Friday, 21 August 2020

VERBAL ABILITY QUESTIONS SET 24


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Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you omit the contextually unrelated sentence.


1. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.


2. It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.


3. The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.


4. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow.


5. In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.


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The sentences given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Decide on the proper order for the

sentences and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer 


1. These days, they are also creating waves in the world of renewable energy.


2. No land stands between Antarctica and Australia's west coast − just a vast ocean, rippled and rocked by the Roaring Forties.


3. As a result, Australia's largest naval base now gets part of both its electricity and its fresh water courtesy of the 'Forties.


4. For centuries these Westerlies, which blow between latitudes 40° S and 50° S, powered ships sailing from Europe to Asia. 


5. At the end of February 2017, a demonstration project designed to use the ocean swell they produce went live in Sydney.




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Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you omit the contextually unrelated sentence.


1. Soon Albert Einstein quantified the newly discovered energy with his equation E = MC2, and he later asked rhetorically: If every gram of material contains this tremendous energy, why did it go so long unnoticed?


2. His answer: No one ever observed nuclear energy until Marie Curie systematically discovered radium.


3. Her systematic investigation of radium overturned the existing belief that atoms could not be broken into smaller components containing amazingly vast quantities of hidden energy.


4. Sometimes even sharp minds refrain from applying systematic thinking to problem-solving and decision-making.


5. Marie Curie surprised the scientific world by hypothesizing that what she called radioactivity originated from inside the atom, a property we now call atomic energy.


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The sentences given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Decide on the proper order for the

sentences and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer.


1. As Mary Beard, a classical historian, explains in her history of Rome, the promise was enormously expensive.


2. His bright idea was to offer a pension for those in the army who had served for 16 years, equivalent in cash or land to 12 times their annual salary.


3. Emperor Augustus came to power in Rome with the help of a private army.


4. All told, military wages and pensions absorbed half of all Rome's tax revenues.


5. So he was understandably keen to ensure the loyalty of his soldiers to the Roman state.



Five alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Enter the number of the correct answer choice below 


Although there is growing pressure from some constituencies in the US to expand the use of polygraph testing in forensic and other public contexts, it would be far wiser for law enforcement and security agencies to minimize use of the tests and to find strategies for reducing threats to public safety and national security that rely as little as possible on the polygraphs. Polygraphs were used in post-conviction sex-offender maintenance programmes. As part of their probation programmes in a typical jurisdiction, released sex-offenders were required to submit to periodic polygraph examinations. But the courts have cast a skeptical eye on the relevance and suitability of polygraph test results as legal evidence. They are well justified in their attitude. Generalizing from the available scientific evidence of a particular polygraph examination is fraught with difficulty. The courts should extend their reluctance to rely on the polygraph for many quasi-forensic uses such as the sex-offender management programmes.


1. While, in the US law enforcement and intelligence communities, the polygraph has become a desired method for identifying and pinning down suspects, it leaves a lot to be desired as an evidence gathering tool, not only in such settings but also in quasi-forensic applications such as the sex-offender management programmes.


2. Polygraphs were used in post-conviction sex-offender maintenance programmes in the past. The legal standing of evidence gathered thereby has always, however, been suspect.


3. The use of polygraph testing to generate legal evidence has proved to be problematic in a variety of settings and is recognized as such by the U.S. courts. Though used earlier in post-conviction sex-offender maintenance programmes, the polygraph should not be relied on for such purported forensic applications.


4. In the US law enforcement and intelligence communities, the polygraph has become the most desired method for identifying perpetrators when direct evidence is lacking. But in quasi-forensic applications such as the sex-offender management programmes, it leaves a lot to be desired.


5. Notwithstanding the faith of its proponents, US courts have been doubtful about the legal acceptability of evidence gathered through polygraph testing, a reason being the inadequacy of the scientific evidence from such a test. Courts should discount, overall, the use of such evidence, while security agencies would do well to minimise the use of such tests in

pursuit of their objectives.




Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you omit the contextually unrelated sentence.


1. Cannabis once grew in secret, traded by murderous cartels and smoked by consumers who risked jail.

2. But when asked to say exactly how the cannabis trade should work − at what rate to set taxes or whether to place limits on consumption − they can find themselves at odds.


3. Four American states have so far legalised its recreational use; little Uruguay will soon be joined by big, G7-member Canada in the legal weed  club.


4. That's because 16 years ago, Portugal took a leap and decriminalized the possession of all drugs - everything from marijuana to heroin.


5. Now countries all over the world have licensed the drug for medical purposes, and a few are going still further.



The sentences given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Decide on the proper order for the

sentences and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer.



1. In Asia, they now also fret about Chinese rhinitis, which is proving just as contagious.


2. It is to be expected that germs can spread from China, Asia's biggest economy, to others in the region but it is surprising quite how infectious they are proving.

  

3. For financial epidemiologists, this is something of a puzzle.


4. Unlike America, enmeshed in global markets, China's economy is in self-imposed quarantine, protected by capital controls that limit its interactions with others.


5. Investors have long been wary of America's sneezes, knowing they can give the world a cold.




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We all live in a prison house of self. We naturally see the world from our own perspective and see our own point of view as obvious and, if we are not careful, as the only possible one. I have never heard anyone say: “Yes, you only see things from my point of view. Why don’t you consider your own for a change?” The more our culture presumes its own perspective, the more our academic disciplines presume their own rectitude, and the more professors restrict students to their own way of looking at things, the less students will be able to escape from habitual, self-centered, self-reinforcing judgments. We grow wiser, and we understand ourselves better, if we can put ourselves in the position of those who think differently. Literature, by teaching us to

imagine the other’s perspective, teaches the habits of mind that prevent the opposition of diverse opinion. Great literature allows one to think and feel from within how other cultures think and feel.


1. Everyone has absolute confidence in the accuracy of their own perspective, sometimes convinced that all others are erroneous. Allowing such an attitude to hold sway in our cultures, especially in academic pedagogy, would result in its perpetuation. It is necessary to be able to

understand and accept the way others see things, and literature, with its presentation of diverse views and cultural thinking, would help in such an endeavour.


2. We are as deeply convinced of the obvious correctness of our perceptions as others are of theirs. The more our literature allows diversity of opinion, the it will help people understand other cultures.


3. We are as deeply convinced of the obvious correctness of our perceptions as others are of theirs. The problem of self exists in cultures and academic disciplines because we do not think beyond our own perspective and ignore the opinions of others. Literature helps us to understand other cultures by providing us with perspective other than our own.


4. The greater the tendency to consider ourselves correct, the more the study of literature matters. Literature helps us empathize with other cultures and helps us escape from the prison house of self-centered, self reinforcing judgments.


5. Literature is the perfect way to understand not only another's perspective but also to explore the similarities and differences between the viewpoints of different persons.

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