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Question 481. If students were asked to write essays on the different concepts of tragedy as exemplified by Cordelia and Antigone, and they all responded by showing how each character exemplified a traditional definition of tragedy, we could, according to the passage, hypothesize which one of the following about these students?
Answer: Option B. -> The students had at least achieved the multiplicity stage.
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B
This is an application question. First and foremost there are different concepts of tragedy.
They all showed “how each character exemplified a traditional definition of tragedy”.
The meaning is each character exemplified different traditional definitions of tragedy.
Note: If the statement was “each character exemplified the traditional definition of tragedy” then all of them had the same definitions of traditional definition of tragedy and the answer would have been (a).
But since we have the article “a” and not “the”, the answer is not (a). Since the students have not reached the same definition, it can’t be (c). In commitment stage, all the students need to have the same rational and correct definition of tragedy.
So, the answer is (b). In multiplicity stage people have different definitions. Here we don’t know whether the choice is rational or not. That’s why the best answer is (b) as it states that “the students had at least achieved the multiplicity stage”. Whether they are stuck there or they have gone to relativistic stage is unknown.
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B
This is an application question. First and foremost there are different concepts of tragedy.
They all showed “how each character exemplified a traditional definition of tragedy”.
The meaning is each character exemplified different traditional definitions of tragedy.
Note: If the statement was “each character exemplified the traditional definition of tragedy” then all of them had the same definitions of traditional definition of tragedy and the answer would have been (a).
But since we have the article “a” and not “the”, the answer is not (a). Since the students have not reached the same definition, it can’t be (c). In commitment stage, all the students need to have the same rational and correct definition of tragedy.
So, the answer is (b). In multiplicity stage people have different definitions. Here we don’t know whether the choice is rational or not. That’s why the best answer is (b) as it states that “the students had at least achieved the multiplicity stage”. Whether they are stuck there or they have gone to relativistic stage is unknown.
Question 482. In such a flat environment, disputes will have to be resolved by new rules of the game. For, the existing legal principles are predicated on the theory of territorial supremacy of the nation states and the laws are essentially territorial in their application.This will give way to the denationalisation of justice. Irrespective of nationality or location, participants in the web-enabled global playing field will opt to be governed by a new set of rules, contractually accepted by them, and not their national laws. ______________
Answer: Option B. -> This will give rise to more and more people exercising the option to choose their own dispute settlement forum
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B
Consider the last line of the paragraph, "Irrespective of nationality or location, participants in the web-enabled global playing field will opt to be governed by a new set of rules, contractually accepted by them, and not their national laws.” The chosen option must be in synchronized logically with this line. Option (a) goes too far beyond the scope of the passage by talking about national sovereignty and is easily eliminated. Option (c) is a likely answer. Option (d) tries to explain through the help of an example but out of all these, option (b) seems to be the best answer as it clearly underlines the fundamental reason for people not wanting to be governed by their national when in a web-enabled global playing field.
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B
Consider the last line of the paragraph, "Irrespective of nationality or location, participants in the web-enabled global playing field will opt to be governed by a new set of rules, contractually accepted by them, and not their national laws.” The chosen option must be in synchronized logically with this line. Option (a) goes too far beyond the scope of the passage by talking about national sovereignty and is easily eliminated. Option (c) is a likely answer. Option (d) tries to explain through the help of an example but out of all these, option (b) seems to be the best answer as it clearly underlines the fundamental reason for people not wanting to be governed by their national when in a web-enabled global playing field.
Question 483. 1. However, just how much they actually required would not be known until the European Central Bank (ECB conducts a probe into their books together with a stress test examining how they would be affected if the economy turned even sourer than expected in 2015-17.
2. Greek banks had been undermined for over half a year as deposits drained out of them, on worries about a possible exit from the euro once Syriza, a radical left party, won the election held in January 2015.
3. Even so, the notion that they would need as much as €25 billion to offset the damage and put them on a sound footing appeared unduly pessimistic.
4. They had been further hurt by the harm done to the economy and thus to their loans arising from Syriza's ill-judged attempt to outbluff its official creditors.
5. When the third Greek bail-out was outlined in principle after an extraordinarily fraught summit of euro-zone leaders, between €10 billion and €25 billion out of the total sum of up to €86 billion of help was set aside for bank recapitalisation.
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2. Greek banks had been undermined for over half a year as deposits drained out of them, on worries about a possible exit from the euro once Syriza, a radical left party, won the election held in January 2015.
3. Even so, the notion that they would need as much as €25 billion to offset the damage and put them on a sound footing appeared unduly pessimistic.
4. They had been further hurt by the harm done to the economy and thus to their loans arising from Syriza's ill-judged attempt to outbluff its official creditors.
5. When the third Greek bail-out was outlined in principle after an extraordinarily fraught summit of euro-zone leaders, between €10 billion and €25 billion out of the total sum of up to €86 billion of help was set aside for bank recapitalisation.
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Sentences 1, 3 and 4 cannot start the paragraph as they contain references to prior statements. 2-4-3 form a sequence that conveys the notion that even though the Greek banks have suffered setbacks, they are not in a hopeless situation. Statement 1 follows 3 as it provides an answer to the question posed by statement 3 regarding the level of bailout required for Greek banks. It's now clear that statement 5 must be there in the beginning rather than at the end.
So the correct sequence is : 52431.
Answer: Option A. -> Life stories provide deeper insights into a culture than the hypothesizing of academics that are not members of that culture
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A
The author very clearly states in the first paragraph that “Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the life stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without.” Answer option (a) restates the same thing. In fact, answer options (b), (c) and (d) have not been mentioned by the author in the passage at all as a reason as to why collecting life stories can be a useful methodology. Hence, it is evident as answer option (a) is the correct answer choice.
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A
The author very clearly states in the first paragraph that “Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the life stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without.” Answer option (a) restates the same thing. In fact, answer options (b), (c) and (d) have not been mentioned by the author in the passage at all as a reason as to why collecting life stories can be a useful methodology. Hence, it is evident as answer option (a) is the correct answer choice.
Answer: Option D. -> Clarify the distinction between the market segment and the program target
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D
If we read the first paragraph carefully, it is evident that the author mentions “trousers” in order to clarify the distinction between the market segment and the program target. This is because just before that, the author has described what “market segment” and “program target” actually mean. And then, he has tried to support his explanation with an example by mentioning “trousers”. Therefore, answer option (d) is undoubtedly the correct answer choice.
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D
If we read the first paragraph carefully, it is evident that the author mentions “trousers” in order to clarify the distinction between the market segment and the program target. This is because just before that, the author has described what “market segment” and “program target” actually mean. And then, he has tried to support his explanation with an example by mentioning “trousers”. Therefore, answer option (d) is undoubtedly the correct answer choice.
Answer: Option C. -> A sports announcer describes the action in a team sport with which he is unfamiliar.
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C
This is a hypothetical question. The author has stated in the third paragraph that “Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research on a given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers”. From this, we can understand that the author is trying to present a situation wherein a person doing a particular act is not really familiar to the act himself/herself. Option (c) very well reflects such a situation by talking about a sports announcer describing the action in a team sport with which he is unfamiliar. Therefore, answer option (c) is the correct answer choice.
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C
This is a hypothetical question. The author has stated in the third paragraph that “Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research on a given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers”. From this, we can understand that the author is trying to present a situation wherein a person doing a particular act is not really familiar to the act himself/herself. Option (c) very well reflects such a situation by talking about a sports announcer describing the action in a team sport with which he is unfamiliar. Therefore, answer option (c) is the correct answer choice.
Question 487. Therapists use a variety of techniques to help individuals cope with work related stress. One of these is 'positive' memory', where you are encouraged to think of a happy, life-enhancing memory whenever you feel overwhelmed by stress. A similar approach is 'positive imaging', where you are directed by the therapist to look at the best-case scenario. When we are stressed it is too easy to take the overwhelmingly negative viewpoint - to see everything in terms of black and grey. Positive imaging encourages individuals to think about the good things that can come out of any situation
There are two techniques used by therapists to cope with work related stress.= One is positive memory, when a person who is stressed out is made to think of a happy memory.= Another approach which is different from positive memory, is positive imaging, where a person is made to look at the most positive scenario.
B. Among the various techniques used by therapists to help people combat work related stress are 'positive memory' and 'positive imaging'. In the former technique the stressed out person is made to think of a happy memory. The latter is similar to the former, here the stress victim is made to look at the best case scenario thereby preventing the person from falling a pray to negative thinking.
C. One can suppress one's negative feelings with the help of positive memory and positive imaging where a person is made to imagine a positive situation that is likely to take place in the future.
D. Therapists help individuals to cope with related stress using two different techniques, positive memory and positive imaging.With the help of these techniques the individual is made to suppress his negative thoughts and live in an imaginary would of positive thinking.
There are two techniques used by therapists to cope with work related stress.= One is positive memory, when a person who is stressed out is made to think of a happy memory.= Another approach which is different from positive memory, is positive imaging, where a person is made to look at the most positive scenario.
B. Among the various techniques used by therapists to help people combat work related stress are 'positive memory' and 'positive imaging'. In the former technique the stressed out person is made to think of a happy memory. The latter is similar to the former, here the stress victim is made to look at the best case scenario thereby preventing the person from falling a pray to negative thinking.
C. One can suppress one's negative feelings with the help of positive memory and positive imaging where a person is made to imagine a positive situation that is likely to take place in the future.
D. Therapists help individuals to cope with related stress using two different techniques, positive memory and positive imaging.With the help of these techniques the individual is made to suppress his negative thoughts and live in an imaginary would of positive thinking.
Answer: Option C. -> C
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C
The paragraph talks of 'positive memory' and 'positive imaging' as tools to overcome negative
viewpoints. A, B and D uses more words than required to convey the idea.
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C
The paragraph talks of 'positive memory' and 'positive imaging' as tools to overcome negative
viewpoints. A, B and D uses more words than required to convey the idea.
Answer: Option B. -> in an "ideal” democracy, all people are considered equal; by extension, so are their opinions.
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B
This is an extension question. Multiplicity students view all opinions as equally valid. They are yet to learn how to rank opinions (truths)— all votes (thoughts) count equally. The answer is (b).
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B
This is an extension question. Multiplicity students view all opinions as equally valid. They are yet to learn how to rank opinions (truths)— all votes (thoughts) count equally. The answer is (b).
Answer: Option A. -> the conclusion that relativism leaves one with no clear notions of any one thing that is true.
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A
Look at these lines in the passage -
“Impartial knowledge, they argue, is not possible, because ideas are simply the expression of individual identity, or of the unspoken but inescapable assumptions that are inscribed in a culture or a language. The problem, however, with this warmed-over Nietzscheanism is that it threatens to leave no ground for anybody to stand on”
These lines clearly point to (a) as the right answer.
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A
Look at these lines in the passage -
“Impartial knowledge, they argue, is not possible, because ideas are simply the expression of individual identity, or of the unspoken but inescapable assumptions that are inscribed in a culture or a language. The problem, however, with this warmed-over Nietzscheanism is that it threatens to leave no ground for anybody to stand on”
These lines clearly point to (a) as the right answer.
Question 490. Enter the correct option sequence for the words given in the paragraph below.
Scraps of tantalizing(A)/gnawing(B) but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula last weekend, killing all 224 aboard. Investigators have not yet officially said whether the plane disintegrated in midair over the Sinai, scattering debris(A)/trash(B) over seven square miles of desert, due to a technical malfunction, act of terror, or another reason. A public quarrel erupted Monday after Metrojet, the small Russian airline vying(A)/scrambling(B) to protect its reputation after the devastating crash, said that external factors were the cause of the plane's disintegration rather than technical issues or pilot error.
The correct sequence is___ .
Scraps of tantalizing(A)/gnawing(B) but inconclusive evidence surfaced Tuesday in the fourth day of a tense investigation into the Russian plane that crashed over Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula last weekend, killing all 224 aboard. Investigators have not yet officially said whether the plane disintegrated in midair over the Sinai, scattering debris(A)/trash(B) over seven square miles of desert, due to a technical malfunction, act of terror, or another reason. A public quarrel erupted Monday after Metrojet, the small Russian airline vying(A)/scrambling(B) to protect its reputation after the devastating crash, said that external factors were the cause of the plane's disintegration rather than technical issues or pilot error.
The correct sequence is___ .
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The evidence has aroused expectations but is still inconclusive. So it is 'tantalizing'. Gnawing means biting or corroding, which is inappropriate in this context. Trash refers to waste that is produced in daily life. Debris is the right word for the wreckage produced in a crash. The airline will 'hurry' or 'hasten' to protect its reputation after the crash and hence scramble is the right word. Vying means to compete and the company is not competing against someone to protect its reputation.
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