Description
In theme detection, the problems are related to the passages. From the passage, read the data carefully and decide the primary point the creator is attempting to make. What conclusion can be drawn from the contention? Every passage is trailed by five statements. One statement supports the creator's contention superior to the others do.
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Concept
While reading, need to identify argument in order to properly understand the main point.
Stated claim: In paragraphs, topic sentence often identifies the main claim or idea of the paragraph. This is usually first sentence but not always.
How to find stated claim:
1. Read the paragraph.
2. Ask "what is the paragraph about?".
3. Summarize the content in own words.
4. Find the sentence within the paragraph that best matches the summary.
Model
Problems
Model 1: Before, buyers would infrequently stroll into a dessert store and request low-fat frozen yoghurt. In any case, that isn't the situation today. An expanding well-being awareness consolidated with a much greater choice of wonderful low-fat sustenance in all classes has made low-fat frozen yoghurt an exceptionally gainful thing for dessert store proprietors.
Choose the statement that is best supported by the information given in the question passage.
A. Low-fat ice cream produces more revenue than other low-fat foods.
B. Ice cream store owners would be better off carrying only low-fat ice cream.
C. Ice cream store owners no longer think that low-fat ice cream is an unpopular item.
D. Low-fat ice cream is more popular than other kinds of ice cream.
E. Consumers are fickle and it is impossible to please them.
Solution:
This decision is upheld as the best answer on the grounds that the section demonstrates that low-fat frozen yoghurt was at one time a disliked thing.
Yet now, since shoppers are more well-being conscious and in light of the fact that there is a more extensive exhibit of delicious low-fat sustenance, low-fat dessert is a gainful thing for dessert store proprietors.
There is no sign that decisions a, b, d,or e are genuine in light of the data given.
Therefore, correct answer is ice cream store owners no longer think that low-fat ice cream is an unpopular item.
Model 2: Stoutness is a difficult issue in this nation. Research proposes that weight can prompt various well-being issues including diabetes, asthma, and coronary illness. Late research has even demonstrated that there might be a relationship amongst corpulence and some writes of tumour. Real general well-being effort that expand mindfulness and propose basic way of life changes that will, with tirelessness and want, take out or slightest moderate the frequency of corpulence are a pivotal initial phase in fighting this basic issue.
This paragraph best supports the statement that:
A. General well-being effort that raise awareness and propose way of life changes are a profitable approach to battle obesity.
B. Stoutness is the main source of diabetes in our nation.
C. Individuals in our nation observe an excessive amount of TV and don't practice enough.
D. A decrease in weight would profoundly diminish the occurrence of asthma.
E. Fast-food eateries and undesirable school snacks contribute extraordinarily to weight.
Solution:
The backing for this decision is in the last sentence, which expresses that real general well-being effort that build mindfulness and propose way of life changes are vital in our battle against obesity.
Decision b can be precluded in light of the fact that in spite of the fact that the section expresses that obesity can prompt diabetes, it doesn't let us know that it is the main source of this ailment.
Decisions c and e may sound sensible and genuine, yet they are not upheld in the section.
What's more, in spite of the fact that we are informed that obesity has been associated with asthma, this is not evaluated at all, so decision d is additionally not supported by the data given.
Therefore, option(A) is correct choice i.e. General well-being effort that raise awareness and propose way of life changes are a profitable approach to battle obesity.
Model 3: Amid the most recent six years, the quantity of practising doctors has expanded by around 20%. Amid the same time period, the quantity of medicinal services chiefs has expanded by more than 600%. These rates imply that numerous specialists have lost the power to make their own timetables, decide the expenses that they charge, and choose recommended medications.
This paragraph best supports the statement that:
A. Resent the interference of healthcare managers.
B. No longer have adequate training.
C. Care a great deal about their patients.
D. Are less independent than they used to be.
E. Are making a lot less money than they used to make.
Solution:
The creator of this statement recommends that specialists are less free.
The creator focuses on that numerous specialists have lost power.
There is no backing for the assessment that doctors resent the healthcare managers, however which discounts decision a.
The specialists preparing is never said (decision b).
Specialists may think about their patients (decision c), yet this data is not part of the section.
Decision e is not said.
Therefore, option(D) is correct choice i.e. Doctors/specialists are less independent than they used to be.
Model 4: Giving kids PCs in evaluation school is a misuse of cash and instructors time. These kids are excessively youthful, making it impossible to figure out how to utilize PCs viably and need to invest energy in taking in the essentials, similar to maths and reading. All things considered, an infant needs to creep before she can walk.
1. Which of the following, if true, would weaken the speaker's argument?
A. A demonstration that computers can be used to teach reading and arithmetic.
B. Analysis of the cost-effectiveness of new computers versus repairing old computers.
C. Examples of adults who do not know how to use computers.
D. Recent grade reports of students in the computer classes.
E. A visit to a classroom where computers are being used.
2. Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the speaker's argument?
A. Studies showing computers are expensive.
B. Research on the effect of computer games on children.
C. Examples of high school students who use computers improperly.
D. Proof that the cost of computers is coming down.
E. Evidence that using computers makes learning to read difficult.
Solution:
1. If PCs enhance the learning of arithmetic and reading, the speaker's argument is not as strong.
Therefore, option(A) is correct i.e. A demonstration that computers can be used to teach reading and arithmetic.
2. This confirmation would move down the speaker's conflict that youthful understudies should learn the basics before learning PCs.
Decisions a and d, which are both about expense, would have no impact on the contention. Decisions b and c are excessively unclear.
Therefore, correct answer is evidence that using computers makes learning to read difficult.
Model 5: Some gatherings need to bandit burning the flag. They say that individuals have battled and kicked the bucket for the flag and that residents of the United States should regard that. Be that as it may, I say that regard can't be leg-confined. Additionally, most natives who have served in the military did not battle for the banner, they battled for what the banner speaks to. Among the things the flags speaks to is the right to speak freely, which incorporates, I trust, the a good fit for a resident to express disappointment with the government by burning the flag in protest.
1. Which of the following best expresses the main point of the passage?
A. Only veterans care about the flag-burning issue.
B. Flag burning almost never happens, so outlawing it is a waste of time.
C. Flag burning will be a very important issue in the next election.
D. To outlaw flag burning is to outlaw what the flag represents.
E. Burning the flag should only be illegal when it is done in foreign countries.
2. Which of the following, if true, would weaken the speaker's argument?
A. An action is not considered a part of freedom of speech.
B. People who burn the flag usually commit other crimes as well.
C. The flag was not recognized by the government until 1812.
D. State flags are almost never burned
E. Most people are against flag burning.
Solution:
1. The speaker maintains that to burn a flag is an act of freedom of speech, which is among the things the flag represents.
Therefore, option(D) is correct.
Hence, To outlaw flag burning is to outlaw what the flag represents.
2. If an action is not included under freedom of speech, the speaker's main argument is incorrect.
So, option(A) is correct choice.
Hence, An action is not considered a part of freedom of speech.