TA 23
44. A paragraph is given below from
which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,
choose the one that completes the
paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Individuals owed their existence to
their parents; without their countless sacrifices, they would never
survive nor grow into sane human
beings. They realised their potential in a stable and peaceful
society, made possible by the efforts
of thousands of anonymous men and women. They became
rational, reflective and moral beings
within a rich civilisation created by scores of sages, saints,
savants and scientists.
______________________.
(a) Even a whole lifetime was not
enough to pay back what they owed their parents, let alone all the
others.
(b) In short, every human being owed
his humanity to others and benefitted from a world, to the
creation of which he had not
contributed anything.
(c) To talk about ‘repaying’ the debts
did not therefore make sense except in a clumsy and
metaphorical way of describing one’s
response to unsolicited but indispensable gifts.
(d) Every individual is born with a debt, which is beyond
his capacity to repay.
45. A paragraph is given below from
which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,
choose the one that completes the
paragraph in the most appropriate way.
A century and a half ago, Charles
Darwin detailed his theory of evolution by natural selection in his
book ‘On the Origin of Species’. How
does this remarkably successful theory apply to life on our
planet? How have the scientists of
subsequent generations built on Darwin’s ideas?
______________________.
(a) Darwin’s general theory presumes
the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely
naturalistic (undirected) “descent
with modification”.
(b) And can Darwin’s theory of
Evolution be aligned with the evolutionary worldview, which is as old
as antiquity?
(c) Natural selection is the
preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete
better in the wild
(d) And does revisiting the original theory shed new
light on the remaining puzzles?
46. There are two gaps in the
sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words given, choose
the one that fills the gaps most
appropriately.
The increasing interest in animal
emotions seems like an important first step in changing
_____________ about our relationship
with other species. But this does not necessarily mean that
we should resign our critical
faculties or fail to _____________ flaws in how the evidence is presented
(a) consciousness, interrogate
(b) awareness, discover
(c) trends, examine
(d) knowledge, catechize
47. There are two gaps in the
sentence/paragraph given below. From the pairs of words given, choose
the one that fills the gaps most
appropriately.
And so, in order to ensure that, on
the one hand, Greece was not in any way tempted into the Soviet
camp, and on the other, that following
the 1974 war in Cyprus, it did not descend into conflict with
Turkey, it was deemed _____________ to
bring it as rapidly as possible into the western
_____________.
(a) practical, dominion
(b) expedient, fold
(c) convenient, arrangement
(d) appropriate, flock
51. Five sentences are given below,
labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The recent communal violence in
Hyderabad and in Bareilly a month ago has remained on
the sidelines of national attention.
B. In both cities, the present round
of violence was preceded by mobilisations and speeches,
primarily by Hindu fundamentalist
groups.
C. Fortunately, there was no death in
the violence in Bareilly, while in Hyderabad only three people
were killed.
D. Yet, the scale, planning and causes
behind the riots indicate a certain change in the morphology
of the typical riot, a change which
needs to be identified and understood if we want to keep religious
sectarianism and violence in check.
E. Communal violence has become so
endemic to the polity of India that it has ceased to attract
much attention outside its immediate
area of impact, or unless it crosses very high levels of fatality
and barbarity.
(a)
EACDB
(b) ABEDC (c) EABCD (d) ABCDE
52. Five sentences are given below,
labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. That too was historic.
B. The word that immediately rolled
off of every tongue after the presidential election was “historic”;
and rightly so.
C. It would have been unimaginable
forty years ago.
D. The fact that the country has
become civilized enough to accept this outcome is a considerable
tribute to the activism of the 1960s
and its aftermath.
E. The two candidates in the
Democratic primary were a woman and an African-American.
(a) BCDAE (b) BCDEA (c) BEDAC (d) BEACD
53. Five sentences are given below,
labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The revolution began as an attack
on despotism.
B. Already by 1762 Rousseau was
implying in his “Social Contract” that there was no meaningful
difference between the authority of a
despot and that of a monarch
C. As usual, regular usage soon
diluted the original rigor of the expression’s meaning.
D. Montesquieu has defined its spirit
as “The rule of one, according to no law”.
E. Obeying no law, authority was
arbitrary and its animating spirit was fear.
(a) ABDCE (b) AEDCB (c) ADECB (d) ADEBC
54. Five sentences are given below,
labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. Some think the limits of body i.e.
surface; line, point, and unit are substances more so than body
or the solid.
B. Substance is thought to belong most
obviously to bodies.
C. But whether these alone are
substances, or there are also others, or only some of these, or
others as well, or none of these but
only some other things, are substances, must be considered.
D. Even things that are either parts
of these or composed of these, eg. the physical universe and its
parts, stars, moon and sun are considered
substances.
E. So we say that not only animals and
plants and their parts are substances, but also natural
bodies such as fire and water and
earth and everything of the sort.
(a)
BADCE
(b) ABEDC (c) BEADC (d) BEDCA
55. Five sentences are given below,
labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. As it expanded, it would have
borrowed energy from the gravitational field, to create matter.
B. The universe expanded and borrowed
at an ever-increasing rate.
C. Fortunately, the debt of
gravitational energy will not have to be repaid until the end of the universe.
D. According to the no boundary
proposal, the universe would have expanded in a smooth way from
a single point.
E. As any economist could have
predicted, the result of all that borrowing, was inflation.
(a) DAEBC (b)DABCE (c) CDAEB (d) CDABE
59. The word given below has been used
in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option
corresponding to the sentence in which
the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
Make
(a) May I make so bold as to suggest
that you curtsy when the queen enters?
(b) Gillian decided to make over her
estate to the orphanage where she grew up.
(c) Alice could not make up the
meaning of the paradox.
(d) Some time ago the two brothers
fought, but their father forced them to make up.
60. The word given below has been used
in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option
corresponding to the sentence in which
the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
Keep
(a) She makes it a point to keep in
with all the right people.
(b) She decided to keep back her
identity form her colleagues.
(c) The police decided not to keep
tabs on him any more.
(d) His mentor advised him to always keep up to the rules
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