More than the Europeans, China would like to calm its poorer friends.
Can someone tell me what exactly this means?
China would like to calm its poorer friends more than the Europeans like to (or)
China would like to calm its poorer friends more than the Europeans.
He is running farther everyday. is the sentence correct?
Directions: If x & y are real numbers and the functions are defined as f(x, y) = | x^2 + y^2 |, F(x, y) = – f(x, y) = – G(x, y), which of the following will be necessarily true?
F(x, y) > G(x, y)
G(x, y)* F(x, y)
G(x, y) = f(x, y)
F(x, y) > f(x, y)
G(x, y) > f(x, y)
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
Von Neumann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option being independent of the others, with a numerical value derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these outcomes reflecting, in turn, all possible combinations of choices). The decision is then made to maximize the expected utility.
___(1)_____ such a model reflects major simplifications of the way decisions are made in the real world. Humans are not to process information as quickly and effectively as the model assumes; they tend not to think ___(2)_____ as easily as the model calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really assessing its ___(3)_____ and when they do assess alternatives, they may be externally nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.
1. (1) Regrettably (2) Firstly (3) Obviously (4) Apparently
2. (1) quantitatively (2) systematically (3) scientifically (4) analytically
3. (1) implications (2) disadvantages (3) utility (4) alternatives (CAT 2002)
In a large company, ____(1)____ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ____(2)____ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally. The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ____(3)____ such a phenomenon in the first place.
1. (1) dismissing (2) punishing (3) firing (4) admonishing
2. (1) resolve (2) thwart (3) defeat (4) close
3. (1) derived (2) engineered (3) produced (4) allowed
find out the option which represents the similar meaning to the given word
PORTENDS - It appears to many that US "war on terrorism" portends trouble in Gulf.
(1) Introduces
(2) Bodes
(3) Spells
(4) Evokes
The Darwin who ________ is most remarkable for the way in which he ________ the attributes of the world class thinker and head of the household.
(1) comes, figures
(2) arises, adds
(3) emerges, combines
(4) appeared, combines
In this context, the ________ of the British labour movement is particularly ________.
(1) affair, weird
(2) activity, moving
(3) experience, significant
(4) atmosphere, gloomy
Answer the following Question. Also give explanation for ur answer:-
While analysing the progress of a group of dyslexic children, teachers observed that some children had shown progress but others, who had joined the training programme at the same time, were still grappling with the basics. Due to this, teachers were compelled to divide the group further in order to impart different levels of training. While some children were upset because they had to lose their friends to the other group, others were disturbed by these changes as, now, they had to team up with new partners.
Assuming that the above argument is true, identify which of the following statements can be concluded from the above argument?
a) Teachers do not realize that their actions have a greater impact on children.
b) Dyslexic children are unable to cope with change in comparison to adults who respond to change more positively.
c) Response to training depends upon how positively the child reacts to the training programme and how effectively it displays in his work.
d) Some dyslexic children are averse to change because they also suffer from low self esteem and lack social skills that could help make friends easily.
e) The rate of progress within a group of dyslexic children can wary irrespective of similarity in training.
Directions for question : The following question 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.
By propounding “Darwinism,” even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one “theory.” The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” The point is that making a master teacher into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching. So let us now kill Darwin. That all life is related by common ancestry, and that populations change form over time, are the broad strokes and fine brushwork of evolution. But Darwin was late to the party. __________________
a ) All Darwin perceived was that selection must work in nature, too.
b) Scientists often attribute the success of a phenomenon to an individual, thus mitigating the magnitude of that particular discovery or innovation.
c) That's why Darwin must go.
d) But there's a limit to how much credit is reasonable.
e) His grandfather, and others, believed new species evolved.
The banned Rebel Party today dismissed allegations levelled by the opposition
members on the nexus between them and the dissidents, saying that they did not
have any relations with the dissidents.
A. on the nexus between them and the dissidents, saying that they did not have
any relations with the dissidents.
B. on the nexus between it and the dissidents, saying that they did not have any
relations with the dissidents.
C. on the nexus between it and the dissidents, saying that it did not have any
relations with the dissidents.
D. about the nexus between them and the dissidents, saying that it did not have
any relations with the dissidents.
E. for the nexus between it and the dissidents and said that it did not have any
relations with the dissidents.
can any sentence of a paragraph first use pronoun and then tell the name of the person for whom the pronoun is used??
A number of environmentalists have published articles __________ global warming, stating _________ that there is hardly any scientific evidence to support the theory of global warming because of increases in the greenhouse gases.
A number of environmentalists have published articles __________ global warming, stating _________ that there is hardly any scientific evidence to support the theory of global warming because of increases in the greenhouse gases.
1) debunking,categorically
2) rejecting,paradoxically
3) deploring, optimistically
4) dismissing, hesitantly Skip
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Direction for question : Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows.
Progress became a theme in European thought in about 1750. The thinkers of the Enlightenment wanted to replace the Biblical account of time (Genesis, Creation, Fall, Redemption) with a myth which put Man, not God, at the centre of the story. The narrative of human progress was understood to be both a material and a moral process; not just changing our technologies, but altering our instincts-and for the better. We now live in ironic, anti-heroic times. Do we still believe in the story of progress? It sits in the attic of our minds like a glorious Victorian antique, as magnificent as a stuffed moose head and just as useless. Perhaps worse than useless. Modern political correctness has lodged a suspicion in our mind about the Ascent of Man. What do you mean, Man? What about Woman? And which Man? Surely not the European conquerors? And Ascent? Surely you're not implying that western civilisation is superior to everything that's gone before? And so on. The Ascent of Man may be an idea we had better do without. Only 20 years ago, this did not seem so. That great educator and scientist, Jacob Bronowski, made it the title of his famous BBC documentary. For Bronowski, the Ascent of Man was the story of human evolution. It began over 4m years ago with the emergence of hominid species in Africa-furry, ape-like creatures who began the human ascent, about 1m years later, by standing on their hind legs. This released their hands to use tools, increasing their food production capacity, their brain size, their superiority over other ape and animal competitors. There were an unknown number of hominid competitors, which were gradually reduced to two and then-100,000 years ago-to one: homo sapiens. Only this creature achieved language, and this gave him mastery of himself and nature. As homo sapiens, we are the product not of one millennium, but of at least a thousand. We may look up at the sky through the lenses of a scientific world-view, but the brain which receives the signals is an organism imprinted with several million years of evolutionary terrors: of animals, strange signs in the skies and the omnipresence of imminent death. For Bronowski the Ascent of Man was the story of man's freedom-his gradual emancipation from nature. But that is not the message which contemporary culture has heard. It has taken the evidence of palaeo-anthropology and archaeology as confirmation that we are more determined by our ancient past than we had supposed. The longer we discover our pre-history to be, the more deeply savage we feel. This reading of the Ascent of Man has been reinforced by genetics. The explosion in genetic research in the past 25 years-the mapping of the human genome, the discovery of the genetic origins of certain diseases-has spurred a huge amount of confident inference about the genetic origin of everything from the sexual division of labour to the incest taboo. Not since the decades following the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859 has the public talk of contemporary culture been so dominated by genetic and evolutionary determinism. In the 50 years since 1945, serious moral thinking has devoted itself to the deep wound which 20th century slaughter inflicted on our pride in ourselves as a species. Time has not healed the wound. If anything, the Holocaust has become more of an obsession with the passing years, making everyone, not just Jews and other victim peoples, ask themselves whether they can trust other human beings again. For trust had been one of the subliminal messages of the Ascent of Man. From the Enlightenment onwards, we had been taught that we were one species; we shared the same ascent, the same path upwards to the light. Beneath difference there was identity, a similar historical process of civilisation which gave us good reasons to trust each other in ultimate moments of moral risk. Yet what was there left to trust when men treated each other so much worse than animals? So, in the 50 years since 1945, we have lived with a deep ambivalence about progress.
Q.1 The author mentions the thinkers of the Enlightenment in order to:
a)show the Bible as an impediment in the way of progress.
b)demonstrate Man as the master of the whole world around him.
c)affirm that human progress is akin to mastery over the world.
d)illustrate the transformation in approach towards life.
e) display his exclusive perspective on things.
Q.2 Which of the following cannot be validated from the passage?
a)That people have lost their heroes.
b)That people have become skeptical.
c)That heroism has been overtaken by hubris and uppishness.
d)Those olden values have become meaningless.
e)All of these.
Q.3 The author mentions the details about the documentary in order to:
a)detail his acute sense of surveillance.
b)specify the decline of man.
c)nostalgically talk about the work.
d)showcase how man evolved.
e)pinpoint the gaps in the theory of evolution.
Q.4 Which is the thematic highlight of this passage?
a)The Enlightenment idea of moral progress is under siege from all sides, but it is worth hanging on to the battered idea.
b)The ascent of man is not under the dominion of man himself.
c)Man has been the plaything of fate and nature.
d)The path of human progress has entered the realm of freedom.
e)A passage to the future and overcoming fate.
Q.5 The writer of this passage is most likely a/ an:
a)Biographer
b)Philosopher
c)Economist
d)Journalist
e) Historian
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Q3)A report revealing dangerous levels of pesticides in Coca-Cola and Pepsi has ________
state governments to ________ the sales of these soft drinks.
(A)provoked..prohibit
(B)prompted....ban
(C)inspired..sustain
(D)stimulated...forbid
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Q4)Literary criticism, although it can never be a science, may at certain times wear the
________ appearance of one, in a certain place and within certain ________ and still be useful
criticism.
(A)external...outlets
(B)superficial..boundaries
(C)supercilious..peripheries
(D)ostensible..outlines
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