RK JHA Solutions for Chapter: Verbal and Logical Ability, Exercise 15: Solved Paper 2006

Directions In each of the following questions, choose the correct order of statements (A, B, C, . .) to give a coherent meaning to the text?

Statement A : But PST has also used satellite pictures to suggest that an ancient fortified town had existed $30 \mathrm{~km}$ from Junagarh.

Statement B : Soil and vegetation patterns were used in the search.

Statement C: The site marches the description of Krishna's town in an ancient scripture.

Statement D: PST's primary job at Space Application Centre has been tracking landuse and forest cover with satellite images.

Statement E : An archaeologist however cautioned that remote sensing and scriptures by themselves would not be enough to identify a township.

Statement F : It was claimed that soil and vegetation patterns a ancient abandoned sites reveal specific patterns that can be picked by satellite images.

Directions Analyse the following statements and give an appropriate answer for the following questions.

"If the forest continues to disappear at its present pace, the Royal Bengal Tiger will approach extinction", said the biologist.

"So all that is needed to save the tiger is to stop deforestation", said the politician.

Which one of the following statements is consistent with the biologist's claim but not with the politician's claim ?

Directions Analyse the following statements and give an appropriate answer for the following questions.

There is little point in looking to artists for insights into political issues. Most of them hold political views that are less insightful than those of any reasonably well-educated person who is not an artist. Indeed, when taken as a whole, the statements made by artists, including those considered to be great indicate that artistic talent and political insight are rarely found together.

Which one of the following can be inferred from the passage?

Directions Analyse the following statements and give an appropriate answer for the following questions.

All intelligent people are nearsighted. I am very nearsighted. So I must be a genius. 

Which one of the following exhibits both of the logical flaws exhibited in the argument above?

Directions Analyse the following statements and give an appropriate answer for the following questions.

The district health officer boasts that the average ambulance turnaround time, the time from summons to delivery of the patient, has been reduced this year for top-priority emergencies. This is a serious misrepresentation. This 'reduction' was produced simply by redefining 'top priority'. Such emergencies used to include gunshot wounds and electrocutions, the most time-consuming cases. Now they are limited strictly to heart attacks and strokes.

Which one of the following would strengthen the author's conclusion that it was the redefinition of 'top priority' that produced the reduction in turnaround time?

Direction : Pleáse choose the alternative that cannot go into the sentence in the blank space to make a coherent sentence.

The sale of the hotel chain under ... resulted it extremely low yield for the promoter.

Directions  Please choose the correct alternative that can go into the sentence in the blank space to make a coherent sentence.

The ...... of the country should take a greater interest in promoting the indigenous works that are rooted in the deep traditions of scholarship across the world.

Directions  Please choose the correct alternative that can go into the sentence in the blank space to make a coherent sentence.

..........of different categories of problems often leads to design of improper solutions that fail to address the complexities of the problem.