A. A healthy argument can help to clear the air and clarify different points of view. B. Even in the strongest relationships, it isn’t usually possible or healthy to try to avoid all disagreements. C. Since it’s impossible to av…
1. Michael Jackson, clearly no admirer of long engagements, got married abruptly for the second time in three years.
A. The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
B. It is also the second marriage for the new missus, about whom little is known.
C. The wedding was attended by the groom’s entourage and staff, according to Jackson’s publicist.
D. The bride, 37-year-old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson’s baby, wore white.
6. All that is known is that she is a nurse for Jackson’s dermatologist.
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A.There are many poor children in this country who die of this disease because their families cannot afford the cure.
B.Childhood leukaemia for them is a life long ailment for it will kill them young.
C.They will never have an opportunity to grow up into Adulthood.
D.Their families are too poor to afford the required drugs even though these drugs are readily available.
E.Who knows what these children would have grown up to be if they had a chance to fight back?
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1.The common house sparrow once seen everywhere in large numbers in Mumbai has become scarce in many areas, and this is causing concern not only to bird lovers but also to scientists.
A.The declining bird population could mean that air pollution levels in the metropolis are rising dangerously: or since sparrows are grain eaters, it could indicate that people are consuming are consuming certain higher dosage of pesticides than before.
B. Today, if the sparrows of Mumbai are in distress it could be a warning to human residents.
C. Formely,miners used to carry canaries down into the mines with them.
D. If the canaraies showed signs of distress it indicated that there were posinous gases in the air, and the miners would immediately leave the mine.
6.In some countries like Britain, the quality of the environment is graded according to the number of bird species found in the locality.
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In the question below, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E, and need to be arranged in the logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
A. The paintings, sculptures, and balloons of Takashi Murakami are colourful and attractive, and accessible in their reference to lovable cartoon characters. B. Not stopping with the production of artworks, Murakami shocked the world with his entrepreneurial collaboration with Louis Vuitton, when he challenged the divide between art and commerce. C. As a curator, Murakami challenges our notions of history and culture. D. Murakami uses his deep understanding of Western art to integrate his work into its structure; working from the inside to portray “Japanese-ness” as a tool to bring about revolution in the world of art. E. As an artist, Murakami questions the lines drawn between East and West, past and present, high art and popular culture.
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A.A steel nameplate reads: '20, Glebe Street. Bradman lived in this house from 1924 to 1928'.
B.Leaning on a myrtle outside 20, Glebe Street, I missed a heartbeat.
C.No, he was not there.
D.I was standing outside the house of one of my greatest sporting heroes
E.But the air was laden with his memories
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A) Surely, Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of the restaurant chain, would have been amused, even a tad mortified, by KFC's approach in India.
B) KFC is to fast-food chicken what Nike is to running shoes and Boeing is to planes.
C) Like so many other foreign brands, KFC has been tailoring its strategy to suit local preferences in India.
D) Yet, few rebranding efforts would surprise as the attempts of Kentucky Fried Chicken to walk the line between vegetarian and non-vegetarian food in India.
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Arrange the sentences marked A, B, C, D and E logically in order to form a coherent paragraph.
A. A true mother thinks day and night about the well-being of her children, and is the first to praise, comfort and protect them. She is willing to sacrifice her life for them. The pains of pregnancy and childbirth are borne by the mother, and she continues to carry the child in her heart her whole life.
B. Thank God for mothers! Mother's Day is an opportunity to make life special for them. It is a chance to celebrate family. I thank God for my mother, who died some years ago. There is one thing I regret: for too many years I did not appreciate her enough and took her for granted. She was always there for us. I thank God for my wife. We have been married for forty-three years and have eight children. God has blessed us with forty-one grandchildren.
C. My favorite Hasidic saying goes, “God could not be everywhere at once, so he gave each child a mother!” Mothers should be proud to be mothers. It is a God-given task and privilege. Actually there is a mother's heart in every woman, whether married or single. In the past, motherhood was regarded as the noblest calling of a woman. Today it is too often pushed aside by more “desirable” occupations such as careers, and seen as an inconvenience or even an embarrassment.
D. Mothers are the backbone of our society and the glue that holds a family together-their work is vital but often unseen. We all need to show greater appreciation for them. I pity the man who does not have a good wife to take care of him.
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PARA JUMBLE:
A. To house this event a huge temporary exhibition hall (Joseph Paxton's steel and glass 'Crystal Palace') was built on Hyde Park in central London.
B. Although the birth of dinosaurs was relatively inauspicious (first appearing as an afterthought in the published report of the 11th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science), they were soon to become the centre of worldwide attention.
C. At the time of Owen's review, he was working on a surprisingly meagre collection of fossil bones and teeth that had been discovered up to that time and were scattered around the British Isles.
D. To celebrate such influence and achievement, the Great Exhibition of 1851 was devised.
E. The reason for this was simple. Owen worked in London, at the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, at a time when the British Empire was probably at its greatest extent.
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A. passivity is not ,of course, universal.
B. in areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of peasantry may be well different.
C. so indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
D. however, for most of the soil-bound peasants is not to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another.
E. this depends on assessment of political situation.
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1. Intuition: The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious
reasoning.
A. That seemingly uncanny ability to tell what'll work and what won't, or what the next big thing in
the industry would be, or why an otherwise perfectly crafted project will come a cropper.
B. What's made it so, of course, the unprecedented complexity and speed of change that corporations
are faced with in the new networked, borderless, and technology-buffeted era of business.
C. Call it gut feel, hunch, intuition, or right side reasoning.
D. That's what some of the world's best CEOs have.
E. The point is managing by intuition is the most sought after skill in organizations across the world.
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1. He may be 5 feet 6 inches tall, but NR Narayana of Infosys is easily corporate India's biggest
heavyweight.
A. For, the man has been praised, feted, and almost worshipped for the institution and wealth he has
created.
B. Justifying their choice of the only Indian winner the judges said Murthy “is vigilant about his
employees' well-being – granting stock potions, building exercise facilities, and spreading values
as much as wealth”.
C. Last fortnight, Time CNN reporters named Narayana Nurthy as one of the 25 most influential
global executives.
D. To the people who have known the principal founder of the software giant, that comes as no
surprise.
E. And that recognition is pouring in from all parts of the world.
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a) So who is? The figures on portfolio flows are a puzzle.
c)Sanjeev Prasad of Kotak, a broker, studied inflows in the 2011 fiscal year, and found only a fifth could be explained by mainstream funds (excluding most sovereign-wealth funds, where data are scarce).
d) Even the central bank worries about the quality of capital flows.
e) Many believe there is a vast pool of dodgy offshore money owned by Indians, which is brought home in dribs and drabs.
a) So who is? The figures on portfolio flows are a puzzle.
b) Conspiracy theories abound. Indian firms are siphoning cash out of and then back into the country to avoid tax, or to prop up their own shares, some say.
d) Even the central bank worries about the quality of capital flows.
e) Many believe there is a vast pool of dodgy offshore money owned by Indians, which is brought home in dribs and drabs.
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Remember that dispute about whether it was Mark Zuckerberg or some other Harvard students who really dreamed up Facebook a few years ago? Well, it turns out that the notion of putting notes and images on a host's “face book” was around long, long before Mr. Zuckerberg posted anything on his Wall. Bryan Benilous, a historical newspaper specialist at the digital-archive company Proquest, said he and his colleagues came across a Boston Daily Globe article from August 24, 1902, titled, “Face Book The New Fad,” describing a party game where revelers sketch out cartoony caricatures for fun. _________________
- Ms. Garvey also said it was common for Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries to keep guest books in which visitors and friends could scribble thoughts or jokes.
- There are more than a few similarities between current social-networking practices and early-20th century social practices, said Ellen Gruber Garvey, a professor at New Jersey.
- “I think it is interesting to note the similarities with this first iteration of Face Book as a shared social experience,” said Mr. Benilous.
- Drawing games and versions of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse were popular activities.
- It's almost like having friends write on your wall in a much less tech-savvy way.
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Four sentences are given below, labeled (a), (b), (c) and (d). Of these, three statements need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit the sequence.
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- This certainty is a valuable resource for developing countries, which have limited resources and can put them to better use if the rules of the game are established.
- Often, this is a matter of negotiation between the particular country and other countries that will be affected by the decision.
- China claimed developing country status, which would allow it to use special provisions reserved for developing countries, such as longer transition periods in the implementation of certain rules.
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(a) Spirit then necessarily appears as something-in-itself, and they are artworks only in so far as spirit appears to be such.
(b) This is because their spirit emerges from their constitution.
(c) Nevertheless artworks are, along with the objectivity of their spirit, something made.
(d) This is responsible in no small way for the fetish character of artworks.
(e) Now the spirit in artworks is posited by their structure, it is not something added from outside.
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A.New Zealand had to beat West Indies to remain in contention for the semifinals.
B.The difference between almost winning a match is that the former doesn't count.
C.After the scores were tied at 139,New Zealand set West Indies a total of 17 to get in the Super Over.
D.New Zealand nearly won two of the three matches it played in the Super Eight stage of the ICC world T20,but will take the flight home after it lost a second time in a Super Over.
A.Gandhi was seen as supporting the development of Indian troops in kashmir.was it his despair or was Gandhi seeking to turn the conflict in kashmir into a last oppurtunity for non-violence?
B.War between India and pakistan therefore was his last hope for India and pakistan developing their friendship without fear.
C.Devji explains it with reference to Gandhi's obsession with direct dealing where he had urged Britain to leave India without partitioning it saying that,even if it has to be,it must be the decision of the Congress and the league.
D.If anything,his half-a-year with independent India saw him disenchanted in the face of the triump of politics.
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(a) Researchers recently reported in 'Science' the discovery of hundreds of typical Acheulian artifacts as old as 1.51million years at Attirampakkam site near Chennai.
(b) Stone tools used by early Homosapiens provide direct evidence of their cognitive and technological evolution.
(c) Acheulian tools, also called the hand axes, are tear drop shaped cutting tools that followed the Oldowan tools about 1.7 million years ago.
(d) Oldowan tools which are sharp stone flakes struck from river cobbles first appeared some 2.6 million years ago.
(e) Despite the simplicity of production both Oldowan and Acheulian tool-making process activate different parts of the brain.
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a. In modern times Abraham Lincoln stands as the model of a compassionate statesman.
b. Lincoln did not fancy himself as a liberator.
c. He proposed compensation for slave owners in US bonds and grants for the rehabilitation of blacks - 'colonisation' as he called it.
d. He showed this quality not only in striving for the emancipation of the American Blacks but also in conducting the American Civil War.
e. He thought it would be better for all if emancipation was a gradual process spread over many years.
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