Indian Institue of Management 2008 Entrance Exams Other Entrance Exams CAT - Question Paper

of a levy on imports of energy –intensive products from developing countries that
refuse to accept their demands. The true source of protectionist sentiment in the
OECD countries is, of course, their current lackluster economic performance,
combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and India –
in the order.

1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism thorough the back door.
2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change problems to erect trade barriers against these 2 countries.
3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China and India.
4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
5) Today’s climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.

69. Mattancherry is Indian Jewry’s most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses, connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and sarong-wearing, white-skimmed Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists every year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue-and-white Chinese tiles, a carpet provided by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the door, Stands as an image of religious tolerance.

1) Mattancherry represents, therefore, the perfect picture of peaceful co-existence.
2) India’s Jews have almost never suffered discrimination, other than for European
colonizers and every other.
3) Jews in India were always tolerant.
4) Religious tolerance has always been only a façade and nothing more.
5) The pretty pastel streets are, thus, very popular with the tourists.


70. provided the cultural and intellectual interconnections, the ques. of what is ‘Western’
and what is ‘Easter’ (or ‘Indian’) is often hard to decide, and the problem can be
explained only in more dialectical terms. The diagnoses of a thought a ‘purely
Western’ or ‘Purely Indian’ can be very illusory.

1) Thoughts are not the type of things that can be easily categorized.
2) Though ‘occidentalism’ and ‘orientalism’ as dichotomous concepts have obtained many adherents.
3) ‘East is East and West is West’ has been a discredited notion for a long time now.
4) Compartmentalizing thoughts is often desirable.

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