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 Five sentences are given below, labeled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. They need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.

1. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
2. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer.
3. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.
4. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.
5. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye 

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  The sentences given in each of the following questions, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is indicated with a number. Choose the most logical order of sentences that constructs a coherent paragraph and mark the correct sequence in the box provided below each question. 
(1) If you get angry often or you keep your feelings inside, especially anger, your liver will suffer with no doubt. 
(2) If you do not release your anger, it is stored in your body, and holds a lot of tension in it.
(3) Try going to a place where you can mourn off steam, hit a pillow or even cry on your pillow or in the car. 
(4) You need to learn how to release your anger in a way that will not harm you or others; venting anger is very healthy. 
(5) Once you release the anger, try to understand new ways to interact and learn from experience, because remember that everything that happens is a challenge to learn to know you better and to magnify your power.  

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Read the following sets of sentences and arrange them in the most logical sequence to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

i.  In the event of a serious oil spill, the region is so remote it would be exceedingly difficult to contain the emergency.  

ii.  The Arctic Ocean is one of the most fragile natural environments in the world, where disturbances can have devastating impacts.  

iii.  The Obama administration should not have passed the proposal to allow two new offshore leases in the Arctic Ocean.  

iv.  Environmentalists view offshore drilling rigs as a disaster waiting to happen.

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SC.. Can someone plz answer this for me along with justification

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 Statements:
All planets are satellites.
Some rockets are not planets.
Few rockets are space ships.    
Conclusions:
I. No space ship is satellite.
II. Few planets are spaceship.
III. Some Rockets are not satellites.
IV. All Rockets are spaceships.   

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A smiling face does not always launch a thousand ships. After all, it evokes very different reactions from our brains depending on whether we are Flamenco-loving extroverts or shy wallflowers, say researchers. In a pioneering study on the biology of personality differences, scientists from the State University of New York in Stony Brook and from Stanford University have found that seeing smiling faces makes the brains of extroverted people light up more than the brains of shy people. Psychologist and behavioural neuroscientist Turhan Canli, who led the investigations, told Reuters recently that it’s not clear whether outgoing people actually get more pleasure out of looking at a smiling face. “They are certainly more reactive to a happy face,” he added. “I don’t know if it feels better. Our study shows for the first time that the same facial expression can be processed by different people, according to their personality.” According to experts, this research is an instigating example of what’s jocularly known as ‘light bright’ science – putting people in scanners and seeing what lights up. In this particular case, the scientists were looking for variations in the reactions of volunteers to fearful faces by studying an almond-shaped area of the brain called amygdala. They found that regardless of personality differences everyone responded in an identical manner: their amygdalas all lit up with similar patterns. However, when the same group of 15 volunteers was shown happy faces, differences emerged at once, report Dr. Canli and his team in last week’s issue of Science. The volunteers were shown standardized faces with expressions that have been shown to have almost universal recognition. No matter what the culture, people all equate an up-curving mouth with happiness and pleasure and a down-curling one with sadness or disappointment. The study thus flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which usually ignores personality variables such as extraversion and neuroticism as being irrelevant to brain functioning even if they are important to people’s emotional experience. Dr. Canli clarified that his latest report focused on the amygdala alone. Although the team also saw other actions in other parts of the brain, they weren’t ready to report on these details. The scientists also had to grapple with a chicken-and-egg question: is the extrovert’s ‘hail-fellow-well-met’ attitude caused by hard-wiring of the brain to get more pleasure out of smiling faces, or do they respond more brightly to smiling because they’re outgoing? While the answer is not yet clear, experts say that with the new methodologies, the intersection between social behaviour and brain mechanisms has become accessible. Others say that the emerging ‘social cognitive’ neuroscience could help reunify psychology after years of splintering into ever finer sub-disciplines. The latest research follows an earlier pathbreaking study by Dr. Canli and different co-workers that showed that how our brains respond to emotional stimuli depends on the personalities we harbour. 


The objective of the passage is to:


1. Clarify the roles of psychology and neuro-science in understanding human emotions.
2. Report the findings of a study that links personality variables to brain functioning.
3. Endorse the continuing exploration of personality variables and human emotions by psychology.
4. Show how the differences between extroverts and introverts are rooted in their neurological makeup.


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 The following question consists of a paragraph which is followed by four options. Among the given options, choose the one which captures the essence of the paragraph accurately and clearly. Type in that option as the answer in the space provided below the question.

It may at first seem paradoxical that the clash between old and new should have erupted into full-scale civil war in the relative backwater of Spain. First and foremost, however, we need to remember that the escalation from military coup to civil war and then to a modern, ‘total’ war involving the vast majority of the civilian population, was crucially dependent on factors that were external to the Spanish arena. It is also true that when Spaniards retrospectively attribute the causes of the civil war, they often describe thoughts and feelings that were produced by the war itself. Notwithstanding the currency of ideas about ‘two Spains’ ready to confront each other on 18 July 1936, ‘us’ and ‘them’ were categories actively made by the violent experience of the war and did not fully exist prior to it.

1. The Spanish Civil war was a result of domestic issues and the division between ‘us’ and ‘them’ among its natives.
2. The Spanish Civil war was the result of myriad issues some of which may seem paradoxical.
3. The Spanish Civil war caused more problems after it was over as it divided Spain into two categories.
4. The Spanish Civil war was paradoxical as the extant demography of Spain didn’t support the eruption of a full scale war. 

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Imagination, force of will, ornamentaion and sheer celebration is/are visible in what he has built the world over!




Please do care to explain.


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IF yes, please mail it to [email protected]

 

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 BULL MOCK - 17


The modern economist is used to measuring the 'standard of living' by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is 'better off' than a man who consumes less. A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irrational: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption. Thus, if the purpose of clothing is a certain amount of temperature comfort and an attractive appearance, the task is to attain this purpose with the smallest possible effort, that is, with the smallest annual destruction of cloth and with the help of designs that involve the smallest possible input of toil. The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic creativity. It would be highly uneconomic, for instance, to go in for complicated tailoring, like the modern west, when a much more beautiful effect can be achieved by the skilful draping of uncut material. It would be the height of folly to make material so that it should wear out quickly and the height of barbarity to make anything ugly, shabby or mean. What has just been said about clothing applies equally to all other human requirements. The ownership and the consumption of goods is a means to an end, and Buddhist economics is the systematic study of how to attain given ends with the minimum means.

Modern economics, on the other hand, considers consumption to be the sole end and purpose of all economic activity, taking the factors of production - land, labour, and capital - as the means. The former, in short, tries to maximise human satisfactions by the optimal pattern of consumption, while the latter tries to maximise consumption by the optimal pattern of productive effort. It is easy to see that the effort needed to sustain a way of life which seeks to attain the optimal pattern of consumption is likely to be much smaller than the effort needed to sustain a drive for maximum consumption.

We need not be surprised, therefore, that the pressure and strain of living is very much less in say, Burma than it is in the United States in spite of the fact that the amount of labour- saving machinery used in the former country is only a minute fraction of the amount used in the latter. Simplicity and non-violence are obviously closely related. The optimal pattern of consumption, producing a high degree of human satisfaction by means of a relatively low rate of consumption, allows people to live without great pressure and strain and to fulfil the primary injunction of Buddhist teaching: 'Cease to do evil; try to do good.' As physical resources are everywhere limited, people satisfying their needs by means of a modest use of resources are obviously less likely to be at each other's throats than people depending upon a high rate of use. Equally, people who live in highly self sufficient local communities are less likely to get involved in large-scale violence than people whose existence depends on world-wide systems of trade.

From the point of view of Buddhist economics, therefore, production from local resources for local needs is the most rational way of economic life, while dependence on imports from afar and the consequent need to produce for export to unknown and distant peoples is highly uneconomic and justifiable only in exceptional cases and on a small scale. Just as the modern economist would admit that a high rate of consumption of transport services between a man's home and his place of work signifies a misfortune and not a high standard of life, so the Buddhist economist would hold that to satisfy human wants from faraway sources rather than from sources nearby signifies failure rather than success. The former tends to take statistics showing an increase in the number of ton/miles per head of the population carried by a country's transport system as proof of economic progress, while to the latter - the Buddhist economist - the same statistics would indicate a highly undesirable deterioration in the pattern of consumption. 



 The reference in the last paragraph to the ‘high rate of consumption of transport services between a man's home and his place of work’ is an example of  -


A) A rare case where both Western and Buddhist economics are in agreement

B) Local demands being met by local supplies

C) A dichotomy of views – economic progress Vs deterioration of standard of living

D) Success as seen by Western economics, as it implies a production of more automobiles.



Explanation:

Refer to the sentence: ‘Just as the modern economist would admit that a high rate of consumption of transport services between a man's home and his place of work signifies a misfortune.’ In any case the Buddhist economist would have been happier if a man’s work place was close to his house. Hence we can say that both are in agreement here.
2 – the need for employment is causing a demand for transportation. The demand is local (need for employment) -  but the supply is not (the distant workplace)
3 – Refer to the explanation for Option 1. Both consider it as bad for the standard of living. There are no two views (dichotomy) about this.
4 – Again go back to option 1 explanation, the Western economist considers this as a failure. He would have preferred consumption more in the material sense, where there is no discomfort involved. 


I think they both agree as well as diasgree with each other. How is option C wrong.

733

 The following question consists of a set of five sentences. These sentences need to be arranged in a coherent manner to create a meaningful paragraph. Type in the correct order of the sentences in the space provided below the question.

1. When side effects of a drug or medication are severe, the dosage may be adjusted or a second medication may be prescribed.
2. Side effects can occur when commencing, decreasing/increasing dosages, or ending a drug or medication regimen.
3. Side effects may vary for each individual depending on the person’s disease state, age, weight, gender, ethnicity and general health.
4. A side effect is usually regarded as an undesirable secondary effect which occurs in addition to the desired therapeutic effect of a drug or medication.
5. Side effects may also lead to non-compliance with prescribed treatment. 

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Every morning, Rajesh goes for morning walk from his house to a temple located at a distance of 6 km from his house at a uniform speed of 6 km/hr. Today his pet dog, who was exactly midway on the way to temple started running towards the temple the same instant when Rajesh started from his house. The dog reached the temple, immediately turned back and started running towards Rajesh (who was on his way to temple). On meeting Rajesh, his dog again reversed his direction and started running towards the temple. This process continued till Rajesh reached the temple. What was the distance run by the dog against the direction of Rajesh (i.e. in the direction from the temple to the house) if the speed of the dog was 11 km/hr?

7 km
4 km
11 km
8 km

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736

 In each of the following questions, four sentences (1), (2), (3) and (4) are given. Of these, three sentences need to be in a logical order to make a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the one that does not fit the sequence.

(1) We’re good at inventing things that can’t exist.
(2) The last words of the Mahabharata are, “By no means can I attain a goal beyond my reach.”
(3) Usually, much is beyond the reach of human intellect.
(4) It is likely that justice, a human idea, is a goal beyond human reach. 

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Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. It is easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are everywhere to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself.

Nor is there required such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the rabble without doors may judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within. There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions. The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision. Disputes are multiplied, as if everything was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if everything was certain. Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.

From hence in my opinion arises that common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings of all kinds, even amongst those, who profess themselves scholars, and have a just value for every other part of literature. By metaphysical reasonings, they do not understand those on any particular branch of science, but every kind of argument, which is any way abstruse, and requires some attention to be comprehended. We have so often lost our labour in such researches, that we commonly reject them without hesitation, and resolve, if we must forever be a prey to errors and delusions, that they shall at least be natural and entertaining. And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse; and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to propound, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of Man; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties. It is impossible to tell what changes and improvements we might make in these sciences were we thoroughly acquainted with the extent and force of human understanding, and could explain the nature of the ideas we employ, and of the operations we perform in our reasonings.

Q.15
Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?                       a   Those who make actual new discoveries in philosophy and science may not resort to finding flaws in preexisting systems.                                                              b  There are many questions and issues where ignorance still dominates human understanding.                      c  Metaphysical reasoning is not for everyone as it is a painstaking process that requires effort.                                                                                                d  Questions in science and philosophy are still debated and in all such debates eloquence triumphs over reason. 

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Solution

  • B
  • D
  • C
  • A

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 CAT final paper will be of same pattern as of MOCK published?Because in mock there aren't any sentence correction or grammar related questions. More number of RCs like in 2015. 

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