Why do we tend to confuse improbability with impossibility? Partly it’s because evolution did not favour complex probabilistic thinking. Honed by centuries of hunter-gathering, we are disposed to make snap decisions on the basis of minimal evidence and facile theories - presumably because those who glimpsed a lion and started running, on the crude assumption that all wild animals always eat humans, were more likely to survive than those who preferred to test this hypothesis experimentally.
1.But some find this view flawed, as it is said that evolution does not think or plan ahead.
2.After all, evolution doesn’t care if you are right or wrong – only if you survive.
3. After all, in evolutionary terms, friendly lions are not impossible, but they are certainly improbable.
4 .As they must have thought: there may be such things as friendly lions, but better be safe than sorry.
For reasons best known to Indian historians and their publishers, maps have played only a marginal role in pedagogic endeavours; their inclusion in textbooks has been narrowly political. Which student or teacher has not groaned at the stern warning in small print by the Survey of India about the rightful boundaries of our beleaguered nation?
Which of the following is a valid inference from the paragraph?
a)There is a scope to increase the usage of maps for educational purposes in India.
b)The Survey of India has not depicted the rightful boundaries of India
c)The country has to redeem itself it wants to let go of the 'beleaguered' tag.
d)Indian historians and publishers do not know the reasons for maps playing a marginal role in pedagogic endeavours.
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Unseen University had had many different kinds of Archchancellor over the years. Big ones, small ones, cunning ones, slightly insane ones, extremely insane ones - they'd come, they'd served, in some cases not long enough for anyone to be able to complete the official painting to be hung in the Great Hall, and they'd died. The Archchancellor, as the senior wizard in a world of magic, had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
1] Archchancellors at Unseen University did not last very long as it was a very dangerous job.
2] The Archchancellors of Unseen University had a high mortality rate.
3] Unseen University had had various types of Archchancellors but few of them had lasted long, as it was not a job with long-term employment prospects.
4] Though Unseen University had had many different types of Archchancellors over the years, the one thing they all had in common was that they didn't last long.
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facetious: treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
Usage- Niharika made a facetious remark at the funeral.
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. Rouchomovsky claimed he’d been clueless that the art dealers who commissioned the headpiece from him a few years before the museum purchased it had intended to commit fraud. 2. In 1896, the Louvre Museum in Paris paid Russian antiquities dealers a reported $50,000 for a gold tiara hailed as a masterpiece of the Hellenistic period and believed to have been a gift from the ancient Greek colony of Olbia to a Scythian king, Saitaphernes. 3. Seeking proof, they brought him to Paris in 1903 and had him replicate a portion of the tiara. 4. Eventually, however, Louvre officials learned the tiara likely had been produced by a modern goldsmith from Odessa, Ukraine, named Israel Rouchomovsky. 5. Scholars soon started questioning the authenticity of the tiara, which featured scenes from “The Iliad,” but the museum denied the charges that its acquisition was a forgery.
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given in the following question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
34.(1) Set aside a time, perhaps after dinner, to sit down and concentrate fully on the music.
(2) Jazz music also works wonders and provides a lift to your spirit keeping it soaring and inspired.
(3) Pieces such as Pachelbel's Canon are incredibly soothing and will transport you to another world.
(4) When you wish to enter a state of tranquillity, classical music works best.
(5) Let it enter your soul and work its charm.
Could never understand FIJs. Here's a FIJ that has a ridicolous answer.
1,400 women die every day from problems related to pregnancy and childbirth.
2.Tens of thousands more may experience complications that will leave them with severe disabilities.
3.The dangers of childbearing can be greatly reduced if a woman is healthy and well nourished.
4.Governments have a particular responsibility to make prenatal and postnatal services available.
1. The moon provides an ideal vantage point,however.
2. One source of oxygen on Earth is added to the atmosphere in small amounts when water molecules are broken apart by ultraviolet rays from the sun.
3. As the hydrogen escapes it gives a flouroscent glow not visible on earth because of the absorption properties of atmosphere.
4. When briefly stationed there, the Apollo 16 crew captured stunning images of hydrogen gas escaping earth. revealed as a magical aura smeared towards the direction of the Sun.
5. The hydrogen atoms from water escape into space as hydrogen gas,while the heavier oxygen atoms are dragged back to earth by gravity.
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siib-pune
(Symbiosis Institute of International Business)
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abstemious: indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.
Usage- We only had a bottle. Very abstemious of us.
The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. They have hoped there might be a Golden Key which would unlock the secret of sales success.
2. Nonetheless, Hopkins’s book became – and still is – a classic.
3. Advertising can be so expensive, so complex, and the results so unpredictable, that advertisers have long sought to formulate rules which, like scientific laws, will guarantee results.
4. To today’s generation of advertising professionals, the notion that anyone could have claimed to turn advertising into a science nearly a century ago is more than a trifle ludicrous.
5. In 1923, still searching for the elusive Golden Key, one of the greatest American advertising copywriters of all time, Claude Hopkins, published a book called Scientific Advertising.
Among educated Gujarati families, it has generally been a matter of pride to educate children in the Gujarati medium. So, it surprised me when my mother said that since I had grown up in the modern era, she would have no option but to send me to an English-medium school. Many Gujarati-medium schools in Mumbai are converting to English medium. In an increasingly computer-literate world where English has become the lingua franca, parents face a difficult choice between maintaining cultural identity and investing in their children’s future. This set me pondering over the nature of linguistic division in India. While the fear of fragmentation along linguistic boundaries was greatest in the wake of independence, somehow, we have managed to weave a nation out of multi-linguistic society. How will we face this new threat of linguistic fragmentation between urban and rural India and the central heartlands and surrounding states? Although public policy remains justly concerned with increasing income disparities across states, the cleavages along linguistic lines – command over English and computing languages seem to have been overlooked. Given the increasing importance of these skills in a globalising economy, we may well be sowing the seeds of long term regional discord by ignoring these disparities
.a)Increasing importance of computer languages is resulting in many Gujarati- medium schools being converted to English medium. The increasing importance of these skills is leading to long term regional disparities.
b)It has been a matter of pride for the Gujarati families to educate their children in Gujarati medium. But, in an increasingly computer literate world it is becoming very difficult for parents to invest in their children’s future. This is leading to disparities along linguistic lines which might lead to more serious problems. How will we face these challenges?
c)Increasing importance of computer languages and command over English are leading to linguistic fragmentation between urban and rural India. Increasing income disparities have always been a matter of concern but how are we going to face this new threat along linguistic lines, which might have far more dangerous repercussions, if overlooked?
d)With an increase in computer literates and with English being used as a common language, Indiais facing a threat of linguistic fragmentation between urban and rural India. Increasing income disparities have always been a matter of concern but linguistic differences have been ignored. This could lead to regional discord in the long term
No ethical evaluation of zoos can avoid the question of animal procurement. Should humans continue to take animals from the wild? In addressing this question, we must consider the associated harms. Today many zoos portray themselves as promoting the survival of endangered species. Indeed, some zoo-advocates identify species preservation as the major goal of zoos -although only a small portion of the zoo budget is devoted to this endeavour. ____________________________________
a)Zoos have, in fact, made serious efforts to protect only a small number of species.
b)In zoos, breeding with a small number of individuals often leads to inbreeding, producing young animals with increased vulnerability to disease and environmental stresses.
c)One advantage of this goal is that nearly everyone endorses it.
d)Humans should stop capturing wild animals for zoo exhibits.