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Hot baths, saunas, steam rooms, hot springs – spa culture takes on various forms throughout the world, and learning to relax like a local is a top attraction in many destinations. But as entwined as bathhouse culture has become with many modern day societies, the seemingly omnipresent practice of using heat to release toxins is actually tens of thousands of years old, dating back to the Neolithic Age when nomadic tribes would find relief from the bitter cold by soaking in the various natural hot springs they stumbled upon around the world. ________________.
OPTIONS
1)Anthropologists say they may have been used as a part of a belief system since bathing and cleanliness may have been linked to religious beliefs.
2)For many it was the only place to rinse off after a long week of manual labour and at the time, crowds of men and women bathed naked together.
3)The tradition of the public bath has since spread around the world, adapting to evolving cultures and social norms with differing customs and etiquette for each destination.
4)One of the world's earliest known public baths was built in the Indus Valley around 2500 BC in the lost city of Mohenjo-daro called the “Great Bath.
The area in and around modern Jakarta was part of the fourth century Sundanese kingdom of Tarumanagara, one of the oldest Hindu kingdoms in Indonesia. Following the decline of Tarumanagara, its territories, including the Jakarta area, became part of the Kingdom of Sunda. From 7th to early 13th century port of Sunda is within the sphere of influence of Srivijaya maritime empire. According to the Chinese source, Chu-fan-chi, written circa 1200, Chou Ju-kua reported in the early 13th century Srivijaya still ruled Sumatra, the Malay peninsula, and western Java (Sunda). The source reports the port of Sunda as strategic and thriving, pepper from Sunda being among the best in quality. The people worked in agriculture and their houses were built on wooden piles. The harbour area became known as Sunda Kelapa and by the fourteenth century, it was a major trading port for Sunda kingdom.
Which of the following could be an apt title for the passage?
OPTIONS
1)The evolution of Sunda Kelapa as a trading port for the Sundanese Kingdom.
2)Chou Ju-kua's reports on the kingdom of Sriviijaya.
3)The evolution of Jakarta as a trading port.
4)The Sundanese kingdom of Tarumanagara.
5)The History of Indonesia
Q3. The digital-storytelling movement started in the early 1990s with performance artists such as San Francisco-based Atchley. But the technique is just beginning to take hold in the world of e-business. At last fall's national Digital Storytelling Festival in Crested Butte, Colo., nearly half of the people signed up represented corporations. “The stories that people are telling on the Web around corporate brands are astounding,” says Atchley. “Knowledge is best shared and remembered through a good story, and companies are just starting to catch on to all that this can mean.”__________________
(a) If so, digital storytelling will see that computer prices continue to plummet.
(b) If so, digital storytelling will link high-speed data lines and more people to the Web.
(c) If so, digital storytelling will help companies to know more than what they knew earlier.
(d) If so, digital storytelling will only become more popular.
(e) If so, digital storytelling will only become less popular.😲😲😲👍👍
The characters and objects are composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors. Most child characters are the same size and shape, and are distinguished by their clothing and headwear. Characters are mostly presented two-dimensionally and from only one angle. Their movements are animated in an intentionally jerky fashion, as they are purposely not offered the same free range of motion associated with hand-drawn characters. Occasionally, some non-fictional characters are depicted with photographic cutouts of their actual head and face in lieu of a face reminiscent of the show's traditional style. Canadians on the show are often portrayed in an even more minimalist fashion; they have simple beady eyes, and the top halves of their heads simply flap up and down when the characters speak.
Which of the following is an appropriate title for the passage?
OPTIONS
1)Animation styles used on South Park
2)Racism in animation – the depiction of different races differently
3)The use of geometrical shapes and primary colours in animation
4)Why animation should not be used in TV shows
5)Animation styles used on a particular TV show
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word/set of words in the given options:
Though the matter of the existence of ghosts in that house might not be worth _____________, some observations from the neighbours may merit _____________ in the light of the deaths that have taken place there.
OPTIONS
1)believing, credibility
2)proving, refutation
3)examination, integrity
4)pursuing, scrutiny
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Q4. No fewer than 70,000 workers would have been needed to lug limestone blocks from desert miles away to the building sites of the pyramids. Yet there is little evidence that the pharaohs had to coerce their subjects to leave their fields and families in order to build a monument whose completion any single worker would certainly never see. All people apparently willingly participated in the pageant of immortality-made-real. With no hope of a berth for themselves in the tomb, the workers nonetheless must have taken comfort from knowing that their king, their earthly representative, would live on for them in perpetuity.
(a) Here was a culture that would persist, just as its pharaohs would live on in their silent palaces.
(b) The Egyptian hoi polloi became immortal by proxy.
(c) King Tut — and ended the brief experiment in monotheism in favour of the older religion with its promise of an afterlife.
(d) The solemn bearing of these great structures reminds people today of the way an entire culture fashioned a collective immortality in astonishing stone.🍻
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I need help for SENTENCE CORRECTION. Seldom do I get them correct and it seems they are best left untouched. Please suggest something (any pg link,source etc) that could help me build confidence in it.
What's the meaning of the term "OLIGOPOLY"...?
-@A
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate options:
In (A) countries where the poor exceed the rich by a huge margin, redistribution would increase the (B) of the poor only minimally – by, say, a chapati a day – and the increase would not be (C) in a context of low income and high population growth. In short, for most poor countries, growth is the principal strategy for (D) development.
OPTIONS
1)impoverished, consumption, sustainable, inclusive
2)developing, condition, achievable, technological
3)penurious, welfare, experienced, economic
4)destitute, deterioration, relevant, political
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Chinese diplomat Dai Bingguo has recently said that Indian firms should seize the opportunities offered by the Chinese import market as a method to combat India's large trade deficit with China. China has similarly been encouraging its own companies to buy more from India to ensure that the current trade imbalance does not spin out of control.Which of the following is as assumption implicit in the Chinese diplomat's remarks?
- Trade surplus with trading partners is always desirable.
- Standard of living in India is lower than that in China.
- Chinese are more productive than Indians
- Trade surplus is harmful to a country in the long run.
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The area in and around modern Jakarta was part of the fourth century Sundanese kingdom of Tarumanagara, one of the oldest Hindu kingdoms in Indonesia. Following the decline of Tarumanagara, its territories, including the Jakarta area, became part of the Kingdom of Sunda. From 7th to early 13th century port of Sunda is within the sphere of influence of Srivijaya maritime empire. According to the Chinese source, Chu-fan-chi, written circa 1200, Chou Ju-kua reported in the early 13th century Srivijaya still ruled Sumatra, the Malay peninsula, and western Java (Sunda). The source reports the port of Sunda as strategic and thriving, pepper from Sunda being among the best in quality. The people worked in agriculture and their houses were built on wooden piles. The harbour area became known as Sunda Kelapa and by the fourteenth century, it was a major trading port for Sunda kingdom.
Which of the following could be an apt title for the passage?
1)The evolution of Sunda Kelapa as a trading port for the Sundanese Kingdom.
2)Chou Ju-kua's reports on the kingdom of Sriviijaya.
3)The evolution of Jakarta as a trading port.
4)The Sundanese kingdom of Tarumanagara.
5)The History of Indonesia
I believe it should be - 2)Chou Ju-kua's reports on the kingdom of Sriviijaya.
142.
A. At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known as the driest place on Earth.
B. The desert may be a heartless killer, but it's a sympathetic conservator.
C. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded, at least as long as humans have measured it.
D. This has an obvious impact on the flora and fauna of the landscape and you won't see a blade of grass or cactus stump, not a lizard, not a gnat.
E. But you will see the remains of almost everything left behind.
F. Without moisture, nothing rots and everything turns into artifacts.
1. AEDCBF 2. ACEDBF 3. ACDEBF 4. ABEDCF
143.
A. My father's Christian faith did not extend to embracing the birth of the welfare state.
B. It was not until I was eight that her greatest burden, the loss of her hair, was shared with me.
C. But my relationship with her was of an altogether different texture and I enjoyed her femininity, her Blue Grass scent, her pearls, tweed skirts and Jacqmar scarves.
D. My mother never dissented from my father's view; if anything, she was more conservative.
E. His type of Anglicanism was the Tory party at prayer.
F. Consequently, she was reserved, and never let me clamber about her or run my fingers through what I still thought of as her hair.
1. AEDCBF 2. ADEBCF 3. ABEDCF 4. ACEDBF
144.
A. With a clean, no-nonsense interface and existing search engine traffic, Google News didn't take long to attract a loyal following and elbow its way into the top-10 news sites, pulling in some 6 million unique visitors a month.
B. It can't make money from Google News.
C. Of course, executives at rival online news publishers couldn't help but wonder why they shouldn't just imitate Google's model and pare their budgets to the bone.
D. As it turns out, however, Google has a problem that is nearly as complex as its algorithms.
E. So while other online publishers like Yahoo News and MSNBC earn tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year and continue to grow, Google News remains in limbo.
F. Three years after it launched and long after most of the bugs have been excised, it cannot get people to pay and access news on its site.
1. AEDBCF 2. ACDBEF 3. ADECBF 4. ACBEDF
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Hi Guys,
I am new to this community and I have tried to go through as many posts as possible. Can you please guide me which book / any other source to follow for brushing up my grammar concepts like noun, pronoun etc, their usage?
I have just started preparing for GMAT and plan to give it this year..
51.
A. Under his close eye Disney's animation division soared, with hit films such as “The Little Mermaid”, “Aladdin” and “The Lion King”.
B. The situation had worsened to the degree that Disney was in danger of being bought and broken up.
C. Indeed, he carried on these activities with such a missionary zeal that appearing on Disney TV shows, Mr Eisner himself became a part of the brand.
D. He rescued the firm by energetically devising umpteen new ways to profit from its iconic cartoon characters.
E. When Messrs Disney and Gold originally brought in Mr Eisner to be chief executive of Disney in 1984, he found a sleepy company with valuable but barely exploited brands.
1. EBDAC 2. EADCB 3. AEDCB 4. DECAB
52.
A. This applies to material goods generally, and therefore to the greater part of the present economic life of the world.
B. We may distinguish two sorts of goods, and two corresponding sorts of impulses.
C. The food and clothing of one man is not the food and clothing of another; if the supply is insufficient, what one man has is obtained at the expense of another man.
D. On the other hand, mental and spiritual goods do not belong to one man to the exclusion of another.
E. There are goods in regard to which individual possession is possible, and there are goods in which all can share alike.
1. BECAD 2. AEDBC 3. BADEC 4. AEDCB
53.
A. Germany has been less staunch, worrying more than the others that Iran may make good on its threat to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
B. Yet Iran is exhausting the patience of even the friendlier European governments.
C. Britain and France have told Iran privately that it must fulfill its obligations to the IAEA, and also its original promise of a full suspension of enrichment-related activity.
D. But, ultimately, it agrees with its European partners that Iran must toe the line.
E. The reasons for the three countries' stance are not far to seek - An Iran that went nuclear despite repeated European overtures would make a mockery of European claims to be defter at diplomacy than heavy-handed America.
1. BACDE 2. AEDCB 3. CDEAB 4. BCADE
54.
A. But he is also thought to be indecisive and too much of a micro-manager.
B. He is intellectually curious, more comfortable in the spotlight than Miss Megawati, and widely viewed as a man of integrity who would be strong in times of crisis.
C. This is amply reflected in the understanding that he won the election on character, not ideology. D. Though Indonesia's voters have now signaled that they want change at the top too, it is not clear that Mr Yudhoyono can deliver on this mandate.
E. Besides these personality traits, his party worries that there is not much to separate him from Miss Megawati on policy.1. DBAEC 2. AEDBC 3. DEABC 4. AEBDC 55.
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A. Take her account of Mr Bush's Yale years.
B. Mr Bush, on the other hand, spent his time doing everything but burnishing his credentials.
C. The case against Ms Kelley is not just that she fails to rake new muck.
D. The Ivy League universities are full of grubbing prodigies who regard themselves as the next president.
E. It is that she makes her principal target, the current president, look rather good.
1. CDEAB 2. AEDBC 3. CEADB 4. AEBDC
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Could u pls explain the reason for "option B" to be a wrong answer? I was of the view that deals mostly follows "with"