Miscellaneous Flashcards
The above data suggests the common mechanisms underpin attachment organization in caregiver and infant and the precocious emergence of the mentalizing in the child.
a) typical
b) late
c) advance
d) sudden
C
The following are the questions based on the same words used in different parts of speech. Select the correct matches.
1) Interrogative Adverb- A) Why did you do it?
2) Relative Adverb-B) I know the reason why he did it
3) Interjection-C) Why it is surely Nanak!
4) Noun-D) This is not the time to go for why and wherefore of it
Ans: 1-A, 2-B, C-3, D-4
Brave Macbeth, with his brandish steel, carved out his passage.
a) Metaphor
b) Litotes
c) Climax
d) Synecdoche
.
Ans: d) Synecdoche
Select an alternative which expresses the phrase/idiom in a better way Go cold turkey
a) Speaking truth
b) getting down to business
c) gradually cutting down
d) withdraw abruptly and completely
Ans: d) withdraw abruptly and completely.
Direction(Q.1-Q.5): Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Unemployment in the country has always been a slow-burn crisis, but the urban flare-up witnessed after the nationwide lockdown took effect on 25 March should worry policymakers. India had no safe option other than to shut down, as only strict social isolation could have bought us the time needed to erect defences against a rapidly advancing threat to people’s lives. Nearly three months after a novel coronavirus was identified in China, we still do not have a cure for covid-19, the disease it causes. Its virulence was sure to throw all semblance of normal life out of gear. That livelihoods would be snatched away by it was (A) obvious too. But when the scale of the disruption is thrown into sharp relief by jobs data, it enjoins the government to respond with all the resources it can muster to alleviate distress. According to the weekly tracker survey of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), India’s urban joblessness spiked its way above 30% over the past two weeks of the ongoing 21-day lockdown. In contrast, this figure was just about 8.7% during the week ended 22 March, and a little over 8.2% in the week before that. The country’s overall unemployment rate, as estimated by CMIE, shot up to nearly 24% in the last week of the previous month, falling only a bit in the first week of April.
Since CMIE is a private research organization, the government is under no obligation to either acknowledge or act upon those grim figures. It has its own survey apparatus and some of its officials have rejected survey findings in the past, often alleging flaws in statistical tools that could put the accuracy of some numbers in doubt. Estimates are approximations at the best of times. Yet, under the impact of an economic shock, absolute numbers are not as relevant as the magnitude of change. And what the private weekly tracker has revealed seems consistent with spot reports of workers being turned out of their jobs and the reasons cited by migrants for heading back to their villages. All this is only the immediate fallout of commercial activity having come to an abrupt halt. As supply lines stay clamped, or struggle to regain their pep, and demand craters in one sector after another in a sequence of second-order effects, we should expect business turmoil that will likely result in even more job losses across the economy.
- What threat does the author refer to when he/she says, “a rapidly advancing threat to people’s lives”?
(a) The threat of unemployment.
(b) The threat of novel coronavirus.
(c) The threat of distress caused by unemployment. (d) The threat of loss of normalcy. - Which of the following statement can be correctly inferred from the given passage? A) In absence of accurate data, estimates are our best chance.
B) The accuracy of estimates is crucial in times of crisis.
C) Estimates can be correct if accompanied by ample proof.
(a) Only A (b) Only B (c) Only C (d) All of these - Which of the following statement is incorrect with reference to the passage? I. Unemployment is mainly caused by the coronavirus.
II. The coronavirus has caused unemployment on a large scale.
III. Unemployment was already a burning issue and the coronavirus just added fuel to the fire.
(a) Only I (b) Both I & II (c) Both II & III (d) Only II - Which of the following should fill the blank given in (A) to make it contextually correct and meaningful?
(a) regrettable (b) regretted (c) regret (d) regrettably - What does “out of gear” mean with reference to the passage?
(a) Dismiss (b) Disengage (c) Disarray (d) Disembark
- (b) In the given phrase, the threat refers to the novel coronavirus. Unemployment was already present as is described as “a slow-burn crisis”. Options C & D are the effects of the outbreak of the coronavirus. Hence, the correct answer is B.
- (c) “Estimates are approximations at the best of times.” This means that estimates are close to the absolute values only under favourable conditions. So, option A is wrong. “…under the impact of an economic shock, absolute numbers are not as relevant as the magnitude of change…” proves B wrong. The only reason the author is defending CMIE’s research is that “… the private weekly tracker has revealed seems consistent with spot reports of workers being turned out of their jobs and the reasons cited by migrants for heading back to their villages”. So, option C is correct.
Hence, the correct answer is C. - (a) Sentence A implies that under usual conditions, coronavirus causes unemployment, which is not the case. This a unique condition where a pre-existing condition (unemployment) has grown worse due to the coronavirus. So, option I is wrong and option II & III are correct. Hence, the correct answer is A.
- (d) The blank requires an adverb for the adjective ‘obvious’. Of all the given options, only ‘regrettably’ is an adverb. Hence, the correct answer is E.
- (c) ‘Dismiss’ means order or allow to leave; send away.
‘Disengage’ means separate or release (someone or something) from something to which they are attached or connected.
