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Sentence And Paragraph Completion (Theme Based)

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Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

The fundamental tenets are the same in all religions,

  1. but none has been able to serve mankind

  2. except that some tenets have been written down while others have been laid down orally

  3. but god-men have interpreted them separately

  4. only the rituals are different


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) Religions are the same at core; only the outer rituals are different.

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

The last couple of decades have been witness to a massive 'back to nature' movement in western societies.

  1. The quest for natural roots has led them to Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical science.

  2. People are increasingly giving up artifice and behaving more naturally.

  3. Excursions to parks have been made compulsory in many schools across Europe.

  4. Is the world looking at an end to materialism?


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4), (1) and (2) are unrelated, (3) is very narrow in scope. Back to nature sounds the end to materialistic artifice.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link. As an unseen planet orbits a distant star, the gravitational pull causes the star to move back and forth in space. ( _____ ). The AAT team measures the Doppler shift of stars to an accuracy of 3 metres per second –bicycling speed. This very high precision allows the team to find planets.

  1. At planetary spectacle can be detected by ‘Doppler shifting’

  2. ‘Doppler shifting’ can detect this pull in the bicycling speed.

  3. This causes a shift in the absolute location of the star itself.

  4. That wobble can be detected by the ‘Doppler shifting’ it causes in the star’s light.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) The clue is in the purpose. “This very high precision allows the team to find planets”. The accuracy is important.

Directions: Read following passage and answer the given question. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.

The unseasonable man tends to

  1. be a successful arbitrator when dissenting parties are rather reluctant to agree

  2. be helpful when not solicited

  3. tell a long story to people who have heard it many times before

  4. both (1) and (2)


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) Neither 1 nor 2 is unwanted; only 3 is.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Those who argue that New Delhi must throw in its lot with Washington because _______, have at least got honesty on their side.

  1. hanging on to the apron strings of the world's only super power will take us to the high table of global geo-politics

  2. that is the call of the real politic

  3. the latter alone can legitimately bring us out of the vicious circle of poverty

  4. we are now living in a unipolar world and we have no real option to extricate the situation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Only (1) is a rather unsavoury statement, calling a spade a spade.

Directions: Read following passage and answer the given question. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.

The unseasonable man tends to

  1. bring a higher bid to a salesman who has just closed a deal

  2. disclose confidential information to others even when not solicited

  3. sing the praises of the bride when he goes to a wedding from the groom's side

  4. both (1) and (2)


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Only (1) is at the wrong time and rather unwelcome.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There is no area surrounding medical care that has as many experts, most of them hawking some new vitamin or nutritional supplement that will purport to "burn away fat" or transform me into a "muscled man to be envied". You do not have to go farther than the magazines at your home or office to find the vast variety of weight-loss products out there. Yet there is scant evidence for the claims that they make. (_____). It all comes down to the lax rules and regulations for supplements, which are seen as "foods" in the eyes of our advertising regulation system. Lots of money, lots of advertising and enticement, yet very little evidence or results.

  1. Why are they allowed to make these claims?

  2. A regulatory mechanism needs to be put into place to keep a tab on the rhetorical, unsubstantiated claims.

  3. They even go scot free with ridiculous claims sometimes.

  4. And are there any deterrents or penalties for hoodwinking the gullible with highly bloated claims?


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Exaggerated claims. Naturally the question:  Why are they allowed to make these claims? Answer is in the next line: lax rules and regulations

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the first anti-particle - the positron. By the 1950s the anti-proton and the anti-neutron had been discovered. The importance of these discoveries was not just the fact that a scientific theory had been proven. ( _____ ). This energy of mass annihilation is known as photon energy and it promises to be a major source for our energy requirements in the very near future.

  1. More importantly, a new and unprecedented form of energy had been discovered.

  2. It was rather initiation into a new era and a new definition of energy.

  3. It opened a Pandora's Box for future energy requirements.

  4. The importance was rather in finding a new source of energy.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) “This energy of mass annihilation” is the clue.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There are people walking among us who don't care for works of fiction. For them, make-believe makes little sense in a world that is real and far more interesting than (____). In other words they take Oscar Wilde's dictum, “All art is quite useless”, quite seriously.

  1. the stories and novels of the yore

  2. the contrast provided by fact and fiction

  3. even the greatest work of art

  4. the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) “Far more interesting” than the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination; (1) is rather restrictive, (2) unrelated, (3) rather extreme.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Any classical economist will tell you that for India to go beyond 7 per cent GDP growth, the investment rate and capital productivity need to be stepped up. ______. There is some truth in this. Compared to Southeast Asia and the newly industrialised economies, our productivity rates are abysmal, though improving.

  1. You cannot depend on foreign remittances alone.

  2. Yet the government has placed optimism on the experience of other nations.

  3. And in this respect, the Asian tigers will beat us hands down.

  4. This appears to be a far cry from the unreasonable expectations.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) “Compared to Southeast Asia” is the clue.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Chinese foreign policy is seeking to make real the central legend that drives official Chinese history - (____) Such unbridled ambition poses a major challenge to international security. At the core of the challenge is the need for discreet limits on the exercise of Chinese power while respecting China’s right to be a world power.

  1. grab as much political space as you can

  2. China’s centrality in the world

  3. to get due recognition in the comity of nations and the platform of world politics

  4. to secure its borders against all form of aggression and international bullying


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) None except (2) is a real threat.

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

When you are in sales and you come across a customer, you don’t want to think of that customer as a one time phenomenon. I can remember not too long ago when I was in Banking working as a branch manager, when I would meet with my staff every Monday morning to go over their individual weekly goals. I must say that they were very good sales people, (___). By this I mean, getting all of the customers business. I’m not saying that you should get all of the customers business in one sitting, but at least ask some probing questions so that you may compare your products and pricing to their existing ones.

  1. but they were more interested in meeting their individual goals than the customer’s requirement.

  2. but unfortunately their focus was on getting that one sale instead of focusing in on the complete package.

  3. but their focus was not the customer, but the customer’s complete package of business.

  4. but unfortunately they treated the customer as a mere figure, only a part of their overall target.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) The clue is in “you don’t want to think of that customer as a one time phenomenon”.

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

In the European Community countries there has been talk of an energy tax to raise funds

  1. by burdening the rich who can afford higher taxes

  2. by penalize heavy users of energy

  3. by raising the price of energy-intensive implements

  4. to search for alternative sources of energy


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4), (1) and (3) are unrelated, (2) is ungrammatical. The energy tax is proposed for a purpose.

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

“Look before you leap” reflects an attitude expressed in such a saying as

  1. 'Forewarned is forearmed'.

  2. 'A stitch in time saves nine'.

  3. 'No risk no gain'.

  4. 'Fools rush where the angles fear to tread'.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Both the proverbs mean the same.

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

The European Economic Community will be a major threat to the

  1. hegemony of the US

  2. economic supremacy and power of the US

  3. development of indigenous Indian industry

  4. free Trade Areas across Asia and Americas


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) Economic Community can only be a threat to someone’s economic supremacy.

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

As per the law of floatation, when a body floats in a liquid, the weight of the body must be equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. Which of the following conditions completes the above law?

  1. The centre of gravity of the body and the centre of gravity of the displaced liquid must be in the same vertical line.

  2. Liquids transmit pressure equally in all directions.

  3. Law of floatation is the principle applied in a hydraulic press.

  4. A steel bar sinks in alcohol, but floats in mercury.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) It is because of the difference in the weights.

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked from 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

Astronomy is the science which studies the origin or nature of the planets, stars and solar system. Scientific study of astronomical matters in the past was handicapped

  1. because of lack of space voyages and artificial satellites

  2. by lack of the basic technique, that is, experimentation

  3. because there was a fear that the study of stars will bring evil

  4. since the knowledge was not found to be useful for day-to-day life


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Options 3 and 4 are irrelevant. It is 2 that will complete any science.

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked from 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

It is essential that school children learn improved facts about their country’s history. While teaching history, there has been a difference of opinion whether the young should be told only of the nation’s heroes. The obvious argument is that it would help them to have an appreciation of their virtues. But this ignores the fact that

  1. it requires lot of effort to rewrite the history, omitting the follies and misdeeds of the past

  2. the follies and misdeeds may be educative for after all a student is an adult in the making with a role to play in future

  3. it is a moot question as to who is to judge what are follies and misdeeds

  4. an assessment of the heroes is also a difficult one since the yardstick may not be acceptable to all


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) They may have much to learn from the follies and misdeeds of the past.

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

Which of the following if true, puts a legitimate doubt on the claims of the police?

Police has claimed that with imposition of speed limits, the number of deaths per kilometre driven, on a highway has been reduced substantially. But, there have been protests against the imposition of the speed limit, which itself has not been administered effectively.

  1. The transport drivers who work within a fixed time frame feel the measure as a deliberate harassment.

  2. The travelling public is of the opinion that accidents are due to the system of corruption in granting driving licences to the unqualified.

  3. The imposition has not been effective since the highway patrols are totally inadequate in catching erring drivers.

  4. The reduction in death is more due to ban on movement of vehicles in the midnight and early hours of the day.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Why the protests? Possible harassment, particularly because the imposition “has not been administered effectively”

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

In many works of fiction, the heroes and heroines are either authors or actors or social figures. Very rarely is the common man, a plumber or an accountant, portrayed as a hero. The one reason for this would perhaps be

  1. the authors are not familiar with the ways of life of people in such professions

  2. people are not impressed with the heroes and heroines who hail from the lower strata of social structure

  3. the authors have no patience to understand the nuances of these professions

  4. delineation of such characters requires a lot of care and a realistic approach


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) One visualises something connected with one’s experiences.

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