Directions: In the question below, a set of four statements is given, followed by five answer options to categorize these statements as facts, inferences and judgments. Consider the statements and decide which of the choices is true.

J: Judgment: If it is an opinion or estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention. I: Inference: If it is a logical conclusion or deduction about something, based on the knowledge of facts.1. Global production of wheat is declining every year and grim days for India are imminent as there are more mouths to feed.

1. The potential problem is that even if Australia and USA remain favourable and the harvest is good, these two exporters may not have enough to hawk in the world market.
2. According to the latest USDA estimates, world production of wheat has dropped from 629 million tonnes in 2004-05 to 593 million of tonnes in 2006-07.
3. The escalation of food-grain prices is likely to create problems for the farmers who thrive on animal farming.

Directions: An argument is a statement meant to convince another person about your point of view. An assertion is a point of view. A counter argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these definitions, you are required to classify the five sentences in the question below as: (A) concluding assertion (B) supporting reason (C) statement irrelevant to argument (D) counter argument

(i) You dont want to let him back into the match. (ii) But even in sports, you dont want to humiliate your opponent. (iii) In tennis, if you have your opponent on the ropes, you had better put him away. (iv) In most sports, being sensitive to your opponent isn`t a big issue. (v) You cannot contravene the rules of the game.

Directions: An argument is a statement meant to convince another person about your point of view. An assertion is a point of view. A counter argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these definitions, you are required to classify the five sentences in the question below as: (A) concluding assertion (B) supporting reason (C) statement irrelevant to argument (D) counter argument

(i) The most important asset in business is a sense of humour. (ii) If you can laugh at an absurd situation, you can go a long way in diffusing business tensions. (iii) A sense of humour creates one of the most favourable long term impressions. (iv) There are very few absolutes in business. (v) That does not mean you make your rivals the butt of your jokes.

Directions: An argument is a statement meant to convince another person about your point of view. An assertion is a point of view. A counter argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these definitions, you are required to classify the five sentences in the question below as: (A) concluding assertion (B) supporting reason (C) statement irrelevant to argument (D) counter argument

(i) Still, he has certainly identified the main questions. (ii) The reader is irked by the author`s continual refusal to answer the main question. (iii) The book deals with an age-old problem . (iv) “Nations vs. States” is neither a great book, nor even a very good one. (v) It never could figure among the best sellers.

Directions: In the question below, a set of four statements is given, followed by five answer options to categorise these statements as facts, inferences and judgments. Consider the statements and decide which of the choices is true.

F: Fact: If it relates to a known matter of direct observation, or an existing reality or something known to be true. J: Judgment: If it is an opinion or estimate or anticipation of common sense or intention. I: Inference: If it is a logical conclusion or deduction about something, based on the knowledge of facts.

1. From the statement of the Finance Minister, it seems that the Central government may introduce a separate market regulator to check the growing inflation.
2. With interest rates escalating over the past months, small firms are finding it difficult to cut cost inputs.
3. The consumer index has increased substantially and the Central government is under obligation to raise the D.A slab of the Central employees.
4. The inflationary pressure experienced over the past few months and the accompanying increase in volatility in the stock market is likely to dampen the spirit of the domestic and foreign investors.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(1) There is in nature a universal tendency toward refinement and compactness of form in space, or contrariwise, toward increment and diffusion; and this manifests itself in time as acceleration or retardation.
(2) More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex, which so beautifully illustrates this law, both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype, the pattern of all that is, has been, or will be, since it is the form assumed by the ultimate physical atom.
(3) It is governed, in either case, by an exact mathematical law, like the law of falling bodies.
(4) And the ultimate physical atom is the physical cosmos in miniature.
(5) It shows itself in the widening circles which appear when one drops a stone into still water, in the convolutions of shells, in the branching of trees and the veining of leaves; the diminution in the size of the pipes of an organ illustrates it, and the spacing of the frets of a guitar.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question given below:

(1) The characteristic differences between music and architecture are the same as those which subsist between time and space.
(2) It sustains the same relation to music and the other arts as does the human body to the various organs which compose and consciousnesses which animate it.
(3) The energy which everywhere animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in and through the body is another expression of the same thing.
(4) Correspondingly, music is dynamic, subjective, mental, of one dimension; while architecture is static, objective, physical, of three dimensions.
(5) Now, time and space are such abstract ideas that they can be dealt best through their corresponding correlatives in the natural world, for it is a fundamental theosophical tenet that nature everywhere abounds in such correspondences; that nature, in its myriad forms, is indeed the concrete presentment of abstract unities.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(1) There is in nature a universal tendency toward refinement and compactness of form in space, or contrariwise, toward increment and diffusion; and this manifests itself in time as acceleration or retardation.
(2) More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex, which so beautifully illustrates this law, both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype, the pattern of all that is, has been, or will be, since it is the form assumed by the ultimate physical atom.
(3) It is governed, in either case, by an exact mathematical law, like the law of falling bodies.
(4) And the ultimate physical atom is the physical cosmos in miniature.
(5) It shows itself in the widening circles which appear when one drops a stone into still water, in the convolutions of shells, in the branching of trees and the veining of leaves; the diminution in the size of the pipes of an organ illustrates it, and the spacing of the frets of a guitar.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(1) There is in nature a universal tendency toward refinement and compactness of form in space, or contrariwise, toward increment and diffusion; and this manifests itself in time as acceleration or retardation.
(2) More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex, which so beautifully illustrates this law, both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype, the pattern of all that is, has been, or will be, since it is the form assumed by the ultimate physical atom.
(3) It is governed, in either case, by an exact mathematical law, like the law of falling bodies.
(4) And the ultimate physical atom is the physical cosmos in miniature.
(5) It shows itself in the widening circles which appear when one drops a stone into still water, in the convolutions of shells, in the branching of trees and the veining of leaves; the diminution in the size of the pipes of an organ illustrates it, and the spacing of the frets of a guitar.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(1) There is in nature a universal tendency toward refinement and compactness of form in space, or contrariwise, toward increment and diffusion; and this manifests itself in time as acceleration or retardation.
(2) More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex, which so beautifully illustrates this law, both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype, the pattern of all that is, has been, or will be, since it is the form assumed by the ultimate physical atom.
(3) It is governed, in either case, by an exact mathematical law, like the law of falling bodies.
(4) And the ultimate physical atom is the physical cosmos in miniature.
(5) It shows itself in the widening circles which appear when one drops a stone into still water, in the convolutions of shells, in the branching of trees and the veining of leaves; the diminution in the size of the pipes of an organ illustrates it, and the spacing of the frets of a guitar.

Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question given below:

(1) The characteristic differences between music and architecture are the same as those which subsist between time and space.
(2) It sustains the same relation to music and the other arts as does the human body to the various organs which compose and consciousnesses which animate it.
(3) The energy which everywhere animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in and through the body is another expression of the same thing.
(4) Correspondingly, music is dynamic, subjective, mental, of one dimension; while architecture is static, objective, physical, of three dimensions.
(5) Now, time and space are such abstract ideas that they can be dealt best through their corresponding correlatives in the natural world, for it is a fundamental theosophical tenet that nature everywhere abounds in such correspondences; that nature, in its myriad forms, is indeed the concrete presentment of abstract unities.

Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question given below:

(1) The characteristic differences between music and architecture are the same as those which subsist between time and space.
(2) It sustains the same relation to music and the other arts as does the human body to the various organs which compose and consciousnesses which animate it.
(3) The energy which everywhere animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in and through the body is another expression of the same thing.
(4) Correspondingly, music is dynamic, subjective, mental, of one dimension; while architecture is static, objective, physical, of three dimensions.
(5) Now, time and space are such abstract ideas that they can be dealt best through their corresponding correlatives in the natural world, for it is a fundamental theosophical tenet that nature everywhere abounds in such correspondences; that nature, in its myriad forms, is indeed the concrete presentment of abstract unities.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question given below:

(1) The characteristic differences between music and architecture are the same as those which subsist between time and space.
(2) It sustains the same relation to music and the other arts as does the human body to the various organs which compose and consciousnesses which animate it.
(3) The energy which everywhere animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in and through the body is another expression of the same thing.
(4) Correspondingly, music is dynamic, subjective, mental, of one dimension; while architecture is static, objective, physical, of three dimensions.
(5) Now, time and space are such abstract ideas that they can be dealt best through their corresponding correlatives in the natural world, for it is a fundamental theosophical tenet that nature everywhere abounds in such correspondences; that nature, in its myriad forms, is indeed the concrete presentment of abstract unities.

Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question that follows.
  
(1) There is in nature a universal tendency toward refinement and compactness of form in space, or contrariwise, toward increment and diffusion; and this manifests itself in time as acceleration or retardation.
(2) More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex, which so beautifully illustrates this law, both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype, the pattern of all that is, has been, or will be, since it is the form assumed by the ultimate physical atom.
(3) It is governed, in either case, by an exact mathematical law, like the law of falling bodies.
(4) And the ultimate physical atom is the physical cosmos in miniature.
(5) It shows itself in the widening circles which appear when one drops a stone into still water, in the convolutions of shells, in the branching of trees and the veining of leaves; the diminution in the size of the pipes of an organ illustrates it, and the spacing of the frets of a guitar.

Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after the rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then answer the question given below:

(1) The characteristic differences between music and architecture are the same as those which subsist between time and space.
(2) It sustains the same relation to music and the other arts as does the human body to the various organs which compose and consciousnesses which animate it.
(3) The energy which everywhere animates form is a type of time within space; the mind working in and through the body is another expression of the same thing.
(4) Correspondingly, music is dynamic, subjective, mental, of one dimension; while architecture is static, objective, physical, of three dimensions.
(5) Now, time and space are such abstract ideas that they can be dealt best through their corresponding correlatives in the natural world, for it is a fundamental theosophical tenet that nature everywhere abounds in such correspondences; that nature, in its myriad forms, is indeed the concrete presentment of abstract unities.

Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question given below. 

(1)     Again, the higher languages are written and are thus, immediately accessible.
(2)     For such reasons, chief attention has been given to the most highly developed languages.
(3)     As the progress of research is necessarily from the known to the unknown, civilized languages were studied by scholars before the languages of savage and barbaric tribes.
(4)     However, the problems presented to the philologist, in the higher languages, cannot be properly solved without a knowledge of the lower forms.
(5)     In philology, North America presents the richest field in the world, for here is found the greatest number of languages distributed among the greatest number of stocks.

Which of the following should be the first sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then, answer the question given below.
 
(1) If no evil had existed in this world, man would never have dreamt of those numerous divinities, to whom he has rendered such various modes of worship.
(2) The man, always contented, would only have occupied himself with satisfying his wants, with enjoying the present, with feeling the influence of objects, that would unceasingly warn him of his existence in a mode that he must necessarily approve, nothing would alarm his heart, every thing would be analogous to his existence.
(3) These feelings can only be the consequence of some troublesome sensation, which must have previously affected him or which by disturbing the harmony of his machine, has interrupted the course of his happiness, which has shown him he is naked.
(4) He would neither know fear, experience distrust nor have inquietude for the future.
(5) If nature had permitted him easily to satisfy all his regenerating wants, if she had given him none but agreeable sensations, his days would have uninterruptedly rolled on in perpetual uniformity, he would never have discovered his own nakedness.

Which of the following should be the third sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then, answer the question given below.
 
(1) If no evil had existed in this world, man would never have dreamt of those numerous divinities, to whom he has rendered such various modes of worship.
(2) The man, always contented, would only have occupied himself with satisfying his wants, with enjoying the present, with feeling the influence of objects, that would unceasingly warn him of his existence in a mode that he must necessarily approve, nothing would alarm his heart, every thing would be analogous to his existence.
(3) These feelings can only be the consequence of some troublesome sensation, which must have previously affected him or which by disturbing the harmony of his machine, has interrupted the course of his happiness, which has shown him he is naked.
(4) He would neither know fear, experience distrust nor have inquietude for the future.
(5) If nature had permitted him easily to satisfy all his regenerating wants, if she had given him none but agreeable sensations, his days would have uninterruptedly rolled on in perpetual uniformity, he would never have discovered his own nakedness.

Which of the following should be the fifth sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then, answer the question given below.
 
(1) If no evil had existed in this world, man would never have dreamt of those numerous divinities, to whom he has rendered such various modes of worship.
(2) The man, always contented, would only have occupied himself with satisfying his wants, with enjoying the present, with feeling the influence of objects, that would unceasingly warn him of his existence in a mode that he must necessarily approve, nothing would alarm his heart, every thing would be analogous to his existence.
(3) These feelings can only be the consequence of some troublesome sensation, which must have previously affected him or which by disturbing the harmony of his machine, has interrupted the course of his happiness, which has shown him he is naked.
(4) He would neither know fear, experience distrust nor have inquietude for the future.
(5) If nature had permitted him easily to satisfy all his regenerating wants, if she had given him none but agreeable sensations, his days would have uninterruptedly rolled on in perpetual uniformity, he would never have discovered his own nakedness.

Which of the following should be the second sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then, answer the question given below.
 
(1) If no evil had existed in this world, man would never have dreamt of those numerous divinities, to whom he has rendered such various modes of worship.
(2) The man, always contented, would only have occupied himself with satisfying his wants, with enjoying the present, with feeling the influence of objects, that would unceasingly warn him of his existence in a mode that he must necessarily approve, nothing would alarm his heart, every thing would be analogous to his existence.
(3) These feelings can only be the consequence of some troublesome sensation, which must have previously affected him or which by disturbing the harmony of his machine, has interrupted the course of his happiness, which has shown him he is naked.
(4) He would neither know fear, experience distrust nor have inquietude for the future.
(5) If nature had permitted him easily to satisfy all his regenerating wants, if she had given him none but agreeable sensations, his days would have uninterruptedly rolled on in perpetual uniformity, he would never have discovered his own nakedness.

Which of the following should be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph and then, answer the question given below.
 
(1) If no evil had existed in this world, man would never have dreamt of those numerous divinities, to whom he has rendered such various modes of worship.
(2) The man, always contented, would only have occupied himself with satisfying his wants, with enjoying the present, with feeling the influence of objects, that would unceasingly warn him of his existence in a mode that he must necessarily approve, nothing would alarm his heart, every thing would be analogous to his existence.
(3) These feelings can only be the consequence of some troublesome sensation, which must have previously affected him or which by disturbing the harmony of his machine, has interrupted the course of his happiness, which has shown him he is naked.
(4) He would neither know fear, experience distrust nor have inquietude for the future.
(5) If nature had permitted him easily to satisfy all his regenerating wants, if she had given him none but agreeable sensations, his days would have uninterruptedly rolled on in perpetual uniformity, he would never have discovered his own nakedness.