Critical Reasoning Test-2

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Parents are prepared to pay any price for the elite education of their children.
Conclusions:
I. All parents, these days, are very well-off.
II. Parents have an obsessive passion for a perfect development  of their children through good schooling.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Patients with minor ailments usually do not go to eminent doctors.
Conclusions:
I. Eminent doctors remain too busy with patients suffering from serious complications.
II. Their charges are rather high.

Directions: In  the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
The increase in adult literacy will lead to the country ’s development and progress.
Conclusions:
I. Educated persons offer less resistance to new innovations.
II. This country ’s population is totally illiterate.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
The doctors nurse only those bleeding wounds which are caused by bullets. A patient X was bleeding profusely.
Conclusions:
I. X was nursed by the doctors.
II. The doctors did not nurse X.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
These apples are too expensive to be bad.
Conclusions:
I. When apples are in short supply, the prices go up.
II. The higher the selling price, the superior is the quality of the commodity.

Directions: In  the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Of all the television sets manufactured in India, the ‘solar ’brand has the largest sale.
Conclusions:
I. The volume of sales of all the brands of television sets manufactured in India is known.
II. The production of no other television set in India is as large as that of ‘solar ’.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Cases of bride-burning for dowry are not uncommon.
Conclusions:
I. In Spite of anti-dowry laws, the ill practice continues.
II. The punishment inflicted on the party concerned is not sufficient.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Inspite of the claim of the government that terrorism is under check, killing continues.
Conclusions:
I. The terrorists have not come to an understanding with the government.
II. The government has been constantly telling a lie.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Smoking is one of those human weaknesses which tends to test the will-power of the smoker to the edge.
Conclusions:
I. It is very difficult for the smokers to give up smoking even if they want to do so.
II. Human beings have other weaknesses as well.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Video libraries are flourishing very much these days.
Conclusions:
I. People, in general, have got a video craze.
II. It is much cheaper to see as many movies as one likes on videos rather than  in the cinema hall.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Domestic demand has been increasing faster than the production of indigenous crude oil.
Conclusions:
I. Crude oil must be imported.
II. Domestic demand should be reduced.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
The oceans are a storehouse of practically every mineral, including uranium. But, like most other minerals, it is found in extremely low concentrations - about three grams for 1000 tonnes of water.
Conclusions:
I. Sea water contains gold.
II. The oceans harbour radiation hazards.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
Conclusions:
I. Even an unscrupulous person has some principles.
II. The real wisdom is to be found in scriptures.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Conclusions:
I. Fashion designers do not understand people ’s mind very well.
II. People, by and large, are highly susceptible to novelty.

Directions: In the following questions, a statement or two are followed by two conclusions. 
Statement:
All those political prisoners were released on bail who had gone to jail for reasons other than political dharnas. Bail was not granted to persons involved in murders.
Conclusions:
I. No political prisoner had committed murder.
II. Some politicians were not arrested.