Communicating with Others (Academics) - 4
Communicating With Others Academics (Difficult)
Questions
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
The professor in arts class today discussed various masterpieces of famous painters as well as the controversy over which painting is Van Gogh's _______________.
- favourite
- magnum opus
- creation
- authorship
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
The publisher is compiling a/an _____________ to accompany the textbook. The word list will help the readers to better understand the text.
- terminology
- acknowledgment
- appendix
- glossary
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
His speech was very well articulated and deserved first prize in the ______ contest.
- articulation
- elocution
- desolation
- felicitation
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
All the years of learning have helped him in developing a profound _________.
- criticism
- erudition
- apprehension
- contemplation
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
Translated version of the book was ______________ in order to explain important aspects of Russian culture.
- annexed
- annotated
- animated
- admitted
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
This sentence is ____________ and leaves the reader confused.
- ambivalent
- ominous
- ambiguous
- mythical
Directions: Fill the blanks with most appropriate answer from the given options.
Religions provide an ethical ___________ to lead one's life - the overall concept accepted by most people in today's community.
- paradigm
- paradox
- epitome
- parameter
Which of the following could replace 'sweep of things' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- fixation
- brush up
- adventure
- movement
Which of the following could replace 'accumulation' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- build up
- growth
- managing
- compiling
Which of the following could replace 'speculate' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- wonder
- assume
- think
- guess
Which of the following could replace 'anathema' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- great unacceptability
- great fixation
- great curse
- great apprehension
Which of the following could replace 'resolution' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- decision
- motion
- enthusiasm
- conclusion
Which of the following could replace 'populace' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- layout
- workforce
- public
- humans
Which of the following could replace 'narrative' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- story
- description
- sequence
- idea
Which of the following could replace 'disposal' as used in the passage?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.
Scientists want their work represented as science – but journalists want to communicate with the public, and the main tool they have at their disposal is the story. Science, on the other hand, is less concerned with narrative than with results. Scientists speak to other scientists through their work. Reputations are based on careful accumulation of facts, and a professional reluctance to speculate. Out here among the populace, where, as the Jimmy Stewart character says in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, people “do most of the working and paying and living and dying,” we communicate in the language of story. Stories need beginnings, middles, and endings. They need tension and drama and resolution. All of these are anathema to any particular bit of science. Science only proceeds as a story in the big historical sweep of things.
- removal
- clearance
- transmission
- calling