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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 


All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

 

Aristotle's argument support the view that poetry shows

 

A) men not simply as they are B) what men ought to be
C) what men are capable of becoming D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

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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.

Teachers worldwide are stuck in a constant balancing __________ between individual liberty and occupational obligations. The Indian teacher is _________ stuck in tremendous technological, political and sociocultural changes, which are having ________ impact on performance and lifestyle. It goes without saying that teachers in India need to redefine and adjust their _____________ to develop transformational and humane skills by helping bridge the deep-rooted ______________ distance between the teacher and the taught.

 

constant balancing __________ between individual liberty

 

A) act   B) acts  
C) acting D) actor
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) act  

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

 

Plaudit

 

A) Criticism B) Jeering  
C) Praise   D) Silence
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Praise  

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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.

 

A century later, the philosophy community needs to take __________ the new challenge of moral deliberation on the most pressing issues of our difficult times. We have to revoke the suspension of ethics and morality ____________ our lives by initiating a dialogue on it. Foregrounding ethics, however, ___________ means undermining the epistemological or ontological questions that are inevitably there. One such beginning can be made by anchoring moral ________________ in fairness and justice —one founded on obligatory fairness towards the people and the planet, towards the earth and the environment, and above all justice towards one_________.

 

community needs to take __________ the new challenge

 

A) in B) down
C) up D) into
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) up

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

What is it? ______ it wait?

 

A) may B) can’t
C) would D) is
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) can’t

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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.

 

The new civilisation of Righteousness and __________, and therefore of Brotherhood, of ordered Liberty, of Peace, of __________, cannot be built up until the elements are removed ______________ have brought the old civilisation crashing about our ears. _________________ is it necessary that the War shall be fought out to its appointed end, and that _______________ premature peace shall leave its object unattained.

 

Righteousness and __________, and therefore of Brotherhood,

 

A) judge B) judgments
C) Justice D) Judiciary
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Justice

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

 

Clammy

 

A) Sweaty   B) Wet  
C) Misty   D) Dry
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Dry

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

 

Candid

 

A) Artful B) Free
C) Objective D) Plain
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Artful

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