@miseera 3 Looked as the obvious answer....even i went with 3..but then again assuming something that is obvious never helps...good question...Lesson to be learnt-dont assume....follow whats given in the passage...
As i said I too marked Option 3 and this is CAT typo
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SET (47) FIBs11. The mandarin took the villager's ___ as a personal ____.a. effrontery, affront b. affront, effronteryc. carriage, prejudice d. mockery, encomium12. A ___ of classical fiction has always hinged on mankind's extreme ___ and uncanny ability tochoose the worst possible course of action.a. consequence, cupidity b. leitmotif, cupidityc. leitmotif, intelligence d. motif, sophisticated13. The ___ room received the latest guest with ___, a tired, desultory welcome like the specious smileof a hotel receptionist.a. decorated, hospitality b. desecrated, warmthc. furnished, pseudo-hospitality d. consecrated, effusiveness14. Mother Teresa ___ an aura of calm force and reserve strength which was like ___ to the weak, thedesolate and the suffering.a. contrived, bane b. exuded, maledictionc. contrived, manna d. exuded, mannaHappy CATing
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11. a
'Effrontery' is a bold shameless action. The peasant's effrontery affronted the mandarin (a Chinese official). To affront is to insult someone.
12. b
'Leitmotif' means a recurring theme. 'Cupidity' is greed.
13. c
'Pseudo-hospitality' means a false or fake hospitality. The room gave a tired desultory welcome. None of the other options can fill the second blank. So (c) is the answer.
14. d
Mother Teresa gives off aura of calm force which rejuvenates the weak. Manna according to the Old Testament is miraculous food that God gave to the Israelites. The statement is praising Mother Teresa. So (d) has to be the answer.
The correct answer is 4. The passage states that “Evidence that was used to identify a crypto-Jew included the absence of chimney smoke on Saturdays (a sign the family might secretly be honoring the Sabbath)”. Option 1 is wrong as there is nothing in the passage to suggest it. So is Option 2. Option 3 is wrong as even though it's probably correct, there is no evidence in the passage to back it up. Option 5 is wrong as we don't know if there is a connect between Passover and meat. Hence, the correct answer is option 4.I too Marked 3 @Vignesh26@shab86
but i think in the passage it is explicitly mentioned that the possibilty is the absence of a chimney smoke,which means it is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to identify a crypto jew.it is possible that the crypto jew is having a chimney smoke on saturdays but at the same time he is following all the rituals of his old religion.the terms confession,penance and a hostility towards the sabbath are all the tenets of catholic christianity.the use of the pope in the first line further cements the fact that we are indeed talking about people who have converted from jewism to christianity.so i think even option 3 presents a very good case.
A. Democracy fosters the freedom of expression. B. He played really good in the last match. C. She fell in the well in her back yard. D. The party was held on the hotel €™s roof. OPTIONS
1) A, C and D 2) B only 3) B and C 4) All are incorrect
Some sentence corrections questions.. 1. If the school had been destroyed we would have to go home. a. would go home b. would have had to go home c. should go home d. No improvement 2. Even his best friends gave him the cold shoulder. a. gave him a cold shoulder b. showed him the cold shoulder c. turned the cold shoulder on him d. No improvement 3. This has been done in disregard of my instructions. a. of disregard to b. in disregard of c. in disregard to d. No improvement 4. I will look you up next time I am in Mumbai. a. look you through b. look you over c. look you around d. No improvement 5. By the time the report is published next year, no one will be interested in what scandalous claims it has made. a. it is making b. it will make c. it makes d. No improvement 6. Let this accident be an object lesson in the dangers of drinking and driving. a. object lessons for the dangers b. object lessons of the dangers c. object lesson with the dangers d. No improvement 7. Under his apparent nonchalance he is as nervous and excited as the rest of us. a. Beneath his apparent b. With his apparent c. Because of his apparent d. No improvement 8. Many's the promise that have been broken. a. promises those have been broken b. promise that has been broken c. promises that have been broken d. No improvement 9. His rough manners were rather putting off. a. were putting-off rather b. were off-putting rather c. were rather off-putting d. No improvement 10. The patient has since been discharged. a. since has been b. has been since c. is since d. No improvement 11. The speaker tried to work round the emotions of his audience. a. off b. up c. through d. No improvement
12. It's obvious that they are trying to cheat, isn't it? a. are they? b. aren't they? c. is it? d. No improvement
13. I hope you will look me up when you come to Delhi. a. look at me b. look me c. look upon me d. No improvement 14. The clerk asked the peon that why has he come to the office so late. a. that why had he b. that why he had c. does not act d. No improvement 15. Which of the two boxes is more preferable? a. more preferred b. preferable c. better preferred d. No improvement Please give the explanations as well where required.. or when you are referring to some specific rule. Thanks @spectramind07 Your presence is really required here.. 😃
1.b. Also 'would have gone home' should be correct too but it is not in the options. 2.c or d d. 3.b 4.d 5.b 6.b 7.a 8.c (This one was really good. 9.c 10.d 11.c 12.d 13.d 14.b 15.b
SOURCE: ADAPTED FROM : Bryson, B., 2003. A Short History of Nearly Everything: 197-199 CARBON DATING
If you were interested in finding out about the age of things in the 1940s, the University of Chicago was the place to be. This was when Willard Libby, a researcher there, discovered radiocarbon dating. This lead to a process that would allow scientists to get more accurate readings of the age of bones and other organic remains than ever before, and would result in Libby being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1960. Before Libby's discovery, the oldest reliable knowledge of historical time could only go back as far as the First Dynasty in Egypt, to around 3,000 BCE. No-one could confidently claim, for example, when the ice sheets from the last Ice Age had retreated, or at exactly what time in the past Cro-Magnon Man had decorated the caves of Lascaux in France, even though there were organic remains from these events. Libby's discovery and the subsequent inventions were based on the realisation that all living matter contains an isotope, now called carbon-14, which begins to decay at a measurable rate as soon as an organism dies. Carbon-14 has a 'half-life' – in other words, the time it takes for half of a sample to disappear – of about 5,600 years. Therefore, by calculating how much of a specific sample of carbon had decayed, Libby could accurately determine the age of an object. However, even this advanced form of dating had its limitations. After eight half-lives, only 0.39% of the original radioactive carbon would remain in the sample. At this point it would become too insignificant to make a reliable measurement. For this reason, radioactive carbon dating worked only for objects of about forty thousand years old. Other flaws in the technique began to appear later. To begin with, one of the basic components of Libby's formula, known as the 'decay constant', was inaccurate by about 3%. Unfortunately, by the time this error was discovered, thousands of measurements had been made throughout the world. Rather than correcting all these errors, scientists decided to keep the inaccurate constant. This is not a major problem for the theory. It simply means that researchers have to factor in the correction that 'raw' results from radiocarbon dating are too young by about 3%. Another problem which carbon-dating faced was the ease with which it could be contaminated. Even a tiny scrap of vegetable matter, for example, could distort the reading. For younger samples of around twenty thousand years, this was not significant. However, it could seriously distort readings from older samples in which there were only a few remaining atoms. There was also a wrong assumption in Libby's method. He had assumed that the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere, and the rate at which it has been absorbed by living things, has been consistent throughout history. In fact, it has not. We now know that variations in the Earth's deflection of cosmic rays causes fluctuations in the volume of atmospheric carbon-14. Finally, readings based on carbon-dating of human remains can be thrown out by seemingly unrelated factors, such as the diet of whose bones are being tested. For example, a diet consisting entirely of fish can make bones appear older than they actually are. Because of the accumulated shortcomings of carbon-14, scientists devised other methods of dating ancient materials. One of these was 'thermoluminescence' which measures electrons trapped in clays. Another was 'electron spin resonance' which bombards a sample with electromagnetic waves and then measures the vibrations of the electrons. However, none of these techniques was able to accurately date anything older than about two hundred thousand years. So at this stage of scientific discovery and invention, no-one was yet able to accurately determine the age of the planet. In fact, the difficulties of dating inorganic matter such as rocks seemed insurmountable, and scientists had almost given up. Indeed, had it not been for an extremely determined English professor named Arthur Holmes, this line of enquiry might have been abandoned completely. CARBON DATING 1 - QUESTIONS 1. Which is true: Radiocarbon dating was discovered... (a) ....by Willard Libby at the University of Chicago. (b) ...when Willard Libby was a student in Chicago. (c) ....during the 1940s age of bones in Chicago. (d) ... to gain the Nobel Prize for Chicago University. 2. Which is cannot be inferred from the second paragraph (lines 5-9) ? (a) The last Ice Age retreated before the first Egyptian dynasty in 3,000 BCE. (b) French cave decorations were completed before the first Egyptian Dynasty. (c) Cro-Magnon Man could not be accurately dated before Libby's discovery. (d) The caves at Lascaux were decorated before the last Ice Age retreated. Libby's discovery was based on the realisation that all living matter contains an isotope, now called carbon-14, which begins to decay at a measurable rate as soon as an organism dies. Carbon-14 has a 'half-life' – in other words, the time it takes for half of a sample to disappear – of about 5,600 years. Therefore, by calculating how much of a specific sample of carbon had decayed, Libby could accurately determine the age of an object. 3. PARAPHRASE THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH, BEGINNING: When an organism dies, . [Write the answer in the space provided on the answer paper] 4. The error in Libby's formula was not corrected because.... (a) ...it contained only a small percentage of error. (b) ...too many samples had already been tested using it. (c) ...the mistake was only recently discovered. (d) ...scientists decided not to tell anyone about it. 5. Which statement about the effects of sample contamination is true: (a) It is unimportant and never leads to inaccuracy. (b) Older samples might be inaccurately dated. (c) Dating of young samples will be very inaccurate. (d) All samples will be very inaccurately dated. 6. Which is true: The level of atmospheric carbon-14... (a) ...steadily increases. (b) ...remains very constant. (c) ...generally declines (d) ...goes up and own 7. What does 'it' (line X) refer to? (a) a wrong assumption (b) Libby's research method (c) atmospheric C-14 absorption (d) the history of the Earth 8. What does 'thrown out' mean, as it is used in paragraph X, line x ? (a) eliminated (b) expelled (c) emitted (d) distorted 9. What does 'this line of enquiry' in the above paragraph (line x) refers to the attempt to... (a) ...age natural materials such as clay. (b) ...measure the vibrations in pieces of rock (c) ...scientific discovery and invention. (c) ...calculate how old the planet Earth is
Sentence correction.. [Arrived at the answers based upon the aptness] 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. c 6. b 7. c 8. Didnt get this. 9. a 10. a 11. c 12. d 13. d 14. b 15. b
1.The result of all these lengthy legal actions, counterclaims, and appeals, stretching over several months, were simply huge bills from the lawyers and nothing else. 2.Neither his brother nor his sister were able to help him. 3.I am so exhausted I can €™t scarcely keep my eyes open. 4.Although the party €™s political machine did produce the crucial Dalit votes, but the candidate was defeated by the alliance formed by independents and reformers. 5.A necklace of diamonds, presented by friends of the bride, were among the presents on view.
Correct the following sentences[SET-A]1.The result of all these lengthy legal actions, counterclaims, and appeals, stretching over several months, was simply huge bills from the lawyers and nothing else.2.Neither his brother nor his sister was able to help him.3.I am so exhausted that I can scarcely keep my eyes open.4.Although the party €™s political machine did produce the crucial Dalit votes, the candidate was defeated by the alliance formed by independents and reformers.5.A necklace of diamonds, presented by friends of the bride, was among the presents on view.
and this is CAT typo 
