Answer: B Clarity in explaining complicated financial matters would do a great deal to offset or compensate for shortcomings in a text. Note the use of and linking the positive phrase "sheer importance of his text" with the second blank. This indicates that the second missing word must be a positive term.
Q. No. 14:
To a person ________ natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenth of which have their faces turned to the walls.
Answer: B In nine-tenth of the words of art in the gallery have their faces turned to the wall, then the visitor to the gallery has no clue whatsoever to what wonders they contain. Similarly, a person uninstructed in natural history wonders through the world with no clue whatsoever to nine-tenths of the natural wonders that surround him.
Q. No. 15:
A ________ of recent cases of scientific fraud in which gross error of facts and logic have slipped past the review panels that scrutinize submissions to journals suggests that the review system is seriously ________.
Answer: D A spate or flood of examples of fraud suggests that the review system intended to catch such frauds is severely taxed or burdened.
Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Q. No. 1:
We keep trying to explain away American fundamentalism. Those of us not engaged personally or emotionally in the biggest political and cultural movement of our times- those on the sidelines of history- keep trying to come up with theories with which to discredit the evident allure of this punishing yet oddly comforting idea of a deity, this strange god. His invisible hand is everywhere, say His citizen-theologians, caressing and fixing every outcome. Little league games, job searches, test scores, the spread of sexuality transmitted diseases, the success or failure of terrorist attacks (also known as "signs"), victory or defeat in battle, at the ballot box, in bed. _______________________________.
A :
A divine love that speaks through hurricanes.
B :
Those unable to feel His soothing touch at moments such as these snort at the notion of a god with the patience or the prurience to monitor every tick and twitch of desire.
C :
Who would worship such as god?
D :
His followers must be dupes, or saps, or fools, their faith illiterate, insane, or misinformed, their strength fleeting, hollow, an aberration.
Answer: B Option B is correct. The paragraph describes the hand of god everywhere. Contrastingly, option B talks about those who are not able to feel his touch.
Q. No. 2:
The distinction is not trivial. If you consider the motivation and methods behind the attacks of September 11th to be mainly a puzzle, for instance, then the logical response is to increase the collection of intelligence, recruit more spies, add to the volume of information we have about Al Qaeda. If you consider September 11th a mystery, though, you's have to wonder whether adding to the volume of information will only make things worse. You'd want to improve the analysis within the intelligence community; you'd want more thoughtful and skeptical people with the skills to look more closely at what we already know about Al Qaeda. _____________________________________.
A :
You's want to send the counter terrorism team from the C.I.A. on a golfing trip twice a month with the counter terrorism teams from the F.B.I and the N.S.A and the Defense Department, so they could get to know one another and compare notes.
B :
If things go wrong with a puzzle, identifying the culprit is easy: it's the person who withheld information.
C :
Mysteries, though, are a lot murkier: sometimes the information we've been given is inadequate, and sometimes we aren't very smart about making sense of what we've been given.
D :
Puzzles come to satisfying conclusions. Mysteries often don't.
Answer: A The paragraph lists a series of things one would like to do and next one to follow would be option A.
Q. No. 3:
Blogs are very important these days. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has one. The invention of the Web log, we are told, is as transformative as Gutenberg's press, and has shoved journalism into a reformation, perhaps a revolution. The ascendancy of Internet technology did bring with it innovations. Information is more conveniently disseminated, and there's more of it, because anybody ca chip in. There's more "choice"-- and in a sense, more democracy. Folks on WWW, conservatives especially, boast about how the alternative media corrodes the "MSW,"for mainstream media, a term redolent with unfairness and elitism. ______________________________________.
A :
More success is met in purveying opinion and comment. Some critics reproach the blogs for the coarsening and increasing volatility of political life.
B :
Blogs, they say, tend to disinhibit. Maybe so. But politics weren't much rarefied when Andrew Jackson was president, either.
C :
The larger problems with blogs, it seems to me, is quality. Most of them are pretty awful. Many, even some with large followings, are downright appalling.
D :
The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age.
Answer: D The paragraph describes blogs, Option 'D' goes on to describe the blogs further.
Q. No. 4:
When I was back in Islamabad the next day, our director general of the Inter Services Intelligence, who happened to be in Washington, told me on the phone about his meeting with the U.S. deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage. _____________________.
A :
In what has to be most undiplomatic statement ever made, Armitage added to what Colin Powell has said to me and told the director general not only that we had to decide whether we were with America or with the terrorists, but that if we choose the terrorists, then we should be prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age.
B :
The ultimate question that confronted me was whether it was in our nation interest to destroy ourselves for the Taliban.
C :
I had time to think through exactly what might happen next.
D :
He may listen to any amount of advice he chooses, but at the end of the day the decision has to be his alone.
Answer: A Option A, clearly completes the paragraph as it narrates what Armitage had said. C may be likely answer but there is nothing given in the passage that hints at "time to think".
Q. No. 5:
Heat concentrated in the Earth's upper mantle raises temperatures sufficiently to melt the rock locally by fusing the materials with the lowest melting temperatures, resulting in small, isolated blobs of magma. These blobs then collect, rise through conduits and fractures, and some ultimately may re-collect in larger pockets or reservoirs ("holding tanks") a few miles beneath the Earth's surface. Mounting pressure within the reservoir may drive the magma further upward through structurally weal zones to erupt as lava at the surface. In a continental environment, magmas are generated in the Earth's crust as well as at varying depths in the upper mantle.The variety of molten rocks in the crust, plus the possibility of mixing with molten materials from the underlying mantle, leads to the production of magmas with widely different chemical compositions. _________________________________________.
A :
Accordingly, lavas, which of course are very rapidly cooled, form volcanic rocks typically characterized by a small percentage of crystals or fragments set in a matrix of glass or finer grained crystalline materials.
B :
If magmas never breach the surface to erupt and remain deep underground, they cool much more slowly.
C :
Subsequent to final crystallization and solidification, such rocks can be exhumed by erosion many thousands or millions of year later.
D :
If magmas cool rapidly, as might be expected near or on the Earth's surface, they solidify to form igneous rocks.
Answer: D While describing the process of magma generation and consolidation the paragraph goes on discuss formation of rocks. Option D takes the idea forward and makes it the best answer choice.
Q. No. 17:
I _____ i _____that he will pass his exam and get a good job. I will make a _____ ii _____. There will be a new government in less than a year.
Answer: B Prophesy is a verb which means “Deliver a sermon” and Prophecy is a noun which means “A prediction uttered under divine inspiration”. The pair fits best in the context.
Q. No. 18:
His listeners enjoyed his _____ wit but his victims often _____ at its satire.
Answer: D Trenchant is an adjective which means “Clearly or sharply defined to the mind” and Winced is a verb which means “Draw back, as with fear or pain”. Other three options are out of context.