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1- C
Option (a) is correct. ‘Give’ can also mean ‘To yield to
physical force’. Option (b) is also correct. ‘Give’ used
as a noun means ‘the quality or state of being springy
or flexible’. Option (c) is incorrect. ‘Give ground’, which
means ‘to give some concession’ would have been
correct here. The use of the article ‘the’ is incorrect.
Option (d) is correct as ‘give away’ means ‘to disclose
or betray’.
2- C
Option (a) is correct. ‘Bring off’ means ‘to carry to a
successful conclusion’. Option (b) is correct. ‘Bring in’
means ‘to produce or earn profit’. In option (c) ‘bring
out the rear’ is incorrect. It should be ‘bring up the rear’
which means ‘to come last or behind’. ‘Bring about’ in
option (d) means to ‘to cause to take place’.
3 - B
The paragraph is critical of this drug called Soma.
According to the author it delivers no ‘life defining
insights’. What it does is induce a ‘mindless, imbecile
happiness – a vacuous escapism”. In such a context
the best answer would be (b) as such a drug may
very well insulate the user from reality. Option (a) can
be eliminated as the drug is spoken about as some
sort of deliverance from misery. This is a shift from the
tone of the paragraph, which is critical of the drug.
Option (c) speaks about the drug’s stimulating effect,
which is a complete departure from the paragraph.
Option (d) can be eliminated as the focus here is on
the immediate effect of the drug.
4 - C
Option (c) is the correct answer as it continues the
idea of experiences that Second Life offers; ‘these
experiences’ refer to ‘types of experiences’ discussed
in the last line. Option (a) is incorrect as it breaks the
link of the paragraph by discussing business and user
groups. Both options (b) and (d) can seem close.
However, options (b) and (d) build upon an idea that
needs to be expressed first, viz. option (c). First, we
need to state that these experiences are created
collaboratively by the residents only then can we bring
in option (b) or (d). Option (b) is a conclusion about
Second Life being an experiment in collaborative
experience innovation. Option (d) mentions how Linden
Labs provides tools to the residents to create these
experiences.
5 - C
In the question statement, the news reporter has
concluded that there will be no cabinet reshuffle, as
the high level meeting did not take place. But from the
information given it cannot be inferred that the high
level meeting is a necessary condition for the cabinet
reshuffle to take place. In other words, a reshuffle
could also happen without a high level meeting. This is
the central flaw in the news reporter’s argument. This
is best expressed in option (c). Option (a) is incorrect,
what it describes is the reverse of what has happened
in the argument. Option (b) is incorrect, as we cannot
assume that the news reporter’s conclusion is based
on popular perception. More importantly it brings in
information, which is outside the scope of the
argument. Option (d) is incorrect, as it does not explain
the logical flaw. There is nothing wrong in considering
the high level meeting a desirable precursor, but it is
not the necessary precursor.
6- B
The conflict in the question statement is that the moral
system considers speaking the truth praise worthy
only when there are significant incentives for telling
lies. Then the author adds that speaking the truth out
of habit is also praiseworthy. In order to solve this
discrepancy, we have to show that the second
statement is not contradictory to the first. This is done
in option (b). It effectively demonstrates that the second
condition is actually a subset of the first condition.
Option (a) is incorrect. It has no impact on the
discrepancy and is primarily providing a reason for
why people speak the truth. Option (c) is beyond the
scope of information offered in the question statement.
Option (d) is similar to option (a), as it also does not
solve the discrepancy mentioned in the question
statement.
7- B
This question is essentially a choice between options
(b) and (c). The link between statements B and D can
be seen. “This disdain for the aesthetic…” in statement
D clearly has to follow statement B, which introduces
this ‘aesthetic’. However, the choice after BD becomes
difficult. What makes option (b) correct is the link (DA).
Statement D presents the idea that this criticism or
disdain may have its origin in Puritanism, which fears
a connection between aesthetic and pleasure.
Statement A adds to this by saying that in recent climate
considering an artwork good simply because it gives
us pleasure is courting derision or mockery. Statement
C can come in the end to begin a new idea. If we look
at option (c) none of the statements have very strong
connections. There is nothing to link statements D and
C and not very much to link statements C and A.
Statement C starts discussing why aesthetic has been
criticized in the twentieth century whereas statement
A again goes back to discussing the link between
aesthetic and pleasure.
8-C
This question also ultimately is a contest between two
close options, (a) and (c). D can be identified as the
opening sentence and mandatory pair (B-C) is also
present in all the options. To choose the correct option,
think about the flow of the paragraph. It starts with a
statement that is broad in scope. Statement D states
that apartheid laws institutionalised racial discrimination.
If we consider the pair (B-C) however, it is only talking
about one specific act, which narrows down the
scope of the discussion considerably. Now, we have
statement A, which again compared to (B-C) is a little
broad in scope as it discusses different aspects which
were affected by these laws. Therefore, (D-A) goes
much better with the flow of the writing.
9 - C
A ‘paean’ is ‘a joyous song or hymn of praise’ similarly
a dirge is ‘a song or hymn of grief or lamentation’. The
relationship here between the two words is that of
the first word being a form of expression of the second
word. Option (a) although close is not the correct
answer as a lullaby induces sleep, it does not primarily
‘express’ the feeling of sleepiness.
10 - B
‘Pique’, which means ‘a transient feeling of wounded
vanity ‘and’ resentment, are synonyms. ‘Approbation’
and ‘approval’ are also synonyms.
11- D
Each of the three clauses in the statement can stand
alone as a complete sentence. Therefore, they need
to be separated by semi colons. Option (b) is incorrect
as it changes these clauses into phrases where a
semi colon is not needed.
12 - B
Option (a) is incorrect as ‘of’ is not used with ‘despite’.
Option (c) is incorrect as ‘through’ is an incorrect
preposition in the context. Option (d) is incorrect as ‘in
spite of’ is a preposition and needs to be followed by
a noun clause.
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