Can please anyone hlp me to understand the concept of the ecsalator questions in Speed Distance Time..???
curmudgeon meaning???
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PETAL : FLOWER
a. recliner : chair
b. leaf : tree
c. basket : ball
d. material : fabric
e. avocado : guacamole
SHELF : BOOKCASE
a. arm : leg
b. stage : curtain
c. bench : chair
d. key : piano
e. lamp : bulb
FISH : SCHOOL
a. wolf : pack
b. tiger : jungle
c. herd : peacock
d. raven : school
e. dog : collie
SCALE : WEIGHT
a. yardstick : length
b. width : depth
c. length : width
d. size : area
e. mileage : speed
WATERMELON : FRUIT
a. collar : leash
b. dog : companion
c. fish : bowl
d. Dalmatian : canine
e. apple : orange
OA in the evening ..... 😃
Select the pair which has the same relationship.
HOPE:ASPIRES
A. love:elevates
B. film:flam
C. fib:lie
D. fake:ordinary
-@A
Match entries in the left column, with those in the right.
Column A /// Column B
(a) Eradicate /// (i) Effeminate
(b) Emeritus /// (ii) Hopeless in changing
(c) Laxative /// (iii) Something very ancient
(d) Showing signs of feminine traits /// (iv) Honorably discharged
(e) Incorrigible /// (v) Something that loosens bowels
(1) a-ii; c-v
(2) b-iv; d-v
(3) d-i; e-iii
(4) d-i; e-ii
(5) c-ii; b-i
-@A
RC :
The union government's present position vis-à-vis the upcoming United Nations conference on racial and related discrimination world-wide seems to be the following: discuss race please, not caste; caste is our very own and not at all as bad as you think. The gross hypocrisy of that position has been lucidly underscored by Kancha llaiah. Explicitly, the word community is to be cheated out of considering the matter on the technicality that caste is not, a concept, tantamount to a racial category. Internally, however, allowing the issue to be put on agenda at the said conference would, we are patriotically admonished, damage the country's image. Somehow, India's virtual beliefs elbow out concrete actualities. Inverted representations, as we know, have often been deployed in human histories as balm for the forsaken-religion being the most persistent of such inversions. Yet, we would humbly submit that if globalising our markets are thought good for the 'national' pocket, globalising our social inequities might not be so bad for the mass of our people. After all, racism was as uniquely institutionalised in South Africa as caste discrimination has been within our society; why then can't we permit the world community to express itself on the latter with a fraction of the zeal with which, through the years, we pronounced on the former?
As to the technicality about whether or not caste is admissible into an agenda about race (that the conference is also about 'related discriminations' tends to be forgotten), a reputed sociologist has recently argued that where race is a 'biological' category, caste is a 'social' one. Having earlier fiercely opposed implementation of the Mandal commission Report, the said sociologist is a least to be complemented now for admitting, however tangentially, that caste discrimination is a reality, although, in his view, incompatible with racial discrimination. One would like quickly to offer the hypothesis that biology, in important ways that affect the lives of many millions, is in itself perhaps a social construction. But let us look at the matter in another way.
If it is agreed-as per the position today at which anthropological and allied scientific determinations rest-that the entire race of home sapiens derived from an originary black African female (called 'Eve') then one is hard put to understand how, on some subsequent ground, ontological distinctions are to be drawn either between races or castes. Let us also underline the distinction between the supposition that we are all God's children and the rather more substantiated argument about our descent for 'Eve', lest both positions are thought to be equally diversionary. It then stands to reason that all subsequent distinctions are, in modern parlance, 'constructed' ones, and, like all ideological constructions, attributable to changing equations between knowledge and power among human communities through contested histories here, there, and elsewhere.
This line of thought receives, thankfully, extremely consequential buttress form the findings of the Human Genome project. Contrary to earlier (chiefly 19th century colonial) persuasions on the subject of race, as well as, one might add, the somewhat infamous Jensen offerings in the 20th century from America, those findings deny genetic difference between 'races'. If anything, they suggest that environmental factors impinge on gene-function, as dialectic seems to unfold between nature and culture. It would thus seem that 'biology' as the constitution of pigmentation enters the picture first only as a part of that dialectic. Taken together, the originary mother stipulation and the Genome findings ought indeed to furnish ground for human equality across the board, as well as yield policy initiatives towards equitable material dispensations aimed at building a global order where, in Hegel's formulation, only the rational constitutes the right. Such, sadly, is not the case as everyday fresh arbitrary ground for discrimination are constructed in the interests of sectional dominance.
Question 1
When the author writes “globalising our social inequities”, the reference is to
A. going beyond as internal deliberation on social inequity.
B. dealing with internal poverty through the economic benefits of globalization.
C. going beyond an internal delimitation of social inequity
D. achieving disadvantaged people's empowerment, globally.
Question 2
According to the author, 'inverted representations as balm for the forsaken:
A.is good for the forsaken and often deployed in human histories.
B.is good for the forsaken, but not often deployed historically of the oppressed.
C.occurs often as a means of keeping people oppressed
D.Occurs often to vert the status quo
Question 3
Based on the passage, which broad areas unambiguously fall under the purview of the UN conference being discussed?A. Racial prejudice.B. Racial pride.C. Discrimination, racial or otherwise.D. Caste-related discrimination.E. Race-related discrimination.
A. A, E
B. C, E
C. A,C,E
D. B,C,D
Question 4
According to the author, the sociologist who argued that race is a 'biological' category and caste is a 'social' one:
A. generally shares the same orientation as the author's on many of the central issues discussed.
B. tangentially admits to the existence of “caste” as a category.
C. admits the incompatibility between the people of different race and caste.
D.admits indirectly that both caste-based prejudice and racial discrimination exist.
Question 5
An important message in the passage, if one accepts a dialectic between nature and culture, is that:
A. the results of the Human Genome Project reinforces racial differences.
B. race is at least partially a social construct.
C. discrimination is at least partially a social construct.
D. caste is at least partially a social construct.
OA WILL BE GIVEN TMRW EVEN ... before that lets discuss this RC
Passage:
Now let us turn back to inquire whether sending our capital abroad, and consenting to be taxed to pay emigration fares to get rid of the women and men who are left without employment in consequence, is all that capitalism can do when our employers, who act for out capitalists in industry affairs, and are more or less capitalists themselves in the earlier stages of capitalistic development, find that they can sell no more of their goods at a profit, or indeed at all, in their own country.
Cleary they cannot send abroad the capital they have already invested, because it has all been eaten up by the works leaving in its place factories and railways and mines and the like; and these cannot be packed into a ship's hold and sent to Africa. It is only the freshly saved capital than can be sent out of the country. This, as we have seen, does go abroad in heaps of finished product. But the British land held by him on long lease, must, when once he has sold all the goods at home that his British customers can afford to buy, either shut up his works until the customers have worn out their stock of what they have bought, which would bankrupt him (for the landlord will not wait), or else sell his superfluous good somewhere else; that is, he must send them abroad. Now it is not easy to send them to civilized countries, because they practise protection, which means that they impose heavy taxes on foreign goods. Uncivilized countries, without protection, and inhabited by natives to whom gaudy calicoes and cheap showy brassware are dazzling and delightful novelties, are the best places to make for at first.
But trader requires a settled government to put down the habit of plundering strangers. This is not a habit of simple tribes, who are often friendly and honest. It is what civilized men do where there is no law to restrain them. Until quite recent times it was extremely dangerous to be wrecked on our coasts, as wrecking, which meant plundering wrecked ships and refraining from any officious efforts to save the lives of their crews was a well-established business in many places on our shores. The Chinese still remember some astonishing outbursts of looting perpetrated by English ladies of high position, at moments when trading was suspended and priceless works of art were to be had for the grabbing. When trading with aborigines begins with the visit of a single ship, the cannons and cutlasses carried may be quite sufficient to overawe the natives if they are troublesome. The real difficulty begins when so many ships come that a little trading station of white men grows up and attracts the white never-do-wells and violent roughs who are always being squeezed out of civilization by the pressure of law and order. It is these riff-raff who turn the place into a sort of hell in which sooner or later missionaries and murdered and traders plundered. Their home governments are appealed to put a stop to this. A gunboat is sent out and inquiry made. The report after the inquiry is that there is nothing to be done but set up a civilized empire. And the civilized taxpayer plays the bill without getting a farthing of the profits. Of course the business does not stop there. The riff-raff who have created the emergency move out just beyond the boundary of the annexed territory, and are as great a nuisance as ever to the traders when they have exhausted the purchasing power of the included natives and push on after fresh customers. Again they call on their home government to civilize a further area; and so bit by bit the civilized empire grows at the expense of the home taxpayers, without any intention or approval on their own country, their own rulers, and their own religious faith; they find that the centre of their beloved realm has shifted to the other hemisphere. That is how we in the British Islands have found our centre moved from London to the Suez Canal, and are now in the position that out of every hundred of our fellow-subjects, in whose defence we are expected to shed the last drop of our blood, only 11 are whites or even Christians. In our bewilderment some of us declare that the Empire is a burden and a blunder, whilst others glory in it as triumph. You and I need not argue with them just now, our point for the moment being that, whether blunder or glory. The British Empire was quite unintentional. What should have been undertaken only as most carefully considered political development has been a series of commercial adventures thrust on us by capitalists forced by their own system to cater to foreign customers before their own country's need were one-tenth satisfied
Question 1
It may be inferred that the passage was written:
A
When Britain was still a colonial power
B
When the author was in a bad mood
C
When the author was working in the foreign service of Britain
D
When the author' country was overrun by the British
Question 2
According to the author, the habit of plundering the strangers:
A
Is usually not found in simple tribes but civilized people
B
Is usually found in the barbaric tribes of the uncivilized nations
C
Is a habit limited only to English ladies of high position
D
Is a usual habit with all white-skinned people
Question 3
Which of the following does not come under the aegis of capital already invested?
A
Construction of factories
B
Development of a mine
C
Trade of finished products
D
All of the above
Question 4
Which of the following may be called the main complaint of the author?
A
The race of people he belongs to are looters and plunderers
B
The capitalists are taking over the entire world
C
It is a way of life for English ladies to loot and plunder
D
The English taxpayer has to pay for the upkeep of territories he did not want
Question 5
Why do capitalistic traders prefer the uncivilized countries to the civilized one?
A
Because they find it easier to rule them
B
Because civilized countries would make them pay protection duties
C
Because civilized countries would make their own goods.
D
Because uncivilized countries like the cheap and gaudy goods of bad quality all capitalists produce.
Question 6
The word 'officious', in the context of the passage, means:
A
Meddling
B
Official
C
Rude
D
Oafish
Question 7
According to the author, to main reason why capitalist go abroad to sell their good is:
A
That they want to civilize the underdeveloped countries of the world by giving them their goods
B
That they have to have new places to sell their surplus goods somewhere in new markets
C
That they actually want to rule new lands and selling goods in an excuse
D
None of the above
Directions for question: The question has a sentence broken into four parts. Select that part which has an error
1.The team wanted
2.a hike in their
3.members' remuneration, and decided to call
4.an emergency meeting to discuss the issue
If you're a fitness walker, there is no need for a commute to a health club. Your neighborhood can be your health club. You don't need a lot of fancy equipment to get a good workout either. All you need is a well-designed pair of athletic shoes.
This paragraph best supports the statement that
a. fitness walking is a better form of exercise than weight lifting.
b. a membership in a health club is a poor investment.
c. walking outdoors provides a better work out than walking indoors.
d. fitness walking is a convenient and valuable form of exercise.
e. poorly designed athletic shoes can cause major foot injuries.
Please justify your answer too. 
One New York publisher has estimated that 50,000 to 60,000 people in the United States want an anthology that includes the complete works of William Shakespeare. And what accounts for this renewed interest in Shakespeare? As scholars point out, the psychological insights he portrays in both male and female characters are amazing even today.
This paragraph best supports the statement that
a. Shakespeare's characters are more interesting than fictional characters today.
b. people today are interested in Shakespeare's work because of the characters.
c. academic scholars are putting together an anthology of Shakespeare's work.
d. New Yorkers have a renewed interested in the work of Shakespeare.
e. Shakespeare was a psychiatrist as well as a playwright.
Please Justify your answer too.
Critical reading is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and, with pencil in hand, perform specific operations on the text. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant.
This paragraph best supports the statement that
a. critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential process.
b. the best critical reading happens at critical times in a person's life.
c. readers should get in the habit of questioning the truth of what they read.
d. critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention.
e. critical reading should take place at the same time each day.
Please justify your answer
Identify correct sentences :
(a) The anthropologist, like the psychologist and the psychiatrist, is trying to find what makes people tick.
(b) The question of the flexibility of human nature is no mere academic quibble.
(c) A sound answer is essential to realistic educational schemes and to practical social planning.
(d) The Nazis assumed they could fashion people to almost any shape
(e) they wanted, if they started early enough and applied sufficient pressure.
(i) c and d
(II) b, c , e
(III) b, d, e
(IV) only e