Verbal Logic - 4

Parajumbles –

Subjective & Odd Sentence Type

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1. (1) I want to write about people, the way they behave, their 2. (1) But, Cinderella‘s chance to live happily ever after could
psychology, the whole gamut of relationships – romantic just as easily have been shattered, say physics students
partnerships, family, friendships. who used stress calculations to assess the durability of
her glass footwear.
(2) Even formally, I think poetry and crime fiction have a lot
in common. (2) Cinderella‘s glass slippers would have broken (as would
her heart) unless her heels were less than half-an-inch
(3) Every single element has to be in the right balance and
high—thus proving that aspiring princesses should
proportion to everything else.
always opt for flats over pumps.
(4) I think the themes that I am interested in writing about
(3) ―When standing, the force acting downward is assumed
are similar in my crime fiction and in my poetry.
to be evenly shared between her feet,‖ they explain.
(5) In a tightly plotted crime novel and a highly metrical
(4) The result?
poem, for instance, structure is crucially important.
(5) But, if she‘s walking or running, that downward force is
pushing entirely on one foot at a time.
3. (1) Every infected devil has in effect received a tissue 4. (1) The territory announced it would honor a $354m debt
transplant from the original cancerous devil. payment due on 1 December as Padilla was testifying,
but Padilla said austerity measures had not only eaten
(2) That type of transmission is very rare in animals and
into essential services but caused tax revenues to
occurs in humans only in exceptional situations, such as
crater.
when an organ with a tumor is surgically transplanted.
(2) Puerto Rico‘s governor, Alejandro García Padilla, told
(3) But the devils‘ facial tumors are transmitted during
the US Senate on Tuesday that the troubled Caribbean
mating, when the animals cover great distances and use
island has ―no cash left‖ and can no longer repay its
all their keen senses to find one another.
$72bn debts.
(4) Most infectious diseases tend to grind to a halt when
(3) ―These emergency measures are unsustainable.‖
population numbers are low, because the animals are
too widely spread to infect one another. (4) ―The consequences of a default without any legal
framework to restructure our liabilities are so disastrous
(5) A number of viruses, such as the human papilloma
that for the past six months we have been executing
virus, are known to cause cancer, but this disease is
emergency measures to continue meeting our
different: it‘s the cancer cells themselves that are
obligations with our creditors and avoid a disruption of
transmitted.
essential services to our citizens,‖ Padilla said in a
prepared statement.
(5) With more than $900m due in January, the governor
said his options were restructuring or disaster.
5. (1) Hares breed fast, and if they can evolve earlier molt 6. (1) Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International
times, they may be able to avoid significant population Monetary Fund, is to stand trial in France over a
declines, the team says. multimillion-euro government payment to a controversial
tycoon who supported former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
(2) If those three things are true, then mismatched individuals
will be eaten at a higher rate and hares with later molts (2) French detectives have been looking into whether Tapie
will live to reproduce and pass on their later-molting was offered a deal in return for supporting Sarkozy in the
genes. 2007 presidential election and whether Lagarde was
acting on orders of the Elysée Palace – namely Sarkozy –
(3) But that doesn‘t mean the hardy animals are doomed.
by referring the case to private arbitration.
(4) Over time, the average molt time will shift later for the
(3) Lagarde has been accused of ―negligence by a person in
whole population.
a position of public authority‖ over the award of more than
(5) There are three prerequisites for such evolution to occur, €400m to Bernard Tapie.
Zimova explains: Molt timing must be genetic, there must
(4) Lagarde, at the time Sarkozy‘s finance minister, referred
be existing variation in that timing, and there must be
the long-running case to arbitration and signed off the
fitness costs to mismatch.
payout.
(5) Tapie, a former French football team owner and pop star,
was awarded the money in a case against the French
public bank Crédit Lyonnais, which he accused of
undervaluing his stake in Adidas.
7. (1) I like some of Coldplay‘s music. 8. (1) And when the corporate history books are written, 2015
will be remembered as the year of the elephant.
(2) Before we go any further, a confession.
(2) The big bids were led by US pharma group Pfizer‘s
(3) Sometimes – as on Fix You, arguably their defining song
recently announced $160bn deal with botox-maker
– the music becomes lachrymose.
Allergan.
(4) Often, it drifts into absolute nothingness.
(3) A cluster of massive deals have made 2015 a record-
(5) They have a gift for melody and a knack of evoking breaking year for mergers and acquisitions globally, with
emotion that makes their biggest hits almost irresistible. the total value of deals breaking the record set in 2007,
before the financial crash.
(4) Bankers call them ―elephant deals‖ – blockbusting
takeover bids that slam together vast global businesses.
(5) According to data from Dealogic, there have been nine
deals worth more than $50bn (£33bn) in 2015, five more
than in 2014.
9. (1) But - amid reports of its Spanish owner Abengoa‘s 10. (1) Beijing pollution has actually been much worse on
financial difficulties - it is also a reminder of how the previous occasions, with the government issuing less
energy transition is increasingly challenged more by severe warnings or none at all.
financing uncertainties than engineering obstacles.
(2) The new red alert warnings may thus be intended as
(2) Following the global climate change deal signed in Paris much to dissipate public mistrust as to physically
earlier this month, the $1.1bn project is a source of hope dissipate the smog.
because it demonstrates how far renewable technology
(3) Beijing issued its most severe air pollution warning for
has come.
the first time ever three weeks ago.
(3) Instead, this extraordinary structure is a solar power
(4) Such inconsistencies and evasions have angered
tower that is being built to harvest the energy of the sun
ordinary Chinese.
via a growing field of giant mirrors that radiate out for
more than a kilometre across the ground below with a (5) Now a second ―red alert‖, which is expected to last until
geometric precision that is reminiscent of contemporary Tuesday, will keep some cars off the road, close
art or the stone circles of the druids. factories and allow school authorities to cancel classes.
(4) Still under construction, the Atacama 1 Concentrated
Solar Power plant is a symbol of the shift from dirty
fossil fuels to a cleaner, smarter way to generate
electricity in Chile which is leading the charge for solar
in Latin America thanks to its expanses of wilderness
and some of the most intense sunlight on Earth.
(5) Rising more than 200 metres above the vast, deserted
plains of the Atacama desert, the second tallest building
in Chile sits in such a remote location that it looks, from
a distance, like the sanctuary of a reclusive prophet, a
temple to ancient gods or the giant folly of a wealthy
eccentric.
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11. (1) The Bank‘s latest warning to landlords came in a list of 12. (1) It might be thought that, in these austere times, no idea
risks to the financial system, as Threadneedle Street put could be more politically toxic: literally, a policy of the
banks on notice that they could be forced to hold a state handing over something for nothing.
special capital cushion of up to £10bn to guard against
(2) But in Utrecht, one of the largest cities in the
any economic downturn.
Netherlands, and 19 other Dutch municipalities, a
(2) On what analysts had dubbed ―super Tuesday‖ for the tentative step towards realising the dream of many a
banking sector, the Bank announced the results of its marginal and disappointed political theorist is being
―stress tests‖ which found that Standard Chartered and made.
bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland had the weakest
(3) It was first proposed by Thomas Paine in his 1797
financial positions.
pamphlet, Agrarian Justice, as a system in which at the
(3) But in a shift in policy, Threadneedle Street said the ―age of majority‖ everyone would receive an equal
banking system had moved out of the post-crisis phase capital grant, a ―basic income‖ handed over by the state
and it was ―actively considering‖ whether banks should to each and all, no questions asked, to do with what
start to put capital aside in anticipation of future they wanted.
downturns.
(4) It‘s an idea whose adherents over the centuries have
(4) The Bank has been warning for many months that it is ranged from socialists to libertarians to far-right
concerned about the buy-to-let mortgage market. mavericks.
(5) The Bank of England is scrutinising the terms under (5) The politicians, well aware of a possible backlash, are
which mortgages are being granted to buy-to-let rather shy of admitting it.
landlords as it decides whether to take action to cool the
fast-growing market.
13. (1) For Christmas, though, this has been a great year for 14. (1) Delhi‘s grand plan to deal with record levels of pollution
mistletoe. and clean its air appears to be stalling before it has
even been put into action.
(2) Mistletoe is a wonderful plant, and not just for
Christmas. (2) He also left out two-wheel vehicles such as motorbikes
and scooters.
(3) ―You could walk into an orchard and hear the buzzing
from early emerging insects looking for nectar,‖ says (3) Arvind Kejriwal, the top elected official of the Indian
Jonathan Briggs, an ecologist and mistletoe specialist. capital, said last month that private cars would be
allowed on the city‘s roads only on alternate days from
(4) It is actually a vampire, a parasite which sucks water
1-15 January, with days allocated on the basis of
and minerals out of the trees it grows on, drawing the
whether licence plates ended in an even or odd number.
sap out with such power it can leave the trees short of
water. (4) He added an even bigger caveat: if the watered-down
plan inconvenienced citizens the plan would be
(5) The season began well in February and March when the
scrapped.
flowers came out in dry, sunny, weather and were
pollinated well by early flying insects. (5) On Thursday, he announced a list of people exempted
from that rule: all women, top politicians, judges, police
and prison officials and sick people.
15. (1) Even so, the Barbican and South Bank are not good 16. (1) In a practice branded ―eugenics‖ by campaigners and a
enough for Simon Rattle, despite the major would-be donor, the London Sperm Bank has banned
refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall carried out just men with dyslexia or other common conditions it
10 years ago at considerable public cost. described as ―neurological diseases‖ from donating.
(2) A new and additional music venue is planned for (2) Following questions from the Guardian, the Human
London, possibly at the awkwardly sited London Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) asked
Museum. the Harley Street-based clinic to explain its literature
and policies and is involved in a review of its practices.
(3) For smaller concerts, there is also Kings Place, added
to London‘s classical music facilities in 2008. (3) A leaflet to donors lists a series of conditions the clinic
screens for, including: attention deficit disorder (ADD),
(4) At the same time the ENO struggles to fill seats and, as
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], autism,
Ian Jack reports, classical lieder are only heard at one
Asperger syndrome, dyslexia and the motor disorder
or two centres, such as the Wigmore Hall.
dyspraxia.
(5) Classical music simply does not attract large audiences,
(4) Britain‘s largest sperm bank has been turning away
apart from those for the Proms, which dominates the
donors with dyslexia in what it describes as attempts to
summer months.
―minimise the risk of transmitting common genetic
diseases or malformations to any children born‖.
(5) The fertility regulator has launched a review of the
London Sperm Bank after being alerted to its practices
by the Guardian.
17. (1) How does a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with 18. (1) Amid concerns about lengthy legal proceedings armed
electricity conceive of mathematical theorems, create officers may have to face, a review of how firearms are
beautiful art, discover the laws of nature, invent used by the police and the investigation of shootings,
kitesurfing, and design buildings that look like sea especially in light of the planned expansion in the
shells? number of officers trained to use them, is sensible.
(2) Creativity is, in a word, everywhere. (2) Any review should be focused on the quality and speed
of the investigation, rather than changing the law.
(3) How else should we think about creativity in the brain
then? (3) The law is already framed around police officers‘
perception of threat rather than the actual threat.
(4) If painting, mathematics, and parking your car engage
totally different brain areas and processes, so should (4) The Independent Police Complaints Commission needs
creative painting, creative mathematics, and creative funding to do the job better and faster.
car-parking.
(5) We need the police to be able to handle a Paris-style
(5) This journey begins with the full understanding that attack, but we don‘t want another innocent person killed,
creativity is a multifaceted ability composed of a whole as with Jean Charles de Menezes.
plethora of cognitive processes and is, as a matter of
consequence, distributed in the brain.
19. (1) The estimated costs are based on an analysis of the 20. (1) With an estimated 10m working days lost to work-
types of land burned and take into account the impact related stress in the UK last year, finding a good
on agriculture, forestry, trade, tourism and balance between the demands of home and the job now
transportation, as well as short-term effects of the haze dominates concerns about the impact of work on health.
such as school closures and on health.
(2) Working away from the office or part-time can isolate
(2) The World Bank said that if every hectare burned in employees from social networks and career
2015 were converted to palm oil, the value would be opportunities while fostering a ―grazing‖ instinct that
about $8bn. keeps dangerous stress hormones at persistently high
levels, they said.
(3) Fire has long been a popular way of quickly and cheaply
clearing land on Indonesia‘s Sumatra island and the (3) The findings are a blow to advocates of more
Indonesian part of Borneo, to make way for lucrative sophisticated measures for enabling people to achieve a
palm oil plantations. work-life balance in rich economies that tend to
overwork some people while underutilising millions of
(4) ―So on the one hand 16 billion dollars cost to the public,
others.
on the other hand, eight billion dollars – lots of money –
to a handful of individuals,‖ said World Bank (4) Flexible working practices can do more harm than good
environmental specialist Ann Jeannette Glauber. to workers because they encourage an ―always on‖
culture that can have a heavy psychological toll, experts
(5) But the fires burn out of control and produce noxious
have warned.
haze during the months-long dry season, particularly
when started on carbon-rich peatland. (5) Flexible working policies can also raise the risk of poor
working conditions, and create resentment among
colleagues, while the blurring of lines between work and
home life is stressful for some people.
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21. (1) Not least, having cleared the contents of my late uncle‘s 22. (1) Alibaba has no doubt been the springboard to Paytm‘s
slum flat, strewn with betting slips, I associated it with rapid growth — the number of users of its app has risen
failure. 5 times to 125 million in just 12 months — but the vital
cog in Paytm‘s operations is located in Toronto,
(2) Gambling, goes the consensus, is a mug‘s game.
Canada‘s most populous city.
(3) But I knew I was pretty lucky at it.
(2) Toronto is known to be one of the most scenic and
(4) Certainly that was my view. liveable cities in the world.
(5) Apart from an annual punt on the Grand National I (3) The headquarters of Paytm, India‘s largest mobile
steered well clear. payment and commerce platform, is located in Noida,
but the lifeblood of the company is far, far away.
(4) It is a lab in Toronto that manages critical pieces of
Paytm business such as fraud detection, app
improvements, user interface and customised
advertising.
(5) No, it‘s not in China where internet giant Alibaba,
Paytm‘s single largest investor, is based.
23. (1) Policy corrections such as these are warped. 24. (1) This year saw politics and ideology smother the art
world in good intentions.
(2) The primary focus must be to make air travel cheap and
efficient for a traveller, and not to pamper domestic (2) Why has art lost its wickedness?
airlines.
(3) What happened to the wildness, the sinfulness, the
(3) So, it wants to provide a level playing field to domestic sleaze and the decadence?
airlines.
(4) The Venice Biennale this year was oh not so serious.
(4) Passengers, at any point of time, want to fly in and out
(5) I want art with no morals, no political message, nothing
of India at a low cost to pursue their own business, and
right-on about it at all.
with the objective of protecting the bottomline of
domestic carriers.
(5) The government is reportedly concerned over Gulf
carriers garnering a large chunk of outbound passenger
traffic from India.
25. (1) When children make paper snowflakes they cut them 26. (1) The giant iron and bronze tribute to Helios, god of the
out to mirror this crystal magic. sun, managed just over 50 years before an earthquake
in 226BC snapped it at the knees.
(2) Every flake is different, they say; each one an intricate
lattice of frozen water molecules with spectacular (2) The Colossus of Rhodes is one of the most short-lived
symmetry. great statues in history – and certainly had the briefest
existence of the seven great wonders of the world.
(3) But no one knows any of them intuitively.
(3) The inhabitants of Rhodes decided against rebuilding,
(4) The structure of a snowflake is one of the most beautiful
since the Oracle at Delphi suggested that its destruction
things in nature.
meant they had angered Helios by building it in the
(5) Everybody knows this. first place.
(4) Helios‘s skin was made of solar panels and state of the
art computer technology ensured it will never fall again.
(5) Now Helios must be over his hump, since a company of
architects has plans to rebuild it – but this time five
times higher, at 150 metres, taller than the Statue of
Liberty, which the original once inspired.
27. (1) No clear solutions. 28. (1) But that was in February 2014, when the prime minister
was visiting the submerged Somerset Levels.
(2) One of my first classes was on sustainable systems and
as I sat listening to the professor give us a basic (2) On Sunday, as terrible floods hit Yorkshire and
introduction to climate change, it all came flooding back. Lancashire, Cameron said: ―Whenever these things
happen, you should look at what you spend, what
(3) But, a definite plan of action.
you‘ve built … clearly we should look again at whether
(4) I had moved to New York to study architecture. there‘s more we can do.‖
(5) It struck me that here I was, five conferences later and (3) No systematic review of flood protection ever happened.
still there were no binding agreements.
(4) ―There are always lessons to be learned and I will make
sure they are learned,‖ said David Cameron after
severe flooding affected thousands of people across the
country.
(5) The people living in the 5m properties that are at risk of
flooding can only hope he meant it that time.
29. (1) Another real consequence of the colder weather is that 30. (1) Is the season upon us?
the bugs and pests won‘t be killed off, which may mean
(2) But something‘s not right this year: it‘s too warm to be
we will have many more to deal with than usual in the
Christmas.
spring time.
(3) However, that may have to change.
(2) We shouldn‘t see any seedlings growing outside, but
currently we‘ve got wildflower seedlings growing among (4) I hear Christmas music, and so many nice letters have
our tulip bulbs, which is virtually unheard of for come to me here at the North Pole requesting fine gifts.
December.
(5) Is it Christmas almost?
(3) The mild weather is definitely having its effect.
(4) Our Euphorbia seems to think it‘s March already, with
yellow heads showing, and we keep cutting back plants
only to find they just keep growing back.
(5) We have plants flowering in the gardens that really
shouldn‘t be at this time of year, such as Phacelia, and
we even have a few roses still in bloom.
 For questions 31 to 40
In each of the questions given below, four sentences are given labeled (1), (2), (3) and (4). Of these, three sentences need
to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the one that does
not fit the sequence.

31. (1) Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of 33. (1) Who will deny that thirty years of my life have been
the artist, not of the sitter. spent knocking in vain, patiently, moderately, and
modestly at a closed and barred door?
(2) The progression of roles you take strings together a
portrait of an actor, but it‘s a completely random (2) What have been the fruits of moderation?
process.
(3) What have been the results of this deliberation?
(3) The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.
(4) The past thirty years have seen the greatest number of
(4) It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the laws restricting our rights and progress, until today we
painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. have reached a stage where we have almost no rights
at all.

34. (1) At first glance, the comparison with modern drama

32. (1) A curious sensation of terror came over me.
suggests only poverty: no gods, no collective myths, no
(2) I knew that I had come face to face with someone great public figures, no poetry to speak of.
whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I
(2) The tragedy of the Greeks, of Shakespeare and Racine,
allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my
was not a hard act to follow.
whole soul, my very art itself.
(3) Nevertheless, for all the conflicts within the worlds out of
(3) I could not allow for that to happen, for the progress of
which these plays issued, we must acknowledge the
an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual
great historical division between classical tragedy and
extinction of personality.
everything afterwards.
(4) I did not want any external influence in my life.
(4) It was impossible.
35. (1) And there was the skipper on the bridge, the lad who 37. (1) Indeed, fundamental physics is more wide open a field
caused us amusement at home, with this confusion in than it has been for decades.
the dark about him, and an immense insentient mass
(2) However in 1915, Einstein introduced his revolutionary
moving with him at his will; and he had his hands in his
General Theory of Relativity.
pockets, and turned to tell me what a cold night it was.
(3) That is why Einstein himself now needs revising,
(2) Our steamer moved out at midnight, in a drive of wind
although there is nothing like a consensus about how to
and rain. There were bewildering and unrelated lights
do it.
about us. Peremptory challenges were shouted to us
from nowhere. Sirens blared out of dark voids. (4) At the scales of the very big and the very small our
finest theories are not only glaringly incomplete but
(3) For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle;
inconsistent.
and one faces down fears of today so that those of
tomorrow might be engaged.
(4) The pier-head searchlight showed his face, alert,
serene, with his brows knitted in a little frown, and his
underlip projecting as the sign of the pride of those who
look direct into the eyes of an opponent, and care not at
all.

38. (1) This was because Oxford was a good place to be born,
36. (1) Why should not the sweet tides of soft moist air cease to
during World War 2.
stream in upon us?
(2) My parents had a lot of money and we could afford to.
(2) We took every storm, drought, illness and comet
personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt (3) The Germans had an agreement that they would not
to explain the patterns of nature. bomb Oxford and Cambridge, in return for the British
not bombing Heidelberg.
(3) Close to us lies this great mystery, incomprehensible,
and yet our very breath depends upon it. (4) I was born in Oxford, even though my parents were
living in London.
(4) The Atlantic, the source of all alike, was asleep, and
what if it should never wake! We know not its ways, it
mocks all our science.
39. (1) It could emit a working television set, or a leather bound 40. (1) This is the Soho that has forged characters like Gabriel
volume of the complete works of Shakespeare, though the Bruce, a former antiquarian bookseller, born in west London
chance of such exotic emissions is very low. to a half-American, half-Brazilian father, and about to take
the country by storm with his gothic disco.
(2) For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light
waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency. (2) But music, like art, is an acquired taste.
(3) If information were lost in black holes, we wouldn‘t be able (3) Think Leonard Cohen‘s ‗I‘m Your Man‘ or Nick Cave with a
to predict the future, because a black hole could emit any drum machine, his blood-soaked vignettes served up with
collection of particles. lashings of gallows humor.
(4) It is much more likely to be thermal radiation, like the glow (4) We find Gabriel lolling by the piano in Private Eye‘s favorite
from red hot metal. watering hole ‗The Coach & Horses‘.