RK JHA Solutions for Chapter: Verbal and Logical Ability, Exercise 4: Solved Paper 2017

Fragrant with steam were the days and the nights red with many braziers in the beloved house one of my father, my mother.

Which of the following options is the closest expression of the poet's feeling?

The current trend indicates that food and vegetable inflations continue to be pain points. Food inflation rose to $7.79$ percent in June from $7.47$ percent, and vegetable inflation rose to $14.74$ percent from $10.85$ percent. In the weeks ahead, the volatile food inflation will determine the course of overall inflation.

For RBI too, the trend is a concern, since under the current agreement with the government, if the inflation exceeds$11$ percent it will have to explain to the government, why it could not be contained (the lower limit is $2$ percent).

Which of the following options is the most appropriate?

The serious study of popular films by critics is regularly credited with having rendered obsolete a once-dominant view that popular mainstream films are inherently inferior to art Some _____ Although, it is now academically respectable to analyse popular ilms, the fact that many critics feel compelled o rationalise their own _____ action movies or mass-market fiction reveals, perhap unwittingly, their continued _____ the old hierarchy of popular and art films.

Consider the following words:

A. unproductive

B. not appreciated

C. overstated

D. penchant for 

E. dislike for

F. investment in

G. exposure to

Which of the following options is the most appropriate sequence that would meaningfully fit the blanks in the above paragraph?

Invisible atoms coming together.

Revealing themselves in visible forms Seeds are hugged by the earth Which renders them as gardens in bloom And yonder stars, are they not pearls Floating on teeming seas?
Scattered, yet strung together in orderly constellations.

Love binding them to one another And each is perpetually seeking its like? Which of the following options best captures the spirit of the above stanza?

Which of the following options is grammatically correct and meaningful?

On Friday morning, Dieting supplement sales Company Herbalife agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission a $\$200 \mathrm{m}$ fine. The FTC said Herbalife cheated hopeful salespeople out of hundreds of millions of dollars with a high-pressure multi-level marketing scheme.

Herbalife's stock received an immediate $15\%$ increase following the above news. The company also announced that it would hire a second former FTC commissioner in a press release, describing the terms of the settlement. Which of the following options would imply that the $15$ percent increase in stock price is fair?

Worldwide, tomato is one of the most important crops. Because this crop can be adapted for cultivation in various environments ranging from tropical to alpine regions, its cultivation area is now expanding worldwide into not so productive regions. On the other hand, traditional cultivation areas, the most favourable for tomato cultivation with warm and dry climate, are contracting. Every year, traditional cultivation areas lose $2$million hectares (ha) of land to environmental factors such as salinity, drought and soil erosion.

Which of the following is the coned inference based on the above passage?

Carefully read the statements below:

A. Chatterjee loves books; therefore, he reads them all the time.
B. Chatterjee loves books. Therefore, he reads them all the time.
C. Chatterjee loves books and, therefore, reads them all the time.

Which of the above statement(s) is (are) correct in grammar and meaning?