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Answer the following question on the basis of this paragraph

Which of the following best describes the Essence or structure of the passage?
A. How children learn one kind of activity is described and then this method is recommended for
teaching children another kind of activity.
B. Two different views of how children should be taught to read are compared and contrasted.
C. A view of how children should be taught is described and then criticized.
D. Contrasting views of parents and teachers on how quickly children actually learn are described
and then analyzed.
E. The amount of time it take for children to learn one kind of activity is described and then used to
predict how long it will take them to learn another kind of activity.



The sentences given, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is
labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to
construct a coherent paragraph. Sentence 1 and 6 are fixed starting and ending of the paragraph.
Type the correct order in the given space.
1. Amount of published information available varies widely by industry.

A. Unfortunately for the researcher, many industries do not meet these criteria, and there may be
little published information available.
B. Generally, the problem the researcher will face in using published data for analysing an
economically meaningful industry is that they are too broad or too arranged to fit the industry.
C. However, it is always possible to gain some important information about an industry from
published sources and these sources should be aggressively pursued. D. Larger the industry, the
older it is, and the slower the rate of technological change, better is the available published
information.
6. If a researcher starts a searching for data with this reality in mind, the uselessness of broad data
will be better recognized and the tendency to give up will be avoided.


In the following question a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the
given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Type
the correct option number in the given space below.
Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising its head. Citing competitiveness
concerns, powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports of energyintensive
products from developing countries that refuse to accept their demands. The actual source
of protectionist sentiment in the OECD countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic
performance, combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and India - in
that order.
(1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism through the back door.
(2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these
two countries.
(3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of China
and India.
(4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
(5) Today’s climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.


Answer the following question on the basis of this paragraph
Whatever their disadvantage with respect to distributing education tax dollars equally among school
districts, in one respect at least, local property taxes are superior to state taxes as a means of
funding public schools. Because local property taxes provide public schools with a direct source of
revenue, these public schools are relatively free from competition for tax dollars with other
government services. School administrators do not have to compete for a share of the state tax
dollars, which are already being spent on health, criminal justice, public safety, and transportation.
They are not placed in the position of having to argue that school programs must have priority over
other public services financed by state taxes.

Which of the following statements best expresses essence of the passage?
A. Education is more important than other government services, such as criminal justice or public
safety.
B. The disadvantage of local property taxes is that they do not equally distribute tax dollars spent on
education.
C. School administrators are not accustomed to arguing that their programs must have priority over
other government services.
D. Financing education with local property taxes has the advantage of eliminating competition for
funding between schools and other public services.
E. School administrators must be prepared to justify the funds they spend on education programs.


In the following question a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the
given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Type
the correct option number in the given space below.
Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon’s hands in the hope of
reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished
pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it’s
about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions
beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.
(1) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
(2) Other patients don’t like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
(3) But Perowne himself is not concerned.’
(4) But others will take their place, he thought.
(5) These hands are steady enough, but they are large.

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