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The past decade has upset many preconceptions above development and this, more than anything else, makes it difficult to be overly definite about what the next decade has in store. However, there are a few things that one can assert with some confidence. First, education, health, and productive employment are crucial both for growth and for equity. We have tended to assume that all of these are the consequences of rapid economic growth and that only growth can generate the resources required for these purposes. However, increasingly, it appears that these are better seen as the causes rather than as consequences of development. Virtually every case of successful development involves a prior improvement in literacy, technical skills, health status, and access to productive work. Second, technological competence is the most important resource endowment and it explains a tar larger proportion of growth in output and trade than more conventional factors like natural resources or capital accumulation. The competence required is not just in research. In fact technological dynamism in the factory and the farm is more important than the presence of large research establishment. Third, the environmental imperative can no longer be ignored. Today, as an international issue, it is second only to disarmament. Nationally, the developmental consequences of environmental neglect are increasingly obvious. In the Pakistani context, there are at least two further factors, which reinforce the above propositions. The first is population growth. Given the pace of expansion of the population and the work force, human resource development acquires an added urgency. Population growth is also one, but not necessarily the most important factor, which underlines environmental stress in rural and urban areas. The second factor is that as a large country we cannot carve out an independent positioning the global system without building up a substantial capacity for self-reliant growth. The acquisition of technical competence is crucial for this purpose. Until now, we have tended to treat human resource development, technology issues and environment as subsidiary to the main task of planning. The thrust has been on: quantitative expansion of infrastructure and production with a focus on production targets like tones of steel, kWh of electricity etc., capacity targets like road length, rail kilometer age; and coverage targets like number of schools and students, number of villages electrified etcetera, catching up with known technologies -Fuller use of natural resources -Maximum mobilization of financial resources. Q:According to the passage, we have so far placed more emphasis on which of the following?
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A. Optimum use of available natural resources
B. Increased number of basic facilities and meeting number targets
C. Maximum utilization of available finances
D. Following known technologies
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A great literary or artistic work is known as a ___________.
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A. Pot pouri
B. Par excellence
C. Bete noire
D. Pecadillo
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Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning Obloquy:
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A. Hate
B. Praise
C. Circle
D. Cure
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DOLLAR : DIME
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A. Rupee : Frank
B. Saleswoman : Pitch
C. Retreat : Victory
D. Century : Decade
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Complete Sentence the Education Minister emphasized the need to discover and ............... each student's ................ talents.
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A. Suppress, potential
B. Flourish, hidden
C. Enlarge, dormant
D. Belittle, concealed
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Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning Debilitating:
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A. Protecting
B. Securing
C. Strengthening
D. Occupying
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Complete Sentence Although, alcoholism has long been regarded as a personality disorder, there is evidence to suggest that alcoholics are often the children of alcoholics and that they are born with a ................. the disease.
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A. Deterioration of
B. Respect for
C. Liability for
D. Predisposition to
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Choose the Word Which has Opposite Meaning Destitute:
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A. Impoverished
B. Broke
C. Sympathy
D. Shining
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Choose the word/phrase related to given word/phrase CONDONE: OFFENCE
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A. Punish: Criminal
B. Mitigate; Penitence
C. Overlook: Aberration
D. Mistake: Judgement
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It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of the physical world hastily and superficially acquired by populations unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has made imperative.The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made.Fears are inevitable in our time but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit.We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts Science,whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way,is in its very nature a liberator.a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in to come a liberator from the weight of destructive passions,We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement no previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous,and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.iv.Fears and hopes according to the author:
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A. Are irrational
B. Are closely linked with the life of modern man
C. Can yield good results
D. Can bear fruit
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