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A. Americans and Indians would have similar intelligence.
B. South Indians and North Indians would have similar intelligence.
C. Those with identical intelligence would speak the identical language.
D. Those with similar intelligence may speak the identical language.
E. Structure of language does not affect cognition.
12. If Sapir-Whorf hypothesis were to be true, which of the subsequent conclusions would
logically follow?
1. To develop vernacular languages, government should promote public debates and discourses.
2. Promote vernacular languages as medium of instruction in schools.
3. Cognitive and cultural realities are related.
A. one only
B. two only
C. three only
D. one and 2
E. 1, two and 3
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13. Which of the subsequent proverbs may be false, if above passage were to be right?
1. If speech is silver, silence is gold.
2. When you have spoken a word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
3. Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
A. one and 2
B. two and 3
C. three only
D. one only
E. 1, two and 3
Analyse the subsequent passage and give an improper ans for the ques. 14
through 17 that follow.
Demography of organisations, also called population ecology is an interesting field. It proposes
that organisational mortality processes depend upon the age and size of the organisation, as well
as on characteristics of populations and environments. Moreover, there is evidence of an
imprinting process - meaning that environmental conditions at certain early phases in an
organisation
s development have long-term consequences. In particular, organisations subject to
intense competition have elevated mortality hazards at all ages. A central theme is structural
inertia, the tendency for organisations to respond slowly relative to the speed of environmental
change. A central argument holds that the inertia derives from the very characteristics that make
organisations favoured actors in modern society in terms of reliability and (formal) accountability.
It follows that modifications in an organisation
s core features are disruptive and increase mortality
hazards, at lowest in the short-run. Research on this subject tends to support this view. The concept
of niche provides a framework of relative environmental variations and competition to population

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