06-08-2021 Answers

 1. Arrange the following sentences in a logical order.

A) Although in both kinds of animal, arousal stimulates the production of adrenaline and norepinephrine by the adrenal glands, the effect in herbivores is primarily fear, whereas in carnivores the effect is primarily aggression. 

B) The predator is searchingly aggressive, innerdirected, tuned by the nervous system and the adrenal hormones, but aware in a sense closer to human consciousness than, say, a hungry lizard’s instinctive snap at a passing beetle. 

C) Herbivores and carnivores develop different kinds of attention related to escaping or chasing. 

D) Perhaps it does not experience forethought as we know it, but the animal does experience something like it. 

E) For both, arousal attunes the animal to what is ahead. 

F) The elements of intelligence and consciousness come together marvelously to produce different styles in predator and prey. 

Answer: FCAEDB

2. Please arrange the sentences in a logical manner.

A) As children became more valuable in emotional terms, she argues, their “exchange” or “surrender” value on the market, that is, the conversion of their intangible worth into cash terms, became much greater.

B) Zelizer is highly critical of this approach, and emphasizes instead the opposite phenomenon: the power of social values to transform price.

C) Allowing only a small role for cultural forces in the form of individual “preferences,” these sociologists tend to view all human behaviors as directed primarily by the principle of maximizing economic gain. 

D) In stressing the cultural determinants of a child’s worth, Zelizer takes issue with practitioners of the new “sociological economics,” who have analyzed such traditionally sociological topics as crime, marriage, education, and health solely in terms of their economic determinants. 

Answer: DCBA

3. Arrange the following jumbled sentences in logical order.

A) The overvalued currency has weakened to two reais to the dollar, from its peak of 1.54 last July. 

B) Both developments were welcomed by manufacturers, who have been labouring under a turbocharged currency and sky-high interest rates for years. 

C) At 9% the Central Bank’s policy interest rate is near to historic lows and should fall further after President Dilma Rousseff’s brave decision to cut returns on government-backed savings accounts, which had previously acted as a floor. 

D) Neither, though, was enough to reverse a recent shift in mood against Brazil.

E) For Brazil’s government recent weeks have brought some long-awaited victories. 

Answer: EACBD

4. Arrange the following sentences in a logical order.

A) The range through these states is mediated by the arousal system, a network of tracts converging from sensory systems to integrating centers in the brain stem. 

B) The interaction resulting from the differences between predator and prey led to a general improvement in brain functions; however, certain components of intelligence were improved far more than others.

C) It ranges from a passive, free-floating awareness to a highly focused, active fixation.  

D) The kind of intelligence favored by the interplay of increasingly smarter catchers and increasingly keener escapers is defined by attention—that aspect of mind carrying consciousness forward from one moment to the next.

E) The evolution of intelligence among early large mammals of the grasslands was due in great measure to the interaction between two ecologically synchronized groups of these animals, the hunting carnivores and the herbivores that they hunted.

Answer: EBDCA 

5. Please arrange the sentences in a logical manner.

A) Also, the women’s movement has succeeded in legitimizing the economic and political activism of women on their own behalf, thereby producing a more positive attitude toward unions. 

B) Over the past twenty years, the occupational distribution in these unions has been steadily shifting from predominantly blue-collar to predominantly white-collar. 

C) Because there are far more women in white-collar jobs, an increase in the proportion of female members has accompanied the occupational shift and has altered union policy-making in favor of organizing women and addressing women’s issues.

D) Consequently, they are probably more concerned than their predecessors were about job security and economic benefits. 

E) What accounts for this upsurge in unionization among clerical workers? First, more women have entered the work force in the past few years, and more of them plan to remain working until retirement age. 

F) The absence of any comparable increase in unionization among private-sector clerical workers, however, identifies the primary catalyst—the structural change in the multi-occupational public-sector unions themselves. 

Answer: EDAFBC

6. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph.

A. The two neighbours never fought each other.

B. Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.

C. They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.

D. We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbour, an ally.

E. We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male..

Answer: BEDAC

7. Arrange the following jumbled sentences in logical order.

A) And instead of providing the promised Patriot missile battery to protect Warsaw, it sent some toy rockets as part of a sales pitch.

B) America has not lifted visa requirements for Poles (who can die alongside Americans in Afghanistan but not visit them without humiliating bureaucratic hassles).

C) Poland wants Mr Obama to apologise to prime minister Donald Tusk. 

D) Even in the middle of the night, the reaction in Warsaw was incendiary. 

E) America's most important ally in the ex-communist world already feels bruised by the administration's shilly-shallying on issues such as missile defence. 

Answer: DCEBA

8. Arrange the following sentences in a logical order.

A) Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters’ psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. 

B) Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it. 

C) He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase. 

D) Thomas Hardy’s impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not alays work together in harmony. 

E) Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. 

F) He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemmas rationally (and, unfortunately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe. 

Answer: DABCFE

9. Please arrange the sentences in a logical manner.

A) If it is cut in a plane different from the one used by the early investigators, it will not form two whole embryos.

B) Later biologists found that the situation was not so simple. It matters in which plane the embryo is cut. 

C) This led them to believe that the cells in the early embryo are undetermined in the sense that each cell has the potential to develop in a variety of different ways. 

D) A debate arose over what exactly was happening - which embryo cells are determined, just when do they become irreversibly committed to their fates, and what are the “morphogenetic determinants” that tell a cell what to become? 

E) Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if they separated an invertebrate animal embryo into two parts at an early stage of its life, it would survive and develop as two normal embryos.

F) But the debate could not be resolved because no one was able to ask the crucial questions in a form in which they could be pursued productively.

Answer: ECBADF

10. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph.

A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.

B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.

C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.

D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.

E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.

Answer: BEDAC 

11. Arrange the following jumbled sentences in logical order.

A) In short, net metering provides a way for people who generate their own renewable energy to save money, but not to make a profit.

B) If the reverse is true, he is credited for the surplus.Generally, surplus kilowatt-hours can be rolled over from one month to the next, though any left at the end of the year are lost. 

C) One of the virtues of net metering is that it needs no additional hardware. 

D) If, at the end of the month, a customer has consumed more kilowatt-hours than he has supplied, he is charged for the net amount. 

E) As modern electricity meters work just as well backwards as forwards, such devices can record electricity fed into the grid as well as that drawn from it. 

Answer: CEDBA

12. Please arrange the sentences in a logical manner.

A) The capital is used by a participating company to establish a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company or MESBIC. 

B) Recently federal policymakers have adopted an approach intended to accelerate development of the minority business sector by moving away from directly aiding small minority enterprises and toward supporting larger, growth-oriented minority firms through intermediary companies. 

C) The MESBIC then provides capital and guidance to minority businesses that have potential to become future suppliers or customers of the sponsoring company.

D) In this approach, large corporations participate in the development of successful and stable minority businesses by making use of government-sponsored venture capital. 

Answer: BDAC

13. Arrange the following sentences in a logical order.

A) “It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me,” Abigail Adams wrote her husband in 1774, “to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.”

B) In fact, within several years of the end of the War of Independence, most of the Eastern states had made provisions for the gradual emancipation of slaves.

C) Quakers and other religious groups organized antislavery societies, while numerous individuals manumitted their slaves. 

D) Many Americans besides Abigail Adams were struck by the inconsistency of their stand during the War of Independence, and they were not averse to making moves to emancipate the slaves. 

E) But the contradiction inherent in this situation was, for many, a source of constant embarrassment.

F) By the time the American colonists took up arms against Great Britain in order to secure their independence, the institution of Black slavery was deeply entrenched.

Answer: FEADCB

14. Arrange the following sentences in a logical order.

A) These stars, of more than a few solar masses, evolve, in general, much more rapidly than does a star like the Sun. 

B) Instead, the collapse continues until a singularity (an infinitely dense concentration of matter) is reached.

C) Moreover, it is just these more massive stars whose collapse does not halt at intermediate stages (that is, as white dwarfs or neutron stars). 

D) Upwards of a billion stars in our galaxy have burnt up their internal energy sources, and so can no longer produce the heat a star needs to oppose the inward force of gravity. 

Answer: DACB 

15. Please arrange the sentences in a logical manner.

A) Isenberg’s recent research on the cognitive processes of senior managers reveals that managers’ intuition is neither of these. 

B) Generations of writers on management have recognized that some practicing managers rely heavily on intuition. 

C) Rather, in their day-by-day tactical maneuvers, these senior executives rely on what is vaguely termed “intuition” to manage a network of interrelated problems that require them to deal with ambiguity, inconsistency, novelty, and surprise; and to integrate action into the process of thinking.

D) Some see it as the opposite of rationality; others view it as an excuse for capriciousness.

E) In general, however, such writers display a poor grasp of what intuition is. 

F) The majority of successful senior managers do not closely follow the classical rational model of first clarifying goals, assessing the problem, formulating options, estimating likelihoods of success, making a decision, and only then taking action to implement the decision.

Answer: FCBEDA