A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too in fact he returns to the point often that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street cleaners.
Choose the one that expresses the idea most correctly.
Incorrect Usage:
LIGHT
Incorrect Usage:
KNOCK
Incorrect Usage:
MUDDLE
A. To house this event a huge temporary exhibition hall (Joseph Paxton’s steel and glass ‘Crystal
Palace’) was built on Hyde Park in central London.
B. Although the birth of dinosaurs was relatively inauspicious (first appearing as an afterthought in
the published report of the 11th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science),they were soon to become the centre of worldwide attention.C. At the time of Owen’s review, he was working on a surprisingly meagre collection of fossil bonesand teeth that had been discovered up to that time and were scattered around the British Isles.D. To celebrate such influence and achievement, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was devised.E. The reason for this was simple. Owen worked in London, at the Museum of the Royal College ofSurgeons, at a time when the British Empire was probably at its greatest extent.
(a) CBEDA (b) BDACE (c) BDAEC (d) ECBDA
In the following paragraph, many numbered blank spaces are given. Which of the following fits the Blank numbered 10?
In the evening, we decided to ____ 1 ____camp as the weather was not encouraging. The wind was high and gathering storm clouds ____ 2____ a wild wet night. Moreover, we ____ 3 ____ at a spot, which looked promising for a camp. A level ____ 4 ____ in the lee of a high hill gave some shelter from the wind; fresh water was near ____ 5 ____ in a stream which flowed across the plain; a ____ 6 ____ of trees provided adequate supplies of fuel; and the dry grass which ____ 7 ____ on the hill side would enhance the comfort of our beds. Each member of the part ____ 8 ____ a task. Some erected the tens; others prepared a scanty meal; yet others ____ 9 ____ to the needs of the ponies, now exhausted after a very strenuous day. As the angry sun sank, the bustle of activity was hushed into silence and each man ____ 10 ____ down to sleep.
In the following sentences, the underlined part may have an error; replace it with the correct usage from the options given below to make the sentence grammatically correct.
After carefully studying and poring over all the papers on Natural History of the different countries, the report remains utterly bewildering.
Direction for question : Fill in the blank with the appropriate phrase, keeping in mind the contextual meaning of the phrase and the sentence.
We can't afford to buy everything on your shopping list, so I've ____ all the unnecessary things out.
In an ideal world, everyone should have a defunct phone, to help them explain life’s niggling disappointments: I’m not in Hollywood, because I missed the call from Spielberg. It’s not due to lack of talent or ambition, it’s because I never worked out how to transfer voice messages.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above paragraph?
Which is the correct option?
Mary ___________ the gift Jacob brought for her with pleasure.
The faces of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans are quite expressive, showing a range of emotions that are familiar.
Identify the sentence in which the usage of the given word is INCORRECT.
Use
OPTIONS
1)Vitamin C helps your body to use the iron present in your diet.
2)I know you don't like him, but he has his uses
3)They made use of a variety of methods in their research.
4)The painter followed the religious use and wont of his time.
cat QUESTION PLEASE EXPLAIN APPROACH
A Surrendered or captured combatants cannot be incarcerated in razor wire cages ; this war has dubious legality
B how can then one characterize a conflict to be waged against a phenomenon as war
C the phrase "war against terrorism" which has passed into common lexicon , is a huge misnomer
D besides, war has jurisdical meaning in international law, which has codified the law of war, imbuing them with humanitarian content
E terror is phenomenon, not an entity of state or non state
At the Commonwealth games India stood at an embarrassing 57 way behind China 180, Australia 166 and even from Kazakhstan 81, whose per capita income is less than our country. Is this a fact, an inference or a judgment? Please explain... I don't have the answer
[CAT1999]
Three airlines - IA, JA and SA - operate on the Delhi-Mumbai route. To increase the number of seats sold, SA reduced its fares and this was emulated by IA and JA immediately. The general belief was that the volume of air travel between Delhi and Mumbai would increase as a result.
Which of the following, if true, would add credence to the general belief?
[CAT1999]
Developed countries have made adequate provisions for social security for senior citizens. State insurers (as well as private ones) offer medicare and pension benefits to people who can no longer earn. In India, with the collapse of the joint family system, the traditional shelter of the elderly has disappeared. And a State faced with a financial crunch is not in a position to provide social security. So, it is advisable that the working population give serious thought to building a financial base for itself.
Which one of the following, if it were to happen, weakens the conclusion drawn in the above passage the most?
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Various studies have shown that our forested and hilly regions, and, in general, areas where biodiversity -- as reflected in the variety of flora -- is high, are the places where poverty appears to be high. And these same areas are also the ones where educational performance seems to be poor. Therefore, it may be surmised that, even disregarding poverty status, richness in biodiversity goes hand in hand with educational backwardness
Which one of the following statements, if true, can be said to best provide supporting evidence for the surmise mentioned in the passage?