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(A) Apocalyptic writers in general, however, are more concerned with the sequence of dire events, the crumbling of civilization, which precedes that end.
(B) The root thought that gave rise to apocalyptic literature was the Judaeo-Chiristian idea that human life, indeed the life of the universe, is not random, but an ordered progression from the Beginning through to the End.
(C) Some apocalyptic writers, for example William Blake, were particularly concerned with the End, and developed images, ideas and language directly from Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, which details the final days of the world
(D) Once such broadening of the idea is allowed, a huge range of writers can be described as apocalyptic, from Swift to George Orwell, from Zola to Wyndham Lewis. Critics have suggested that the apocalyptic imagination is a particular characteristic of 20th century writing, both directly in sf (where writers such as J.G. Ballard, Harry Harrison and George Turner regularly depict the horrors of a future in which present day problem the greenhouse effect, over-population, too many cars-are multiplied in geometric progression towards oblivion), or in writers who have used sf ideas and techniques in a wider context, such as John Barth, Alasdair Gray, Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut.
E) Dystopian writing of this kind sees the human race as doomed (usually self-doomed). We are trapped like animals, laboratory specimens at the mercy of irresponsible powers; we are too prolific; we are plundering the planet.
Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) This abstraction is then manipulated mathematically, possibly with other assumptions thrown in (for example, Newton assumed that the attraction between the planets varied according to the inverse of the square of the distance between them), to find a mathematical way of describing this data (in Newton's case, that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun), which can then be verified by further experimentation (which in this example, had already been done a century before by Kepler).
(B) The whole of physics and much of many other sciences depends on this procedure.
(C) Mathematics began with the abstraction of properties from the real world around us; it proves its usefulness when the results obtained from this abstraction are turned back again to the real world.
(D) This is how science works, scientists abstract the properties they wish to study from experimental evidence (for example, the observations of planetary motion over many years were used to find the positions of the planets).
(E) Applicability is the real strength of mathematics: its relationship to the scientific method is due the fact that it is so successful in explaining the real world.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Factions of the Ba'athist Party have held power in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and in Syria, under President Assad. Their dictatorships have not led to Pan-Arabist unity, but rather the converse.
(B) The Arab league was formed in 1945 with the aspiration to create eventual unity, but it has remained committed only to the moderate goals of inter-governmental co-operation.
(C) A short-lived United Arabic Republic (1958– 61) of Syria and Egypt created temporary optimism that a broader pan-Arabic ideal could be achieved.
(D) Pan Arabism seeks a unified state embracing all Arabic speaking peoples.
(E) Like the Pan Africanist movement was divided between proponents of inter-governmental economic and political co-operation between sovereign Arab states (for example Lebanon), and advocates of the merger of existing Arab states into a single state (such as Syria).
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) He discovered that images occur which are not always part of our own history or personal experience.
(B) He also discovered that these elements, which seemed to be inherited from somewhere else, had a tendency to organize themselves into predetermined patterns or symbols; these he called archetypes.
(C) Freud's analysis of dreams had come up with similar anomalies which he called "archaic past and biological development, a part of our mind that is close to animals.
(D) Archetypes (Greek, originals') were discovered by Jung through the analysis of dreams.
(E) Each of us, in this sense, has an extremely old psyche, a deposit of collective images and primitive motifs.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Art Deco design was an amalgam of the changes affecting fine art and design in the interwar years, for example, the bold colours of Fauve and Cubist painting and the architecture of modernism.
(B) Populist application of the new Modernism influenced design across the board from cinemas to radios and vacuum cleaners.
(C) Art Deco (derived from the phrase 'art as decoration) was a design style universally popular from the late 1920s onwards.
(D) It also led to several important critics and designers criticising Art Deco as a mere style without the intellectual rigor of hard-line Modern Movement thinking. In this context, the term Moderene was used to suggest the Art Deco style as a much less serious version of Modernism.
(E) It was characterised by geometric forms, distinctive colour combinations, modern materials like stainless steel and in furniture, smooth wraparound surfaces in luxurious veneers.
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(A) This kind of question is not really answerable in the present state of philosophy and psychology.
(B) For example, it is not possible to answer the question 'Do computers have knowledge of the data they process?' unless you can define the term knowledge. (This question also has consequences in the legal field-can a computer be allowed as a witness in court if it does not really know what it is talking about?).
(C) Thanks to our limited understanding of human thought, it is quite difficult to define what the goal of artificial intelligence actually is.
(D) It is an area in which much research has been done since the end of World War II, beginning with the theoretical work of Alan Turing () in the s.
(E) Artificial Intelligence is the most controversial area of computing today, an area beloved of authors- the duplications of human thought patterns by computers.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Essentially, they are communities that grow up around a religious figure.
(B) The Upanishad tradition of sages going to the forest to mediate resulted in communities of disciples and devotees settling around their hut, following their teacher's guidance.
(C) Probably the most famous in modern times are Rabindranath Tagore's community at Shantiniketan, West Bengal, where he conducted his educational and cultural experiments (and which is now recognized as a university, although originally, it was closer to deschooling, non-formal education and art workshops), and Gandhi's ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati near Ahmedabad, which was a springboard for his independence campaign.
(D) Ashrams are quite different from Buddhist or western-Christian monasteries.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Insofar as Marx's and Engels' writings can be decoded and clearly understood, the Asiatic mode of production refers to a system in which the vast majority of the population lives in villages, in which there is no private property, the complex division of labour or significant external trade.
(B) The Asiatic mode of production is both the most obscure and controversial of the modes of production (economic systems) mentioned in Karl Marx's writings.
(C) The villages are exploited by a despot and his officials, to whom they pay a combination of rent and taxes.
(D) They were arbitrary, despotic, and stagnant, historical culs-de-sac, which could only be transformed by external intervention by more advanced societies.
(E) The Urban population centred on the court aristocracy and the monarchy, are parasitic on the rural population. Marx described such Oriental societies, following in the tradition of British political economy, as incapable of development into more progressive social formations.
Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
(A) Although in many ancient societies, 'natural' astrology was the nearest thing to what we might nowadays think of as a 'proper' science, and its practitioners were among the most learned and intellectually sophisticated members of the community, two things fatally hampered its development
(B) First was the lack of instruments to make precise observations of the heavens, and of mathematical systems or devices which would allow any but (in our terms) the crudest calculations.
(C) The second was the interdependence of astrologers with religion.
(D) Because the astrologers dealt with heavenly bodies (which were thought to be under the control of the gods), and because they made predictions, they were thought to have supernatural contracts and abilities denied to less-learned people.
(E) Even in societies as sophisticated as ancient China and ancient Babylon, magic and esoteric Jargon were essential tools of the astrologers, allying them with sibyls, soothsayers and other prophets rather than with surveyors, for instance, or merchants, the other main group skilled in the use of numbers.
