DIRECTIONS for the questions : The four sentences (labelled a, b, c, d) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
(2019)
A. Such a belief in the harmony of nature requires a purpose presumably imposed by the goodness and wisdom of a deity.
B. These parts, all fit together into an integrated, wellordered system that was created by design.
C. Historically, the notion of a balance of nature is part observational, part metaphysical, and not scientific in any way.
D. It is an example of an ancient belief system called teleology, the notion that what we call nature has a predetermined destiny associated with its component parts.
DIRECTIONS for the questions : The four sentences (labelled a, b, c, d) given below, when property sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
(2019)
A. Conceptualisations of ‘women’s time’ as contrary to clock-time and clock-time as synonymous with economic rationalism are two of the deleterious results of this representation.
B. While dichotomies of ‘men’s time’, ’women’s time’, clock-time, and caring time can be analytically useful, this article argues that everyday caring practices incorporate a multiplicity of times; and both men and women can engage in these multiple-times
C. When the everyday practices of working sole fathers and working sole mothers are carefully examined to explore conceptualisations of gendered time, it is found that caring time is often more focused on the clock than generally theorised.
D. Clock-time has been consistently represented in feminist literature as a masculine artefact representative of a ‘time is money’ perspective.
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DIRECTIONS for the questions : The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
(2019)
Privacy-challenged office workers may find it hard to believe, but open-plan offices and cubicles were invented by architects and designers who thought that to break down the social walls that divide people, you had to break down the real walls, too. Modernist architects saw walls and rooms as downright fascist. The spaciousness and flexibility of an open plan would liberate homeowners and office dwellers from the confines of boxes. But companies took up their idea less out of a democratic ideology than a desire to pack in as many workers as they could. The typical open-plan office of the first half of the 20th century was a white-collar assembly line. Cubicles were interior designers’ attempt to put some soul back in.
DIRECTIONS for the questions : The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
(2019)
Language is an autapomorphy found only in our lineage, and not shared with other branches of our group such as primates. We also have no definitive evidence that any species other than Homo sapiens ever had language. However, it must be noted straightaway that ‘language’ is not a monolithic entity, but rather a complex bundle of traits that must have evolved over a significant time frame.... Moreover, language crucially draws on aspects of cognition that are long established in the primate lineage, such as memory: the language faculty as a whole comprises more than just the uniquely linguistic features.
DIRECTIONS for the questions : Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
(2019)
A. Ocean plastic is problematic for a number of reasons, but primarily because marine animals eat it.
B. The largest numerical proportion of ocean plastic falls in small size fractions.
C. Aside from clogging up the digestive tracts of marine life, plastic also tends to adsorb pollutants from the water column.
D. Plastic in the oceans is arguably one of the most important and pervasive environmental problems today.
E. Eating plastic has a number of negative consequences such as the retention of plastic particles in the gut for longer periods than normal food particles.
DIRECTIONS for the question : The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
(2019)
Social movement organizations often struggle to mobilize supporters from allied movements in their efforts to achieve critical mass. Organizations with hybrid identities—those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of two or more social movements, issues, or identities—are vital to mobilizing these constituencies. Studies of the post-9/11 U.S. antiwar movement show that individuals with past involvement in non-anti-war movements are more likely to join hybrid organizations than are individuals without involvement in non-anti-war movements. In addition, they show that organizations with hybrid identities occupy relatively more central positions in inter-organizational contact networks within the antiwar movement and thus recruit significantly more participants in demonstrations than do nonhybrid organizations.
DIRECTIONS for the questions : Five sentences related to a topic are given below in a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does not go with the four. Key in the number of the option that you choose.
(2019)
A. Socrates told us that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’ and that to ‘know thyself is the path to true wisdom.
B. It suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favored by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’ – or speaking about yourself in the third person.
C. Research has shown that people who are prone to rumination also often suffer from impaired decision making under pressure and are at a substantially increased risk of depression.
D. Simple rumination – the process of churning your concerns around in your head – is not the way to achieve self-realization.
E. The idea is that this small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases.
DIRECTION for the question : The four sentences (labelled a, b, c, d) given below, when property sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
(2019)
A. Living things—animals and plants—typically exhibit correlational structure.
B. Adaptive behaviour depends on cognitive economy, treating objects as equivalent.
C. The information we receive from our senses, from the world, typically has structure and order, and is not arbitrary.
D. To categorize an object means to consider it equivalent to other things in that category, and different—along some salient dimension—from things that are not.
DIRECTION for the questions : Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.
(2019)
A. A particularly interesting example of inference occurs in many single panel comics.
B. It’s the creator’s participation and imagination that makes the single-panel comic so engaging and so rewarding.
C. Often, the humor requires you to imagine what happened in the instant immediately before or immediately after the panel you’re being shown.
D. To get the joke, you actually have to figure out what some of these missing panels must be.
E. It is as though the cartoonist devised a series of panels to tell the story and has chosen to show you only one - and typically not even the funniest.
DIRECTION for the question : The four sentences (labelled a, b, c, d) given below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.
(2019)
A. To the uninitiated listener, atonal music can sound like chaotic, random noise.
B. A tonality is a condition of music in which the constructs of the music do not‘live’ within the confines of a particular key signature, scale, or mode.
C. After you realize the amount of knowledge, skill, and technical expertise required to compose or perform it, your tune may change, so to speak.
D. However, atonality is one of the most important movements in 20th century music.