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Speakers can establish credibility by 

A) using professionally designed visual aids B) describing their qualifications
C) previewing their main points D) getting the audience involved
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) describing their qualifications

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

The written word is necessarily confined _________ the things of the understanding because only the understanding has written language; whereas art deals ___________ ideas of a different mental texture, which words can only vaguely ____________. However, there are a large number of people who, _____________ they cannot be said to have experienced in a full sense any works of art, have undoubtedly the impelling desire which a little direction may lead on to a fuller ____________. And it is to such that books on art are useful.

 

people who, _____________ they cannot be

 

A) although B) then
C) if D) when
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) although

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Ministry of Shipping has been renamed as

A) Ministry of Waterways B) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
C) Ministry of Jal Shakti D) Ministry of Ports
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

We often feel, in such an environment, that our social sphere _____________ around us. We can see, in quantitative values — the number of likes, re-posts, shares — the interest garnered by anything created by us. This makes social interaction slightly more ___________, when we start to think of it in number terms. It becomes easier to see it in visual terms, rather ________ emotive cues. And _____________ that happens we are motivated to reveal only those parts of ____________ that we know will trigger a considerable quantitative response.

 

in visual terms, rather ________ emotive cues

 

A) then B) that  
C) than D) which
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) than

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Q:

Study of earth is known as

A) Ecology B) Biology
C) Ethology D) Geology
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Geology

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What is the effective resistance (in Ω) of two resistors 12 Ω and 24 Ω connected in parallel?

A) 36 B) 8
C) 16 D) 72
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 8

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Q:

Mother Teresa won Nobel Prize for?

A) Literature B) Physics
C) Peace D) Economic Studies
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Peace

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Which of the following is secreted by the liver?

A) Glucose B) Iodine
C) Cortisol D) Bile
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Bile

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