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Answer: Option A. -> In a report on the enactment of a bill into law, a journalist explains why the need for the bill arose, sketches the biography of the principal legislator who wrote the bill, and ponders the effect that the bill’s enactment will have both one society and on the legislator’s career.
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A
This is a very easy application question. First, description of the event itself; second, discussion of the social context that helped bring the event about and gave it significance; third, summary of the life history of the individual agent in the event; and fourth, analysis of the consequences of the event both for history and for the individual.”
Only option (a) satisfies all the 4 conditions.
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A
This is a very easy application question. First, description of the event itself; second, discussion of the social context that helped bring the event about and gave it significance; third, summary of the life history of the individual agent in the event; and fourth, analysis of the consequences of the event both for history and for the individual.”
Only option (a) satisfies all the 4 conditions.
Answer: Option C. -> the effect of the fact that a person lives in a particular community on that person's decision to visit friends in another community
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C
Look at these lines -
“Contingencies include such things as the social conditions under which we come of age, the condition of our household’s economy, the ideologies available to help us make sense of our situation, and accidental circumstances. The ways in which contingencies affect our individual or group identities create a structure of forces within which we are able to act, and that partially determines the sorts of actions we are able to perform”.
Option (c) is wrong because it says that -
“the effect of the fact that a person lives in a particular community on that person’s decision to visit friends in another community”.
The error is “another community” because he does not know anything about the other community.
The error would have been corrected if the answer would have been -
“the effect of the fact that a person lives in a particular community on that person’s decision (to visit friends in the same community)/(not to visit friends in the same community)”.
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C
Look at these lines -
“Contingencies include such things as the social conditions under which we come of age, the condition of our household’s economy, the ideologies available to help us make sense of our situation, and accidental circumstances. The ways in which contingencies affect our individual or group identities create a structure of forces within which we are able to act, and that partially determines the sorts of actions we are able to perform”.
Option (c) is wrong because it says that -
“the effect of the fact that a person lives in a particular community on that person’s decision to visit friends in another community”.
The error is “another community” because he does not know anything about the other community.
The error would have been corrected if the answer would have been -
“the effect of the fact that a person lives in a particular community on that person’s decision (to visit friends in the same community)/(not to visit friends in the same community)”.
Question 143. Sarrin monks practice the Pran meditation technique only when extremely damaging weather conditions confront the farming villages surrounding Sarrin monasteries. Pran meditation is a more highly disciplined form of the ritual meditation that the monks practice daily, and involves unique practices such as isolation and fasting. Which of the following statements below does NOT follow logically from the passage above?
Answer: Option D. -> The ritual meditation that Sarrin monks practice daily is largely undisciplined.
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D
Here's our "Odd-Man-Out” example, and since we need to find the one statement that isn't inferred, we should keep careful track of the boundaries round the argument. That way we'll be better prepared to spot what isn't there. The author begins by noting that the Sarrin monks use Pran meditation only in case of severe weather. The author then explains the differences between Pran meditation and Ritual meditation. Understanding the differences will likely be key to getting this question right. Pran meditation is different from ritual meditation because it's more highly disciplined and uniquely involves isolation and fasting. Thus there are three specific ways in which Pran meditation is different from ritual meditation. Let's go to the choices.
The monks practice Pran meditation only when there's severe weather and, since weather isn't precisely scheduled, then Pran meditation must not be precisely scheduled either. Sure, that's an inference.
If Pran meditation involves the unique practice of isolation, then no other meditation, including ritual meditation, involves isolation. This is therefore also inferable from the passage.
Some means "one or more”, so since the monks practice Pran meditation in response to local weather threats, then some types of meditation do in fact exist as a response to local threats.
The correct option is D
Just because it's less disciplined does not imply NO discipline.
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D
Here's our "Odd-Man-Out” example, and since we need to find the one statement that isn't inferred, we should keep careful track of the boundaries round the argument. That way we'll be better prepared to spot what isn't there. The author begins by noting that the Sarrin monks use Pran meditation only in case of severe weather. The author then explains the differences between Pran meditation and Ritual meditation. Understanding the differences will likely be key to getting this question right. Pran meditation is different from ritual meditation because it's more highly disciplined and uniquely involves isolation and fasting. Thus there are three specific ways in which Pran meditation is different from ritual meditation. Let's go to the choices.
The monks practice Pran meditation only when there's severe weather and, since weather isn't precisely scheduled, then Pran meditation must not be precisely scheduled either. Sure, that's an inference.
If Pran meditation involves the unique practice of isolation, then no other meditation, including ritual meditation, involves isolation. This is therefore also inferable from the passage.
Some means "one or more”, so since the monks practice Pran meditation in response to local weather threats, then some types of meditation do in fact exist as a response to local threats.
The correct option is D
Just because it's less disciplined does not imply NO discipline.
Answer: Option D. -> Abrams describes historical sociology as a discipline that unites two approaches taken by sociologists to studying the formation of societies and applies the resulting combined approach to the study of history.
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D
This is a main theme question.
The first half of the option “Abrams describes historical sociology as a discipline that unites two approaches taken by sociologists to studying the formation of societies” is the summary of the first paragraph and the second half of the option is the summary of the second and third paragraph.
Look at these lines in the first paragraph -
“sociologists’ approach to the subject is usually to focus on only one of these forms of influence to the exclusion of the other”.
The author states that the sociologist always focused only on one of the forms. But the author never states that the views of the sociologist were contrary to the form.
So option (b) and (c) are wrong.
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D
This is a main theme question.
The first half of the option “Abrams describes historical sociology as a discipline that unites two approaches taken by sociologists to studying the formation of societies” is the summary of the first paragraph and the second half of the option is the summary of the second and third paragraph.
Look at these lines in the first paragraph -
“sociologists’ approach to the subject is usually to focus on only one of these forms of influence to the exclusion of the other”.
The author states that the sociologist always focused only on one of the forms. But the author never states that the views of the sociologist were contrary to the form.
So option (b) and (c) are wrong.
Question 145. A. The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.
B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
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B. An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.
C. Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.
D. The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other, and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
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D is the best opening sentence since it introduces the topic being discussed. B goes on to give a supporting example to it. A further describes the example and C talks about the idea in A.
Hence, the correct order of sentences is DBAC.
Answer: Option A. -> Various ethnic groups competing for land and other resources
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A
The question asks for the factor best denoting the case of Rwanda and Haiti.
From the second paragraph, “…one strand consisted of population growth outstripping available resources: a dilemma similar to the one foreseen by Thomas Malthus in 1798 and being played out today in Rwanda, Haiti, and elsewhere. As the archaeologist David Webster succinctly puts it, "Too many farmers grew too many crops on too much of the landscape. Compounding that mismatch between population and resources was the second strand: the effects of deforestation and hillside erosion, which caused a decrease in the amount of useable farmland at a time when more rather than less farmland was needed, and possibly exacerbated by an anthropogenic drought resulting from deforestation, by soil nutrient depletion and other soil problems, and by the struggle to prevent bracken ferns from overrunning the fields”.
The keywords are the words "limited”, "land" and "resources”. The second strand continues in the same vein and says that land and resources were limited. Combining the two, option (a) is the right answer option. Option (b) talks about “land resources” but does not mention other resources which were also scarce. Options (c) states" ethnic groups fighting with each other” but there is no mention of fighting in the passage. Option (d) mentions "ethnic groups competing for political power". There is no mention of this in the passage as well. Hence option (a) is the correct answer.
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A
The question asks for the factor best denoting the case of Rwanda and Haiti.
From the second paragraph, “…one strand consisted of population growth outstripping available resources: a dilemma similar to the one foreseen by Thomas Malthus in 1798 and being played out today in Rwanda, Haiti, and elsewhere. As the archaeologist David Webster succinctly puts it, "Too many farmers grew too many crops on too much of the landscape. Compounding that mismatch between population and resources was the second strand: the effects of deforestation and hillside erosion, which caused a decrease in the amount of useable farmland at a time when more rather than less farmland was needed, and possibly exacerbated by an anthropogenic drought resulting from deforestation, by soil nutrient depletion and other soil problems, and by the struggle to prevent bracken ferns from overrunning the fields”.
The keywords are the words "limited”, "land" and "resources”. The second strand continues in the same vein and says that land and resources were limited. Combining the two, option (a) is the right answer option. Option (b) talks about “land resources” but does not mention other resources which were also scarce. Options (c) states" ethnic groups fighting with each other” but there is no mention of fighting in the passage. Option (d) mentions "ethnic groups competing for political power". There is no mention of this in the passage as well. Hence option (a) is the correct answer.
Answer: Option B. -> He was the most profound and original thinker of his epoch.
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B
This is really a tough question. It is an inference question and also an ‘except’ question.
First we need to find out which are the options Shaw would probably agree.
Option (a) : look at the 4th line of the passage “the artist writes out of moral passion”.
Shakespeare is an artist. So Shaw would agree to (a).
Option (c) : Look at these lines in the second paragraph -
“that the first great artist who comes along after a renewal gives to the new philosophy full and final form, that subsequent artists, though even more gifted, can do nothing but refine upon the master without matching him. Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting, assigns to himself the role, not of the master, but of the pioneer, the role of a Marlowe rather than of a Shakespeare”
He indirectly points out that Marlowe is a pioneer and Shakespeare is a master. He also says that the master cannot be matched. So he will agree to option (c).
Option (d): Look at these lines in the last paragraph “No one, says Shaw, will ever write a better tragedy than Lear”
So Shaw will agree to option (d) also.
So option (b) is the correct answer.
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B
This is really a tough question. It is an inference question and also an ‘except’ question.
First we need to find out which are the options Shaw would probably agree.
Option (a) : look at the 4th line of the passage “the artist writes out of moral passion”.
Shakespeare is an artist. So Shaw would agree to (a).
Option (c) : Look at these lines in the second paragraph -
“that the first great artist who comes along after a renewal gives to the new philosophy full and final form, that subsequent artists, though even more gifted, can do nothing but refine upon the master without matching him. Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting, assigns to himself the role, not of the master, but of the pioneer, the role of a Marlowe rather than of a Shakespeare”
He indirectly points out that Marlowe is a pioneer and Shakespeare is a master. He also says that the master cannot be matched. So he will agree to option (c).
Option (d): Look at these lines in the last paragraph “No one, says Shaw, will ever write a better tragedy than Lear”
So Shaw will agree to option (d) also.
So option (b) is the correct answer.
Answer: Option D. -> Obsession of Maya population with their own short-term concerns.
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D
The second paragraph states “…population growth outstripping available resources”. This led to deforestation and soil erosion which ultimately led to environmental degradation. This eliminates option (a). The last paragraph states “…the Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by political and social collapse”. This eliminates option (b). Option (c) is also mentioned in the passage. The third paragraph states “the third strand consisted of increased fighting, as more and more people fought over fewer resources. Maya warfare, already endemic, peaked just before the collapse.” Option (d) is not mentioned in the passage. The fourth paragraph does state “short-term concerns of the kings and the nobles” but not about the general "Maya population”. Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
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D
The second paragraph states “…population growth outstripping available resources”. This led to deforestation and soil erosion which ultimately led to environmental degradation. This eliminates option (a). The last paragraph states “…the Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by political and social collapse”. This eliminates option (b). Option (c) is also mentioned in the passage. The third paragraph states “the third strand consisted of increased fighting, as more and more people fought over fewer resources. Maya warfare, already endemic, peaked just before the collapse.” Option (d) is not mentioned in the passage. The fourth paragraph does state “short-term concerns of the kings and the nobles” but not about the general "Maya population”. Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Answer: Option A. -> Whereas he pretended to be vain, he was actually modest.
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A
Refer to these lines in the second paragraph “Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting”.
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A
Refer to these lines in the second paragraph “Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting”.
Question 150. 1. If you are feeling wronged at work or you think life is not being fair to you, then you may face an increased risk of suffering a heart attack. 2. In a unique study that linked fairness with heart health, researchers from the university college London found that those who felt they were being unfairly treated by their employer, family or society were twice as likely to suffer serious heart disease as those who perceived the world as fair. 3. People in the high category were 55% more likely to have serious heart diseases as those who did not feel they were unfairly treated. Women and those with lower incomes and status significantly felt they were being unfairly treated. 4. Reacting to the study, Dr. Ashok Seth, head of cardiology at max Healthcare, said, because people are better off nowadays, earning a lot more money than what they did 15 years ago, stress of running a house has decreased significantly.
Answer: Option A. -> JFFI
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A
The first sentence is tricky. Although it appears to have a cause effect relationship,the subject of the sentence deals with feelings and those are always judgmental. Hence only options (a) and (d) are possible. Sentence 2 is clearly a fact. Sentence 3 is also a fact. The consequences are clearly outlined in sentence 4.Hence statement 4 is an inference.
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A
The first sentence is tricky. Although it appears to have a cause effect relationship,the subject of the sentence deals with feelings and those are always judgmental. Hence only options (a) and (d) are possible. Sentence 2 is clearly a fact. Sentence 3 is also a fact. The consequences are clearly outlined in sentence 4.Hence statement 4 is an inference.
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