Test: Paragraph Formation- 2 - CUET MCQ

Answer : Option D

B. As instinctive as some kinds of influence are, many people do not have a very conspicuous idea of how to go about it when the other person or group is not responsive.

A. They don’t think of influence as a kind of exchange, and don’t understand how important it is to deliver something of value to the other person, rather than what they themselves value.

D. They revert to emphasizing how wonderful what they want is.

C. They forget that it has to appeal to something the other person or group cares about.

Answer : Option B

B. You already know a lot more about influence than you realize.
C. Some of the time, you can just ask for what you need, and if the other person or group can respond, they will.
D. Sometimes you have to work a little harder to figure out how to get what you want.
A. You may not think about it, you can instinctively understand that when someone helps you, you are expected sooner or later to somehow pay them back, in some reasonable way.

Answer : Option B

B. Pilkington’s proprietary process eliminated this final manufacturing stage by floating the glass, after it is cast from a melting furnace, over a bath of molten tin about the size of a tennis court.

A. The idea for ‘rinsing’ glass over a molten tin bath came to Sir Alastair when he stood at his kitchen sink washing dishes.

D. The float process gives a distortion-free glass of uniform quality with bright, fire-polished surfaces; savings in costs are

C. A float line needs only half the number of workers to produce three times as much glass as old production methods.

Answer : Option D

A. When you are thinking you are travelling mentally, you are on a journey.
B. For genuine thinking is always a process possessing direction.
C. Look out for the unexpected thoughts, however lightly they stir in your mind.
D. Sometimes an unsuspected path or byway of thought that opens up might be more rewarding than following the fixed route you had set yourself.

Answer : Option C

A. When primitive natives in New Guinea saw an aircraft for the first time they called it ‘the big bird’.
B. Birds were familiar to them.

D. Their first step towards comprehending something totally strange or unfamiliar to them was to assume it was an unusual example of something already known to them.

C. We assimilate the strange or unfamiliar by comparing it consciously or unconsciously to what is familiar to us.

Answer : Option B

A. Imagine for a moment that an unknown animal had been discovered deep in the jungles of South America.

D. It is destined to replace the dog and the cat in popularity as a domestic pet during this century.

B. What does it look like? What are its winning characteristics?

C. Take a paper now and draw it, making some notes about your sketch.D. It is destined to replace the dog and the cat in popularity as a domestic pet during this century.