There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Question: Sentence: This philosophical cut at one’s core beliefs, values, and way of life is difficult enough. Paragraph: The experience of reading philosophy is often … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.The Positivists, anxious to stake out their claim for history as a science, contributed the weight of their influence to the cult of facts. First ascertain the facts, said the positivists, thendraw your conclusions from them. … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Over the past four centuries liberalism has been so successful that it has driven all its opponents off the battlefield. Now it is disintegrating, destroyed by a mix of hubris andinternal contradictions, according to Patrick Deneen, … Read more
Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.Steven Pinker’s new book, “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,”offers a pragmatic dose of measured optimism, presenting rationality as a fragile butachievable ideal in personal and civic life. . . . Pinker’s ambition … Read more
Q1-4. The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose the best answer for each question.Umberto Eco, an Italian writer, was right when he said the language of Europe is translation. Netflix and other deep-pocketed global firms speak it well. Just as the EU employs a smallarmy of translators and interpreters … Read more
Q1. There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Dualism was long held as the defining feature of developing countries in contrast to developed countries, where frontier technologies and high productivity were … Read more
Q1. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence and key in the number of that sentence as your answer. Q2. Five jumbled up sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, … Read more
Q1. The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or “what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes counterfactuals for many reasons. Counterfactuals explain … Read more
Comprehension:The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.In 2006, the Met [art museum in the US] agreed to return the Euphronios krater, amasterpiece Greek urn that had been a museum draw since 1972. In 2007, the Getty [artmuseum in the US] agreed to return 40 … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by four questions. Based on the passage, choose thebest answer for each question.Understanding romantic aesthetics is not a simple undertaking for reasons that are internal tothe nature of the subject. Distinguished scholars, such as Arthur Lovejoy, Northrop Frye andIsaiah Berlin, have remarked on the notorious challenges facing any attempt to … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. As software improves, the people using it become less likely to sharpen their own know-how. Applications that offer lots of prompts and tips are often to blame; simpler, less solicitous programs push people harder to think, act and … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. The Chinese have two different concepts of a copy. Fangzhipin . . . are imitations where the difference from the original is obvious. These are small models or copies that can be purchased in a museum shop, for … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. Today we can hardly conceive of ourselves without an unconscious. Yet between 1700 and 1900, this notion developed as a genuinely original thought. The “unconscious” burst the shell of conventional language, coined as it had been to embody … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. The sleights of hand that conflate consumption with virtue are a central theme in A Thirst for Empire, a sweeping and richly detailed history of tea by the historian Erika Rappaport. How did tea evolve from an obscure … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. Mode of transportation affects the travel experience and thus can produce new types of travel writing and perhaps even new “identities.” Modes of transportation determine the types and duration of social encounters; affect the organization and passage of … Read more
The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each question. The word ‘anarchy’ comes from the Greek anarkhia, meaning contrary to authority or without a ruler, and was used in a derogatory sense until 1840, when it was adopted by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon to describe his political and social … Read more
Passage 1: Creativity Creativity is at once our most precious resource and our most inexhaustible one. As anyone who has ever spent any time with children knows, every single human being is born creative; every human being is innately endowed with the ability to combine and recombine data, perceptions, materials and ideas, and devise new … Read more
Passage 1: Map Making Understanding where you are in the world is a basic survival skill, which is why we, like most species come hard-wired with specialized 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 … Read more