Practice Question and answers set 1 - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) As the information on air warface tasks and stressors was being gathereed and scenarios were being developed, a parallel effort ensued to identify a test bed simulation for air warfare teams. To maintain experimental control it was determined by the designers that choosing a low physical fidelity simulation was acceptable as long as cognitive fidelity in a team simulation was maintained through subjecting soldiers to pressure situations in a simulated combat setting and attempting to ensure that naturalistic decision making of soldiers would not be compromised. Which of the following statements, if true, weakens the logic of the above passage ?
i. A number of studies have shown that high levels of physical stress lead to a weaking of the decision making capabilities of human beings.
ii. It has been convincingly demonstrated by various studies that human beings by nature are not designed to adapt to high levels of mental stress.
iii. Numerious studies have shown that simulated environments can be designed to be good substitutes for real life combat situations.
iv. Studies have shown that simulated exercises for armed forces personnel have tended to induce a systematic type of "correct" and common behaviour among the trainees.
v. Officers, when short listing soldiers for critical operations, pick up battle-hardened soldiers rather than those who have been trained through simulations.
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
The theme of the passage says that when soldiers are subjected to high pressure situations even in simulated warfare, their naturalistic decision making capacity/ability is not compromised.
Statement (i) and (ii) clearly negate the above notion. (iv) suggests that individual and naturalistic decision making ability is lost. (v) says that officers believe more in experience of soldiers than simulation based training.
This makes (d) the correct choice.
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-2) Which of the following will weaken the above argument?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
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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-3) Which of the following may be regarded as an assumption in the above passage?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
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-4) Which of the following strengthens the argument?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
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Q-5) 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
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(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.
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Q-6) Whenever a major airplane accident occurs, there is a dramatic increase in the number of airplane mishaps reported in the media, a phenomenon that may last for as long as a few months after the accident. Airline officials assert that the publicity given the gruesomeness of major airplane accidents focuses media attention on the airline industry, and the increase in the number of reported accidents is caused by an increase in the number of news sources covering airline accidents, not by an increase in the number of accidents. Which of the following if true, would seriously weaken the assertions of the airline officials?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
The airline officials asserts that the increase of the number of reported accidents is caused by an increase in the number of new sources covering airline accidents and not by an increase number of accidents. The above assertion weakens if (a) is true.
There might be a situation when in some peak travel months lot of accidents have occured and the media has reported the same because of which the number of reported accidents have increased.
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Q-7) Inflation can only be fundamentally caused by two factors— supply side factors and demand side factors. These factors are either reductions in the supply of goods and services or increase in demand due to either the increased availability of money or the reallocation of demand. Unless other compensating changes also occur, inflation is bound to result if either of this occurs. In economies prior to the introduction of banks (a pre-banking economy) the quantity of money available, and hence, the level of demand, was equivalent to the quantity of gold available. If the statements above are true, then it is also true that in a pre-banking economy:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
As inflation is a result of increase in the availability of money (or gold in the pre-banking economy) so (b) is wrong and (c) is correct.
(d) is wrong as it is out of context of the passage. (a) is wrong as it talks of 'any inflation' and leaves the inflation caused by increase in demand.
This would have been correct if the option had mentioned that other factors remain unchanged.
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Q-8) Cigarettes constitute a mere 20% of tobacco consumption in India. And fewer than 15% of the 200 million tobacco users consume cigarettes. Yet these 15% contribute nearly 90% of the tax revenues to the Exchequer from the tobacco sector. The punitive cigarette taxation regime has kept the tax base narrow, and reducing taxes will expand this base. Which one of the following best bolsters the conclusion that reducing duties will expand the tax base?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
The tax base is narrow.
∵ the taxes are high, only those smoking expensive cigarettes pay taxes. It however taxes are reduced and cigarettes are cheaper more tobacco consumers will shift to cigarettes thus increasing the tax base.
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Q-9) Most citizens are very conscientious about observing a law when they can see the reason behind it. For instance, there has been very little need to actively enforce the recentlyimplemented law that increased the penalty for motorists caught leaving a gas station without paying for gas they had pumped into their vehicles. This is because citizens are very conscientious of the high cost of gasoline and they know that stealing gas will only further increase the price of gasoline for everyone. Which of the following statements would the author of this passage be most likely to believe?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Choice (d) is correct because it neatly summarizes the main theme of the passage. We can instantly eliminate answer choice (a) because the passage never states how the increased penalty affects citizens. Choice (c) is too extreme, and overly negative.
Besides, the overall theme of the passage is positive; the negative tone of choice (b) is out of keeping with it. Answer choice (b) is incorrect because the author stated only that adherence to the law would prevent the price of gasoline from rising further.
He never said that this action would lower gas prices.
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Q-10) 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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(b)
(c)
(d)
(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.