Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: New Verbal Question Types, Exercise 11: Exercise

The following text is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text:

Book sales depend crucially on buzz and word of mouth; you buy a book because you've heard about it, because other people are reading it or because it's made to the best-sellers list. And what Flipkart possesses is the power to kill the buzz. It's definitely possible, with some extra effort, to buy a book you've heard about even if Flipkart doesn't carry it; but if Flipkart doesn't carry that book, you're much less likely to hear about it in the first place. So can we trust Flipkart not to abuse that power? No, we can't. By putting the squeeze on publishers, Flipkart is ultimately hurting authors and readers.

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All human rights are indivisible, such as the right to life and freedom of expression; economic, social and cultural rights, such as the rights to work, social security and education, or collective rights, such as the rights to development and self-determination, are indivisible, interrelated and interdependent. The improvement of one right facilitates advancement of the others. Likewise, the deprivation of one right adversely affects the others.

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South Korea, a country shrouded in incense and shadows, is but a distant memory. Now neon lights up the night. Sixty years after the Korean War, its separation from North Korea, and its reunification and political rapprochement with the West, South Korea's population has more than doubled. Golf courses are replacing rice paddies. New cities have sprouted where only thatched-roof hamlets squatted. Even longtime residents fail to recognize their own city when they venture downtown.

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New mobile phone devices come along once every 6-8 years or so. Starting around 1990, the first generation of cellular phones relied on small book-sized mobile phones. In 1997, smaller sizes with bigger antennas were introduced for better connectivity. By 2005, those black military equipment looking mobile phones were replaced by swanky colourful and in-built camera phones. Around 2011, the fight in the mobile market was not of size anymore but of camera resolution and music quality. Today in 2015, it's more about design, brand, sound, camera, applications and features. What to expect by 2020? Well, we just can't predict anymore; clearly, what we have today must have never been expected 20 years back. We are moving fast in this technology-driven industry.

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Pakistani electoral college reasserted its commitment to democracy in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. More than 91 percent of them cast ballots, a level of participation far above the 86 percent turnout posted by Indians in 2005. President ABC, an increasingly military driven and authoritarian leader was denied a parliamentary majority.

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I was struck by not just the Wall Street's income disparity, but also by the lack of compassion that wealthy finance workers sometimes displayed towards the poor. P. K. Piff, a professor of psychology and social behaviour at the University of California, Irvine, believes all the money sloshing around Wall Street could make some consultants unaware of their surroundings. He has conducted several social experiments that consistently show that when people gain access to money, their empathy towards the less fortunate falls and, at the same time, their sense of entitlement and self-interest rises.

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The Egyptians cared about the mortal body; its very mortality mattered profoundly to them. Today we try to deny the body's movement towards death, its inevitable decay. The Egyptians, instead of fearing the process of dying and the corpse,felt reverence. These were stages in the life of a beloved body and should be treasured. What was beautiful-and tragic, but more lovely for all that-was the body's ephemerality, its being always on the way to disappearing. The Egyptians recognised that death's presence was woven into the texture of life, giving that life one of its essential meanings.

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The dramatic turn came hours after Greece missed a debt payment to the IME, leaving Greece effectively in default and raising the pressure on the country to find a solution to its rapidly escalating financial squeeze. With its banking system shut down and access to further aid cutoff, Greece faced the prospect of further debt defaults and the possibility of being forced to abandon the euro as its currency.