Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. As chroniclers of an incremental process, they discover that
additional research makes it harder, not easier, to answer questions
like: When was oxygen discovered? Who first conceived of energy
conservation?
2. Simultaneously, these same historians confront growing
difficulties in distinguishing the "scientific" component of past
observation and belief from what their predecessors had readily labeled
"error" and "superstition."
3. Increasingly, a few of them suspect that these are simply the
wrong sorts of questions to ask. Perhaps science does not develop by the
accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions.
4. In recent years, however, a few historians of science have been
finding it more and more difficult to fulfill the functions that the
concept of development-by-accumulation assigns to them.
Sentence Completion: He
was so ...............at tying fisherman's flies that he was asked to
demonstrate his technique at sports fairs and exhibitions.
This questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the
surgeon's hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look
for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On
this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally,
he knows it's about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated,
the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks
during the retreat to the door.
(1) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation. (2) Other patients don't like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere. (3) But Perowne himself is not concerned.' (4) But others will take their place, he thought. (5) These hands are steady enough, but they are large.
The question has a paragraph from which the last sentence
has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that
completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising
its head. Citing competitiveness concerns, powerful industrialized
countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports of
energy-intensive products from developing countries that refuse to
accept their demands. The actual source of protectionist sentiment in
the OECD countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic
performance, combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic
rise of China and India - in that order.
(1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism through the back door. (2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these two countries. (3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China and India. (4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions. (5) Today's climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.
Appropriate replacement for the highlighted word[TIME MOCKS]
With the outflow of foreign funds from domestic equity market and month end dollar demand by oil companies sending the rupee weaker, there appears to be a blatz in the market fundamentals.The depreciating rupee is a cause of concern
Physicians may soon have _____ to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the ____ nerves that once controlled their muscles. (1) instruments, detrimental (3) reason, involuntary (2) ways, damaged (4) impediments, complex
The Athenians on the whole were peaceful and prosperous, they had _____ to sit at home and think about the universe and dispute with Socrates, or to travel abroad and _____ the world. (1) leisure, explore (2) time, ignore (3) ability, suffer (4) temerity, understand
(1)The woman killed the child because she wanted/ (2)to take revenge from her daughter-in-law,/(3) whom she blamed from taking away /(4)her son from her/(5) no error
we work together for 5 months, initially he pay me 75 INR for 11 website
per 15hr. but no, of website increase to 21 but he pay me still 75 INR for
per 15 hr. where i need time 26 to 28 hr to complete his 21 website, but
extra hours i never got paid, and he said now that i try to get paid
double,