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Sentence And Paragraph Completion (Theme Based)

Sentence And Paragraph Completion (Theme Based)

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

The fundamental tenets are the same in all religions,

  1. but none has been able to serve mankind
  2. except that some tenets have been written down while others have been laid down orally
  3. but god-men have interpreted them separately
  4. only the rituals are different
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

The last couple of decades have been witness to a massive 'back to nature' movement in western societies.

  1. The quest for natural roots has led them to Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical science.
  2. People are increasingly giving up artifice and behaving more naturally.
  3. Excursions to parks have been made compulsory in many schools across Europe.
  4. Is the world looking at an end to materialism?
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
As an unseen planet orbits a distant star, the gravitational pull causes the star to move back and forth in space. ( _____ ). The AAT team measures the Doppler shift of stars to an accuracy of 3 metres per second –bicycling speed. This very high precision allows the team to find planets.

  1. At planetary spectacle can be detected by ‘Doppler shifting’
  2. ‘Doppler shifting’ can detect this pull in the bicycling speed.
  3. This causes a shift in the absolute location of the star itself.
  4. That wobble can be detected by the ‘Doppler shifting’ it causes in the star’s light.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Those who argue that New Delhi must throw in its lot with Washington because _______, have at least got honesty on their side.

  1. hanging on to the apron strings of the world's only super power will take us to the high table of global geo-politics
  2. that is the call of the real politic
  3. the latter alone can legitimately bring us out of the vicious circle of poverty
  4. we are now living in a unipolar world and we have no real option to extricate the situation
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There is no area surrounding medical care that has as many experts, most of them hawking some new vitamin or nutritional supplement that will purport to "burn away fat" or transform me into a "muscled man to be envied". You do not have to go farther than the magazines at your home or office to find the vast variety of weight-loss products out there. Yet there is scant evidence for the claims that they make. (_____). It all comes down to the lax rules and regulations for supplements, which are seen as "foods" in the eyes of our advertising regulation system. Lots of money, lots of advertising and enticement, yet very little evidence or results.

  1. Why are they allowed to make these claims?
  2. A regulatory mechanism needs to be put into place to keep a tab on the rhetorical, unsubstantiated claims.
  3. They even go scot free with ridiculous claims sometimes.
  4. And are there any deterrents or penalties for hoodwinking the gullible with highly bloated claims?
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the first anti-particle - the positron. By the 1950s the anti-proton and the anti-neutron had been discovered. The importance of these discoveries was not just the fact that a scientific theory had been proven. ( _____ ). This energy of mass annihilation is known as photon energy and it promises to be a major source for our energy requirements in the very near future.

  1. More importantly, a new and unprecedented form of energy had been discovered.
  2. It was rather initiation into a new era and a new definition of energy.
  3. It opened a Pandora's Box for future energy requirements.
  4. The importance was rather in finding a new source of energy.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There are people walking among us who don't care for works of fiction. For them, make-believe makes little sense in a world that is real and far more interesting than (____). In other words they take Oscar Wilde's dictum, “All art is quite useless”, quite seriously.

  1. the stories and novels of the yore
  2. the contrast provided by fact and fiction
  3. even the greatest work of art
  4. the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Any classical economist will tell you that for India to go beyond 7 per cent GDP growth, the investment rate and capital productivity need to be stepped up. ______. There is some truth in this. Compared to Southeast Asia and the newly industrialised economies, our productivity rates are abysmal, though improving.

  1. You cannot depend on foreign remittances alone.
  2. Yet the government has placed optimism on the experience of other nations.
  3. And in this respect, the Asian tigers will beat us hands down.
  4. This appears to be a far cry from the unreasonable expectations.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Chinese foreign policy is seeking to make real the central legend that drives official Chinese history - (____) Such unbridled ambition poses a major challenge to international security. At the core of the challenge is the need for discreet limits on the exercise of Chinese power while respecting China’s right to be a world power.

  1. grab as much political space as you can
  2. China’s centrality in the world
  3. to get due recognition in the comity of nations and the platform of world politics
  4. to secure its borders against all form of aggression and international bullying
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

When you are in sales and you come across a customer, you don’t want to think of that customer as a one time phenomenon. I can remember not too long ago when I was in Banking working as a branch manager, when I would meet with my staff every Monday morning to go over their individual weekly goals.
I must say that they were very good sales people, (___). By this I mean, getting all of the customers business. I’m not saying that you should get all of the customers business in one sitting, but at least ask some probing questions so that you may compare your products and pricing to their existing ones.

  1. but they were more interested in meeting their individual goals than the customer’s requirement.
  2. but unfortunately their focus was on getting that one sale instead of focusing in on the complete package.
  3. but their focus was not the customer, but the customer’s complete package of business.
  4. but unfortunately they treated the customer as a mere figure, only a part of their overall target.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

In the European Community countries there has been talk of an energy tax to raise funds

  1. by burdening the rich who can afford higher taxes
  2. by penalize heavy users of energy
  3. by raising the price of energy-intensive implements
  4. to search for alternative sources of energy
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

“Look before you leap” reflects an attitude expressed in such a saying as

  1. 'Forewarned is forearmed'.
  2. 'A stitch in time saves nine'.
  3. 'No risk no gain'.
  4. 'Fools rush where the angles fear to tread'.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.

The European Economic Community will be a major threat to the

  1. hegemony of the US
  2. economic supremacy and power of the US
  3. development of indigenous Indian industry
  4. free Trade Areas across Asia and Americas
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked from 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

It is essential that school children learn improved facts about their country’s history. While teaching history, there has been a difference of opinion whether the young should be told only of the nation’s heroes. The obvious argument is that it would help them to have an appreciation of their virtues. But this ignores the fact that

  1. it requires lot of effort to rewrite the history, omitting the follies and misdeeds of the past
  2. the follies and misdeeds may be educative for after all a student is an adult in the making with a role to play in future
  3. it is a moot question as to who is to judge what are follies and misdeeds
  4. an assessment of the heroes is also a difficult one since the yardstick may not be acceptable to all
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.

In many works of fiction, the heroes and heroines are either authors or actors or social figures. Very rarely is the common man, a plumber or an accountant, portrayed as a hero. The one reason for this would perhaps be

  1. the authors are not familiar with the ways of life of people in such professions
  2. people are not impressed with the heroes and heroines who hail from the lower strata of social structure
  3. the authors have no patience to understand the nuances of these professions
  4. delineation of such characters requires a lot of care and a realistic approach
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