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  • Question 1
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    Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

    Deriving your authority from the government, your position would secure the respect and consideration of everyone, especially in a service where official rank carries so much weight. This would secure you every attention and comfort on your way and there, together with a complete submission to your orders. I know these things are a matter of indifference to you except so far as they may further, the great objects you have in view, but they are of importance in themselves, and of every importance to those who have a right to take an interest in your personal position and comfort. 

    The great objects in the passage mean ______.
    Solution
    The passage talks about how an official position in the government can secure respect, attention, and comfort for you. These are not physical items or things or objects. Hence, the given answer D is wrong. A and C are also rejected.
    Further, these aspects are aims that one can have. And the third sentence concludes that these aspects that come with a position in the government are the greatest aims that one can see in the current world. Hence, B is the correct answer.
  • Question 2
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    Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

    It is said that ideas are explosive and dangerous. To allow them unfettered freedom is, in fact, to invite disorder. But, to this position, there are at least two final answers. It is impossible to draw a line round dangerous ideas, and any attempt at their definition involves monstrous folly. If views, moreover, which imply disorder are able to disturb the foundations of the State; there is something supremely wrong with the governance of the State. For disorder is not a habit of mankind. We cling so eagerly to our accustomed ways that, as even Burke insisted; popular violence is always the outcome of a deep popular sense of wrong. 

    From a close study of the passage, which one of the following statements emerges most clearly?
    Solution
    The passage opens with a statement that ideas are explosive and dangerous. It goes on to explain that if such ideas were given total freedom, there would be disorder. It also states that we cannot draw a line around dangerous ideas because doing so would result in violence. Hence, we can conclude that the author is indifferent to dangerous ideas. B is the correct answer. 
    The given answer D is incorrect.
    A and C are irrelevant to the contents of the passage.
  • Question 3
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    Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

    What is to be the limit of forgiveness? It would probably have been allowed by many of the ancients that an unforgiving temper was not to be commended. They would have said, we are not to exact a penalty for every nice offence; we are to overlook somethings; we are to be blind sometimes. But they would have said at the same time, we must be careful to keep our self-respect, and to be on a level with the world. On the whole, they would have said, it is the part of a man fully to requite to his friends their benefits and to his enemies their injuries.

    What is the underlying tone of the passage? 
    Solution
    The author is highlighting about the goodness and forgiving nature throughout the passage. Everybody commits mistake at some point of lives and the author is trying to say that we should not take every other action seriously because it will do more harm than good. Thus option A is the correct answer. Options  B,C and D are incorrect.
  • Question 4
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    Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

    Deriving your authority from the government, your position would secure the respect and consideration of everyone, especially in a service where official rank carries so much weight. This would secure you every attention and comfort on your way and there, together with a complete submission to your orders. I know these things are a matter of indifference to you except so far as they may further, the great objects you have in view, but they are of importance in themselves, and of every importance to those who have a right to take an interest in your personal position and comfort. 

    The writer is asking his reader to accept ______.
    Solution
    The writer suggests that a position in the government secures respect and consideration. The writer also states that this is especially true when it comes to an official rank in a particular service. Hence, C is the correct answer.
    The writer mentions that aspects that come with an official rank are great aims one should pursue. But the passage is mostly about convincing the reader to accept an official rank. Hence, the given answer A is incorrect. 
    We reject B and D.
  • Question 5
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    [passage-header]Read the following passage carefully and complete the sentence that follows:[/passage-header]
    Olympia, the original site of Olympic Games in ancient Greece is situated in a quiet, beautiful valley. The old ruins are shaded by evergreen oaks, pines and poplars, as well as olive trees. Olympia was never a city but a sacred ground occupied by temples and dwellings for the priests. At the center was the enclosure known as Altis, dedicated to Zeus, the God of Gods. It was in honor of Zeus that the quadrennial festival and the games were held.
    The fame of Olympia rests largely upon Olympic Games. They were a great national festival of the entire Greek race. During the week of the festival the Athenians, the Spartans, the Syracusans and other groups, all forgot their narrow identities. They regarded an Olympic victory as the highest honor. The simple reward of a twig of wild olive immortalized the victor and his family.
    The Olympic Games were held regularly in peace and in war at an interval of four years for over a thousand years from 776 B.C. till 393 A.D.
    Originally, men who spoke Greek as their mother tongue were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. No married women were allowed to be present. The athletic program was varied by the presence of historians, orators and writers. After each event, a herald announced the victor's name and handed him a palm. On the last day the successful competitors were each given a garland of wild olive.

    ...view full instructions

    The Olympic Games were originally held in honour of ____________.
    Solution
    Option D is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'It was in honor of Zeus that the quadrennial festival and the games were held.'
    There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Options A, B, and C are the right answers.
    Hence, these incorrect .
  • Question 6
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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]On the second day of our stay, we had a skiing lesson. We began with learning how to clip off the special shoes and strap on the skis. Then we tried to master the art of balancing on the skis as we moved sideways and forward. There was a lot of slipping and falling. But we finally managed slow runs down the gentle slope. The helmeted toddlers skimming around like small gnats were an embarrassing contrast to our clumsiness. But we ignored them firmly. Soon, exhausted we cut short the lesson and retreated to the institute. All around us youngsters were happily trying their hand at skiing, snowboarding and floating in hot air balloons like flitting sky gods. It was truly a winter wonderland to revel in.

    ...view full instructions

    The expression 'skimming around like small gnats' suggests that the toddlers were __________.
    Solution

    In the above mentioned passage, the most appropriate part to complete the sentence is Option A.

    The passage talks about the experience of the author while learning skiing. Skiing is amongst the most adventurous sports and requires a lot of practice. He describes in the passage that while they, the adults feel lazy and less enthusiastic, there is a group of kids, who are super enthusiastic and are simultaneously enjoying the sport, without hesitating. This expression is stated in the phrase, ‘skimming around like gnats’, which means to go skillfully up and down the slopes.

    The other options B, C and D are never mentioned in the passage and hold no accordance with the passage and are hence wrong.

  • Question 7
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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]The dainty swallow is known to be a great air-born acrobatic artist, but its eating habits may come as a surprise. It needs to devour nearly a thousand tiny insects each day to keep its supple body energized. These black and white birds are found in the countryside, especially near water bodies and human habitations. Unlike birds who peck at insects on trees or on the ground, swallows feed on flying insects, houseflies, mosquitoes, gnats, midgets, etc. They spend most of the time in flight and are natural hunters of flying insects. They play a role in our health by reducing the numbers of malaria and dengue-causing mosquitoes. Their bodies and wings allow maneuverability and precision in flight. Their short, wide bills help them feed as they sweep through clouds of swarming insects near water and grasslands bits and above trees.

    ...view full instructions

    Swallows are largely found in ______.
    Solution
    Option A is correct because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'These black and white birds are found in the countryside, especially near water bodies and human habitations.'
    There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Options B, C, and D are the right answers.
    Hence, these are incorrect.
  • Question 8
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    Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

    Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say,
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips,
    The stride of my step,
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal woman,
    That's me.

    ...view full instructions

    What is the above poem about?


    Solution
    The poet here claims that she does not fit the typical definition of beauty as embodied by fashion models. However, she still believes that she is a "phenomenal woman". In this context, option A best fits the answer, as it is an attack on what they say by the poetess by telling her views directly.
    Option B is incorrect as it doesn't share any men's views.
    Option C is incorrect as no line in it tells about any love affair.
    Option D is incorrect as it doesn't show that a woman wants to be phenomenal, rather it states that she is a phenomenal woman.
  • Question 9
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    [passage-header]To You. by Walt Whitman[/passage-header]Let us twain walk aside from the rest; 
    Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony, 
    Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none
    Tell me the whole story, 
    Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician

    ...view full instructions

    What message does the author want to convey in the above poem?
    Solution
    Here, the given poem is written from a first person perspective, addressing a stranger. The poem reveals nothing about the poet or the stranger, just poses a set of rhetorical question which serve to question society's restrictions: that two individuals who do not know each other cannot address one another openly. In this context, option A is the best answer.
  • Question 10
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    [passage-header]Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein[/passage-header]There is a place where the sidewalk ends
    And before the street begins,
    And there the grass grows soft and white,
    And there the sun burns crimson bright,
    And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
    To cool in the peppermint wind.

    Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
    And the dark street winds and bends.
    Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
    We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
    And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
    To the place where the sidewalk ends.

    Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
    And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
    For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
    The place where the sidewalk ends.

    ...view full instructions

    What message does the poet want to convey in the above poem?
    Solution
    The poet seems to be talking about a place where the sidewalk ends which is quite magical and awesome. The poem conveys that it is only the children who seem to have the closest connection to the place where the sidewalk ends and that "we" should go there too. 
    The line "For the children, they mark, and the children, they know the place where the sidewalk ends." points that children know this place and the gives a message to the adult to go there.
    Thus, option A is the correct answer.
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