English Usage Test 39

Directions: Reaarange the given sentences in a coherent sequence.

A. The individual now does not wish to subdue or abnegate but mostly to aggrandize himself, and hence is placed in unending competition with others.

B. They create an environment in which peace becomes the first casualty, which otherwise could have been an easy fruit of modern science along with opulence and leisure.

C. Whereas in ancient societies, higher personal fulfillment consisted of achieving a position of transcendence such as 'an existence of fame' (yasassarira) through heroism or martyrdom, in modern times, fulfillment resides in the achievement of material power which is regarded as synonymous with immortality.

D. Individualism, presentism and agonism are intrinsically promoters of conflict.

Directions: In the given question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     Madras is the capital city of Tamil Nadu in southern India and the fourth-largest city in the country.
   

A. Its population of 5,360,000(1991) is composed primarily of Tamil Speaking Hindus.

B. It lies of the Coromandel coast of the Bay of Bengal, about 650 km (400 miles) north east from the tip of the subcontinent.

C. The main exports are leather, iron ore, textiles, and coffee.

D. Industries manufacture cotton textiles, aluminium utensils, matches, hand woven cloth, and bidi.

6 These exports earn a significant revenue for the state.

Directions: In the given question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     Jacks, or Jackstones is a children's game using 6 to 12 six-pointed jacks and a rubber ball.
   

A. A player throws the ball in the air and tries to pick up increasing number of jacks with toss.

B. In other parts of the world, seeds, stones, bones or filled bags are used by adults and children to play games similar to jacks.

C. Jacks is of prehistoric origin and is played worldwide.

D. Games similar to Jacks are depicted in ancient Greek art, and in Pre-Christian Rome Jacks was a gambling game.

6.     Only in U.S. and Canada Jacks is considered as a girl's games.
   

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option that fills in blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. The generator started when it was given a ___________
B. To ____________ a body is easy; to win the heart is difficult.
C. The mischief-mongers will _________ your chain in a crowd.
D. Never try to ___________ other's meal.

Directions: In the given question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1.     In the transition from crude fact to science, we need forms of inference additional to those of deductive logic.
   

A. The principles of inference required for the transition from sense to science are to be attained by analysis.

B. For example, in any one moment you see your cat on hearth rug and at another in a doorway, it passed over intermediate positions although you did not see it.

C. Traditionally, it was supposed that induction would serve this purpose but this was an error.

D. As conclusions of inductive inferences from true premises are more often false that true.

6 This analysis is the kind of inference which nobody questions.

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option that fills in blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. To ____________the apprehensions, you need a soft approach.
B. The police is preparing to __________ down heavily on the culprits.
C. You cannot ____________ me into accepting your demands.
D. To ____________ this tumor, you need a skilled hand.

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows.

Most people don't know the true story of the little boy who came to be known as Douglas Craig. He was found wandering around the streets of Washington, D.C. He could not hear or speak. It is said that a man named Craig found the little boy and took him to Dr. E. M. Gallaudet at Gallaudet College. Dr. Gallaudet gave him the first name of Douglas, and the last name of Craig, after the man who found him. The little boy became Douglas Craig. Dr. Gallaudet placed Douglas in the Kendall School, and he stayed there until he was old enough to work. He spent his life working in and around the halls of Gallaudet. Douglas grew to become a tall, strong man. He had many duties, such as picking up mail at the post office, mowing grass, raking leaves, tending the flower beds, raising and lowering the heavy drop curtain on the stage for plays in the chapel, and carrying notes from the boys to the girls. Douglas actively sought a wife during his life at Gallaudet. It is said that he asked all of the black cooks in the college kitchen to marry him. For a time, he courted a black woman from Baltimore. Later in life, he married a black deaf woman from Washington.

What is the main idea of the story?

Directions: In the given question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1 Socialism as a political movement has aimed at furthering the interests of industrial wage-earners.

A. It is argued that if capitalists were expropriated, the whole body of workers would own the state.

B. The common belief is that the economic power of private capitalist enables him to oppress the wage earner.

C. Consequently, the problem of economic power can be solved completely by state ownership of land and capital.

D. But the wage earner cannot individually own his means of production but be a part of collective ownership.

6 This is the proposal for taming of economic power and therefore, comes within this purview.

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option that fills in blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. The true test of ___________ lies not in the number of people who fear you hut in the number who revere you.
B. The engineer used his _________ to get the engine started.
C. __________ not brawn, is the motto of today's youth.
D. The IQ tests check your __________ and not knowledge.

Directions: For the word given above the table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (1, 2, 3, 4) with their corresponding usage on the right (a, b, c, d). Out of the four possibilities given in the boxes below the table, select the one that has all the definitions and their usage correctly matched.

DRAMA

Directions: In the given question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1 Democracy, though necessary, is by no means the only political condition required for taming of power.

A. In the period from 1885 to 1922, the government of UK was democratic.

B. It is possible in a democracy for the majority to exercise a brutal and wholly unnecessary tyranny over a minority.

C. But that did not prevent the oppression of Ireland at that time.

D. Not only a national but a religious or political minority may be persecuted.

6 The safeguarding of minorities so far is compatible with orderly government.

Directions: The given question consists of certain statements. Select the option representing the most logical sequencing of the given statements.

A. Alligator is an amphibian.
B. Monkey is a mammal.
C. Mammals live on land.
D. Some mammals live on land.
E. Amphibians can live in water and on land.
F. Alligators can live in water and on land.

Directions: For the word given above the table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (1, 2, 3, 4) with their corresponding usage on the right (a, b, c, d). Out of the four possibilities given in the boxes below the table, select the one that has all the definitions and their usage correctly matched.

DRAW

Directions: In the given question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The four statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1 The importance of space time structure which I first emphasized is very great.

A. They need to resemble only each other in the abstract properties of space time structure.

B. It is because of importance of structure that theoretical physics is able to content itself with formulae.

C. It is obvious that the electro magnetic waves used in broadcasting cause the sensation of the hearers.

D. It explains how one complex event can be casually connected with another complex event.

6 These formulae are about inexperienced occurrence which need not resemble experienced occurrences.

Directions: For the word given above the table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (1, 2, 3, 4) with their corresponding usage on the right (a, b, c, d). Out of the four possibilities given in the boxes below the table, select the one that has all the definitions and their usage correctly matched.

DRAG