Sunday, 23 August 2020

VERBAL ABILITY QUESTIONS SET 26

 

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

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


1. It consists of a single cell – and a bacterial cell, to boot; but

because it is a bacterium, this simplest possible eye is also an entire

organism.

2. And now what is probably the simplest eye imaginable has been

described.

3. Sceptics of evolution often point to the human eye and ask how

such a complex object could have evolved when the imperfection of any part

of it would cause the whole thing to be useless.

4. Simpler eyes than a human's can work perfectly well, even if they

do not produce such sophisticated images.

5. It is a silly argument, confusing imperfection with simplicity.



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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as

your answer and key it in.


1. And just because something is bad for modern humans does not

necessarily mean that it was bad for their hunting-and-gathering ancestors.

2. For most of Homo sapiens's 200000-year history, it shared the

planet with several cousins.

3. Unless creatures such as yeti and Big-foot turn out to be real, the

only kind of human in the modern world is Homo sapiens.

4. The most famous were the Neanderthals, who were larger and

heavier and who lived in Europe and Central Asia.

5. But that is only recently true.



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

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


1. British troops possessed only a handful of bullets each, and

volunteers – trained with broom handles as rifles – were in short supply.

2. Great Britain's most trying time, its darkest hour, occurred in the

days following retreat of the British army across the English Channel at

Dunkirk during World War II.

3. Only prime minister Winston Churchill knew the full extent of his

nation's peril, and his private agony took a heavy emotional toll as he grew

judgmental of well-intentioned ideas offered to help save the day.

4. Germany torpedoed a British ship with over 3000 lives lost, an

incident not disclosed to the British people until after the war.

5. France lay defeated at Germany's hands, and England stood

alone against Hitler, nearly defenseless to invasion.


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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as

your answer and key it in.


1. Till then, there will be a high velocity of change, of future shock,

which can be traced to population growth, urbanization, the shifting

proportions of young and old and other factors.

2. One powerful strategy in the battle to prevent mass future shock,

therefore, involves the conscious regulation of technological advance.

3. No matter how individuals try to pace their lives, no matter what

psychic crutches we offer them, no matter how we alter education, the

society as a whole will still be caught on a runaway treadmill until we capture

control of the accelerated thrust itself

4. Yet, technological advance is clearly a critical node in the

network of causes; indeed, it may be the node that activates the entire net.

5. Given that a majority of men still figuratively live in the twelfth

century, who are we even to contemplate throwing away the key to

economic advance?


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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,

.

1. The chairperson of the European Council, who addressed the

gathering, captured this feeling as he concluded his speech saying, “I felt as

if someone very close to me left our home, I also felt how dear and precious

this home was to me.”

2. In the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, his fellow leaders

commiserated with Britain's prime minister David Cameron over his failure to

keep his country in the EU.

3. To fashion a Europe that they want to vote for is not an easy task.

4. Fractious as the marriage with Britain has sometimes been, there

was resigned sorrow and regret at the decision to end it.

5. It was a gathering unlike any the European family had ever seen.



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. It might surprise dictionary-owners to know that most

lexicographers do not think of their subject in this way at all.

2. Or those which share a root: only such a tool can tell you that the

Oxford English Dictionary knows of 1011 words ending in -ology against 508

with -ography.

3. Its natural home is one that allows the reader to consult it in any

way that makes sense.

4. A dictionary is really a database; it has fields for headword,

pronunciation, etymology, definition, and in the case of historical dictionaries

like the Oxford English Dictionary, citations of past usage.

5. Look up a single word or look up all the citations by a single

author.


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. Intricate pink structures stand out amid contortions of vegetablegreen

ones; dark- striped fish flit among them and turtles hover above.

2. The waters off the Hawaiian island of Oahu are visited each

winter by migrating marine mammals such as the humpback whale.

3. These colours lure snorkelling and scuba-driving tourists and are

produced by single-celled algae that grow symbiotically in corals' tissues.

4. All year round they are home to much smaller animals that form

vast reefs: corals.

5. In the past half-century, this delicate balance and these beautiful,

biodiverse structures have been put under pressure by human activity.







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. Till then, there will be a high velocity of change, of future shock,

which can be traced to population growth, urbanization, the shifting

proportions of young and old and other factors.

2. One powerful strategy in the battle to prevent mass future shock,

therefore, involves the conscious regulation of technological advance.

3. No matter how individuals try to pace their lives, no matter what

psychic crutches we offer them, no matter how we alter education, the

society as a whole will still be caught on a runaway treadmill until we capture

control of the accelerated thrust itself.

4. Yet, technological advance is clearly a critical node in the

network of causes; indeed, it may be the node that activates the entire net.

5. Given that a majority of men still figuratively live in the twelfth

century, who are we even to contemplate throwing away the key to

economic advance?





Four alternative summaries are

given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of

the text and enter its number in the input box given below the question.


The great good news about America - the American gospel, if you will - is

that religion shapes the life of the nation without strangling it. Belief in God is

central to the country's experience, yet for the broad center, faith is a matter

of choice, not coercion, and the legacy of the founding is that the sensible

center holds. It does so because the Founders believed themselves at work

in the service of both God and man, not just one or the other. Driven by a

sense of providence and an acute appreciation of the fallibility of humankind,

the Founders made a nation in which faith should not be singled out for

special help or particular harm. The balance between the promise of the

Declaration of Independence, with its evocation of divine origins and destiny,

and the practicalities of the Constitution, with its checks on extremism,

remain the most brilliant of American successes.


1. The Founders of America encourage other friendly nations to

adopt the American approach towards religion. 

2. The Founders of America believed in God but according to them

faith is a matter of choice and religion should be banished from public life.

The American declaration of Independence praises God and the Constitution

keeps a tight grip on extremism.

3. The Founders of America advocate that people should be on the

frontlines of defending religious pluralism and keeping extremism in check.

4. The Founders of America advocate discriminating between

people on the basis of success achieved by them and not on the basis of

religious difference.

5. The Founders of America envisioned a liberal American society

and considered themselves to be at the service of both God and man.

America has tried to maintain a balance between religion and independence,

and keep a check on extremism.



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Five sentences related to a topic are

given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and

coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as

your answer and key it in.

1. He is a specialist on slow clay surfaces, but ahead of his arrival in

New York he had won fewer than half of his matches on hard courts

2. Mr Schwartzman, nicknamed “El Peque” (“the small one”), had

only once before reached the third round of a major.

3. The bad news for El Peque is that being at the smaller end of the

spectrum seems to be even more of a shortcoming.

4. Now that the men’s field is down to the final eight, one name is

particularly surprising: Diego Schwartzman, a 25-year-old Argentine who is

just five feet and seven inches tall.

5. With former champions Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Stan

Wawrinka all missing from this year’s US Open, a throng of less-familiar

names are headed to Flushing with a chance to make a name for

themselves.



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The following question has a paragraph

from which a sentence has been left incomplete. From the given options,

choose the one that completes the blank in the paragraph in the most

appropriate way. Enter the number alongside the correct answer choice in

the input box given below the question.


Precision instruments such as motorcycles are designed to achieve an idea,

dimensional precision, whose perfection is impossible. There is no perfectly

shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as

close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go

flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it

were not so completely rational in every way. It's the understanding of this

rational intellectual idea that's fundamental. John looks at the motorcycle

and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these

steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel

now and I see ideas. _________________


1. I was talking about these concepts yesterday when I said that a

motorcycle can be divided according to its components and according to its

functions.

2. In a motorcycle this precision isn't maintained for any romantic or

perfectionist reasons.

3. I swing over to the street side of the machine and start on the

other cylinder.

4. He thinks I'm working on concepts; I say that we need to talk

about the system.

5. He thinks I'm working on parts; I'm working on concepts.



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The sentences given below, when

properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled

with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences

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


1. But volcanic eruptions formed barriers of lava that isolated it from

the ocean.

2. There are a few places where what a geologist would call the

ocean floor is actually dry land.

3. One such is the Danakil depression, which was covered millions

of years ago by the Red Sea.

4. These are mined, and the resulting slabs of salt exported by

camel, by nomadic Afars who are the nearest thing the depression has to

permanent inhabitants.

5. What water remained evaporated in the intense heat, leaving

brine lakes and saline flats.


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Five sentences related to a topic are

given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and

coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as

your answer and key it in.


1. Not for the first time, some energy firms fooled themselves into

believing that newfangled technologies and funding mechanisms could let

them defy laws of financial gravity.

2. This year, new solar installations in America are expected to more

than double.

3. Last year, for the first time, the world invested more in

photovoltaic cells than in coal-and gas-fired power generation combined.

4. In some respects this is a bumper era for solar energy.

5. China, which has more solar capacity than any other country,

plans to triple it by the end of the decade.



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The sentences given below, when

properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled

with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences

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


1. The device monitors their driving and adjusts the rate they pay

accordingly.

2. For those who drive relatively little, Metromile, an insurer based in

San Francisco, simply charges by the mile.

3. They can either supply a few bits of information about

themselves and receive a quote based on the behaviour of similar people, or

they can install a small gadget in their car.

4. Drivers buying insurance from Progressive, an American insurer,

get a choice.

5. Those who refrain from braking sharply and stay off the roads at

night can earn a discount of as much as 30% on the generic premium.




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Five sentences related to a topic are

given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and

coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as

your answer and key it in.


1. But beyond mere ostentation, the city-state has more substantial

achievements to its credit.

2. It has the world's tallest building (the Burj Khalifa), the largest

shopping centre (the Dubai Mall) and the longest handmade gold chain (5.52

km), to name but three.

3. The question is whether such grand projects make economic

sense when oil prices are collapsing and stock markets are declining across

the region.

4. This year Dubai airport overtook Heathrow in London to become

the world's busiest international hub, with some 68.9 m passengers using it

yearly.

5. Dubai likes to set records.


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The following question has a paragraph

from which a sentence has been left incomplete. From the given options,

choose the one that completes the blank in the paragraph in the most

appropriate way. Enter the number alongside the correct answer choice in

the input box given below the question.


President John F. Kennedy set a goal in 1961 for the nation to land a man on

the Moon by 1970. His successor, Lyndon Johnson, who as Vice President

had helped establish NASA, resolved to achieve Kennedy's goal. As

Johnson's presidency progressed, he faced growing political pressures

stemming from his handling of the Vietnam war. With his reelection in real

jeopardy, Johnson quietly passed the word to NASA to move quickly on the

Apollo moon-landing program. _________________


1. Quality thinking has always required courage, honesty and

determination.

2. The administration and the nation, he reasoned, needed a

triumph to counterbalance the ongoing tragedy of Vietnam.

3. Johnson's strategy, coupled with competition from Russian

space successes, drove Apollo's managers and engineers to think and work

at breakneck speed but quality eroded.

4. Diverting public attention has always been a useful political

stratagem.

5. A man on the moon was, possibly, going to be easier and would

yield greater political benefit than a victory in Vietnam.



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The sentences given below, when 

properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled

with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences

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


1. Finding the best possible solution requires still more imagination

of the sort Tom used when his plans for a glorious summer day of swimming

collided with Aunt Polly's orders to whitewash ninety feet of board fence

standing nine feet high.

2. Thinking beyond the bounds of conventional wisdom produces

unconventional answers.

3. His day of play having turned into weary work, Tom ransacked

his mind for some way out.

4. Dipping his brush and sloshing a white streak on the woodplanked

surface, Tom felt overwhelmed by the huge task ahead and plopped

down dejectedly on a bench.

5. But it does not guarantee any one solution will lead to success.


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Five sentences related to a topic are

given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and

coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as

your answer and key it in.


1. How the tables have turned.

2. Aleppo may determine what happens in Syria, the region and

beyond.

3. Not only were Bashar's battalions pushed back from the city; the

rebels then turned west and routed them from Idlib too.

4. In February 2015, Bashar al-Assad's forces launched an

offensive to take back Aleppo, once Syria's most populous city but divided

between the regime and rebel fighters since 2012.

5. Two years on, Mr. Assad is attacking Aleppo again and, this time,

he is succeeding.



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