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Question 1. The ideas attributed to T. H. Huxley in the passage suggest that he would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
  1.    An animal's brain size has little bearing on its ability to master complex behaviors.
  2.    An animal's appearance is often influenced by environmental requirements and physical capabilities.
  3.    Animals within a given family group are unlikely to change their appearance dramatically over a period of time.
  4.    The origin of flight in vertebrates was an accidental development rather than the outcome of specialization or adaptation.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> An animal's appearance is often influenced by environmental requirements and physical capabilities.
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B
The author has mentioned in the fourth paragraph that although scales typically cover reptiles, the pterosaurs probably had hairy coats. Huxley speculated that a coat of hair would insulate against loss of body heat and might streamline the body to reduce drag in flight. Thus, we can logically conclude that an animal’s appearance is often influenced by environmental requirements and physical capabilities. Hence, it is evident that answer option (b) is the correct answer choice.
Question 2. 1.These stricter standards are needed to give a better account of who did what and when in a world where market crashes can happen in a flash.
2.The scientists therefore met with regulators, banks and trade bodies from all over Europe, to discuss how to implement the directive.
3.The purpose of the high-tech clock is to tell banks and trading services exactly what the time is, so that they can comply with a new set of accounting rules, called the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, which will come into force in 2017.
4.Such atomic clocks were first proposed to be used in the New York stock exchange before the advent of the Second World War.
5.   Among many other things, this directive drastically tightens rules on the time-stamping of transactions.___
 Discuss Question

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It is evident that sentences 3,5,1 and 2 are all related to the directive and form a coherent paragraph in the order 3512. While sentence 4 is related to atomic clocks, it does not form a part of the context as it has no mention of the directive.
Question 3. Jamieson's proposal was rejected for several reasons, the chief among which was cost.
  1.    the chief among which was cost
  2.    the chief of which was cost
  3.    among which the chief was its cost
  4.    the chief reason of which was its cost
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> the chief of which was cost
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B
The word 'chief' means main or principal, and all three words mean the top one. And when we refer to a member of a group, we use of. For example, if we want to name our best friend, we'd say He is the best of my friends, but not He is the best among my friends.
Now, run these through your head to see how they sound:
·The main reason of all the reasons.
·The main reason among all the reasons.
The first sounds better and is more precise.
So, the answer is option (b).
Question 4. Which of the following would best support the author's contention, as gathered from the passage?
  1.    The existence of language requires knowledge of physics.
  2.    Language is socially necessary.
  3.    'Thoughts', which remain private, become public through language.
  4.    Except the existence of language requiring knowledge of physics, all the other statements support the author's contention.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 'Thoughts', which remain private, become public through language.
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C
Let us look at these lines:
“I need hardly say that I am not asserting that the existence of language requires knowledge of physics.”
So option (a) is wrong.
Option (b) is a very tricky option.
Socially is an adverb. It qualifies necessary (which is an adjective).
The meaning of the statement is “The necessity is social in nature and not the language.”
Question 5. "I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of mind,” says Antoine de Saint - Exupery, the French pilot, writer and author of the Little Prince (1900-1944). On these lines, let's fast forward to an age where old values are remodeled and reshaped into a new package, one that brings fresh life, flavour and zest to the spirit of Indian freedom. Free India, as we know today, has changed drastically. ___________________________
  1.    With the fundamental rights at the helm, India is marching ahead to conquer new heights and new horizons.
  2.    New age India is a place to be in and to enjoy.
  3.    It is a place where the boundaries have been erased, cultures have merged and societies are thinking alike, to grow and to see one nation- India
  4.    No longer simply an epicenter of outsourcing, India is riding a new wave of globalization, as the economies of the technology business turn it into a regional design and development hub.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> With the fundamental rights at the helm, India is marching ahead to conquer new heights and new horizons.
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A
The phrase "spirit of Indian freedom” from the passage suggests what is expected in the last line. Option (b) is too vague. It cannot be the answer. Option (c) talks about culture and boundaries which is not specifically following from the idea given in the passage. The spirit of freedom mentioned has more to do with fundamental rights than with cultural freedom. Option (d) goes out of scope as globalization; economies and technology have nowhere been mentioned in the passage. Option (a) follows logically by saying that the new freedom in India is due to the fundamental rights.
Question 6. HANG
  1.    The judge ordered the officer to hang all the prisoners.
  2.    In this area, the dust seems to hang in the air all the time.
  3.    The professor advised the students to hang on his every word.
  4.    While all others work very diligently, why do you alone hang on like this?
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> While all others work very diligently, why do you alone hang on like this?
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D
“Hang-on” means “to hold fast to”. Its usage in the fourth sentence is wrong.
Question 7. Which of the following option gives the correct meaning of the word
Divestiture
  1.    inordinate desire for gaining and possessing wealth; greed
  2.    mercy toward an offender; mildness; mercy; grace
  3.    closeness in time or place; closeness of relationship; resemblance
  4.    being stripped; act of unclothing; deprivation of a right or privilege
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> being stripped; act of unclothing; deprivation of a right or privilege
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D
Correct meaning: (d)being stripped; act of unclothing; deprivation of a right or privilege
Question 8. The fight against the drug trade in Country X should focus for the time being on tightening the country's borders and targeting its major smugglers. Wiping out poppy fields in rural areas means even greater hardship for an economically depressed farming population. Rather, the United Nations and the government of Country X must carefully rebuild agricultural infrastructure in areas where the economy depends on these poppy fields. What purpose do the two boldface sentences serve in the passage?
  1.    The first is the conclusion drawn by the speaker; the second is the alternative to that conclusion.
  2.    The first is a short-term solution to a problem; the second is a long-term solution to the same problem.
  3.    The first presents a problem; the second poses an ideal solution to the problem.
  4.    The first presents a popular solution to a problem; the second presents a solution preferred by the author.
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Answer: Option B. -> The first is a short-term solution to a problem; the second is a long-term solution to the same problem.
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B
The first boldface sentence states that the fight against the drug trade in Country X should focus for the time being on tightening the country's borders and targeting its major smugglers. The second boldface sentence states that the United Nations and the government of Country X should eventually replace the poppy fields with other farming ventures ("agricultural infrastructure"). We need to find a choice that describes the relationship between these two sentences.
(A) This choice states that the first sentence is the conclusion and that the second sentence is an alternative to that conclusion. This misrepresents the relationship.The first sentence is a shorter-term conclusion and the second sentence is a longer-term conclusion of the argument.
(B) CORRECT.This choice states that the first sentence is a short-term solution to a problem and the second a long-term solution to the same problem.This accurately describes the relationship. The first sentence states that the fight should focus "for the time being" on borders and smuggling while the second sentence states that the United Nations and the government of Country X should work to replace the poppy crop with something else.
(C) This choice states that the first sentence presents a problem. According to the text, however, the first sentence is not a problem but a solution to a problem.
(D) This choice states that the first sentence presents a popular solution to a problem.Since we have no way of knowing whether the solution is popular, this cannot be correct.
Question 9. Which of the following best reflects the tone of the poem?
  1.    Prescribing
  2.    Exhorting
  3.    Pleading
  4.    Consoling
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Exhorting
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B
Refer to the part Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey, without her you would not have set out.
Question 10. Which one of the following most accurately characterizes the author's attitude toward placebo treatment?
  1.    reserved advocacy
  2.    feigned objectivity
  3.    perplexed by its effectiveness
  4.    zealous promotion
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> reserved advocacy
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A
Only choices (a) and (b) have any real merit. Although the passage has a detached, third-person style, the author nonetheless, does present his opinions— namely that placebos work and that their use should be expanded. However, that advocacy is reserved, so the correct answer is (a).
The other choices can be quickly eliminated: Given the human ego, we are unlikely to admit that we don’t understand the subject we are writing about. This eliminates (c).
“Zealous promotion” is too strong; “promotion” itself is probably too strong. This eliminates (d).

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