Direction (1-5): In each question given below a sentence is given and is divided into three parts a, b and c. For each part a correction statement is also given. You have to determine which part requires correction and mark it as your answer.
1. A casual observer see Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn exchanging rhetorical blows over Brexit in the Commons today might imagine that they stand on opposite sides of this totemic issue. / But veterans of the debate knows they are equal in determination that Britain should leave the EU. / They are separated from consensus by small technical matters that can, for theatrical effect, be inflated into irreconcilable differences. That process is testimony to the hold that the two-party system exerts over English politics and to much of what is wrong with it.
a. A casual observer seeing Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn exchange rhetorical blows over Brexit in the Commons today might imagine that they stand on opposite sides of this totemic issue.
b. But veterans of the debate know they are equal in determination that Britain should leave the EU.
c. They are separated from consensus with small technical matters that can, for theatrical effect, be inflated into irreconcilable differences. That process is testimony to the hold that the two-party system exerts over English politics and to much of what is wrong with it.
A. Both a & b
B. Both b & c
C. Both c & a
D. Only a
E. None of these
Answer: Option D
Explanation:
A casual observer seeing Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn exchange rhetorical blows over Brexit in the Commons today might imagine that they stand on opposite sides of this totemic issue. But veterans of the debate know they are equal in determination that Britain should leave the EU. They are separated from consensus by small technical matters that can, for theatrical effect, be inflated into irreconcilable differences. That process is a testimony to the hold that the two-party system exerts over English politics and to much of what is wrong with it.
2. Had they not, more people in the developed world might now be facing similar problems to those in Novaya Zemlya. / The playgrounds of this remote Russian archipelago were recently been invaded by a prowl of hungry polar bears, driven into human settlements in search of food and shelter after rising temperatures destroyed the last hospitable slices of the Arctic sea ice. / It’s the same story we see across the world: habitat loss driving elephants to raid crops, human settlements spreading into tiger territory, and people lost their lives to big cats.
a. Had they not, more people under the developed world might now be facing similar problems to those in Novaya Zemlya.
b. The playgrounds of this remote Russian archipelago were recently invaded by a prowl of hungry polar bears, driven into human settlements in search of food and shelter after rising temperatures destroyed the last hospitable slices of the Arctic sea ice.
c. It’s the same story we see across the world: habitat loss driving elephants to raid crops, human settlements spreading into tiger territory, and people losing their lives to big cats.
A. Both a & b
B. Both b & c
C. Both c & a
D. Only a
E. None of these
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Had they not, more people in the developed world might now be facing similar problems to those in Novaya Zemlya. The playgrounds of this remote Russian archipelago were recently invaded by a prowl of hungry polar bears, driven into human settlements in search of food and shelter after rising temperatures destroyed the last hospitable slices of the Arctic sea ice. It’s the same story we see across the world: habitat loss driving elephants to raid crops, human settlements spreading into tiger territory, and people losing their lives to big cats.
3. Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and its people need to wake up before it is too late. / If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. / Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.
a. Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and his people needed to wake up before it is too late.
b. If they don’t, the European Union will go on the way of the Soviet Union in 1991.
c. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities are very big, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.
A. Both a & b
B. Both b & c
C. Both c & a
D. Only b
E. None of these
Answer: Option E
Explanation:
Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and its people need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.
4. When you find yourself mansplaining the term “mansplaining” to a worked-up faction of Twitter on a Sunday evening, / you can assume you’re not drawing the best out of your leisure time. / And that’s not even the most foolish thing a man called Paul Bullen done over the weekend.
a. When you found yourself mansplaining the term “mansplaining” to a worked-up faction of Twitter on a Sunday evening,
b. you can assume you’re not getting the best out of your leisure time.
c. And that’s not even the most foolish thing a man called Paul Bullen did over the weekend.
A. Both a & b
B. Both b & c
C. Both c & a
D. Only a
E. None of these
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
When you find yourself mansplaining the term “mansplaining” to a worked-up faction of Twitter on a Sunday evening, you can assume you’re not getting the best out of your leisure time. And that’s not even the most foolish thing a man called Paul Bullen did over the weekend.
5. Here’s the bad news. We are quite in many trouble. / A new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggests that a series of crises – from global warming to soil infertility – is set to hit us at the same time. / The consequences could include massive destabilisation, not just in individual countries but on a global level.
a. Here’s the bad news. We are quite in a lot of trouble.
b. A new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggests that a series of crises – from global warming to soil infertility – are set to hit us at the same time.
c. The consequences could include massive destabilisation, not just for individual countries but on a global level.
A. Both a & b
B. Both b & c
C. Both c & a
D. Only c
E. None of these
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
Here’s the bad news. We are quite in a lot of trouble. A new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggests that a series of crises – from global warming to soil infertility – are set to hit us at the same time. The consequences could include massive destabilization, not just in individual countries but on a global level. From the damage inflicted on human health, to a possible economic meltdown caused by mass insurance claims if the US is ravaged by floods and forest fires, we are not remotely prepared.