Q1. Find the odd statement out
A. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m not sure that this book fits into any one category.
B. I profile three people who I think embody those types, and then I use the example of Paul Revere and his midnight ride to point out the subtle characteristics of this kind of social epidemic.
C. I think that word of mouth is something created by three very rare and special psychological types, whom I call Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen.
D. There’s a whole section of the book devoted to explaining the phenomenon of word of mouth, for example.
(a) only A
(b) only B
(c) only C
(d) only D
(e) None of the above
EXPLANATION
Ans.(a)
Sol. D, C and B in that order is the writer commenting about a whole section of his book. That it does not fit into any category – sentence A – has hardly any relation to the other three sentences. In D the beginning of the paragraph is rather abrupt but there is no other sentence that can begin this paragraph.
Q2. Find the odd statement out
A. Much of the African surface is covered by savannas, or open grasslands, and by arid plains and deserts.
B. Africa is a continent of great size, almost 12 million square miles or about three times the size of the United States.
C. We have already noted the origins of humankind in East Africa where some of the earliest fossil remains of protohominids have been found.
D. Most of it lies in the tropics and, although we often think of Africa in terms of its rain forests, less than 10% of the continent is covered by tropical forests, and those are mostly in West Africa.
(a) only A
(b) A and B
(c) only C
(d) only D
(e) None of the above
EXPLANATION
Ans.(c)
The other three sentences follow the theme of the geography of Africa – the origin of humankind cannot be linked to this theme. If you try to arrange the other sentences in a sequence it could be BDA.
Q3. Find the odd statement out
A. In these centuries, there were important advances in the aesthetics of nature, including the emergence of the concepts of disinterestedness and the picturesque, as well as the introduction of the idea of positive aesthetics.
B. Although environmental aesthetics has developed as a sub-field of philosophical aesthetics only in the last 40 years, it has historical roots in eighteenth and nineteenth-century aesthetics.
C. Thus, by the end of the eighteenth century, there were three clearly distinct ideas each focusing on different aspects of nature’s diverse and often contrasting moods.
D. These notions continue to play a role in contemporary work in environmental aesthetics, especially in the context of its relationship to environmentalism.
(a) only A
(b) A and B
(c) only C
(d) only D
(e) None of the above
EXPLANATION
Ans.(c)
B, A and D in that order talks about the development of environmental aesthetics – its roots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – the emergence of the concepts of disinterestedness and the picturesque in these centuries and how these concepts still influence… C does not fit into this theme in any way – there is no place for “thus.”
Q4. Find the odd statement out
A. But the loss is not only theirs.
B. Unless disadvantaged racial groups are integrated into mainstream social institutions, they will continue to suffer from segregation and discrimination.
C. Current affirmative action debates have lost sight of the ideal of integration as a compelling moral and political goal.
D. It is high time that institutions of higher education forthrightly defend this ideal in its own right.
(a) only A
(b) A and B
(c) only C
(d) only D
(e) None of the above
EXPLANATION
Ans.(d)
C, B and A is about the theme of integration with reference to affirmative action. “they will continue to suffer…” logically follows into “but the loss is not only theirs.” – There is no need to bring in institutions of higher education into all this. “this ideal” is also ambiguous. Even if we force “this ideal” to be “integration” there seems to no place for respect to the other sentences.
