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The new system has been developed by a Canadian company, Inex pharmaceuticals of Vancouver that uses artificial packages to carry the new genes to the disease site. The packages, called transmembrane carrier system, are made up essentially of fat droplets and are injected into the blood stream. (.) In lnex's trial, these were tumor suppressor genes, which carry the code to make proteins which stop cells from reproducing wildly. The trials found that the genes proteins were being produced in secondary tumors.

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After all, the strategic $40 million deal with Parle Exports has given the company instant ownership of the nation's top soft drink brands like ThumsUp, Limca, Citra, Gold Spot and Maaza and also access to Parleys extensive 54 plant bottling network and a base for the rapid introduction of the company's international brands. (.) and the recent decision of Ramesh Chauhan to sell out his bottling operations to Coke was all but a boost to the multinational's operations in India.

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Nothing boosts the confidence of a player more than success. And having broken such a big barrier, there can be no looking back for him. Hartford, where the World Doubles Championship is to be held from November 19, is well in sight of the Indians who stay at No.5 in rankings as a pair, (.). They are playing in the Singapore Open this week, to be followed by the European indoor circuit.

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Addressing mediapersons here, he said that the obstacles often highlighted for lack of growth in trade are not strong enough to justify the lack of initiative. To support his argument, he cited the example of China which now has booming trade with Brazil. (.) even though the language problem and distance factor applies equally to the Chinese also, Mr. Scares noted. Calling for steps to boost trade and business ties, the ambassador said that Brazil was keen to forge strong links with Asia, for this purpose, the country is organizing.

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Retreat : Seclusion

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Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows. The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, or even love from the opposite sex. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the water of life, holy nectar - labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call transformation. Transformation means radical change of form, the way a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. In human terms, it means turning fear, aggression, doubt, insecurity, hatred, and emptiness into their opposites. It comes down to the age old choice of separation or unity.

What is the theme of the passage?

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Helter : Skelter

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Determinate : Established

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Certitude : Dilemma

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Redundance : Superfluity

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Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. It is a useful device to mark the difference between making on the one hand an assertion about something that might be true or false and, on the other, the verbal evincing of feelings towards something, which can be no more true or false than my action in biting my thumb. B. This may seem confusing, but the fact is that any utterance may perform more than one function or may be treated in more than one way at the same time. C. But, of course, it might very well be said that the most straight-forward way in which I can express my liking of somebody is simply to say that I like him, my statement is, that is to say, at the same time an expression of my liking. D. We need to be a little careful if we are not to tie ourselves in knots over this distinction between statement and expression.

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A. Microsoft's success is a classic example of rights as it has many world rights to many software packages.
B. Also, as it happens nowadays, those who create the original design very often reap most of the benefits, due to the nature of technology and often because of various forms of protection - trade contracts or intellectual property rights.
C. Therefore, there is a definite need for India not only to derive benefits from the present software boom and demands, but also to prepare itself for the higher end of the market. D. Can this boom of software export and application last for decades, merely based on software developed in other advanced countries which is operated by our people, as application support personnel, data analysts and market developers?

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A. Brahmanism was the ethnic religion of India in this period and the caste system got a fresh incentive. B. However, the caste system had not assumed that rigidity in this period which we associate with it in the Muslim or in the beginning of the British period, in respect of, inter-marriage, inter-dining and professions. C. While the foundation stone for the revival of Brahmanism was laid in the Sunga, Kanva and Kushan dynasties, its real development came in the Gupta period (300 A.D. - 500 A.D.), the period called the Golden Age of Hinduism or the period of Hindu Renaissance. D. The prehistoric view that the Sudras should be content merely to become the servants of the twice-born was neither accepted in theory nor followed in practice.

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A. There would be no point in our trying to go into the various so called ‘Theories of Truth’ that have been produced and upheld by various philosophers. B. This attempt has in fact given rise to many well–known puzzles and many of them have arisen because of the number of different sorts of assertions that we should normally be prepared to call true or false, to which it is hard to say what sort of facts would correspond. C. There is just one of them that is worth mentioning here, the one which is known as the Correspondence Theory, according to which an assertion is true if, and only if, it corresponds to a fact.
D. This theory is worth mentioning because it arises precisely out of an attempt to build the everyday association between ‘truth’ and ‘fact’ into a systematic and consistent way of thought.

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A. Economic crises have the effect of ridding those national economies which are over expanding of some of their superfluous, ill-conceived, or precarious enterprises. B. The losses occasioned by economic crises are more apparent than real. C. A crisis constitutes a necessary purge which cleanses the social organism when it has become contaminated by unhealthy activities or weakened by extravagance induced by too much easy money.
D. They resemble those of a fruit tree which, after a period of too favorable weather, finds its branches overloaded with buds.

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A. In a slightly different form, it might be said to come to birth along with reason, at the moment when the latter begins to control our instincts. B. At the risk of repetition, let us state again that the primary incentive for every being to act is the satisfaction of its own instincts.
C. In the higher forms of life, ethics are born at the moment when living things are faced with a choice between two alternatives.
D. In the case of man, this is more or less controlled by the prospect of any inconvenience, displeasure or pain that may arise their - form.