Directions (1-15): In each of the questions given below, there are
five sentences out of which one doesn’t match the context to which the other
four are related. Find out that odd one out sentence and mark it as your
answer.
Q1. (A) God has managed the amazing feat
of being worshipped and invisible at the same time.
(B) Millions of people might describe
him as a white bearded father figure sitting on a throne in the sky, but none
could claim to be an eyewitness.
(C) Although it doesn’t seem possible to
offer a single fact about the Almighty that would hold up in a court of law,
somehow the vast majority of people believe in God—as many as 96 percent,
according to some polls.
(D) This reveals a huge gap between
belief and what we call everyday reality.
(E) We need to reveal the fact that he
is not going to be the same.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q2. (A) This result was all the more
astonishing when it was discovered that the person doing the praying didn’t
have to know the patient personally, or even know their names.
(B) Seriously ill patients in hospitals
were divided into groups, some being prayed for, while others were not.
(C) A striking example that there is a
reachable place beyond material reality, and that is love.
(D) In all cases, best medical care was
still given, yet it became evident that the prayed-for group seemed to recover
better.
(E) Beginning more than twenty years
ago, researchers devised experiments to try to verify whether prayer had any
efficacy.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q3. (A) A snail’s neurons pick up
signals from the outside worlds so slowly, for example, that events any faster
than three seconds would not be perceived.
(B) In other words, if a snail was
looking at an apple, and I quickly reached in and snatched it away, the snail
would not be able to detect my hand.
(C) It would “see” the apple disappear
before its very eyes.
(D) In the world like this some people
are much faster than us and others much slower.
(E) In the same way, quantum flashes are
millions of time too rapid for us to register, so our brains play a trick on us
by “seeing” solid objects that are continuous in time and space, the same way
that a movie seems continuous.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q4. (A) A person is neither the product of just her environment nor just her
genetic make up.
(B) I was about to infer the same course
of action.
(C) A child is born with a talent for
music, which then gets nurtured through continuous training in a conducive
atmosphere.
(D) The transactional model of child
development helps to resolve the split between nature and nurture.
(E) Rather it is the complex interaction
between the two that is key.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q5. (A) At first, you think of it as
just a matter of growing bigger.
(B) There is nothing in the world more
fascinating that watching a child grow and develop.
(C) Then, as the infant begins to do
things, you may think of it as “learning tricks”.
(D) In some ways, the development of
each child retraces the whole history of the human race, physically and
spiritually, step by step.
(E) But, it’s really more complicated
and full of extortions than that.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q6. (A) On the one hand, we can realize
the mistakes by applying it to revision of any human activity.
(B) On the other hand, we can ignore or
reject the significance of the original meaning of the term and replace it with
a technical definition, such as “conceptual analysis” or “the methodology of
science”.
(C) Like all expressions, however it is
subject to two kinds of distortion.
(D) The word ‘philosophy’ is of Greek
origin and means literally, “love of or friendship for wisdom.”
(E) This simple linguistic fact shows us
at once that philosophy is an intrinsic expression of human nature.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q7. (A) Some books, nevertheless, offer
“inside stuff” or “tricks” while they claim, will enable you to beat the test.
(B) This is not to say that the CAT is
“beatable”.
(C) Although the CAT is a difficult
test, it is a very learnable test.
(D) You probably have already attacked
this.
(E) There is no bag of tricks that will
show you how to master it overnight.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q8. (A) Its aim was to remove from
dance, any external associations, so that the dancers could concentrate on pure
movement and pure pattern.
(B) Abstract dance was the name of a
specific style of ballet, devised in the 1920s and developed at the bahaus.
(C) Ballroom dancing, for example, is
concerned with the pleasure the movement and pattern-making give to the
dancers, and not with some external ‘programme’.
(D) In the wider sense, a great deal of
dance is ‘abstract’.
(E) There wouldn’t be any other type of
method that could be applied.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q9. (A) In those countries where the
ideals of liberty and equality have received the greatest devotion, and
particularly in America, the political constitution has been framed with the
precise object of making impossible too great a concentration of power.
(B) The globalization had so far
achieved the motto of changing the world but not up to the extent.
(C) A philosophy that emphasizes the
likeness of all men will be averse from recognizing those exceptional qualities
in any individual which place him so clearly above his fellows that he may
justly claim to lead and influence them.
(D) A different though related strand of
thought is equalitarian.
(E) Further, when circumstances make it
necessary for a particular individual to display qualities of leadership in a
very high degree, his position is under constant and bitter attack on the score
of dictatorship, and it is necessary for him to conceal his qualities,
consciously, behind a façade or ‘ordinariness’.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q10. (A) It has removed many of the
material obstacles to the pursuit of the good life from the majority of mankind
in those countries at a high level of technical development.
(B) But it has exposed us to new
dangers, not the obvious dangers of new weapons of destruction, but the much
more serious ones of a purely materialist view of life.
(C) The invention of such a thing is a
harm to the society that couldn’t be as far as it was thought to be achieved.
(D) The growth of science and technology
has conferred obvious and immense benefits upon the community.
(E) It has also, as we too often forget,
made possible new and daring adventures of the mind.
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Solutions
S1. Ans.(e)
Sol. E
S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. C
S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. D
S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. B
S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. E
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. A
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. D
S8. Ans.(e)
Sol. E
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. B
S10. Ans.(c)
Sol. C
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