LIC AAO Pre English Language Quiz
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Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Security dynamics are changing rapidly in the Indo-Pacific. The region is home not only to the world’s fastest-growing economies, but also to the fastest-increasing military expenditure and naval capabilities, the fiercest competition over natural resources, and the most dangerous strategic hot spots. One might even say that it holds the key to global security. The increasing use of the term “Indo-Pacific”—which refers to all countries bordering the Indian and Pacific oceans—rather than “Asia-Pacific”, underscores the maritime dimension of today’s tensions. Asia’s oceans have increasingly become an arena of competition for resources and influence. It now seems likely that future regional crises will be triggered and/or settled at sea.
The main driver of this shift has been China, which over the last five years has been working to push its borders far out into international waters, by building artificial islands in the South China Sea. Having militarized these outposts, it has now shifted its focus to the Indian Ocean.
Already, China has established its first overseas military base in Djibouti, which recently expropriated its main port from a Dubai-based company, possibly to give it to China. Moreover, China is planning to open a new naval base next to Pakistan’s China-controlled Gwadar port. And it has leased several islands in the crisis-ridden Maldives, where it is set to build a marine observatory that will provide subsurface data supporting the deployment of nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) and nuclear-powered ballistic missile subs (SSBNs) in the Indian Ocean.
In short, China has transformed the region’s strategic landscape in just five years. If other powers do not step in to counter further challenges to the territorial and maritime status quo, the next five years could entrench China’s strategic advantages. The result could be the ascendancy of a China-led illiberal hegemonic regional order, at the expense of the liberal rules-based order that most countries in the region support. Given the region’s economic weight, this would create significant risks for global markets and international security. To mitigate the threat, the countries of the Indo-Pacific must confront three key challenges. Despite a lack of political integration and the absence of a common security framework in the Indo-Pacific, free-trade agreements are proliferating, the latest being the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Establishing a regional framework that reinforces the rule of law will require progress on overcoming the second challenge: the region’s “history problem”. Disputes over territory, natural resources, war memorials, air defence zones, and textbooks are all linked, in one way or another, with rival historical narratives. The result is competing and mutually reinforcing nationalisms that imperil the region’s future. This brings us to the third key challenge facing the Indo-Pacific: changing maritime dynamics. Amid surging maritime trade flows, regional powers are fighting for access, influence, and relative advantage. Here, the biggest threat lies in China’s unilateral attempts to alter the regional status quo. What China achieved in the South China Sea has significantly more far-reaching and longer-term strategic implications than, say, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, as it sends the message that defiant unilateralism does not necessarily carry international costs.
There is no more time to waste. Indo-Pacific powers must take stronger action to strengthen regional stability, reiterating their commitment to shared norms, not to mention international law, and creating robust institutions. For starters, Australia, India, Japan and the US must make progress in institutionalizing their Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, so that they can better coordinate their policies and pursue broader collaboration with other important countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Korea, as well as with smaller countries. Economically and strategically, the global centre of gravity is shifting to the Indo-Pacific. If the region’s stakeholders don’t act now to fortify an open, rules-based order, the security situation will continue to deteriorate—with consequences that are likely to reverberate worldwide.
- According to the passage, Indo-Pacific region is an area of concern among the countries because of
(a) Political risks
(b) Increasing conflicts among the countries.
(c) Changing Maritime Dynamics.
(d) Restricted trade
(e) None of these
- China has expanded its boundaries from last few years by
(a) Building artificial islands in South China Sea.
(b) Establishing military base in Djibouti
(c) building a marine observatory in Maldives
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) All are correct
- Drawback(s) of China’s despotic rules at its territory is/are
(I) A geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order
(II) risks of buying or selling of goods and services in all the countries of the world.
(III) Disputes over territory, natural resources, war memorials and air defence zones.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Both (I) and (II)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) All of the above
- Indo- Pacific countries can be strengthened by
(a) fortifying an open, rules-based order.
(b) Establishing a regional framework
(c) collaborating with the international laws.
(d) settling disputes
(e) All of the above
Directions (6-10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered and one word has been suggested alongside the blank. These numbers are printed below the
passage and against each, five options are given. Find out the appropriate word which fits the blank appropriately. If the word written alongside the blank fits the passage, choose option ‘e’ (No correction required) as the correct choice.
The obsession with GNP-maximizing model of development has led to the (6) growth of important social, ecological and spiritual issues which can prove very costly and harmful.
Hence there is a yearning among increasing number of people for (7) luxurious models of development and in this context, we propose a distress minimizing model of development.
The defining (8) circumvent of this model is that here the reduction of distress is the core issue, it is at the centre of all other discussions and questions. While in a GNP-maximizing model the ways and means of maximizing GNP growth (9) constitute the core issue around which other issues revolve, in our model distress reduction is the central issue and other issues are (10) connected only in relation to this central issue. [/su_spoiler]
- (a) evacuation
(b) emergence
(c) interest
(d) neglect
(e) no replacement required
- (a) alternative
(b) decisive
(c) opinionative
(d) evaluative
(e) no replacement required
- (a) structure
(b) feature
(c) skeleton
(d) appearance
(e) no replacement required
- (a) refuse
(b) separate
(c) diverge
(d) destroy
(e) no replacement required
- (a) concerned
(b) tested
(c) examined
(d) suffered
(e) no replacement required
