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Read the following sentences carefully.
A. Everybody accepts his
responsibilities.
B. Nobody in that group have their reports up to date, as they
should have.
C. Either of the boys is acceptable to do the errands.
D. Both of
the mice is underfed.
E. It is I who am next.
F. The teacher told he and I to
leave early.
Which of the following combinations has all the sentences
grammatically CORRECT?
Read the following statement carefully and fill up the blanks from the given options.
As _________evolved and eventually moved to cities, close proximity
____________how we viewed and assessed each_________.
Read the following sentences carefully.
A. I shall be there at about 9: 00
a.m.
B. Keep off of the grass.
C. My old car was much faster than the new one.
D. I was angry at my friend.
E. Rohit is as capable as Virat.
Which
of the following combinations has all the INCORRECT sentences?
Read the following statement carefully.
___________like a fake can be a
sign of___________, and clinging too tightly to what feels like one’s authentic self can
________that growth.
Fill in the blanks meaningfully, in the above statement,
from the following options.
Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.
A. Back
then, they were owned by companies and installed on their premises.
B. Rooms and
servers began to replace computer mainframes in the 1990’s.
C. These were
supplemented by processors from Intel, which by the mid-2000s translated its dominance
of PC semiconductors into a near monopoly of the server market.
D. They mostly ran
on chips made by IBM and HP, the big tech of the day.
E. Things started to change
once again around a decade ago, when Amazon began selling some of its spare server
capacity.
Which of the following combinations is the MOST logically
ordered?
Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
You may
accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a
much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through
ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take
complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.
Based on
the above information, which of the following statements MUST be true?
Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows.
Fear is
the greatest motivator of all time. Conflict born of fear is behind our every action,
driving us forward like the cogs of a clock. Fear is desire’s dark dress, its
doppelgänger. “Love and dread are brothers,” says Julian of Norwich. As desire is
wanting and fear is not-wanting, they become inexorably linked; just as desire can be
destructive (the desire for power), fear can be constructive (fear of hurting another);
fear of poverty becomes desire for wealth.
Which of the following statements
can be BEST concluded from the paragraph?
Read the following paragraphs and answer the question that follows.
Paragraph 1:
Here are some handy rules of thumb. Anyone who
calls themselves a thought leader is to be avoided. A man who does not wear socks cannot
be trusted. And a company that holds an employee-appreciation day does not appreciate
its employees.
Paragraph 2:
It is not just that the message sent by
acknowledging staff for one out of 260-odd working days is a bit of a giveaway (there
isn’t a love-your-spouse day ... for the same reason). It is also that the ideas are
usually so tragically unappreciative. You have worked hard all year so you get a slice
of cold pizza or a rock stamped with the words “You rock”?
Which of the
following BEST describes the relationship of the first paragraph with the second
paragraph?
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
That’s
how life plays out for all of us. We lose some. Like sportspersons, we too pack our gear
and go to work. But unlike them, the gaze of the world is not upon us. Most of us do our
business in anonymity, very few of us are emotionally wired to the outcomes of our day
jobs. We don’t come back feeling like winners. Or losers. As sports fans we can summon
empathy for those who stretch their bodies and minds to the limit in the pursuit of
athletic excellence and provide such joys in the process.
But we will never
experience the highs that are their reward. And we will never know the depth of their
lows, which are their burden.
Still, no one will know better than Rohit and
Dravid that its already a new day. There might never be a World Cup win for them. But
there are loved ones to go to. Life awaits still.
Which of the following
statements BEST summarizes the above passage?
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
How do we
choose one discovery over any other? The physician Lewis Thomas made a choice. He
bluntly asserts: “The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th-century science has
been the discovery of human ignorance.”
The science writer Timothy Ferris agrees:
“Our ignorance, of course, has always been with us, and always will be. What is new is
our awareness of it, our awakening to its fathomless dimensions, and it is this, more
than anything else, that marks the coming of age of our species.”
It is an odd,
unsettling thought that the culmination of our greatest century of discovery should be
the confirmation of our ignorance. How did such a thing come about?
Which of
the following statements can be BEST concluded from the above passage?
Go through the statements below and answer the question that follows.
A.
Maybe you have survived major trauma and have a hard time feeling safe.
B. You’ll
probably discover that your fear and struggles make sense on account of what you’ve
lived through.
C. Instead of beating yourself up for reacting in ways you don’t
understand, you can develop compassion for yourself and what you’ve been through.
D.
Perhaps you have experienced a sudden death, and you are often anxious about the health
of your loved ones.
E. You may also find out that you have more strength than you
knew, the same strength that has sustained you this far….
Which of the
following combinations is the MOST logically ordered?
Read the following passage and answer the THREE questions that follow.
If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a
single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is
fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity. Contributions to this bank
are donations to those who cannot or will not be protected by their own immunity. This is
the principle of herd immunity, and it is through herd immunity that mass vaccination
becomes far more effective than individual vaccination.
Any given vaccine can fail to
produce immunity in an individual, and some vaccines, like the influenza vaccine, are less
effective than others. But when enough people are vaccinated with even a relatively
ineffective vaccine, viruses have trouble moving from host to host and cease to spread,
sparing both the unvaccinated and those in whom vaccination has not produced immunity. This
is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a
largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely
vaccinated community.
The unvaccinated person is protected by the bodies around her,
bodies through which disease is not circulating. But a vaccinated person surrounded by
bodies that host disease is left vulnerable to vaccine failure or fading immunity. We are
protected not so much by our own skin, but by what is beyond it. The boundaries between our
bodies begin to dissolve here. Donations of blood and organs move between us, exiting one
body and entering another, and so too with immunity, which is a common trust as much as it
is a private account. Those of us who draw on collective immunity owe our health to our
neighbors.
Based on the passage, which of the following CANNOT be concluded?
Why does the author think about vaccination as a “banking of immunity?”
Based on the last paragraph of the passage, which of the following would the author BEST agree with?
Read the following poem and answer the TWO questions that follow.
In the darkened room
a woman
cannot find her reflection in the
mirror
waiting as usual
at the edge of sleep
In her hands she holds
the
oil lamp
whose drunken yellow flames
know where her lonely body hides
Which of the following statements BEST conveys the theme of the poem?
What do the lines “the drunken yellow flames/know where her lonely body hides” BEST represent?
Read the following passage and answer the TWO questions that
follow.
Beauty has an aesthetic, but it is not the same as aesthetics, not
when it can be embodied, controlled by powerful interests, and when it can be commodified.
Beauty can be manners, also a socially contingent set of traits. Whatever power decides that
beauty is, it must always be more than reducible to a single thing. Beauty is a wonderful
form of capital in a world that organizes everything around gender and then requires a
performance of gender that makes some of its members more equal than others.
Beauty
would not be such a useful distinction were it not for the economic and political
conditions. It is trite at this point to point out capitalism, which is precisely why it
must be pointed out. Systems of exchange tend to generate the kind of ideas that work well
as exchanges. Because it can be an idea and a good and a body, beauty serves many useful
functions for our economic system. Even better, beauty can be political. It can exclude and
include, one of the basic conditions of any politics. Beauty has it all. It can be
political, economic, external, individualized, generalizing, exclusionary, and perhaps best
of all a story that can be told. Our dominant story of beauty is that it is simultaneously a
blessing, of genetics or gods, and a site of conversion. You can become beautiful if you
accept the right prophets and their wisdoms with a side of products thrown in for good
measure. Forget that these two ideas—unique blessing and earned reward—are antithetical to
each other. That makes beauty all the more perfect for our (social and political) time,
itself anchored in paradoxes like freedom and property, opportunity and equality.
Based on the passage, which of the following CANNOT be inferred about beauty?
Based on the passage, which of the following BEST explains beauty to be simultaneously a “blessing” and a “site of conversion?”
Read the following passage and answer the THREE questions that
follow.
Because it’s so easy to judge the idiocy of others, it may be sorely
tempting to think this doesn’t apply to you. But the problem of unrecognized ignorance is
one that visits us all. And over the years, I’ve become convinced of one key, overarching
fact about the ignorant mind. One should not think of it as uninformed. Rather, one should
think of it as misinformed.
An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty
vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences,
theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that
regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. This clutter is an
unfortunate by-product of one of our greatest strengths as a species. We are unbridled
pattern recognizers and profligate theorizers. Often, our theories are good enough to get us
through the day, or at least to an age when we can procreate. But our genius for creative
storytelling, combined with our inability to detect our own ignorance, can sometimes lead to
situations that are embarrassing, unfortunate, or downright dangerous—especially in a
technologically advanced, complex democratic society that occasionally invests mistaken
popular beliefs with immense destructive power. As the humorist Josh Billings once put it,
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that
just ain’t so.” (Ironically, one thing many people “know” about this quote is that it was
first uttered by Mark Twain or Will Rogers—which just ain’t so.)
Because of the way
we are built, and because of the way we learn from our environment, we are all engines of
misbelief. And the better we understand how our wonderful yet kludge-ridden, Rube Goldberg
engine works, the better we—as individuals and as a society—can harness it to navigate
toward a more objective understanding of the truth.
Which of the following statement is NOT true about an ignorant mind?
Based on the passage, what does the author BEST mean when he says, “we are all engines of misbelief?”
With which of the following statements will the author agree the MOST?
Read the following passage and answer the TWO questions that
follow.
But as the behavioral economists like to remind us, we are already
prone to all sorts of reductions as a species. It’s not just the scientists. We compress
complex reality down into abbreviated heuristics that often work beautifully in everyday
life for high-frequency, low-significance decisions. Because we are an unusually clever and
self-reflective species, we long ago realized that we needed help overcoming those reductive
instincts when it really matters. And so we invented a tool called storytelling. At first,
some of our stories were even more reductive than the sciences would prove to be: allegories
and parables and morality plays that compressed the flux of real life down to archetypal
moral messages. But over time the stories grew more adept at describing the true complexity
of lived experience, the whorls and the threadlike pressures. One of the crowning
achievements of that growth is the realist novel. That, of course, is the latent implication
of Prince Andrei’s question: “innumerable conditions made meaningful only in unpredictable
moments” would fare well as a description of both War and Peace and Middlemarch, arguably
the two totemic works in the realist canon. What gives the novel the grain of truth lies
precisely in the way it doesn’t quite run along the expected grooves, the way it dramatizes
all the forces and unpredictable variables that shape the choices humans confront at the
most meaningful moments of their lives.
When we read those novels—or similarly rich
biographies of historical figures—we are not just entertaining ourselves; we are also
rehearsing for our own real-world experiences….
Which of the following is the BEST interpretation regarding reductive instincts?
Why would a realist novel consist of “innumerable conditions made meaningful only in unpredictable moments?”
Read the following passage and answer the THREE questions that follow.
What I call fast political thinking is driven by simplified moral frames. These
moral frames give us the sense that those who agree with us have the right answer, while
those who disagree are unreasonable, or worse.
Each moral frame sets up an axis of
favorable and unfavorable. Progressives use the oppressor-oppressed axis. Progressives view
most favorably those groups that can be regarded as oppressed or standing with the
oppressed, and they view most unfavorably those groups that can be regarded as oppressors.
Conservatives use the civilization-barbarism axis. Conservatives view most favorably the
institutions that they believe constrain and guide people toward civilized behavior, and
they view most unfavorably those people who they see as trying to tear down such
institutions. Libertarians use the liberty-coercion axis. Libertarians view most favorably
those people who defer to decisions that are made on the basis of personal choice and
voluntary agreement, and they view most unfavorably those people who favor government
interventions that restrict personal choice.
If you have a dominant axis, I suggest
that you try to learn the languages spoken by those who use the other axes. Don’t
worry—learning other languages won’t make it easy for others to convert you to their point
of view. By the same token, it will not make it easy to convert others to your point of
view. However, you may become aware of assumptions your side makes that others might
legitimately question.
What learning the other languages can do is enable you to
understand how others think about political issues. Instead of resorting to the theory that
people with other views are crazy or stupid or evil, you may concede that they have a
coherent point of view. In fact, their point of view could be just as coherent as yours. The
problem is that those people apply their point of view in circumstances where you are fairly
sure that it is not really appropriate.
Consider that there may be situations in
which one frame describes the problem much better than the others. For example, I believe
that the civil rights movement in the United States is best described using the progressive
heuristic of the oppressed and the oppressor. In the 1950s and the early 1960s, the people
who had the right model were the people who were fighting for black Americans to have true
voting rights, equal access to housing, and an end to the Jim Crow laws. The
civilization-barbarism axis and the liberty-coercion axis did not provide the best insight
into the issue….
Which of the following BEST describes the civilization-barbarism axis?
Which of the following BEST explains the author’s usage of the term moral frames?
Which of the following can BEST be concluded from the above passage?
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