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Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
China's carmakers are feeling smug. As they showed off their latest designs amid the chaos of the Beijing Auto Show, crowds swarmed around the stands for the unveiling of each new model. Chinese firms felt confident enough to show off not just their newest low-cost runabouts, but also luxury and sports models, 'concept' cars showing possible future designs and even a few hybrid and electric vehicles. China's present condition can be compared to a teenager trying to behave like an adult too soon.
1.Almost every international carmaker in the world has moved into China in the past decade.
2. The rush for high-tech street-credibility may not be so wise.
3. How much of this miracle is the result of good business sense, is not entirely clear.
4. As carmakers have churned out ever more cars, quality has deteriorated.
Directions for questions 51 to 54: The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most
appropriate answer to each question.
Arnold here sums up what is at once so disconcerting yet fascinating about Bronte's poetry in general and the immortality poem in particular: the strange ambivalence of the woman at peace in the domestic serenity of her father's house, yet intellectually rebelling in the private world she fashioned for herself. Incompatible as these facets of her personality appear to be, Emily seemed to have had little difficulty in moving between these two worlds; the
solace and enjoyment afforded by the one compensated for the momentary dissatisfactions of the other, and vice versa. This easy discourse between these two realms of existence appears never to have been shattered, even when Emily repudiated the traditional religious creeds which gave solace to man in the storm-troubled sphere of every day existence. We can dismiss this seeming indifference, as so many friends and critics have done, by admitting that she was indeed a law unto herself. But this does not answer the more immediate problem I would like to deal with here, namely Emily Bronte's ability to argue the immortality of the soul in a world of flux without the aid
of faith. The first stanza of the poem appears to be orthodox enough. Fear amid the impermanence of the world is allayed by hope in an eternal world beyond.
The poetry as a whole gives ample evidence of Heaven's ability and willingness to dispel man's timidity. Kind, merciful, and just (Poems, pp. 89, 102), God assures happiness to those who persevere. At least this is the
comforting illusion traditional religion asks us to accept as the solution to the problem of evil in the world. Even "A God of hate could hardly bear / To watch through all eternity / His own creation's dread despair!" (Poems, p. 138). It
is unreasonable to assume, in other words, that the long agony of human existence will be punished with eternal tears. The frightening thing about this conclusion, however, is that it is not only unwarranted, but ineffectual in
dispelling fear. There is no evidence supporting our belief in merciful God. Empirically, it is just as easy to prove the existence of a God of hate as it is to prove the existence of a God of love. For as surely as heaven shines arming
man from fear, hell shines disarming him of joy.
But the important question here is not the nature of God or man's position in the cosmos relative to heaven or hell. These considerations aggravate rather than illuminate man's perplexity. The significant point is the narrator's sudden and unexplained discovery of personal contentment in the storm-troubled sphere generated in large measure by these questions as well as by the cladogenetic character of nature itself. Subject to the destructive forces of space and time (Poems, p. 200), the physical world answers man's request for permanence, certainty, and love with doubt, suspicion, and hate. "So hopeless is the world without, / The world within I doubly prize" (Poems, p. 205). It is therefore within the very soul of man, rather than in the physical world, that man must discover the permanent grounds of existence in general. Were it not for the realization of God's presence within, the narrator would remain a coward soul. It is this divine indwelling which calms the soul.
Q 51. Which of the following can be inferred from the given passage?
a) Failing to discover contentment in the fragmented world, the soul must find God within itself.
b) Not only does God dwell in man, but also man dwells in God.
c) The very identities of man and God are dependent upon the other.
d) God is that being in whom the individual species of creation realize peace and permanence through the denial of their ego.
Q 52. Which of the following is true about Bronte’s poetry?
a) The poem undermines rather than affirms the hope that this world can become a tolerable place.
b) The poem as a whole contradicts itself regarding the very point it apparently attempts to establish.
c) The poem suggests that faith is essential to achieve immortality in a world of flux.
d) None of these
Q 53. The tone of the author is
a) elucidatory
b) analytical
c) contemplative
d) narrative
Q 54. Which of the following is most likely to be the source of the passage?
a) An editorial of a newspaper
b) An autobiography of Bronte
c) A book review
d) A journal
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Is this sentence grammatically correct ?
That L&T failed to finish the metro rail project on time can hardly be said to be their fault: the Telangana Government did not issue the necessary clearances on time.
Summary Question - Very close options.
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I have not returned an evasive answer to the questions of reason, by alleging the inability and limitation of the faculties of the mind; I have, on the contrary, examined them completely in the light of principles, and, after having discovered the cause of the doubts and contradictions into which reason fell, have solved them to its perfect satisfaction.
Do we need comma after 'and' in 3rd line?
### NMAT 2015 VOCAB###
- Efface- to cause(something) to fade or disappear , erase
- Antonym of Cacophony - Harmony
- Lionize - give a lot of public attention and approval to (someone); treat as a celebrity.
- Maligner - the person who speaks harmful untruths about someone else
- Lucid:vague (Analogy) Anyone remembers the options?
- Scabrous- rough surfaced; scandalous or obscene; full of difficulties
- Burnish - to make smooth and bright, gloss, brightness, lustre
- Banal: devoid of freshness, trite, unoriginal, mundane
- Mellifluous: pleasingly smooth,feels good to hear
- Recon: survey,preliminary search,inspection
- Antonym of bestow: deprive,refuse,abduct,annul
- Prevalence-antonym-rareness,infrequency unusualness
- Anxious-nervous, uneasy,worried,unquie
Pipe A is 2 times slower than pipe B and takes 9 mins more time than B to fill the cistern. How much time does A take to fill the cistern. Pls explain.
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Please identfy for F/I/J and provide reason for the same.
According to some statistical indications,the awareness about future planning into households with surpluses of $1 million is low at present.
PJ- (NOT SATISFIED WITH THE ANSWER)
A. To understand where these differences come from, we can start with an evolutionary story about sugary fruits and fatty animals, which
were good food for our common ancestors.
B. It takes a lot of additional work to connect the universal taste receptors to the specific things that a particular person eats and drinks.
C. We humans all have the same five taste receptors, but we don’t all like the same foods.
D. Just knowing that everyone has sweetness receptors can’t tell you why one person prefers Thai food to Mexican, or why hardly anyone
stirs sugar into beer.
E. But we’ll also have to examine the history of each culture, and we’ll have to look at the childhood eating habits of each individual.
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In the following question, a word has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in
which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate
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1) The interior decorator’s plans for my living room were not in line with what I wanted.
2) She says she would do anything to get rich, but I hope she will draw the line before doing anything illegal.
3)Though they were not happy with the changes the new management had made, the employees had to toe the line if they wanted to keep their jobs.
4) There is a fine line between genius and madness – and he has just crossed that line.
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Some 2,400 years ago, in 399 BCE, Athens put Socrates on trial. The charge was impiety, and the trial took place in the People’s Court. Socrates, already 70 years old, had long been a prominent philosopher and a notorious public intellectual. Meletus, the prosecutor, alleged that Socrates had broken Athenian law by failing to observe the state gods, by introducing new gods, and by corrupting the youth.
Meletus, as prosecutor, and Socrates, as defendant, delivered timed speeches before a jury of 501 of their fellow citizens. There is no dispute about the basic facts of the trial of Socrates. It is less obvious why Athenians found Socrates guilty, and what it might mean today. People who believe in both democracy and the rule of law ought to be very interested in this trial. If the takeaway is either that democracy, as direct self-government by the people, is fatally prone to repress dissent, or that those who dissent against democracy must be regarded as oligarchic traitors, then we are left with a grim choice between democracy and intellectual freedom.
But that is the wrong way to view Socrates’ trial. Rather, the question it answers concerns civic obligation and commitment. The People’s Court convicted Socrates because he refused to accept that a norm of personal responsibility for the effects of public speech applied to his philosophical project. Socrates accepted the guilty verdict as binding, and drank the hemlock, because he acknowledged the authority of the court and the laws under which he was tried. And he did so even though he believed that the jury had made a fundamental mistake in interpreting the law.
The conventional wisdom maintains that the impiety charge against Socrates was a smokescreen, that politics motivated his trial. Just four years earlier, a democratic uprising had overthrown a junta that ruled Athens for several tumultuous months. Meletus’ prosecution speech at the trial likely urged the citizens of Athens to focus on Socrates’ long association with members of this vicious and anti-democratic junta.
In his influential interpretation The Trial of Socrates (1988), the US journalist-turned-classicist I F Stone saw this trial as an embattled democracy defending itself. In Stone’s view, Socrates had helped to justify the junta’s savage programme of oligarchic misrule and was a traitor. More commonly, Socrates is seen as a victim of an opportunistic prosecutor and a wilfully ignorant citizenry. In truth, politics is indispensable to understanding the trial of Socrates, but in a slightly more sophisticated way. Seeing Socrates as the paradigm of the autonomous individual, as a simple martyr to free speech, is wrong. Athenian political culture and, specifically, the civic commitments required of Athenian citizens are essential to understanding the trial. Socrates’ own commitments to his city influenced the trial’s course, and those commitments were core parts of Athenian political culture, shaping the relationship between public speech and responsibility. Indeed, the actions of Socrates, Meletus and the jury must be understood in the context of the Athenians’ emphasis on the role of the responsible citizen in the democratic state, on their ideal of civic responsibility. Thus it is a story, in many ways, of civic engagement, in some respects far removed from the politics of recognition that characterise contemporary US debates.
Qs. It is clear from the information given in the passage that:
1) Socrates was unfairly persecuted for expressing his views.
2) There is more to the trial of Socrates than the theory of his unfair persecution.
3) Socrates did not curry favour with those in power to escape his punishment.
4) none of the above
PARAJUMBLE::
1. The latest ruling by the European Union competition commissioner may not be the last against U.S. multinationals in what is increasingly being viewed as harmful to tax diplomacy.
2. Notably, the Commission has not taken issue with Dublin’s 12.5 per cent rate of corporate taxation.
3. The hefty €13 billion in back taxes the European Commission imposed on Apple should have drawn Europe and the U.S. closer in their common quest to crack down on corporate tax avoidance.
4. As with the Starbucks decision in 2015 and the ongoing probe into McDonald’s, both concerning two different countries, the Commission alleges that Ireland’s ultra-low, single-digit tax arrangements with Apple were in violation of EU state aid rules.
5. But the unprecedented penalty to hit the American tech giant has triggered angry outbursts at home and could well put paid to hopes for transatlantic cooperation, especially on the trade and investment partnership agreement, in the immediate future.