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Question 1 of 40
1. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.Farming the sea means
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Solution: Refer the last few lines of first paragraph “In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.”
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Solution: Refer the last few lines of first paragraph “In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.”
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Question 2 of 40
2. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.The harvest of the sea can be increased by
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Solution: We can infer from second paragraph of the passage where it has been mentioned that transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters.
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Solution: We can infer from second paragraph of the passage where it has been mentioned that transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters.
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Question 3 of 40
3. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.The harvest of the sea can also be increased by
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Solution: Refer the first and second sentences of the third paragraph “In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming.”
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Solution: Refer the first and second sentences of the third paragraph “In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming.”
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Question 4 of 40
4. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.The sea farmer’s first job will be to
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Solution: Refer the fourth paragraph “As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques.”
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Solution: Refer the fourth paragraph “As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques.”
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Question 5 of 40
5. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.Intensive underwater farming will be particularly important for
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Solution: Refer the fourth sentence of the last paragraph “But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming.”
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Solution: Refer the fourth sentence of the last paragraph “But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming.”
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Question 6 of 40
6. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.The writer says one square mile of sea
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Solution: Refer the second sentence of the passage “Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land.”
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Solution: Refer the second sentence of the passage “Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land.”
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Question 7 of 40
7. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.“In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the sea”. The clause means
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Solution: We can infer from the third paragraph that the clause means we will not have to spread fertilizers on the sea-bed.
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Solution: We can infer from the third paragraph that the clause means we will not have to spread fertilizers on the sea-bed.
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Question 8 of 40
8. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.“It might well turn out that the process would be too expensive” means
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Solution: Refer the last few lines of the last paragraph “In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.”
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Solution: Refer the last few lines of the last paragraph “In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.”
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Question 9 of 40
9. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.A flounder is a
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Solution: Flounder means ‘be in serious difficulty’. Here in the passage, fish is referred as flounder as it is difficult for them to survive in crowded waters.Incorrect
Solution: Flounder means ‘be in serious difficulty’. Here in the passage, fish is referred as flounder as it is difficult for them to survive in crowded waters. -
Question 10 of 40
10. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Of all the sea’s possibilities for man’s future, the greatest may be its promise of an important increase in the world’s food supply. Square mile after square mile, the sea is estimated to be more productive than the land. Yet at present the oceans supply only one or two percent of man’s food. Despite all he is learning about the sea, man’s relationship to it is still primitive; he is a hunter rather than a harvester. Along some coasts oyster growers set out beds of oysters and fence out the oyster’s enemies to increase the yield. In the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan and China, people already grow fish and prawns in freshwater ponds. But this is just the beginning. In the future, to meet the great needs of a rapidly expanding world population, man will have to farm the sea as he has for so long farmed the land.
There are many things that scientists can do to increase the sea’s yield of food. One was experimented with over half a century ago by the British biologist Walter, who transplanted flounders from their crowded home near the Dutch coast to a similar area in the middle of the North Sea. He did this several times and found the method successful. The transplanted flounders grew to three times the size of their brothers in the crowded Dutch waters. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.
In the sea farming of the future it should not be necessary to spread fertilizer in the seas as farmers do on land. But it may be useful to stimulate the flow of nutrients to those areas most conveniently accessible for sea farming. Columbus o’ Donnell Iselin, an American oceanographer, suggests that we can stimulate up-welling of mineral-rich cold water along our coast by using jet engines placed on shore or on big bouys to pump compressed air through long tubes to the deep sea layers. The rising bubbles of air would carry nutrients up with them. Another Iselin idea is to cause an up-welling in the Gulf Stream by anchoring a quantity of submerged buoys with very large boards attached to them deep in the water near the Florida Strait. Each of these boards would be fixed at an angle so that they could deflect the cold seabed waters upwards. By this means, the writer predicts, we could probably fetch enough mineral nutrients up to the surface to turn the Gulf Stream off the south-eastern United States into an area rich in plankton. This would inevitably result in an improvement in the fishing industry of the South Atlantic States.
When the time comes to farm the sea, Sir Alister Hardy of Oxford University has said, man will go under water to breed fish. As a first step he will have to make a distinction between creatures he can eat and those he cannot. The latter, says Sir Alister, will have to be classified as weeds and taken out. As long ago as World War I, a marine biologist calculated that ‘weeds’, i.e. inedible creatures like brittle stars and starfish, eat up all but a very small percentage of the fish food available in the sea. To clear away these weeds so that the fish can get at least 20 percent of the available food, the sea farmer of the future will have to use completely new techniques. Professor Hardy expects that sea farmers, working for periods of about two hours at a time, ‘from a mother ship above…..will be driving submarine tractors down below.’ These tractors will be used to clear destructive weeds off the ocean bed. Later, when harvest time comes, the same tractors will pull nets through the same waters and collect fish that have grown fat on their unshared sea-bed food.
Sir Mister foresees such scenes in the coastal waters around Europe, but we are only likely to see them in the distant future. Europe is already quite well provided with food resources. Like the United States, whose requirements for sea food are expected to double in the next twenty years, Europe can probably meet its own expanding needs in the future simply by improving present fishery techniques. But for many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with rocketing birth rates, survival may depend on the development of some sort of intensive underwater farming. Pessimists predict that man will someday be forced to eat plankton. Though this always remains a possibility, there are two things which made it unlikely. In the first place, man is not really so efficient at collecting plankton as are the whales, and so it might well turn out that the process would be too expensive. In the second place, a good deal of it does not taste very pleasant.Which of the following statement is correct?
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Solution: Refer the last sentence of the second paragraph “. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.”
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Solution: Refer the last sentence of the second paragraph “. Striped bass, shad and soft-shelled clams have been successfully transplanted from the east to the west coast of North America, and the North American Chinook salmon now lives and breeds around New Zealand.”
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Question 11 of 40
11. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The very shape of man’s body is such that makes him a restless creature. He cannot do without work. It is truly said, “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”
The whole civilization of man has evolved itself only through hard work. All the inventions and discoveries of science are the result of hard work. Constant work improving upon its own findings progressively, has enabled man to tread on the moon.
Even in our daily life we see that hard work pays dividends. A student who works regularly and systematically shows better results than the one who does not do so. Similarly, a player who practices regularly on the field is much better than the other one. Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence. Work may be physical or intellectual. It is important in all its forms. But it must be constructive. Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.
In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers. We work little and we work even less for our country. One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause. Let us all be dedicated to the cause of our country. Then we shall be able to make great sacrifices as our freedom fighters did. Only then we can see our country great and strong. And we ourselves can be great and strong only if our country is so. There is no short-cut, no escape route. Hard work is the only way out. In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.Which one of the following messages the author wants to convey through the passage?
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Solution: Refer the last sentence of the passage “In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.”
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Solution: Refer the last sentence of the passage “In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.”
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Question 12 of 40
12. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The very shape of man’s body is such that makes him a restless creature. He cannot do without work. It is truly said, “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”
The whole civilization of man has evolved itself only through hard work. All the inventions and discoveries of science are the result of hard work. Constant work improving upon its own findings progressively, has enabled man to tread on the moon.
Even in our daily life we see that hard work pays dividends. A student who works regularly and systematically shows better results than the one who does not do so. Similarly, a player who practices regularly on the field is much better than the other one. Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence. Work may be physical or intellectual. It is important in all its forms. But it must be constructive. Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.
In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers. We work little and we work even less for our country. One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause. Let us all be dedicated to the cause of our country. Then we shall be able to make great sacrifices as our freedom fighters did. Only then we can see our country great and strong. And we ourselves can be great and strong only if our country is so. There is no short-cut, no escape route. Hard work is the only way out. In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.What, according to the passage, is the cause of our self-confidence?
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Solution: Refer the fourth sentence of the third paragraph “Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence.”
Incorrect
Solution: Refer the fourth sentence of the third paragraph “Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence.”
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Question 13 of 40
13. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The very shape of man’s body is such that makes him a restless creature. He cannot do without work. It is truly said, “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”
The whole civilization of man has evolved itself only through hard work. All the inventions and discoveries of science are the result of hard work. Constant work improving upon its own findings progressively, has enabled man to tread on the moon.
Even in our daily life we see that hard work pays dividends. A student who works regularly and systematically shows better results than the one who does not do so. Similarly, a player who practices regularly on the field is much better than the other one. Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence. Work may be physical or intellectual. It is important in all its forms. But it must be constructive. Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.
In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers. We work little and we work even less for our country. One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause. Let us all be dedicated to the cause of our country. Then we shall be able to make great sacrifices as our freedom fighters did. Only then we can see our country great and strong. And we ourselves can be great and strong only if our country is so. There is no short-cut, no escape route. Hard work is the only way out. In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.What, according to the passage, is necessary for the effective work?
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Solution: Refer the third sentence of the last paragraph “One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause.”
Incorrect
Solution: Refer the third sentence of the last paragraph “One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause.”
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Question 14 of 40
14. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The very shape of man’s body is such that makes him a restless creature. He cannot do without work. It is truly said, “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”
The whole civilization of man has evolved itself only through hard work. All the inventions and discoveries of science are the result of hard work. Constant work improving upon its own findings progressively, has enabled man to tread on the moon.
Even in our daily life we see that hard work pays dividends. A student who works regularly and systematically shows better results than the one who does not do so. Similarly, a player who practices regularly on the field is much better than the other one. Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence. Work may be physical or intellectual. It is important in all its forms. But it must be constructive. Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.
In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers. We work little and we work even less for our country. One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause. Let us all be dedicated to the cause of our country. Then we shall be able to make great sacrifices as our freedom fighters did. Only then we can see our country great and strong. And we ourselves can be great and strong only if our country is so. There is no short-cut, no escape route. Hard work is the only way out. In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.The great nations have become stronger as a result of
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Solution: Refer the last sentence of the third paragraph “Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.”
Incorrect
Solution: Refer the last sentence of the third paragraph “Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.”
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Question 15 of 40
15. Question
Category: EnglishRead the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The very shape of man’s body is such that makes him a restless creature. He cannot do without work. It is truly said, “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”
The whole civilization of man has evolved itself only through hard work. All the inventions and discoveries of science are the result of hard work. Constant work improving upon its own findings progressively, has enabled man to tread on the moon.
Even in our daily life we see that hard work pays dividends. A student who works regularly and systematically shows better results than the one who does not do so. Similarly, a player who practices regularly on the field is much better than the other one. Work not only leads to better results in the long run, but also increases our self- confidence. Work may be physical or intellectual. It is important in all its forms. But it must be constructive. Great nations of the world like Japan, Germany and China have emerged strong only through hard work nut in individually and collectively.
In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers. We work little and we work even less for our country. One can work better and more efficiently if one is dedicated to some cause. Let us all be dedicated to the cause of our country. Then we shall be able to make great sacrifices as our freedom fighters did. Only then we can see our country great and strong. And we ourselves can be great and strong only if our country is so. There is no short-cut, no escape route. Hard work is the only way out. In whatever field we are, we must do our duty with utmost devotion and conscientiousness.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE in the context of the passage?
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Solution: Refer the first sentence of the last paragraph “In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers.”
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Solution: Refer the first sentence of the last paragraph “In India we worship lord Vishwakarma, the great god of the workers but, unfortunately we are a nation of shirkers.”
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Question 16 of 40
16. Question
Category: EnglishSelect the phrase/connector (STARTERS) from the given three options which can be used to form a single sentence from the two sentences given below, implying the same meaning as expressed in the statement sentences.(1) More and more countries are pledging to combat global warming and protecting the environment.
(2) The United States has not only pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement but has also taken climate change out of its National Security Strategy.
(I)With more and more countries…
(II)Despite pulling out of the 2015…
(III)While more and more countries…Correct
Solution: Both the starters (I) and (III) can be used to construct a meaningful sentence. Hence (c) is the correct choice.
(I)With more and more countries pledging to combat global warming and protecting the environment, the United States has not only pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement but has also taken climate change out of its National Security Strategy.
(III)While more and more countries are pledging to combat global warming and protecting the environment, the United States has not only pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement but has also taken climate change out of its National Security Strategy.Incorrect
Solution: Both the starters (I) and (III) can be used to construct a meaningful sentence. Hence (c) is the correct choice.
(I)With more and more countries pledging to combat global warming and protecting the environment, the United States has not only pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement but has also taken climate change out of its National Security Strategy.
(III)While more and more countries are pledging to combat global warming and protecting the environment, the United States has not only pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement but has also taken climate change out of its National Security Strategy. -
Question 17 of 40
17. Question
Category: EnglishSelect the phrase/connector (STARTERS) from the given three options which can be used to form a single sentence from the two sentences given below, implying the same meaning as expressed in the statement sentences.(1) There are many dimensions and measurements of economic development.
(2) We tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
(I)While there are many dimensions…
(II)Although there are many dimensions…
(III)Despite the fact that there are many…Correct
Solution: All the starters can be used to frame the meaningful sentence accordingly. Hence (e) is the correct choice.
(I)While there are many dimensions and measurements of economic development, we tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
(II)Although there are many dimensions and measurements of economic development, we tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
(III)Despite the fact that there are many dimensions and measurements of economic development, we tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Incorrect
Solution: All the starters can be used to frame the meaningful sentence accordingly. Hence (e) is the correct choice.
(I)While there are many dimensions and measurements of economic development, we tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
(II)Although there are many dimensions and measurements of economic development, we tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
(III)Despite the fact that there are many dimensions and measurements of economic development, we tend to rely largely on a single measurement called Gross Domestic Product (GDP). -
Question 18 of 40
18. Question
Category: EnglishSelect the phrase/connector (STARTERS) from the given three options which can be used to form a single sentence from the two sentences given below, implying the same meaning as expressed in the statement sentences.(1) There has been a rapid increase in Chinese investments and greater involvement of Chinese companies in construction and other businesses in Nepal.
(2) Chinese economic diplomacy too has become intense.
(I)With a rapid increase in…
(II)Since Chinese diplomacy too…
(III)Notwithstanding Chinese economic…Correct
Solution: Only the first starter is the correct choice to form a coherent sentence.
(I) With a rapid increase in Chinese investments and greater involvement of Chinese companies in construction and other businesses in Nepal, Chinese economic diplomacy too has become intense.Incorrect
Solution: Only the first starter is the correct choice to form a coherent sentence.
(I) With a rapid increase in Chinese investments and greater involvement of Chinese companies in construction and other businesses in Nepal, Chinese economic diplomacy too has become intense. -
Question 19 of 40
19. Question
Category: EnglishEach of the following questions has a paragraph from which one sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that air pollution is one of the biggest public concerns in India today. Its implications are many but just two will suffice here. A report of the Lancet Commission on pollution and health states that around 19 lakh people die prematurely every year from diseases caused by outdoor and indoor air pollution. A study by the Indian Journal of Pediatrics shows that the lungs of children who grow up in polluted environments like Delhi are 10% smaller compared to the lungs of children who grow up in the U.S. This is nothing short of a public health emergency. _______________________________Correct
Solution: Option (a) is the correct choice. Here, the author has already discussed the problem of the air pollution and supported it with the facts produced by Lancet Commission and a study by Indian Journal of Pediatrics. He stated air pollution to be an emergency in the previous statement thus the next statement to complete this paragraph should be the action required to curb the problem of pollution.
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Solution: Option (a) is the correct choice. Here, the author has already discussed the problem of the air pollution and supported it with the facts produced by Lancet Commission and a study by Indian Journal of Pediatrics. He stated air pollution to be an emergency in the previous statement thus the next statement to complete this paragraph should be the action required to curb the problem of pollution.
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Question 20 of 40
20. Question
Category: EnglishEach of the following questions has a paragraph from which one sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.Something in us constantly urges us to seek. This seeking, according to sages, is a reflection of our need for lasting peace and happiness. Ramana Maharshi termed this seeking as a natural yearning within our hearts to be established in a state of permanent peace. He likened this to the natural process whereby birds return to their nests after their travels. However, because of the latent impressions our minds carry over many years and through force of habit, we seek this peace by pursuing various external efforts. ____________________________Correct
Solution: Option (d) is the correct choice. Here, the author has just described about the external efforts taken by humans for the peace of their minds. Thus, the next statement to complete the paragraph should be about the results of these efforts undertaken by the individuals. This is aptly described in option (d).
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Solution: Option (d) is the correct choice. Here, the author has just described about the external efforts taken by humans for the peace of their minds. Thus, the next statement to complete the paragraph should be about the results of these efforts undertaken by the individuals. This is aptly described in option (d).
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Question 21 of 40
21. Question
Category: EnglishIn each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct.The government, which had been facing a lot of ________________ from opposition parties and also a few economists in the last few months for the ________________ in GDP in two consecutive quarters, breathed a sigh of _______________ after international rating agency Moody’s upgraded India’s credit rating from BAA3 to BAA2.Correct
Solution: The set of words “ criticism, slowdown, relief” fills the provided blanks meaningfully. The expression “ sigh of relief ” means to suddenly feel very happy because something unpleasant has not happened or has ended. Other options are irrelevant as they alter the meaning of the sentence. Hence (a) is the correct choice.
Criticism means the expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes.
Mitigation means the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
Gibe means make insulting or mocking remarks; jeer.
Opulence means great wealth or luxuriousness.Incorrect
Solution: The set of words “ criticism, slowdown, relief” fills the provided blanks meaningfully. The expression “ sigh of relief ” means to suddenly feel very happy because something unpleasant has not happened or has ended. Other options are irrelevant as they alter the meaning of the sentence. Hence (a) is the correct choice.
Criticism means the expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes.
Mitigation means the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
Gibe means make insulting or mocking remarks; jeer.
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Question 22 of 40
22. Question
Category: EnglishIn each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct.Moody’s has not ______________ any big increase in GDP growth in the short run, as there have been some _______________ in the economy due to demonetisation and GST, which may _______________ for some more time.Correct
Solution: “ predicted, disruptions, continue” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the meaning of the sentence. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (d) is the correct choice.
Predict means say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something.
Disruption means disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.
Uproar means a loud and impassioned noise or disturbance.
Ruckus means a row or commotion.
Grasp means seize and hold firmly.Incorrect
Solution: “ predicted, disruptions, continue” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the meaning of the sentence. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (d) is the correct choice.
Predict means say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something.
Disruption means disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.
Uproar means a loud and impassioned noise or disturbance.
Ruckus means a row or commotion.
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Question 23 of 40
23. Question
Category: EnglishIn each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct.Education is one area that has seen _______________ progress over the last one decade in this country, despite ________________political instability and the _______________ insurgency.Correct
Solution: “ massive, worsening, spreading” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the sentence, giving it a contextual meaning. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (b) is the correct choice.
Miniature means very small of its kind.
Fringe means decorate (clothing or material) with a fringe.
Fatal means causing death.
Gross means (especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable.Incorrect
Solution: “ massive, worsening, spreading” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the sentence, giving it a contextual meaning. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (b) is the correct choice.
Miniature means very small of its kind.
Fringe means decorate (clothing or material) with a fringe.
Fatal means causing death.
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Question 24 of 40
24. Question
Category: EnglishIn each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct.An _______________ of life-sustaining oxygen has been ________________ into the vintage car movement by the National Green Tribunal, rather belatedly, easing the ________________ on old cars using public roads.Correct
Solution: “ equivalent, infused, restrictions” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the sentence. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (e) is the correct choice.
Equivalent means equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
Akin means of similar character.
Pervade means (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of.
Analogous means comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
Infuse means instill (a quality) in someone or something.
Stint means a person’s fixed or allotted period of work.Incorrect
Solution: “ equivalent, infused, restrictions” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the sentence. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (e) is the correct choice.
Equivalent means equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
Akin means of similar character.
Pervade means (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of.
Analogous means comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
Infuse means instill (a quality) in someone or something.
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Question 25 of 40
25. Question
Category: EnglishIn each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct.Far from taking the country forward, the President of the United States _______________ to have taken the country on a journey back in time to an _______________ where racism, sexism and bigotry were part of the _________________ landscape.Correct
Solution: “ appears, era, social” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the sentence, giving it a contextual meaning. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (c) is the correct choice.
Era means a long and distinct period of history.
Eon means an indefinite and very long period of time.
Aloof means not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant.
Epoch means a particular period of time in history or a person’s life.Incorrect
Solution: “ appears, era, social” is the required set of words that fits perfectly into the sentence, giving it a contextual meaning. Other words do not follow the correct theme of the sentence. Hence (c) is the correct choice.
Era means a long and distinct period of history.
Eon means an indefinite and very long period of time.
Aloof means not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant.
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Question 26 of 40
26. Question
Category: EnglishIn the question given below the parts of the sentence which are highlighted are grammatically correct. Choose that part of the sentence which is not highlighted and is grammatically incorrect. Ensure that the meaning of the statement remains unchanged.GDP is really not a comprehensive measure of economic development, because the primary method of measuring GDP is based on absurd calculations that include some values and completely, rather arbitrarily, excludes any other consideration of distribution of income.Correct
Solution: There is an error in the part (d) of the sentence. The verb “ excludes ” should be replaced by its plural form “ exclude ” to comply with the subject-verb agreement. It is to be noted that the subject of the verb “ exclude ” is in plural “ absurd calculations ” which should be followed by the similar form of the verb. Hence option (d) is the correct choice.
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Solution: There is an error in the part (d) of the sentence. The verb “ excludes ” should be replaced by its plural form “ exclude ” to comply with the subject-verb agreement. It is to be noted that the subject of the verb “ exclude ” is in plural “ absurd calculations ” which should be followed by the similar form of the verb. Hence option (d) is the correct choice.
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Question 27 of 40
27. Question
Category: EnglishIn the question given below the parts of the sentence which are highlighted are grammatically correct. Choose that part of the sentence which is not highlighted and is grammatically incorrect. Ensure that the meaning of the statement remains unchanged.The National Health Policy 2017 has been proposed to increase the public spending on health care from a dismal 1 per cent to a meagre 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2020, which in itself is well below the world average of 5.99 per cent.Correct
Solution: There is an error in the part (a) of the sentence. The use of “ been ” is incorrectly matched with the structure of the sentence. The sentence simply follows the Present Perfect Tense with “ The National Health Policy 2017 ” as the subject. The correct expression should be “ The National Health Policy 2017 has proposed ” to make the sentence grammatically correct. Hence option (a) is the correct choice.
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Solution: There is an error in the part (a) of the sentence. The use of “ been ” is incorrectly matched with the structure of the sentence. The sentence simply follows the Present Perfect Tense with “ The National Health Policy 2017 ” as the subject. The correct expression should be “ The National Health Policy 2017 has proposed ” to make the sentence grammatically correct. Hence option (a) is the correct choice.
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Question 28 of 40
28. Question
Category: EnglishIn the question given below the parts of the sentence which are highlighted are grammatically correct. Choose that part of the sentence which is not highlighted and is grammatically incorrect. Ensure that the meaning of the statement remains unchanged.The fact of the matter must be that while a large section of the populace has been confronting the repressive dictator, the forbidden challenge of the ISIS emanates from its anxiety to step into the vacuum.Correct
Solution: There is an error in the part (c) of the sentence. The adjective “ forbidden ” doesn’t fit into the theme of the sentence as it means not allowed; banned . It should be replaced by the correct adjective “forbidding” which means unfriendly or threatening in appearance. The expression “ the forbidding challenge of the ISIS ” gives a contextual meaning to the sentence. Hence option (c) is the correct choice.
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Solution: There is an error in the part (c) of the sentence. The adjective “ forbidden ” doesn’t fit into the theme of the sentence as it means not allowed; banned . It should be replaced by the correct adjective “forbidding” which means unfriendly or threatening in appearance. The expression “ the forbidding challenge of the ISIS ” gives a contextual meaning to the sentence. Hence option (c) is the correct choice.
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Question 29 of 40
29. Question
Category: EnglishIn the question given below the parts of the sentence which are highlighted are grammatically correct. Choose that part of the sentence which is not highlighted and is grammatically incorrect. Ensure that the meaning of the statement remains unchanged.The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the first socialist party, prior to World War I to advocate universal suffrage and renounce revolution as a method of struggle for achieving working-class aims and this made them pay increasing attention to women’s suffrage.Correct
Solution: There is no error in any part of the sentence as the sentence is grammatically correct. Hence (e) is the correct choice.
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Solution: There is no error in any part of the sentence as the sentence is grammatically correct. Hence (e) is the correct choice.
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Question 30 of 40
30. Question
Category: EnglishIn the question given below the parts of the sentence which are highlighted are grammatically correct. Choose that part of the sentence which is not highlighted and is grammatically incorrect. Ensure that the meaning of the statement remains unchanged.It must be conceded that the HRD ministry having comprehensive guidelines that take into consideration the physical infrastructure, notably separate and age-appropriate toilets to ensure the safety of children in school.Correct
Solution: There is an error in the part (b) of the sentence. The correct form of the verb should be “ has ” instead of “ having ” to make the sentence structurally correct. Other parts would correctly follow this change to form a coherent sentence. Hence option (b) is the correct choice.
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Solution: There is an error in the part (b) of the sentence. The correct form of the verb should be “ has ” instead of “ having ” to make the sentence structurally correct. Other parts would correctly follow this change to form a coherent sentence. Hence option (b) is the correct choice.
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Question 31 of 40
31. Question
Category: EnglishThe sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. From among the five choices given below each question, choose the most logical order of sentences that construct a coherent paragraph.(A)Besides, a campus is the natural home of the ISC, for scientists should not transact their business in an ivory tower beyond the reach of the student body.
(B)It is the crucible of future politics, and politicians should engage with student protesters rather than seek insulation from them.
(C)But a campus is where feelings and arguments can and should run high.
(D)Indian science has been seen to be faltering for some time — with the significant exception of the space effort — and it is important to inspire the student body.
(E)It would be like holding a business meeting in a football field.
(F)Indeed, that would indicate a failure to take the student body along with them.
(G)The proposal to relocate the meet to a trade fair facility is completely inappropriate.Correct
Solution: The sentences in the sequence of CBFADGE form a coherent paragraph which is about the Indian Science Congress (ISC). Considering the given options, statement (C) makes the most logical start to the paragraph. Sentences (B) and (F) are complementary and there is a similar case with the sentences (G) and (E). Sentence (A) should follow (F) to make a better chain of logical statements. Hence (b) is the most suitable option.
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Solution: The sentences in the sequence of CBFADGE form a coherent paragraph which is about the Indian Science Congress (ISC). Considering the given options, statement (C) makes the most logical start to the paragraph. Sentences (B) and (F) are complementary and there is a similar case with the sentences (G) and (E). Sentence (A) should follow (F) to make a better chain of logical statements. Hence (b) is the most suitable option.
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Question 32 of 40
32. Question
Category: EnglishThe sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. From among the five choices given below each question, choose the most logical order of sentences that construct a coherent paragraph.(A)Such systems should have been the basis not only of higher education but of new and viable professions and forging an informed agreement within society.
(B)While there is a great demand for development services, there are few empirical systems to measure it at the granular level that is required.
(C)How long can such a corrosive system last?
(D)Instead, we have chosen to continue an elaborate, expensive and divisive system of two realities, of rewards and rents for a chosen few and a sullen acceptance for the others.Correct
Solution: If we go by the options, statement (B) should begin the paragraph. There is a clear connection between the sentences (B) and (A) [“ empirical systems” in the sentence (B) and “ such systems” in the sentence (A)]. The sentence (C) concludes the paragraph in a proper way. Thus, sentences in the sequence of BADC form a coherent paragraph which is about demand for development services in the educational institutions. Hence (a) is the correct choice.
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Solution: If we go by the options, statement (B) should begin the paragraph. There is a clear connection between the sentences (B) and (A) [“ empirical systems” in the sentence (B) and “ such systems” in the sentence (A)]. The sentence (C) concludes the paragraph in a proper way. Thus, sentences in the sequence of BADC form a coherent paragraph which is about demand for development services in the educational institutions. Hence (a) is the correct choice.
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Question 33 of 40
33. Question
Category: EnglishThe sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. From among the five choices given below each question, choose the most logical order of sentences that construct a coherent paragraph.(A)All men by nature desire to know. A man is what he knows.
(B)The more you know, the less you need to show.
(C)The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance make known.
(D)There are no possessions like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.
(E)Our greatest enemy today is ignorance.
(F)What we don’t know is killing us; or at least depriving us of a full and abundant life.Correct
Solution: The sentence (A) should begin the paragraph as it starts with the theme of the paragraph. It should subsequently be followed by the statements (B), (D) and (C). The sentence (F) concludes the paragraph. Thus, sentences in the sequence ofABDCEF form a coherent paragraph which is about the importance of knowledge and the desire of all men to attain the same. Hence (d) is the correct choice.
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Solution: The sentence (A) should begin the paragraph as it starts with the theme of the paragraph. It should subsequently be followed by the statements (B), (D) and (C). The sentence (F) concludes the paragraph. Thus, sentences in the sequence ofABDCEF form a coherent paragraph which is about the importance of knowledge and the desire of all men to attain the same. Hence (d) is the correct choice.
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Question 34 of 40
34. Question
Category: EnglishFive statements are given below, labeled (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Among these, four statements are in logical order and form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the paragraph.1. Through all the geopolitical stresses and strains, the global financial markets sailed through 2017 by creating record highs, ignoring any fear that the central banks would reverse their unconventional monetary policies.
2. At $18,000 that would be worth more than $5.8 million.
3. The European Union took a tough line because if Britain could leave cheaply, it would encourage more Leavers.
4. Indeed, the biggest surprise winner in terms of returns is bitcoin, which started the year at $1,000 or so, and last traded at $18,000.
5. According to Investopedia, if you bought $100 worth of bitcoin on January 1, 2011, you would be worth more than $3.7 million at a price of $11,321 at end November 2017.
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Solution: All the sentences, except (c), belong to the same paragraph. The sentences in the sequence of adeb form a coherent paragraph which is about the recent surge in the global financial markets. However, the sentence (c) finds no alternative to be matched with. It doesn’t fit anywhere in the paragraph and thus can be eliminated. Hence sentence (c) is the correct choice of elimination.
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Solution: All the sentences, except (c), belong to the same paragraph. The sentences in the sequence of adeb form a coherent paragraph which is about the recent surge in the global financial markets. However, the sentence (c) finds no alternative to be matched with. It doesn’t fit anywhere in the paragraph and thus can be eliminated. Hence sentence (c) is the correct choice of elimination.
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Question 35 of 40
35. Question
Category: EnglishFive statements are given below, labeled (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E). Among these, four statements are in logical order and form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the paragraph.1. One, the private healthcare providers’ mission is to make healthcare accessible and affordable by all—it must be recognised that a private hospital provides quality care at full cost plus a premium that reflects the hospital’s profits, and that it is the job of the government to make affordable care ubiquitous.
2. In any case, these prices would set benchmarks that could be widely disseminated.
3. This still does not mean that there is no scope to reduce hospital charges while long-term measures are pursued.
4. Two, hospitals make exorbitant profits—in reality, their operating margins are, in general, lower than those of most industries that service the common man.
5. How to bring down healthcare costs and end price-gouging by private hospitals? This question has two assumptions that are unsound.Correct
Solution: All the sentences, except (b), belong to the same paragraph. The sentences in the sequence of eadc form a coherent paragraph which is about how to bring down healthcare costs and end price-gouging by private hospitals. However, the sentence (b) finds no connection with any other given sentences. It doesn’t fit anywhere in the paragraph and thus can be eliminated. Hence sentence (b) is the correct choice of elimination.
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Solution: All the sentences, except (b), belong to the same paragraph. The sentences in the sequence of eadc form a coherent paragraph which is about how to bring down healthcare costs and end price-gouging by private hospitals. However, the sentence (b) finds no connection with any other given sentences. It doesn’t fit anywhere in the paragraph and thus can be eliminated. Hence sentence (b) is the correct choice of elimination.
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Question 36 of 40
36. Question
Category: EnglishIn the passage given below there are blanks which can be filled with four of the five options given below without altering the meaning of the statement. Choose the most inappropriate word in each case which does not fit into the provided blank as your answer.The __________( 136) of nature versus nurture is an important one, but also an incredibly delicate one. How much of the ___________( 137) we see in society are fueled by a lack of good education, social influences and role models, and how much are due to _________( 138) ability? Given that people in advanced countries spend multiple decades of their life in school, this is an important question. But it’s also a very fraught one—discussions about the issue are ________( 139) hijacked by people pushing racist or sexist theories, and polite society’s reaction, understandably, is often to make such __________( 140) taboo. As a result, it’s hard to know what people really think about the nature-versus-nurture question.Correct
Solution: The word ‘criticism’ does not fit into the passage as in the latter part of the passage, the question has been mentioned about nature going against nature.
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Solution: The word ‘criticism’ does not fit into the passage as in the latter part of the passage, the question has been mentioned about nature going against nature.
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Question 37 of 40
37. Question
Category: EnglishIn the passage given below there are blanks which can be filled with four of the five options given below without altering the meaning of the statement. Choose the most inappropriate word in each case which does not fit into the provided blank as your answer.The __________( 136) of nature versus nurture is an important one, but also an incredibly delicate one. How much of the ___________( 137) we see in society are fueled by a lack of good education, social influences and role models, and how much are due to _________( 138) ability? Given that people in advanced countries spend multiple decades of their life in school, this is an important question. But it’s also a very fraught one—discussions about the issue are ________( 139) hijacked by people pushing racist or sexist theories, and polite society’s reaction, understandably, is often to make such __________( 140) taboo. As a result, it’s hard to know what people really think about the nature-versus-nurture question.Correct
Solution: Dainty means delicate and graceful in build or movement of a person.
The author here speaks about differences developed in the society. Hence, dainty is the word not suitable for the blank.Incorrect
Solution: Dainty means delicate and graceful in build or movement of a person.
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Question 38 of 40
38. Question
Category: EnglishIn the passage given below there are blanks which can be filled with four of the five options given below without altering the meaning of the statement. Choose the most inappropriate word in each case which does not fit into the provided blank as your answer.The __________( 136) of nature versus nurture is an important one, but also an incredibly delicate one. How much of the ___________( 137) we see in society are fueled by a lack of good education, social influences and role models, and how much are due to _________( 138) ability? Given that people in advanced countries spend multiple decades of their life in school, this is an important question. But it’s also a very fraught one—discussions about the issue are ________( 139) hijacked by people pushing racist or sexist theories, and polite society’s reaction, understandably, is often to make such __________( 140) taboo. As a result, it’s hard to know what people really think about the nature-versus-nurture question.Correct
Solution: Insidious means proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects. Hence, the word insidious doesn’t fit into the theme of the passage.
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Solution: Insidious means proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects. Hence, the word insidious doesn’t fit into the theme of the passage.
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Question 39 of 40
39. Question
Category: EnglishIn the passage given below there are blanks which can be filled with four of the five options given below without altering the meaning of the statement. Choose the most inappropriate word in each case which does not fit into the provided blank as your answer.The __________( 136) of nature versus nurture is an important one, but also an incredibly delicate one. How much of the ___________( 137) we see in society are fueled by a lack of good education, social influences and role models, and how much are due to _________( 138) ability? Given that people in advanced countries spend multiple decades of their life in school, this is an important question. But it’s also a very fraught one—discussions about the issue are ________( 139) hijacked by people pushing racist or sexist theories, and polite society’s reaction, understandably, is often to make such __________( 140) taboo. As a result, it’s hard to know what people really think about the nature-versus-nurture question.Correct
Solution: ‘comparatively’ means a moderate degree as compared to something else; relatively. Here, the author is describing about the frequency of the discussions and not comparing any two factors. Hence, the word comparatively doesn’t fit aptly in the blank.
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Solution: ‘comparatively’ means a moderate degree as compared to something else; relatively. Here, the author is describing about the frequency of the discussions and not comparing any two factors. Hence, the word comparatively doesn’t fit aptly in the blank.
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Question 40 of 40
40. Question
Category: EnglishIn the passage given below there are blanks which can be filled with four of the five options given below without altering the meaning of the statement. Choose the most inappropriate word in each case which does not fit into the provided blank as your answer.The __________( 136) of nature versus nurture is an important one, but also an incredibly delicate one. How much of the ___________( 137) we see in society are fueled by a lack of good education, social influences and role models, and how much are due to _________( 138) ability? Given that people in advanced countries spend multiple decades of their life in school, this is an important question. But it’s also a very fraught one—discussions about the issue are ________( 139) hijacked by people pushing racist or sexist theories, and polite society’s reaction, understandably, is often to make such __________( 140) taboo. As a result, it’s hard to know what people really think about the nature-versus-nurture question.Correct
Solution: The word ‘actions’ doesn’t fit into the blank as the author has only described about the discussions conducted by the people and has not stated anything about their actions.
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Solution: The word ‘actions’ doesn’t fit into the blank as the author has only described about the discussions conducted by the people and has not stated anything about their actions.
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