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CAT 2020 VARC Question Paper (Slot-3)
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Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each\u00a0question.<\/p>\n

Mode of transportation affects the travel experience and thus can produce new types of travel\u00a0writing and perhaps even new \u201cidentities.\u201d Modes of transportation determine the types and\u00a0duration of social encounters; affect the organization and passage of space and time; . . . and\u00a0also affect perception and knowledge\u2014how and what the traveler comes to know and write\u00a0about. The completion of the first U.S. transcontinental highway during the 1920s . . . for\u00a0example, inaugurated a new genre of travel literature about the United States\u2014the\u00a0automotive or road narrative. Such narratives highlight the experiences of mostly male\u00a0protagonists \u201cdiscovering themselves\u201d on their journeys, emphasizing the independence of\u00a0road travel and the value of rural folk traditions.<\/p>\n

Travel writing\u2019s relationship to empire building\u2014 as a type of \u201ccolonialist discourse\u201d\u2014has\u00a0drawn the most attention from academicians. Close connections have been observed\u00a0between European (and American) political, economic, and administrative goals for the\u00a0colonies and their\u00a0manifestations in the cultural practice of writing travel books. Travel writers\u2019\u00a0descriptions of foreign places have been analyzed as attempts to validate, promote, or\u00a0challenge the ideologies and practices of colonial or imperial domination and expansion. Mary\u00a0Louise Pratt\u2019s study of the genres and conventions of 18th- and 19th-century exploration\u00a0narratives about South America and Africa (e.g., the \u201cmonarch of all I survey\u201d trope) offered\u00a0ways of thinking about travel writing as embedded within relations of power between\u00a0metropole and periphery, as did Edward Said\u2019s theories of representation and cultural\u00a0imperialism. Particularly Said\u2019s book, Orientalism, helped scholars understand ways in which\u00a0representations of people in travel texts were intimately bound up with notions of self, in this\u00a0case, that the Occident defined itself through essentialist, ethnocentric, and racist\u00a0representations of the Orient. Said\u2019s work became a model for demonstrating cultural forms of\u00a0imperialism in travel texts, showing how the political, economic, or administrative fact of\u00a0dominance relies on legitimating discourses such as those articulated through travel writing. .\u00a0. .<\/p>\n

Feminist geographers\u2019 studies of travel writing challenge the masculinist history of geography\u00a0by questioning who and what are relevant subjects of geographic study and, indeed, what\u00a0counts as geographic knowledge itself. Such questions are worked through ideological\u00a0constructs that posit men as explorers and women as travelers\u2014or, conversely, men as\u00a0travelers and women as tied to the home. Studies of Victorian women who were professional\u00a0travel writers, tourists, wives of colonial administrators, and other (mostly) elite women who\u00a0wrote narratives about their experiences abroad during the 19th century have been\u00a0particularly revealing. From a \u201cliberal\u201d feminist perspective, travel presented one means\u00a0toward female liberation for middle- and upper-class Victorian women. Many studies from the\u00a01970s onward demonstrated the ways in which women\u2019s gendered identities were negotiated\u00a0differently \u201cat home\u201d than they were \u201caway,\u201d thereby showing women\u2019s self-development\u00a0through travel. The more recent post structural turn in studies of Victorian travel writing has\u00a0focused attention on women\u2019s diverse and fragmented identities as they narrated their travel\u00a0experiences, emphasizing women\u2019s sense of themselves as women in new locations, but only\u00a0as they worked through their ties to nation, class, whiteness, and colonial and imperial power\u00a0structures<\/p>\n

Question 1:\u00a0<\/b>From the passage, we can infer that feminist scholars\u2019 understanding of the\u00a0experiences of Victorian women travellers is influenced by all of the following EXCEPT\u00a0scholars’:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0awareness of gender issues in Victorian society<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0knowledge of class tensions in Victorian society<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0perspective that they bring to their research<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0awareness of the ways in which identity is formed<\/p>\n

Question 2:\u00a0<\/b>American travel literature of the 1920s:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0showed participation in local traditions.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0developed the male protagonists\u2019 desire for independence<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0presented travellers\u2019 discovery of their identity as different from others.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0celebrated the freedom that travel gives.<\/p>\n

Question 3:\u00a0<\/b>From the passage, it can be inferred that scholars argue that Victorian women
\nexperienced self-development through their travels because:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0they developed a feminist perspective of the world.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0they were from the progressive middle- and upper-classes of society.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0they were on a quest to discover their diverse identities.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0their identity was redefined when they were away from home.<\/p>\n

Question 4:\u00a0<\/b>According to the passage, Said\u2019s book, \u201cOrientalism\u201d:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0argued that cultural imperialism was more significant than colonial domination.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0explained the difference between the representation of people and the actual fact<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0illustrated how narrow minded and racist westerners were<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0demonstrated how cultural imperialism was used to justify colonial domination.<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 5:\u00a0<\/b>From the passage, we can infer that travel writing is most similar to:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0political journalism<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0feminist writing<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0autobiographical writing.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0historical fiction.<\/p>\n

Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each\u00a0question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although one of the most contested concepts in political philosophy, human nature is\u00a0something on which most people seem to agree. By and large, according to Rutger Bregman\u00a0in his new book Humankind, we have a rather pessimistic view – not of ourselves exactly, but\u00a0of everyone else. We see other people as selfish, untrustworthy and dangerous and therefore\u00a0we behave towards them with defensiveness and suspicion. This was how the 17th-century\u00a0philosopher Thomas Hobbes conceived our natural state to be, believing that all that stood\u00a0between us and violent anarchy was a strong state and firm leadership.\u00a0But in following Hobbes, argues Bregman, we ensure that the negative view we have of\u00a0human nature is reflected back at us. He instead puts his faith in Jean-Jacques Rousseau,\u00a0the 18th-century French thinker, who famously declared that man was born free and it was\u00a0civilisation – with its coercive powers, social classes and restrictive laws – that put him in\u00a0chains.<\/p>\n

Hobbes and Rousseau are seen as the two poles of the human nature argument and it\u2019s no\u00a0surprise that Bregman strongly sides with the Frenchman. He takes Rousseau\u2019s intuition and\u00a0paints a picture of a prelapsarian idyll in which, for the better part of 300,000 years, Homo\u00a0sapiens lived a fulfilling life in harmony with nature . . . Then we discovered agriculture and for\u00a0the next 10,000 years it was all property, war, greed and injustice. . . .<\/p>\n

It was abandoning our nomadic lifestyle and then domesticating animals, says Bregman, that\u00a0brought about infectious diseases such as measles, smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis, malaria,\u00a0cholera and plague. This may be true, but what Bregman never really seems to get to grips\u00a0with is that pathogens were not the only things that grew with agriculture – so did the number\u00a0of humans. It\u2019s one thing to maintain friendly relations and a property-less mode of living\u00a0when you\u2019re 30 or 40 hunter-gatherers following the food. But life becomes a great deal more\u00a0complex and knowledge far more extensive when there are settlements of many thousands.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCivilisation has become synonymous with peace and progress and wilderness with war and\u00a0decline,\u201d writes Bregman. \u201cIn reality, for most of human existence, it was the other way\u00a0around.\u201d Whereas traditional history depicts the collapse of civilisations as \u201cdark ages\u201d in\u00a0which everything gets worse, modern scholars, he claims, see them more as a reprieve, in\u00a0which the enslaved gain their freedom and culture flourishes. Like much else in this book, the\u00a0truth is probably somewhere between the two stated positions.<\/p>\n

In any case, the fear of civilisational collapse, Bregman believes, is unfounded. It\u2019s the result\u00a0of what the Dutch biologist Frans de Waal calls \u201cveneer theory\u201d – the idea that just below the\u00a0surface, our bestial nature is waiting to break out. . . . There\u2019s a great deal of reassuring\u00a0human decency to be taken from this bold and thought-provoking book and a wealth of\u00a0evidence in support of the contention that the sense of who we are as a species has been\u00a0deleteriously distorted. But it seems equally misleading to offer the false choice of Rousseau\u00a0and Hobbes when, clearly, humanity encompasses both.<\/p>\n

Question 6:\u00a0<\/b>None of the following views is expressed in the passage EXCEPT that:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0most people agree with Hobbes\u2019 pessimistic view of human nature as being\u00a0intrinsically untrustworthy and selfish.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0Hobbes and Rousseau disagreed on the fundamental nature of humans, but both\u00a0believed in the need for a strong state.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0Bregman agrees with Hobbes that firm leadership is needed to ensure property\u00a0rights and regulate strife.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0the author of the review believes in the veneer theory of human nature.<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 7:\u00a0<\/b>According to the passage, the \u201ccollapse of civilisations\u201d is viewed by Bregman as:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0a time that enables changes in societies and cultures.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0a sign of regression in society\u2019s trajectory.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0resulting from a breakdown in the veneer of human nature.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0a temporary phase which can be rectified by social action.<\/p>\n

Question 8:\u00a0<\/b>According to the author, the main reason why Bregman contrasts life in pre-agricultural societies with agricultural societies is to:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0advocate the promotion of less complex societies as a basis for greater security and\u00a0prosperity<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0highlight the enormous impact that settled farming had on population growth<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0make the argument that an environmentally conscious lifestyle is a more\u00a0harmonious way of living.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0bolster his argument that people are basically decent, but progress as we know it\u00a0can make them selfish.<\/p>\n

Question 9:\u00a0<\/b>The author has differing views from Bregman regarding:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0the role of agriculture in the advancement of knowledge.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0the role of pathogens in the spread of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0a property-less mode of living being socially harmonious.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0a civilised society being coercive and unjust.<\/p>\n

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\nInstructions<\/b><\/p>\n

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each\u00a0question.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been following the economic crisis for more than two years now. I began working on the\u00a0subject as part of the background to a novel, and soon realized that I had stumbled across the\u00a0most interesting story I\u2019ve ever found. While I was beginning to work on it, the British bank\u00a0Northern Rock blew up, and it became clear that, as I wrote at the time, \u201cIf our laws are not\u00a0extended to control the new kinds of super-powerful, super-complex, and potentially super\u00a0\u00a0risky investment vehicles, they will one day cause a financial disaster of global-systemic\u00a0proportions.\u201d . . . I was both right and too late, because all the groundwork for the crisis had\u00a0already been done\u2014though the sluggishness of the world\u2019s governments, in not preparing for\u00a0the great unraveling of autumn 2008, was then and still is stupefying. But this is the first\u00a0reason why I wrote this book: because what\u2019s happened is extraordinarily interesting. It is an\u00a0absolutely amazing story, full of human interest and drama, one whose byways of\u00a0mathematics, economics, and psychology are both central to the story of the last decades\u00a0and mysteriously unknown to the general public. We have heard a lot about \u201cthe two cultures\u201d\u00a0of science and the arts\u2014we heard a particularly large amount about it in 2009, because it was\u00a0the fiftieth anniversary of the speech during which C. P. Snow first used the phrase. But I\u2019m\u00a0not sure the idea of a huge gap between science and the arts is as true as it was half a\u00a0century ago\u2014it\u2019s certainly true, for instance, that a general reader who wants to pick up an\u00a0education in the fundamentals of science will find it easier than ever before. It seems to me\u00a0that there is a much bigger gap between the world of finance and that of the general public\u00a0and that there is a need to narrow that gap, if the financial industry is not to be a kind of\u00a0priesthood, administering to its own mysteries and feared and resented by the rest of us.\u00a0Many bright, literate people have no idea about all sorts of economic basics, of a type that\u00a0financial insiders take as elementary facts of how the world works. I am an outsider to finance\u00a0and economics, and my hope is that I can talk across that gulf.<\/p>\n

My need to understand is the same as yours, whoever you are. That\u2019s one of the strangest\u00a0ironies of this story: after decades in which the ideology of the Western world was personally\u00a0and economically individualistic, we\u2019ve suddenly been hit by a crisis which shows in the\u00a0starkest terms that whether we like it or not\u2014and there are large parts of it that you would\u00a0have to be crazy to like\u2014we\u2019re all in this together. The aftermath of the crisis is going to\u00a0dominate the economics and politics of our societies for at least a decade to come and\u00a0perhaps longer.<\/p>\n

Question 10:\u00a0<\/b>Which one of the following, if true, would be an accurate inference from the first
\nsentence of the passage?<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0The author\u2019s preoccupation with the economic crisis is not less than two years old.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0The author is preoccupied with the economic crisis because he is being followed.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0The economic crisis outlasted the author\u2019s preoccupation with it.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0The author has witnessed many economic crises by travelling a lot for two years<\/p>\n

Question 11:\u00a0<\/b>Which one of the following best captures the main argument of the last paragraph of
\nthe passage?<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0The aftermath of the crisis will strengthen the central ideology of individualism in the
\nWestern world<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0Whoever you are, you would be crazy to think that there is no crisis.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0In the decades to come, other ideologies will emerge in the aftermath of the crisis.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0The ideology of individualism must be set aside in order to deal with the crisis.<\/p>\n

Question 12:\u00a0<\/b>According to the passage, the author is likely to be supportive of which one of the
\nfollowing programmes?<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0Economic policies that are more sensitively calibrated to the fluctuations of the
\nmarket.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0An educational curriculum that promotes economic research<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0An educational curriculum that promotes developing financial literacy in the masses.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0The complete nationalisation of all financial institutions<\/p>\n

Question 13:\u00a0<\/b>All of the following, if true, could be seen as supporting the arguments in the passage,\u00a0EXCEPT:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0The failure of economic systems does not necessarily mean the failure of their\u00a0ideologies.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0The difficulty with understanding financial matters is that they have become so\u00a0arcane.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0The story of the economic crisis is also one about international relations, global\u00a0financial security, and mass psychology.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0Economic crises could be averted by changing prevailing ideologies and beliefs.<\/p>\n

Question 14:\u00a0<\/b>Which one of the following, if false, could be seen as supporting the author\u2019s claims?<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0The huge gap between science and the arts has steadily narrowed over time.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0The economic crisis was not a failure of collective action to rectify economic\u00a0problems.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0Most people are yet to gain any real understanding of the workings of the financial\u00a0world.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0The global economic crisis lasted for more than two years.<\/p>\n

Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n

The passage below is accompanied by a set of questions. Choose the best answer to each\u00a0question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[There is] a curious new reality: Human contact is becoming a luxury good. As more screens\u00a0appear in the lives of the poor, screens are disappearing from the lives of the rich. The richer\u00a0you are, the more you spend to be off-screen. . . .<\/p>\n

The joy \u2014 at least at first \u2014 of the internet revolution was its democratic nature. Facebook is\u00a0the same Facebook whether you are rich or poor. Gmail is the same Gmail. And it\u2019s all free.\u00a0There is something mass market and unappealing about that. And as studies show that time\u00a0on these advertisement-support platforms is unhealthy, it all starts to seem d\u00e9class\u00e9, like\u00a0drinking soda or smoking cigarettes, which wealthy people do less than poor people. The\u00a0wealthy can afford to opt out of having their data and their attention sold as a product. The\u00a0poor and middle class don\u2019t have the same kind of resources to make that happen.<\/p>\n

Screen exposure starts young. And children who spent more than two hours a day looking at\u00a0a screen got lower scores on thinking and language tests, according to early results of a\u00a0landmark study on brain development of more than 11,000 children that the National Institutes\u00a0of Health is supporting. Most disturbingly, the study is finding that the brains of children who\u00a0spend a lot of time on screens are different. For some kids, there is premature thinning of\u00a0their cerebral cortex. In adults, one study found an association between screen time and\u00a0depression. . . .<\/p>\n

Tech companies worked hard to get public schools to buy into programs that required schools\u00a0to have one laptop per student, arguing that it would better prepare children for their screen-based future. But this idea isn\u2019t how the people who actually build the screen-based future\u00a0raise their own children. In Silicon Valley, time on screens is increasingly seen as unhealthy.\u00a0Here, the popular elementary school is the local Waldorf School, which promises a back-to-nature, nearly screen-free education. So as wealthy kids are growing up with less screen\u00a0time, poor kids are growing up with more. How comfortable someone is with human\u00a0engagement could become a new class marker.<\/p>\n

Human contact is, of course, not exactly like organic food . . . . But with screen time, there has\u00a0been a concerted effort on the part of Silicon Valley behemoths to confuse the public. The\u00a0poor and the middle class are told that screens are good and important for them and their\u00a0children. There are fleets of psychologists and neuroscientists on staff at big tech companies\u00a0working to hook eyes and minds to the screen as fast as possible and for as long as possible.\u00a0And so human contact is rare. . . .<\/p>\n

There is a small movement to pass a \u201cright to disconnect\u201d bill, which would allow workers to\u00a0turn their phones off, but for now, a worker can be punished for going offline and not being\u00a0available. There is also the reality that in our culture of increasing isolation, in which so many\u00a0of the traditional gathering places and social structures have disappeared, screens are filling\u00a0a crucial void.<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 15:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following statements about the negative effects of screen time is the\u00a0author least likely to endorse?<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0It is shown to have adverse effects on young children\u2019s learning<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0It increases human contact as it fills an isolation void.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0It can cause depression in viewers.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0It is designed to be addictive.<\/p>\n

Question 16:\u00a0<\/b>The statement \u201cThe richer you are, the more you spend to be off-screen\u201d is supported\u00a0by which other line from the passage?<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0\u201cGmail is the same Gmail. And it\u2019s all free.\u201d<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0\u201cHow comfortable someone is with human engagement could become a new class\u00a0marker.\u201d<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0\u201c. . . screens are filling a crucial void.\u201d<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0\u201c. . . studies show that time on these advertisement-support platforms is unhealthy .<\/p>\n

Question 17:\u00a0<\/b>The author claims that Silicon Valley tech companies have tried to \u201cconfuse the\u00a0public\u201d by:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0pushing for greater privacy while working with advertisement-support platforms to\u00a0mine data.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0concealing the findings of psychologists and neuroscientists on screen-time use\u00a0from the public.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0developing new work-efficiency programmes while lobbying for the \u201cright to\u00a0disconnect\u201d bill.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0promoting screen time in public schools while opting for a screen-free education for\u00a0their own children.<\/p>\n

Question 18:\u00a0<\/b>The author is least likely to agree with the view that the increase in screen-time is\u00a0fuelled by the fact that:<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0screens provide social contact in an increasingly isolating world<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0there is a growth in computer-based teaching in public schools<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0some workers face punitive action if they are not online<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0with falling costs, people are streaming more content on their devices<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 19:\u00a0<\/b>The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield\u00a0a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper\u00a0sequencing of the order of the\u00a0sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:<\/strong>
\n1. Complex computational elements of the CNS are organized according to a\u00a0\u201cnested\u201d hierarchic criterion; the organization is not permanent and can change\u00a0dynamically from moment to moment as they carry out a computational task.
\n2. Echolocation in bats exemplifies adaptation produced by natural selection; a\u00a0function not produced by natural selection for its current use is exaptation —\u00a0feathers might have originally arisen in the context of selection for insulation.
\n3. From a structural standpoint, consistent with exaptation, the living organism is\u00a0organized as a complex of \u201cRussian Matryoshka Dolls\u201d — smaller structures are\u00a0contained within larger ones in multiple layers.
\n4. The exaptation concept, and the Russian-doll organization concept of living\u00a0beings deduced from studies on evolution of the various apparatuses in mammals,\u00a0can be applied for the most complex human organ: the central nervous system\u00a0(CNS).<\/p>\n

Question 20:\u00a0<\/b>The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield\u00a0a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the\u00a0sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:<\/strong>
\n1. It advocated a conservative approach to antitrust enforcement that espouses\u00a0faith in efficient markets and voiced suspicion regarding the merits of judicial\u00a0intervention to correct anticompetitive practices.
\n2. Many industries have consistently gained market share, the lion\u2019s share – without\u00a0any official concern; the most successful technology companies have grown into\u00a0veritable titans, on the premise that they advance \u2018public interest\u2019.
\n3. That the new anticompetitive risks posed by tech giants like Google, Facebook,\u00a0and Amazon, necessitate new legal solutions could be attributed to the dearth of\u00a0enforcement actions against monopolies and the few cases challenging mergers in\u00a0the USA.
\n4. The criterion of \u2018consumer welfare standard\u2019 and the principle that antitrust law\u00a0should serve consumer interests and that it should protect competition rather than\u00a0individual competitors was an antitrust law introduced by, and named after, the\u00a0‘Chicago school’.<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 21: <\/b>Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be\u00a0put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the\u00a0number of the sentence as your answer:<\/strong>
\n1. Machine learning models are prone to learning human-like biases from the\u00a0training data that feeds these algorithms.
\n2. Hate speech detection is part of the on-going effort against oppressive and\u00a0abusive language on social media.
\n3. The current automatic detection models miss out on something vital: context.
\n4. It uses complex algorithms to flag racist or violent speech faster and better than\u00a0human beings alone.
\n5. For instance, algorithms struggle to determine if group identifiers like “gay” or\u00a0“black” are used in offensive or prejudiced ways because they’re trained on\u00a0imbalanced datasets with unusually high rates of hate speech.<\/p>\n

Question 22:\u00a0<\/b>Five jumbled up sentences, related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be\u00a0put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd one out and key in the\u00a0number of the sentence as your answer:<\/strong>
\n1. The logic of displaying one\u2019s inner qualities through outward appearance was\u00a0based on a distinction between being a woman and being feminine.
\n2. ‘Appearance’ became a signifier of conduct – to look was to be and conformity to\u00a0the feminine ideal was measured by how well women could use the tools of the\u00a0fashion and beauty industries.
\n3. The makeover-centric media sets out subtly and not-so-subtly, \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019\u00a0ways to be a woman, layering these over inequalities of race and class.
\n4. The denigration of working-class women and women of colour often centres on\u00a0their perceived failure to embody feminine beauty.
\n5. \u2018Woman\u2019 was considered a biological category, but femininity was a \u2018process\u2019 by\u00a0which women became specific kinds of women.<\/p>\n

Question 23:\u00a0<\/b>The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option\u00a0that best captures the essence of the passage.<\/strong>
\nThe dominant hypotheses in modern science believe that language evolved to allow\u00a0humans to exchange factual information about the physical world. But an alternative\u00a0view is that language evolved, in modern humans at least, to facilitate social bonding.\u00a0It increased our ancestors\u2019 chances of survival by enabling them to hunt more\u00a0successfully or to cooperate more extensively. Language meant that things could be\u00a0explained and that plans and past experiences could be shared efficiently.<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0Since its origin, language has been continuously evolving to higher forms, from being used to\u00a0identify objects to ensuring human survival by enabling our ancestors to bond and\u00a0cooperate.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0From the belief that humans invented language to process factual information, scholars now\u00a0think that language was the outcome of the need to ensure social cohesion and thus human\u00a0survival.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0Most believe that language originated from a need to articulate facts, but others think it\u00a0emerged from the need to promote social cohesion and cooperation, thus enabling human\u00a0survival.<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0Experts are challenging the narrow view of the origin of language, as being merely used to\u00a0describe facts and label objects, to being necessary to promote more complex interactions\u00a0among humans<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 24:\u00a0<\/b>The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option\u00a0that best captures the essence of the passage.<\/strong>
\nAesthetic political representation urges us to realize that \u2018the representative has\u00a0autonomy with regard to the people represented\u2019 but autonomy then is not an excuse\u00a0to abandon one\u2019s responsibility. Aesthetic autonomy requires cultivation of\u00a0\u2018disinterestedness\u2019 on the part of actors which is not indifference. To have\u00a0disinterestedness, that is, to have comportment towards the beautiful that is devoid of\u00a0all ulterior references to use – requires a kind of aesthetic commitment; it is the\u00a0liberation of ourselves for the release of what has proper worth only in itself.<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0Aesthetic political representation advocates autonomy for the representatives manifested\u00a0through disinterestedness which itself is different from indifference.<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0Aesthetic political representation advocates autonomy for the representatives drawing from\u00a0disinterestedness, which itself is different from indifference.<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0Disinterestedness is different from indifference as the former means a non-subjective\u00a0evaluation of things which is what constitutes aesthetic political representation<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0Disinterestedness, as distinct from indifference, is the basis of political representation.<\/p>\n

Question 25:\u00a0<\/b>The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option\u00a0that best captures the essence of the passage.<\/strong>
\nBrown et al. (2001) suggest that \u2018metabolic theory may provide a conceptual\u00a0foundation for much of ecology just as genetic theory provides a foundation for much\u00a0of evolutionary biology\u2019. One of the successes of genetic theory is the diversity of\u00a0theoretical approaches and models that have been developed and applied. A Web of\u00a0Science (v. 5.9. Thomson Reuters) search on genetic* + theor* + evol* identifies more\u00a0than 12000 publications between 2005 and 2012. Considering only the 10 most-cited\u00a0papers within this 12000 publication set, genetic theory can be seen to focus on\u00a0genome dynamics, phylogenetic inference, game theory and the regulation of gene\u00a0expression. There is no one fundamental genetic equation, but rather a wide array of\u00a0genetic models, ranging from simple to complex, with differing inputs and outputs,\u00a0and divergent areas of application, loosely connected to each other through the\u00a0shared conceptual foundation of heritable variation.<\/p>\n

a)\u00a0Genetic theory has evolved to spawn a wide range of theoretical models and\u00a0applications but Metabolic theory need not evolve in a similar manner in the field of ecology<\/p>\n

b)\u00a0Genetic theory has a wide range of theoretical approaches and application and is\u00a0foundational to evolutionary biology and Metabolic theory has the potential to do the same for\u00a0ecology<\/p>\n

c)\u00a0Genetic theory has a wide range of theoretical approaches and applications and Metabolic\u00a0theory must have the same in the field of ecology<\/p>\n

d)\u00a0Genetic theory provides an example of how a range of theoretical approaches and\u00a0applications can make a theory successful.<\/p>\n

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\nQuestion 26:\u00a0<\/b>The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield\u00a0a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the\u00a0sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:<\/strong>
\n1. Each one personified a different aspect of good fortune.
\n2. The others were versions of popular Buddhist gods, Hindu gods and Daoist\u00a0gods.
\n3. Seven popular Japanese deities, the Shichi Fukujin, were considered to bring\u00a0good luck and happiness.
\n4. Although they were included in the Shinto pantheon, only two of them, Daikoku\u00a0and Ebisu, were indigenous Japanese gods.<\/p>\n

Answers & Solutions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(B)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aspects that guided\/influenced the understanding of feminist scholars who examined Victorian women’s travelling experiences need to be found out. We understand that the attempt made by feminist scholars was to “challenge the masculinist history of geography by (1) questioning who and what are relevant subjects of geographic study, and (2)\u00a0what counts as geographic knowledge itself.” And considering the role of women in travel writing during the Victorian era enabled these scholars to inspect new perspectives and achieve the aforementioned objectives {“…such questions are worked through ideological constructs that posit men as explorers and women as travelers\u2014or, conversely, men as travelers and women as tied to the home.<\/em>..”}[Option C<\/u>]. The varied viewpoints offered by women during this period originated from the difference in the gendered identities, implicitly indicating that the presence of an inequality\/ineuity in the gender roles [Option A<\/u>]. Additionally, studies concerning\u00a0the manner in which travel altered a woman’s gendered identities were also available; this further shaped\u00a0the feminist scholars’\u00a0\u00a0understanding of the\u00a0travelling experiences of Victorian women [Option D<\/u>]. It has not been presented or implied that the knowledge of “class” tensions, as stated in Option B<\/u>,\u00a0was an imperative element that influenced scholars’ understanding. Hence, Option B is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

We can zero-in on the answer based on the following excerpt:\u00a0{...The completion of the first U.S. transcontinental highway during the 1920s . . . for example, inaugurated a new genre of travel literature about the United States\u2014the automotive or road narrative. Such narratives highlight the experiences of mostly male protagonists \u201cdiscovering themselves\u201d on their journeys, emphasizing the independence of road travel and the value of rural folk traditions..<\/em>.}<\/p>\n

Option A<\/u>: talks about participation in local traditions which is not mentioned or implied.<\/p>\n

Option B<\/u>: is a distorted comment that does not align with the idea discussed. The author states that road journeys enabled the male protagonist’s experience of “discovering themselves”; the phrase “desire for independence” would be incorrect in this regard.<\/p>\n

Option C<\/u>: is not even remotely discussed\/implied.<\/p>\n

Option D<\/u>: It is mentioned that the inauguration of a transcontinental highway during the 1920s paved the way for a new genre that emphasised the freedom attached to such road travelling enterprises. Hence, it implicitly depicted\u00a0travel as an experience celebrating an individual’s independence {…emphasizing the independence<\/em>…}.<\/p>\n

Hence, of the given options, Option D aptly captures the characteristics of American travel literature of the 1920s.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The question requires us to probe the reason behind why the\u00a0scholars argue that Victorian women\u00a0experienced self-development through their travels.\u00a0Let us pay heed to the following segment from the passage: {...Many studies from the 1970s onward demonstrated the ways in which women\u2019s gendered identities were negotiated differently \u201cat home\u201d than they were \u201caway,\u201d thereby showing women\u2019s self-development through travel.<\/em>..}. It is highlighted that travelling {being “away”} enabled women’s identities to be “negotiated differently<\/em>“{highlighting transformation\/reconfiguration},\u00a0which in turn was the cause of their self-development. Option D is closest to this understanding. Options A, B and C fail to present the reason and are invalid statements\/inferences.<\/p>\n

4) Answer (D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A direct inference from the excerpt: {...Said\u2019s work became a model for demonstrating cultural forms of imperialism in travel texts, showing how the political, economic, or administrative fact of dominance relies on legitimating discourses such as those articulated through travel writing. .<\/em> .}. It is stated that Said’s work rendered scholars with an understanding of “cultural imperialism” and the manner in which it was used to justify colonial domination {or similar pursuits thereof}. Option B aptly captures this aspect. Options A, B and C either diverge from the discussion or are distorted comments.<\/p>\n

5)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(C)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since travel writing involves the presentation and recounting of\u00a0personal travel experiences and\/or\u00a0perspective of the world, the closest category to this would be\u00a0autobiographical writing [Option C]. Political journalism and feminist writing can be hurled out the window. Associating travel literature to historical fiction would be inappropriate as well. Hence, of the given choices, Option C is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

6)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(A)<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to find a viewpoint that is presented in the passage. Let us inspect the individual options:<\/p>\n

Option A: The introductory lines of the passage helps us infer this: {…Although one of the most contested concepts in political philosophy, human nature is something on which most people seem to agree. By and large, according to Rutger Bregman in his new book Humankind, we have a rather pessimistic view – not of ourselves exactly, but of everyone else. We see other people as selfish, untrustworthy and dangerous and therefore we behave towards them with defensiveness and suspicion<\/em>…}<\/p>\n

Option B: The author calls the viewpoints of Hobbes and Rousseau\u00a0as polar opposites {“Hobbes and Rousseau are seen as the two poles of the human nature argument<\/em>“} and does not present a similarity, especially any comment of the form: “both believed in the need for a strong state.<\/em>” Thus, we can eliminate this option.<\/p>\n

Option C: No such view has been presented.<\/p>\n

Option D: The author’s opinion of\u00a0Frans de Waal’s \u201cveneer theory\u201d is not evident\/not highlighted. Hence, we can eliminate this option.<\/p>\n

Thus, of the given statements, Option A is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

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\n7)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(A)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bregman considers the aftermath of civilizational collapse as a period that allows for certain changes or alterations in the society\u00a0{...\u201cCivilisation has become synonymous with peace and progress and wilderness with war and decline,\u201d writes Bregman. \u201cIn reality, for most of human existence, it was the other way around.\u201d Whereas traditional history depicts the collapse of civilisations as \u201cdark ages\u201d in which everything gets worse, modern scholars, he claims, see them more as a reprieve, in which the enslaved gain their freedom and culture flourishes.<\/em>.. }. Option A correctly captures this point. Options B, C and D are either not stated or distorted interpretations.<\/p>\n

8)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bregman disagrees with Hobbes’ standpoint of humans being inherently selfish or bestial and instead\u00a0takes Rousseau’s side. He asserts that civilizational progress caused by\u00a0the post-agricultural setup\u00a0is responsible for\u00a0the negative\/undesired circumstances.\u00a0In this regard, he presents the contrasting picture of pre and post-agricultural societies {attaches the image of “a prelapsarian idyll” to the nomadic lifestyle, while considers the discovery of agriculture as a misevent}. Thus, this depiction supplements\u00a0“his argument that people are basically decent, but progress as we know it can make them selfish.” Option D<\/u> is the appropriate answer.<\/p>\n

Option A<\/u>: The aspect of complexity is not the primary focal point. Thus, this option can be eliminated.<\/p>\n

Option B<\/u>: This diverges from the discussion onto a new line of discussion: “impact that settled farming had on population growth”. Hence, we can discard this choice as well.<\/p>\n

Option C<\/u>: Again, the focus is not on the environment; hence, we can scrap off this option.<\/p>\n

9)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of the passage, the author states the following: {…There\u2019s a great deal of reassuring human decency to be taken from this bold and thought-provoking book and a wealth of evidence in support of the contention that the sense of who we are as a species has been deleteriously distorted. But it seems equally misleading to offer the false choice of Rousseau and Hobbes when, clearly, humanity encompasses both..<\/em>.} Thus, he does not truly agree with Bregman’s portrayal of the civilized society. Option D correctly captures this disagreement.<\/p>\n

10)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(A)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a direct inference question that requires minimal effort and can be accurately answered using the option-elimination mechanism. The first sentence of the passage is as follows: ” ...I\u2019ve been following the economic crisis for more than two years now.<\/em>..”. It is evident that the author has been following {events\/information associated with} the economic crisis for at least two years if not more. Thus, Option A is a sensible inference to draw from this statement. Options B, C and D are inane interpretations of the same and can be effortlessly eliminated.<\/p>\n

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\n11)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the final paragraph, the author highlights the crisis as an ironical situation: a group of\u00a0individualistic entities facing an issue with collective impact and thereby, needs to be dealt with\u00a0“together” or by shifting from the existing self-centred setup {“...That\u2019s one of the strangest ironies of this story: after decades in which the ideology of the Western world was personally and economically individualistic, we\u2019ve suddenly been hit by a crisis which shows in the starkest terms that whether we like it or not\u2014and there are large parts of it that you would have to be crazy to like\u2014we\u2019re all in this together….<\/em>“}. Option D is the closest choice that captures this element. Option A is contrary to the point presented in the concluding para. Options B and C are either divergent to the point made or merely distorted comments. Hence, Option D is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

12)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(C)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A predominant idea discussed by the author is regarding the lack of financial literacy that could be truly\u00a0beneficial to our understanding of the world. This is emphasised via the following excerpt:<\/p>\n

{...It seems to me that there is a much bigger gap between the world of finance and that of the general public and that there is a need to narrow that gap, if the financial industry is not to be a kind of priesthood, administering to its own mysteries and feared and resented by the rest of us. Many bright, literate people have no idea about all sorts of economic basics, of a type that financial insiders take as elementary facts of how the world works. I am an outsider to finance and economics, and my hope is that I can talk across that gulf….<\/em>}<\/p>\n

Option C aligns with this concern and is, consequently, an idea that the author is bound to support. Option B appears as\u00a0another likely candidate; however, economic research is not one of the focal points mentioned. Options A and D contain elements that are not discussed or are opposite to the author’s ideas. Hence, Option C is a programme that the\u00a0author is most likely to be supportive of.<\/p>\n

13)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(A)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us inspect the individual options:<\/p>\n

Option\u00a0A: If true, this statement could be antithetical to the point put forth in the concluding paragraph: the author believes that an individualistic ideology isn’t the right way forward; instead, we need to deal with such crises collectively. Thus, this is a conflicting viewpoint and thereby, the correct answer.<\/p>\n

Option B: If true, aligns with the author’s point in the first paragraph: {...It seems to me that there is a much bigger gap between the world of finance and that of the general public and that there is a need to narrow that gap, if the financial industry is not to be a kind of priesthood, administering to its own mysteries and feared and resented by the rest of us.<\/em>..}<\/p>\n

Options C and D: If true, this is in tune with the author’s claim {made in the final segment} about dealing with such crises together.<\/p>\n

Hence, of the given statements, Options A deviates from the author’s argument and thus, is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

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\n14)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(B)<\/strong><\/p>\n

On skimming through the statements, it is evident that Options A and D do very little, if at all anything, to support the author’s claim.\u00a0Option C, in its current form, aligns with the author’s assertion; however, if false, it is opposite to the author’s argument about financial literacy {on negating the statement, it indicates that most people do have an understanding of the workings of the financial world}. Option B, if false, is in line with the\u00a0assertions made in the concluding paragraph.<\/p>\n

15)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(B)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Option A<\/u>: This author will agree with this assertion.\u00a0It has been mentioned in the third para: {... For some kids, there is premature thinning of their cerebral cortex…<\/em>}.<\/p>\n

Option B<\/u>:\u00a0Reduction in human contact or social engagement is one of the negative impacts of screen time that the author highlights in the passage. Option B is antithetical to this presentation and is, hence, not a claim that the author is likely to endorse.<\/p>\n

Option C<\/u>: The author states this element in the third para: {... In adults, one study found an association between screen time and depression…<\/em>}<\/p>\n

Option D<\/u>: A point along similar lines has been presented in the fifth para: {...There are fleets of psychologists and neuroscientists on staff at big tech companies working to hook eyes and minds to the screen as fast as possible and for as long as possible. And so human contact is rare.<\/em>..}<\/p>\n

Hence, Option B is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

16)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(B)<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the very beginning, the author highlights the disparity in the screen time with regard to\u00a0the wealthy and the common masses: {...As more screens appear in the lives of the poor, screens are disappearing from the lives of the rich. The richer you are, the more you spend to be off-screen<\/em>…}. The statement in\u00a0Option B supplements this assertion by further highlighting this observed difference in activity between the rich and the common: {…As more screens appear in the lives of the poor, screens are disappearing from the lives of the rich. The richer you are, the more you spend to be off-screen.<\/em>..}. None of the other options can be attached to the given statements. Hence, Option B is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

17)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following excerpt from the fourth paragraph throws light into this matter:\u00a0{...Tech companies worked hard to get public schools to buy into programs that required schools to have one laptop per student, arguing that it would better prepare children for their screen-based future. But this idea isn\u2019t how the people who actually build the screen-based future raise their own children…<\/em>}. It is understood that though tech companies manipulate public schools\u00a0into engaging in a process involving more screen time, they avoid a similar course of activity when it comes to their own children {whom they subject to a screen-free education and upbringing}. Option D aptly captures this two-facedness. Option B is a distorted interpretation, while Options A and C cannot be inferred from the passage.<\/p>\n

Hence, Option D is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

18)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Option A<\/u>: The author has already discussed a point along similar lines towards the end of the passage: {...There is also the reality that in our culture of increasing isolation, in which so many of the traditional gathering places and social structures have disappeared, screens are filling a crucial void…<\/em>}. Hence, the author definitely considers this as one of the causes behind the increase in screen time.<\/p>\n

Option B<\/u>: The discussion in passage 4 and 5 highlights how the tech companies have {perhaps successfully} convinced schools to integrate a screen-based educational\u00a0culture to prepare students for a “screen-based future”. Thus, this is another factor that the author attributes to the rise in screen time.<\/p>\n

Option C<\/u>: This aspect has been discussed towards the end of the passage: {…There is a small movement to pass a \u201cright to disconnect\u201d bill, which would allow workers to turn their phones off, but for now, a worker can be punished for going offline and not being available…<\/em>}. Hence, the author considers this as another factor contributing to the increase\u00a0in screen time.<\/p>\n

Option D<\/u>: There is no discussion mentioning or detailing the elements presented in D. Thus, we cannot conclusively comment on whether the author is likely to agree with this point.<\/p>\n

Hence, Option D is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

19)\u00a0Answer:\u00a02431<\/b><\/p>\n

Statement (2) introduces us to certain evolutionary influences in the bodily mechanisms of animals, especially mammals (bats). Statement (4) continues on the observed influence on the\u00a0various apparatuses in mammals, specifically in the case of the most complex human organ: the central nervous system (CNS). The author mentions that the example of exaptation and Russian dolls serve to assist in our understanding of this complex organ (CNS). The significance of the Russian dolls is elaborated in Statement (3), specifically with regard to its structural implications:\u00a0”\u00a0smaller structures are contained within larger ones in multiple layers<\/em>“\u2014this portryas the presence of some structural hierarchy that can be observed in such complex apparatuses. Statement (1) highlights how the complex elements in the CNS are organised in a \u201cnested hierarchic criterion”, thereby, serving as a continuation to (3). Therefore, (2)-(4)-(3)-(1) forms a coherent paragraph.<\/p>\n

20)\u00a0Answer:\u00a04123<\/b><\/p>\n

Statement (4) opens the discussion by mentioning an “antitrust law” and a few essential\u00a0features\u00a0attached to it. Statement (1) further describes this provision {“...It advocated..<\/em>.” }: the move to\u00a0support an efficient market and curb anti-competitive practises. Statement\u00a0(2) then elaborates on the latter point of anticompetitive practices and subsequently, highlights\u00a0the relevance of this provision. Statement (3) further emphasises the\u00a0\u00a0necessity of\u00a0\u00a0“new legal solutions” to deal with the elements discussed earlier {in (2) and (3)}. Hence, (4)-(1)-(2)-(3) forms a logical arrangement.<\/p>\n

21)\u00a0Answer:\u00a03<\/b><\/p>\n

On reading the statements, the arrangement (2)-(4)-(1)-(5) can be linked to form a paragraph, while Statement (3) stands out. Statements (2) and (4) talk about hate speech detection and the algorithms involved, while Statements (1) and (5) indicate the issue associated with the aforementioned algorithms. Hence, (3) is the odd one out.<\/p>\n

22)\u00a0Answer:\u00a03<\/b><\/p>\n

Statement (1) talks about how the “logic” of\u00a0determining a woman’s inner quality boiled down to the distinction between the perception of\u00a0“being a woman and being feminine”. Statement (5) highlights the difference in this understanding: the former being a ‘biological category’ and latter being a ‘process’. Statement (2) continues on the manner in which the measure of “feminine ideal” was dependent on a woman’s appearance. Statement (4) continues on this line by presenting how the incapacity to meet up to this ideal led to the denigration\u00a0of working-class women and women of colour. We notice that Statement (3) is the odd one out here.<\/p>\n

23)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(C)<\/strong><\/p>\n

One predominant viewpoint: language originated to exchange factual information<\/p>\n

An alternative viewpoint: language originated to\u00a0facilitate social bonding and consequently, to ensure human survival.<\/p>\n

The summary needs to highlight these two core viewpoints. Option C<\/u> does this without deviating from the discussion.<\/p>\n

Option A<\/u>: The evolution of language is not the focal point here; the views held in this regard are. {“language has been continuously evolving to higher forms”} Thus, we can eliminate this option since it comes across as a misrepresentation.<\/p>\n

Option B<\/u>: This is a trap wherein the statement\u00a0captures both the core viewpoints but\u00a0there is a distortion involved: “…From the belief …”\u00a0\u00a0to “…scholars now…” indicates a shift in the viewpoint. However,\u00a0this is not the case – the author simply states two prevalent perspectives on the subject.<\/p>\n

Option D<\/u>: is again a distortion since experts are not “challenging any views; the author simply highlights the presence of two viewpoints {no conflict presented}<\/p>\n

Hence, Option C is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

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\n24)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(B)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paragraph discusses two essential elements: it begins by presenting the facet of autonomy enjoyed by the representative in\u00a0Aesthetic political representation and then highlights the cultivation of “disinterestedness” in this regard. Additionally, the author distinctly identifies the aforementioned concept as being not the same as that of “indifference”. Post this, towards the end. The\u00a0author presents the reason behind this assertion. Option B correctly captures these two aspects without distorting the overall meaning.<\/p>\n

Option A: The author does not claim that the autonomy “manifested” through disinterestedness.<\/p>\n

Option C:\u00a0The statement here contains added elements which cannot be inferred from the passage.<\/p>\n

Option D: This alternative fails to capture the essence of the discussion and describes a single component. {‘political representation’ might again be incorrect}<\/p>\n

Hence, of the given summaries, Option B aptly captures the substance of the passage.<\/p>\n

25)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(B)<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are two key points discussed in the passage:<\/p>\n

1. The prospect of\u00a0“metabolic theory” being foundational to the field of ecology; the same as is the case in (2)<\/p>\n

2. Genetic theory being the conceptual basis of evolutionary biology {given the diverse and extensive theoretical approaches and models available}.<\/p>\n

Thus, the summary needs to capture both these points. Option B<\/u>\u00a0fulfils this requirement.<\/p>\n

Option A<\/u>: is a distorted claim since it is not implied in the passage; the author does not assert that “metabolic theory need not evolve in a similar manner”.<\/p>\n

Option C<\/u>: is again a misinterpretation because the author does not claim that metabolic theory “must” contribute in a similar fashion. Instead, the focus is on the “potential” of this theory.<\/p>\n

Option D<\/u>: is divergent since the author does not discuss the “success” of a theory.<\/p>\n

Hence, Option B is the correct answer.<\/p>\n

26)\u00a0Answer:\u00a03142<\/b><\/p>\n

Statement (3) opens the paragraph by introducing the subject: seven popular Japanese deities who bring good luck. Statement (1) then comments on the aspect of good fortune followed by statements (4) and (2). Statement (4) clarifies how only two of these seven entities qualify as indigenous Japanese gods while Statement (2) comments on the origin\/background of the rest. Hence, (3)-(1)-(4)-(2) forms a coherent arrangement.<\/p>\n

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