IPMAT Question Paper 2022 Indore Verbal. Solve questions from IPMAT Question Paper 2022 from IPM Indore and check the solutions to get adequate practice.
Read the following passage and choose the answer that is closest to each of
the questions that are based on the passage.
Bananas, apples, and
avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not.
The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the
latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must make sure their wares are in
tip-top condition when they arrive at the marketplace. But how those differences originally
came about remains unclear.
Two biologists of the University of Tokyo offer a
suggestion. Fruits, they observe, exist to solve a problem faced by all plants-how best to
spread their progeny around. Wrapping their seeds in a sugary pulp to provide a tasty meal
serves as a way to get animals to do this for them. They do, however, need to make sure that
their fruits favour the animals most likely to do the distributing. The biologists propose
that climacterism, or its absence, is a way to achieve this. If ground-dwelling animals are
the main distributors, then the continuing ripening of fallen fruit (i.e., climacterism) is
beneficial. If, by contrast, those distributors are arboreal or aerial, and so can feed on
unfallen fruit, then non-climacteric fruits will do well.
To test their idea, the
two researchers studied 80 varieties of fruits, and noted which animals each depended on for
its propagation. 35 of these fruits, eaten by both ground-dwelling animals and arboreal or
aerial animals, were non-climacteric. Further, 15 of the 19 varieties eaten principally by
ground-dwellers were climacteric, while 21 of the 26 fed on by arboreal or aerial animals
were non-climacteric.
That is a suggestively strong correlation. And the authors'
hypothesis is fortified by other evidence. They point out that non-climacteric fruits tend
to have vivid colours, especially reds and purples. This may help them to stand out amid the
foliage of their parent plants, advertising their presence. Climacteric fruits are generally
better camouflaged. That makes them harder to spot until they have fallen to the
ground.
The main limitation of their work is that they looked at fruits eaten by
people. This has probably contaminated the sample, for thousands of years of selective
breeding for traits that human beings find appealing may have blurred any signal optimised
by natural selection. The next step, therefore, should be the analysis of wild fruits.
The main point the writer makes is that fruit-bearing plants
The study has been based on
Which one of the following options means "arboreal" and "camouflage"?
The origins of the distinguishing characteristics between the two types of fruits, climacteric and non-climacteric are
According to the passage, the interest in the difference between climacteric and non-climacteric fruits is in the
Consider the following two Findings:
(i) Non-climacteric fruits tend to have
vivid colours.
(ii) Thirty-six varieties of climacteric and non-climacteric fruits
were eaten predominantly either by ground-dwellers, or by arboreal or aerial animals
respectively.
According to the passage,
Read the following passage and choose the answer that is closest to each of
the questions that are based on the passage.
On the 14th of May 1796,
vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two
superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of
age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expected. After this, however, it was
necessary to determine whether he was protected from smallpox. After waiting two months
Jenner inoculated him with material from a smallpox patient. He was delighted to note that
the boy was not affected by smallpox.
By 1798, Jenner had succeeded in
demonstrating the protective quality of the cowpox virus against smallpox, by putting on
record details of 23 cases, contracted either casually or by direct inoculation. Sixteen of
these had occurred accidentally among dairy workers in the course of occupations connected
with cows and horses; the rest were done under Jenner's direction. Among the persons
inoculated was Jenner's own little second son, Robert Harding Jenner, an infant eleven
months old. Jenner demonstrated conclusively that the cowpox protects the human constitution
from the infection of smallpox.
After Dr. Jenner had made his tests, he prepared
a pamphlet for publication. He also went to London, so that he might have the opportunity to
introduce the subject personally to friends and demonstrate the truth of his assertion to
them. He remained in London for nearly three months without being able to find anyone who
would submit to vaccination. Jenner went back to Gloucestershire, disappointed. It happened,
however, that soon after his return home, a distinguished London surgeon named Cline
resolved to make a trial of the vaccine material which Jenner had left with his
friends.
The patient was a child suffering from a form of chronic hip-joint
disease. The vaccine material was inoculated, and the vaccine vehicle ran rather a normal
course and healed fully. The little patient was afterward inoculated with smallpox virus and
found to be incapable of acquiring that disease. This case attracted considerable attention.
The child was in a run-down condition, and the vaccine material might very well have
provoked a rather serious local reaction. In a way, the fate of vaccination hung in the
balance and good luck was in its favour. Mr. Cline, however, after this, became a strong
advocate of vaccination, and brought it very decidedly before the London
physicians.
It was not long before the opposition to the practice of vaccination
took definite form. One of the best-known London physicians of the time, Dr. Ingenhouz,
became the leader of a strong faction of the medical profession of London, who not only
would have nothing to do with vaccination, but proclaimed openly that it was a dangerous
innovation, absolutely unjustifiable, and communicated a disease without protecting against
any other. Dr. Watt from Glasgow blamed the vaccine for the increase in severe cases of
measles and measles-related deaths among children.
Fortunately, only a few
colleagues were so illogical, and an excellent idea of how much Jenner's discovery was
appreciated by his contemporaries may be obtained from the number of honours, diplomas,
addresses and communications from public bodies and distinguished individuals which he
received. Most of the prominent medical and scientific societies of Europe elected him a
member or sent him some special token of recognition.
'Local reaction' refers to
Jenner received a lot of recognition from medical bodies because
According to the author, the main idea in the passage is
On returning from London, Dr. Jenner was disappointed because
Twenty-three cases were put on record with the objective to explain very clearly that
By calling the vaccine unjustifiable, Dr. Ingenhouz meant that vaccination
Complete the following sentences by choosing the most appropriate word/phrase from the options given below.
Some of the best spies take the guise of innocuous secretaries or researchers and are able to send large amounts of information to their heads of espionage, as they are ________________________.
Ever since Girish won the prestigious Infosys prize, he has been behaving _______________________.
Flying this simple aeroplane is a ________________ for the experienced pilot.
For the past three decades, this chain of coffee shops has been committed to building a culture where everyone is welcome. They are an ally to the LGBTQ community, and this is just one instance of their ________________.
Leela is always nasty and inconsiderate with her colleagues; now that she has a rude superior, she is getting _____________.
She _______________________ her classmates because she comes from a very rich, aristocratic family.
I still have two more difficult exams left, but I'm trying to __________________; after these I won't have any more for a year!
In each of the following sentences, the incorrect part of the sentence is underlined. Choose an alternative from the four given options so that the sentence is rendered correct.
If I had known that you needed to go to the airport yesterday, I could drive you there.
The Principal and professors are authorized to sanction leave to a student provided she will have a good attendance record.
When all the words on the page got scrambled, she quickly pressed undo, after which the document reverted back to its original state.
His talk on heritage sites has picked up my interest.
He was having a difficult time, but never once he complained.
Each of the paragraphs given below has a sentence missing which is indicated by a blank. From the choices given below each paragraph, choose the sentence that seems most logically appropriate to complete the paragraph.
This winter, I wish to go to the beaches for a holiday. I think I will go to Goa, India's most well-known beach holiday destination. It is about 600 km away from Mumbai, so reaching there is not a major problem. ___________________________. The major Goan beaches are tourist attractions and have some good beach-view hotels and plenty of shops selling touristy things such as beach robes, hats, jewellery, bags, and more.
Nowadays, many teenagers and young adults around the world have to spend most of their time studying in order to get top grades, a university place, and a good job. ________________________________. There are several causes for this situation, one of the main ones being exams. These are stressful experiences, and most students take a huge number of them during their school career.
__________________________________________. In Southeast Asia, for example, climate and lifestyle factors mean that people spend much more time in shopping malls than Europeans do, who might go shopping once a fortnight. Then there are gender variations in the way we shop. As descendants of hunter-gatherers, accumulating is in our blood, but how you go about it depends on whether you are male or female.
The people of the Indus Valley civilization wrote with a script. So far scholars have been unable to decipher that script. Archaeologists who have been excavating newly discovered sites in Mesopotamia hope to find a text that has scripts from both the Indus valley and Mesopotamia, the second of which has already been deciphered. __________________.
The sentences below have words that are missing. Choose the best option from those given below to complete the sentence.
The beauty of ______________ is that it poses thought-provoking questions and inspires us to think deeply about _____________ and life in general. Further, ______________ about the ideas and perspectives outlined by different thinkers can help us to gain a better _______________ of the world we live in.
Everyday more than 1 billion promotional messages are sent that are commercial and ___________________. Although _______________ have used more technology to stop this, ________________ find ways around it.
Visually strong, __________________ films of the 1920s are _______________ preserved and suffer from censorship cuts, leading to the __________________ that they were primitive and barely watchable.
Achieving spaceflight enabled humans to begin to explore the solar system and the rest of the _______________, to understand the many objects and ____________ that are better observed from a space perspective, and to use for human benefit the resources and attributes of the space environment. All of these activities - discovery, scientific understanding, and the ______________ of that understanding to serve human purposes - are elements of space ________________.
The investigators have _____________ that he had leaked confidential _______________ information about the acquisition, thereby allowing associates to profit _________________ from the deal.
In an anthropocentric ______________, animals are no more than property to human beings. Therefore, the concepts of 'humane' treatment and 'necessary' __________ are economic in nature. The idea that killing animals is not a serious issue as long as animals are not made to suffer rests ___________ on the widely accepted idea that animals do not have a right to life.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the
sequence of numbers in the space provided. Only numbers are to be entered in the
space provided for the answer, and no other letters or characters should be entered.
For example, a response such as 3412 or 25143 is valid, and a response such as 3412.
or 25143. is invalid.
1. A sub-par monsoon cuts farm yields, output, and
farm incomes, increasing the country's dependence on food imports.
2. A robust
monsoon will help put a lid on food inflation by increasing domestic output of a variety
of goods and commodities.
3. This is because half the Indian population depends
upon farm-derived income.
4. The June-to-September rain-bearing system is often
called the lifeblood of the country's economy.
5. Unfortunately, however, nearly
40% of India's net sown area does not have access to irrigation.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the
sequence of numbers in the space provided. Only numbers are to be entered in the
space provided for the answer, and no other letters or characters should be entered.
For example, a response such as 3412 or 25143 is valid, and a response such as 3412.
or 25143. is invalid.
1. The popularity of these creations grew along
with that of the tea ceremony in the 16th century.
2. However, savvy tourists find
the best bargains for ceramics in Tokyo's Kitchen Town.
3. Modern shops in touristy
spots display thousands of them, both hand crafted and factory made.
4. Japanese
artisans have been making ceramics, known as Yakimono since prehistoric times.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the
sequence of numbers in the space provided. Only numbers are to be entered in the
space provided for the answer, and no other letters or characters should be entered.
For example, a response such as 3412 or 25143 is valid, and a response such as 3412.
or 25143. is invalid.
1. This means the brain receives less input over
the course of a day.
2. Youthful eyes jiggle regularly to take in new or
unfamiliar stimuli.
3. As the person attached to those eyes ages, the eye muscles
grow slower and the pathways between the eye and the brain grow longer, more complex,
or, in some cases, get damaged.
4. Our eyes quickly scan the surroundings and then
send the data to the brain.
5. Human eyes perform jiggles, more formally called
saccades, in response to a change in the field of vision.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the
sequence of numbers in the space provided. Only numbers are to be entered in the
space provided for the answer, and no other letters or characters should be entered.
For example, a response such as 3412 or 25143 is valid, and a response such as 3412.
or 25143. is invalid.
1. Located in the foothills of the Sion Fort, the
lake is a Grade II-A heritage structure, dating back to the 17th century.
2. Once
home to several marine creatures, the lake is now surrounded by high-rise residential
buildings.
3. The Municipal Corporation is set to breathe life back into the city's
Sion Talao (Lake) with the rejuvenation and beautification of the centuries-old
lake.
4. Over the years, the lake has lost its prominence.
5. Earlier the
talao was a known natural water tank with the Sion hillock expanding around it like an
enclosing wall.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each
sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the
sequence of numbers in the space provided. Only numbers are to be entered in the
space provided for the answer, and no other letters or characters should be entered.
For example, a response such as 3412 or 25143 is valid, and a response such as 3412.
or 25143. is invalid.
1. The Central African Republic has approved
Bitcoin as an official currency.
2. Experts foresee that this will damage the
environment as well as the economy.
3. Others claim that this may make money
laundering easy and also use up a lot of electricity.
4. Economists criticised this
move as a potential risk to the financial stability of the nation.
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