Thanks rolling in the deep @Rohit143 for writing so many lengthy verbal qs everyday.its a v.good practice and qs are also of good lod.
It's me or It's I..???
Can anyone suggest me which test series I should opt for...Time or CL .?Thanks in advance !
#RC
You want to understand how bad things are in Hollywood right now, how stifling and airless and cautious the atmosphere is, how little nourishment or encouragement a good new idea receives, and how devoid of ambition the horizon currently appears? It helps to start with a success story.
Consider: Years ago, an ace filmmaker, the man who happened to direct the third-highest-grossing movie in U.S. history, The Dark Knight, came up with an idea for a big summer movie. It's a story he loved – in fact, he wrote it himself – and it belonged to a genre, the sci-fi action thriller, that zipped right down the center lane of American popular taste. He cast as his leading man a handsome actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, who happened to star in the second-highest-grossing movie in history. Finally, to cover his bet even more, he hired half a dozen Oscar nominees and winners for supporting roles.Sounds like a sure thing, right? Exactly the kind of movie that a studio would die to have and an audience would kill to see? Well, it was. That film, Christopher Nolan's Inception, received admiring reviews, became last summer's most discussed movie, and has grossed, as of this writing, more than three-quarters of a billion dollars worldwide.And now the twist: The studios are trying very hard not to notice its success, or to care. Before anybody saw the movie, the buzz within the industry was: it's just a favor Warner Bros. is doing for Nolan because the studio needs him to make Batman 3. After it started to screen, the party line changed: it's too smart for the room, too smart for the summer, too smart for the audience. Just before it opened, it shifted again: Nolan is only a brand-name director to Web geeks, and his drawing power is being wildly overestimated. After it grossed $62 million on its first weekend, the word was: yeah, that's pretty good, but it just means all the Nolan groupies came out early – now watch it drop like a stone.And here was the buzz three months later, after Inception became the only release of 2010 to log eleven consecutive weeks in the top ten: Huh. Well, you never know.“Huh. Well, you never know” is an admission that, put simply, things have never been worse.It has always been disheartening when good movies flop; it gives endless comfort to those who would rather not have to try to make them and can happily take cover behind a shield labeled “the people have spoken.” But it's really bad news when the industry essentially rejects a success, when a movie that should have spawned two dozen taste-based gambles on passion projects is instead greeted as an unanswerable anomaly. That kind of thinking is why Hollywood studio filmmaking, as 2010 came to its end, was at an all-time low — by which I don't mean that there are fewer really good movies than ever before (last year had its share, and so will 2011) – but that it has never been harder for an intelligent, moderately budgeted, original movie aimed at adults to get onto movie screens nationwide. “It's true at every studio,” says producer Dan Jinks, whose credits include the Oscar winners American Beauty and Milk. “Everyone has cut back on not just 'Oscar-worthy' movies, but on dramas, period. Caution has made them pull away. It's infected the entire business.”
Question 1 :Which of the following best describes the author's approach in the passage?
a.Searingly pharisaic b.bemoaning c.outrightly honest d. vehemently condemnatory
Question2:From the above passage, it can be inferred that the studios treated Nolan's movie as described because
a.They were callous towards the fate of the movie and were too indifferent to care for its unprecedented success.
b.Nolan was only a brand name director to web geeks, and his drawing power was widely overestimated.
c.Studious were being cautious about betting on new ideas.
d.They prognosticated that the movie would crash since it had too much of a star-studded cast including half a dozen Oscar nominees and winners.
Question3:According to the passage, the buzz in the industry about Nolan's Inception went from
a.critical to appreciative
b.critical to conciliatory
c.disapproving to admiring
d.critical to indifferent
[CL Proc Mock 5]
The CDQ account of discourse anaphora was originally motivated by a felt analogy between the semantics of discourse anaphora and the semantics of “instantial terms” that figure in quantificational reasoning in natural languages and in derivations of systems of natural deduction for first order predicate logic. An example of an instantial term in natural language would be occurrences of 'n' when one supposes that n is an arbitrary prime number and on the basis of subsequently establishing the claim that n is F, one concludes that all prime numbers are F. Or given that some prime number is F, one might let n be "a prime that is F" and go on to establish certain other claims "about" n.
Thus given an occurrence of a formula A in derivation D, one defines the truth conditions of A in context c, where c encodes the structural features of derivation D that are relevant to the truth conditions of the occurrence of A in D.
b) CDQ has been applied to the instantial terms of a certain range of systems of natural deduction.
c) In these applications, occurrences of formulas containing instantial terms in derivations are assigned truth conditions. The truth conditions assigned depend on the structure of the derivation containing the occurrence of the formula
d) In systems of natural deduction, instantial terms are the singular terms that are introduced in applications of existential instantiation and eliminated in applications of universal generalization.
how to prepare for verbal section. i am seriously having much problem in that . mainly i am confused in grammar usage or verbal logic part . what and from where to study
In the following question, there is 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.
The painting should have had a streak of colour in a sunset sky,but instead it just shows a gray wash over a dull afternoon. When Joseph Mallord William Turner ran his sable brush swiftly across the canvas of Waves Breaking against the Wind, it carried a ruby slick of oil paint where the sun's last colours were supposed to hit the clouds. But when you see it today, the carmine pigment, like the day the artist was imagining, has disappeared into memory. Turner had been warned many times not to use paints that faded, but that day in 1835 or so when he was gazing at his workbox thinking of the pink sunset and a violent sea, he chose his brightest red, even though he knew it would not last. Or perhaps he even liked the idea. After all, his paintings celebrate change – his skies and seas are a stormy riot of variety in nature and light.
Studies these days have become very costly (1)/ and that the government should check the costly education (2)/ so that even the students coming from poor financial background (3)/ can avail them (4)/ No error (5)
We are planning to launch an awareness campaign (1)/ in the city to spread awareness (2)/ among senior citizens about theft incidents (3)/so that they may take precautions (4)/ No error (5)
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kisi ke pass phrasel verbs n idioms ka doc. hai ?
Smoking just a few cigarettes a day more than doubles a woman's risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. A Swedish study found that women who smoke only a small number of cigarettes a day significantly increase their risk of developing the condition. This large study followed more than 30,000 women from two Swedish counties over a seven-year period to look at whether smoking increased their risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Smoking is already recognized as a possible risk factor for developing the condition. But this study showed that the risk increased even at relatively low levels of smoking. It found that even smoking as many as between one and seven cigarettes per day more than doubled a woman's chance (2.31 times) of developing rheumatoid arthritis compared with a woman who had never smoked.
Which of the following casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion of the study?
OPTIONS 1)It is not clear how many women dropped out of the study which could have biased the results.
2)It is unclear whether similar risk patterns would be seen in men (the condition is more common in women) or a more ethnically diverse group.
3)Previous studies have shown that cigarette smoking was directly associated with a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.
4)It could be that different ethnicities may have different risk profiles for developing rheumatoid arthritis.
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choose out of context
A. So it is absolutely necessary to ensure that your foot doesn't find a place in your mouth at the workplace, especially around the people you report to.
B. When you are interacting with the boss, the most trivial thinking-aloud moment can turn into a nightmare - who knows how your words would be interpreted.
C. Tell your boss that you are prepared to do the task but that you may require assistance or guidance.
D. Agreed, telling off your boss is a common fantasy and a temptation almost impossible to resist.
(1) A (2) B (3) C
(4) D
Is this statement correct ?
Living with a badly behaved pet can drive people crazy.
Feeling Really demotivated.
Can Anyone Help me out, Whether I Should Focus More on Vocab or Should I straight Away Practice as much Questions on Verbal Ability As I can?
Should I Prepare " Some amount" of Words Every Day? Like 50? (From norman Lewis, Other source)
@scrabbler : What's the difference between "on hand" "in hand" and "at hand".... (cat grammar question:which of the following sentences are wrong/correct)
Para Completion
Thus the end of knowledge and the closing of the frontier that it symbolizes is not a looming crisis at all, but merely one of many embarrassing fits of hubris in civilization's long industry. In the end, it will pass away and be forgotten. Ours is not the first generation to struggle to understand the organizational laws of the frontier, deceive itself that it has succeeded, and go to its grave having failed. (1) One would be wise to be humble.
(2) But we might be the first generation to actually reach the frontier. (3) But we might be the first generation to deal with the crisis.
(4) However, this time the success is not illusory.
Para Completion
Relations between the factory and the dealer are distant and usually strained as the factory tries to force cars on the dealers to smooth out production. Relations between the dealer and the customer are equally strained because dealers continuously adjust prices – make deals – to adjust demand with supply while maximizing profits. This becomes a system marked by a lack of long-term commitment on either side, which maximizes feelings of mistrust. In order to maximize their bargaining positions, everyone holds back information – the dealer about the product and the consumer about his true desires.
(1) As a result, “deal making” becomes rampant, without concern for customer satisfaction.
(2) As a result, inefficiencies creep into the supply chain.
(3) As a result, everyone treats the other as an adversary, rather than as an ally.
4) As a result, fundamental innovations are becoming scarce in the automobile industry. (5) As a result, everyone loses in the long run.