Para Jumbles:Test-13

A. Call it the third wave sweeping the Indian media.
B. Now, they are starring in a new role, as suave dealmakers who are in a hurry to strike alliances and agreements.
C. Look around and you will find a host of deals that have been inked or are ready to be finalized.
D. Then the media barons wrested back control from their editors and turned marketing warriors with the brand as their missiles.
E. The first came with those magnificent men in their mahogany chambers who took on the world with their mighty fountain pens.

A. His left-hand concealed a blackjack, his right-hand groped for the torch in his pocket.
B. The meeting was scheduled for 9 0’ clock, and his watch showed the time to be a quarter to nine.
C. The man lurked in the corner, away from the glare of light.
D. His heart thumped in his chest, sweat beads formed themselves on his forehead his mouth was dry.

A. The director walked into the room and took a look around the class.
B. Mitch wanted to scream—the illogicality of the entire scene struck him dumb.
C. The managers started at him with the look of fear that no democratic country should tolerate in its people.
D. He walked out of the room—it was his irrevocable protest against an insensible and insensitive situation.

A. All it has to do is to drive up the inflation rate- examples are the damage Lyndon Johnson’s inflationary policies did to the US economy and the damage which consistently pro-inflationary policies have done to the economy of Italy.
B. It is easy, the record shows, for a government to do harm to its domestic economy.
C. Contrary to what economists confidently promised forty years ago, business cycles have not been abolished.
D. They still operate pretty much the way they have been operating for the past 150 years,
E. But there is not the slightest evidence that any government policy to stimulate the economy has impact, whether that policy be Keynesian, monetarist, supply -side or neoclassical.

A. When identity is thus ‘defined by contrast’, divergence with the West becomes central.
B. Indian religious literature such as the Bhagwad Gita or the Tantric texts, which are identified as differing from secular writings seen as ‘western’, elicits much greater interest in the West than do other Indian writings, including India’s long history of heterodoxy.
C. There is a similar neglect of Indian writing on non-religious subjects, from mathematics, epistemology and natural science to economics and linguistics.
D. Through selective emphasis that point up differences with the West, other civilizations can, in this way, be redefined in alien terms which can be exotic and charming, or else bizarre and terrifying, or simple strange and engaging.
E. The exception is the Kamasutra in which western readers have managed to cultivate an interest.