Directions (1-15): 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.
Q1. Debt is more common in families with disabled children: the
parents were unable to keep up with any local property taxes, water, and
telephone bills, and were not likely to be able to afford basic items such as a
family holiday once a year, a bicycle, or even two pairs of shoes. A disabled
baby needs more nappies. Families’ ability to work grows difficult, and finding
childcare is a real burden. Households with disabled children will depend more
on social security benefits and are faced with the additional financial costs
associated with caring for a disabled child.
(a) There is a strong link between child disability and poverty.
(b) The highest prevalence of childhood disability is found in
the poorest families.
(c) It is an adverse and serious social gradient that families
with disabled face.
(d) But thanks to science, these children live longer and
medicines keep them alive.
(e) None of the above is appropriate
Q2. Lower winter temperatures were common in Europe during the
second half of the 17th century, famously allowing frost fairs to be held on
the frozen Thames in London before riverine developments increased the flow
rate. These cold winters coincided with the Maunder minimum in solar activity
when the Sun remained virtually free of sunspots for almost 50 years. However,
establishing that this was not just a chance occurrence requires that the
relationship continue to hold over a long interval, such that cold European
winters become less frequent when solar activity is high and then more common
again when solar activity falls. Various indicators show that during the recent
minimum of the 11 year sunspot cycle, the Sun has been quieter than at any time
in the previous 90 years.
(a) This means that solar activity during the current sunspot
minimum has fallen to levels unknown since the start of the 20th century.
(b) This yields an opportunity for a better test of the
relationship between solar activity and cold European winters.
(c) This proves that cold winters occur more commonly in the UK
during low solar activity.
(d) This regional and seasonal effect relating to European
winters may have a global effect.
(e) None of the above is appropriate
Q3. What a super film experience Green Zone is! From the
firecracker opening to the sucker-punch climax, the film is a
non-stop adrenalin rush. The hand-held camera and natural light make
you feel as if you are seeing the action from the front, as if you
have access to footage shot from a sniper’s sights. Whether it is a
Bourne-in-Baghdad kind of relentless action thriller or a strong statement
against the U.S. war in Iraq, (incidentally, it is both) Green Zone succeeds as
a pure cinema, delivering thrills, spills and chills in breathless
succession hardly giving anyone time to breathe.
(a) This is a movie that takes you on a thrilling, provocative,
exhilarating ride.
(b) There is really nothing more you could ask for from a movie.
(c) Green Zone effectively knits several strands together to
make a cohesive whole.
(d) The plot is taut and truthful.
(e) None of the above is appropriate
Q4. Talented youth can ill-afford to resign to their fate just
because they can’t properly communicate in English. They should confront the
challenges which should, in fact, bring out their best. A little confidence and
hard work are all that is needed for them to climb up the career ladder.
For that they need to develop communication skills in English, shape
up their personalities and acquire the much-needed knowledge.
(a) Knowledge and communication skills are the key ingredients
that make up the recipe for success.
(b) Students have to act as leaders in the college itself.
(c) Success will automatically follow.
(d) Speaking and writing in English are important, thinking in
English is twice as important.
(e) None of the above is appropriate
Q5. Philosophy of music has been dominated by the view that the
best music is autonomous and formally complex. As recently as 1990, philosophy
of popular music consisted of variations on a single theme. Philosophers
defended the twin assumptions that popular music is essentially different from
“serious” or art music, and that the former is aesthetically inferior
to the latter.
(a) As a result, music could not be regarded as art if it lacked
genius and autonomy.
(b) As a result, popular music competes with and replaces local
and regional folk traditions.
(c) As a result, most philosophers concentrated on identifying
the aesthetic deficiencies inherent in popular music.
(d) As a result, philosophers have investigated popular music by
identifying and critiquing key concepts that shape our response to this music.
(e) None of the above is appropriate
