In the passages given below, the concluding statement is missing. For the missing statement four options are given, out of which only one is correct. Choose the correct one.
| 1. He walked into the showroom dressed in shorts and his simplest outfit. All the sales people around him ignored him. So, he showed himself around and walked around the car on display. He was ready to place a booking even without test driving the car…but there wasn’t anyone who wanted to approach him to take his booking. So, finally he walked over to the other end of the showroom where the lower end Mercedes C-class were all on display. Immediately, a salesperson approached him and introduced himself as Kee.He then walked with my uncle through the C-class and told all its features. Kee wasn’t the smoothest of car salesman. By the way he spoke English, you could tell English probably wasn’t his first language but he knew his facts and seemed honest in his recommendations. When he was done with his run down of the C-class, my uncle’s friend finally told him that he wanted to book the higher end flagship S-class right there and then. Kee looked a little disappointed and said I’m sorry sir I can’t sell you the S-class. For that, I need to pass you on to my colleague. He then later went on to explain why. My uncle cannot remember exactly why but perhaps it was something to do with Kee being a junior salesperson, so he wasn’t allowed to sell the higher end cars. My uncle’s friend didn’t give up. He thought why should he give the sale and the commission then to a so-called higher-ranking salesperson who didn’t seem to give a damn about him when he walked in. So, he asked to see Kee’s manager. When his manager came by, he said, “I want to buy the S-class right now but I only want to buy it from Kee.”
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| A. The manager would have given Kee a big blow and would have fired him. B. The manager would have fired all his salesmen who ignored the potential buyer. C. The manager might have got very impressed with his salesman, Kee. D. The manager would have sold the car instantly with Kee being the salesman. |
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Option D is correct because the ultimate aim of a business is to make money by selling its products or services. Therefore, the manager must have instantly agreed to see the Mercedes S-class irrespective of who the salesman was.
| 2. Water conservation is a big thing, but every little bit helps, so don’t think that what you do doesn’t matter. A whole lot of people doing a little bit adds up to a whole lot. We must all make changes in our lifestyles that will change the course of our water and its quality. Water conservation needs to be a way of life, not just something we think about once in a while. If we all do our part in conserving water, we can make a huge difference for the environment. Water conservation means using our water wisely and caring for it properly. Since each of us depends on water for life, it is our responsibility to learn more about water conservation and how we can help keep our water pure and safe for generations to come. Since we all enjoy the benefits of having pure, clean water, we must help conserve water, so that we may continue to enjoy these benefits.
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| A. Water is not in plenty and hence needs to be protected. B. Water conservation is important for the environment. C. Both A and B. D. None of the above |
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Both Options A & B are correct because water is a limited resource and needs to be conserved and used wisely.
| 3. Unfortunately, animals can’t talk to us, so we have to learn to read their behaviour, to understand their needs and we have to apply the findings of science to provide for their welfare. This requires practical experience as well as academic understanding, which, in traditional degree programmes is hard to achieve. The foundation degree in animal management has been specifically designed for study, either part time for people working in animal management environments, so, they can stay in employment and on a degree directly related to their work; or full-time for students aspiring for a career in animal management industries.
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| A. Animals should be studied by everyone. B. There are ample opportunities for employment in a zoo. C. It is beneficial for those who wish to work in animal management to familiarize themselves with the field. D. Universities must offer the courses on animal management. |
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
According to the passage, one needs practical experience in order to understand the behaviour of animals.
Hence, Option C is a befitting conclusion.
| 4. The real change in corporate culture began with the personal computer. With the PC, any employee would have a computer of his or her very own and use it for real work. It simplified applications that were cumbersome with a mainframe even without taking into account the problem of gaining access. The mainframe required a skilled programmer to do things that a non-technical user eventually could easily do with a spreadsheet on a PC. The forms and macros required to solve problems on PCs were trivial compared to traditional programming in COBOL or other computer languages.
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| A. Soon PCs were ubiquitous among managers and professionals. B. Management Information System (MIS) managers reacted in horror as they saw these rogue computers serving important functions within their corporations. C. These PCs held vital information in inconsistent and inaccessible formats and were not secured from loss or damage. D. Eventually, MIS departments connected PCs to their corporate mainframes, but primarily as replacements for dumb terminals. Some users, however, were more creative. |
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
The given passage highlights the ease of use of PCs which led to a change in the corporate culture according to the author.
Hence, to say that PCs revolutionized the market and became a popular choice amongst managers and professionals in the corporate world is a befitting conclusion.
| 5. Some sociologists believe that religious sects such as the California based waiters, who believe the end of the world is imminent and seek to purify their souls by, among other things, abstaining completely from sexual relations are a product of growing disaffection with modern, industrialised and organised living. As evidence, they cite the fact that there are no other active organisations of the same type which are more than 50 or 60 years. The evidence however, fails to support the conclusion for:
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| A. The restrictions on sexual relations are such that the only source of new members is outside recruitment, so such sects tend to die out after a generation or two. B. It is simply not possible to gauge the intensity of religious fervour by the length of time the religious sect remains viable. C. The waiters’ group may actually survive beyond the second generation of its existence. D. There are other religious sects that emphasise group sexual activity which currently have several hundred members. |
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
According to the passage, sects like the California based waiters abstain from sexual acts, which means they cannot produce offspring and therefore cannot survive beyond two generations.
| 6. The computer industry’s estimate is that it loses millions of dollars when users illegally copy programmes without paying for them is greatly exaggerated. Most of the illegal copying is done by people with no serious interest in the programmes. Thus, the loss to the industry is quite small, because:
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| A. Most people who illegally copy programmes would not purchase them even if purchasing them were the only way to obtain them. B. Many users who illegally copy programs never find any use of them. C. Even if the computer industry received all the revenue it claims to be losing, it would still be experiencing financial difficulties. D. The total market value of all illegal copies is low in comparison to the total revenue of the computer industry. |
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
The financial loss to the computer industry is directly proportional to the legitimate sales opportunities that have been lost.
If the people who illegally copied programmes truly had no serious interest in the programmes, they would be unlikely to purchase these programmes anyway. Hence, only a few sales would be lost and therefore the loss to the industry could be considered smaller than what it is projected to be.
| 7. In a survey of job applicants, two-fifths admitted to being at least a little dishonest. However, the survey may underestimate the proportion of job applicants who are dishonest, because:
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| A. Some generally honest people taking the survey might have claimed the survey to be dishonest. B. Some people who claimed the survey to be at least a little dishonest maybe very dishonest. C. Some people who claimed the survey to be dishonest may have been answering honestly. D. Some dishonest people taking the survey might have claimed the survey to be honest. |
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
The underestimation can happen if people who are actually dishonest, claim to be honest.
Option A is rejected because although logically correct, it is irrelevant to the question asked.
Option B says the opposite and therefore can be eliminated.
Option C is rejected because the degree of honesty discussed in not relevant to the question.
Hence, by rule of elimination, Option D is the correct answer.
| 8. Is it wrong for doctors to lie about their patients’ illnesses? Aren’t doctors just like any other people we hire to do a job for us? Surely, we would not tolerate not being told the truth about the condition of our automobile from the mechanic we hired to fix it, or the condition of our roof from the carpenter we employed to repair it. Just as these workers would be guilty of violating their good faith contracts with us if they were to do this, doctors who lie to their patients about their illnesses violate these contracts as well and this is clearly wrong.
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| A. Doctors often lie to their patients about their illnesses. B. Doctors are just hired workers like mechanics and carpenters. C. It is wrong for doctors to lie about their patients’ illnesses. D. Doctors who lie to their patients about their illnesses violate their good faith contracts with their patients |
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Option B is a factual statement whereas the passage discusses the issue of doctors not being truthful.
Option C is not supported by the passage.
Out of options A & D, only option D matches the tone and theme of the passage, and hence is the best conclusion.
The following questions have a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
| 9. Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon’s hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it’s about to happen before the patient does the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, over emphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
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| A. Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation. B. Other patients don’t like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere. C. But Perowne himself is not concerned. D. But others will take their place, he thought. E. These hands are steady enough, but they are large. |
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
The paragraph talks about how the hands of the doctor, Perowne, seem to be so important for the patients. It ends with how a certain category of people demonstrate signs of deserting the doctor.
Option C says Perowne is not concerned but Perowne’s concern on the lack of it, cannot be determined as his views on this matter (patients leaving) are not stated.
Option B, however, states that the other category of people, who stick to Perowne, do so because they are not aware of their alternatives. This option sticks to the condition of a surgeon’s hands being important to his impression as a surgeon and continues with the thought of how Perowne is only chosen by default.
Hence, the correct answer is Option B.
| 10. Over the last three decades, secular states, virtually everywhere, have come under strain. Hardly surprising, political secularism, the doctrine that defends them, has been subjected to severe criticism. Some scholars have concluded that this critique is ethically and morally so profound and justified that it is time to abandon political secularism. I reject this conclusion. I argue that the criticism of secularism looks answerable only because critics have focused on mainstream conceptions developed in largely religiously homogeneous societies. It is time we shifted the focus away from doctrines underpinning some Western secular states towards the normative practises of a wide variety of states, including the best practises of non-Western states such as India. Once we do this, we will begin to see secularism in a new light, as an ethical and moral perspective criticising, not religion as such but religious homogenisation and institutional domination.
Of all available alternatives, secularism remains our best bet to help us deal with ever deepening religious diversity and the problems endemic to it.
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| A. Political secularism means to be abandoned. B. Ethical and moral secularism should be practised. C. Religious diversity should be maintained. D. None of the above |
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Practising of ethical and moral secularism is required in the modern times instead of political secularism.