Question : In the following passage, some blanks are given, and against each blank five alternative words are suggested. Choose the correct alternative to complete the passage in a meaningful way.
We know that ________________ (1) untreated industrial produce or sewage into rivers will pollute them. But industries and local bodies do it anyway. We know our unsustainable thirst for coal or minerals like gold is ________________ (2) entire hills, accelerating biodiversity loss and affecting the people living near these areas as well as working there. Governments and corporations mine them anyway. There’s a word for such sustained, ________________ (3) actions that we commit despite knowing fully well their monumental and widespread ecological and environmental fallouts: ecocide. It is, literally, ‘the ________________ (4) of the environment’. Ecocide refers to actions that result in the willful, conscious destruction of the natural environment with consequences for human, animal and plant life. That’s the ________________ (5) in which biologist Arthur Galston used the term for the first time in 1970, at the Conference on War and Responsibility in Washington, D.C. He referred to the US’s use of Agent Orange – a herbicide used to ________________ (6) jungles during the Vietnam War – an act of ecocide. Galston was the first to link the willful destruction of nature with genocide, which is ________________ (7) as an international crime.
Q.Choose the correct word to be used in blank 4
Option 1: Dissimulating
Option 2: Killing
Option 3: Grovelling
Option 4: Obsequiously.
Correct Answer: Killing
Solution : The correct answer is option 2
Explanation:
According the meaning of the given option, the most suitable word is "Killing"
Question : Which element of marketing mix is highlighted in the given statement? Statement: It refers to efforts that inform target buyers about the product's availability, features, and benefits and convince them to purchase it.
Option 1: Product
Option 2: Price
Option 3: Place
Option 4: Promotion
Question : It is generally accompanied by greater job responsibilities,more pay,higher status and greater prestige. Which staffing process is highlighted in the given statement?
Option 1: Performance appraisal
Option 2: Promotion and career planning
Option 3: Compensation
Option 4: None of the above
Question : Which feature of marketing is highlighted in the given statement? Statement: The role of the marketer is to enhance the product's value so that consumers choose it over its rivals and make a purchasing decision.
Option 1: Need and want
Option 2: Customer value
Option 3: Creating a market offering
Option 4: Exchange mechanism
Question : Identify the principle of management violated in the below case. The marketing manager has asked his subordinate to grant 15% discount to its regular customer where as the finance minister asked not to give more than 10% discount to any customer.
Option 1: Unity of direction
Option 2: Unity of command
Option 3: Division of work
Option 4: Scaler chain
Question : If the contractor himself decides to leave the organisation all the workers employed through him will follow suit. Which external source of recruitment demerit is highlighted in the given statement?
Option 1: Placement agencies and management consultants
Option 2: Labour contractors
Option 3: Advertising on television
Option 4: Web publishing
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