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a)Shakespeare did not personally prepare his plays for publication, and no official collection of them appeared until after his death.
b)Some were probably based on actors' memories of the plays.
c)Many of those quartos are extremely unreliable
d)A collection of his sonnets, considered by critics to be among the best ever written in English, appeared in 1609.
e)Many individual plays were published during his lifetime in unauthorized editions known as quartos
The defence proposes to show that the incident that the prosecution so _____ rejects as _____ did indeed take place.
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Not just the absence of _________ ,but also the presence ________and honesty is required to bind up the nation's wound
Clinical practitioners ____________integrated mindfulness _________ treatment of ___ host of emotional and behavioral disorders,
_________ borderline personality disorder, major depression,chronic pain or eating disorders.Number of such practioners ____increased substantially
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Ontologies are_________equated with taxonomic hierarchies of classes, class definitions, and ___________subsumption relation, ______ontologies need not be limited to ____forms
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Each of these questions has a question with a part of it underlined. The question is followed by four alternatives to replace the underlined part of the sentence. Choose the best alternative which is grammatically correct. 1.The closing of small, inexpensive hospitals while large expensive hospitals remain open seems a luxury that we can no longer afford in order to maintain them.
- seems to emphasize luxury over economy, which we can no longer afford.
- seems to be a waste of valuable resources.
- seems a luxury we can no longer afford.
- seems too luxurious to be any longer affordable.
Each of these questions has a question with a part of it underlined. The question is followed by four alternatives to replace the underlined part of the sentence. Choose the best alternative which is grammatically correct.
The ancient question of the exact difference between plants and animals, which was so complicated with the discovery of microscopic members of both groups, was somewhat sidestepped with the establishment of a third phylum, the Protista, reserved just for them
- consisting only of them
- inhabited only by them
- which includes all microscopic life
- which would have included all microscopic plants and animals
There are three questions for the day. These questions are to test your ability to spot errors in common English usage.
Each of these questions has a question with a part of it underlined. The
question is followed by four alternatives to replace the underlined
part of the sentence. Choose the best alternative which is grammatically
correct.
The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania affords the visitor with unequalled opportunities to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.
- The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania permits the visitor unequalled opportunities to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.
- The Lake Manyara -Park in Tanzania gives the visitor the unequalled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees without telephoto lenses.
- The visitor to the Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania has the unequalled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.
- Even without the aid of telephoto lenses, the visitor to Tanzania's Lake Manyara Park has an unequalled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees.
It is graduation season in many countries, a time when classes of bright and fortunate young people don their caps and gowns, receive their diplomas, and hear advice from their elders. Some commencement speakers focus on the graduates' accomplishments; others emphasize the career-related challenges that lie ahead. But there is another critical aspect to success and happiness that is often overlooked during these garlanded celebrations of academic achievement: family. _____________ .
Ryan asks his friends to guess the manufacturer of the car he has just bought. Sheryl responds by saying, “I am sure it is not a Ford” Rebecca responds by saying, “I am sure it is either a Mercedes or BMW” Monica responds by saying, “I am sure it is a Mercedes” Ryan responds by saying, “Atleast one of you is right and atleast one of you is wrong.” Which company is the manufacturer of the car just bought by Ryan if it is known that the car is manufactured by one of the three companies that were mentioned?
- Mercedes
- BMW
- Ford
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1. 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.
2. I like more than Metallica
3. I like folk over pop music.
4. Life
exists on Venus .
5. Scientists believe life is possible on Venus .
6. The footprint warned Robinson Crusoe that there was someone else on the island.
7. Even without war, we know that conflicts continue to trouble us- they only change in color.
8.Because we had three wars with our neighboring country, we should keep our armed forced ready for the fourth one.
9."The introduction of currency futures in India is regarded as a step forward towards full capital account convertibility."
10.The department thinks that these low temperatures are because of the climatic changes in the Indian subcontinent.
11.. I know my beloved would wait for me in afterlife , saying this Mithun chakkarbati pressed the trigger. The sound of bullet was so loud that it almost deafened us . ( ye waala aiven hi daal diya hai :D)
Sabhi Bhaiyon aivem behno se nivedan hai ki apne uttar ke saath apna funda zarur mention krein .
What's interesting is that very little of the outrage focuses on the assassination itself. By now, the
West has accepted that Israelis will track down and assassinate terrorists no matter where in the
world they hide. And, in the post 9/11 era, few people seem to mind. It is widely accepted that
terrorists can rarely be brought to justice and convicted by courts of law. ___________________
In the given paragraph, the last line has been deleted. Choose the option that logically follows the paragraph.
The Andhra Pradesh is one of the two states in the country to initiate democratic decentralization process on the lines of Balawanta Rai Mehata Committee Report in 1959. The process of decentralization in the state can be broadly divided into six phases. In every phase, the successive government, except during 1960s and 1970s where the PRIs positions were occupied by the rural upper class and upper castes, evaded the implementation of its own expert committees’ recommendations and undermined the PRIs and their leadership. This is more so when the OBCs and weaker sections, during 1990s, entered into these institutions through reservation or in the open competition, the state has curtailed the powers, funds, functionaries and the status of PRIs and made them ‘decorative ornaments’ or ‘institutions’. There have been no serious efforts made by Government, during the last five decades, to make the decentralisation process more meaningful in terms of empowerment of citizens and improvement in the delivery of services at the local level and to alter the rural socio-economic structure (__________________________________).
Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. The first and last sentences are 1 and 6, and the four in between are labelled A, B, C and D. Choose the most logical order of these four sentences.
1. The concept of a ‘nation-state’ assumes a complete correspondence between the boundaries of the nation and the boundaries of those who live in a specific state.
A. Then there are members of national collectivities who live in other countries, making a mockery of the concept.
B. There are always people living in particular states who are not considered to be (and often do not consider themselves to be) members of the hegemonic nation.
C. Even worse, there are nations which never had a state or which are divided across several states.
D. This, of course, has been subject to severe criticism and is virtually everywhere a fiction.
6. However, the fiction has been, and continues to be, at the basis of nationalist ideologies.
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(A) It has clearly done so much by bringing many useful inventions, ideas and by-products of major research programs to a wider number of people.
(B) But to say that this is still all it does would be too superficial.
(C) Advertising is arguably a main vehicle of social communication; and as such, it has become the subject of much critical comment and even concern.
(D) Advertising was conceived essentially as a kind of social, consumer rhetoric: a way of publicly praising goods in order to encourage or persuade the public to use or buy them.
complete the para
The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire villages being washed away. The ground beneath Newtok is disappearing. Natural erosion has accelerated due to climate change, with large areas of land lost to the Ninglick River each year. A study by the Army Corps of Engineers found the highest point in this area would be below water level by 2017.
a)Melting permafrost, sea-level rise and erosion are some of the worst consequences of climate change for Alaska.
b)But none of those elements in Newtok's slow destruction are recognised as disasters under existing legislation.
c)The proximity of the threat to Newtok means that the entire populations of these villages are likely to be America's climate refugees.
d)There is no possible way to protect these villages.
In the following question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words that are italicized and highlighted. From the italicized and highlighted words, select the most appropriate words (A or B) to form correct sentences. The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words that may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one.
It would be wonderful if our politicians were elected on the basis of their abilities; unfortunately, our system of government is not so meritorious (A) / meretricious (B).
The newspaper published all the details of the murderer’s livid (A) / lurid (B) crimes.
When a teacher is kind and understanding towards the students, they tend to be more amenable (A) / amendable (B).
The lawyer bored his clients with all the tortuous (A) / torturous (B) details of the laws pertaining to their case.
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The possibility of untimely death is frightening, but the inevitability of ageing and dying casts the longest shadow on human life. Humankind's efforts to overcome aging have been impressively persistent. We have, however, not succeeded. By age 80, half of us will die; by age 100, 99 percent; and by about age 115, every one of us will be dead, medical breakthroughs notwithstanding. During the past few hundred years, the average length of life (life expectancy) in modern societies has steadily increased, but the maximum duration of life (life span) has not. Centuries ago a few people may have lived to 115; today this maximum remains about the same. All the wonders of medicine, all the advances in public health have not demonstrably increased the maximum duration of life. If ageing is a disease, it seems to be incurable.
Technically, we are not really talking about ageing, the process of growing older from birth onwards, but senescence, the process of bodily deterioration that occurs at older ages. Senescence is not a single process but is manifested in an increased susceptibility to many diseases and a decreasing ability to repair damage. Death rates in modern developed countries are very low at age 10 to 12, about 0.2 per 1000 children per year. The death rate increases slowly to 1.35 per 1000 at age 30, then increases exponentially, doubling every 8 years. By age 90, the death rate is 169 per 1000. A person aged 100 has only a one-in-three chance of living another year. Every year the mortality curve becomes steeper, until eventually we all are gone.
Imagine a world in which all causes of premature death have been eliminated, so that all deaths result from the effects of ageing. We would live hearty, healthy lives, until, in a sharp peak of a few years centred at age 85, we would nearly all die. Conversely, imagine a world in which senescence is eliminated, so that death rates do not increase with age but remain throughout life at the level for eighteenyear- olds, that is, about 1 per 1000 per year. Some people would still die at all ages, but half the population would live to age 693, and more than 13 percent would live to age 2000! Even if death rates were much higher, say 10 per 1000, eliminating the effects of senescence would still give a substantial advantage, with some people living to age 300. From an evolutionist's point of view, an individual who did not senesce would have, to put it mildly, a substantial reproductive advantage.
This brings us to the mystery. If senescence so devastates our fitness, why hasn't natural selection eliminated it? This possibility seems preposterous only because senescence is such an inescapable part of our experience. Consider, however, the miracle of development: from a single cell with forty-six strands of nucleic acid, a body gradually forms, with each often trillion cells in the right place, making tissues and organs that function together for the good of the whole. Certainly it should be easier to maintain this body than to form it! Furthermore, our bodies have remarkable maintenance capacities. Skin and blood cells are replaced every few weeks. Our teeth get replaced once. Damaged liver tissue can be rapidly replaced. Most wounds heal quickly. Broken bones grow back together. Our bodies do have some capacity to repair damage and replace worn-out parts; it is just that this capacity is limited. The body can't maintain itself indefinitely. Why not?
What is the topic of this passage?
1) The cruelty and mystery of death
2) The search for a cause of ageing and death
3) The unavoidability of senescence and death
4) The evolutionary explanation for senescence
According to the author:
1) Over the last few centuries, life spans have increased gradually.
2) More people now live up to the age of 115 than they did in the past.
3) It would be better if senescence rather than premature death could be eliminated.
4) Senescence is unavoidable since natural selection has not eliminated it.
What is the structure of this passage?
1) A topic is introduced via some definitions and statistics; some hypothetical ideas are suggested; another perspective on the topic is mentioned; a mystery is left unresolved.
2) A topic is introduced; some statistics and definitions regarding it are mentioned; some counterfactual ideas are suggested; a question regarding the topic is raised.
3) A topic is introduced; some definitions are clarified; some hypothetical scenarios are mentioned; the issue raised in the passage is left unresolved.
4) A topic is introduced with the help of some statistics; an alternative scenario regarding one aspect of the topic is mentioned; a puzzling aspect of the topic is mentioned.
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9 parallel chords are drawn in a circle of diameter 10 cm. if the distance between any two of the adjacent chords is 1 cm, which of the following statements is always true??
(a) one of the chords is diameter of the circle.
(b) atleast two of the chords must be of equal length.
(c) the difference between the lengths of any two adjacent chords on the same side of diameter is greater than 1 cm
(d) none
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