Choose the combination that shows the CORRECT sentences/parts.
a.Data show that the number of married men
b.committing suicide last year were as high
c.as 66.5 percentage of all suicides
d.committed by married people during the year.
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It was early in the Vietnam war, and an American platoon was hunkered down in some rice paddies, in the heat of a firefight with the Vietcong. Suddenly a line of six monks started walking along the elevated berms that separated paddy from paddy. Perfectly calm and poised, the monks walked directly toward the line of fire.
"They didn't look right, they didn't look left. They walked straight through: recalls David Busch, one of the American soldiers. "It was really strange, because nobody shot at 'em. And after they walked over the berm, suddenly all the fight was out of me. It just didn't feel like I wanted to do this anymore, at least not that day. It must have been that way for everybody, because everybody quit. We just stopped fighting."
The power of the monks' quietly courageous calm to pacify soldiers in the heat of battle illustrates a basic principle of social life. Emotions are contagious. To be sure, this tale marks an extreme. Most emotional contagion is far more subtle, part of a tacit exchange that happens in every encounter. We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing. This emotional exchange is typically at a subtle, almost imperceptible level; the way a salesperson says thank you can leave
us feeling ignored, resented, or genuinely welcomed and appreciated. We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.
We send emotional signals in every encounter, and those signals affect those we are with. The more adroit we are socially, the better we control the signals we send; the reserve of polite society is, after all, simply a means to ensure that no disturbing emotional leakage will unsettle the encounter (a social rule that, when brought into the domain of intimate relationships, is stifling). Emotional intelligence includes managing this exchange; "popular" and "charming" are terms we use for people whom we like to be with because their emotional skills make us feel good. People who are able to help others soothe their feelings have an especially valued social commodity; they are the souls others turn to when in greatest emotional need. We are all part of each other's tool kit for emotional change, for better or for worse.
Consider a remarkable demonstration of the subtlety with which emotions pass from one person to another. In a simple experiment two volunteers filled out a checklist about their moods at the moment, then simply sat facing each other quietly while waiting for an experimenter to return to the room. Two minutes later she came back and asked them to fill out a mood checklist again. The pairs were purposely omposed of one partner who was highly expressive of emotion and one who was deadpan. Invariably the mood of the one who was more expressive of emotions had been transferred to the more passive partner.
How does this magical transmission occur? The most likely answer is that we unconsciously imitate the emotions we see displayed by someone else, through an out-of-awareness motor mimicry of their facial expression, gestures, tone of
voice, and other nonverbal markers of emotion. Through this imitation people re-create in themselves the mood of the other person-a low-key version of the Stainslavsky method, in which actors recall gestures, movements, and other
expressions of an emotion they have felt strongly in the past in order to evoke those feelings once again.
The day-to-day imitation of feeling is ordinarily quite subtle. Ulf Dimberg, a Swedish researcher at the University of Uppsala, found that when people view a smiling or angry face, their own faces show evidence of that same mood through slight changes in the facial muscles. The changes are evident through electronic sensors but are typically not visible to the naked eye.
Questions:-
To win a lottery adjective phrase or adverb phrase ?
Identify the errors
1. I remember clearly telling him that he had won.
2. Damaged and scratched, I sent my car to the workshop.
3. A colorful painting hung on the wall that Savitri had made. Registered Office:
4. Even when proofreading carefully, some grammatical errors may be overlooked.
5. Meera wore the bauble on her ankle that she purchased yesterday. 6. Having seen the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal is more impressive.
7. I explained to my daughter eventually the cubs and their mother would have to go back to the zoo.
8. The host served custard to the children in silver bowls.
9. Being brought up in Bangalore, the Mumbai weather was very humid and sultry.
10. Ravi told Shyam when the game was over they would play together
A. A small group of students had taken to the streets in protest in Tiananmen Square—and their numbers were swelling.
B. David Turnley was in Paris when he got the call.
C. “I think something is happening here,” Peter told his brother. “You need to cover this too”, Peter urged.
D. David flew out to cover the events as well, and as he walked among the million or more protesters who soon filled Tiananmen Square, “there was a sense of an elevated human spirit,” he says. “It was euphoric.”
E. His brother Peter was in Beijing to cover the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to China but was on the line with different, more exciting news.
a ABCDE b CADBE c CBDAE d BEACD
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Film scholars agree that Hollywood portrayals of America at war
follow a cyclical pattern. During and immediately after a conflict,
important films trumpet glory and sacrifice.Ten to fifteen years later,
questioning and sometimes pacifistic movies about the conflict dominate.
In the late 1960's, “the raging bulls” of Hollywood—the young
trendsetters rising to prominence—proclaimed this pattern obsolete. However, the passage of time has demonstrated this cultural pattern to be more resilient than it seemed in those days of social change.
Throughout the majority of the last century, evidence of the cyclical
portrayal of war in film abounds. After America declared war against
Germany during World War I, the
still infant film industry glorified
the fight against “the Hun.”By the early 1930's, major releases had
changed their tone; for example, All Quiet on the Western Front put
forth an anti-war message by displaying the horrors of combat. After
World War II began, the industry shifted gears. Suddenly, important
pictures again portrayed glories and courage without the questioning or
despair.For example, Guadalcanal Diary, produced during the war,showed
“the ultimate sacrifice” as a noble and undoubted good. Once again,
though, by 1957, films such as The Bridge on the River Kwai won awards
for depicting the moral confusion of war.
Those who later
declared this pattern dead based their conviction on their hearts rather
than their minds. During the Vietnam War, the only major film about
that conflict
was The Green Berets, starring John Wayne and far
closer in tone to Guadalcanal Diary than to The Bridge on the River
Kwai. Similarly, years went by before more complex
visions of war, such as Apocalypse Now, and then Platoon,emerged.
While today's film industry is more diverse and its audience more
culturally fragmented, this cycle largely continues.Jarhead, a layered
depiction of the first gulf war, premiered
more than ten years after
that conflict. Further evidence of this pattern can be seen in the
release of Apocalypse Now Redux, which contained additional footage that
the
producers originally thought would repel audiences. Thus,the
famous aphorism “The more things change, the more they stay the same”
certainly applies to this aspect of the film industry.
1. According to the passage, Apocalypse Now Redux differed from Apocalypse Now in which of the following ways?
1)The added footage made it less appealing to a more culturally diverse audience.
2)The added footage made its portrayal of war less glorified and more ambiguous.
3)The added footage made its portrayal of war less harsh and more glorified.
4)The added footage made it more similar in tone to other war movies.
5)The removed footage made its portrayal of war less glorified and less appealing.
Q2)What is the main point made by the author?
1)Hollywood has never fully supported America's armed conflicts.
2)In the last century, the film industry has become more culturally diverse.
3) An established cultural pattern is more durable than was thought during a time of social upheaval.
4)The film industry has only supported American military efforts during the actual conflict.
5)Cyclical patterns determine the type of big budget films produced by Hollywood more than individuals do.
Q3)
Which one of the following does the author believe is true about The Bridge on the River Kwai?
1)It deserved the awards that it won.
2)It is a more intelligent and well-crafted movie than The Green Berets.
3)It was the first movie to portray the moral confusion
of war.
4)Its portrayal of war is more ambivalent than that in Guadalcanal Diary.
5)It was more financially successful than any war movie that came before it.
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WHAT IS THE REMAINDER WHEN N^7 - N IS DIVIDED BY 42
- 1
- 41
- 0
- 3
- cannot be determined
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Sometimes,the future arrives with alarming speed.In the 1990s ,and again in 2000,climate scientists warned that-unless urgent action was taken-the Arctic ocean could be clear blue water in summer by 2050.Researchers making a first analysis of data from the European Space Agency's observation satellite CryoSat-2 were startled to find that the loss of sea ice-as measured both by depth,and by area-was far more dramatic than their own forecasts had predicted.The summer Arctic could be an open sea within a decade.________
A.The outlook is not promising.
B.It is the ice cap that keeps the Arctic cold.
C.The consequences of ice loss could be considerable.
D. Within the next century global mean temperatures could rise by 6C.
find the remainder when 39! is divided by 41
- 3
- 0
- 1
- 40
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if 5^1/a=7^1/b=35^1/c then find c in terms of a and b
- ab/a+b
- a+b
- ab/a-b
- a-b
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Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. The recent communal violence in Hyderabad and in Bareilly a month ago has remained on the sidelines of national attention.
B. In both cities, the present round of violence was preceded by mobilisations and speeches, primarily by Hindu fundamentalist groups.
C. Fortunately, there was no death in the violence in Bareilly, while in Hyderabad only three people were killed.
D. Yet, the scale, planning and causes behind the riots indicate a certain change in the morphology of the typical riot, a change which needs to be identified and understood if we want to keep religious sectarianism and violence in check.
E. Communal violence has become so endemic to the polity of India that it has ceased to attract much attention outside its immediate area of impact, or unless it crosses very high levels of fatality and barbarity.
a)EACDB b)ABEDC c)EABCD d)ABCDE
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Two questions
1)When should a person use "if" and when should a person use "whether"
2)When should the word "like" be used and when should "as" be used ?