Select the correct sentence from the following.
A. He made a blunder mistake.
B. I have learnt this lesson word by word.
C. She does not know swimming.
D. He got his daughter married.
P.S. - Why is option C wrong?
Select the correct sentence
A. The average male investor expects to see all his investment stocks moving up, and they are often disappointed.
B. The people in my country are smarter than in other countries.
C. The number of failures of product in final quality inspection are increasing every year.
D. Before restructuring a firm, the CEO must consider the employees.
#RC:
The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question
For some reason, a lot of people think that if you haven't studied a musical instrument by the time you are twenty then it's already too late. Also, people who didn't study music as children, or who had a horrible time learning an instrument when they were kids, often declare themselves to be 'unmusical' though they would 'love to be able to play an instrument'. If you ask such people about any other skill they would like to acquire, such as making pots or knitting, they don't declare themselves to be 'unpotterly' or 'unknitty'; they quite sensibly say that they could probably do it if they bought the equipment and took some lessons. They realize that they would probably never be able to compete with professionals but could eventually produce worthwhile stuff and have fun in the process.
There is general agreement that anyone can acquire almost any skill to some level of competence. But music is considered a special case - apparently you're either musically talented or you're not. Thankfully this view is entirely wrong: playing a musical instrument is just a skill to be learned like any other. Some people (especially children) pick up the skills involved faster than others (which is true of any skill), but everyone gets better with time and effort.
Another myth about music is that it takes years to learn an instrument. This is only true if you have very high expectations. If you want to play Beethoven sonatas in public, then yes, it will take more than ten years and you will have to practise for more than an hour a day. If, on the other hand, you want to play a Bob Dylan song at a campfire singalong you could probably be ready in a month if you practised for a few minutes on most days. By the end of the year you could have more than a dozen songs which you could play. It is also very important to remember that learning an instrument is a lot of fun from the beginning. The only problem is that it involves a lot of repetition - but even that is OK when you can hear yourself getting better and better.
One of the most daunting things about musicians is the way they seem to be able to remember an inhuman amount of notes and regurgitate them at will. This is particularly true of musicians playing classical music from memory: sometimes the musician has to produce thousands of notes in exactly the correct order and if they get even one wrong it will be noticed by the audience. This sort of feat puts non-musicians off the idea of learning an instrument because they are sure that their memory (and fingers) couldn't work that well. Without in any way diminishing the achievement of such performers, it is useful to know that they are being assisted by something known as 'muscular memory'. Obviously muscles can't actually remember things, but complex sequences of muscular movement can be stored by the brain as a single memory. If this sounds a little unlikely, just think about how little mental effort and memory you need for complicated finger movements such as tying your shoelaces. A trained musician can render a whole piece of music down into a sequence of linked 'shoelace-tying' sets of instructions. Learning to do this requires a lot of repetition or practice - but there is nothing magical about it.
So those of you who have been saying 'I'd love to play a musical instrument but I'm just not musical' can go down to the music shop on Saturday and buy an instrument. Everyone is 'musical' - becoming a musician is simply a matter of learning a skill. You will be worse than some and better than others but you will be a musician.
The author's purpose in writing this passage is:
1) to dispel the myths surrounding music.
2) to promote a greater appreciation of music among people.
3) to express his appreciation of those who can play musical instruments.
4) to encourage non-musicians to learn to play music.
Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?
1) The journey of learning a musical instrument has its ups and downs.
2) Learning to play a Bob Dylan song is easier than learning to play a Beethoven sonata.
3) Some musical instruments can be learnt in a month, while others take years to master.
4) It is possible to tell when even one note among the thousands in a song is played incorrectly
Which of the following would involve 'muscular memory', based on the examples given in this passage?
i]Typing on a keyboard
ii]Playing a game like chess
iii] Playing a game like tennis
1) Only [i]
2) [i] and [ii]
3) [i] and [iii]
4) [ii] and [iii]
The author's tone in this passage can best be called:
1) impelling.
2) compelling.
3) admonishing.
4) admiring.
-IMS
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What are fictions? Though the term has a variety of meanings, fictions are representational artefacts that depict situations with an imagined existence only. It is this aspect of fiction that is developed in the theories offered by the philosophers Kendall Walton, Greg Currie and Peter Lamarque that will form the basis of my theory here. These philosophical theories of fiction argue that fiction is characterized by considerations of pragmatics. In the philosophy of language, pragmatics refers to the study of how language is used, as opposed to language's formal or referential qualities, which are covered by syntactics and semantics, respectively. For example, the basic meaning of the sentence 'I love coffee' should be relatively clear from the reference of the words - I, love, and coffee - and the method of their combination, in which I is the subject doing the loving, and the coffee is the object that is loved. But the pragmatic context in which this sentence is uttered might make it clear that what I really mean - the pragmatic use to which I am putting the sentence on a particular occasion - is that I would be pleased if you made me a cup of coffee. Similarly, fictional sentences can have an obvious semantic meaning, as well as a pragmatic use. Specifically, fiction is a classification that depends on the intention with which a representation is produced and used for the purposes of imagination.
The usual way of showing that facts of pragmatics determine whether something is a fiction or not is to reflect that a single utterance or representational item might count as a fiction or a non-fiction depending on the circumstances surrounding its creation and intended use. Imagine two texts, one written to recount the life of an actual person, the other a work on the life of an imaginary person, but that happens by extraordinary coincidence to replicate the former text word for word. It is not the media or representational form - in both cases, written biography - that makes one fiction and the other non-fiction, because they share a representational form; rather, it is a fact about their intended function that distinguishes them, a fact which surely has to do with what the author had in mind when writing the text: the fictional work is written to be used as a prop for the imagination.
Videogames give us a parallel and indeed more credible example of how fiction derives from pragmatic considerations. One disturbing thing to come out of the most recent war in Iraq was how much like a videogame some aspects of the fighting looked. One piece of footage I saw on the nightly news showed the crew of an M1 Abrams Tank engaging the enemy at night using night vision technology. The gunner was able to draw a crosshair over a target using, for want of a better term, a joystick, and shoot the enemy soldier with the press of the trigger. It is not much of a stretch of the imagination to conceive of an identical engagement with a screen and joystick happening in the context of a videogame. In fact, the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has an interlude in which the player acts as a gunner in an AC130 Specter gunship, similarly picking out targets using night vision in a sequence unnervingly reminiscent of the real footage. The reason why one case is really deadly and the other only fictionally so cannot be traced to their representational media, but to the context in which they occurred, including the intentions of those involved: the military joystick and display screen were intended to mediate an involvement with reality, the latter, with an imaginary world.
Which of the following is most likely to be a source of this passage?
1) The beginning of a book on theories of fiction
2) The middle of an article on types of fiction
3) The conclusion of a scholarly paper on fiction
4) The whole of a blog post on popular fiction
In which of the following sentences is the pragmatic meaning different from the semantic one?
1) Please sit down.
2) You can have the last piece of cake.
3) You look good in blue.
4) Don't play music so loudly.
Why does the author provide an example from a videogame in the last paragraph?
1) To provide a contrast between written fiction and visual fiction like videogames
2) To illustrate how pragmatic considerations are paramount when creating fiction of any kind
3) To show how the purpose for which something is intended is important in classifying it as fiction
4) None of the above
Assume that a film is made based on a historical character, about whose life very little is known for certain. According to the passage, such a film would be considered:
1) Fiction.
2) non-fiction.
3) semi-fiction.
4) cannot be determined
-IMS
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According to that notification there will be two penalties
1. Negative marking for every wrong answer.
2. Penalty if you leave a question unanswered.
Any clues what is it all about ? will it be actually there?
Pls comment on the following statement as F/I/J ?
50 years ago, African American gained little traction in protesting their virtual exclusion both from planning process for the civil war centennial and from the core narrative that centennial officials were pushing
Terrorism is theatre": this famous _____(1)________ is perhaps our best working definition of the T-word. There is very little agreement about most aspects of today's biggest and baddest 'ism'. Infact a 1988 study by the United States Army found that over 100 definitions of the word 'terrorism' have been used, and they have only continued to ______(2)_______. Is terrorism a tactic or ideology? Is it a crime or an act of war? Though Mocker provides patient and thorough answers from an astonishing variety in ______(3)_______, her greatest service is in asking the question at all. The word has a talismanic power to deflect inquiry: it is so freighted with human tragedy on the one hand, and political power on the other, that to ask what it means feels almost _______(4)_______.
1) a. maxim b. adage c.dictum d.aphorism
2)a.proliferate b.mushroom c.burgeon d.prognosticate
3)a.perspicacity b.viewpoint c.perspective d.outlook
4)a.impromptu b.impudent c.audacious d.impertinent
a)c, b, a, d b)d, a, c, b c)b, c, d, a d)a, d, b, c e)b, c, d, b
1. In the early-to-mid 1990s it became apparent that humanitarian issues were intrinsically connected to problems of peace and security.
2. Successful peace-building in the future will depend on the quality of collaboration among military forces, UN administration and civilian aid agencies.
3. Military functions are steadily increasing in complexity and oftentimes overlap with those of civilian aid providers.
4. As peacebuilding gains operational importance, a growing number of military leaders should accept the military's emerging dual responsibility to contribute to humanitarian relief and act as a fighting force.
- IJIJ
- IJFI
- FIFI
- FJFI
- IFJI
- JJFI
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DIRECTIONS for the question: In the question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
Reason
A) Your stand is beyond all reason
B) Has she given you any reason for her resignation?
C) There is little reason in your pompous advice
D) How do you deal with a friend who doesn't listen to a reason?
DIRECTIONS for the question: In the question, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
Paper
A)
Your suggestions look great on the paper, but are absolutely impractical
B)
Do you know how many trees are killed to make a truckload of paper?
C)
So far I have been able to paper over the disagreements among my brothers
D)
Dr. Malek will read a paper on criminalization of politics
Some Indian companies have emerged to be among
the world's most competitive entities and, therefore, they strategize synergies
between domestic units and foreign acquisitions.
- Fact
- Inference
- Judgment
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There is much to extol in this novel, a witty parable of England’s changing society, yet there is much to ponder. The scales have fallen from the eyes of some British writers, many either living in UK, or educated there like J.K. Rowling. The home country is invariably exhibited as a place of brutal injustice and sordid corruption, one in which the poor are always evicted and persecuted by their age-old enemies, the rich. Characters at the flamboyant extremities of society are Dickensian grotesques, adrift in a country that is lurching rapidly towards bland middle-class normality. __________________________
- There are so many alternative “England’s”, unreachable and unheard which J.K. Rowling can never hope to explore.
- J.K. Rowling is a genius of this age who has written a path breaking allegorical novel series of magic realism.
- Presenting the home country as a poverty-stricken place has become a means of getting cheap popularity.
- My hunch is this is fundamentally an outsider’s view and a superficial one
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Industry standard No. 23 stipulates that the dependants of a worker who suffers injuries or death due to accident inside the factory within his working hours is to be adequately compensated by the company. A worker who stays for five minutes after his stipulated working hours to wind up his work, suffers an accident and is injured.
The answer to which of the following questions is least inappropriate in helping to determine whether or not the company is liable to pay compensation?
a)Is winding up of the work considered a part of the duty expected to be performed by the worker?
b)Is the time of the accident within the buffer time, if any, within which, if the accident occurs, the company is liable to compensate the victim?
c)Does the factory have a system of indicating to a worker that his day's work is over?
d)Was the company following all safety measures to prevent accidents at work spots?
Though by no means a godless people, the ancient Chinese were reluctant....
Find the grammatical error (If any).
is there an error in this?
There is something of Aristotle's viewpoint in the comments of Francis Bacon on the art nature distinction in the seventeenth century.
The word given below has been used in the given sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
WRITE
a)How do you write your name?
b)To write down one's thoughts is a good habit.
c)You'll have to write out a request.
d)It is important to write one's will himself