SSC : Para Jumble Quiz : 14.08.2021

P: Along with that, characteristics such as a delay before visiting a health care facility can also be helpful for physicians.

Q: Between 88 per cent and 94 per cent victims of intimate partner violence or abuse by a spouse seek medical attention for injuries to the head and neck, and 56 per cent of those have facial fractures.

R: The patterns of facial injury in women who are victims of intimate partner violence are different than that of females who experience facial trauma from other causes.

S: The above revelation could help surgeons and other physicians in recognizing patients who are victims of such type of abuse.

P: Changes in smoking habits are the biggest reason why Americans are living longer, said Arden Pope, an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University who led the study.

Q: Fine particles given off by automobiles, diesel engines, steel mills and coal-fired power plants have been reduced.

R: Dramatic improvements in US air quality over the last two decades have added 21 weeks to the life of the average American, researchers reported on Wednesday.

S: This has added as much as 15 per cent of the 2.72 years of extra longevity seen in the United States since the early 1980s.

A: One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks.

B: No words he could say did the least good, so he thought in his mind for some very striking example that should make them see that discord would lead them to misfortune.

C: A man had a family of sons, who were forever quarreling among themselves.

D: Then handing the bundle to each of his Sons in turn he told them to try to break it.

P. It created artificial grasslands of cereal crops, pastures, and other areas.

Q. Grasslands are one of the most widespread of all the major vegetation types of the world.

R. This is so, however, only because human manipulation of the land has significantly altered the natural vegetation.

S. Now these areas require some form of repetitious, unnatural disturbance such as cultivation, heavy grazing, burning, or mowing to persist.

A) The importance of mass transportation in supporting urban life differs among cities, depending largely on the role played by its chief competitor, the private automobile.

B) People travel to meet their needs for subsistence, for personal development, and for entertainment.

C) Whether public or private, many mass transportation services are subsidized because they cannot cover all their costs from fares charged to their riders.

D) Such subsidies assure the availability of mass transit, which contributes to making cities efficient and desirable places in which to live.

A) The basic components of a modern digital telecommunications system must be capable of transmitting voice, data, radio, and television signals.

B) Digital transmission is employed in order to achieve high reliability and because the cost of digital switching systems is much lower than the cost of analog systems.

C) In order to use digital transmission, however, the analog signals that make up most voice, radio, and television communication must be subjected to a process of analog-to-digital conversion.

D) In many cases, the digitized signal is passed through a source encoder, which employs a number of formulas to reduce redundant binary information.

A) The gift-exchange cycle entails obligations to give, to receive, and to return.

B) Sanctions may exist to induce people to give, disapproval or loss of prestige resulting from a failure to do so.

C) Refusal to accept a gift may be seen as refusal of social relations and may lead to enmity.

D) Gift exchange is although regarded as voluntary by the people involved, is part of the expected social behaviour.

P. This happens when people speaking two different languages have to work together, usually in some form of trade relation, or administrative routine.

Q. Some specialized languages were developed to keep the outsider at bay.

R. In such situations, the so-called pidgins arise, more or less purposely made up of vocabulary items from each language.

S. In other circumstances, languages have been deliberately created to facilitate communication with outsiders.

A) Now, that the real estate sector has got its own regulator, RERA, from May 1, 2017, things are expected to improve.

B) For many of the homebuyers, across locations the delay has extended to almost six years or more.

C) In the absence of a regulator and with no rules in place, the builder-buyer battle appeared one-sided.

D) For the buyers of real estate properties the delay in possession of their homes has been the biggest concern.

A) Such was his devotion that Kaali Ma appeared before him with a thousand heads and a thousand pairs of arms.

B) Once, Tenali Raman wanted to visit the Kaali temple on the outskirts of the city and pray.

C) It was quite dark by the time Tenali reached the temple, prostrated before the goddess, and with eyes closed started praying to Mother Kaali.

D) Raman who was dazzled to see Mother Kaali in all her glory, looked at her from left to right and right to left and could not control his happiness.