anyone tell me how to find primary purpose of passage or title in RC questions
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puys, need a help. Pls reply. I face problem in VA while attempting the question in which we are supposed to find out incorrect usage of word. Can anyone please help me in that? What should I do?
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Not many people can remember the year 1945. For those of us who were born well after World War II, into a world governed, however imperfectly, by entities like the United Nations, the European Union, the International Criminal Court, and the World Bank, the scale of pure chaos during that fateful year is unimaginable. Many millions lay dead. As Ian Buruma comments in his hair-raising account Year Zero: A History of 1945, "The scale of displacement because of World War II was especially horrendous because so much of it was deliberate, for ruthlessly political as well as ideological reasons: slave labor programs, national borders, emigration in search of Lebensraum for the German and Japanese master races, the civil wars ignited, entire populations deported to be killed or languish in exile." And though the war had ended, the violence went on almost unabated. All over Europe and Asia vengeance was being bloodily and summarily executed: on Germans, on collaborators, on women who had fraternized with the enemy, on "class enemies," on unpopular ethnic and religious minorities. Displaced persons were often forcibly returned to homelands where they faced certain death.
How did civilization emerge from the wreckage and start to rebuild itself? It's as epic a story as that of the war itself, and Buruma, whose own father, a Dutchman, was one of the legions of displaced persons at war's end, finds an emotional thread in the tale: the search for a new internationalism that might ensure that this kind of madness would never be allowed to happen again. In May 1945 Europe and much of Asia were in ruins, but murmurs of vitality were audible, to those who could hear. One eyewitness, the playwright Carl Zuckmeyer, likened Germany to a gigantic anthill, with "a constant sensation of crawling, scratching, groping…a ceaseless coming and going, wandering, walking, crossing; the scuffing and grating of millions of shoes. This is the 'Black Market'… The world and the march of the homeless, the refugees, the scattered masses, the marauding bands of youths."
The countries that had undergone national humiliation – nearly all the belligerents, that is, except for the victorious British, Soviets, and Americans – had to find ways to salvage enough national self-respect to build a future. Resistance movements, even the storied French maquis, had played at best a minor role in the military defeat of Germany and Japan. But they were purposely romanticized after the war. "Restoration of democracy," Buruma insists, "rests on such stories, for they help to rebuild not just a sense of civic morale but also of political legitimacy for postwar governments. They are the foundation myths of national revival in postwar Europe." And what was to be put in place of the old militaristic and nationalistic structures? Some sort of internationalism, more effective than the old League of Nations, was called for. The necessity for some sort of supranational organization was clear, and preparations were already being laid before the war's end for what was to become the United Nations.
For those of us born, like Buruma, in the postwar baby boom, our fathers' tales of "the war" haunted our childhoods even while society was changing and reformulating itself so quickly that such scenes seemed impossible to credit. "My generation," Buruma writes, was nourished by the dreams of our fathers: the European welfare state, the United Nations, American democracy, Japanese pacifism, the European Union. Then there is the dark side of the world made in 1945: Communist dictatorship in Russia and eastern Europe, Mao's rise in the Chinese civil war, the Cold War." In some places the leveling experience of the war ended forever the immemorial acceptance of vast and rigid discrepancies in income and social class; the shocking 1945 election in Britain, in which the revered war leader Churchill was unceremoniously thrown out in favor of a Labour government and a welfare state, remains the most famous example of this. Though Communist resistance movements were disarmed and excluded from power all over Western Europe, the ideals of the Left were perpetuated there by the social democrats who came to power throughout the region. The European Union, which Buruma deems the most positive outcome of the war, has for all its imperfections been effective in its most important mission: to keep its member states from going to war against one another.
Will it last? This might depend on the lessons learned from World Wars I and II. "Germans and Japanese were disenchanted with the heroic ideal," Buruma claims, with some justice. "They wanted nothing more to do with war. British and Americans, on the other hand, could never quite rid themselves of nostalgia for their finest hours, leading to a fatal propensity to embark on ill-advised military adventures so they and their nations could live like heroes once more." As the Second World War passes out of living memory, in the next twenty years or so, more and more lessons will surely be forgotten. There are already quite a few people who claim that the Holocaust never occurred, though there are still living survivors of the camps. And militaristic nationalism has clearly not left the world stage. Buruma's eloquent reminder of the global savagery that was unleashed only a couple of generations ago is timely – perhaps more than ever so, now that fewer and fewer can actually recall it.
Q1.What does the author refer to when he asks “Will it last?”, in the last paragraph?
a)The perpetuation of the ideals of communism.
b)The process of dismantling old militaristic structures.
c)The sustainability of post-war change.
d)Nurturing the myth of collaborationist supragovernmental institutions.
Q2.Which of the following statements can be understood from the passage?
a)One of the outcomes of the Second World War in some nations was that the working classes were no longer willing to put up with income and class disparities.
b)The author makes communism a generic representative of all historical atrocities, especially those perpetrated by the European imperialists.
c)The real reason for the existence of the European Union was to rebuild a sense of political legitimacy for postwar Europe.
d)The real reason for the existence of the European Union was to lay the foundation of national revival in European countries.
Q3.According to Buruma, the reason/s that Britain and America continued to be militant even after 1945 was/were
(a) Germany and Japan had undergone national humiliation and turned belligerent.
(b) they had played major roles in the military defeat of Germany and Japan.
(c) they had to salvage their national self-respect.
(d) they had to construct an alternative narrative to fan their heroic ideals.
(e) renewal of some communist regimes has led to the apprehension that communist nations might overtake the capitalists.
(f) though the war had ended, violence and displacement of people went on almost unabated.
a)c, d and f
b)a, b and f
c)Only d
d)D. d and e
Q4.Buruma cites atrocities perpetrated during World War II in order to
(a) mark the horrendous and unimaginable scale of the war.
(b) revise Holocaust narratives in light of fresh scholarship.
(c) guard these memories against erasure lest history repeats itself.
(d) reeducate the world's superpowers to embrace pacifism.
(e) prove that atrocities by colonial regimes were more than those of communist regimes.a)c and d b)a and b c)c and e d)Only c
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There is a particular challenge in trying to pin down, quantify and assess the literary achievement of a dictionary-maker who has spent years searching for the elusive, chameleon-like meanings of even the most mundane of words. Samuel Johnson, though, offers his own validation for such an enterprise in the preface to his great Dictionary of 1755, in which he confesses that he set out to codify the language only to realize before he was even halfway through that no such thing is possible. Instead of giving up, Johnson persisted, even while recognizing the futility of his ambition, and understanding too well that “one enquiry only gave occasion to another, that book referred to book, that to search was not always to find, and to find was not always to be informed; and that thus to pursue perfection, was, like the first inhabitants of Arcadia, to chase the sun, which, when they had reached the hill where it seemed to rest, was still beheld at the same distance from them”.
The critic William Hazlitt, in his essay “On the Periodical Essayists”, disapproved of Johnson's prose style not so much for its inconclusiveness but because his circumlocutions, his fondness for antithesis, are stultifying and restrictive. The structure of his sentences, Hazlitt complained, is monotonous, and “produces an apparent monotony of ideas”. Johnson's powers of articulation, though, were a different matter. When “he threw aside his pen”, Hazlitt wrote, “he became not only learned and thoughtful, but acute, witty, humorous, natural, honest”.
But it is precisely in those tortuous sentences and “curious disjunctions” so decried by Hazlitt that Johnson's admirers find the reasons for their enthusiasm. “The pleasure of reading him”, argues Isobel Grundy, “is the pleasure of tracking his thought sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph through twists and turns and victories over internal opposition.” The effort this requires creates an “exhilarating” collaboration between writer and reader. Satisfaction and enrichment are derived from trying to keep up with “the questing, the surging forward, the doubling back, with which Johnson's mind moves in its pursuit of complex and sometimes inconsistent truth”.
Philip Davis takes Grundy's assertion further by declaring, “if one had to put into the hands of someone on the knife-edge of serious mental trouble the unselected writings of any one author, then it is the work of Johnson one might risk”. Johnson's struggle to make unlikely and often uncomfortable connections, his willingness to explore “in-between states of predicament, fallen uncertainty, and ambivalence”, through the balancing of alternative propositions in a single sentence, is a pathway to sanity, argues Davis, and not to muddle, confusion and disordered nerves. For these scholars, Johnson's stylized syntax, his love of antithesis, is “much more than a literary device”; it is rather, as Jane Steen avers, an accurate reflection of life itself, the image of the balancing pendulum exactly, and satisfyingly, describing “the back and forth of lived existence”.
Hazlitt's critique focused on Johnson's development of a literary style in which “the close of the period follows as mechanically as the oscillation of a pendulum, the sense is balanced with the sound; each sentence, revolving round its centre of gravity, is contained within itself like a couplet, and each paragraph forms itself into a stanza”. Movement is circumscribed, ideas are confined within the relentless regularity of that balanced movement, to and fro. Yet, as the editors remind us in their introduction, Johnson's definitions of “pendulum” and “swing” in the Dictionary are illustrated by quotations which suggest that the pendulum does not swing with precise regularity and equality, and that “balance” also implies __________________.
21.In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with
a)rescuing Johnson from caricature.
b)presenting evaluations of Johnson's literary style.
c)reinstating critical opinion in Johnson's favour.
d)summarizing the findings of a critical investigation.
22.Considering the context of the passage, which of the following would best complete the last sentence of the last paragraph in the passage?
a)satisfaction and completeness.
b)coherence and wisdom.
c)hesitation and fluctuation.
d)irregularity and insanity.
23.How many of the following statements are supported by the passage?
(a) Davis credits Johnson's syntax with cognitive potential.
(b) Steen argues that Johnson's literary style is a very apt metaphor for life.
(c) Hazlitt asserts that Johnson's syntax moved on predictable lines.
(d) Johnson's works display periphrasis, disseverment and incertitude.
a)3 b)1 c)2 d)4
Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.
(a) It is indeed convenient to have the pizza delivered right at your door step.
(b) I don’t think that branch will hold your weight.
(c) If you are planning to leave so early, then better count me out.
(d) I need only two spoonsful of sugar.
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1/3
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Can anyone provide a link or a pdf from which contains a list of all those words which have multiple usages? How is everyone here preparing for this type of question?
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