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Statement: There is a substantial increase in the number of accidents causing deaths and severe injuries due to malfunctioning of the traffic signals.
Course of action:
a. The traffic police should immediately post traffic personnel at the junctions.
b. The signal system should immediately be repaired or replaced.

A) Only a follows B) Either a or b follows
C) Only b follows D) Neither a nor b follows
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Either a or b follows

Explanation:

Clearly, either the traffic signals should be made to function properly or traffic personnel should be deployed to guide vehicular movement in the right way. So either I or II follows.

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Which of the following is an instance of informative speaking?

A) a student sharing ideas about leadership based on a book she has read B) a student on stage telling jokes during the intermission of a play
C) a student urging an instructor to reconsider the due date for an assignment D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) a student sharing ideas about leadership based on a book she has read

Explanation:

Informative Speaking is a 10-minute presentation written and performed by the student. Informative requires students to balance that content with delivery and style.

Here in the given options, option A) a student sharing ideas about leadership based on a book she has read, is an instance of informative speaking.

 

Students in Informative must be articulate, engaging, and smooth with their delivery at both a vocal and physical level.

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Which is an example of a complex sentence?

A) The cricket match was cancelled, because it was raining. B) My Dad laughed when I told a joke
C) He sang and she danced. D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) The cricket match was cancelled, because it was raining.

Explanation:

A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

If two clauses are connected with a coordinating conjunction, it's a compound sentence.

If two clauses are connected with a subordinating conjunction, it's a complex sentence.

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Q:

What can you catch but not throw?

Answer

A cold or flu illness.

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Which of the following is a correctly written compound word?

A) Spur of the moment-decision B) Thirty one
C) Quickly-running D) Self-evident
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Self-evident

Explanation:

Compound word means when two or more words join together to make a single word that gives a new meaning.

 

Here in the options, Self-evident is the compound word.

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Q:

Alliteration is an example of what?

A) Assonance B) Consonance
C) Tongue twisters D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Consonance

Explanation:

Alliteration is an example of Consonance. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another in a piece of text.

Example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Whereas

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, sometimes creating end rhymes.

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Q:

A seven letter word containing thousands of letters is what?

Answer

It is a Postbox or a Mailbox which contains thousands of letters or mails or messages.

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Q:

6 divided by 2(1 + 2) =

A) 1 B) 0
C) 9 D) Can't be determined
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 9

Explanation:

The given expression can be simplified as

÷ 2 (1 + 2)

The expression can be simplified further by the order of operations, using BODMAS rule.

 

First evaluate Parentheses/Brackets, then evaluate Exponents/Orders, then evaluate Multiplication-Division, and finally evaluate Addition-Subtraction.

 

Now, the expression becomes ÷ 2 (3)

 

According to the order of operations, division and multiplication have the same precedence, so the correct order is to evaluate from left to right. First take 6 and divide it by 2, and then multiply by 3.

6 ÷ 2 × 3

= 3 × 3

= 9

But not  6÷2×3 = 6 ÷ 6 = 1

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Hence, 6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2) = 9.

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