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pawan | Re: ATMA Exam Specimen Answer Sheet I am providing you the sample question paper of AIMS Test for Management Admissions (ATMA) Exam ATMA Exam question paper Verbal Skill Part A Directions for Questions 1-6: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. How Facebook is changing the way we consume news Greg Marras team designs the code that drives Facebooks News Feed the stream of updates, photographs, videos and stories that users see. The 26-year-old Facebook engineer is also fast becoming one of the most influential people in the news business. Facebook now has a fifth of the world about 1.3 billion people logging on at least monthly. It drives up to 20 percent of traffic to news sites, according to figures from the analytics company SimpleReach. On mobile devices, the fastest-growing source of readers, the percentage is even higher, SimpleReach says. About 30 percent of adults in the U.S. get their news on Facebook, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. Though other services, like Twitter and Google News, can also exert a large influence, Facebook is at the forefront of a fundamental change in how people consume journalism. Most readers now come to news not through the print editions of newspapers and magazines or their home pages online, but through social media and search engines driven by an algorithm, a mathematical formula that predicts what users might want to read. It is a world of fragments, filtered by code and delivered on demand. For news organizations, said Cory Haik, senior editor for digital news at The Washington Post, the shift represents the great unbundling of journalism. People wont type in washingtonpost.com anymore, Ms. Haik said. Its search and social. In an interview at Facebooks sprawling headquarters here, Mr. Marra said he does not think too much about his impact on journalism. We try to explicitly view ourselves as not editors, he said. We dont want to have editorial judgment over the content thats in your feed. Youve made your friends, youve connected to the pages that you want to connect to and youre the best decider for the things that you care about.Mr. Marra said, Were saying We think that of all the stuff youve connected yourself to, this is the stuff youd be most interested in reading. Roughly once a week, he and his team of about 16 adjust the complex computer code that decides what to show a user when he or she first logs on to Facebook. The code is based on thousands and thousands of metrics, Mr. Marra said, including what device a user is on, how many comments or likes a story has received and how long readers spend on an article. The goal is to identify what users most enjoy, and its results vary around the world. In India, he said, people tend to share what the company calls the ABCDs: astrology, Bollywood, cricket and divinity 1) According to the passage, about 30% of adults in the U.S. get their news on A) Twitter B) Google News C) Facebook D) None of the options 2) The ABCDs mentioned in the passage refer to A) Astrology, Bollywood, Cricket, Divinity B) Astrology, Bollywood, Cricket, Diversity C) Astronomy, Bollywood, Cricket, Divinity D) Astronomy, Bollywood, Cricket, Democracy 3) Presently, most of the readers prefer to read news through A) Print editions of newspapers and magazines B) Home pages, of newspapers and magazines, online C) Social media and search engines D) All the options 4) Why do Marra and his team adjust the complex computer code once a week? A) It shows Marra and his team as to what Facebook users enjoy most. B) It decides what to show a user when he/she first logs on to Facebook. C) It displays a wide range of programs that Facebook users log on for the first time. D) It takes stock of the likes and dislikes of Facebook users. 5) Choose the SYNONYM of 'fragments' as used in the passage. A) Pages B) Editions C) Figures D) Pieces 6) What does Greg Marra's team do? A) They write about the latest current events. B) They publish Facebook's news updates. C) They design the code that drives Facebook's News Feed. D) They devise the methodology of writing codes for News Feed. Directions for Questions 7-12: Fill in the blank with the correct Article: 7) ______ Newton is a great scientist. A) No Article required B) A C) The D) An 8) _________ frozen snow crushed under the wheels of our car. A) An B) No Article required C) The D) A 9) _______ town is famous for its hot springs. A) A B) The C) An D) No Article required 10) We decided to go boating on __________ Dal lake. A) An B) No Article required C) A D) The 11) Two men are assisting _______ police in their enquiry. A) An B) A C) The D) No Article required 12) ________ Penguins and ostriches are flightless birds. A) The B) A C) An D) No Article required Directions for Questions 13-18: Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb: 13) She _______ ten years ago. A) Die B) Dies C) Has died D) Died 14) Plutonium is a fuel used to _____ nuclear energy. A) Produced B) Produces C) Produce D) Producing 15) Vegetarianism ______ very popular these days. A) Are B) Is C) Has been D) Were 16) When the violinist finished, the audience ________ for five minutes. A) Clapped B) Claps C) Had clap D) Has clapped 17) She _______ the television on continuously. A) Have B) Is having C) Has had D) Has 18) We must _________ the feelings of other people. A) Considered B) Have consider C) Considers D) Consider Directions for Questions 19-24: Fill in the blank with the correct option: 19) She went out without ________ money. A) Lot B) A lot C) Some D) Any 20) Last week, we went out with _______ friends. A) Some B) Much C) Lot D) No 21) I drink _________ of water every day. A) Little B) Much C) A lot D) A little 22) He has travelled ________. A) Some B) A lot C) Many D) Lot 23) The bus service is very good, there is a bus _________ ten minutes. A) Most B) Every C) Some D) All 24) Can you lend me ________ money, please. A) Some B) Few C) Little D) Much Directions for Questions 25-30: Identify the error in the following sentence. The error if any will be in one part of the sentence, the number of that part is your answer. If there is no error, mark your answer as 4. Ignore punctuation errors. 25) (1) There is plenty of / (2) water in the lakes, / (3) despite the drought this year. / (4) No error. A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 26) (1) Finally, he completed his presentation / (2) offer some constructive suggestions / (3) for further reading. / (4) No error. A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 For complete question paper here is the attachment |
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