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Answer: Option D. -> Both selling an asset at a price lower than its purchase price and taking a job that pays 70000 dollars a year today than working to build skills that may get them a 100000 dollar a year job after two years.
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D
In the first paragraph, the author mentions that the findings of behaviour science suggest that people 'devalue long term returns as compared to short term gains'. We also find an explanation of why 'people buy high and sell low'. The endowment effect is just the opposite of what is suggested by Option C. Economics and not behaviour science will say that people will sell their 200ticketfor 205.
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D
In the first paragraph, the author mentions that the findings of behaviour science suggest that people 'devalue long term returns as compared to short term gains'. We also find an explanation of why 'people buy high and sell low'. The endowment effect is just the opposite of what is suggested by Option C. Economics and not behaviour science will say that people will sell their 200ticketfor 205.
Question 112. 1. They quickly clarified that they have no intention of closing the border.
2. As her poll numbers fall, calls are growing for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to do exactly that.
3. But they also have said they will not be able to leave it open if Germanydecides it can no longer handle an influx that brought more than a half-million asylum seekers to the country during the first nine months of the year.
4. The Austrian government has decided to call a Europe wide convention to decide on the number of refugees each country admit.
5. Austrian officials said last week that they are planning barriers to better regulate the movement of migrants coming across from Slovenia.
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2. As her poll numbers fall, calls are growing for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to do exactly that.
3. But they also have said they will not be able to leave it open if Germanydecides it can no longer handle an influx that brought more than a half-million asylum seekers to the country during the first nine months of the year.
4. The Austrian government has decided to call a Europe wide convention to decide on the number of refugees each country admit.
5. Austrian officials said last week that they are planning barriers to better regulate the movement of migrants coming across from Slovenia.
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Sentences 5-1-3 form continuum as they refer to the position of Austrians on leaving their borders open for refugees. Sentence 2 refers to what Germany may do regarding refugees and this follows sentence 3. Sentence 4, even though related to the context of refugees, does not fall under the scope of the passage (the position of Austrians regarding leaving their border gates open to refugees to pass through but not settle in Austria).
Question 113. 1. Jumping a fence of prickly pears, Gumat Hussain, a local chief in the driest district of North Wollo, Ethiopia's most drought-prone province, walks gloomily through his sorghum.
2. This was because of a particularly strong El Niño effect, which this year made swathes of Africa drier than usual, along with a longer-term drying of Ethiopia's climate, especially in the north and east.
3. In many lowland parts of North Wollo, a day's drive north of Addis Ababa, the capital, the annual midsummer rains lasted for under a week.
4. "The crops have not produced grain. They are useless even for the animals,” he sighs. "My oxen and goats will soon die. Our people will wait only for the government to respond.”
5. Now it is harvest time and the tall, green crops belie their fruitlessness.
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2. This was because of a particularly strong El Niño effect, which this year made swathes of Africa drier than usual, along with a longer-term drying of Ethiopia's climate, especially in the north and east.
3. In many lowland parts of North Wollo, a day's drive north of Addis Ababa, the capital, the annual midsummer rains lasted for under a week.
4. "The crops have not produced grain. They are useless even for the animals,” he sighs. "My oxen and goats will soon die. Our people will wait only for the government to respond.”
5. Now it is harvest time and the tall, green crops belie their fruitlessness.
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Sentences 2, 4 and 5 cannot start the paragraph as they require a prior context. We are left with 1 or 3. Sentence 3 cannot begin the paragraph as it already assumes that the reader knows about North Wallo. So sentence 1 is the starting sentence. 1 and 4 form a pair as they share the link of Gumat Hussain. Similarly, 3 and 2 are a pair as 2 explains why the annual mid summer rains mentioned in sentence 3 lasted only for a week. Sentence 5 begins a new topic.
So, the correct sequence is 14325.
Question 114. The author states that in a "kindlier version” of multiculturalism, minorities discover "that they can play a part in molding the larger culture even as they are molded by it.” If no new ethnic groups were incorporated into the American culture for many centuries to come, which one of the following would be the most probable outcome of this "kindlier version”?
Answer: Option A. -> At some point in the future, there would be only one culture with no observable ethnic differences.
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A
This application question clearly goes well beyond the passage. If no new ethnic groups were incorporated into the American culture, then the interplay between the larger and smaller groups would continue, with both groups changing, until there would be only one common (and different from any original) group.
Answer (c) is a very close answer option. But the question talks about what will happen after many centuries. Option (c) states what is happening now. After many centuries we will expect things to change and not stay the way they are (as stated in the passage).
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A
This application question clearly goes well beyond the passage. If no new ethnic groups were incorporated into the American culture, then the interplay between the larger and smaller groups would continue, with both groups changing, until there would be only one common (and different from any original) group.
Answer (c) is a very close answer option. But the question talks about what will happen after many centuries. Option (c) states what is happening now. After many centuries we will expect things to change and not stay the way they are (as stated in the passage).
Answer: Option C. -> actresses
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C
This description question is a bit tricky because the second-best choice is rather good. Women are concerned with the image they present, so they cannot be themselves—they must act their part. Hence the answer is (c). You may have been tempted by (a). According to the passage, women are thrown into the role of an actress, “into the keeping of men.” So, like victims, they are not responsible for their social position. However, nothing in the passage directly suggests that it is wrong for women to be in this position or that women attempt to refuse this role. According to the passage, therefore, women are not, strictly speaking, victims. (Victim means “someone not in control of something injurious happening to him or her.”)
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C
This description question is a bit tricky because the second-best choice is rather good. Women are concerned with the image they present, so they cannot be themselves—they must act their part. Hence the answer is (c). You may have been tempted by (a). According to the passage, women are thrown into the role of an actress, “into the keeping of men.” So, like victims, they are not responsible for their social position. However, nothing in the passage directly suggests that it is wrong for women to be in this position or that women attempt to refuse this role. According to the passage, therefore, women are not, strictly speaking, victims. (Victim means “someone not in control of something injurious happening to him or her.”)
Question 116. "A”: Our state is considering raising the age at which a person can get a driver's license to eighteen.
This is unfair because the age has been sixteen for many years and sixteen-year-olds today are no less responsible than their parents and grandparents were at sixteen.Many young people today who are fourteen and fifteen years old are preparing to receive their licenses by driving with a learner's permit and a licensed driver, usually one of their parents. It would not be fair to suddenly say they have to wait two more years.
"B”: It is true that people have been allowed to receive a driver's license at sixteen for generations.
However, in recent years, the increase in traffic means drivers face more dangers than ever and must be ready to respond to a variety of situations. The fact that schools can no longer afford to teach drivers' education results in too many young drivers who are not prepared to face the traffic conditions of today.
What is the point at issue between "A” and "B”?
This is unfair because the age has been sixteen for many years and sixteen-year-olds today are no less responsible than their parents and grandparents were at sixteen.Many young people today who are fourteen and fifteen years old are preparing to receive their licenses by driving with a learner's permit and a licensed driver, usually one of their parents. It would not be fair to suddenly say they have to wait two more years.
"B”: It is true that people have been allowed to receive a driver's license at sixteen for generations.
However, in recent years, the increase in traffic means drivers face more dangers than ever and must be ready to respond to a variety of situations. The fact that schools can no longer afford to teach drivers' education results in too many young drivers who are not prepared to face the traffic conditions of today.
What is the point at issue between "A” and "B”?
Answer: Option D. -> whether sixteen-year-olds are prepared to drive in today's traffic conditions
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D
The speakers support their arguments in different ways, but both are concerned with
whether sixteen-year-olds should continue to be allowed to receive drivers' licenses.
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D
The speakers support their arguments in different ways, but both are concerned with
whether sixteen-year-olds should continue to be allowed to receive drivers' licenses.
Question 117. It follows, as a fundamental state obligation that each Indian, be his socio-economic station high or humble, has a just right to a fair level of education irrespective of social, financial, regional, religious considerations. The 'socialist' Republic inscribed in the Preamble is no idle adjective. ________________________________
Answer: Option A. -> The right to education derives an ideational activism, which judicial construction cannot burke or jettison based on the subconscious impact of the dubious mantra of privatisation.
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A
Option (a)
The passage says that everyone is entitled to a fair level of education no matter what our background is. Option (a) is in keeping with this idea. Option (b) quotes certain constitutional articles and is outside the scope of the passage. Option (c) and option (d) just complicate the whole thing. Option (a) is the best answer.
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A
Option (a)
The passage says that everyone is entitled to a fair level of education no matter what our background is. Option (a) is in keeping with this idea. Option (b) quotes certain constitutional articles and is outside the scope of the passage. Option (c) and option (d) just complicate the whole thing. Option (a) is the best answer.
Question 118. Tina: All other factors being equal, children whose parents earned doctorates are more likely to earn a doctorate than children whose parents did not earn doctorates.
George: But consider this: Over 70 percent of all doctorate holders do not have a parent that also holds a doctorate. Which of the following is the most accurate evaluation of Hari's reply?
George: But consider this: Over 70 percent of all doctorate holders do not have a parent that also holds a doctorate. Which of the following is the most accurate evaluation of Hari's reply?
Answer: Option C. -> It is consistent with Tina's claim
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C
George's 70 percent figure pretty much tells us that numbers and statistics is the name of the game here. We're asked to evaluate George's response to Tina, so let's see what Tina has in mind. Tina's statement is a comparison among individuals: If my parents have earned doctorates and yours didn't, then Tina says that the odds are better that I will earn a doctorate than you will. Tina's claim goes no further. She doesn't claim that children of doctors are guaranteed to earn doctorates, and she doesn't even claim that they are likely to earn doctorates. She merely claims that these children are more likely to earn doctorates than their counterparts who do not have a parent that earned a doctorate.
Thus the irrelevancy of George's 70 percent figure, which gives us information on a different group - those who already earned their doctoral degree. Because he has shifted the scope, the data George presents can be true and still have no bearing on Tina's claim. An example: Suppose that there are 10 people in the world with doctorates. Tina merely claims that children of these people are most likely to get doctorates than children of other people. George comes along and says that of the 10 people, say, 8 of them (over 70%) come from doctorate-less parents. Does that alter Tina's claim in any way? No. All other factors being equal, the children of those doctors could still likely to earn doctors, even if most doctorate holders don't have the particular heritage. Because of this, George's consideration doesn't contradict Tina's claim if any way, and we can therefore say that George's statement is consistent with it. (C) is theanswer.
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C
George's 70 percent figure pretty much tells us that numbers and statistics is the name of the game here. We're asked to evaluate George's response to Tina, so let's see what Tina has in mind. Tina's statement is a comparison among individuals: If my parents have earned doctorates and yours didn't, then Tina says that the odds are better that I will earn a doctorate than you will. Tina's claim goes no further. She doesn't claim that children of doctors are guaranteed to earn doctorates, and she doesn't even claim that they are likely to earn doctorates. She merely claims that these children are more likely to earn doctorates than their counterparts who do not have a parent that earned a doctorate.
Thus the irrelevancy of George's 70 percent figure, which gives us information on a different group - those who already earned their doctoral degree. Because he has shifted the scope, the data George presents can be true and still have no bearing on Tina's claim. An example: Suppose that there are 10 people in the world with doctorates. Tina merely claims that children of these people are most likely to get doctorates than children of other people. George comes along and says that of the 10 people, say, 8 of them (over 70%) come from doctorate-less parents. Does that alter Tina's claim in any way? No. All other factors being equal, the children of those doctors could still likely to earn doctors, even if most doctorate holders don't have the particular heritage. Because of this, George's consideration doesn't contradict Tina's claim if any way, and we can therefore say that George's statement is consistent with it. (C) is theanswer.
Question 119. (A) Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from "Over branding”.
(B) The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
(C) But reunification and the federal government's move to Berlin have prompted Germany to think again about its image.
(D) The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in 1855.
(E) Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself abroad.
(B) The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
(C) But reunification and the federal government's move to Berlin have prompted Germany to think again about its image.
(D) The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in 1855.
(E) Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself abroad.
Answer: Option C. -> BDAEC
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C
We can easily see that there is a link between A and E. A mentions the problem of over branding in the 1930s and 1940s. E follows it up by saying that Germany has been nervous since then to promote itself. This rules out options (a) and (b). B is the introductory sentence as it talks about the home of Romanticism which is Germany that is talked about in all the other sentences. This determines option (c) as the answer. D follows logically from B by talking about the tour to Germany when the British were fascinated about the place.
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C
We can easily see that there is a link between A and E. A mentions the problem of over branding in the 1930s and 1940s. E follows it up by saying that Germany has been nervous since then to promote itself. This rules out options (a) and (b). B is the introductory sentence as it talks about the home of Romanticism which is Germany that is talked about in all the other sentences. This determines option (c) as the answer. D follows logically from B by talking about the tour to Germany when the British were fascinated about the place.
Answer: Option A. -> Expertise in legal discourse affords power in most Western societies.
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A
Look at the lines from the first paragraph “Objectivism holds that there is a single neutral description of each event that is unskewed by any particular point of view and that has a privileged position over all other accounts.” Legal discourse believes in objectivism and objectivism believes in the existence of neutral objective observations and observers.
So option (c) is wrong.
Look at the lines “The compelling force of personal narrative can create a sense of empathy between legal insiders and people traditionally excluded from legal discourse and, hence, from power.”
These lines indicate that a person excluded or doesn’t know legal discourse is excluded from power also.
The corollary is that a person having knowledge on legal discourse has power also.
So option (a) is correct.
Options (b) and (d) do not find any support in this passage.
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A
Look at the lines from the first paragraph “Objectivism holds that there is a single neutral description of each event that is unskewed by any particular point of view and that has a privileged position over all other accounts.” Legal discourse believes in objectivism and objectivism believes in the existence of neutral objective observations and observers.
So option (c) is wrong.
Look at the lines “The compelling force of personal narrative can create a sense of empathy between legal insiders and people traditionally excluded from legal discourse and, hence, from power.”
These lines indicate that a person excluded or doesn’t know legal discourse is excluded from power also.
The corollary is that a person having knowledge on legal discourse has power also.
So option (a) is correct.
Options (b) and (d) do not find any support in this passage.
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