods of record keeping
indicate the changes in attitudes from Roman days to the present
illustrate the failure of statistical predictions.
24. The author’s tone can best be described as
a. jocular
b. scornful
c. pessimistic
d. humanistic
25. Disinterested is closest in meaning to
a.
b.
c.
d.
bored
unbiased
not interested
indifferent
26. Choose the option which is nearly opposite in meaning to BERATE
a. grant
b. praise
c. refer
d. purchase
27. Arrange the following in the right order to make a complete sentence
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
a.
b.
c.
d.
with interconnected vibrating balls and springs
in a naïve sense, a field in physics may be envisioned as if space were filled
as the displacement of a ball from its rest position
and the strength of the field can be visualized
ii, i, iv, iii
i, ii, iii, iv
iv, iii, ii, i
iii, iv, i, ii
28. Find the odd one out
a.
b.
c.
d.
latent
natural
inborn
inherent
29. He told the teacher that ___________________.
a.
b.
c.
d.
he was liked by the whole class
you are liked by the whole class
he is liked by the whole class
you were liked by the whole class
30. Match the several meanings of the word COMPLEX with their appropriate usages.
Meaning
1) complicated
2) abnormal state of mind
3) group of structures
4) mixture
Usage
5) A new sports complex is coming up for the Common Wealth Games.
6) Culture is a complex whole of many things.
7) She has a complex about being overweight.
8) His motives in carrying out the crime were complex.
a.
b.
c.
d.
1-6, 2-8, 3-7, 4-5
1-8, 2-7, 3-5, 4-6
1-5, 2-7, 3-6, 4-8
1-8, 2-5, 3-6, 4-7
31. Which does not make a sensible word/phrase when added to the word:
Honey
a.
b.
c.
d.
pot
suckle
comb
taste
Directions for Question No. 32-34: Read the passage carefully and answer within the context.
In September of 1929, traders experienced a lack of confidence in the stock market‘s ability to
continue its phenomenal rise. Prices fell. For many inexperienced investors, the drop produced a
panic. They had all their money tied up in the market, and they were pressed to sell before the prices
fell even lower. Sell orders were coming in so fast that the ticker tape at the New York Stock
Exchange could not accommodate all the transactions.
To try the reestablish confidence in the market, a powerful group of New York bankers agreed to
pool their funds and purchase stock above current market values. Although the buy orders were
minimal, they were counting on their reputations to restore confidence on the part of the smaller
investors, thereby affecting the number of sell orders. On Thursday, October 24, Richard Whitney,
the Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange and a broker for the J.P. Morgan Company,
made the effort on their behalf. Initially it appeared to have been successful, then, on the following
Tuesday, the crash began again and accelerated. By 1932, stocks were worth only twenty percent of
their value at the 1929 high. The results of the crash had extended into every aspect of the economy,
causing a long and painful depression, referred to in American history as the Great Depression.
32. The New York bankers counted on –
a. Current market values
b. The number of sell orders
c. Confidence
d. Their reputation
33. The cause of downfall of share market was-
a. Inexperienced investors
b. Phenomenal decrease
c. Lack of confidence in stock market‘s ability
d. Panic amongst investors
34. Choose the word in the passage that is an antonym of the ‗minimal‘
a. Negligible
b. Minimum
c. Maximal
d. Significant
35. Identity the correct sentence.
a. The office is opposite to the bank.
b. The office is opposite the bank.
c. The office is opposite from the bank.
d. The office is opposite of the bank
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