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MOCK TEST – 10 – ENGLISH
Comprehension
Flanked by a Ferrari, a Maserati, a Bentley, a Rolls-Royce and a Lamborghini, Dallin Larsen paced the stage, swigging deeply from a bottle in his hand. "I'll tell you what," said the tanned 49-year-old, opening his arms to the 4,000-person crowd, people are "looking for something they can count on, they can depend on, that's constant." The stirring scene would not be out of place at a megachurch revival—except Larsen's event, organized this June in Orlando, Fla., was bent on earning sales rather than salvation. The object of hope was not God but a dark purple fruit juice called MonaVie.
The rich syrupy blend of Brazilian açai (pronounced "ah-sigh-ee") berries and 18 other fruits has gained a cult following among those who say it can kill pain, disease and malnutrition. Packaged in wine bottles like the one Larsen gripped onstage, MonaVie retails for around $40 a pop and isn't available in stores. Instead, the Utah-based company tore a page from the Avon lady, enlisting regular people to sell the product to friends and family. Now MonaVie claims to be one of the world's fastest-growing private companies, with inroads on five continents, and an army of drinkers and sales apostles signing up at a rate of 10,000 a week. Earlier this year, the company announced that cumulative sales had topped $1 billion and that it had signed its millionth unsalaried sales person. "We're blessed," says Larsen, who founded the company in 2005. (As a private organization, MonaVie isn't required to publish financial data, making such claims difficult to judge.)
In a sliding economy, MonaVie appears to buck the trend, minting dozens of mom-and-pop millionaires, according to company sales data, and luring customers who rave about the not-too-sweet taste and miraculous health benefits. In NEWSWEEK interviews and proliferating online videos, people testify to MonaVie beating back cancer, curbing anxiety and controlling the symptoms of autism. Among the converted are former Daytona 500 champ Geoff Bodine, who credits MonaVie with helping him recover from one of the worst crashes in NASCAR history; Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone, who says it will help him live another 50 years (he's 85); and Boston Red Sox outfielder J.D. Drew, who sells the stuff on his MySpace page.
Distributors Diane Nafziger and Sherry Whitaker embody the two-sided MonaVie pitch: better health and more income. The former first-grade teacher and onetime flight attendant travel the country hosting "tasting parties" and sales meetings to entice new recruits. At a recent event in a New Jersey Holiday Inn, they put on a smooth presentation for an audience of around 10 people. Nafziger took the stage first, describing how a diabetic friend committed to MonaVie broke his need for insulin shots. Then Whitaker plied the business angle, outlining MonaVie's sales structure. For a $39 initiation fee and responsibility for sales of at least eight bottles of MonaVie a month, people can retail the product and build their own sales tree, which is where the big money is. In two years, Whitaker and Nafziger have built a 30,000-person tree, earning them up to 20 percent of every sale—which is more than $1 million each in annual commission.
But not everyone is drinking the Kool-Aid. Critics call MonaVie a "legalized scam" that benefits only a few kingpin executives. The product itself, they say, is an overhyped fruit drink that eludes drug regulation by the Food and Drug Administration by letting its distributors (as opposed to MonaVie itself) make the health promises. On PurpleHorror.com, a hugely trafficked MonaVie discussion Web site so large that it's slow to load, outraged distributors and perhaps more level-headed juice fans trash the purple elixir. a NEWSWEEK reporter who took the MonaVie daily dose—two ounces, twice a day—for two weeks, didn't experience the drink's miraculous benefits, and got headaches. (Then again, that might have been because he got new glasses.)
Meanwhile, most of the million-strong sales team is really just drinking the juice, according to MonaVie's 2007 income disclosure statement, a federally required printout of their distributor earnings. More than 90 percent were considered "wholesale customers," whose earnings are mostly discounts on sales to themselves. Fewer than 1 percent qualified for commissions and of those, only 10 percent made more than $100 a week. And the dropout rate, while not disclosed by MonaVie, is around 70 percent, according to a top recruiter.
Larsen, for his part, realizes that his sales team can get him in hot water with the Feds. A 20-year-veteran of the multi-level marketing industry, he left a senior post at another juice company in 2002, a year before the FDA destroyed the company's "bogus products" that were being falsely promoted to treat "cancer, arthritis and attention deficit disorder." Last summer, the FDA warned MonaVie about medicinal claims on its Web site and, in an email to NEWSWEEK, says it's satisfied with the company's response. At sales meetings, like the one in Florida, Larsen says he reminds people that MonaVie "is just a juice." Meanwhile an 18-person compliance department investigates distributors suspected of making false claims—although with a million sales people on the books, that's easier said than done. "It's next to impossible," Larsen concedes, "like herding cats." With sales of a million bottles a week, it's also like minting money.
1. What would be an appropriate title for the above passage?
(a) The Dark Purple Elixir
(b) The overhyped Fruit Drink
(c) Tyranny of Private Commercial Organizations
(d) Two Faces of Commercialization
1. (a)
The passage is all about the purple fruit drink and hence option A comes closest to summing up the passage.
2. What could best be described as the tone of the passage?
(a) Descriptive or Informative (b) Judgemental
(c) Analytical (d) Warning
2. (c)
The passage is an analytical quest on the authenticity of the fruit drink, however, without passing any judgment.gh
3. Which, out of the following, are not claimed to be the benefits of consuming Monavie?
(a) Treat cancer, arthritis and attention deficit disorder
(b) Curbing anxiety and providing good mental health
(c) Curing back cancer, diabetes and autism
(d) Kill pain, disease and malnutrition
3. A
The diseases mentioned in Option A were claimed to be treated by the products for which Larsen was working in his previous organization and not Monavie.
4. How does Monavie manage to be the hot-selling product despite eluding drug regulation by the FDA and being blasted off by non-believers?
(a) Cashing in on people’s hope by having testified proofs of its effectiveness along with a cult image resembling to a wine drink
(b) A cult image along with actual beneficial properties of the drink which stand tall
(c) Its non-sweet medicinal effects that resonate well with the audience at large
(d) Better health and more income, as the main propagated effects
4. (a)
According to the passage, it is a drink well taken by the audience- its physical image like a wine and then how it started with people’s consumptions and their propaganda about its miraculous health benefits which eventually led to a huge consumption and a big business proposition.
5. What would be the most effective way of curbing consumption of Monavie, considering it is not as good as perceived?
(a) A tough stand taken by the FDA after thorough examination
(b) Reaching out to people and convincing them that the effects witnessed by them were not because of some miraculous benefits of the drink and spreading awareness about the drink
(c) Exposing Larsen’s acts – both in his previous as well as current organization
(d) Both a and c above
5. (b)
The drink will sell because of what people “feel” about it and if false perception could be changed, then the consumption could be curbed. Option A and C are incorrect as intervention by FDA and exposing Larsen do not nullify the impact of the drink as observed by the people
6. What does “proliferating” stand for in the 4th line of the 3rd paragraph?
(a) Degrading (b) Authentic
(c) Rapid Increase in number (d) Rapid Decrease in number
6. (c)
Proliferation means “rapid increase in number”.
7. How does Larsen manage to sell unauthentic/bogus drinks as has been the image of products with which he has been associated over time in two organizations?
(a) His knack of taking the authorities like the FDA into his favour
(b) Playing with people’s emotions by making them dependent on the products that he endorses
(c) By propagating the health benefits of the drink
(d) A strong sales, marketing and distribution team with the million-strong sales team being the actual ones who are really just consuming the drink
7. (d)
2nd last paragraph clearly talks about the
Directions (136-140): Rearrange the following SIX sentences (A), (B), (c), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph then answer the questions given below them.
(A) fifty nine year old K.P. Tiwari shot himself with his service rifle at about 9 am
(B) Committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon on Saturday morning.
(C) he was on duty at the parcel office at Howrah station, according to a press release issued by Eastern Railway authorities.
(D) His body was rushed to the Howrah general hospital, but he succumbed to his injury.
(E) A head constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), who was on duty at the Howrah Railway station
(F) according to accounts, he handed his mobile phone to one of his colleagues who was also on duty, before shooting himself
8. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D
8. (2)
9. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?
(1) B (2) D (3) A (4) F
9. (3)
10. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after the rearrangement?
(1) A (2) D (3) E (4) C
10. (3)
8-10. Grammar - Sentence rearrangement – Medium
Directions (11 – 20) : In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, four words are suggested, one of the which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
A day light can be seen (11) very small holes, so little things will (12) a person’s character. Indeed consists in little acts well and (13) performed: daily life being the (14) from which build it up and rough (15) the habits which form it. One of the more marked test of character is the manner in which we (16) ourselves towards others, a graceful behaviour, towards superior, inferiors, and (17) is constant source of pleasure. It pleases other because it indicates (18) for their personality, but it. Gives tenfole more (19) to our selves. Every man may, to large extent be a self educator in good (20) as in every else, he can be civil and kind if he thinks he has not a penny in his purse.
11. (a) through (b) out of (c) in (d) by
11. (a)
12. (a) darken (b) characterise (c) adorn (d) illustrate
12. (d)
13. (a) equally (b) honourably (c) roughly (d) officially
13. (b)
14. (a) house (b) livelihood (c) quarry (d) relation
14. (c)
15. (a) spouse (b) give up (c) new (d) watch
15. (c)
16. (a) conduct (b) manage (c) nature (d) present
16. (a)
17. (a) equals (b) juniors (c) seniors (d) superiors
17. (a)
18. (a) happiness (b) honour (c) regard (d) respect
18. (d)
19. (a) force (b) requirement (c) pleasure (d) dedication
19. (c)
20. (a) status (b) behavior (c) character (d) career
20. (b)
11-20. Grammar - Paragraph Completion – Medium
Direction (Q. No. 21 – 25) : Select the spotting the errors .
21. I would like you (a) / to complete this assignment (b) / before you will leave for Mumbai. (c) / No error (d).
21. (c)
Delete 'will'
22. A man entered the tavern (a) / and asked for some bread and cheese (b)/ with a decided foreign accent. (c) / No error (d).
22. (c)
Replace ‘decided' by decidedly’.
23. The student came to the classroom (a)/lately and was punished (b) / by the teacher. (c) / No error (d)
23. (b)
Replace ‘lately’ by ‘late
24. I told her (a)/ as blunt as I could (b) / but she was not convinced. (C) / No error (d).
24. (b)
Replace ‘blunt' by ‘bluntly.
25. Each of these players (a) / have been warned (b) / Not to repeat the silly mistake. (c) / No error (d).
25. (b)
Replace ' have’ by 'has'.
21-25. Grammar – Error – Easy
Directions (26 – 30) : In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four pair of words denoted by numbers (a), (b) , (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
26. If the banks desire to ……. profit, they should get rid of ……measures.
(a) lose, concentrate (b) increase, populist
(c) earn, unhealthy (d) maximize, traditional
26. (b)
27. He was immature in this young age when he became completely………...by Geraman and writing of Shakespeare.
(a) necollapsed, army (b) engrossed, people
(c) captivated, literature (d) seized, soldiers
27. (c)
28. The man who does not……..that the good of every living creature is him……is a fool.
(a) see, good (b) know, had
(c) understand, ugly (d) see, worse
28. (a)
29. Being a kind hearted master, he never………. too………work on this servants.
(a) does, much (b) entrusts, easy
(c) performs, little (d) imposes, much
29. (d)
30. On account of the……of grass on the arid plains the cattle became……….
(a) dearth, emaciated (b) dearth, flippant
(c) abundance, arrangement (d) sacrifice, agitated
30. (a)
26-30. Grammar - Fill in the Blanks – Tough
Directions (31–35): Which of the following is most similar in meaning to the word?
31. DISCOVER
(a) Invent (b) Explore (c) Locate (d) Realize
31. (d)
32. STRUCK
(a) Reached (b) Impacted (c) Slapped (d) Attacked
32. (a)
33. TOP
(a) Height (b) Lid (c) Finest (d) Upper
33. (a)
34. ENORMOUSLY
(a) Generally (b) Specially (c) Greatly (d) Largely
34. (c)
35. MULTITUDE
(a) Numerous (b) Varied (c) Manifold (d) Variety
35. (a)
31-35. Vocabulary – Synonyms – Easy
Directions (36–40): Which of the following is most opposite in meaning to the word?
36. DARK
(a) Bright (b) Cheerful (c) Shadow (d) Fair
36. (a)
37. FREE
(a) Occupied (b) Paid (c) Captured (d) Busy
37. (b)
38. ABUNDANTLY
(a) Meagerly (b) Barely (c) Profusely (d) Largely
38. (a)
39. PRECEDED
(a) Accompanied (b) Followed (c) Chased (d) Dragged
39. (b)
40. IMPERISHABLE
(a) Temporary (b) Changing (c) Short-lived (d) Transitory
40. (d)
36-40. Vocabulary – Antonyms – Medium
