With people tweeting their way around the globe,meeting in social networking sights has overtaken actual meetings.
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Every human being, after the first few days of his life, is a product of two factors: on the one hand, there is his __________ endowment; and on the other hand, there is the effect of environment, including __________.
(1) constitutional; weather
(2) congenital; education
(3) personal; climate
(4) economic; learning
(5) genetic; pedagogy
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As navigators, calendar makers, and other __________ of the night sky accumulated evidence to the contrary, ancient astronomers were forced __________ that certain bodies might move in circles about points, which in turn moved in circles about the earth.
(1) scrutinizers; believe
(2) observers; agree
(3) scrutinizers; suggest
(4) observers; concede
(5) students; conclude
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3. Biologists are convinced that animals survive through learning, but learning that is ___________
their genetic coding, learning as thoroughly ___________ as the most instinctive of behavioural
responses.
(1) subsumed by, primitive
(2) complimentary to, transient
(3) compatible with, familiar
(4) dictated by, stereotyped
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Hiiii..I have difficulty in comprehending the idea that the below passage is trying to convey.Please help me in understanding the gist.
A country road. A tree.
Evening.
Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before.
Enter Vladimir.
ESTRAGON:(giving up again). Nothing to be done.VLADIMIR:(advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart). I'm beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. (He broods, musing on the struggle. Turning to Estragon.) So there you are again.ESTRAGON:Am I?VLADIMIR:I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever.ESTRAGON:Me too.VLADIMIR:Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.)
Get up till I embrace you.ESTRAGON:(irritably). Not now, not now.VLADIMIR:(hurt, coldly). May one inquire where His Highness spent the night?ESTRAGON:In a ditch.VLADIMIR:(admiringly). A ditch! Where?ESTRAGON:(without gesture). Over there.VLADIMIR:And they didn't beat you?ESTRAGON:Beat me? Certainly they beat me.VLADIMIR:The same lot as usual?ESTRAGON:The same? I don't know.VLADIMIR:When I think of it . . . all these years . . . but for me . . . where would you be . . .(Decisively.) You'd be nothing more than a little heap of bones at the present minute, no doubt about it.ESTRAGON:And what of it?VLADIMIR:(gloomily). It's too much for one man. (Pause. Cheerfully.) On the other hand what's the good of losing heart now, that's what I say. We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties.ESTRAGON:Ah stop blathering and help me off with this bloody thing.VLADIMIR:Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first. We were respectable in those days. Now it's too late. They wouldn't even let us up. (Estragon tears at his boot.) What are you doing?ESTRAGON:Taking off my boot. Did that never happen to you?VLADIMIR:Boots must be taken off every day, I'm tired telling you that. Why don't you listen to me?ESTRAGON:(feebly). Help me!VLADIMIR:It hurts?ESTRAGON:(angrily). Hurts! He wants to know if it hurts!VLADIMIR:(angrily). No one ever suffers but you. I don't count. I'd like to hear what you'd say if you had what I have.ESTRAGON:It hurts?VLADIMIR:(angrily). Hurts! He wants to know if it hurts!ESTRAGON:(pointing). You might button it all the same.VLADIMIR:(stooping). True. (He buttons up.) Never neglect the little things of life.ESTRAGON:What do you expect, you always wait till the last moment.VLADIMIR:(musingly). The last moment . . . (He meditates.) Hope deferred maketh the something sick, who said that?ESTRAGON:Why don't you help me?VLADIMIR:Sometimes I feel it coming all the same. Then I go all queer. (He takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again.) How shall I say? Relieved and at the same time . . . (he searches for the word) . . . appalled. (With emphasis.) AP-PALLED. (He takes off his hat again, peers inside it.) Funny. (He knocks on the crown as though to dislodge a foreign body, peers into it again, puts it on again.) Nothing to be done. (Estragon with a supreme effort succeeds in pulling off his boot. He peers inside it, feels about inside it, turns it upside down, shakes it, looks on the ground to see if anything has fallen out, finds nothing, feels inside it again, staring sightlessly before him.) Well?ESTRAGON:Nothing.VLADIMIR:Show me.ESTRAGON:There's nothing to show.
Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
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Deepa Metha's Fire is under fire from the country's self-appointed moral police. Their contention is that the film is a violation of the Indian cultural mores and cannot be allowed to influence the Indian psyche. According to them, such films ruin the moral fabric of the nation, which must be protected and defended against such intrusions at all cost, even at the cost of cultural dictatorship. Based on the information in the above passage, it can be inferred that a. the assumption underlying the moral police's critique of Fire is that the Indian audience is vulnerable to all types of influences. b. The moral police is duty bound to protect Indian audience against all types of influences. c. the moral police thinks it has the sole authority to pass judgement on films screened in India. d. The moral police has observed that movies like 'Fire' can influe the Indian psyche. e. The assumption underlying the moral police's critique of Fire is that the Indian audience is impressionable and must be protected against 'immoral' influences.
Complete the paragraph: Mind control is the successful control of the thoughts and actions of another without his or her consent. Generally, the term implies that the victim has given up some basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes, and has been made to accept contrasting ideas. 'Brainwashing' is often used loosely to refer to being persuaded by propaganda. There are many misconceptions about mind control. Some people consider mind control to include the efforts of parents to raise their children according to social, cultural, moral and personal standards.______________________. a. Some think it is mind control to use behavior modification techniques to change one's own behaviour. b. Others think that advertising and seduction are examples of mind control. Incorrect Reveal Answer c. Still others consider it mind control to give debilitating drugs to a woman in order to take advantage of her while she is drugged. d. Mind control is when the military or prison officers use techniques that belittle recruits or inmates in their attempt to make individuals compliant. e. It might even be considered mind control for coaches to physically fatigue by excessive physical exercises their subjects to break down their egos and build team spirit.
Identify the correct sentences.
A. Heat is not simply a physical phenomenon that makes one sweat under the broiling sun of the afternoons and the sticky humidity of the nights.
B. There is the heat of passion that has spread from South Korea to Mexico and to the Czech Republic as tens of thousand party through their nights of victory.
C. There is the heat that burns inside the heads of men struggling to live upto the high expectations aroused in their homeland.
D. And there is the heat of frustration inside men like Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham whose tournaments begin with whispers growing into crescendos that they re not worth their wages.
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Identify the correct sentences
A. Eyes evolved to solve two principal objectives - to hunt for food, or escape being eaten by a hunter
B. Prey species often have eyes on either sides of the head with each eye having its own, often overlapping, field of vision.
C. And, in combination with a range of other senses, this acuity acts as a life-saving warning system
D. In the case of nocturnal predators, pupils turn into vertical slits during the day and widen in the dark, enabling them to see at night.
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2. Death and ________are proving to be a money-making opportunity for music memorabilia collectors and big auction houses who are ________everything from Michael Jackson’s iconic white glitter glove to old ticket stubs from rock’s legendary Woodstock festival.
(1) glory, vying for
(2) pain, eyeing
(3) nostalgia, hawking
(4) propaganda , selling
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1. Many of the important scientific laws were discovered during experiments designed to
___________ other phenomena suggest that experimental results are the ___________ of the
inevitable natural force rather than of planning.
(1) test, foundations
(2) analyze, conditions
(3) illuminate, consequences
(4) verify, adjuncts
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4. When planning a cold-climate eco-home, you first ________ and seal, then you _____.
(1) cushion...wrap
(2) pack ...shield
(3) inchoate ...bundle
(4) insulate...insolate
(5) caulk...paint
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3. The __________ requirements by customers for approval and purchase of fresh design, do
not__________ creators when it comes to brainstorming and head banging because of the huge profit
potential.
(1) burdensome...prevent
(2) onerous...dissuade
(3) complex...encourage
(4) vague...support
(5) arduous...incite
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2. Senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig randomly accused chief minister Omar Abdullah of
involvement in a sex scandal and a/an ________ CM marched to the governor’s residence with his
resignation. All the drama made for less than _______ viewing. Both Omar and Baig must share the
blame for enacting the low farce.
(1) indignant...edifying
(2) perturbed...amusing
(3) naïve...proper
(4) infuriated...climactic
(5) sophomoric...pedantic
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1. Relying on the centuries-old principle that white objects absorb less heat than dark ones, Waldrep is in the ______ of a movement embracing “cool roofs” as one of the most affordable weapons against climate change. He has _______ for cool roofs at home and abroad.
(1) vanguard... proselytized
(2) midst...espoused
(3) eye...sensitized
(4) back...advocated
(5) forefront...aced
ODD SENTENCE PARAJUMBLE:
1) At first glance, the comparison with modern drama suggests only poverty: no gods,no collective myths, no great public figures, no poetry to speak of.
2)The tragedy of the greeks, of shakespeare and Racine, was not a hard act to follow.
3) Nevertheless , for all the conflicts within the worlds out of which these plays issued, we must acknowledge the great historical division between classical tragedy and everything afterwards.
4) it was impossible.
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which is correct.. Me too or I too???
A nationwide study of friendship shows that childhood friends continue to stay in touch throughout their lives. The majority of those who volunteered to be interviewed for the study convinced the researchers that many of their daily choices were influenced by their so called childhood friends. If true, which of the following most weakens the findings stated above?” a. Short interviews tend to be less reliable than long interviews. b. Rivalry between friends is an intense phenomenon. c. The people who volunteered for the study are not a representative sample. d. This study was more quantitative than qualitative. e. Both (c) and (d)
The sentences given below form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or
part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage
(including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose
the most appropriate option.
A. Memory, as Karl Sabbagh tells us on the
B. book cover in italicised letters, betrays us. Sometimes
C. we think we remember things, only to find out that they did
D. not happen. And sometime we fail to remember things, and it turns
E. out that they did happen. In short, our memories work, but in mysterious ways.