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MCT-9501/14

SBI PO / SBI Associate PO Mock 1

Descriptive
Time: 1 hour

Total Marks : 50

Instructions
1.

This booklet contains 6 pages. Immediately after opening the booklet, verify that all pages are
printed properly.

2.

This paper contains 5 questions.

3.

All questions are compulsory.

4.

The maximum marks for each question are mentioned against the corresponding question.

5.

Descriptive Test paper of only those candidates will be evaluated who have scored qualifying
marks in the Objective Test.

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Page 1

1.

Write an essay in about 200-250 words on any one of the following topics.
Peace and development go hand in hand.
OR
Justice delayed is justice denied.

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2.

Write a letter (in about 120-150) to your boss requesting a transfer to another city and explaining the
reasons for your request.
OR
You have just returned home from your vacation at your grandmothers place. Write a letter (in about
200 words) to her expressing your thanks for making your holidays memorable.
(10 Marks)

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3.

Summarize the following paragraph in your own words (100-150) and give a suitable title to the
summary.
(10 Marks)

The greenhouse effect is the warming that happens when certain gases in Earths atmosphere trap heat.
These gases let in light but keep heat from escaping, like the glass walls of a greenhouse.
First, sunlight shines onto the Earths surface, where it is absorbed and then radiates back into the
atmosphere as heat. In the atmosphere, greenhouse gases trap some of this heat, and the rest escapes
into space. The more greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere, the more heat gets trapped.
Scientists have known about the greenhouse effect since 1824, when Joseph Fourier calculated that the
Earth would be much colder if it had no atmosphere. This greenhouse effect is what keeps the Earths
climate livable. Without it, the Earths surface would be an average of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit cooler.
In 1895, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius discovered that humans could enhance the greenhouse
effect by making carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. He kicked off 100 years of climate research that has
given us a sophisticated understanding of global warming.
Levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have gone up and down over the Earths history, but they have been
fairly constant for the past few thousand years. Global average temperatures have stayed fairly constant
over that time as well, until recently. Through the burning of fossil fuels and other GHG emissions, humans
are enhancing the greenhouse effect and warming Earth.
Scientists often use the term climate change instead of global warming. This is because as the Earths
average temperature climbs, winds and ocean currents move heat around the globe in ways that can cool
some areas, warm others, and change the amount of rain and snow falling. As a result, the climate
changes differently in different areas.

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4.

The passage given below is followed by five questions. Answer each question in about 50 words.
(10 Marks)

In 1973, for B.C. Mexico, Mr. Chris Burden paddled a small canvas kayak from a town on the Sea of
Cortez in Baja California to an uninhabited beach further south, carrying only water. He spent 11 days on
the beach, in 120-degree temperatures, before declaring an end to the performance and paddling back to
town. In his Los Angeles gallery, a note describing his absence was the only thing viewers found when they
arrived for his scheduled exhibition.
It was really more about isolation than anything else, Mr. Burden, now 67, said recently. It was about
being gone.
For the last four decades, Mr. Burden, who will be the subject of a highly unconventional career survey
opening Oct. 2 at the New Museum in Manhattan, has conducted his life like a kind of conceptual experiment
in being simultaneously gone and present. Hes remained a part of the art scene, but strictly on terms he
has established in a world he has built around himself. That may be one reason that, among the Los
Angeles artists who emerged in the 1960s and 70s and had staying power, Mr. Burden has long remained
under the radar, revered in California and in Europe, and a cult figure for many younger artists, but
underappreciated in New York and in many American museums.
Since 1981, Mr. Burden and his wife, the sculptor Nancy Rubins, have lived here in Los Angeles but
physically removed from it, deep in the hills of Topanga Canyon. Before building a house they spent five
years in a tent; they now own 80 acres in the canyon, some of it rugged chaparral. To reach it, and their
neighboring studios, which resemble overgrown metal tractor barns, you have to drive up switchback roads
so narrow that the curves have been outfitted with convex mirrors to allow you to see if another car is
coming.
One of the reasons Nancy and I have lived up here is so we can just leave lots of junk lying around, and it
doesnt bother anyone that much, said Mr. Burden. But looking into the distance at the houses of neighbors,
which include the actress Lisa Bonet, he added: Money has come into this canyon in the last few years.
By our standards, its starting to get a little too crowded.
1.

What was Mr. Burdens most probable motive behind spending 11 days on an uninhabited beach?

2.

Why did Mr. Burden and his wife decide to live in the canyon?

3.

What does the author mean by physically removed from it?

4.

Why did Mr. Burden remain unnoticed for a long period of time?

5.

Why does Mr. Burden say that the canyon is "starting to get a little too crowded"?

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5.

Write a paragraph in about 150-200 words on any one of the following topics.
The Modi Wave
OR
Raghu Ram Ranjan: The dark knight
OR
Disappearance of MH370

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