Test Level 3: Odd Sentence Out - CAT MCQ

This summer marks the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth and the hundredth anniversary of his revival.

Herman Melville seems to have got the idea to write a novel about a mad hunt for a fearsome whale during an ocean voyage, but he wrote most of 'Moby-Dick' on land, in a valley, on a farm, in a house a-dither with his wife, his sisters, and his mother, a family man's Walden.

In the barn, he liked to watch them eat, especially the cow; he loved the way she moved her jaws.

He named the farm Arrowhead, after the relics he dug up with his plow, and he wrote in a second-floor room that looked out on mountains in the distance and, nearer by, on fields of pumpkins and corn, crops he sowed to feed his animals, 'my friends the horse & cow.'

'She does it so mildly and with such a sanctity,' he wrote, the year he kept on his desk a copy of Thomas Beale's 'Natural History of the Sperm Whale.'

In Red River, the rancher is a hero, but we get little of the sense of ranchers as shrewd capitalists, which any history of the 1883 cowboy strike might reveal.

Tales of brave cowboys effectively conceal the ambiguities and violence of American development, becoming a justification for the American way.

In Red River, they bravely settled the West in the face of hostile American Indians; in reality, this was a process of violent and ruthless dispossession of American-Indian land.

Rather, the mythmaking started even as the system took shape, as a way of justifying its emergence.

The story of beef has never been far from the story of America, and in both there is a tension between the darker elements of the history and the sanitised myth.

India's relief effort in Nepal was exemplary by any standard just like the complex and massive rescue operation in Yemen last month.

Lest we forget, India mounted the biggest civilian airlift in history in 1990 when it evacuated 1,10,000 people from Iraq and Kuwait with 500 flights.

The speedy responses have gone some distance to show India's institutional capacity, a source of scepticism among foreign policy makers.

The Nepalese sang the praises of Indian defence forces for doing a great job, which incidentally they are accustomed to doing.

The institutions involved have it down to a science and they can do it without the politicians.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

The success of any organisation depends on how the performers are rewarded and how much the non-performers go unnoticed in the system.

It does not make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics.

There is a requirement of the introduction of scientific manpower planning. 

Urban Outfitters is going strong and in Zürich, on the banks of the Limmat, elaborate tattoos cover the bodies of the children of Swiss bounty.

Continuous with what we wore fifteen years ago and subtly different, it is both hipster and not.

American Apparel has filed for bankruptcy, but in cities and towns across the US the styles forged a decade ago at the epicenters of bohemia still filter out.

On the college campus where I have been living, the students dress in a style I do not understand.

In this context, in such saturation, hipster can no longer stand for anything, except perhaps the attempt or ambition to look cool.

More than 80% of the world-wide energy demand is currently supplied by the fossil fuels coal, oil or gas.

Global warming is a typical global phenomena, where the causer of the emission does not automatically suffer from it himself.

It took more than 20 years to broadly accept that mankind is causing global warming with the emission of greenhouse gases.

It will be impossible to find alternative sources, which could replace fossil fuels in the short or medium term. The energy demand is simply too high.

The drastic increase in the emission of CO₂ (carbon dioxide) within the last 30 years, caused by burning fossil fuels, has been identified as the major reason for the change of temperature in the atmosphere.

Mother, grandmother and baby are part of a tribe of between 20-200 individuals who provide food and shelter to everyone.

Just picture it: a hunter-gatherer mother with her baby in a sling and a recently weaned four-year old chatting with grandmother nearby.

Instead, they are indulged by everyone in society, which, by the way, is staunchly egalitarian across all genders and generations.

It is with a nostalgic wistfulness that we want to go back to a time when the whole family slept in one bed and mothers gave birth without pain relief.

No one ever scolds these children during the incredibly rare moments they act out.

What we do is what we know and have learned, either through instructions or through observation and assimilation.

Education need not be purely academic and may include reading for leisure or as a passion for literature.

Our mind always processes new information to analyse the similarities as well as the tiny nuances within the context, which makes the topic stand out or seem different.

Education, beyond its conventional boundaries, forms the very essence of all our actions.

The importance of education in society is indispensable and cohering, which is why society and knowledge cannot be ever separated into two distinct entities.

The companies claim they have strict policies against selling products made by underage children.

Child labour has been in vogue in India and children are the automatic choice of many companies, for they work more but are underpaid.

Child labour presents a grim picture of the socio-economic condition of a large section of our population.

Working under hazardous conditions, they start living a life of perpetual unhappiness and frustration.

In a large overgrowing family, where there is hardly a square meal a day, the young child is compelled to go to work to earn bread.

In 1993, the first plant to make float glass—used in construction, architectural, automotive, mirror and solar energy industries—was set up in India.

All types of glassware are manufactured in India, many of the manufacturing units being in the small sector.

The use of float glass not only adds to the aesthetic beauty of buildings but also leads to substantial savings of wood, thus conserving forest resources.

Several manufacturing units also make vacuum flasks and refills, and the quality of vacuum flask refills produced in India has excellent acceptability even in developed countries.

Sands of the degree of purity requisite for glass-making are found at several places in India.