1. Which Indian state became the first to enact a law to protect journalists?

Kerala

Goa

Maharashtra

Tripura

2. Asia's longest tunnel road has been constructed on:

Ooty highway

Wayanad highway

Jammu-Kashmir highway

India-Tibet highway

3. The Supreme Court case against former finance minister P.Chidambaram pertains to:

Sahara case

Vodafone tax case

Aircel-Maxis case

Vijay Mallya case

4. Who is the chief minister of Manipur?

Okrom Ibobi Singh

Biren Singh

Mukul Sangma

Radhabinod Koijam

5. GoAir, the low-cost air-carrier is owned by

Wadia Group

Tata Group

Reliance Group

Birla Group

6. The story for the blockbuster film Bahubali is written by:

Rajamouli

Karan Johar

Maniratnam

Vijayendra Prasad

7. Who is the editor of Times ofIndia?

Rahul Ravishankar

Arindam Sen Gupta

Amab Goswami

Jaideep Bose

8. Which of the following is DQt a Chetan Bhagat novel?

Half Girlfriend

Tale of Two States

Three Mistakes of My Life

Five-Point Someone

9. TheMinistry ofUtmostHappiness is a new novel by which celebrated author?

Amitav Ghosh

Kiran Desai

Kiran Nagarkar

Arundhati Roy

10. The British Prime Minister who oversaw the Brexit vote was

Teresa May

Jeffrey Tobin

David Cameron

Gordon Brown

11. The poisonous nerve gas that was used in Syria is

Sarin

Phosgene

Arsine

DX

12. Which ride-hailing app was found to flout Apple's privacy gUidelines?

Ola

Uber

Easy Ride

Meru

13. Who hosts the political talk show Last Week Tonight on 8BO?

Jon Stewart

John Oliver

Trevor Noah

Jimmy Kimmel

14. Who is the head coach of the national women's cricket team?

Purnima Rau

Diana Eduljee

Tushar Arothe

Sourav Ganguly

15. Which operation has been launched by the Income Tax Department to track deposits after demonetisation?

Operation Clean Money

Operation Track Black Money

Operation Clean Deposits

Operation Track Money

16. Which journalist has authored Being the Other: The Muslim in India?

MJAkbar

Saeed Naqvi

Seema Mustafa

Fareed Zakaria

17. Syed Modi is associated with which sport?

Badminton

Cricket

Chess

Table-tennis

18. Which state government has launched "Kakatiya Hub for Social Innovation," India's first social innovation centre?

Kerala

Andhra Pradesh

Tamil Nadu

Telangana

19. Which state government has recently launched the "Civil Service Awards" for excellence in public administration?

Arunachal Pradesh

Manipur

Assam

Odisha

20. Which state hosted the first-ever National Women's Parliament?

Madhya Pradesh

Odisha

Kerala

Andhra Pradesh

21. Freedom of speech and expression is a part of according to the Indian constitution?

Directive principles

Fundamental duties

Fundamental rights

Preamble

22. The author ofA Passion For Dance is:

Rukmini Devi Arundale

Padma Subramanyam

Sonal Man Singh

Yamini Krishnamurthy

23. Forests that grow in swamps along the coasts or river deltas are called

Deciduous Forests

Rainforests

Alpine Forests

Mangroves

24. The Teesta Accord is between

India and Pakistan

India and Bangladesh

India and Myanmar

India and Nepal

25. Who among the following is the chairperson of Niti Aayog?

C. Rangarajan

Arvind Panagariya

Jagdish Bagawathi

Arvind Subramanian

26. The film Psycho is directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Bernardo Bertolucci

Michelangelo Antonioni

Alfred Hitchcock

27. The largest circulated daily newspaper in India

Dainik Jagaran

Dainik Bhaskar

Hindustan

Rajasthan Patrika

28. Who is the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner for the year 2016?

Maniratnam

K. Viswanath

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Shyam Bengal

29. Who is the owner of an IPL team· Gujarat Lions franchise

Nita Ambani

Siddharth Mallya

Keshav Bansal

Gayatri Reddy

30. Who is theUnion BroadcastingMinister?

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prakash Javadekar

M. Venkaiah Naidu

Arun Jaitley

II. LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

This section assesses your ability to work with the English language in terms of reading, analyzing and understanding and applying the rules of grammar and word usage.

Section 1. VERBAL ABILITY (lX5=5 marks) In each of the questions below, one of the word pairs does not fit into the same conceptual category as the others. Identify the odd pair.

31.

oven/bake

kettle/boil

stove/cook

kiln/brick

32.

rain/precipitation

bleed/haemorrhage

mother/parent

breathe/respire

33.

lung/oxygen

eye/vision

ear/hearing

skin/touch

34.

square/perimeter

egg/shell

circle/radius

river/bank

35.

Teeth/Chew

Mind/Think

Sweater/Heat

Eyes/Flicker

Section ENGLISH USAGE GRAMMAR
Select the appropriate word/phrase from the options to fill in the blank in each of the given sentences. Enter the correct answer in the OMR Sheet.

36. Saipriya newspaper now.

Reads

Is reading

Read

Has read

37. I am sorry that I cannot talk to you. I in class at 10 o'clock.

May

Could

Can

Must

38. Shyam and Salim walked in silence a while.

At



(c)For



39. The journalist, like a lot, is Sreenivasan Jain.

Which

Whose

Who

Whom

40. Miriam found a puppy.

Little cute brown

Brown little cute

Cute little brown

Brown cute little

41. You have too many but less time to prove you're right.

Hypothesis

Hypotheses

Hypothesises

Hypothesess

42. He has been exercising but his immune system is steadily

Weak

weaken

weakened

weakening

43. Anita three thousand words for her essay.

Have wrote

has wrote

have written

has written

44. Hari dispensed with the services his dishonest clerk

Of

To

For

By

45. I told Julie I to come.

Be able

Not be able

Might be able

Was being able

Section WORD USE AND ABUSE In the following sentences,choose the correct word from the options provided.Enter the correct answer in the OMR Sheet.

46. The interview was live over the internet.

Broadcasted

Broadcast

Display

Displayed

47. Itwas a difficult situation because we were ofhelping.

Discapable

Incapable

Uncapable

Non-capable

48. The four candidates discussed the topic themselves.

Among

Between

Amid

Through

49. We were happy that students made grammatical mistakes this year.

Few

Fewer

A Few

Less

50. The Harry Potter books sold more than any other book.

editions

copies

publications

prints

51. The of the Minister's statement cannot be verified.

verbosity

veracity

validity

voracity

52. The criminal seems to have acted in the three others.

Cohesion

coalition

collision

collusion

53. In hotweatherIlikelyinginthe__ of a tree.

Slade

shade

shelter

shadow

54. It's a great place to live, despite the increasing volume of under my window.

Traffic

Circulation

Transport

Vehicles

55. Suzie and John plan to get married and lots of children.

Get

Make

Have

Bring

III: READING COMPREHENSION (5Xl=5 MARKS)

Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow, selecting the most appropriate option from the list provided, Enter the correct answer in the OMR Sheet

Communication has been systematically studied since antiquity, but it became an especially important topic in the twentieth century. W. Barnett Pearce describes this development as a "revolutionary discovery," largely caused by the rise of communication technologies (such as radio, television, telephone, satellites and computer networking), along with industrialization, big business, global politics. Clearly, communication has assumed immense importance in our time.

Intense interest in the academic study of communication began after World War as advances in technology and literacy made communication a topic of concern. The subject was further promoted by the popular twentieth-century philosophies of progress and pragmatism, which stimulated a desire to improve society through widespread social change. This trend is important because it grounds communication firmly in the intellectual history of the United States during the twentieth century. During this period, the nation was "on the move" in terms of efforts to advance technology, improve society, fight tyranny, and foster the spread of capitalism. Communication figured prominently in these movements and became central to such concerns as propaganda and public opinion; the rise of the social sciences; and the role of the media in commerce, marketing, and advertising.

After World War II, the social sciences became fully recognized as legitimate disciplines. and the interest in psychological and social processes became intense. Persuasion and decision making in groups were central concerns, not only among researchers but in society in general because of the widespread use of propaganda during the war to disseminate oppressive ideological regimes. Communication studies developed considerably in the second half of the twentieth century because of pragmatic interests in what communication can accomplish and the outcomes it produces.

At first, University courses related to communication were found in many departments-the sciences, the arts, mathematics, literature, biology, business, and political science. In fact, communication is still studied across the university curriculum. Psychologists study communication, for instance, as a particular kind of behavior motivated by different psychological processes. Sociologists focus on society and social processes and thus see communication as one of many social factors important in society. Anthropologists are interested primarily in culture, treating it as a factor that helps develop, maintain, and change cultures. There has been considerable cross fertilization between communication and other disciplines: "While many disciplines have undoubtedly benefited from adopting a communication model, it is equally true that they, in turn, have added greatly to our understanding of human interaction."

Gradually, however, separate departments of speech, speech communication, communication and mass communication developed. Today, most departments are called departments of communication or communication studies, but whatever the label, they share a focus on communication as central to human experience. In contrast, then, to researchers in other fields like psychology, sociology, anthropology or business, who tend to consider communication a secondary process--something important for transmitting information once other structures are in place-scholars in the discipline of communication consider communication as the organizing element of human life.

56. In today's context, communication has acquired greater significance because of

Transport

Media technologies

Industrialization

All of the above

57. Which of the following disciplines sees communication as a key aspect of culture?

Sociology

Anthropology

Psychology

Political Science

58. In the above passage, the history of the discipline of communication seems to have been shaped by World War II. This is reflected in:

Distrust of social sciences

Faith in propaganda

Advancements in mass media

None of the above

59. Related social science disciplines like psychology, anthropology and sociology have contributed to the growth of the discipline of communication. This has resulted in:

An open-ended disciplinary boundary

Weak communication theory

Lack of methodological rigor

Absence of foundational texts

60. Institutionalization of the discipline in the form of university departments offering programmes in communication has led to:

Making communication the subject matter of academic study

Granting it intellectual legitimacy

Moving away from cross -fertilization to insular growth of the discipline

All of the above