Practice Critical reasoning - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-2) For All Competitive Exams
Directions:
Read the following information and the sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) given below it carefully and answer the questions which follow:
A host of foreign companies are in talks with the Indian governement for selling B150, a tough, a short-haul plane ideal for connectivity of smaller towns which is lacking in India at present.
- B150 planes have not only low operating costs than competing planes like Cezana but also a much better track record in terms of saftey and efficiency.
- The profit margin of road transport operators in the smal ler towns connected by B150 planes has been reduced substantially as a majority of people prefer air transport over other means of transport.
- Smaller towns, at present, are better connected by roads and railways as compared to flight services.
- B150 planes are capable of operating I sectors where large airlines cannot fly due to challenging conditions such as mist, short runways, etc. Such planes can also double up as cargo planes and charter flights for the rich and the elite.
- B150 planes need to operate in the existing airports which are situated in bigger cities only and are poorly connected to the smaller cities.
Q-1) Which of the statements (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) mentioned above represents a possible consequence of the success of B150 planes in smaller cities?
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Getting conncected by air is bound to have an impact on road traffic.
Directions:
Read the following information and five statements given below it carefully and answer the questions which follow:
Since 2008, migration to urban areas in search of employement has increased several times, surpassing marriage as the biggest reason for migration in India.
- The wages and employment opportunities in rural parts of India have been at part with those in urban areas for last five years.
- The government and foreign MNCs have concentrated on development of job opportunities only in urban parts of the country.
- Marriage was once the biggest reason for migration in India.
- More skilled professionals than manual laborers migrate to urban area in search of employment.
- The urban areas attracting migrants are already facing and will further face a severe challenge accommodating increased population while the resources need to do so remain the same.
Q-2) Which of the statements numbered (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) mentioned above would weaken/contradict the facts presented in the given statement?
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Directions:
Read the following information and five statements given below it carefully and answer the questions which follow:
Since 2008, migration to urban areas in search of employement has increased several times, surpassing marriage as the biggest reason for migration in India.
- The wages and employment opportunities in rural parts of India have been at part with those in urban areas for last five years.
- The government and foreign MNCs have concentrated on development of job opportunities only in urban parts of the country.
- Marriage was once the biggest reason for migration in India.
- More skilled professionals than manual laborers migrate to urban area in search of employment.
- The urban areas attracting migrants are already facing and will further face a severe challenge accommodating increased population while the resources need to do so remain the same.
Q-3) Which of the statements numbered (A), (B), (C),(D) and (E) directly follow/s from the given statement?
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Directions:
Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
"The financial results of IT companies in the quarter ending December were 'far ahead' of estimates and very promising," Som Mittal, President of Nasscom said. "These results," he said, "reflected the 'strong fundamentals' of Indian IT companies." These questions are based on the information given above and the sentences labelled as (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) given below
- Nasscom is an organisation which keeps an eye on the performance of IT companies.
- IT companies form the crux of the Indian economy.
- The financial results of the previous three quarters were admirable.
- A strong financial position forms the backdrop of the overall health of the organisation.
- The financial results of this quarter are dismal as compared to those of the last year
Q-4) Which of the statements, if true, would weaken the argument in the speaker?
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(E) brings about a mood of pessimism.
Directions:
Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
"The financial results of IT companies in the quarter ending December were 'far ahead' of estimates and very promising," Som Mittal, President of Nasscom said. "These results," he said, "reflected the 'strong fundamentals' of Indian IT companies." These questions are based on the information given above and the sentences labelled as (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) given below
- Nasscom is an organisation which keeps an eye on the performance of IT companies.
- IT companies form the crux of the Indian economy.
- The financial results of the previous three quarters were admirable.
- A strong financial position forms the backdrop of the overall health of the organisation.
- The financial results of this quarter are dismal as compared to those of the last year
Q-5) Which of the statements, if true, would strengthen the statement of the speaker?
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(b)
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The results in this quarter are promising. And if this promise rides on an "admirable" background, the companies must really be doing well.
Directions:
According to recent reports, CEOs of large organisations are paid more than CEOs of small organisations. It does not seem fair that just because a CEO is heading a big organisation she/he should be paid more. CEOs' salary should be related to performance, especially growth in terms of sales and profits.
Of course, big organisations are more complex than 'the small, but all CEOs require significant amount of energy and time in managing organisations. There is no proof that CEOs of big organisations are more stressed than CEOs of small organisations. All CEOs should be paid according to their performance.
Q-6) A person seeking to refute the argument might argue that
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A person seeking to refute the argument might argue that managing big organization is more challenging than small.
The reason being the CEO of any organization whether it is big or small has similar kind of duties and responsibilities but the CEO of big organization has more complex nature of work.
Directions:
Study the following information to answer the given questions.
Science is a sort of news agency comparable in principle to other news agencies. But this news agency gives us information which is reliable to an extraordinarily high degree due to elaborate studies spread over centuries. So, science should be read with the same interest with which we read news.
Q-7) Which of the following will weaken the above argument?
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This dents the reliability factor.
Directions:
Study the following information to answer the given questions.
Science is a sort of news agency comparable in principle to other news agencies. But this news agency gives us information which is reliable to an extraordinarily high degree due to elaborate studies spread over centuries. So, science should be read with the same interest with which we read news.
Q-8) Which of the following may be regarded as an assumption in the above passage?
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Directions:
Study the following information to answer the given questions.
Science is a sort of news agency comparable in principle to other news agencies. But this news agency gives us information which is reliable to an extraordinarily high degree due to elaborate studies spread over centuries. So, science should be read with the same interest with which we read news.
Q-9) Which of the following strengthens the argument?
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Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-10) Efficiency is all right in its place, in the shop, the factory, the store. The trouble with efficiency is that it wants to rule our play as well as our work; it won't be content to reign in the shop, it follows us home. It can be inferred from the above passage that
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(b)
(c)
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(a) is the correct choice as the passage says that "efficiency is present everywhere, this makes it all pervading". The passage does not suggest that efficiency does not pay or can be more of a torture.
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-11) A mail-order company recently had a big jump in clothing sales after hiring a copywriter and a graphic artist to give its clothing catalog a magazine-like format designed to appeal to a more upscale clientele. The company is now planning to launch a housewares catalog using the same concept. The company's plan assumes that
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The mail-order company received a tremendous response with the help of magazine-like format catalog designed for the upscale clientele. As the company is planning to launch a housewares catalog on the similar concept, the clear cut assumption which the company is making that the upscale clientele would be interested in a housewares catalog also.
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-12) The company encourages its managers to interact regularly, without a pre-set agenda, to discuss issues concerning the company and society. This idea has been borrowed from the ancient Indian concept of religious congregation, called satsang. Designations are forgotten during these mettings; hence, it is not uncommon in these meetings to find a sales engineer questioning the CEO on some corporate policy or on his knowledge of customers Based on the information provided in the above passage, it can be inferred that
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(c) is the only option as according to the passage designations can be forgotten and even a subordinate like a sales engineer can question the CEO.
Directions:
According to recent reports, CEOs of large organisations are paid more than CEOs of small organisations. It does not seem fair that just because a CEO is heading a big organisation she/he should be paid more. CEOs' salary should be related to performance, especially growth in terms of sales and profits.
Of course, big organisations are more complex than 'the small, but all CEOs require significant amount of energy and time in managing organisations. There is no proof that CEOs of big organisations are more stressed than CEOs of small organisations. All CEOs should be paid according to their performance.
Q-13) Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the speaker's argument?
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(b)
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If the given statement that CEO of small organization come from good educational background is true it will strengthen the speaker's argument, the reason being the speaker wants that CEOs of big and small organizations should be paid similarly and if the CEO of small organization comes from good educational background they should receive a similar amount which a CEO of big organization receives.
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-14) In a famous experiment at the IISC campus, when a cat smelled milk, it salivated. In the experiment, a bell was rung whenever food was placed near the cat. After a number of trials, only the bell was rung, whereupon the cat would salivate even though no food was present. Such behaviour has been observed in other animals such as dogs, monkeys, etc. and is a vital input for training domesticated animals. Which of the following conclusions may be drawn from the above experiment?
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This passage is a typical example of Response to Stimuli. Clearly the cat starts salivating when the bell rungs because she has related the ringing of bell with food in the back of her mind.
Q-15) "Liberty, therefore, is never real unless the Government can be called to account when it invades rights." Which one of the following is the best justification of the above statement ?
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Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-16) Chewing tobacco has many benefits. However, the primary benefits occur in the area of mental health. The habit originates in a search for contentment. The life expectancy of our people has increased greatly in recent years; it is possible that the relaxation and contentment and enjoyment produced by tobacco chewing has lengthened many lives. Hence, chewing tobacco is beneficial. Which of the following, if true, would weaken the above conclusion?
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The paragraph doesn't mention any statistical evidence to prove a link between chewing tobacco and longevity of life. It must be the situation that the ideas given in the paragraph are opinion of the author.
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-17) The company's coffee crop for 2008-09 totalled 8079 tonnes, an all time record. The increase over the previous year's production of 5830 tonnes was 38.58% . The previous highest crop was 6089 tonnes in 2001-02. The company had fixed a target to be realized by the year 2014-15, and this has been achieved two years earlier, thanks to the emphasis laid on the key areas of irrigation, replacement of unproductive coffee bushes, intensive refilling and improved agricultural practices. It is now our endeavour to reach the target of 10000 tonnes in the year 2015-16. Which one of the following would contribute most to making the target of 10000 tonnes in 2015-16 unrealistic
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(a) is the best option as according to the passage the achievement of the 8000 tonne target was made two years earlier. Now, the achievement of 10000 tonnes would be unrealistic as the company would have exhausted all the enhancing measures implementing.
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-18) Animals in general are shrewd in proportion as they cultivate society. Elephants and beavers show the greatest signs of this sagacity when they are together in large numbers, but when man invades their communities they lose all their spirit of industry. Among insects, the labours of the bee and the ant have attracted the attention and admiration of naturalists, but all their sagacity seems to be lost upon separation, and a single bee or ant seems destitute of every degree of industry. It becomes the most stupid insect imaginable, and it languishes and soon dies. Which of the following can be inferred from the above passage
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(c) comes across as the only logical inference from the passage where it is shown that animals in general can function when they are in their normal social environment as explained through the examples of bees, ants, elephant & beavers who cannot work properly when separated or invaded by humans
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-19) Argentina's beef cattle herd has dropped to under 50 million from 57 million ten years ago in 2004. The animals are worth less, too: prices fell by over a third last year, before recovering slightly . Most local meat packers and processors are in financial trouble, and recent years has seen a string of plant closures. The Beef producer's Association has now come up with a massive advertisement campaign calling upon Argentines to eat more beef-their "juicy, healthy, routed, platefilling steaks." Which one of the following , if true, would contribute most to a failure of the campaign?
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(b)
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(b) contributes most to the failure of the campaign because if production is not raised to adequate levels, and if cross bred varieties are not successfully brought about, there would be a lesser number of people eating beef.
The passage mentions the drop in the cattle herd as the reason for this trouble. So if the drop continues the campaign will fail.
Directions:
Attempt these questions based on the information given against each.
Q-20) The theory of games is suggested to some extent by parlour games such as chess and bridge. Friedman illustrates two distinct features of these games. First in a parlour game played for money, if one wins the other (others )loses (lose), Second, these games are games involving a strategy. In a a game of chess, while choosing what action is to be taken a player tries to guess how his/her opponent will react to the various actions he or she might take. In contrast, the card pastime, 'patience ' or 'solitaire' is played only against chance. Which one of the following can best be described as a 'game?"
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(b)
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According to the passage only (c) can be described as a game because, it is fulfilling both the features illustrated by Friedman i.e. in the competition one will win and the other lose and writing an essay involves a strategy.