Verbal Logic - 5: Test Drive para Jumble
Verbal Logic - 5: Test Drive para Jumble
Verbal Logic - 5: Test Drive para Jumble
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• Test Drive
• Para Jumble- MCQ Based
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Number of Questions : 35 VA - 15
19. S1:The placebo effect remains as the most Directions for questions 21 to 33: In each of the
bizarre aspect of modern medicine. following questions, four, five, or six sentences have
A. Strangely enough, even though the pill has been jumbled. These sentences need to be arranged
no chemicals that could have a in a coherent manner to create a meaningful
physiological effect on the body, paragraph. Choose the appropriate option as your
physiological effects still take place, often answer.
with curative results.
B. The most influential studies investigating 21. A. Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents,
the placebo effect usually involve sugar
Princess Leia races home aboard her
pills or ‘dummy pills’, the purpose of which
starship.
is to convince the patient that they are
B. During the battle, Rebel spies managed
taking a pill with medicinal properties.
to steal secret plans to the Empire’s
C. The placebo effect takes place when a
ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an
patient is led to believe that they are
armored space station with enough power
receiving a medically effective treatment,
when in fact they are receiving none. to destroy an entire planet.
D. The placebo effect is believed to work C. It is a period of civil war.
based on the psychosomatic model, D. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden
which teaches us that, because of the base, have won their first victory against
intimate relationship that exists between the evil Galactic Empire.
the mind and body, mental processes can
affect medical outcomes. (1) CDBA (2) DBAC
E. Precisely how culture, meaning and belief (3) CADB (4) CABD
can allow us to recover from illness is still
shrouded in uncertainty. 22. A. Abolishing the current version of the 500
and 1,000 rupee notes, worth about $8
(1) CBADE (2) CABDE and $15, will effectively remove 80 percent
(3) BCADE (4) BDCAE of the currency in circulation.
B. It is also expected to help the government
20. A. She spoke about something much more clean up a system that has relied on cash
vulnerable - love and loneliness. to pay bribes and to avoid taxes.
B. She did not sugarcoat her concerns. C. But the announcement, made on national
C. She worried how the law and sexuality television in both Hindi and English, led
could be misused against her son. to an immediate upheaval in the country.
D. She never claimed it was easy for her to D. The ban is intended both to curb the flow
accept it. of counterfeit money and to take aim at
E. But more than anything else she worried terrorist organizations that rely on
about something far more fundamental, unaccounted-for cash.
something that we speak too little about
when we talk about rights, discrimination (1) DBAC (2) DBCA
and obsolete penal codes. (3) CADB (4) CABD
23. A. Updated infrastructure and qualified (1) CBAD (2) CADB
teachers, too, are proffering premier (3) BCDA (4) CBAD
quality of content.
B. A decade ago it was considered that one 26. A. Sourav Ganguly, the man who fought all
cannot get the world class education in odds and never ceases to amaze is an
India. epitome of guts and glory resulted in
C. However, governing bodies had acted upon appearing as the finest batsman and
the drawbacks and brought some captain of Indian cricket team.
necessary changes. B. His hunger to achieve success and
D. Syllabuses have been amended, new passion for the game of cricket is truly an
courses are being added and teaching inspiring tale which not only fascinates
methodologies have been changed. the youngsters but the whole community
of Crick-lovers across the globe.
(1) CDAB (2) CABD C. Being a very influential figure in Indian
(3) BCAD (4) BCDA cricket history he is the person who
changed the perception of Indian cricket
24. A. Princess Diana is a powerful, strong-willed and cricketers abroad.
character who does not back down from D. He was a great mentor who identified and
a fight or a challenge. gave talent the opportunity to flourish.
B. Princess Diana commands respect both E. Today, as India climbs to its new heights
as Wonder Woman and Diana Prince; her as an international cricket team, one
epithetical title – The Amazon Princess – cannot but awe the amazing work which
illustrates the dichotomy of her character. he put in to strengthen its foundation.
C. She’s simultaneously both the most fierce
(1) AEDCB (2) EADCB
and most nurturing member of the Justice
(3) AEBCD (4) ADBCE
League.
D. Yet, she is a diplomat who strongly “favors
27. A. Three years ago I packed up my life in
the pen” and a lover of peace who would
New Zealand and sold or gave away
never seek to fight or escalate a conflict.
everything, even my kayaks.
B. No extreme sports, no adrenalin, no
(1) BACD (2) ADCB
competition; my new life here is about
(3) BADC (4) ACBD
saying yes to everything I never thought I
was.
25. A. It slept in the closet with my father’s
C. I decided to say yes to the unknown,
shirts, trousers and shoes, it guarded his
landing me in a whole new life in Bali.
Beethoven, Prokofiev and Shostakovich D. I am finding joy in the little things, learning
scores, his hats, armchair and special how to be in the moment, and realizing
cup. all that I thought was important isn’t.
B. I fell asleep certain that, in the morning, E. Going slowly, practicing mindfulness
Ba would wake me as he always had, his through yoga, meditation, and dance,
voice tugging me from sleep, until this learning how to speak Indonesian, and
delusion compounded the loss, and hurt now scuba diving, my life looks like
more than what had come before. something I never in a million years would
C. Then, quiet became another person living have guessed it would be.
inside our house.
D. Quiet moved into our minds and stormed (1) ABCDE (2) ABCED
like an ocean inside my mother and me. (3) ACBED (4) ACBDE
28. A. In a sense, the narrator is like a (1) ECBAD (2) ECBDA
puppeteer. (3) BDECA (4) EBCAD
B. This means that the narrator is not a
character in the story but rather an 31. A. Almost predatory.
external observer that can enter the B. Fiction writers as a species tend to be
thoughts of all of the characters in the oglers.
story. C. This happens because they are born
C. The narrator of Paradise Lost is an viewers.
omniscient third person. D. This is because human situations are
D. Milton does this on numerous occasions, writers’ food.
often telling us what Satan is thinking E. They are the ones on the subway about
about, or what Adam is really feeling.
whose nonchalant stare there is
E. He knows the whole story, and he knows
something creepy.
how he wants to present it, so he sits
F. The minute they stop moving, they tend
back and feeds his readers information
to lurk and to stare.
as he sees fit.
(1) CBAED (2) DBACE (1) BCDAEF (2) ACFEBD
(3) CBDAE (4) DBAEC (3) BFCEAD (4) BFDCAE
29. A. It is 1939, and we are in Abrezzo, Italy. 32. A. The questioning teens will view the videos
B. The film “Life is Beautiful” opens with an and realize life can “get better”.
atmospheric shot of a silhouetted figure B. In response to a recent spate of suicides
wandering through dense dust and debris. of gay youth, Dan Savage and his partner
C. Like a fable, there is sorrow, and like a Terry Miller developed It Gets Better, a
fable, it is full of wonder and happiness. video project that has inspired tens of
D. This is a simple story, the narrator says, thousands of LGBT people to post short,
but not an easy one to tell. positive videos to YouTube.
E. The shot then brightens, and we see a C. It is just one example of digital media
simple country road.
providing a support network for LGBT
youth.
(1) BCDAE (2) DBACE
D. It Gets Better has garnered over 10 million
(3) DCABE (4) BDCEA
views and has drawn national media
attention.
30. A. Closely linked to such a perception was
E. Social media provides an outlet for making
recognition that there were things to learn
queer friends and straight allies, and
from the west.
B. A quest for cultural self-assurance was allows organizations like the University of
often the unconscious motive. Washington’s Q-Center—an on-campus
C. It was inspired mainly by an urge to safe haven, resource, and activism
assess the comparative merits of Indian center—to reach enormous numbers of
civilization, its differences with the people for rallies, petitions, and events.
dominant culture of the time and its relative F. Other websites like The Trevor Project,
superiority or inferiority. Matthew’s Place, and GLAAD provide
D. A more conscious purpose was to assess resources, forums, and counselling to gay
the impact of the west, increasingly seen youth who may be living in intolerant or
as a threat to the Indian way of life with unequipped regions, communities, or
unfortunate implications for the country. families.
E. The nineteenth-century Indian discourse
on the West was rarely, if ever, informed (1) BADCFE (2) BDCFAE
only by intellectual curiosity. (3) EBCAFD (4) ABCDEF
33. A. Where was all this an hour and a half ago E. Due to the sheer amount of information
when the score was 0-0 and there was available on the internet and the number
still a match to be won? of people using it, letting children use this
B. Hearing this, you wondered: why now? technology unsupervised can negatively
C. Instead the players of Manchester United impact their psychological health.
coiled back in their own half like a red- F. Studies have found that extended use of
shirted draught excluder, abasing MUDS can be linked to increased
themselves in this grand old stadium before loneliness, depression, and may blur a
the perceived – and conceded – superiority child’s ability to tell reality from simulation.
of their opponents.
D. At which point, with the day still wide open (1) BDFAEC (2) BDFECA
and the spoils there to be claimed, (3) EBDCFA (4) EBDFAC
Mourinho’s men didn’t go banging on
anyone’s door. 35. A. For when Kenneth Clarke, Iain Duncan
E. At first glance the most startling aspect Smith, Sir Bill Cash and Nicky Morgan
of the Manchester derby tunnel fracas is all say they are united about Brexit policy,
the fact it seems to have been kicked off it can only mean one thing: that the thing
by José Mourinho knocking on the they claim to agree about is worth very
dressing room door and going toe-to-toe little.
with Manchester City’s players. B. They combined for an afternoon to produce
F. The fronting-up, the arrogance of a bull the political equivalent of a Christmas truce
charging at a drawn sword, the stick-it– on the western front in the First World
to-them bravado. War.
C. For these MPs are not comrades but
(1) CEBFAD (2) EBAFDC enemies.
(3) CDAFBE (4) EBFADC D. Conservative MPs of every ideological hue
queued up to praise Theresa May’s
34. A. Furthermore, there are few restrictions on interim agreement with the European
who can use the internet. Union on Brexit on Monday.
B. The internet gives people access to multi- E. All that can be said with confidence is
user domains (MUDS), which are virtual that this truce, like the one on the western
worlds where strangers can interact front, will not last.
together. F. That in itself ought to make any sensible
C. The presence of online predators targeting person wary about what was taking place.
children has also been widely publicized
by the media. (1) DACFEB (2) DFACBE
D. Examples include multi-user chat rooms (3) ABEDFC (4) ACBEFD
and multi-player games.
VA - 15 : Verbal Logic - 5
Answers and Explanations
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 2 10 1
11 3 12 4 13 4 14 2 15 2 16 3 17 1 18 4 19 1 20 4
21 1 22 2 23 4 24 3 25 2 26 1 27 3 28 3 29 4 30 2
31 3 32 1 33 4 34 4 35 2
21. 1 C is the correct opening sentence as it introduces the 28. 3 C introduces “the narrator”, followed by B which
period. DB is a mandatory pair (won the first victory – explains the type of narrator used in this story. D
the battle). B and A too have a thematic link as they informs that Milton has used this technique multiple
both talk about the Empire. times. A is a kind of conclusion. The word “puppeteer”
is explained by E. So, 3 is the correct answer.
22. 2 There are two mandatory pairs in this paragraph –
DB (both talk about the expected benefits of 29. 4 B is the topic sentence as it introduces the film under
demonetisation move) and CA (both talk about the discussion “Life is Beautiful”. D and C make a mandatory
problems in executing the move). The positioning of pair. Both the sentences talk about what the narrator
the pairs is what needs to be determined. As C starts is saying. “Then” in E makes it the next sentence
with “but”, it should come after D and B. So, option 2 is sequentially. This shot is revealed to be Italy by A. So,
the correct answer. option 4 is the correct option.
23. 4 B is the opening sentence as it has “India” and it 30. 2 E is the opening sentence. It introduces the theme of
specifies the issue at hand. The remaining sentences discourse. BD is a mandatory pair (unconscious –
talk about how India has tackled the problem. C more conscious). A (such a perception) can come
introduces this change with the word “however”. D after D as they share the same theme. So, option 2 is
and A make a mandatory pair as both talk about the the correct answer.
actions of the governing bodies. A comes after D
because of the word “too”. 31. 3 Statement B is the opening sentence as it introduces
fiction writers. F follows B as it has a tone similar to
24. 3 A or B can open the paragraph. D and C make a that of B. “They” in F is a reference to fiction writers
mandatory pair as C acts as an explanation of D. D discussed in B. F and C form a mandatory pair as C
after C will be incorrect as ‘yet’ will then be thematically explains why fiction writers tend to stare. E will not
redundant. Now, we need to go from the options. follow B because if it did, the sentences that follow,
Because of DC, only options 2 and 3 remain relevant. will leave no space for statements F and C. Further,
B can’t come after C as the theme of B doesn’t match statements E, A and D become a mandatory pair.
that of C and D. So, option 3 is the correct answer. “Nonchalant stare” and “creepy” used in E, give way
to statement A. A tells that their stare is “almost
25. 2 This question can be answered by looking at the theme predatory”. D further concludes the paragraph by
and the options. The paragraph talks about the author covering the activities of fiction writers under the garb
dealing with her father’s death / departure. C and A of “writers’ food”.
32. 1 The given jumbled paragraph talks about an online 34. 4 Either B or E can start the paragraph. However, the
video project ‘It gets better’ to stop suicides among topic of the paragraph is the negative impact of the
the LGBT community. B introduces the topic. It is internet on children. E also talks about the internet
followed by A which elaborates on the purpose of the which is more generic. So E is a better opening
project. It is sequentially followed by D which sentence. B and D is a mandatory pair as B defines
discusses the recent success of this project. D is MUDs and D gives the examples. F and A also make a
followed by C which states that It Gets Better is one mandatory pair as “furthermore” in A can only come
of the many projects available online. F follows C after F. C (also) comes next. So, option 4 is the correct
justifying it by mentioning other forums which deal answer.
with the counselling of gay youth. The paragraph ends
with E, which provides the correct conclusion to the 35. 2 D is clearly the opening sentence (Conservative
paragraph by portraying the role of social media which MPs, Theresa May). F (that in itself) refers to D. A
successfully has created forums for disillusioned and C come next. C explains the reason for the
youth to communicate with other people and discuss author’s opinion in A. B comes next as it leads to E.
their problems. E is the concluding sentence.