Identify as Fact, Inference or Judgment
Every red tape procedure is a point of contact with an official, and such contacts have the potential to become opportunities for money to change hands.
There is no reason to suppose that a woman in China is treated worse than elsewhere, but people can of course paint her condition just as fancy seizes them. They are rarely admitted into the domestic surroundings of Chinese homes, therefore there is nothing to curb the imagination. The truth is that just as much may be said on one side as on the other. Domestic happiness in China - as everywhere else the world over - is a lottery. __________________________ a) The parents invariably select partners in marriage for their sons and daughters, and sometimes make as great blunders as the young people would if left to themselves
. b) The position accorded to woman in Chinese society is strictly a domestic one, and, she is denied the liberty that threatens to attain such amazing proportions in the West.
c) These ladies after their marriage are raised to the rank of their husbands.
d) Many of the princesses therefore prefer to marry Mongolian princes, by which they retain their rank as well as that of their children. Directions for
RC:
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
By 1930, in Australia, as in most other countries, the economy was in the grip of the Depression. During the period 1929 to 1945, certain pieces of federal and state legislation reflected turning points in the black-white race relations of the Depression and war years. Some literary works are also representative of the same phenomenon. However, these turning points resulted from the efforts of a small,enlightened and progressive elite of individuals and were well received during the period only by like-minded Australians. The decade between the onset of the Depression and the beginning of World War II deepened the poverty of a minority group which was already, in 1929, at the bottom of the Australian economic ladder. This is illustrated by the fact that Aboriginal reserve dwellers in New South Wales received only 41 pence per week throughout the entire Depression, while between 1930 and 1936 dole payments rose from 69 to 108 pence per week.
Aboriginal people throughout Australia were invariably hit harder by the Depression, and took longer to recover from its hardships, than the white citizens of Australia. This was just one factor which oppressed Aboriginal people to an inordinate degree during the Depression years. Not only economically, but politically, judicially, socially and culturally, Black Australians suffered at the hands of white politicians, policy-makers and pastoralists. One of the effects of the Great Depression, all over Australia, seems to have been a more rigid containment of Aboriginal people in institutions, where conditions were probably worse than ever before, which had enduring effects on their attitudes.
It is clear that White Australians held numerous and often conflicting views of Aborigines, ranging from the sympathetic and humanitarian to the violently racist and bigoted. But, as the 1930s began, almost everyone agreed on one point: the Aboriginal people were a race doomed to extinction. However, the lot of the Aborigines unexpectedly took a turn for the better in the coming decades. The late 1930s to the early 1940s was an era of ironies. One of the greatest of these was that the 1939-1945 period which saw the height of legislative restrictiveness, also saw the first tentative moves towards legal equality for Aboriginal Australians. Another was that the framers of Aboriginal policy in Australia devised measures for the 'protection' of a race from extinction, just when it was on the brink, in relative terms, of a population explosion. Therefore, the policy-makers had to execute a significant about-face midway through the era. A third irony was the fact that, while atrocities and massacres of Aboriginal people were still a very recent memory in the early 1930s - especially in the Northern Territory - a greater number of influential philanthropic groups dedicated to the advancement of Black Australians were formed between 1929 and 1939 than ever before. Throughout, it was frequently international pressures and events which acted as a catalyst for the improvement of the lot of Aborigines, rather than domestic policies.
How has the author structured the passage?
1)He introduces a topic, analyses the situation mentioned and provides a contrasting point of view as the conclusion.
2) He introduces a topic, discusses a situation and then discusses later improvements in the situation.
3) He introduces a topic, criticises the situation and praises the efforts of those who turned it around.
4) He introduces a topic, presents a chronological account of a situation and concludes with the contemporary situation.
Which of these is one of the ironies as regards the Aboriginal race, as mentioned in the passage?
1) International pressures and worldwide events, rather than domestic policies, went a long way in improving the conditions of the Aborigines after the onset of the Second World War.
2) White philanthropists took the lead in championing the cause of emancipation of Aboriginal Australians.
3) Policy-makers devised protectionist measures for the Aborigines even though they were swelling in numbers.
4) There was a reversal in the framing of policies for the Aborigines because their numbers began increasing.
Which of these comes closest to the meaning of 'pastoralist'?
1) priest 2) livestock rearer 3) diplomat 4) bureaucrat
Which of these is not cited as a reason for the improvement in the conditions of Aborigines in the 1930s and 40s?
1) There was improved legislation with respect to the legal rights of the Aborigines.
2) There was an increase in the number of humanitarian groups that aimed to improve the conditions of the Aborigines.
3) Events on a global scale spurred on change in the lot of the Aboriginal people.
4) Aborigines became more vocal in their demand for improvement in their situation
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Basing troops and equipment on foreign soil is fraught with difficulty. Even friendly countries can cut up rough at crucial moments, as America found when Turkey restricted the use of its trinity and airspace during the invasion of lnap 2003. In an occupied country the situation is worse, as base is a magnet for attacks. Nor can you always put your base when you need it._________________.
- Constructing a military base is a formidable technological challenge.
- If you can bring your own base with you, the threat is more credible and easier to make.
- But no one knows the high seas, and partisans rarely have access to naval power.
- So America , still the world’s only superpower and the one with most need for foreign bases, is investigating the idea of building military bases on the ocean.
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RC:
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
I love both movies and books, but if I had to pick one, I would very reluctantly pick books. It's not so much that books are an objectively 'better' art form, but that they have certain limitations that movies don't have - limitations that, paradoxically, make books more interesting. All art forms are about what's left out as much as what's present. For example, one of my favourite paintings, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914) by Giorgio de Chirico, depicts a nearly deserted street, with the focus on the shadow of an unseen person around a corner. To me, this painting would lose its power if we could see the figure casting the shadow.
The most powerful sort of line in a book is, 'Oh God! Look at the size of that ship!' It's less powerful if the line is more explicit: 'Oh God! That ship is the size of the Empire State Building!' When your brain isn't given anything to compare the ship to, it supplies its own comparison, which is often more powerful than anything the writer can come up with.
It's absolutely possible to omit information in films, and, in fact, it's vital if a film is going to be a truly powerful experience, but it's a challenge. The camera sees everything and the mike picks up all the sound. If de Chirico's painting was filmed, the risk of not showing the shadowed figure would be audience assuming the budget was too small to create a set that extended around the corner, or that the camera was fixed to one spot. There's a big drive, in filmmaking, to show everything.
More to the point, in a book, the writer can play with the fact that there are no visuals - this lack of visuals is intrinsic to the medium. A painter can play with the fact that it's impossible to look around the corner. Film doesn't have many such limitations (except one big one, which I'll discuss below), so it can't naturally and easily tantalize you by pushing information into an unseen dimension.
Books, by their nature, only fill in some of the blanks. If a writer wants to toy with readers by omitting information, he can push that information out of the sentences. Any information not conveyed in words is necessarily (and naturally) absent in books. The reader's mind is forced to provide the missing links in the story. This makes all stories interactive. Watching a movie is generally a much more passive experience. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Certain passive experiences are wonderful, but passive and interactive experiences are two different sorts of pleasures.
Movies can only explore character through overt behaviour. This limitation can be exciting, as limitations in art usually force artists to get creative. In fact, this is film's great limitation. If a filmmaker wants to tantalize the audience with a mystery, all he has to do is push it into the dimension of thought. That's a locked door to film audiences (aside from voice-overs, which are the filmic equivalent of writing at the bottom of a painting explaining what's around the corner), and locked doors are tantalizing. It's great to see the Godfather stroking a cat as he plans murder. That's suggestive behaviour. It conjures up the locked door.
Which is this passage about?
1) The importance of leaving things unseen or unsaid in various art forms
2) The difference in the importance of what is left out in books and movies
3) How the limitations of a medium enhance it, especially in relation to books and movies
4) How the limitations inherent in the medium of books are not present in movies and vice versa
Which of the following works of art would the author most approve of?
i] A book in which the locations are described in vivid detail
ii] A painting which shows a woman smiling lovingly at children playing nearby
iii] A photograph in which the subject is staring at something out of the frame with an expression of horror on his face
iv] A movie in which a character's hopes and fears are never stated, but can be deduced from her actions and expressions
v] A television show in which each episode starts with the main character narrating an event in a voice-over
1) [i] and [ii]
2) [i], [iv] and [v]
3) [ii], [iii] and [iv]
4) [iii] and [iv]
What is a 'locked door' in the context of this passage?
1) A mystery due to a medium's limitations that allows information to be left to the audience's imagination
2) The inability of the audience to see a character's thoughts in a visual medium like movies
3) A tantalizing aspect of movies in which character is explored through overt behaviour
4) All of the above
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RC:
For so many in the techno-elite, the notion of perpetual progress and economic growth is somehow taken for granted. As a former classicist turned technologist, I've always lived in the shadow of the fall of Rome, the failure of its intellectual culture, and the stasis that gripped the Western world for the better part of a thousand years. What I fear most is that we will lack the will and the foresight to face the world's problems squarely, and will instead retreat from them into superstition and ignorance.
Consider how in 375 AD, after a dream in which he was whipped for being 'a Ciceronian' rather than a Christian, Saint Jerome resolved to no more read the classical authors and to restrict himself only to Christian texts. Consider how the Christians of Alexandria murdered the philosopher and mathematician Hypatia in 415, and realize that, at least in part, the so-called dark ages were not something imposed from without, a breakdown of civilization due to barbarian invasions, but a choice, a turning away from knowledge and discovery into a kind of religious fundamentalism.
Now consider how conservative elements in American religion and politics refuse to accept scientific knowledge, deride their opponents for being 'reality based', and ask yourself, 'Could that ideology come to rule the most powerful nation on earth? And if it did, what would be the consequences for the world?'
History teaches us that conservative, backward-looking movements often arise under conditions of economic stress. As the world faces problems ranging from climate change to the demographic cliff of aging populations, it's wise to imagine widely divergent futures. Yes, we may find technological solutions that propel us into a new golden age of robots, collective intelligence, and an economy built around 'the creative class'. But it's at least as probable that as we fail to find those solutions quickly enough, the world falls into apathy, disbelief in science and progress, and after a melancholy decline, a new dark age. Civilizations do fail. We have never yet seen one that hasn't. The difference is that the torch of progress has in the past always passed to another region of the world. But we've now, for the first time, got a single global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.
What does the author mean by 'I've always lived in the shadow of the fall of Rome'?
1) He has always known about the fall of Rome.
2) He has always blamed himself for the fall of Rome.
3) He has always been overwhelmed by the fall of Rome.
4) He has always been strongly influenced by the fall of Rome.
Why does the author compare modern America and ancient Rome?
1) To demonstrate that, just as Rome's intellectual culture failed after its fall, America's culture may do so too
2) To demonstrate that the Romans retreated into ignorance and superstition during the dark ages, and similarly Americans are doing so now
3) To show that while Roman civilization broke down due to both external and internal threats, American culture is endangered by only the latter
4) To show how both ancient Rome and modern America were conservative and backward-looking in many ways, despite their progressive reputations
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question. According to the author:
i] Technology can help us build a better world.
ii] The present civilization is in a uniquely vulnerable position due to globalization.
iii] The rise and fall of civilizations is a perpetual cycle.
1) [i] and [ii] 2) [i] and [iii] 3) [ii] and [iii] 4) [i], [ii] and [iii]
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Is it worth to attempt this aimnmat or is it like the last one? Are there sectional timers this time?
Choose the most logical order of sentences
from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph
1). Despite posting healthy profits, Volkswagen
shares trade at a discount to peers due to bad reputation among investors.
2). A disastrous capital hike, an expensive foray into truck business and uncertainty about the reason for a share buyback have in recent years left investors bewildered.
3). The main problem with Volkswagen is the past.
4). Many investors have been disappointed and frightened away.
5). Volkswagen shares trade at about nine times the 2002 estimated earnings, compared to BMW's 19 and are the second cheapest in the sector.
A.
52134
B.
13425
C.
32451
D.
13524
After the accident, the nerves to her arm were
damaged and so the muscles ____ through disuse.
A.
atrophied
B.
contracted
C.
elongated
D.
invigorated
E.
dwindled
Find out the synonym of : Perspicacious
A.
Hoodwink
B.
Acumen
C.
Distinguishing
D.
Shrewd
RC:
While never a practicing Jew, Arnold Schoenberg's Jewish heritage had
a significant impact on both his personal life and musical
compositions. In his compositional essays, he frequently described music
as an expression of God or the infinite, and the act of creation as a
divine one. As the introduction to his 1941 treatise, Composing with
Twelve Tones, makes explicit: "To understand the very nature of creation
one must acknowledge that there was no light before the Lord said: 'Let
there be Light'. And since there was not yet light, the Lord's
omniscience embraced a vision of it which only His omnipotence could
call forth ... A creator has a vision of something which has not existed
before this vision. And a creator has the power to bring his vision to
life, the power to realise it."
In other essays, Schoenberg often characterized himself as a musical
'chosen one' who would continue the legacy of the German masters -
Mahler, Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach - whom he considered
'divinely inspired' predecessors. Schoenberg's revolutionary musical
technique of dodecaphony (using an ordered series of all twelve
chromatic tones as the basis for a musical work) was his signature
creation, and he often boasted that its modernist structure would secure
'the hegemony of German music' into the next century.
Such
nationalistic assertions would assume a sadly ironic tone in the
inter-war period, during which anti-Semitic reactions to Schoenberg and
his music became more prevalent and ultimately forced the composer's
emigration to America in 1933. In 1921, he experienced his first
instance of overt discrimination when a Mattsee hotel requested that his
family leave the hotel, which had a 'no Jews allowed' policy. Six years
later, he expressed his frustration to the painter Wassily Kandinsky
that he had 'learnt the lesson that has been forced upon me...that I am
not a German, not a European, indeed perhaps scarcely a human being...but I
am a Jew.' Such discrimination reached a head on 7 April 1933, when the
National Socialists enacted the Gesetzzur Wiederherstellung des
Berufsbeamtentums (Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil
Service) which banned Jews from holding university positions. Soon
thereafter, Schoenberg, then a professor of composition at the Akademie
der Künste (Berlin), emigrated to America, where he later accepted a
position at the University of California Los Angeles. In a 1933 letter
to his student, Anton Webern, Schoenberg relayed that these anti-Semitic
actions had influenced his own self-identification as a Jew and that he
had resolved to be a Jew and work only for the Jewish national cause.
In the years that followed, Schoenberg actively pursued Jewish issues
and topics in both his essays and musical compositions. In 1938 he
published his most Zionistic essay, 'The Four-Point Programme for
Jewry', which called for the creation of an independent Jewish state,
and also composed a setting of the Kol Nidre. In the 1940s, despite his
failing health, he continued to address specifically Jewish themes in
three works: Die Jakobsleiter (1922, revisions unfinished), Moses und
Aron (unfinished), and A Survivor from Warsaw (1947).
1)Which of the following inferences about Schoenberg can be drawn from the passage?
A. Schoenberg was initially a religious fanatic who drew too much
inspiration from his religious beliefs, which finally conflicted with
his nationalistic fervor.
B. Schoenberg's early assertions of greatness were echoes of his
predecessors who indirectly played a pivotal role in his success as an
artist.
C. Schoenberg was in awe of the Creator and felt divinely inspired, a facet common to him and to other German maestros.
D. Schoenberg's efforts to pursue Jewish themes and causes, towards the
latter part of his career, were acts aimed at seeking redemption for
his previous affection of Germany.
a)A and B b)Only C c)Only D d)None of the above
2)The main purpose of the passage is most likely
a)to mark the consequences of anti-Semitism on the Europe of Arnold Schoenberg's age.
b) to analyse the motives that determined the radical alteration in the themes of Schoenberg's musical compositions.
c)to signify the shift in Schoenberg's allegiance from a German patriot to a zealous Zionist.
d)to discuss how Arnold Schoenberg's Jewish legacy determined his life and work.
3)Which of the following can be picked out as a sign of the marked change in Schoenberg's allegiance?
a)His music which so far had religious intonations now gave preferential treatment to the Jewish cause.
b)He became a turncoat by abandoning the country he once so fervently wished would dominate the world.
c)His creations began having overtures of Zionist autonomy.
d)He became the bane of anti-Semitism and vociferously began championing Jewish issues and themes.