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At first glance, it may seem trite to maintain that a classroom could be regarded as a network of interrelationships in which group members participate more intensely than they do in the interaction occurring at the same time beyond their classroom doors. On second thought, however, one might recognize that it is indeed a new and initially rather disconcerting way to look at a group of learners and teachers. We are in the habit of thinking of them as a number of individuals, merely gathered together momentarily within a particular room. A class is a group, we might want to insist, or a class represents a room in a school plant. Both these definitions are obvious. Of what possible use is it to confuse the obvious by defining a class as a "system"? But is the concept of "system" really that difficult? We encounter it often in our daily experience. We saythat a football team has developed a system of working together in particular ways to foil its opponents. We worry about our digestive system when we suffer from stomach pains. We are familiar with the solar system. We argue about the public transportation system of our city, or the telephone system connecting remote corners of the country. What is common to all these usages is the idea of a pattern of interdependent relationships. A telephone system is characterized not so much by those little boxes scattered across the nation as by the interconnecting communication linkages or pathways that the technology makes possible. A solar system is not merely an aggregate of heavenly bodies; it represents bodies interacting in regular ways, on the basis of certain principles of relationship. Q:All of the following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT |
<div>A classroom and a football, match have a common factor that both are based on connected people</div>
<div>A telephone is a source of connecting scattered entities of various communities</div>
<div>When we feel stomach pain, we go in separation with other people</div>
<div>Modern communication means provide medium to connect people</div>
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Unfortunately, nuclear power isn't a good answer to our need to get loose from our Middle East oil dependency. For all its chrome-plated promise, nuclear power has fallen flat on its face and the worst is yet to come. Nucleafpower plants are now facing a challenge that their designers never anticipated, though they should have-what to do with the power plants after their useful lives are over. Nuclear power plants last 30 years or less. After 30 years, a reactor's pressure vessel becomes brittle and subject to breakage, simply as a result of constant bombardment by nuclear particles. In addition, after 30 years or so, the radioactivity in pipes and valves has accumulated to a point where maintenance workers are receiving unacceptable doses of radioactivity, so more maintenance crews must come in (to reduce the time any one worker spends getting zapped), which makes maintenance expensive. Old nuclear plants cannot simply be abandoned, or demolished with a wrecking ball. They are full of radioactivity, all of which must be kept away from living things. Much of the radioactivity decays away within 50 years, but three million years must pass before a nuclear plant becomes no more radioactive than the original uranium that initially fueled it. Q:Which of the following can be best inferred from the passage? |
Nuclear Engineering is an unattractive carver
Nuclear energy is cheap source of energy and poor countries must acquire nuclear energy plants
Abandoned power plants should safely be bored to ground under deep sea, so that it does not cause radiation pollution
Nuclear plants should be banned throughout the world
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Unfortunately, nuclear power isn't a good answer to our need to get loose from our Middle East oil dependency. For all its chrome-plated promise, nuclear power has fallen flat on its face and the worst is yet to come. Nucleafpower plants are now facing a challenge that their designers never anticipated, though they should have-what to do with the power plants after their useful lives are over. Nuclear power plants last 30 years or less. After 30 years, a reactor's pressure vessel becomes brittle and subject to breakage, simply as a result of constant bombardment by nuclear particles. In addition, after 30 years or so, the radioactivity in pipes and valves has accumulated to a point where maintenance workers are receiving unacceptable doses of radioactivity, so more maintenance crews must come in (to reduce the time any one worker spends getting zapped), which makes maintenance expensive. Old nuclear plants cannot simply be abandoned, or demolished with a wrecking ball. They are full of radioactivity, all of which must be kept away from living things. Much of the radioactivity decays away within 50 years, but three million years must pass before a nuclear plant becomes no more radioactive than the original uranium that initially fueled it. Q: The author's indication about the actual threat that a nuclear power plant offers, can be best described by which of the following statement? |
The life of nuclear plant is about 30 years
The radiation leakage cannot be prevented during the normal operation of a nuclear plant
Radiation pollution by demolished nuclear plants lasts for centuries
The workers in nuclear plant are not safe from the radiation
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Unfortunately, nuclear power isn't a good answer to our need to get loose from our Middle East oil dependency. For all its chrome-plated promise, nuclear power has fallen flat on its face and the worst is yet to come. Nucleafpower plants are now facing a challenge that their designers never anticipated, though they should have-what to do with the power plants after their useful lives are over. Nuclear power plants last 30 years or less. After 30 years, a reactor's pressure vessel becomes brittle and subject to breakage, simply as a result of constant bombardment by nuclear particles. In addition, after 30 years or so, the radioactivity in pipes and valves has accumulated to a point where maintenance workers are receiving unacceptable doses of radioactivity, so more maintenance crews must come in (to reduce the time any one worker spends getting zapped), which makes maintenance expensive. Old nuclear plants cannot simply be abandoned, or demolished with a wrecking ball. They are full of radioactivity, all of which must be kept away from living things. Much of the radioactivity decays away within 50 years, but three million years must pass before a nuclear plant becomes no more radioactive than the original uranium that initially fueled it. Q: What is the main idea of the passage expressed by the author? |
Nuclear energy is not a good replacement of energy derived from petroleum
Nuclear energy is a hazardous for mankind
Nuclear energy is costlier than any other energy source
The life of a nuclear plant is too short
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The accused __________ having made any statement. |
Refused
Denied
Rejected
Declaimed
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6 |
She is so ___________ that she easily catches cold. |
Sensible
Sincere
Sensitive
Sober
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The salaries and perks of the employees were not in _________ with their status in this industry. |
Value
Conformity
Accordance
Capacity
Possession
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8 |
The government should provide attractive tax ________ to create the market of quality goods. |
Revenues
Structures
Resources
Incentives
Controls
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9 |
As the market becomes ___________ competitive, some companies will make large and larger profits. |
Well
Good
More
Fully
Mainly
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10 |
The person who is looking for sympathy talks ___________. |
Glibly
Didactically
Ominously
Plaintively
Disparagingly
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11 |
A great literary or artistic work is known as a ___________. |
Pot pouri
Par excellence
Bete noire
Pecadillo
Magnum opus
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The assassination of the Archduke was followed by __________ throughout the whole European continent. |
Repercussions
Concatenations
Reprisals
Consternations
Enervations
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_______ is a person who dabbles in art and letters. |
Dislettante
Connoisseur
Philistine
Chauvinist
Epicurean
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14 |
Inference or conclusion, that does not follow from the facts as stated is known as ____________. |
Quis separabit
Resangustadomi
Respice finem
Non-sequiture
Pour Pendreconge
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Discontented wives, dejected lovers, frustrated politicians, all these tend to be _________. |
Specious
Abstlmious
Euphemistic
Persiflagus
Querulous
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Some parents make their commands so __________ that they antagonise their children. |
Perfunctory
Peremptory
Acrimonious
Spasmodic
Sporadic
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The speaker painted a ____________ picture of hunger in parts of country. |
Chimirical
Passionate
Parisimonious
Poignant
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Sometimes it is necessary for an author to know what is going on in the minds of his characters. This is called ___________. |
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Omnipotence
Truclence
Introversion
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It was through the Second World War, the Russia ________ herself increased ___________ in power and wealth and prestige. |
Saw; Abundantly
Noticed;gullibly
Withnessed; Prodigiously
None of above
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20 |
Even more than beauty, youth attracts me and with ________ appeal. |
An incluctable
An irresistible
An incomprehensible
A delectable
A sententious
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21 |
There were reduced to skeletons for they had long been __________ for food. |
Impinging
Snarling
Craving
Longing
Famishing
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22 |
Charles Lamb's prose is richly ___________ with literary ornaments like similes, metaphors, alliterations, transferred epithets etc. |
Emblamed
Saturated
Embellished
Embroidered
Embroiled
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Nothing is so ______ to a nation as an extreme of self-partiality, and the total want of ________ of what others will naturally hope or fear. |
Repugnant; Sense
Delusionary, Methodly
Fatal, Consideration
Unethical, Discretion
Detrimental, Concern
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For nations conscious of the __________ of modern war, peace must be the goal of their foreign policies. |
Perils
Incidence
Prudence
Redundancies
Potentialities
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Diplomacy is the best means of ____________ which a society of severeign nations has to offer, but, especially under the conditions of _________ world politics and of contemporary war, it is not good enough. |
Maintaining, Today's
Presenting, Contemporary
Retaining, Present
Promoting, Modern
Evolving, Self-centred
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With the realisation, we have found ourselves left with __________ moral values and little ethical ________. |
Extreme, Judgement
Fundamental, Scruples
Incidental, Standards
Obsolete, Direction
Stereotyped, Perspective
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The admiration some leaders earn is __________ by their _________ instinct for hitting the frontlines in newspapers. |
Developed-uncanny
Generated-feeble
Engendered-unerring
Evolved-aggressive
Conceded-procovative
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28 |
Success in great ventures calls for _____________ concentration and strong personal ___________. |
Sterling, Attachment
Standing, Participation
Continued, Apathy
Unflagging, Involvement
Hectic, Interest
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The opposition parties allege that prices of essential commodities are ________ like a runway balloon. |
Flying
Shooting
Reviving
Leaping
Soaring
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The Pakistani __________ have discovered a way to boost the yield per acre of different ____________ of wheat. |
Agronomists, Varicties
Economists, Kinds
Anthropologists, Sorts
Phrenologists, Layers
Agnoanalysts, Vistas
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I do not think, you will gain anything by insulting and _______ the man you do not agree with. |
Defaming
Depicting
Charging
Revamping
Enervating
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32 |
True health and true success go together for they are inseparably ________ in the thought realm. |
Tied up
Bound up
Interwined
Inter-related
Interspersed
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Knowledge is like a deep well fed by __________ springs, and your mind is the little bucket that you drop in it. |
Immortal
Inexhaustible
Enternal
Perennial
Sterling
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Pakistan for the present, is deeply ____________ in economic difficulties, but, the Government has taken a pledge to set everything right within five years. |
Saturated
Engrossed
Swamped
Vexed
Ruined
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35 |
The appropriate word used for marriage between people of different races is __________. |
Scurrility
Mesccgluation
Reverberation
Embolism
Nonsequitur
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36 |
She had a terrible night caused by an _________ during her sleep. |
Incubus
Debility
Obsession
Delusion
Hypochondria
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37 |
The influence of the environment on man is revealed by an __________ study. |
Anthropological
Ccological
Epigraphic
Numismatic
Ecumenical
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38 |
His __________ way of life seemed in consistent with his professions of virtue. |
Equable
Tremulous
Squeamish
Compromising
Dissolute
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His attitude to his boss was _______ and caused a good deal of repulsion. |
Refulgent
Arrogant
Hybrid
Sycophantic
Aggressive
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Any political leader who allows nepotism to flourish should be subject to ___________. |
Autopsy
Stringency
Stricture
Punishment
Condemnation
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41 |
That charming girl was the _________ of all eyes. |
Target
Aim
Cynosure
Doggerel
Ambition
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42 |
Idleness squanders what ___________ in a previous generation has won. |
Laziness
Indolence
Resourcefulness
Industry
Work
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His answer was such ___________ I expected him to give. |
That
Which
As
Like which
Who
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44 |
In the world of today, material values take precedence ___________ spiritual values. |
At
On
Over
About
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___________ the event of his resigning his job, his family would starve. |
At
On
Within
In
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