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In XAT 2010; there 's a question :
"Silver is especially and repetitively savage about what
he sees as the extravagant claims made for particle
physics, arguing that once the proton, neutron, and
electron were found and their properties experimentally
confirmed, the very expensive searches for ever more
exotic particles, such as the Higgs Boson, were
increasingly harder to justify other than by their
importance to particle physicists. Most of the particles
resemble ecstatic happiness: They are very short-lived
and have nothing to do with everyday life. His repeated
assault goes to the level of sarcasm: €œFinding the Higgs
Boson will be a magnificent technical and theoretical
triumph. Like a great Bobby Fisher game €?. Of course,
this is a tad unfair, even if some of the claims of its
practitioners invite such assaults on their field."
Which of the following, if true, will weaken the
argument described in the passage?
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In this question line A is fixed.. arrange the rest in a logical coherent paragraph
A. Over a span of less than two years, some have been displaced atleast a dozen times and are haunted by memories of sleepless nights spent in bunkers, constant bombarding and an uncertain future.
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D. Every one of the 500 odd families in the village has gone through more or less the same trauma.
E.The choice before them was the known devil, the Tigers, and the unknown deep sea, the military.
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1. He is like a Kantian listening to consequentialist arguments: he refuses to think that way. 2.
4. Jones listens to the arguments and objections of others with different views, but is unconvinced.5. On the one hand, public reason liberals might seem to tell Jones to refrain from public discussion and voting.
But on the other hand, that is "not what they should say, given their position as a whole".
3. Suppose Jones has a religious conviction that he should base his political views on his religious convictions.4. Jones listens to the arguments and objections of others with different views, but is unconvinced.5. On the one hand, public reason liberals might seem to tell Jones to refrain from public discussion and voting.
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A Its a nightmare in the sky.
B. For Iridium, a project built to provide telephone service to any nook and corner on the globe, was like a Sci-Fi adventure.
C. A technological meltdown.
D. A $5 billion mega dream came to nought.
Please please puys provide a detailed explanation.
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A)Indian political life has been dominated by our sentiment of opposition to alien rule.
B)Thus social and moral atmosphere is not suitable for democracy.
C)And the leaders idealized tradition.
D)The constitution was not the product of the urge for freedom.
E)Consequently democratic aspirations were relegated to the background.
RC 1
The story begins as the European pioneers crossed the Alleghenies and started to settle in the Midwest. The land they found was covered with forests. With incredible effort they felled the trees, pulled the stumps and planted their crops in the rich, loamy soil. When they finally reached the western edge of the place, we now call Indiana, the forest stopped and ahead lay a thousand miles of the great grass prairie. The Europeans were puzzled by this new environment. Some even called it the €˜Great Desert €™. It seemed untillable. The earth was often very wet and it was covered with centuries of tangled and matted grasses. With their cast iron plows, the settlers found that the prairie sod could not be cut and the wet earth stuck to their plowshares. Even a team of the best oxen bogged down after a few years of tugging. The iron plow was a useless tool to farm the prairie soil. The pioneers were stymied for nearly two decades. Their western march was halted and they filled in the eastern regions of the Midwest. In 1837, a blacksmith in the town of Grand Detour, Illinois, invented a new tool. His name was John Deere and the tool was a plow made of steel. It was sharp enough to cut through matted grasses and smooth enough to cast off the mud. It was a simple tool, the €™sod buster €™ that opened the great prairies to agricultural development. Sauk County, Wisconsin is the part of the prairie where I have a home. It is named after the Sauk Indians. In 1673, Father Marquette was the first European to lay his eyes upon their land. He found a village laid out in regular patterns on a plain beside the Wisconsin river. He called the place Prairie du Sac The village was surrounded by fields that had provided maize, beans and squash for the Sauk people for generations reaching back into the unrecorded time. When the European settlers arrived at the Sauk prairie in 1837, the government forced the native Sauk people, west of the Mississippi river. The settlers came with John Deere €™s new invention and used the tool to open the area to a new kind of agriculture. They ignored the traditional ways of the Sauk Indians and used their sod-busting tool for planting wheat. Initially, the soil was generous and the farmers thrived. However, each year the soil lost more of its nurturing power. It was only 30 years after the Europeans arrived with their new technology that the land was depleted. Wheat farming became uneconomic and tens of thousands of farmers left Wisconsin seeking new land with sod to bust. It took the Europeans and their new technology just one generation to make their homeland into a desert. The Sauk Indians who knew how to sustain themselves on the Sauk prairie land were banished to another kind of desert called a reservation. And they even forgot about the techniques and tools that had sustained them on the prairie for generations unrecorded. And that is how it was that three deserts were created €” Wisconsin, the reservation and the memories of people. A century later, the land of the Sauks is now populated by the children of a second wave of European farmers who learned to replenish the soil through the regenerative powers of dairying, ground cover crops and animal manures. These third and fourth generation farmers and townspeople do not realise, however, that a new settler is coming soon with an invention as powerful as John Deere €™s plow. The new technology is called €˜bereavement counselling €™. It is a tool forged at the great state university, an innovative technique to meet the needs of those experiencing the death of a loved one, a tool that can €˜process €™ the grief of the people who now live on the Prairie of the Sauk. As one can imagine the final days of the village of the Sauk Indians before the arrival of the settlers with John Deere €™s plow, one can also imagine these final days before the arrival of the first bereavement counsellor at Prairie du Sac. In these final days, the farmers and the towns people mourn at the death of a mother, brother, son, or friend. The bereaved is joined by neighbours and kin. They meet grief together in lamentation, prayer and song. They call upon the words of the clergy and surround themselves in community. It is in these ways that they grieve and then go on with life. Through their mourning they are assured of the bonds between them and renewed in the knowledge that this death is a part of the Prairie of the Sauk. Their grief is common property, an anguish from which the community draws strength and gives the bereaved the courage to move ahead. It is into this prairie community that the bereavement counsellor arrives with the new grief technology. The counsellor calls the invention a service and assures the prairie folk of its effectiveness and superiority by invoking the name of the great university while displaying a diploma and certificate. At first, we can imagine that the local people will be puzzled by the bereavement counsellor €™s claim. However, the counsellor will tell a few of them that the new technique is merely to assist the bereaved €™s community at the time of death. To some other prairie folk who are isolated or forgotten, the counsellor will approach the Country Board and advocate the right to treatment for these unfortunate souls. This right will be guaranteed by the Board €™s decision to reimburse those too poor to pay for counselling services. There will be others, schooled to believe in the innovative new tools certified by universities and medical centres, who will seek out the bereavement counsellor by force of habit. And one of these people will tell a bereaved neighbour who is unschooled that unless his grief is processed by a counsellor, he will probably have major psychological problems in later life. Several people will begin to use the bereavement counsellor because, since the Country Board now taxes them to insure access to the technology, they will feel that to fail to be counselled is to waste their money, and to be denied a benefit, or even a right. Finally, one day, the aged father of a Sauk woman will die. And the next door neighbour will not drop by because he doesn €™t want to interrupt the bereavement counseller. The woman €™s kin will stay home because they will have learned that only the bereavement counsellor knows how to process grief the proper way. The local clergy will seek technical assistance from the bereavement counsellor to learn the correct form of service to deal with guilt and grief. And the grieving daughter will know that it is the bereavement counsellor who really cares for her because only the bereavement counsellor comes when death visits this family on the Prairie of the Sauk. It will be only one generation between the bereavement counsellor arrival and the community of mourners disappearance. The counsellor €™s new tool will cut through the social fabric, throwing aside kinship, care, neighbourly obligations and community ways of coming together and going on. Like John Deere €™s plow, the tools of bereavement counselling will create a desert where a community once flourished. And finally, even the bereavement counsellor will see the impossibility of restoring hope in clients once they are genuinely alone with nothing but a service for consolation. In the inevitable failure of the service, the bereavement counsellor will find the deserts even in herself.
1. Which one of the following best describes the approach of the author?
(A) Comparing experiences with two innovations tried, in order to illustrate the failure of both.
(B) Presenting community perspectives on two technologies which have had negative effects on people.
(C)Using the negative outcomes of one innovation to illustrate the likely outcomes of another innovation.
(D) Contrasting two contexts separated in time, to illustrate how €˜deserts €™ have arisen.
2. According to the passage, bereavement handling traditionally involves
(A) the community bereavement counsellors working with the bereaved to help him/her overcome grief.
(B) the neighbours and kin joining the bereaved and meeting grief together in mourning and prayer.(C)using techniques developed systematically in formal institutions of learning, a trained counsellor helping the bereaved cope with grief.
(D) the Sauk Indian Chief leading the community with rituals and rites to help lessen the grief of the bereaved.
3. According to the author, due to which of the following reasons, will the bereavement counsellor find the deserts even in herself?
(A) Over a period of time, working with Sauk Indians who have lost their kinship and relationships, she becomes one of them.
(B) She is working in an environment where the disappearance of community mourners makes her work place a social desert.
(C)Her efforts at grief processing with the bereaved will fail as no amount of professional service can make up for the loss due to the disappearance of community mourners.
(D) She has been working with people who have settled for a long time in the Great Desert.
4. According to the author, the bereavement counsellor is
(A) a friend of the bereaved helping him or her handle grief.
(B) an advocate of the right to treatment for the community.
(C)a kin of the bereaved helping him/her handle grief.
(D) a formally trained person helping the bereaved handle grief.
5. The prairie was a great puzzlement for the European pioneers because
(A) it was covered with thick, untillable layers of grass over a vast stretch.
(B) it was a large desert immediately next to lush forests.
(C)it was rich cultivable land left fallow for centuries.
(D) it could be easily tilled with iron plows.
6. Which of the following does the €˜desert €™ in the passage refer to?
(A) Prairie soil depleted by cultivation of wheat.
(B) Reservations in which native Indians were resettled.
(C)Absence of, and emptiness in, community kinship and relationships.
(D) All of the above
7. According to the author, people will begin to utilize the service of the bereavement counsellor because
(A) new Country regulations will make them feel it is a right, and if they don €™t use it, it would be a loss.
(B) the bereaved in the community would find her a helpful friend.
(C)she will fight for subsistence allowance from the Country Board for the poor among the bereaved.
(D) grief processing needs tools certified by universities and medical centres.
8. Which of the following parallels between the plow and bereavement counselling is not claimed by the author?
(A) Both are innovative technologies.
(B) Both result in migration of the communities into which the innovations are introduced.
(C)Both lead to €˜deserts €™ in the space of only one generation.
(D) Both are tools introduced by outsiders entering existing communities.
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RC 2
The motive force that has carried the psychoanalytic movement to a voluminous wave of popular attention and created for it considerable following those discontent with traditional methods and attitudes, is the frank direction of thepsychological instruments of exploration to the insistent and intimate problems of human relations. However false or however true its conclusions, however weak or strong its arguments, however effective or defective or even pernicious its practice, its mission is broadly humanistic. Psychological enlightenment is presented as a program of salvation. By no other appeal could the service of psychology have become so glorified. The therapeutic promise of psychoanalysis came as the most novel, most ambitious, most releasing of the long procession of curative systems that mark the history of mental healing. To the contemporary trends in psychology psychoanalysis actually offered a rebuke, a challenge, a supplement, though it appeared to ignore them. With the practical purpose of applied psychology directed to human efficiency it had no direct relation and thus no quarrel. The solution of behaviorism, likewise bidding for popular approval by reducing adjustment to a program of conditioning, it inevitably found alien and irrelevant, as the behaviorist in reciprocity found psychoanalytic doctrine mystical, fantastic, assumptive, remote. Even to the cognate formulations of mental hygiene, as likewise in its contacts with related fields of psychology, psychoanalysis made no conciliatory advances. Towards psychiatry, its nearest of kin, it took an unfriendly position, quite too plainly implying a disdain for an unprogressive relative. These estrangements affected its relations throughout the domain of mind and its ills; but they came to head in the practice. From the outset in the days of struggle, when it had but a sparse and scattered discipleship, to the present position of prominence, Freudianism went its own way, for the most part neglected by academic psychology. Of dreams, lapses and neuroses, orthodox psychology had little say. The second reason for the impression made by psychoanalysis when once launched against the tide of academic resistance was its recognition of depth psychology, so much closer to human motivation, so much more intimate and direct than the analysis of mental factors. Most persons in trouble would be grateful for relief without critical examination of the theory behind the practice that helped them. Anyone at all acquainted with the ebb and flow of cures – cures that cure cures that fail – need not be told that the scientific basis of the system is often the least important factor. Many of these systems arise empirically within a practice, which by trial, seems to give results. This is not the case in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis belongs to the typical groups of therapies in which practice is entirely a derivative of theory. Here the pertinent psychological principle reads: “Create a belief in the theory, and the fact will create themselves”.
1. The distinctive feature of psychoanalysis is that
(A) it provided the laymen with a scientific basis to the theories of psychology.
(B) it blasted the popular theory that the conscious mind could be aptly linked the tip of an iceberg.
(C)it provided effective means for the cure of mental disorders.
(D) it rendered existing trends in psychology defunct.
2. The distinction between behaviorism and psychoanalysis that is heightened here is which of the following?
(A) Behaviorism is wide in scope; psychoanalysis more restricted.
(B) Behaviorism are more tolerant in their outlook; psychoanalysis more dogmatic.
(C)Behaviorism traces all action to conditioning by habit; psychoanalysis to the depths of the human mind.
(D) Behaviorism are more circumspect and deliberate in their propagation of theory; psychoanalysis jump to conclusion impetuously.
3. The statement which is refuted by the passage is this:
(A) The popularity enjoyed by psychoanalysis is partly due to the disenchantment with traditional methods of psychology.
(B) Psychoanalysis wooed people dissatisfied with other branches of psychology to swell their ranks.(C)Psychoanalysis were pioneers in the realm of analysis of the subconscious mind.
(D) Psychoanalysis alienated allied branches of psychology.
4. Create a belief in theory and
(A) belief will be created itself.
(B) theory will be created itself.
(C)facts will be created themselves .
(D) All of the above.
5. Psychoanalysis are of the opinion that
(A) methods of psychoanalysis must be in keeping with individual needs.
(B) inferences can be drawn empirically from repeated experiments with any given theory.
(C)theory leads to practice.
(D) practice culminates into theory.
6. Freudian psychoanalysis was ignored by academic psychology because of which of the following?
(A) Its theories were not substantiated by practical evidence.
(B) It probed too deep into the human mind thereby divesting it of its legitimate privacy.
(C)It did not have a large following.
(D) It was pre-occupied with unfamiliar concepts such as dreams and the subconscious mind.
7. The only statement to receive support from the passage is which of the following?
(A) Psychoanalysis concentrated more on the theoretical remedies than their practical implementation.(B) Psychoanalysis broke the shackles of convention in its involvement with humanistic issues.
(C)The attitude of psychoanalysis towards allied branches of psychology could at best be described as indifferent.
(D) Psychoanalysis dispelled the prevalent notion that dreams were repressed desires.
8. The popularity enjoyed by the psychoanalytical movement may be directly attributed to
(A) dissatisfaction with existing methods of psychology.
(B) its logical, coherent process of ratiocination.
(C)its novel unconventionality in both postulate and practice.
(D) its concentration upon the humanistic aspect of psychological analysis.
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