Saturday 17 August 2013

Elitmus Questions With Solutions: Verbal Reasoning (Parajumbles)-1

1.
1. Despite the passage of time, a large number of conflicts continue to remain alive, because the wronged political groups, in reality or in imagination, wish to take revenge upon each other, thus creating a vicious circle.
A. At times, managers are called upon to take ruthless decisions in the long-term interests of the organization.
B. People hurt others, at times knowingly, to teach them a lesson and, at other times, because they lack correct understanding of the other person’s stand.
C. The delegation of any power, to any person, is never absolute.
D. Every ruthless decision will be accepted easily if the situation at the moment of committing the act is objectively analyzed, shared openly and discussed rationally.
6. Power is misused; its effects can last only for a while, since employees are bound to confront it someday, more so, the talented ones.

a) BCAD
b) ADBC
c) DABC
d) BADC





2.
1. Management Committee needs to differentiate among those who commit an error once, those who are repetitively errant but can be corrected, and those who are basically wicked.
A. The persons in this category will resort to sweet-talk and make all sorts of promises on being caught, but, at the first opportunity will revert to their bad ways.
B. Managers must take ruthless action against the basically wicked and ensure their separation from the organization at the earliest.
C. The first category needs to be corrected softly and duly counselled; the second category should be dealt with firmly and duly counselled till they realize the danger of persisting with their errant behaviour.
D. It is the last category of whom the managers must be most wary.
6. The punishment must be fair and based on the philosophy of giving all the possible opportunities and help prior to taking ruthless action.

a) ADCB
b) CDAB
c) CADB
d) BDAC





3.
1. It doesn’t take a highly esteemed medical expert to conclude that women handle pain better than men.
A. First the men would give birth, and then take six months to recover.
B. As for labour pains, the human species would become extinct if men had to give birth.
C. They do, however, make life hell for everyone else with their non-stop complaining about how bad they feel.
D. The men in my life, including my husband and my father, would not take a Tylenol for pain even if their lives depends on it.
6. And by the time they finish sharing their excruciating experience with their buddies; all reproduction would come to a halt.

a) ABDC
b) DCBA
c) CDBA
d) BACD





4.
A. 1971 war changed the political geography of the subcontinent
B. Despite the significance of the event. There has been no serious book about the conflict
C. Surrender at Dacca aims to fill this gap
D. It also profoundly altered the geo-strategic situation in South-East Asia

a)ACBD
b)CADB
c)BADC
d)ADBC





5. 
A. Nonetheless, Tocqueville was only one of the first of a long line of thinkers to worry whether such rough equality could survive in the face of a growing factory system that threatened to create divisions between industrial workers and a new business elite.
B."The government of democracy brings the nation of political rights to the level of the humblest citizens. He wrote ," Just as the dissemination of wealth brings the notion of property within the reach of all the members of the community".
C. Tocqueville was far too shrewd an observer to be uncritical about the US, but his verdict was fundamentally positive.
D. No visitor to the US left a more enduring record of his travels and observations than the French writer and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, whose ‘Democracy in America’, first published in 1835, remains one of the most trenchant and insightful analyses of American social and political practises.

a)DACB
b)BACD
c)DCBA
d)DBAC





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6 comments:

  1. hey..i think in question "5" , the correct option should be "c" not "b".
    the explanation is correct but it does not comply to the option "b" , ryt??

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    1. Yea my bad :P It is C.. Thanks for notifying that :)

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  2. 1.katrina is exausted,she .............

    1)is running 2)has been running 3)had been running 4)was running

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  3. The expected answer is:
    Katrina is exhausted; she has been running.

    I believe it is more of a semicolon (;) than a comma (,)
    The use of this tense (the present perfect progressive) is for:
    actions and situations that have just stopped.
    Hence the answer

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  4. why not had been running or was running ??

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  5. We use the present perfect progressive for actions and situations which have just stopped, but which have present results. Just like the sentence given here, with the semicolon that is, and I would add another instance to this,
    I must go and wash. I've been gardening.

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