Q1. A. It came as something of a surprise when scientists determined that human beings share almost 99 percent of their genetic material with chimpanzees.
B. Prehuman bipeds predated stone tools, which appeared approximately 2.5 million year ago.
C. Despite all the is held in common, however, the differences are crucial and allow humans to be allotted their won genus and species, Homo sapiens.
D. This led one scientific journalist to refer to humans as “the third chimpanzee.”
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q2. A. This is the country where the leader of the ruling party, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, at least three chief ministers, and a number of sports and business icons are women.
B. It is also a country where a generation of newly empowered young women are going out to work in large number than ever before.
C. It’s early days yet, but one hopes these are the first stirrings of change.
D. Trust Law, a news service run by Thomson Reuters, has ranked India as the worst G20 country in which to be a woman.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q3. A. For no apparent reason you cannot help yourself from humming or singing a tune by Lady Gaga or Coldplay, or horror upon horrors, the latest American Idol reject.
B. Songs that get stuck in your head and go round and round, sometimes for days, sometimes for months.
C. Some people call them earworms.
D. It there was nothing unique about them they would be swamped by all the other memories that sound similar too.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q4. A. Nasa could design another rover, equipped with all sorts of life-hunting instrumentation, only to find it is taking the wrong measurements with the wrong detectors.
B. The reason scientists favour a sample return mission is that they do not know exactly what they are looking for.
C. Lunar rocks and soil were sealed in bags and only opened in airtight laboratories.
D. Martian life, for example, could come in many different guises and using equipment designed to detect life on Earth, may not pick it up on Mars.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q5. A. I am particularly optimistic about the potential for technological innovation to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world.
B. Companies are then willing to make the investments required to build new systems, and customers are able to accept the transition costs of adopting new behaviours.
C. But I believe that a realistic appraisal of the human condition compels an optimistic worldview.
D. Usually, “optimism” and “realism” are used to describe two different outlooks on life.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q6. A. New technologies of various kinds, together with globalization, are powerfully affecting the range of employment options for individuals in advanced and developing countries alike – and at various levels of education.
B. From recent research, we have learned a number of interesting things about how the evolution of economic structure affects employment.
C. How, then, should policymakers confront the new and difficult challenges for employment especially in developed economies?
D. Technological innovations are not only reducing the number of routine jobs, but also causing changes in global supply chains and networks that result in the relocation of routine jobs – and, increasingly, non-routine jobs at multiple skill levels – in the tradable sector of many economies.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q7. A. Beyond a certain point, this issue cannot be pursued independently of metaphysical issues about realism.
B. What this means is that the judgment of taste is based on a feeling of pleasure or displeasure.
C. The first necessary condition of judgment of taste is that it is essentially subjective.
D. It is this that distinguishes a judgment of taste from an empirical judgment.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q8. A. An essential ambiguity characterizes the experience of the audience.
B. The metaphysical aspects of existentialist aesthetics imply a certain theory of the audience.
C. The ambiguity of aesthetic experience is linked directly to the above mentioned theory of the negativity of the expressive means.
D. The genuine artist creates a new virtual world that expresses a coherent, idiosyncratic perspective on the world shared by all.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q9. A. The failure to distinguish these questions is the source of serious philosophical confusions.
B. This may or may not turn out to be correct.
C. A natural way of thinking would seem to be that mind-body dualism is a “survival-friendly” metaphysical view, whereas materialism is inimical to survival.
D. The possibility of survival after death cannot be considered without taking into account the nature of the human person.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Q10. A. The pain you feel when you sprain your ankle is taken to cause you to open the freezer in search of an ice pack.
B. Mind-world interaction is taken for granted in everyday experience and in scientific practice.
C. Mental causation – the mind’s causal interaction with the world, and in particular, its influence on behaviour – is central to our conception of ourselves as agents.
D.It might seem equally obvious that the mind’s causal role in producing behaviour is also a matter for science to settle.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only D
(e) None of the above
Solution
S1. Ans.(b)
S2. Ans.(c)
S3. Ans.(d)
S4. Ans.(c)
S5. Ans.(b)
S6. Ans.(b)
S7. Ans.(a)
S8. Ans.(c)
S9. Ans.(a)
S10. Ans.(d)
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