Answer: Option A. -> BBAAB
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A
When two actions are in the past, the action that goes before should be in the past perfect. Hence 'had demonstrated' is correct. 'For' is the suitable preposition here.
In sentence 2 'environmental' is the adjective hence it is correct. Similarly in sentence
3 'layered' is the adjective hence it is suitable.To have parallelism in construction
'changing' gels with 'confronting.' Hence BBAAB.
Shortcut- always keep an eye out for elimination of answer options. In sentence D, you can see that "changing” is the correct usage. This is a relatively simpler sentence to start with as well. There is only answer option ending with "B”. You can directly eliminate all the other options.

Answer: Option D. -> One may easily obtain membership in the club through means other than having strong social connections with existing club members.
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D
The argument begins by offering one route through which a student can gain a coveted membership to the Bangalore club. For those aspirants who attended high school with a current member of the house and developed a strong social connection with that member before college, entrance into the club is easy. People who didn't attend high school with a current member can't easily attain membership through this route, but we were never told that his was the only way to easily get in to the club. The author concludes that the unconnected individuals will have difficulty joining the club, but that's only valid if the route the author describes is the only possible easy route. But the author never says that. (D) gets the major point the author fails to consider in issuing the conclusion: the possibility that there might be other ways to easily get into the club.
Option (a) First of all, those who attended high school with club members are not necessarily the same people who have forged strong social connections with them. So, the "many” referred to here may not even be relevant to the argument. Secondly, even assuming these guys are good high school buddies of the members, the author argues only about what conditions make for easy entry into the club, and need not consider the possibility that many high school classmates of the members would choose not to join.
Option (b) Associations with non-club members are not relevant to the argument and fall outside of its scope. Additionally, this Option discusses the long term benefits of such connections; which we are now worried about
Option (c) The relative difficulty of building these connections has nothing to do with their necessity for membership. This Option also shares with (B) an interest in non-club members, whom the author never mentions.

Answer: Option A. -> It shows that, despite changes in the industry and audience, the pattern discussed still exists.
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A
The last paragraph begins by noting that the changes in the industry and audience have not changed the pattern discussed. The paragraph ends by stating that this aspect of the film industry, that is, the pattern discussed, remains intact. The correct answer should reflect this point.
(A) CORRECT. This choice correctly summarizes the point made in the first and last sentences of the last paragraph: that this pattern continues despite changes in the industry and audience.
(B) This choice is too extreme. The passage merely says that one pattern of the film industry has not changed. The last paragraph acknowledges that changes in the industry have occurred.
(C) This choice is incorrect as the last paragraph explicitly states that the pattern discussed largely continues.
(D) In the last paragraph, Jarhead and Apocalypse Now Redux are mentioned as examples proving that the discussed pattern continues. Thus, they cannot be fundamentally different from other war movies.

Answer: Option D. -> B only
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D
Option: (D)
Statement A is incorrect due to the usage of the phrase "lies in this loss of faith”. This phrase does not make any sense. Statement C is wrong as it should be, "last downturn, in 2000-2003”. Statement D is incorrect as in should be "effect” and not "affect”. Statement E is wrong because the phrase "prop the spending” does not make sense. Hence only B is correct.

Answer: Option A. -> ADEBCF 
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A
option (a) This paragraph deals with visiting a restaurant and presents an account of what transpires. The first sentence mentions how the headwaiter answered a lot of questions. Out of the options, sentence D mentions what some of those questions were. Sentence E describes what could be a possible perception by "him” - which is the headwaiter and hence sentence E is next. Sentence B is one of the observations regarding the waiters and sentence C describes whom they have replaced. Sentence F finishes the author's perception of these new waiters. This makes choice (a) correct.

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When 'as well as' joins a singular subject to a plural subject, the verb remains singular. Hence 'has' is correct in the first sentence. "Will” being the present form go with it similarly in sentence B and E.
The connectives 'along with' and 'with' take a singular verb.
Hence 'was' and 'has' are correct. In sentence "C” the verb 'are' goes with 'enterprises' which is plural.
Hence BBABA is the right Option.

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Reasoning: Which statement provides the strongest grounds for thinking that at least some municipalities will buy the purification system despite the need to maintain a conventional purification system as well? The passage tells us why a municipality using a Fastsnow wastewater purification system would still need a conventional system. But why would a municipality want the Fastsnow system in addition to a conventional system? If conventional systems are not fully effective at cold temperatures, the Fastsnow system would allow municipalities that sometimes experience cold temperatures to purify their wastewater more effectively.
A. There is no basis in the passage for determining whether the Fastsnow system will help remove impurities other than bacteria from wastewater. If it does not, this answer choice implies that the Fastsnow system would not be sufficient for purifying wastewater. This would actually undermine the prediction.
B.The passage states that municipalities using the Fastsnow system would still need a conventional system. Thus, the old conventional wastewater systems would still need to be replaced with new conventional systems. This answer choice provides no reason to think municipalities would buy the Fastsnow system.
C.Correct. This statement, if true, would strengthen the prediction, because it provides a valid reason why the Fastsnow system could be needed alongside conventional ones: it is more effective in cold weather.
D. Although this claim does undercut one reason for thinking municipalities might not be likely to purchase the Fastsnow system, it provides little reason to think that they will purchase such a system. Perhaps in times of cold weather, the Fastsnow system is very expensive to maintain.
E.The issue of whether or not there are water shortages in places where winters are cold is not directly relevant. If conventional wastewater systems are sufficient to purify water in such places, municipalities would not need the Fastsnow system (as they would still need to maintain a conventional purification system).
The correct answer is C.

Answer: Option C. -> Brands live forever. The failure to envisage the future combined with imprudence leads to brands losing their glitter. Branding, an age old concept, is clearly an outcome of energetic enterprise. Brand-management system is a consequence of evolution.
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C
According to the passage, brands are forever but they are losing their appeal because of the failure of the brand managers to see the future and end up making imprudent decisions. The brand is a very old concept that was started because of the energy and enthusiasm of the entrepreneurs behind them. The responsibility of managing the brand falls to others as the company grows. Now, looking at the options given, option (a) does not manage to capture all the points. It leaves out the talk about how old the concept of branding is and how brands are forever. Option (b) fails to mention the point about how the imprudent decisions of the brand managers affect the brand. Option (c) captures all the essential points and is hence the solution. Option (d) is incomplete.

Answer: Option C. -> "fertile” and "applaud”
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C
Look at these lines from the last paragraph:
"But while Pocock's ideas have proved fertile when applied to England” and
"to applaud the historian who, though guilty of some exaggeration, has done the most to make us aware of their importance.”
These lines show that option (c) is the answer. All the other options are not related to Pocock.

Answer: Option A. -> A description of a thesis is offered, specific cases are considered, and an evaluation is given.
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A
The whole passage's structure is as follows:
Pocock's civic humanism theory is described. Then the author presents the example of "eighteenth-century English political” where this theory holds true.
Then he presents the example of "late-eighteenth-century United States” where this theory does not hold true.
Finally the author gives his evaluation of civic humanism theory in the last line of the passage.
So only option (a) matches the structure of the passage properly.