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  • Question 1/10
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    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

    The interview may be conducted by letter and by telephone, as well as in person. Letter and telephone interview are less satisfactory. Direct contact with an individual and a face-to-face relationship often provide a stimulating situation for both interviewer and interviewee. Personal reaction and interaction aid not only in rapport but also in obtaining nuances and additional information by the reactions which are more fully observed in a face-to-face relationship.

    Adequate preparation for the interview is a ‘must’. Careful planning saves not only time but also energy of both parties concerned. The interview is used to obtain facts or subjective data such as individual opinions, attitudes, and preferences. Interviews are used to check on questionnaires which may have been used to obtain data, or when a problem being investigated is complex, or when the information needed to solve it cannot be secured easily in any other way. People will often give information orally but will not put it in writing.

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    The intention of the writer of this passage is to

    Solutions

    The author mentions different ways of conducting an interview. It may be conducted by letter and by telephone, as well as in person. However, the author suggests that a face-to-face contact is the best way to conduct an interview for both interviewer and interviewee. Thus, we can say that option B is correct.

     

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    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

    The interview may be conducted by letter and by telephone, as well as in person. Letter and telephone interview are less satisfactory. Direct contact with an individual and a face-to-face relationship often provide a stimulating situation for both interviewer and interviewee. Personal reaction and interaction aid not only in rapport but also in obtaining nuances and additional information by the reactions which are more fully observed in a face-to-face relationship.

    Adequate preparation for the interview is a ‘must’. Careful planning saves not only time but also energy of both parties concerned. The interview is used to obtain facts or subjective data such as individual opinions, attitudes, and preferences. Interviews are used to check on questionnaires which may have been used to obtain data, or when a problem being investigated is complex, or when the information needed to solve it cannot be secured easily in any other way. People will often give information orally but will not put it in writing.

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    According to the author the best way to conduct interviews is

    Solutions

    According to the author, face to face contact between the interviewer and the interviewee is the best way to contact an interview. Thus, option D is the correct answer.

     

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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

    The interview may be conducted by letter and by telephone, as well as in person. Letter and telephone interview are less satisfactory. Direct contact with an individual and a face-to-face relationship often provide a stimulating situation for both interviewer and interviewee. Personal reaction and interaction aid not only in rapport but also in obtaining nuances and additional information by the reactions which are more fully observed in a face-to-face relationship.

    Adequate preparation for the interview is a ‘must’. Careful planning saves not only time but also energy of both parties concerned. The interview is used to obtain facts or subjective data such as individual opinions, attitudes, and preferences. Interviews are used to check on questionnaires which may have been used to obtain data, or when a problem being investigated is complex, or when the information needed to solve it cannot be secured easily in any other way. People will often give information orally but will not put it in writing.

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    If I want to interview someone

    Solutions

    According to the following lines of the passage, "Adequate preparation for the interview is a ‘must’. Careful planning saves not only time but also energy of both parties concerned", if one wants to interview someone, one needs to plan and prepare for the interview in advance. Thus, option B is correct.

     

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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

    The interview may be conducted by letter and by telephone, as well as in person. Letter and telephone interview are less satisfactory. Direct contact with an individual and a face-to-face relationship often provide a stimulating situation for both interviewer and interviewee. Personal reaction and interaction aid not only in rapport but also in obtaining nuances and additional information by the reactions which are more fully observed in a face-to-face relationship.

    Adequate preparation for the interview is a ‘must’. Careful planning saves not only time but also energy of both parties concerned. The interview is used to obtain facts or subjective data such as individual opinions, attitudes, and preferences. Interviews are used to check on questionnaires which may have been used to obtain data, or when a problem being investigated is complex, or when the information needed to solve it cannot be secured easily in any other way. People will often give information orally but will not put it in writing.

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    Face-to-face interaction with the interviewees enables the interviewer to

    Solutions

    In a face to face interview, the interviewer may know many additional things about the interviewee that he may not know with the help of written data. He might know his negative and positive points through the conversation. Thus, we can say that option A is the correct answer.

     

  • Question 5/10
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

    The interview may be conducted by letter and by telephone, as well as in person. Letter and telephone interview are less satisfactory. Direct contact with an individual and a face-to-face relationship often provide a stimulating situation for both interviewer and interviewee. Personal reaction and interaction aid not only in rapport but also in obtaining nuances and additional information by the reactions which are more fully observed in a face-to-face relationship.

    Adequate preparation for the interview is a ‘must’. Careful planning saves not only time but also energy of both parties concerned. The interview is used to obtain facts or subjective data such as individual opinions, attitudes, and preferences. Interviews are used to check on questionnaires which may have been used to obtain data, or when a problem being investigated is complex, or when the information needed to solve it cannot be secured easily in any other way. People will often give information orally but will not put it in writing.

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    The author used ‘individual opinions’, ‘attitudes’ and ‘preferences’ as examples

    Solutions

    The 'individual opinions’, ‘attitudes’ and ‘preferences' of a particular persons reflects his mental and emotional state. In a face to face conversation, the interviewer might know about these things from the interviewee as these denotes his psychological properties. Thus, option C is the correct answer.

     

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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

    The storm shows no sign of abatement and its character is as unpleasant as ever. The promise of the night died away about 3 a.m. when the temperature; and the wind rose again, and things reverted to the old conditions. I can find no sign of an end, and all of us agree that it is utterly impossible to move. Resignation is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It is very painful to lie here in a wet sleeping blanket and think of the pity of it. Things go steadily from bad to worse. One of us has a bad attack of snow-blindness in one eye … there cannot be good cheer in the camp in such weather but it is ready to break out again in the brief spell of hope last night, one heard laughter.

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    The passage described an adventure

    Solutions

    Since the passage talks about storm, wet sleeping blankets and snow blindness, it can be inferred that the descirption is that of a cold region.

     

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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

    The storm shows no sign of abatement and its character is as unpleasant as ever. The promise of the night died away about 3 a.m. when the temperature; and the wind rose again, and things reverted to the old conditions. I can find no sign of an end, and all of us agree that it is utterly impossible to move. Resignation is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It is very painful to lie here in a wet sleeping blanket and think of the pity of it. Things go steadily from bad to worse. One of us has a bad attack of snow-blindness in one eye … there cannot be good cheer in the camp in such weather but it is ready to break out again in the brief spell of hope last night, one heard laughter.

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    The phrase ‘abatement’ refers to

    Solutions

    'Abatement' refers to the action of abating or being abated; ending or subsiding.

     

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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

    The storm shows no sign of abatement and its character is as unpleasant as ever. The promise of the night died away about 3 a.m. when the temperature; and the wind rose again, and things reverted to the old conditions. I can find no sign of an end, and all of us agree that it is utterly impossible to move. Resignation is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It is very painful to lie here in a wet sleeping blanket and think of the pity of it. Things go steadily from bad to worse. One of us has a bad attack of snow-blindness in one eye … there cannot be good cheer in the camp in such weather but it is ready to break out again in the brief spell of hope last night, one heard laughter.

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    The condition of the night before is best described by the words

    Solutions

    It can be inferred from the following statement of the passage, 'The promise of the night died away about 3 a.m. when the temperature; and the wind rose again, and things reverted to the old conditions.'

     

  • Question 9/10
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

    The storm shows no sign of abatement and its character is as unpleasant as ever. The promise of the night died away about 3 a.m. when the temperature; and the wind rose again, and things reverted to the old conditions. I can find no sign of an end, and all of us agree that it is utterly impossible to move. Resignation is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It is very painful to lie here in a wet sleeping blanket and think of the pity of it. Things go steadily from bad to worse. One of us has a bad attack of snow-blindness in one eye … there cannot be good cheer in the camp in such weather but it is ready to break out again in the brief spell of hope last night, one heard laughter.

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    ‘It is ready to break out again’. ‘It here refers to the

    Solutions

    It can be best inferred from the last statement of the passage, where the author talks about no hope of good cheer in the camp in such weather conditions.

     

  • Question 10/10
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

    The storm shows no sign of abatement and its character is as unpleasant as ever. The promise of the night died away about 3 a.m. when the temperature; and the wind rose again, and things reverted to the old conditions. I can find no sign of an end, and all of us agree that it is utterly impossible to move. Resignation is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It is very painful to lie here in a wet sleeping blanket and think of the pity of it. Things go steadily from bad to worse. One of us has a bad attack of snow-blindness in one eye … there cannot be good cheer in the camp in such weather but it is ready to break out again in the brief spell of hope last night, one heard laughter.

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    This passage describes the difficulties of

    Solutions

    We can't be certain but the nearest assumption is that the difficulties stated are that of travellers caught in a storm since it talks about the camping, the snow, the storm and the wet sleeping blankets.

     

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