Question Numbers : (1 to 6) The passage below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best answer to each
question.
Understanding where you are in the world is a basic survival skill, which is why we, like most species come
hard-wired with specialised brain areas to create cognitive maps of our surroundings. Where humans are
unique, though, with the possible exception of honeybees, is that we try to communicate this understanding
of the world with others. We have a long history of doing this by drawing maps - the earliest versions yet
discovered were scrawled on cave walls 14,000 years ago. Human cultures have been drawing them on
stone tablets, papyrus, paper and now computer screens ever since.
Given such a long history of human map-making, it is perhaps surprising that it is only within the last few
hundred years that north has been consistently considered to be at the top. In fact, for much of human
history, north almost never appeared at the top, according to Jerry Brotton, a map historian... "North was
rarely put at the top for the simple fact that north is where darkness comes from," he says. "West is also
very unlikely to be put at the top because west is where the sun disappears."
Confusingly, early Chinese maps seem to buck this trend. But, Brotton, says, even though they did have
compasses at the time, that isn't the reason that they placed north at the top. Early Chinese compasses
were actually oriented to point south, which was considered to be more desirable than deepest darkest
north. But in Chinese maps, the Emperor, who lived in the north of the country was always put at the top of
the map, with everyone else, his loyal subjects, looking up towards him. "In Chinese culture the Emperor
looks south because it's where the winds come from, it's a good direction. North is not very good but you
are in a position of subjection to the emperor, so you look up to him," says Brotton.
Given that each culture has a very different idea of who, or what, they should look up to it's perhaps not
surprising that there is very little consistency in which way early maps pointed. In ancient Egyptian times
the top of the world was east, the position of sunrise. Early Islamic maps favoured south at the top because
most of the early Muslim cultures were north of Mecca, so they imagined looking up (south) towards it.
Christian maps from the same era (called Mappa Mundi) put east at the top, towards the Garden of Eden
and with Jerusalem in the centre.
So when did everyone get together and decide that north was the top? It's tempting to put it down to
European explorers like Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Megellan, who were navigating by the North
Star. But Brotton argues that these early explorers didn't think of the world like that at all. "When Columbus
describes the world it is in accordance with east being at the top," he says. "Columbus says he is going
towards paradise, so his mentality is from a medieval mappa mundi." We've got to remember, adds Brotton,
that at the time, "no one knows what they are doing and where they are going."
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
Throughout the passage the author describes how in
the history of map making, putting North on top has
been a moderately recent phenomenon. The author
goes on to chart the various reasons why myriad
cultures desisted from placing north on top. This makes
2 the most relevant choice.
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
The passage mentions that the Emperor, considering
that South was deemed holier, would tend to look
towards South. Hence, they would put North on top
so that the emperor could look at south from the top.
This makes 2 the correct choice.
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
The Emperor lived at the North, thus maps would depict
him above his subjects. To show respect to the
Emperor they put North on top.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
The last paragraph of the passage tells us that
Columbus was merely ascribing to the medieval
Christian notion of maps.
Correct Answer
4
Explanation
The author does not offer any explanation of his own,
rather he charts the historical positioning of North in
the passage.
Correct Answer
1
Explanation
Early Egyptian maps kept East at the top because that
was the position of sunrise. Hence, natural
phenomenon played a key-role in the construction of
maps.
Question Numbers : (7 to 12) The passage below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
I used a smartphone GPS to find my way through the coPPlestoned maze of Geneva's Old Town, in search
of a handmade machine that changed the world more than any other invention. Near a 13th-century cathedral
in this Swiss city on the shores of a lovely lake, I found what I was looking for: a Gutenberg printing press.
"This was the Internet of its day - at least as influential as the iPhone," said Gabriel de Montmollin, the
director of the Museum of the Reformation, toying with the replica of Johann Gutenberg's great invention.
[Before the invention of the printing press] it used to take four monks...up to a year to produce a single
book. With the advance in movable type in 13th-century Europe, one press could crank out 3,000 pages a
day. Before long, average people could travel to places that used to be unknown to them - with maps!
Medical information passed more freely and quickly, diminishing the sway of quacks...The printing press
offered the prospect that tyrants would never be able to kill a book or suppress an idea. Gutenberg's
brainchild broke the monopoly that clerics had on scripture. And later, stirred by pamphlets from a version
of that same press, the American colonies rose up against a king and gave birth to a nation.
So, a question in the summer of this 10th anniversary of the iPhone: has the device that is perhaps the
most revolutionary of all time given us a single magnificent idea? Nearly every advancement of the written
word through new technology has also advanced humankind. Sure, you can say the iPhone changed
everything. By putting the world's recorded knowledge in the palm of a hand, it revolutionized work, dining,
travel and socialising. It made us more narcissistic - here's more of me doing cool stuff! - and it unleashed
an army of awful trolls. We no longer have the patience to sit through a baseball game without that reach
to the pocket. And one more casualty of Apple selling more than a billion phones in a decade's time:
daydreaming has become a lost art.
For all of that, I'm still waiting to see if the iPhone can do what the printing press did for religion and
democracy...the Geneva museum makes a strong case that the printing press opened more minds than
anything else...it's hard to imagine the French or American revolutions without those enlightened voices in
print...
Not long after Steve Jobs introduced his iPhone, he said the bound book was probably headed for history's
attic. Not so fast. After a period of rapid growth in e-books, something closer to the medium for Chaucer's
volumes has made a great comeback.
The hope of the iPhone, and the Internet in general, was that it would free people in closed societies. But
the failure of the Arab Spring, and the continued suppression of ideas in North Korea, China and Iran, has
not borne that out...The iPhone is still young. It has certainly been "one of the most important, worldchanging
and successful products in history," as Apple C.E.O. Tim Cook said. But I'm not sure if the world
changed for the better with the iPhone - as it did with the printing press - or merely changed.
Correct Answer
1
Explanation
The author directly links the printing press with the
internet and then he explains how like the internet it
helped the spreading of knowledge. Thus, 1 is the
correct choice.
Correct Answer
4
Explanation
All of the other options can be verified from the
passage. 4 is neither stated nor being implied in the
passage.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
In the passage it is stated that Jobs had envisioned
the place of the bounded book in the attic. Thus, 3 is
the correct answer.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
The author takes two explicit examples of how the
iPhone has failed liberate societies like North Korea
and the failure of the Arab Spring as examples of
iPhone’s failure to battle suppression of free speech.
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
The passage mentions that it would be hard to envision
the French and American Revolution without the
enlightened voices in print. This helped to expose new
voices to people.
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
The entire point of the passage has been that despite
being an advantageous invention, the iPhone has failed
to liberate or cause an impact comparable to
Gutenberg’s invention of the press. This is best
captured in 2.
Question Numbers : (13 to 18) The passage below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
This year alone, more than 8,600 stores could close, according to industry estimates, many of them the
brand- name anchor outlets that real estate developers once stumbled over themselves to court. Already
there have been 5,300 retail closings this year...Sears Holdings-which owns Kmart-said in March that
there's "substantial doubt" it can stay in business altogether, and will close 300 stores this year. So far this
year, nine national retail chains have filed for bankruptcy.
Local jobs are a major casualty of what analysts are calling, with only a hint of hyperbole, the retail
apocalypse. Since 2002, department stores have lost 448,000 jobs, a 25% decline, while the number of
store closures this year is on pace to surpass the worst depths of the Great Recession. The growth of
online retailers, meanwhile, has failed to offset those losses, with the e-commerce sector adding just
178,000 jobs over the past 15 years. Some of those jobs can be found in the massive distribution centers
Amazon has opened across the country, often not too far from malls the company helped shutter.
But those are workplaces, not gathering places. The mall is both. And in the 61 years since the first
enclosed one opened in suburban Minneapolis, the shopping mall has been where a huge swath of middleclass
America went for far more than shopping. It was the home of first jobs and blind dates, the place for
family photos and ear piercings, where goths and grandmothers could somehow walk through the same
doors and find something they all liked. Sure, the food was lousy for you and the oceans of parking lots
encouraged car- heavy development, something now scorned by contemporary planners. But for better or
worse, the mall has been America's public square for the last 60 years.
So what happens when it disappears?
Think of your mall. Or think of the one you went to as a kid. Think of the perfume clouds in the department
stores. The fountains splashing below the skylights. The cinnamon wafting from the food court. As far back
as ancient Greece, societies have congregated around a central marketplace. In medieval Europe, they
were outside cathedrals. For half of the 20th century and almost 20 years into the new one, much of
America has found their agora on the terrazzo between Orange Julius and Sbarro, Waldenbooks and the
Gap, Sunglass Hut and Hot Topic.
That mall was an ecosystem unto itself, a combination of community and commercialism peddling everything
you needed and everything you didn't: Magic Eye posters, wind catchers, Air Jordans. ...
A growing number of Americans, however, don't see the need to go to any Macy's at all. Our digital lives are
frictionless and ruthlessly efficient, with retail and romance available at a click. Malls were designed for
leisure, abundance, ambling. You parked and planned to spend some time. Today, much of that time has
been given over to busier lives and second jobs and apps that let you swipe right instead of haunt the food
court. Malls, says Harvard business professor Leonard Schlesinger, "were built for patterns of social
interaction that increasingly don't exist."
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
The author rues the loss of the social function of the
malls throughout the passage. It served as a place
where people from all walks of life could gather without
being questioned or looked at. The author also whips
up nostalgia in order to emphasise on the lost social
usage of the shopping malls.
Correct Answer
1
Explanation
The irony is that, the older format of the malls have
given way to online shopping not only symbolically,
but in this case literally too.
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
The other options are factually incorrect and hence
shall be eliminated.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
Shopping malls are obviously commercial spaces.
However the author also paints the picture of the mall
as a place of social gathering. The author states how
the malls were a combination of ‘community and
commercialism’.
Correct Answer
4
Explanation
The author describes the mall as a place where the
‘goths and grandmothers’ could enter without people
bothering about their presence. Everyone was free to
walk inside a shopping mall gather and interact with
each other. The author paints the picture of the mall as
a place of community as well as commercialism.
Correct Answer
1
Explanation
Since the author invokes the child in the reader in
order to think of the perfume clouds, this is a trope to
induce nostalgia and conjure evocative memories
about the malls.
Question Numbers : (19 to 21) The passage below is accompanied by a set of six questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
Scientists have long recognised the incredible diversity within a species. But they thought it reflected
evolutionary changes that unfolded imperceptibly, over millions of years. That divergence between populations
within a species was enforced, according to Ernst Mayr, the great evolutionary biologist of the 1940s, when
a population was separated from the rest of the species by a mountain range or a desert, preventing
breeding across the divide over geologic scales of time. Without the separation, gene flow was relentless.
But as the separation persisted, the isolated population grew apart and speciation occurred.
In the mid-1960s, the biologist Paul Ehrlich - author of The Population Bomb (1968) - and his Stanford
University colleague Peter Raven challenged Mayr's ideas about speciation. They had studied checkerspot
butterflies living in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in California, and it soon became clear that they
were not examining a single population. Through years of capturing, marking and then recapturing the
butterflies, they were able to prove that within the population, spread over just BO acres of suitable
checkerspot habitat, there were three groups that rarely interacted despite their very close proximity.
Among other ideas, Ehrlich and Raven argued in a now classic paper from 1969 that gene flow was not as
predictable and ubiquitous as Mayr and his cohort maintained, and thus evolutionary divergence between
neighbouring groups in a population was probably common. They also asserted that isolation and gene
flow were less important to evolutionary divergence than natural selection (when factors such as mate
choice, weather, disease or predation cause better-adapted individuals to survive and pass on their successful
genetic traits). For example, Ehrlich and Raven suggested that, without the force of natural selection, an
isolated population would remain unchanged and that, in other scenarios, natural selection could be strong
enough to overpower gene flow...
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
Mayr’s contention was that speciation takes place
due to factors like geographical isolation. However
the 1969 paper challenges this notion and places the
emphasis on natural selection.
Correct Answer
2
Explanation
2 has neither been stated in the passage nor has it
been implied. The other options can be directly verified
from the passage.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
Mayr placed the emphasis of speciation on isolation.
This notion was challenged and discarded by Ehrlich
and Raven. This shows that speciation is a topic of
contention.
Question Numbers : (22 to 24) The passage below is accompanied by a set of three questions. Choose the best answer to each question.
Do sports mega events like the summer Olympic Games benefit the host city economically? It depends,
but the prospects are less than rosy. The trick is converting...several billion dollars in operating costs
during the 17- day fiesta of the Games into a basis for long-term economic returns. These days, the
summer Olympic Games themselves generate total revenue of $4 billion to $5 billion, but the lion's share
of this goes to the International Olympics Committee, the National Olympics Committees and the
International Sports Federations. Any economic benefit would have to flow from the value of the Games as
an advertisement for the city, the new transportation and communications infrastructure that was created
for the Games, or the ongoing use of the new facilities.
Evidence suggests that the advertising effect is far from certain. The infrastructure benefit depends on the
initial condition of the city and the effectiveness of the planning. The facilities benefit is dubious at best for
buildings such as velodromes or natatoriums and problematic for 100,000-seat Olympic stadiums. The
latter require a conversion plan for future use, the former are usually doomed to near vacancy. Hosting the
summer Games generally requires 30-plus sports venues and dozens of training centers. Today, the Bird's
Nest in Beijing sits virtually empty, while the Olympic Stadium in Sydney costs some $30 million a year to
operate.
Part of the problem is that Olympics planning takes place in a frenzied and time-pressured atmosphere of
intense competition with the other prospective host cities - not optimal conditions for contemplating the
future shape of an urban landscape. Another part of the problem is that urban land is generally scarce and
growing scarcer. The new facilities often stand for decades or longer. Even if they have future use, are they
the best use of precious urban real estate?
Further, cities must consider the human cost. Residential areas often are razed and citizens relocated
(without adequate preparation or compensation). Life is made more hectic and congested. There are, after
all, other productive uses that can be made of vanishing fiscal resources.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
The passage shows explicitly how the host city is at
a disadvantage for conducting the Olympic Games.
Whatever financial benefit the host city receives takes
place only in the long run. The benefits however are
not guaranteed and depend on numerous factors.
Correct Answer
1
Explanation
The passage mentions clearly how maintaining and
using this facilities become impractical after the Games
end. The other options are factually incorrect.
Correct Answer
4
Explanation
4 has neither been stated in the passage nor has it
been implied. The other options can be directly verified
from the passage.
Q. 25 The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position.
To me, a "classic" means precisely the opposite of what my predecessors understood: a work is
classical by reason of its resistance to contemporaneity and supposed universality, by reason of its
capacity to indicate human particularity and difference in that past epoch. The classic is not what
tells me about shared humanity-or, more truthfully put, what lets me recognize myself as already
present in the past, what nourishes in me the illusion that everything has been like me and has
existed only to prepare the way for me. Instead, the classic is what gives access to radically
different forms of human consciousness for any given generation of readers, and thereby expands
for them the range of possibilities of what it means to be a human being.
1. A classic is able to focus on the contemporary human condition and a unified experience of human consciousness.
2. A classical work seeks to resist particularity and temporal difference even as it focuses on a common humanity.
3. A classic is a work exploring the new, going beyond the universal, the contemporary, and the notion of a unified human consciousness.
4. A classic is a work that provides access to a universal experience of the human race as opposed to radically different forms of human consciousness.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
Option 1 is incorrect since classic doesn’t concentrate
only on contemporary issues. Option 2 is out of the
given context. Option 4 is incorrect since it talks exactly
the opposite of what is stated in the given paragraph.
The paragraph discusses the importance of ‘classic’
from the author’s perspective. And, as far as the
required summary is concerned, 3 is the most
appropriate since it talks about going beyond the
notions of unified human consciousness.
Q. 26 The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position.
A translator of literary works needs a secure hold upon the two languages involved, supported by a
good measure of familiarity with the two cultures. For an Indian translating works in an Indian
language into English, finding satisfactory equivalents in a generalized western culture of practices
and symbols in the original would be less difficult than gaming fluent control of contemporary English.
When a westerner works on texts in Indian languages the interpretation of cultural elements will be
the major challenge, rather than control over the grammar and essential vocabulary of the language
concerned. It is much easier to remedy lapses in language in a text translated into English, than
flaws of content. Since it is easier for an Indian to learn the English language than it is for a Briton
or American to comprehend Indian culture, translations of Indian texts is better left to Indians.
1. While translating, the Indian and the westerner face the same challenges but they have different skill profiles and the former has the advantage.
2. As preserving cultural meanings is the essence of literary translation Indians' knowledge of the local culture outweighs the initial disadvantage of lower fluency in English.
3. Indian translators should translate Indian texts into English as their work is less likely to pose
cultural problems which are harder to address than the quality of language.
4. Westerners might be good at gaining reasonable fluency in new languages, but as understanding
the culture reflected in literature is crucial, Indians remain better placed.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
Option 1 is contextually incorrect. Option 2 is incorrect
since the passage never states that Indians possess
lower fluency in English. Option 4 is also incorrect
because the paragraph compares the westerners with
the Indians as far as understanding the Indian culture
are concerned. The passage states that it is easy for
us to apprehend our own culture but it doesn’t vouch
for all the existing cultures. Option 3 describes the
passage accurately.
Q. 27 The passage given below is followed by four summaries. Choose the option that best captures the author's position.
For each of the past three years, temperatures have hit peaks not seen since the birth of meteorology,
and probably not for more than 110,000 years. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air is at its
highest level in 4 million years. This does not cause storms like Harvey - there have always been
storms and hurricanes along the Gulf of Mexico - but it makes them wetter and more powerful. As
the seas warm, they evaporate more easily and provide energy to storm fronts. As the air above
them warms, it holds more water vapour. For every half a degree Celsius in warming, there is about
a 3% increase in atmospheric moisture content. Scientists call this the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
This means the skies fill more quickly and have more to dump. The storm surge was greater
because sea levels have risen 20 cm as a result of more than 100 years of human- related global
warming which has melted glaciers and thermally expanded the volume of seawater.
1. The storm Harvey is one of the regular, annual ones from the Gulf of Mexico; global warming and Harvey are unrelated phenomena.
2. Global warming does not breed storms but makes them more destructive; the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, though it predicts potential increase in atmospheric moisture content, cannot predict the scale of damage storms might wreck.
3. Global warming melts glaciers, resulting in seawater volume expansion; this enables more water vapour to fill the air above faster. Thus, modern storms contain more destructive energy.
4. It is naive to think that rising sea levels and the force of tropical storms are unrelated; Harvey was destructive as global warming has armed it with more moisture content, but this may not be true of all storms.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
The given passage discuses about the increase in
force in the modern storms. Option 3 therefore projects
the exact summary of the passage stating that the
melting of glaciers due to Global Warming results in
increasing the speed water vapor in the atmosphere.
Other options therefore can be discarded.
Q. 28 The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 3) given in this question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. The process of handing down implies not a passive transfer, but some contestation in defining what exactly is to be handed down.
2. Wherever Western scholars have worked on the Indian past, the selection is even more apparent and the inventing of a tradition much more recognisable.
3. Every generation selects what it requires from the past and makes its innovations, some more than others.
4. It is now a truism to say that traditions are not handed down unchanged, but are invented.
5. Just as life has death as its opposite, so is tradition by default the opposite of innovation.
Correct Answer
54132
Explanation
The paragraph elaborates the definition of tradition
and how it is exactly a binary to innovation just like life
is which the 5th sentence introduces. 4 carries on the
argument mentioned in 5. 1 and 3 form a mandatory
pair discussing the process of innovation and how it
is different from tradition. 2 provides the perfect
conclusion to it by stating a perspective of the western
scholars who have worked on India’s past.
Q. 29 The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 3) given in this question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. Scientists have for the first time managed to edit genes in a human embryo to repair a genetic mutation, fuelling hopes that such procedures may one day be available outside laboratory conditions.
2. The cardiac disease causes sudden death in otherwise healthy young athletes and affects
about one in 500 people overall.
3. Correcting the mutation in the gene would not only ensure that the child is healthy but also prevents transmission of the mutation to future generations.
4. It is caused by a mutation in a particular gene and a child will suffer from the condition even if it inherits only one copy of the mutated gene.
5. In results announced in Nature this week, scientists fixed a mutation that thickens the heart muscle, a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Correct Answer
15243
Explanation
The given paragraph if arranged sequentially
discusses the process of genetic mutation and the
recent experiments concerned with it. Option 1
introduces the argument followed sequentially by 5
which can be seen as a continuation of the previous
sentence. 2 and 4 form a mandatory pair discussing
the need of this genetic mutation. 3 concludes the
paragraph by stating the importance of this genetic
mutation.
Q. 30 The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. The study suggests that the disease did not spread with such intensity, but that it may have driven human migrations across Europe and Asia.
2. The oldest sample came from an individual who lived in southeast Russia about 5,000 years ago.
3. The ages of the skeletons correspond to a time of mass exodus from today's Russia and
Ukraine into western Europe and central Asia, suggesting that a pandemic could have driven
these migrations.
4. In the analysis of fragments of DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons for sequences from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, seven tested positive.
5. DNA from Bronze Age human skeletons indicate that the black plague could have emerged as early as 3,000 BCE, long before the epidemic that swept through Europe in the mid-1300s.
Correct Answer
54123
Explanation
The given paragraph discusses the origin of the black
plague during the Bronze Age via DNA experimentation.
5 introduces the topic followed by 4 which further
analyses the given argument. It is sequentially followed
by 1 which states the consequence of this plague
(human migration across Asia and Europe). 2 and 3
form a mandatory pair discussing the things that are
excavated which supports sentence 1.
Q. 31 The five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) given in this question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of five numbers as your answer.
1. This visual turn in social media has merely accentuated this announcing instinct of ours, enabling us with easy-to-create, easy-to-share, easy-to-store and easy-to-consume platforms, gadgets and apps.
2. There is absolutely nothing new about us framing the vision of who we are or what we want, visually or otherwise, in our Facebook page, for example.
3. Turning the pages of most family albums, which belong to a period well before the digital dissemination of self-created and self-curated moments and images, would reconfirm the basic instinct of documenting our presence in a particular space, on a significant occasion, with others who matter.
4. We are empowered to book our faces and act as celebrities within the confinement of our
respective friend lists, and communicate our activities, companionship and locations with minimal clicks and touches.
5. What is unprecedented is not the desire to put out newsfeeds related to the self, but the ease
with which this broadcast operation can now be executed, often provoking (un)anticipated
responses from beyond one's immediate location.
Correct Answer
32145
Explanation
The paragraph concentrates on our basic instinct of
documenting our presence which has a origin even
before the age o0f social media. 3 introduces the
argument. It is followed by 2 which justifies this stating
the example of Facebook. It is further followed by 1
which elaborates 2 stating that social media today
has made this process a lot easier. 4 which follows 1
basically elongates the discussion further. It ends with
5 which discusses something unprecedented about
this particular approach.
Q. 32 Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can Pe put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out.
1. People who study children's language spend a lot of time watching how babies react to the speech they hear around them.
2. They make films of adults and babies interacting, and examine them very carefully to see whether the babies show any signs of understanding what the adults say.
3. They believe that babies begin to react to language from the very moment they are born.
4. Sometimes the signs are very subtle - slight movements of the baby's eyes or the head or the hands.
5. You'd never notice them if you were just sitting with the child, but by watching a recording over and over, you can spot them.
Correct Answer
3
Explanation
Except 3, all the other sentences discusses various
kinds of observations made to understand the language
of a baby. Sentence 3 is a statement and not an
observation.
Q. 33 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.
1. Neuroscientists have just begun studying exercise's impact within brain cells - on the genes themselves.
2. Even there, in the roots of our biology, they've found signs of the body's influence on the mind.
3. It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
4. In today's technology-driven, plasma-screened-in world, it's easy to forget that we are born movers - animals, in fact - because we've engineered movement right out of our lives.
5. It's only in the past few years that neuroscientists have begun to describe these factors and how they work, and each new discovery adds awe-inspiring depth to the picture.
Correct Answer
4
Explanation
The paragraph discusses about the body’s influence
on the mind, how exercise helps developing the brain
cells. Sentence 4 here is an anomaly because it
completely deviates from the given context as it tries
to present a separate fact altogether about our nature
being born movers.
Q. 34 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.
1. The water that made up ancient lakes and perhaps an ocean was lost.
2. Particles from the Sun collided with molecules in the atmosphere, knocking them into space or giving them an electric charge that caused them to be swept away by the solar wind.
3. Most of the planet's remaining water is now frozen or buried, but clues over the past decade suggested that some liquid water, a presumed necessity for life, might survive in underground aquifers.
4. Data from NASA's MAVEN orbiter show that solar storms stripped away most of Mars's oncethick atmosphere.
5. A recent study reveals how Mars lost much of its early water, while another indicates that some liquid water remains.
Correct Answer
1
Explanation
The remaining paragraph discusses the reasons
behind the absence of water in Mars and how NASA
has observed the situation. Sentence 1 is the odd one
out because it projects something which may or may
not have any relation with the other sentences. It is a
generalized statement, since we don’t know about
the existence of oceans in Mars.
