English Usage Test 22

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. A variety of measures will have to be introduced to put the family planning campaign back on its feet.
B. For this, the programme has to look inwards and treat itself as a development input in its own right.
C. In fact, development is the best method of controlling population growth though the reverse is also true that high population growth is a sure recipe for slow, if not negative development.
D. Family planning needs to be salvaged from the morass into which it has drifted.
E. Legal measures may help, but what is urgently required is social awareness and involvement to create responsible parenthood.

Directions: An assertion is a point of view. An argument is a statement meant to convince another about a certain point of view. A counter-argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these, classify the four sentences given in question.

(A) Concluding assertion (B) Supporting reason
(C) Statement irrelevant to the argument (D) Counter- argument

A. What constitutes culture is a question with no answer.

B. The beliefs constituting a particular culture may be derived from several sources.
C. Several conflicting schools of thoughts may be present in a culture.
D. Culture is an amalgamation of numerous beliefs, cohesively blended into a social fiber.

Directions: An assertion is a point of view. An argument is a statement meant to convince another about a certain point of view. A counter-argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these, classify the four sentences given in question.

(A) Concluding assertion
(B) Supporting reason
(C) Statement irrelevant to the argument
(D) Counter- argument

A. The process of evolution thus led to the greater chances of growth of humans. B. The rate of genetic mutations in mammals is low. C. Humans faced a genuine threat from stronger animals who could have easily killed them. D. Evolution favoured humans who have the capability of manipulating heavier objects to their advantage.

Directions: An assertion is a point of view. An argument is a statement meant to convince another about a certain point of view. A counter-argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these, classify the four sentences given in question.

(A) Concluding assertion
(B) Supporting reason
(C) Statement irrelevant to the argument
(D) Counter- argument

A. Psychology must keep pace with technological changes.

B. Man tries to prove that he is good at something or the other.

C. Over-compensation in one field results when a man is weak in some other field.
D. A person, howsoever inferior in a field, may never try to develop his other attributes.

Directions: An assertion is a point of view. An argument is a statement meant to convince another about a certain point of view. A counter-argument contains logic opposed to your assertion. Based on these, classify the four sentences given in question.

(A) Concluding assertion
(B) Supporting reason
(C) Statement irrelevant to the argument
(D) Counter- argument

A. The Cosmos has been deeply researched and painstakingly catalogued to gain control over its details.
B. The realm of the Cosmos is infinite and incomprehensible by normal human standards.
C. The sheer size of the Cosmos can deter the most assiduous of workers.
D. Man must explore new horizons and create world peace henceforth.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. He ended with the reminder that Hong Kong would always be in the hands of patriots.
B. He also said that they should never contain anti–Chinese demands.
C. This way Martin Lee is decidedly not a patriot.
D. What is a menacing definition of Patriotism?
E. He said that the future Hong Kong governments would be freely and universally selected.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Its proponents admit, however, that sociological explanations involve some form of intellection which is universalistic, call it 'sociological apperception', 'empathy', or 'sociological imagination', but simultaneously they also hold that explanation of specific forms of change in the cultural context of a nation requires delineation of conceptual categories applicable only to that particular culture.
B. The ideological orientation, however, is not only confined to the formulation of the goals of social change, but also extends to the specific form the sociological categories which have to analyze change.
C. This particularism of some Indian sociologists introduces yet another ideological element in the analysis of change.
D. To achieve this goal, a case for the development of a particularistic or typical Indian sociology is made.
E. Hence, they claim that there should be an Indian sociology distinct from sociology in the West or in other parts of the world.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. An Indian professor (Amartya Sen, now settled in the USA and working in Harvard University) in a prestigious JRD Tata Memorial lecture in Delhi, in August 1995, on “Population Stabilization Programme” favoured 'cooperation' approach and denounced the use of coercion to bring down the lines of two famous theories of Condorcet (of France) and Malthus (of Britain).
B. Condorcet believed that female education would lead people to choose voluntarily smaller families and lower fertility rates.
C. An important question has been raised now by some thinkers pertaining to population policy - that of cooperation vs coercion, or incentives vs disincentives, or Kerala model vs Chinese model.
D. There are some thinkers who support cooperation while there are others who support coercion.
E. He supported Condorcet's approach to the problem of population which talked of the emergence of new norms of small family size based on 'the progress of reason'.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The figures given are based only on estimates.
B. Registration with the employment exchange being voluntary, not all the unemployed register their names in the exchanges.
C. Though it is often repeated that there has been an alarming rise in unemployment in our country since independence, the exact number of unemployed persons is not yet known, as no survey has been undertaken either by the Planning Commission or by the National Simple Survey (NSS), or the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) or the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).
D. The estimates only take into consideration the number of persons registered in the employment exchanges and these employment exchanges cover mainly the urban areas.
E. Further, some of the registered persons are already employed but register again to seek better employment.

Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. In 2 years, the war of Jenkins Ear was to fade into insignificance in the face of the war of the Austrian succession in Europe.
B. Britain was jubilant when Walpole was forced to give way over the issue of war with Spain.
C. The Admiral was dispatched to the Caribbean where he duly sacked the town and destroyed its fortifications, barely a month after war had been declared.
D. One of the loudest of the voices clamoring for war was that of Admiral Vernon who declared that he could capture Porto Bello, the important Spanish trading post on the Isthmus of Panama with just six men-of-war.
E. Vernon became a national hero but his subsequent exploits were a failure.