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Verbal Ability - Online practice Test 17

Directions for questions 1 and 2: The following questions have a sentence with two blanks, followed by five pairs of words as choices. From the
choices, select the pair of words that can best complete the given sentence.

1. 2.

Charting the development of football in England from its humble origins The private sector does not operate in a social and political ________
as a means of entertainment, belonging and oneness for the working and it is arguable that its very existence in all capitalist economies is
class during the Industrial revolution, to its being _______ by the white- _________ on state support.
collared executives of the 1980s and 1990s, Conn lays bare the ________
and politics of a few rich and powerful people who robbed the game of its
spirit and soul. (1) void . . . autarchic
(2) vacuity . . . chanced

(1) usurped . . . machinations (3) ambience . . . dependant

(2) grabbed . . . systems (4) milieu. . . autonomous

(3) appropriated . . . efforts (5) vacuum . . . premised

(4) proffered . . . intrigues
(5) annexed. . . developments

Directions for questions 3 to 5: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences.

3. 4.

A. The need is for a health education in India. A. Tom Cummins had been fighting the cold currents for more than an
B. In other words, healthcare professionals are at great demand. hour.
C. They give patients more individual attention. B. He was desperate to reach shore.
D. They propagate awareness and promote health management. C. Exhausted and terrified, he was all ready to give up.
D. Only the prospect of seeing his cousin kept him going.

(1) Only A
(2) B and C (1) A and B
(3) B, C and D (2) Only C
(4) A, B and D (3) A and C
(5) A and B (4) B and C
(5) A and D

5. 6.

(A) Every morning the old man's cough was the first sound to hear. A. The instant industrialization of America after the civil War and
(B) Chang usually laid listening to it. B. the growth of large substantial empires led to a widespread
(C) He moved only when he heard it approaching nearer. movement
(D) But this morning he did not wait and sprang up from bed. C. for the regulation of labour groups throughout the country
D. conclusive in the establishment of a National labour union in 1866.

(1) A and B
(2) B and C (1) pronounced business integration concluding
(3) B and D (2) prompt compliant rise arising
(4) A, B and D (3) hasty apathetic merger culminating
(5) A and D (4) rapid corporate unification resulting
(5) sudden hostile recognition ending

7. 8.

A. The raid on state sovereignty during the confederation period was CARE
B. closely linked with a research of the relationship between legislative
C. and popular sovereignty. In the computation of the role of the
D. defence in republic, the debate turned on the meaning of (1) If you'd care to call me up, I would give you a list of the places you could
representation. visit.
(2) He doesn't seem to be caring that his career is at a standstill.

(1) attack re-examination appraisal public (3) Wordsworth creates an idyllic landscape where nobody seems to have a care
in the world.
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(4) They plan their finances with care.
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(5) I had to take care of the children as there was no one around.
(4) criticism observation determination democracy
(5) incursion investigation review citizens

9. 10.

GUARD ONE

(1) The changing of guard at the Buckingham palace is a popular spectacle.
(2) When we were on a trekking expedition in the Amazon rainforest, one of us
always kept guard at night while the others slept.
(3) In spite of the fact that her colleagues were asking her very pointed
questions, she did not let her guard fall even for a moment.
(4) The government has decided to increase the number of guards outside the
parliament.
(5) One policeman stood guard at the site of the blast.
(1) I have never been one for giving advice.
(2) The college has hired one Mr Kingston for the express purpose of teaching
George Orwell's works.
(3) Yes, you have it right; we have invited the one and the only Gabriel Garcia
Marquez.
(4) I, for one, think that he is just about the best professor we have got.
(5) Then one evening he walked into the house as if nothing had happened.

Directions for questions 11 to 15: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.

Half a century after the cold war, Sir Martin Rees, a 61-year-old veteran of the anti-nuclear movement believes that the world came closer - and more
often - to the brink of thermonuclear destruction than most people realise. Could it happen again? More broadly, could man, even unwittingly, unleash
a chain of events that destroys the natural environment, and ultimately humanity itself?

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The debate over how to safeguard our world is not limited, of course, to disaster scenarios. Conservationists, politicians and scientists of every hue
continue to hold forth on mankind's environmental depredations. For Sir Martin, a respected Cambridge University astrophysicist and Britain's
Astronomer Royal, the emphasis is on warning; for others it is the more difficult task of trying to devise prescriptions.

The spectre of a terrorist attack or an accident involving bio-organisms or nanotechnology so concerns Sir Martin that he is ready to wager $1,000
that 1 million people will die as a result of a single horrendous act, by 2020. In addition to threats from disgruntled misfits or religious radicals, he
worries about the destruction of the natural environment that may result from broader policy choices made by society. And he is particularly
concerned that the current pattern of industrialisation, urbanisation and motorisation might fuel climate change and biodiversity loss on such a scale
as to lead to environmental disaster. However, unlike most dystopian works, which are often misleading, "Our Final Century" is lively, informative and
often witty. Sadly, the same cannot be said about "The Wealth of Nature", a provocative but unsatisfying work by Robert Nadeau, who teaches at
America's George Mason University. Mr Nadeau believes that the world is already in the throes of an environmental disaster of man's making.
Conventional economics, he says, making a play on Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", is not very good at valuing nature and "cannot introduce
the incentives necessary for a sustainable global environment." He dismisses recent efforts by environmental economists to put "a green thumb on
the invisible hand": first in Scandinavia, and now in many countries, governments are imposing effluent taxes and other market-centered reforms to
help reduce pollution. He also dismisses similar efforts by ecological economists - cuddlier, philosophically greener versions of environmental
economists - as ultimately destined to failure.

It is easy for Mr Nadeau to scoff at the prospects of greening Adam Smith's hand, but in fact market-based environmentalism may well be the best
hope of reconciling future economic growth with the need to preserve nature. That is certainly the view of a distinguished group of scientists,
economists and other conservation experts assembled by the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific body. In "Capturing Carbon and Conserving
Biodiversity; The Market Approach", the boffins examine various challenges involved in dealing with two of the biggest environmental problems:
global warming and biodiversity loss.

Crucially, they argue that turning to market forces can help solve both problems at once. By putting an economic value on the neglected "ecosystem
services" provided by forests, such as their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, they argue that both deforestation and climate change can
be dealt with. That is not to say that the market-friendly approaches are cure-alls. There are still plenty of problems to overcome. One of them is that
scientists still do not fully understand how and how fast different trees absorb carbon as they grow, and this makes accurate measurements
particularly difficult.

Even so, explains Ian Swingland, who edited a collection of articles on this issue, this approach is far more promising than the failed conservation
approaches of the past, that relied on "a donation-driven western culture permeated by the idea that so-called expert and political committees could
and should plan what should happen, and draw lines on maps as boundaries between people and the rest of the animal and plant world. Well-meaning
it may have been, but disastrous it has proved". In arguing that "biodiversity can pay for itself through benign systems of sustainable extraction,
where people can receive some equitable share by right, not patronage," Mr Swingland and his co-authors make a compelling case that the best way
to reduce the risk of any potential eco-disaster is to embrace market greenery.

The future may be brighter than the eco-doomsayers suggest. One reason is that man has more power to influence that future benignly - through
innovations in technology and economic policy - than some suggest. Another is that it is simply wrong to imply that most environmental indicators
suggest that an environmental disaster is imminent. Inspect Sir Martin's work closely, for example, and you find that he is careful about his language
and predictions; unlike many greens (and, it must be said, Mr Nadeau at times), who adopt the alarmist tactic of giving only the shocking high end of
forecasts of potential global warming without mentioning the low end of the forecast, Sir Martin tends to give ranges and add appropriate qualifiers
and caveats. The Cambridge academic is also very wary of the so-called precautionary principle; a misguided pseudo-philosophy invoked by greens to
stifle innovation in areas like genetically modified foods.

So how does he justify his suggestion that mankind might have only a 50-50 chance of surviving the 21st century - our final century, to use the
alarmist title of the book? Even before one could ask him that question at a recent literary event, Sir Martin confessed to being a fan of Bjorn Lomborg
- a Danish academic who recently caused some controversy when he critisised the greens for systematically denying and distorting the fact that the
environment has been getting healthier in many countries. Sir Martin then took the reviewer's copy of "Our Final Century" and pencilled in a question
mark after the title. His publishers had ruled it out. The American publishers even changed the title from "Our Final Century" to "Our Final Hour". Sir
Martin is clever enough to know that the end is not nigh, but he put up with the chicanery in order to gain a wider audience. A small sin, perhaps, in
such an important book.

11. 12.

Why does the author consider Sir Martin's agreeing to have the title of his The term 'invisible hand', as used in the passage, probably refers to
book changed, a 'small' sin?

(1) policies that disregard environmental concerns.

(1) The title was changed to increase sales by piquing interest and this is, (2) man's potential capacity to reverse ecological damage through technological
perhaps, not entirely illegitimate. innovation.
(2) The new title goes against what is said in the book. (3) market economics that are not necessarily consistent with the goals of
(3) The title uses deception in order to gain readership. environmental conservation.
(4) Sir Martin colluded with the publishers for personal gain. (4) the role that academicians like Sir Martin Rees play in highlighting the
(5) The change involved only a small grammatical lapse and so can be forgiven. severity of environmental problems.
(5) Adam Smith's economic theory

13. 14.

Which of the following statements reflects Mr Ian Swingland's view on
environmental conservation?
(A) Conservation projects succeed when they are funded by third parties.
(B) The natural world lends itself to compartmentalisation.
(C) The term 'sustainable extraction', in the context of the exploitation
of natural resources, is oxymoronic.
According to the author, the future may yet be green because
(A) technological innovation may yet save the day.
(B) current environmental indicators do not necessarily suggest an
imminent disaster
(C) academicians like Mr.Swingland have started a debate which is likely
to influence policy making in future.

(1) Only A (1) Only A

(2) Only B (2) Only A and B
(3) A and B (3) B and C
(4) B and C (4) Only B
(5) None of the three (5) A, B and C

15.

According to the author, Sir Rees

(1) subscribes to the precautionary principle, eventhough it stifles innovation.

(2) is an irresponsible scaremonger whose only saving grace is that he is better than Mr.Nadeau.
(3) does not have the courage of conviction that doomsayers like Mr. Nadeau have, and hence does mention in his book, the shocking high end of forecasts of
potential global warming.
(4) presents a nightmarish vision of our ecological future, in 'Our Final Century'.
(5) is not afraid of what may be in store for us.

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