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Question 11. Flannery O'Connor, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, is often noted for her satirical writing style and her comically inane characters that often meet gruesome and grotesque ends. The "uninitiated” might even be tempted to consider her work a confusing and pointless portrayal of senseless violence perpetrated in large part against ignorant innocents. To do so, however, would be to do a great disservice to the genius of her work, and to deny the existence of multiple layers and levels on which her stories can be interpreted.

Flannery O'Connor, the twentieth century satirical writer, portrays violence to a great extent in her work. The inexperienced might get induced to regard it as a meaningless display of violence leading to a denial of her genius in the creation of multiple layers and levels of interpretation.
Flannery O'Connor, a twentieth century satirical writer, creates layers and levels on which her stories can be interpreted. Violence is integral to her writings.
The genius of Flannery O'Connor lies in the creation of the levels of interpretation. Her style is essentially satirical and peppered with violence.
To disregard the genius of Flannery O'Connor would indeed be a disservice. Her satirical writing style is often mistaken for the inane.
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Answer: Option A. -> Flannery O'Connor, the twentieth century satirical writer, portrays violence to a great extent in her work. The inexperienced might get induced to regard it as a meaningless display of violence leading to a denial of her genius in the creation of multiple layers and levels of interpretation.
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A
The answer must essentially have the following points to effectively capture the essence of the text. According to the passage, Flannery O'Connor has a satirical style of writing where her characters often meet gruesome ends. Those who are new to her work might see this as a pointless portrayal of violence and might also not regard her as the genius that she actually is as can be seen from the multiple layers of interpretation that her stories provide. Option (a) effectively includes all these points and is hence the best answer. Option (b) does not include the part about how the "uninitiated” respond to her writings. Option (c) also leaves out the part about the uninitiated. Option (d) brings in some irrelevant points and is hence eliminated.

Question 12. The “new pasts” mentioned in the first paragraph can best be described as the:

Occurrence of events extremely similar to past events
History of the activities of studying, interpreting, and reading new historical writing
Change in people's understanding of the past due to more recent historical writing
Overturning of established historical interpretations by politically motivated politicians.

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Answer: Option C. -> Change in people's understanding of the past due to more recent historical writing
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C
The author in the first paragraph says that history is continually being made and studies and different interpretations might affect people’s perception of the past events. Then he adds that “new history”- a new view or interpretation might change the previous understanding of previous events.

Question 13. 1. Legacy airlines, on the other hand, are more likely to run old, carbon-spewing jumbos. Nearly half of BA's transatlantic capacity, for example, is accounted for by 747s.
2. On average, a nonstop transatlantic flight and back spews out about a tonne of CO₂ emissions per passenger but that figure hides a big spread in the fuel efficiency measures of different airlines.
3. One reason for its impressive performance is that it predominately runs a fleet of modern, efficient Boeing 787-8s. The planes it uses are, on average, also only two years old and its high pax-km/l is also down to the fact that it squeezes in more passengers.
4. A new study of the 20 biggest transatlantic carriers by the International Council of Clean Transportation (ICCT) found that there was a 51% difference between the fuel efficiency of the best-performing airline, Norwegian Air Shuttle, and the worst, British Airways (BA). Norwegian, on average, flies at 40 passenger-kilometres per litre of jet fuel (pax-km/l).___

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As sentence 1 has the phrase 'on the other hand, it cannot begin the paragraph. Similarly, sentence 3 also cannot begin the paragraph as it has 'its' in the first line. These words and phrases depend on prior references. Sentence 3 follows 4 as it mentions why Norwegian airline is the best performing one and sentence 1 follows 3 as it contrasts the poor fuel efficiency of legacy airlines with the good performance of Norwegian airlines. So 431 form a chain. If 2 follows 1, there is no link. On the other hand, if 2 precedes 4, it introduces the issue that is further elaborated by 4.
So the sequence is 2431.

Question 14. A. We always think of returns before taking up anything.
B. Can we imagine what would happen if our mothers thought similarly?
C. None of us are as selfless as a mother is.
D. Most transactions of our lives are based on "give and take”.
E. Probably none of us would have been here.

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DACBE
DBCAE
ACBDE

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Answer: Option B. -> DACBE
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B
Option (b)
DA is a mandatory pair. The "give and take” in (D) is explained in (A). BE is theother mandatory pair. (B) raises a question and (E) answers it. If you can figure out that BE is a link, then you can directly eliminate options (a),(c) and (d).

Question 15.

S_{1}

: Hungary, with a population of about 10 million, lies betwwen Czechoslovakia to the north and Yugoslavia to the south.
P. Here a great deal of grain is grown.
Q. In recent years, however, progress has been made also in the field of industrialisation.
R. Most of this country consists of an extremly fertile plain, through which the river Danbe flows.
S. In addition to grain, the plain produces potatoes, sugar, wine, and livestock.

S_{6}

: The new industries derive mainly from agricultural production.
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R is most logically follows

S_{1}

as the 'this' in R corresponds to Hungary. This is followed by P which says that a great deal of grain is grown in the 'extremely fertile plain, through which the river Danube flows' which is introduced by sentence R. P is logically followed by S as this mentions what else is grown in the plain apart from grain. Finally, Q makes a good bridge between S and

S_{6}

as it says that Hungary has also made progress in industrialization that

S_{6}

further describes.
So the answer id RPSQ.

Question 16. Which of the following are the author's position regarding counter-factualism?
a) Counter-factualism is a world filled with fascination
b) Counter-factualism has been accorded with academic respectability
c) Counter-factualism contains meaningful truth
d) Counter-factualism does not seem to have a human urge

a)
a) & c)
a), b), c) & d)
None of these

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Answer: Option D. -> None of these
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D
The question asks about the author’s position.
Look at this line from the first paragraph "I refer to those for whom the notion of parallel worlds holds fascination".
So option A is not the author’s opinion.
Look at this line "While this necessary limitation may lie behind the reluctance to accord counter-factualism academic respectability".
So option B is also not the author’s opinion.
Look at this line "if they are to contain any meaningful truth".
So the author is contemplating on this and it is not his strong position.
So option C is also not author’s opinion.
Next let us look at this line "there does seem to be a real human urge".
So option D is also not the author’s position.

Question 17. The passage has listed the features of language which aid in :

the ability to know what others relate to things or events which are no longer present but can be remembered.
the expansion of the knowledge of the environment beyond that shown by the senses.
providing an outlet for 'thoughts' which otherwise are confined in one's mind.
All of these.

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Answer: Option D. -> All of these.
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D
Let us look at these lines -
“but by the help of speech we are able to know what others can relate, and to relate what is no longer sensibly present but only remembered.”
“Without language, or some pre-linguistic analogue, our knowledge of the environment is confined to what our own senses have shown us”
“Language has two interconnected merits: first, that it is social and second that it supplies public expression for “thoughts” which would otherwise remain private.”
All these lines indicate that statements (a), (b) and (c) are correct.
So the correct answer is option (d).

Question 18. Politics is about power and its legitimacy. It is not about the extremely regressive and reactionary idea of civil society that unthinking commentators seem to be offering, day in and day out. Constant harping on civil society leads to sentimentality, nostalgia and illiberalism of the worst kind, along with malignant notions of nationalism and communitarianism.___________________

Take for instance the Savarkar issue. It came to the forefront at the time of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. There were those who argued that Savarkar was a freedom fighter and must be honoured as one. Another set of people spoke about his alleged role in the Gandhi assassination, which was countered by those who claimed that Savarkar had been acquitted by the trial court and subsequent inquiry commissions for lack of direct evidence implicating him in the Mahatma's murder.
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were the pioneers of this idea, and George W. Bush won his second term riding on the back of such an idea of a self-contained, morally superior and self-sustaining neo-conservatism.
In India, this manifests in the form of a sentiment where it is assumed that holding hands, singing songs, holding candle light vigils, and ensuring civic amenities will actually ensure our fundamental freedom and individual choices
Is this state of affairs due to our inability to confront larger political issues or is it because discussing these will implicate all of us in ways we hardly suspect?

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Answer: Option B. -> Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were the pioneers of this idea, and George W. Bush won his second term riding on the back of such an idea of a self-contained, morally superior and self-sustaining neo-conservatism.
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B
The paragraph starts with an ideology of what Politics is actually and what it is made to be. The concluding sentence, will thus, talk about who has pioneered this ideology.
Option (b) is the best option.

Question 19. Which of the following is definitely false according to the author?

Businessman uses counter-factualism
Court uses counter-factualism as it enjoys the benefit of counter-factualism
Counter-factualism or parallel world being talked about in fictional works like "Back to the future" and " Random quest"
None of these

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Answer: Option D. -> None of these
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D
Many would have felt that option (a) is correct. But that is not the case. Read through the lines.
He says that the sensitivity test used is not counter-factual ("Obviously is itself not counterfactual").
But in the next line he states that "but he is basing his assessment partly on his knowledge of the past".
And in the last line the author states that "This too is counter-factualism" which means that the court also uses Counter-factualism like the businessman.
Option (b) and (c) are definitely true.
So the answer is option (d).

Question 20. The prime lending rate is a key rate in the economy: not only are the interest rates on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses tied to the prime, but also on a growing number of consumer loans, including home equity loans.

tied to the prime are the interest rates not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses, but also on
the interest rates not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses are tied to the prime, but also
not only the interest rates on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses are tied to the prime, but also on
the interest rates are tied to the prime, not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses, but also

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Answer: Option A. -> tied to the prime are the interest rates not only on most loans to small and medium-sized businesses, but also on
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A
This sentence uses idiomatic paired coordinators, not only...,but also.., to relate two basic kinds of loans to the prime lending rate: (1) loans to small and medium-sized businesses and (2) consumer loans. A, the best choice, is the only one that maintains the necessary parallelism in the phrases following the paired coordinates: not only on..., but also on.... Choices B and D omit the on after but also. Choice C (not only the interest rates ..., but also on) is not parallel either. Choice C especially garbles the meaning.