Logical reasoning - 2

Logical reasoning - 2

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 Essential Part

Each question has an underlined word followed by four answer choices. You will choose the word that is a necessary part of the underlined word.

Multiple Choice

Essential part

harvest

• autumn

• stockpile

• tractor

• crop

Multiple Choice

Essential part

desert

• cactus

• arid

• oasis

• flat

Multiple Choice

Essential part

book

• fiction

• pages

• pictures

• learning

Multiple Choice

Essential part

language

• tongue

• slang

• writing

• words

Multiple Choice

Essential part

school

• student

• report card

• test

• learning

Multiple Choice

Essential part

election

• president

• voter

• November

• nation

Multiple Choice

Essential part

lightning

• electricity

• thunder

• brightness

• rain

Theme Detection

Each of the following questions contains a small paragraph followed by a question on it. Read each paragraph carefully and answer the question given below it.

Multiple Choice

Vincent has a paper route. Each morning, he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vincent 50 minutes to deliver all the papers. If Vincent is sick or has other plans, his friend Thomas, who lives on the same street, will sometimes deliver the papers for him.

• Vincent and Thomas live in the same neighborhood.

• It takes Thomas more than 50 minutes to deliver the papers

• It is dark outside when Vincent begins his deliveries

• Thomas would like to have his own paper route

Multiple Choice

Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of persons have been attracted towards this anti-national activity. Some of them became millionaires overnight. India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Western Coast. It has been a heaven for smugglers who have been carrying on their activities with great impunity. There is no doubt, that from time to time certain seizures were made by the enforcement authorities, during raids and ambush but even allowing these losses the smugglers made huge profits.The passage best supports the statement that

• smuggling hampers the economic development of a nation.

• smuggling ought to be curbed.

• authorities are taking strict measures to curb smuggling.

• smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.

Multiple Choice

Though the waste of time or the expenditure on fashions is very large, yet fashions have come to stay. They will not go, come what may. However, what is now required is that strong efforts should be made to displace the excessive craze for fashion from the minds of these youngsters.The passage best supports the statement that:

• fashion is the need of the day.

• the excessive craze for fashion is detrimental to one's personality.

• the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.

• work and other activities should be valued more than the outward appearance.

Multiple Choice

One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrialized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the pay cheque and this fixes social status.The passage best supports the statement that:

• technology decides individual's social status.

• castes and religions are man-made.

• human labour has dignity and value.

• all individuals, irrespective of caste and creed, are born equal.

Multiple Choice

The future of women in India is quite bright and let us hope that they will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion. Napoleon was right when he declared that by educating the women we can educate the whole nation. Because a country can never rise without the contribution of 50% of their population.The passage best supports the statement that:

• India is striving hard for the emancipation of women.

• all women should be well educated.

• a nation can progress only when women are given equal rights and opportunities as men.

• women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.

Multiple Choice

The prevention of accidents makes it necessary not only that safety devices be used to guard exposed machinery but also that mechanics be instructed in safety rules which they must follow for their own protection, and that lighting in the plant be adequate.The passage best supports the statement that industrial accidents -

• are always avoidable

• may be due to ignorance.

• cannot be entirely overcome.

• can be eliminated with the help of safety rules.

Multiple Choice

To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness; it is really a sign of strength. It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance; but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged himself and puts the wrong-doer to shame.The passage best supports' the statement that

• the sufferer alone knows the intensity of his sufferings.

• people tend to forgive the things happened in the past.

• natural passions are difficult to suppress.

• mercy is the noblest form of revenge.

Multiple Choice

Industrial exhibitions play a major role in a country's economy. Such exhibitions, now regularly held in Delhi, enable us to measure the extent of our own less advanced industrial progress and the mighty industrial power and progress of countries like the U.K., U.S.A. and Russia whose pavilions are the centres of the greatest attention and attractions.The passage best supports the statement that industrial exhibitions -A.B.C.D.

• greatly tax the poor economies.

• are more useful for the developed countries like U.S.A. whose products stand out superior to those of the developing countries.

• are not of much use to the countries who are industrially backward.

• boost up production qualitatively and quantitatively by analytical comparison of a country's products with those of the developed countries.

Multiple Choice

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition form one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times for, through the modern development of economy, the family as bearer of tradition and education has become weakened.This passage best supports the statement that for transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next -

• there are means other than the school.

• several different sources must be tried.

• economic development plays a crucial role

• modern technology must be put to use.

Multiple Choice

Emerson said that the poet was landlord, Sealord, airlord. The flight of imagination made the poet master of land, sea and air. But a poet's dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement and a reality for all men. Even those who invented, improved and perfected the aeroplane could hardly have dreamt of the possibility of flight into outer space.The passage best supports the statement that:

• seemingly impossible imaginations make one a good poet,

• all imaginations become a reality some day.

• what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.

• man has reached the climax of technological development with his exploration into outer space.

Verbal Reasoning 

Find the statement that must be true according to the given information.

Multiple Choice

Vincent has a paper route. Each morning, he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vincent 50 minutes to deliver all the papers. If Vincent is sick or has other plans, his friend Thomas, who lives on the same street, will sometimes deliver the papers for him.A.B.C.It is dark outside when Vincent begins his deliveries.D.

• Vincent and Thomas live in the same neighborhood.

• It takes Thomas more than 50 minutes to deliver the papers.

• It is dark outside when Vincent begins his deliveries.

• Thomas would like to have his own paper route.

Multiple Choice

The Pacific yew is an evergreen tree that grows in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific yew has a fleshy, poisonous fruit. Recently, taxol, a substance found in the bark of the Pacific yew, was discovered to be a promising new anticancer drug.

• Taxol is poisonous when taken by healthy people.

• Taxol has cured people from various diseases.

• People should not eat the fruit of the Pacific yew.

• The Pacific yew was considered worthless until taxol was discovered.

Multiple Choice

Erin is twelve years old. For three years, she has been asking her parents for a dog. Her parents have told her that they believe a dog would not be happy in an apartment, but they have given her permission to have a bird. Erin has not yet decided what kind of bird she would like to have.

• Erin's parents like birds better than they like dogs.

• Erin does not like birds.

• Erin and her parents live in an apartment.

• Erin and her parents would like to move.

Multiple Choice

Tim's commute never bothered him because there were always seats available on the train and he was able to spend his 40 minutes comfortably reading the newspaper or catching up on paperwork. Ever since the train schedule changed, the train has been extremely crowded, and by the time the doors open at his station, there isn't a seat to be found.A.B.CD.

• Tim would be better off taking the bus to work.

• Tim's commute is less comfortable since the train schedule changed.

• Many commuters will complain about the new train schedule.

• Tim will likely look for a new job closer to home.

Multiple Choice

When they heard news of the hurricane, Maya and Julian decided to change their vacation plans. Instead of traveling to the island beach resort, they booked a room at a fancy new spa in the mountains. Their plans were a bit more expensive, but they'd heard wonderful things about the spa and they were relieved to find availability on such short notice.

• Maya and Julian take beach vacations every year.

• The spa is overpriced.

• It is usually necessary to book at least six months in advance at the spa.

• Maya and Julian decided to change their vacation plans because of the hurricane.

Multiple Choice

Ten new television shows appeared during the month of September. Five of the shows were sitcoms, three were hour-long dramas, and two were news-magazine shows. By January, only seven of these new shows were still on the air. Five of the shows that remained were sitcoms

• Only one of the news-magazine shows remained on the air

• Only one of the hour-long dramas remained on the air.

• At least one of the shows that was cancelled was an hour-long drama.

• Television viewers prefer sitcoms over hour-long dramas

Multiple Choice

On weekends, Mr. Sanchez spends many hours working in his vegetable and flower gardens. Mrs. Sanchez spends her free time reading and listening to classical music. Both Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez like to cook.

• Mr. Sanchez enjoys planting and growing vegetables.

• Mr. Sanchez does not like classical music.

• Mrs. Sanchez cooks the vegetables that Mr. Sanchez grows.

• Mrs. Sanchez enjoys reading nineteenth century novels.

Multiple Choice

Georgia is older than her cousin Marsha. Marsha's brother Bart is older than Georgia. When Marsha and Bart are visiting with Georgia, all three like to play a game of Monopoly. Marsha wins more often than Georgia does.

• When he plays Monopoly with Marsha and Georgia, Bart often loses.

• Of the three, Georgia is the oldest.

• Georgia hates to lose at Monopoly.

• Of the three, Marsha is the youngest

Multiple Choice

Sara lives in a large city on the East Coast. Her younger cousin Marlee lives in the Mid-west in a small town with fewer than 1,000 residents. Marlee has visited Sara several times during the past five years. In the same period of time, Sara has visited Marlee only once.

• Sara thinks small towns are boring.

• Marlee likes Sara better than Sara likes Marlee.

• Sara is older than Marlee.

• Marlee wants to move to the East Coast.

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