The baroque style of art was uniquely -------; the paintings, costume and architecture of that period are ornate and highly colorful. (A) sedate (B) cordial (C) florid (D) humorous (E) flexible
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The clothing designed by Anne Klein in the 1960s was revolutionary and uniquely American; all her pieces emphasized casual comfort and a fresh, sporty -------. (A) imitation (B) rigor (C) tension (D) flair (E) conformity
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While on the surface the stories of Philip K. Dick appear to be clever exercises in science fiction, with little concern for probing ------- questions, a closer analysis reveals an author deeply concerned with the fate of modern people confronted with ------- moral predicaments. (A) complex . . superficial (B) facile . . provocative (C) humanistic . . unprecedented (D) incisive . . lurid (E) flagrant . . intellectual
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RC:
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
What is the nature of psychosomatic illness? Long before Descartes said that the mind and body were separate, there existed in Western medicine a philosophical dichotomy between mind and body, while Eastern tradition had the wisdom to view the mind and body as coming from the same energy or source. This disconnect has directed how Western medicine evolved, and has had a powerfully negative effect on how patients are perceived and treated, based on the assumption that there is mental pain and there is physical pain and never the twain shall meet. These two types of pain, so the myth goes, are as different as land and sea. You feel physical pain if your arm breaks, and you feel mental pain if your heart breaks. Between these two different events, we seem to imagine a gulf so wide and deep that it might as well be filled by a sea that is impossible to navigate.
Psychosomatic disorders may appear to be purely physical but they originate in emotions that are unconscious or dissociated from consciousness. There are hundreds of illnesses and disorders that are purely psychosomatic or have a psychosomatic component, yet it is quite astonishing that despite the prevalence of these disorders, the medical community remains in the dark about this. When physicians are confronted with a psychosomatic disorder, they do not recognize it, or if they do, they tell the patient that it is all in the mind. At a time when few physicians understood that the mind and body are connected and that there is such a thing as an unconscious mind, Dr. John Sarno developed the theory that many painful symptoms, whether they are skeleto-muscular, gastrointestinal or other, are an unconscious distraction to aid in the repression of deep unconscious emotional issues. In other words, it is preferable to feel physical pain than to experience deep emotional pain. Sarno believes that when patients can begin to think about what may be unconsciously upsetting them, they can defeat their minds' strategy to repress these powerful emotions; when the symptoms are seen for what they are, the symptoms then serve no purpose, and they go away. Sometimes this can happen when the patient receives this kind of psychoeducation and exercises through the pain; sometimes the patient needs the help of psychotherapy to do this. Sarno is one of a handful of physicians that work collaboratively with psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapists who understand the nature of psychosomatic disorders. Sarno has said:
'The enormity of this miscarriage of medical practice may be compared to what would exist if medicine refused to acknowledge the existence of bacteria and viruses. Perhaps the most heinous manifestation of this scientific medievalism has been the elimination of the term 'psychosomatic' from recent editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the official publication of the American Psychiatric Association. One might as well eliminate the word 'infection' from medical dictionaries.' Which of the following statements would the author agree with?
Q1.Which of the following statements would the author agree with?
1) Symptoms of a disease serve no purpose once they are diagnosed.
2) Diseases originate in emotions that are unconscious or dissociated from consciousness.
3) The word 'infection' should probably be expunged from medical dictionaries.
4) None of these
Q2.The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
If you were to echo the author's primary contention, which of the following would you agree with?
1) Most physicians do not treat patients with psychosomatic disorders.
2) Most patients with psychosomatic disorders do not seek medical treatment.
3) Physicians do not understand that the mind and body are connected and that there is such a thing as an unconscious mind.
4) Most physicians do not fully understand the real nature of psychosomatic disorders.
Q3.The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards Western medicine and Eastern tradition of treating illnesses?
1) Disapproval of Western medicine and admiration of Eastern tradition
2) Sarcasm towards Western medicine and appreciation of Eastern tradition
3) Appreciation of Western medicine and condescension towards Eastern tradition
4) Condescension towards Western medicine and indifference to Eastern tradition
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RC:
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidences is a prime characteristic of innumerate people, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but less flashy statistical evidence. If they anticipate someone else's thought, or have a dream that seems to come true, or read that, say, President Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln while President Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy, this is considered proof of some wondrous but mysterious harmony that somehow holds in their personal universe.
The surprising likelihood of coincidence is illustrated by the following well-known result in probability. Since a year has 366 days (if you count February 29), there would have to be 367 people gathered together in order for us to be absolutely certain that at least two people in the group have the same birthday. Even if 366 of those 367 people had different birthdays, the 367th one would have to have the same birthday as one of the others, as there are no more dates left in the year. Now, what if we were content to be just 50 percent certain of this? That is, how many people would there have to be in a group in order for the probability to be half that at least two people in it have the same birthday? An initial guess might be 183, about half of 365. The surprising answer is that there need be only twenty-three. Stated differently, half of the time that twenty-three randomly selected people are gathered together, two or more of them will share a birthday.
For readers unwilling to accept this on faith, here is a brief derivation. By the multiplication principle, the number of ways in which five dates can be chosen (allowing for repetitions) is (365 x 365 x 365 x 365 x 365). Of all these 3655 ways, however, only (365 x 364 x 363 x 362 x 361) is such that no two of the dates are the same; any of the 365 days can be chosen first, any of the remaining 364 can be chosen second, and so on. Thus, by dividing this latter product (365 x 364 x 363 x 362 x 361) by 3655, we get the probability that five people chosen at random will have no birthday in common. Now, if we subtract this probability from 1 (or from 100 percent if we're dealing in percentages), we get the complementary probability that at least two of the five people do have a birthday in common. A similar calculation using 23 rather than 5 yields ½, or 50 percent, as the probability that at least two of twenty-three people will have a common birthday.
A few years ago, someone on the Johnny Carson show was trying to explain this. Johnny Carson didn't believe it, noted that there were about 120 people in the studio audience, and asked how many of them shared his birthday of, say, March 19. No one did, and the guest, who wasn't a mathematician, said something incomprehensible in his defence. What he should have said is that it takes twenty-three people to be 50 percent certain that there is some birthday in common, not any particular birthday such as March 19. It requires a large number of people, 253 to be exact, to be 50 percent certain that someone in the group has March 19 as his or her birthday. The moral is that some unlikely event is likely to occur, whereas it's much less likely that a particular one will.
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
Q1.Choose the best title for this passage.
1) Birthday Coincidences
2) The Probability of Birthdays
3) Probability and Coincidence
4) The Importance of Coincidences
Q2.The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Read the following statements:
Statement 1: The probability that in a large group, someone in the group has the same name as the group leader.
Statement 2: The probability that in a large group, two people in the group have the same names.
What is the relationship between these two probabilities, based solely on the information in the passage?
1) The probability in statement 1 is higher than that in statement 2.
2) The probability in statement 1 is lower than that in statement 2.
3) The probabilities in both the statements are equal.
4) The relationship cannot be determined based on the information in the passage.
Q3.The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. Which of the following is the least likely source of this passage?
1) A popular science book
2) A mathematics textbook
3) An article on logical thinking
4) An article in a science magazine
LR preparation ?
If translated into English, most of the ways economists talk among themselves would sound plausible enough to poets, journalists, business people, and other thoughtful though non-economical folk. Like serious talk any where among boat designers and baseball fans say-the talk is hard to follow when one has not made a habit of listening to it for a while. The culture of the conversation makes the words arcane. But the people in the unfamiliar conversation are not Favourite Martians. Underneath it (the economist's phrase) conversational habits are similar. Economics uses mathematical models and statistical tests and market arguments, all of which look alien to the literary eye. But looked at closely they are not so alien. They may be seen as figures of speech-metaphors, analogies, and appeals to authority.
Figures of speech are not mere frills. They think for us. Someone who thinks of market as an 'invisible hand' and the organization of work as a 'production function' and its coefficients as being 'significant' as an economist does, is giving the language a lot of responsibility. It seems a good idea to look hard at his language. If the economic conversation were found to depend a lot on its verbal forms, this would not mean that economics would be not a science, or just a matter of opinion, or some sort of confidence game. Good poets, though not scientists, are serious thinkers about symbols; good historians, though not scientists, are serious thinkers about data. Good scientists also use language. What is more, (though it remains to be shown) they use the cunning of language, without particularly meaning to. The language used is a social object and using language is a social act. It requires cunning (or, if you prefer, consideration) attention to the other minds present when one speaks.
The paying of attention to one's audience is called 'rhetoric' a word that I later exercise hard. One uses rhetoric, of course, to warn of a fire in a theater or to arouse the xenophobia of the electorate. This sort of yelling is the vulgar meaning of the word, like the president's 'heated rhetoric' in a press conference of the 'mere rhetoric' to which our enemies stoop. Since the Greek flame was lit, though, the word has been used also in a broader and more amiable sense, to mean the study of all the ways of accomplishing things with language: inciting a mob to lynch the accused, to be sure, but also persuading readers of a novel that its characters breathe, or bringing scholars to accept the better argument and reject the worse.
The question is whether the scholar-who usually fancies himself an announcer of 'result' or a starter of conclusions, free of rhetoric-speaks rhetorically. Does he try to persuade? It would seem so. Language, I just said, is not a solitary accomplishment. The scholar doesn't speak into the void, or to himself. He speaks to a community of voices. He desires to be heeded, praised, published, imitated, honored, en-Nobeled. These are the desires. The devices of language are the means.
Rhetoric is the proportioning of means to desires in speech. Rhetoric is an economics of language, the study of how scarce means are allocated the insatiable desires of people to be heard. It seems on the face of it a reasonable hypothesis that economists are like other people in being talkers, who desire listeners. Why they go to the library or the laboratory as much as when they go to the office on the polls? The purpose here is to see if this is true, and to see if it is useful: to study the rhetoric of economic scholarship.
The subject is scholarship. It is not the economy, or the adequacy of economic theory as a description of the economy, or even mainly the economist's role in the economy. The subject is the conversation economists have among themselves, for purposes of persuading each other that the interest elasticity of demand for investment is zero or that the money supply is controlled by the Federal Reserve.
Unfortunately, though the conclusion are of more than academic interest. The conversations of classicists or of astronomers rarely affect the lives of other people. Those of economists do so on a large scale. A well-known joke describes a May Day parade through Red Square with the usual mass of soldiers, guided missiles, rocket launchers. At last come rank upon rank of people in gray business suits. A bystander asks, "Who are those"? "Aha" comes the reply, "those are economists" you have no idea what damage they can do!" . Their conversations do it
1 Based on your understanding of the passage, which of the following conclusions would you agree with?
A.The geocentric and the heliocentric views of the solar system are equally tenable
B. The heliocentric view is superior because of better rhetoric
C. Both views use rhetoric to persuade
D. Scientists should not use rhetoric
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A useful Article on Reading Comprehension I have found on the Bullseye
Website.
Things not to be done with RC passages
Reading Comprehensions are a trick beast. They are time consuming, energy sapping and information intensive. On the other hand, the rewards they offer are fascinating as well: if you grasp a passage well, you should be able to get most questions in a single passage correct, and this means you gain quite a few marks by solving one set of questions.
While ensuring that you strike a fine balance for this area, it is important that you keep a number of things in your mind and ensure you do not fall into the common pitfalls. Some of the things that you should definitely avoid for reading comprehensions are:
1. Do not over-emphasize trivial details
Details are important but do not obsess yourself with examples, illustrations and so on. You need to understand the main point, not the examples.
2. You do not need to memorize the passage
You do not need to memorize every word in the passage; understand the flow, structure and main points in the passage and you are good to go. For factual or specific point questions, you can always return to the passage.
3. Focus on the main idea of the passage
An obvious extension of the above points: make sure you focus on the main points of the passage, and understand the overall flow and structure of the passage.
4. Do not dig into the passage at first
Always go through the questions first and then the passage. This prepares you for what should you lookout for in the passage. Remember, focus on question statements alone, and do not need to focus on particular answer options. A quick overview of the questions is sufficient.
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