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Read the following statements and answer the question that follows.1. Some countries are, at least, trying to curb emissions.2. Morocco is building a colossal solar-power plant in the desert.3. States in the Middle East and North Africa can do little on their own to mitigate climate change.4. Saudi Arabia is not going to stop exporting oil, but it plans to build a solar plant that will be about 200 times the size of the biggest such facility operating today.5. Politics often gets in the way of problem solving.Arrange the above five statements in a logical sequence.
Text Explanation:
The given excerpt is about what different countries in the Middle East and North Africa are doing about Climate Change.
Sentence 3 introduces the topic by saying that the mentioned countries can do little about climate change.
Sentence 5 mentions the reason for the above problem.
Statement 1 says that some countries are at least trying.
Sentences 2 and 4 build on the above idea by mentioning the projects in Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
Thus, the correct sequence is 3-5-1-2-4.
The answer is option D.
Read the following passage and answer the two questions that follow.We stand before this great world. The truth of our life depends upon our attitude of mind towards it - an attitude which is formed by our habit of dealing with it according to the special circumstance of our surroundings and our temperaments. It guides our attempts to establish relations with the universe either by conquest or by union, either through the cultivation of power or through that of sympathy. And thus, in our realization of the truth of existence, we put our emphasis either upon the principle of dualism or upon the principle of unity.
Which of the following statements can be BEST inferred from the passage?
The passage primarily deals with the two ways our attitudes help us in realising the truth of life: " It guides our attempts to establish relations with the universe either by conquest or by union"
Which is stated in option A.
Looking at the other options:
Option B: The text does not claim that one way is better than the other, and hence, this can be easily eliminated.
Option C: It slightly distorts what is given in the text. Our habits/attitudes make us either conquer the world or be one with it, and that union or conquest determines the truth about our lives.
Option D: The passage is not dealing with the idea of war and conquest. The conquest in the text is not literal but along the mental and spiritual lines.
Option E: This form of correlation is also not implied in the text and can be eliminated easily.
Therefore, Option A is the correct answer.
Read the following passage and answer the three questions that follow. Multitasking has been found to increase the production of the stress hormone cortisol as well as the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline, which can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking. Multitasking creates a dopamine addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. To make matters worse, the prefrontal cortex has a novelty bias, meaning that its attention can be easily hijacked by something new—the proverbial shiny objects we use to entice infants, puppies, and kittens. The irony here for those of us who are trying to focus amid competing activities is clear: The very brain region we need to rely on for staying on task is easily distracted. We answer the phone, look up something on the Internet, check our email, send an SMS, and each of these things tweaks the novelty-seeking, reward-seeking centers of the brain, causing a burst of endogenous opioids (no wonder it feels so good!), all to the detriment of our staying on task. It is the ultimate empty-caloried brain candy. Instead of reaping the big rewards that come from sustained, focused effort, we instead reap empty rewards from completing a thousand little sugarcoated tasks.In the old days, if the phone rang and we were busy, we either didn’t answer or we turned the ringer off. When all phones were wired to a wall, there was no expectation of being able to reach us at all times—one might have gone out for a walk or be between places, and so if someone couldn’t reach you (or you didn’t feel like being reached), that was considered normal. Now more people have cell phones than have toilets. This has created an implicit expectation that you should be able to reach someone when it is convenient for you, regardless of whether it is convenient for them. This expectation is so ingrained that people in meetings routinely answer their cell phones to say, “I’m sorry, I can’t talk now, I’m in a meeting.” Just a decade or two ago, those same people would have let a landline on their desk go unanswered during a meeting, so different were the expectations for reachability.
According to the passage, why do people in meetings routinely answer their cell phones to say, “I’m sorry, I can’t talk now, I’m in a meeting.”?
The author mentions this because it is related to the main idea of the final paragraph: that when phones were connected to walls, we would let them ring if we were busy, but now that they are with us at all times, we are expected to reply no matter what.
The author exemplifies this with the meeting example. Now, you pick up and say that you are in a meeting because you have your phone and can actually reply. If it were a landline, no one would expect you to reply. This is best captured in option E.
Option A is not a point the author wants to make. The passage also does not present the illusion of business (Option B). Option C might be accurate, but it is not mentioned or implied in the passage and is not of the author's concern. Option D is not implied in the passage.
