Symbiosis International Education Centre 2007 M.B.A SNAP TEST - Question Paper

51. Why does the writer say that attempts to link specific weather disasters to the greenhouse effect are scientific junk?
1. because they could be happening due to unrelated causes
2. because there is no scientific evidence to suggest that global warming is truly happening
3. because it is mainly media hype
4. cannot say

52. What is the author’s suggestion to deal with global warming?
1. to have an international treaty
2. to buy insurance against this devastating certainty
3. to understand the issue and assess costs and benefits before taking action
4. to have a sustainable economic growth

53. On the basis of the passage, we can conclude that:
1. there is a general agreement among nations as to how the threat must be met
2. there is a disagreement among nations as to how the threat must be met
3. if nations act now, the threat to global warming might just be met
4. none of the above

54. What is the point about carbon “sinks” that the Americans are insisting on?
1. that countries be allowed to trade their “sinks” instead of cutting down emissions
2. that market forces be used to minimize the costs and risks of slowing economic growth
3. that scientists still do not understand what constitutes a sink
4. none of the above

55. Why does the writer say that a rigid deal would risk scuppering the Kyoto process altogether?
1. because nations would not be able to adhere to the deal if it was too rigid
2. because nations might obtain ways of subverting the deal if it was too rigid
3. only a deal with emissions trading could truly work
4. a rigid deal would outcome in reduction of jobs and public goods

56. What is the meaning of the phrase, “to err on the side of flexibility”?
1. the treaty must be a flexible one
2. it is better to err and be flexible than not to err at all
3. being flexible is an error
4. a rigid deal would not serve its purpose

Passage II

a few 200 years ago, Charles Darwin declared that man evolved from apes. a few 2000 years before the English biologist put his thought to paper, the origin of species, as he defined it, was already in place in our ancient scriptures such as the Puranas.

There is a curious parallel ranging from the scientific concept and the Hindu theological interpretation of evolution. While the former, as evident from the works of Darwin, assumes that the civilized man evolved through gradual modification of life forms, starting with the fish - a process he called evolution by natural selection - the latter, as evident from the Dasha Avatar, or the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu, also suggests that the human form descended from the sea. Further, according to Hindu theology, the Supreme Being is current in both the residing and non-living on earth. And without God, the universe could never have come into existence.

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