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Error Spotting & Parajumble Quiz :: 16th June 2021
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Question 1
Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.
1. In 1979, 28 per cent of private-sector workers in the country had participated in defined benefit retirement plans, and surprisingly, by 2014, just 2 per cent did, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit organisation.
2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a non-profit organisation, the participation of private-sector workers in the defined benefit retirement plans increased multiple folds in 2014 as compared to the late ’70s.
3. Two – thirds of the country’s citizens don’t contribute any money to a 401 (k) or other retirement accounts, according to Census Bureau researchers, and this could have larger implications for the economy, especially the private sector.
4. Today’s scenario is so reliant on Social Security because companies that once provided pensions, began in the 1970s, turns the responsibility of retirement saving over to individuals in the private sector.
2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a non-profit organisation, the participation of private-sector workers in the defined benefit retirement plans increased multiple folds in 2014 as compared to the late ’70s.
3. Two – thirds of the country’s citizens don’t contribute any money to a 401 (k) or other retirement accounts, according to Census Bureau researchers, and this could have larger implications for the economy, especially the private sector.
4. Today’s scenario is so reliant on Social Security because companies that once provided pensions, began in the 1970s, turns the responsibility of retirement saving over to individuals in the private sector.
Question 2
Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.
1) The program focused on awareness about the power of RTI Act and its usage, besides sharing stories of success and transparency in government institutions.
2) Former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi feels RTI has become a target of hardening attitudes from the power institutions.
3) There has been a constant appreciation from the powerful people regarding the RTI, says former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi.
4) Today is a historic day as people won't need to visit government's office to file RTI applications.
2) Former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi feels RTI has become a target of hardening attitudes from the power institutions.
3) There has been a constant appreciation from the powerful people regarding the RTI, says former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi.
4) Today is a historic day as people won't need to visit government's office to file RTI applications.
Question 3
Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.
I. Male Chimpanzees who throw stones vocalize and appear quite aroused, though an adult female and a juvenile also were observed to throw the stones, so the behaviour appears to have caught on more widely.
II. As the water tumbles and foams, the world’s most famous chimpanzees sway rhythmically in a state of high arousal. First hurting rocks into the spray, the apes then quiet themselves and sit calmly, gazing at the waterfall before them.
III. As per the research of a leading wildlife conservation group, the trait of throwing stones on certain events, exclusively found in male chimpanzees, is linked to dawn of spiritual understanding in this species.
IV. The chasm between apes’ repeated throwing of stones taken from a cache at a tree, and apes’ creating the sacred through repeated action, is immense, and for Standard, not navigable by science.
II. As the water tumbles and foams, the world’s most famous chimpanzees sway rhythmically in a state of high arousal. First hurting rocks into the spray, the apes then quiet themselves and sit calmly, gazing at the waterfall before them.
III. As per the research of a leading wildlife conservation group, the trait of throwing stones on certain events, exclusively found in male chimpanzees, is linked to dawn of spiritual understanding in this species.
IV. The chasm between apes’ repeated throwing of stones taken from a cache at a tree, and apes’ creating the sacred through repeated action, is immense, and for Standard, not navigable by science.
Question 4
Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.
I. Over the last several months, plastic straws have come under fire from environmental activists in America who rightly point out that disposable plastics have created a swirling, centuries – long ecological disaster that is brutally difficult to clean up.
II. Americans were primarily rural people in the early 19th century. Cities had few restaurants until the 1830s and 1840s, and most of the Americans hadn’t heard of straws till then.
III. Straws were uniform in America up until the 1930s. They were tan in colour, thin, and exactly 8.5 inches long. Then someone in the soda – bottling business started marketing eight – ounce bottles, and straws grew to 10.5 inches.
IV. At first, selling cups was a tough job in America. Straws were cheap, you could get 100 for nine cents in the 1930s, but cups were many times more expensive, and thus, straws were popular but not cups.
II. Americans were primarily rural people in the early 19th century. Cities had few restaurants until the 1830s and 1840s, and most of the Americans hadn’t heard of straws till then.
III. Straws were uniform in America up until the 1930s. They were tan in colour, thin, and exactly 8.5 inches long. Then someone in the soda – bottling business started marketing eight – ounce bottles, and straws grew to 10.5 inches.
IV. At first, selling cups was a tough job in America. Straws were cheap, you could get 100 for nine cents in the 1930s, but cups were many times more expensive, and thus, straws were popular but not cups.
Question 5
Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.
A. In a higher – education system that is often divided between two – and four – year colleges and further segregated between elite and non – elite institutions, it’s not often that a community college is mentioned in the same breath as an lvy League campus.
B. The world of work in America is undergoing a massive shift. Not since the dawn of the Industrial revolution in the 18th and the 19th centuries and the information age that followed in the last century has the scale of disruption taking place in the workforce been so evident.
C. The community college in America would typically wait for displaced workers to come to the campus to receive retraining instead of intervening before they were laid off.
D. An opt – cited 2013 study from the University of Oxford predicted that nearly 90 percent of the American jobs would remain the same in terms of the risk involved and returns offered and the same can be seen taking shape in the country’s job – sector.
B. The world of work in America is undergoing a massive shift. Not since the dawn of the Industrial revolution in the 18th and the 19th centuries and the information age that followed in the last century has the scale of disruption taking place in the workforce been so evident.
C. The community college in America would typically wait for displaced workers to come to the campus to receive retraining instead of intervening before they were laid off.
D. An opt – cited 2013 study from the University of Oxford predicted that nearly 90 percent of the American jobs would remain the same in terms of the risk involved and returns offered and the same can be seen taking shape in the country’s job – sector.
Question 6
Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
Question 7
Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
Question 8
Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
Question 9
Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
Question 10
Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.
Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
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