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In the following question, a short passage with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).
There is a fairly universal sentiment that the use of nuclear weapons is clearly contrary to mortality and that its production probably so, does not go far enough. These activities are not only opposed to mortality but also to the law. If the legal objection can be added to the moral, the argument against the use and manufacture of these weapons will considerably be reinforced. Now the time is ripe to evaluate the responsibility of scientists who knowingly use their expertise for the construction of such weapons, which has a deleterious effect on mankind.
How appropriate it is that all this valuable skill should be devoted to the manufacture of weapons of death in a world of poverty is a question that must touch the scientific conscience.

A) Almost 50% of the skilled scientific manpower in the world is now engaged in the armaments industry. B) To think that majority of the scientists are promoting the manufacturing of the armaments is hurtful.
C) Scientists should use their conscience before taking up these contracts to manufacture the weapons of mass destruction. D) Scientific manpower is used to the interests of some selfish and careless people who want to threaten the existence of homo-sapiens.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Almost 50% of the skilled scientific manpower in the world is now engaged in the armaments industry.

Explanation:

Choice 1 is correct as it matches with the flow of the passage. The whole paragraph is about the devastating effects that nuclear weapons have due to certain curtailments on part of the
scientists in the moral and the conscience aspect. It is only logical to mention an argument to support the next statement. It also keeps up with the tone and general
subject of the passage.
Option 2 is a bad choice as it talks about absolutely nothing and is too naïve. Therefore is incorrect as it is beyond the general theme.
Option 3 is incorrect as it obviously does not go with the flow of the Para.
As for option 4, it is incorrect as the statement is illogical.
As for 5, neither does it logically follow the previous sentence nor is it related to the anything in the next sentence.

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Number of Sigma and Pi bonds in benzene, respectively is

A) 12 and 3 B) 3 and 3
C) 6 and 3 D) 9 and 3
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 12 and 3

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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase‘The identification of a disease by its symptoms’

A) Prescription B) Prognosis
C) Diagnosis D) Biopsy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Diagnosis

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Prescription is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Prognosis is a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Biopsy is an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
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Macroeconomics can best be described as the

A) analysis of how a consumer tries to spend income. B) analysis of how firms attempt to maximize their profits.
C) study of how supply and demand determine prices in individual markets. D) study of the large aggregates of the economy or the economy as a whole.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) study of the large aggregates of the economy or the economy as a whole.

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.


Fever in the season of dengue is sending Calcuttans scurrying to hospitals for admission, triggering a shortage of beds that has forced some private health care institutes to even postpone planned surgeries. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals on the Bypass had 504 patients in its care as on Thursday of whom 70 had been admitted with fever. Belle Vue Clinic had 180 patients, 32 of them with dengue. Calcutta Medical Research Institute had 350 patients 60 of them with fever.

The number of people admitted for treatment of fever caused by dengue or any undiagnosed illness has been rising every day across hospitals for more than a fortnight.

"There has been heavy pressure on all private hospitals for admission of dengue and cases of unknown fever since the beginning of August. Now it is a surge," said Pradip Tondon, President of the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India.

In July, four to five patients were getting admitted with fever on an average in every hospital. The number has since ballooned with the Calcutta Municipal Corporation apparently in denial about the extent of the dengue outbreak and the Government focused on playing down the threat.

Such has been the rush of patients with fever that some hospitals are calling up people to postpone admissions planned in advance, mostly for surgeries. "We have told many people to come only when we call them to confirm availability of beds," said an official at Belle Vue.


The rush in hospitals has been rising

A) for more than one month B) for the last four nights
C) for more than four days D) for more than fifteen days
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) for more than fifteen days

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
I hope that I shall win this dance competition.

A) It is hoped that the dance competition will be won by me. B) Winning the dance competition is hoped by me.
C) Dance competition winning is my hope. D) The dance competition is hoped to be won.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) It is hoped that the dance competition will be won by me.

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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Modern man is imprisoned by his time-table and his routine. His life is all care and _____. He does not have _____ for anything but his duties and occupation for _____ money. Men, in all _____ may have been prone to this disease and; indeed, we in India may not have been _____ by it to the extent that people in western countries have been.

Men, in all _____ may have been prone to this disease and; indeed,

A) spheres B) streams
C) areas D) ages
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) ages

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Make a scene

A) To perform beautifully in front of an audience. B) Make a public disturbance or excited emotional display.
C) To narrate an elaborate false story. D) Describe a scene in so much detail that it comes vivid.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Make a public disturbance or excited emotional display.

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