the reviews of Deepak Chopra's latestliterary work were enjoyed by many of his readers, but the subjects of his analysis dreaded Mr. Chopra's comments; he was scathing, bitter, irritating and never.......
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It is undeniable that some very useful analogies can be drawn between the relational systems of computer mechanism and the relational systems of brain mechanism. The comparison does not depend upon any close resemblance between the actual mechanical links which occur in brains and computers; it depends on what the machines do. Further more, brains and computers can both be organized so as to solve problems. The mode of communication is very similar in both the cases, so much so that computers can now be designed to generate artificial human speech and even, by accident, to produce sequences of words which human beings recognize as poetry. The implication is not that machines are gradually assuming human forms, but that there is no sharp break of continuity between what is human, what is mechanical.
1. From the passage, it is evident that the author thinks
(A) computers are now naturally programmed to produce poetry.
(B) computers are likely to usurp the place of intellectual superiority accorded to the human brain.
(C)the resemblance that the computer bears to the human brain is purely mechanical.
(D) the unintentional mixing up of word sequences in the computer can result in poetry.
(E) -----
A. Surrendered, or captured, combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages; this 'war' has a dubious legality.
B. How can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war?
C. The phrase 'war against terror', which has passed into the common lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
D. Besides, was has a juridical meaning in international law, which has codified the laws of war, imbuing them with a humanitarian content.
E. Terror is a phenomenon, not an entity - either State or non-State.
Social studies, science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom — these are few of the ___ for the ___ of proper emotional reactions.
a. things ... growth
b. fertile areas ... basis
c. fertile fields ... inculcation
d. important areas ... formation
e. measures ... fulfilment
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Q. We should protect ourselves from _____ peoples.
1 Black eyed
2. Blue eyed
3. Green eyed
4. Red eyed
Q. First few weeks, new recruiter is like _______
1. a black sheep
2. a guy in distress
3 a fish out of water.
4 a rages to riches person
Q Lets go out and ______ as I have got a raise today.
1 destroy everything
2 paint the houses
3 paint the town red
4 paint our glasses.
Amit and Rohit are ready to work ____, they have no choice anyway
1. at a moments notice
2. at a lengthy notice
3. at notice
4. without notice
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Doctors in Britain have long suspected that patients who wear tinted eyeglasses are abnormally prone to depression and hypochondria. Psychological tests given there to hospital patients admitted for physical complaints like heart pain and digestive distress confirmed such a relationship. Perhaps people whose relationship to the world is psychologically painful choose such glasses to reduce visual stimulation, which is perceived as irritating. At any rate, it can be concluded that when such glasses are worn, it is because the wearer has a tendency to be depressed or hypochondriacal.
Each of the following, if true, weakens the argument EXCEPT:
Directions for questions: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
On the surface or manifest level, the story of Oedipus describes that figure's vain effort to elude the fate that has been imposed on him. Latently, however, Oedipus most wants to do what manifestly he least wants to do. He wants to act out his 'Oedipus Complex'. The manifest or literal level of the myth hides the latent, symbolic meaning. On the manifest level, Oedipus is the innocent victim of Fate. On the latent level, he is the culprit. Rightly understood, the myth depicts not Oedipus' failure to circumvent his ineluctable destiny but his success in fulfilling his fondest desires. Yet, the latent meaning scarcely stops here. For the myth is not ultimately about Oedipus at all. Just as the manifest level, on which Oedipus is the victim, masks a latent one, on which Oedipus is the victimizer, so that level in turn masks an even more latent one, on which the real victimizer is the myth-maker and any reader of the myth grabbed by it. Here the myth is about the fulfillment of the Oedipus complex in the male myth-maker or reader, who identifies himself with Oedipus and through him fulfils his own Oedipus Complex. At heart, the myth is not biography but autobiography. In whom does the Oedipus complex lie? To a degree, it lies in all adult males, none of whom has fully outgrown the desires that first arose in childhood. But the complex lies above all in neurotic adult males who are stuck, or fixated, at their Oedipal stage. For many reasons, they cannot fulfill their desires directly. Their parents may no longer be alive, or, if alive, may no longer be so intimidating or so alluring. Furthermore, surely, not even the most indulgent parents would readily consent. Any son who did succeed would likely get caught and punished. And the guilt felt for having killed the father whom one loved as much as hated, and for having forced oneself upon a resisting mother, would be overwhelming. But the biggest obstacle to the enactment of the complex is more fundamental. One does not know that the complex exists. It has been repressed.
Under these circumstances, myth provides the ideal kind of fulfillment. True, the outer layers of the myth hide its true meaning and thereby block fulfillment, but they simultaneously reveal that true meaning and thereby provide fulfillment. After all, on even the literal level Oedipus does kill his father and does have sex with his mother. He simply does so unintentionally. If, on the next level, it is Oedipus rather than the myth-maker or reader who acts intentionally, the action is still intentional. The level above therefore partly reveals, even as it partly hides, the meaning below. The true meaning always lies at the level below but is always conveyed by the level above. By identifying themselves with Oedipus, neurotic adult males secure a partial fulfillment of their own lingering Oedipal desires, but without becoming conscious of those desires. Myth thus constitutes a compromise between the side of oneself that wants the desires satisfied outright and the side that does not even want to know they exist. For Freud, myth functions through its meaning: myth vents Oedipal desires by presenting a story in which, symbolically, they are enacted.
Q1.Which of the following is true of Oedipus?
a.Oedipus laments about being a victim of fate whereas in reality he controlled what happened to him.
b.The myth of Oedipus casts him as an innocent victim of fate, but this was not true of the real Oedipus.
c.Oedipus did not realize that the acts he was destined to do were the very things that he really wanted.
d.The myth of Oedipus tells us that what he endeavored to do and what he was destined to do were the same things.
Q2.Which of the following can be said about the myth of Oedipus?
a.In the myth of Oedipus, the complex that enslaves him is too strong to fight against.
b.The myth of Oedipus is a celebration of the triumph of its protagonist over his destiny.
c.The myth of Oedipus is focused more on what he wanted to do than on what he was destined to do.
d.The myth of Oedipus has a fatalistic ring to it which leads the reader to mistakenly view Oedipus as a victim.
Q3.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
a.Readers of the Oedipus myth do not realize that they themselves are victims of the Oedipus complex.
b.The function of myths is to provide vicarious fulfillment of suppressed desires.
c.The real victimizer in the myth of Oedipus is any reader who fulfills his desires vicariously through Oedipus.
d.The second hand pleasure found in reading the myth of Oedipus is the real value of this myth.
Directions for questions: The passage given below is followed by a set of three questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
In many of the somewhat violent attacks that have recently been made on that splendor of mounting which now characterizes our Shakespearian revivals in England, it seems to have been tacitly assumed by the critics that Shakespeare himself was more or less indifferent to the costumes of his actors, and that, could he see Mrs. Langtry's production of Antony and Cleopatra, he would probably say that the play, and the play only, is the thing, and that everything else is leather and prunella. While, as regards any historical accuracy in dress, Lord Lytton, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, has laid it down as a dogma of art that archaeology is entirely out of place in the presentation of any of Shakespeare's plays, and the attempt to introduce it, one of the stupidest pedantries of an age of prigs.
Lord Lytton's position I shall examine later on; but, as regards the theory that Shakespeare did not busy himself much about the costume-wardrobe of his theatre, anybody who cares to study Shakespeare's method will see that there is absolutely no dramatist of the French, English, or Athenian stage who relies so much for his illusionist effects on the dress of his actors as Shakespeare himself.
Knowing how the artistic temperament is always fascinated by beauty of costume, he constantly introduces into his plays masques and dances, purely for the sake of the pleasure which they give the eye; and we have still his stage-directions for the three great processions in Henry the Eighth, directions which are characterized by the most extraordinary elaborateness of detail down to the collars of S.S. and the pearls in Anne Boleyn's hair. Indeed, it would be quite easy for a modern manager to reproduce these pageants absolutely as Shakespeare had them designed; and so accurate were they that one of the court officials of the time, writing an account of the last performance of the play at the Globe Theatre to a friend, actually complains of their realistic character, notably of the production on the stage of the Knights of the Garter in the robes and insignia of the order, as being calculated to bring ridicule on the real ceremonies, much in the same spirit in which the French Government, some time ago, prohibited that delightful actor, M. Christian, from appearing in uniform, on the plea that it was prejudicial to the glory of the army that a colonel should be caricatured. And elsewhere, the gorgeousness of apparel, which distinguished the English stage under Shakespeare's influence, was attacked by contemporary critics, not, as a rule, however, on the grounds of the democratic tendencies of realism, but usually on those moral grounds which are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
a.Lord Lytton's position on historical accuracy of dress in plays is not correct.
b.Shakespeare saw how important costume was as a means of producing dramatic effects.
c.Archaeology in shows, so far from being a bit of priggish pedantry, is in every way legitimate and beautiful.
d.Anachronisms in the Shakespearean plays show his indifference to historical accuracy.
a.Some of Shakespeare's dramatis personae are people who had actually existed.
b.Shakespeare often draws from authentic history.
c.Shakespeare may have approved a movement in art that relied on truth for its appeal.
d.All of the above.
a.A and C
b.A and B
c.Only B
d.All of the above
Beyond the small and slippery pyramid, which composed Mrs. Archer's world, lay the almost _____________ quarter inhabited by artists, the scattered fragments of humanity who had never shown any desire to be _____________ with the social structure.
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decrepit - syndicated
secret - associated
unmapped - amalgamated
hidden - tied
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Are the following sentences grammatically correct? If not, re-write the sentences to make them grammatically correct:
1. Coffee was drunk by her in order to stay awake
2. I can eat ice-cream, provided my doctor approves
3. Based on the evidence, the jury reached the verdict
Identify the sentence or sentences with grammatical errors.
A. Sebastian has been able to maintain the library for the last seven
years but his health does not permit him to divert all his energies into
the processes required to upgrade the maintenance system and work extra
hours.
B. One cannot assume the extent of the repercussions of such events
on the communities residing in the nearby areas but one can at least
sympathize with their plight and contribute some money towards
rebuilding their lives.
C. The details of the document revealed that the consignment was
ordered for delivery in the month of March and that as per the client's
conditions, the contents were not to be divulged to a third party.
D. Having finished the thesis on air pollution, the professor began a campaign against several
corporations and multi-nationals.
Is the given sentence grammatically correct:
The child is neither encouraged to be critical nor to examine all aspects of his opinion
In a press release, a local representative of the US Postal Service responded to criticism over the removal of street corner postal drop boxes, claiming that if more people are actually using the drop boxes for their mail, they will be better able to “pay their keep.”
In most industries the rising cost of support services does not hurt business owners, but it does pass a greater financial burden on to customers. In the legal profession, for example, a climb in the cost of court reporting in recent months has forced many attorneys to raise their hourly rates.
Men have an easy time deciding how to dress on Casual Fridays because all they have to do is choose khakis over dress slacks and leave off the tie they would wear during the week. Women, on the other hand, have a much more difficult time determining what is casual but not too casual. Casual Friday should, therefore, be cancelled because it presents more difficulties for women than for men.
Which of the following is most like the argument above in logical structure?
a>Women on a road construction crew are frequently assigned non-labor intensive jobs such as holding traffic signs. This is sexual discrimination and should be stopped.
b>Members of a country club are given first choice of tee times on the golf course. Members of the public who would like to play the course should also be given this treatment.
c>Users of an open-source software program wishing to access to online technical support must submit personal information in order to register. Access to technical support should not require registration, as this is unfair to users wishing to remain anonymous.
d>Full-time employees spend more hours in the office than part-time employees and have greater access to the sign-up sheet for Christmas vacation time. Because this is unfair, no employees will be given extra vacation time during Christmas.
e>A university charges twice as much for out-of-state tuition as it does for in-state tuition. This is unfair to out-of-state students, who should be allowed to pay the in-state tuition rate.