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Came across this poem in CL VALR Sectional. Posting it here, if someone may want to try it. Easy one though !
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the journey is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope the voyage is a long one,
may there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbours seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey,
without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
1)In the poem, Ithaka is a symbol of?
a)the divine mother.
b)your inner self.
c)the path to wisdom.
d)life's distant goal.
2)What does the poet mean by 'Laistrygonians' and 'Cyclops'?
a)Creatures which, along with Poseidon, one finds during a journey.
b)Mythological characters that one should not be afraid of.
c)Intra-personal obstacles that hinder one's journey.
d)Problems that one has to face to derive the most from one's journey.
4)Which of the following best reflects the tone of the poem?
a)Prescribing
b)Exhorting
c)Pleading
d)Consoling
e)Sophistry
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Any place to practice RCs online where its evaluated instantly. Good in offline RCs. Equally bad when it goes RCs. Or will reading online newspapers do???
please explain this critical reasoning ques;
Q4) In these times of growing economic turbulence, unless new reserves are found soon, the world's supply of natural gases is being depleted in such a way that with demand continuing to grow at the present rates, reserves will be exhausted by the year 2200 AD.
Which of the following, if true, will most weaken the above argument?
(A) There has been a slowdown in the rate of increase in world demand for natural gases over the last decade, from 20% to 10%.
(B) It has been known for many years that there are vast stocks of natural gases under Antartica, which have yet to be economically exploited.
(C) electricity is being used increasingly in place of natural gases for many industrial and domestic uses.
(D) None of the above.
choose the most logical order of sentences :
a)out of this fund ,moneys should be dispensed to all creators -the investors ,scholars ,engineers ,painters ,writers ,poets,playwrights, philosophers and designers -in the following way .
b)The moderate growth of talent , its innately show maturation,its careful weeding out , its natural selection in the purview of solicitous and discerning tastes-these are phenomena of a bygone age that died heirless.
c)The names of the geniuses of old ,more and more vainly invoked , already are an empty sound ;and it is 'mene mene tekel upharsin '(the writing on the wall),unless what joachim fersengeld recommends is done .
d) He who writes nothing ,designs nothing, paints nothing, neither patents nor proposes,is paid a stipend ,for life ,to the tune of thirty six thousand year ;he who does any of the afore-mentioned receives correspondingly less.
e)The last stimulus that still works is a mighty howl;but when more and more people howl,employing more and more powerful amplifiers ,one's eardrums will burst before the soul learns anything.
f)there should be set up a save the human race foundation ,as a sixteen billion reserve on a gold standard ,yielding an interest of four percentage per annum .
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please help with this ques: Critical Reasoning
New age problems require new age solutions. Further new age problems arise with new age populations and new age technologies. In order to find solutions to these problems we need to build new age institutions as well as new age political, economic and social mechanisms. Yet, institutions and political and economic mechanisms grow slowly and die slowly. Hence, new age institutions should be given every chance of trying to achieve success in their objectives.
The argument above rests on which of the following assumptions:
(A) New age institutions are needed because old institutions are inefficient.
(B) New age institutions are created in order to solve existing problems.
(C) Over a course of time, as an institution grows, it has chances of succeeding in its objectives.
(D) None of these.
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The reason that the lion did not attack the man on sight was because that it had been known to the man for many years
Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word CLOSE is incorrect or inappropriate.
He said he was only joking, but his comments were so close to the bone they weren't funny at all.
When the lions closed in for the kill, the zebras began a mad stampede.
My god! That was a close shave with the truck passing us so close.
I know you love to play your cards close to your chest but it's my advice that you learn to trust people a bit more.
Identify the sentence or sentences with grammatical errors.
A.The creative output of the group has suffered due to constant interference from the other members of the organization.
B. A majority of the population had been enrolling into the family planning programme when the government began the altered methods and computerized processes of enrollment.
C. The critics described the novel as a refreshing read which bombards the reader with a gamut of new ideas and propelling new thought process that encourages the reader to continue exploring his life for further answers.
D. The significance of change in life has always been underestimated by human beings because they prefer consistency, routine and normalcy
a. Only A
b. B & C
c. Only D
d. A & D
e. Only C
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Unhappily, there are many failings among the democrats too.
A sentence from a reputed daily and that too in editorial section.
Is this correct grammatically ??
verbal thread is pretty dormant today !
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Reading Comprehension
Each one has his reasons : for one art is a flight; for another, a means of conquering. But one can flee into a hermitage, into madness, into death. One can conquer by arms. Why does it have to be writing? Because, behind the various aims of authors, there is a deeper and more immediate choice which is common to all of us. We shall try to elucidate this choice, and we shall see whether it is not in the name of this very choice of writing that the engagement of writers must be required.
Each of our perceptions is accompanied by consciousness that human reality is a 'revealer'. That is, it is through human reality that 'there is' being, or, to put it differently, that man is the means by which things are manifested. It is our presence in the world which multiples relations. It is we who set up a relationship between this tree and that bit of sky. Thanks to us, that star which has been dead for millennia, that quarter moon, and that dark river are disclosed in the unity of a landscape. It is the speed of our auto and our airplane which organizes the great masses of the earth. With each of our acts, the world reveals to us a new face. But, if we know that we are directors of being, we also know that we are not its producers. If we turn away from this landscape, it will sink back into its dark permanence. At least, it will sink back : there is no one mad enough to think that is going to be annihilated. It is we who shall be annihilated, and the earth will remain in its lethargy until another consciousness comes along to awaken it. Thus, to our inner certainty of being 'revealers' is added that of being inessential in relation to the thing revealed.
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. If I fix on canvas or in writing a certain aspect of the fields or the sea or look on someone's face which I have disclosed, I am conscious of having produced them by condensing relationship, by introducing order where there was none, by imposing the unit of mind on the diversity of things. That is, I think myself essential in relation to my creation. But this time it is the created object which escapes me; I cannot reveal the produce at the same time. The creation becomes inessential in relation to the creative activity. First of all, even if it appears to others as definitive, the created object always seems to us in a state of suspension; we can always change this line, that shade, that word. Thus, it never forces itself. A novice painter asked his teacher, 'When should I consider my painting finished' ?
And the teacher answered, "When you can look at it in amazement and say to yourself 'I' m the one who did that!"
Which amounts to saying 'never'. For it is virtually considering one's work with someone else's eyes and revealing what has been created. But it is self-evident that we are proportionally less conscious of thing produced and more conscious of our productive activity. When it is a matter of poetry or carpentry, we work according to traditional norms, with tools whose usage is codified; it is Heidegger's famous 'they' who are working without our hands. In this case, the result can seem to us sufficiently strange to preserve its objectivity in our eyes. But if we ourselves produce the rules of production, the measures, the criteria, and if our creative drive comes from the very depths of our heart, then we never find anything but ourselves in our work. It is we who have invented the laws by which we judge it, it is our history, our love, our gaiety or love we put them into it. The results which we have obtained on canvas or paper never seem to us objective. We are too familiar with processes of which they are the effects. These processes remain a subjective discovery : they are ourselves, our inspiration, our ruse, and when we seek to perceive our work, we create it again, we repeat mentally the operations which produced it; each of its aspects as a result. Thus, in the perception, the object is given as the essential thing and the subject as the inessential. The latter seeks essentially in the creation and creation and obtains it, but then it is the object becomes the inessential.
The dialectic is nowhere more apparent than in the art of writing, for the literary object is a peculiar top which exists only is movement: To make it come into view a concrete act called reading is necessary, and it last only as long as this act can last. Beyond that, there are only black marks on paper. Now, the writer cannot read what he writes, whereas the shoemaker can put on the shoes he has just made if they are to his size, and the architect can live in the house he has built. In reading one foresees: one waits. He foresees the end of the sentence, the following sentence, the next page. He waits for them to confirm or disappoint his foresights. The reading is composed of a host of hypotheses, followed by awakenings, of hopes and deceptions. Readers are always ahead of the sentence they are reading in a merely probable future which partly collapses and partly comes together in proportion as they progress. Which withdraws from one page to the next and forms the moving horizon of the literary object. Without waiting, without a future, without ignorance, there is no objectivity.
Q.The author holds that:
1. There is an objective reality and a subjective reality.
2. Nature is the sum total of disparate elements.
3. It is human action that reveals the various facets of nature.
4. Apparently disconnected elements in nature are unified in fundamental sense.
Q.It is author's contention that:
1. Artistic creations are results of human consciousness.
2. The very act of artistic creation leads to the escape of the created object.
3. Man can produce and reveal at the same time.
4. An act of creation forces itself on our consciousness leaving us full of amazement.
Q.The passage makes a distinction between perception and creation in terms of:
1. Objectivity and subjectivity.
2. Revelation and action.
3. Objective realty and perceived reality.
4. Essentiality and non-essentiality of objects and subjects.
Question 4
The art of writing manifests the dialectic of perception and creation because:
1. Reading reveals the writing till the act of reading lasts.
2. Writing to be meaningful needs the concrete act of reading.
3. This art is anticipated and progresses on a series of hypotheses.
4. This literary objects has a moving horizon brought about by the very act of creation.
Question 5
A writer as an artist:
1. Reveals the essentiality of revelation.
2. Makes us feel essential vis-à-vis nature.
3. Creates reality.
4. Reveals nature in its permanence
"I have resigned my position as staff writer at The XYZ". I read this line from an article. However help me correct few similar looking sentences below:
"I have resigned my position as staff writer with The XYZ"?
"I have resigned from my position as staff writer from The XYZ"?
Please help with some more ways to write the above lines.
A. The Vedic hymns are probably the earliest important religious documents of the human race.
B. Often the favours sought are of the nature of material blessings, such as long life, vigorous offspring,
cattle and horses, gold, etc.
C. The hymns of the Rig Veda, on the other hand, are often praises of various deities, who are frequently
mere personifications of the different powers of nature.
D. The prayers in these hymns are praises of the greatness and power, the mysterious nature, and the
exploits of these deities, as well as prayers for various favours.
E. The Atharva Veda contains among other things descriptions of charms for securing harmony and
influence in an assembly etc.
(a) ECDB
(b) CEBD
(c) DBCE
(d) BDCE