@miseera said:SET (10) PC The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.1-Visitors to Delhi often see a faded glory, like a grand carpet collecting dust. The city is casually littered with history, much of it neglected or buried under the paraphernalia of the present. But Delhi's past will surely be overshadowed by its future. There are three times as many Indians alive today as there were at Independence in 1947, and Delhi is home to over 16m of them. Over the next three decades India should begin to regain the economic clout it lost over three centuries. __________. OPTIONS a) I first visited Delhi ten years ago, drawn not by the city but by one of its citizens. b) Delhi can be grand, but it is rarely solemn. c) In Delhi, the people can be rude, but never cold. d) Many people mourn the lost elegance of Old Delhi, the city founded in the 17th century by Shahjahan. e) To visit Delhi in a mood of nostalgia, then, is to close your eyes to history in the making.2-One is sometimes asked about the “obstacles” that confront young writers who are trying to do good work. I should say the greatest obstacles that writers today have to get over, are the dazzling journalistic successes of twenty years ago, stories that surprised and delighted by their sharp photographic detail and that were really nothing more than lively pieces of reporting. The whole aim of that school of writing was novelty—never a very important thing in art. They gave us, altogether, poor standards—taught us to multiply our ideas instead of to condense them. They tried to make a story out of every theme that occurred to them and to get returns on every situation that suggested itself. They got returns, of a kind. But their work, when one looks back on it, now that the novelty upon which they counted so much is gone, is journalistic and thin. Add to my a) A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. b) The especial merit of a good reportorial story is that it shall be intensely interesting and pertinent today and shall have lost its point by tomorrow. c )Today, each new day demands new ideas and the writer can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. d )But surprisingly the works they left behind are timeless. 3-Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war. The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body. Of course, in men's sports no one ever talks about beauty or grace or the body. Men may profess their “love” of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive statistics, technical analysis, tribal and/or nationalist fervor, uniforms, mass noise, banners, chest-thumping, face-painting, etc.a) Regardless, the truth is that TV sports is to live sports pretty much as Mills & Boons is to the felt reality of human love. b) For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's. c)The real discussion is more about a spectator's experience of Sports, and its context. d) The more combative a sport is, the more we fall in love with it 4-For thousands of years millions of men have laboured to clear the forests, to drain the marshes, and to open up highways by land and water. Every inch of soil we cultivate in Europe has been watered by the sweat of several races of men. Every acre has its story of enforced labour, of intolerable toil, of people's sufferings. Every mile of railway, every yard of tunnel, …. a.has seen innumerable stories of distress b.has witnessed human agony and glory alike c. has been possible only because of human sacrifices d. has received its share of human blood e. has witnessed this gory truth 5- There's perhaps something especially heartbreaking about the passing of Gil Scott-Heron now when, after years of drug problems and jail spells, his career had been put back on track thanks to I'm New Here, his stunning collaboration with XL Recordings boss Richard Russell. In fact, Gil was only just back from touring Europe when years of bad living finally caught up with him._____________________________________. (A) The fact is: bad living catches up with everyone, and fame offers no insulation against such behaviour. (B) Still, at least the man whose influence on the music world is immeasurable (especially that of hip hop, rap and neo soul) had one final chance to remind a new generation that his was a voice like no other. (C) The man whose influence on the music world is immeasurable wasted another chance offered to him by life. (D) Life is one bitter pill: just when you think you have mastered it, it pulls the rug under you. Happy CATing
MY Take :-
1) B 2) B 3) C 4) C 5 ) A
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