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Error Spotting & Parajumble Test 269
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    Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.

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    1. In 1979, 28 per cent of private-sector workers in the country had participated in defined benefit retirement plans, and surprisingly, by 2014, just 2 per cent did, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit organisation.
    2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a non-profit organisation, the participation of private-sector workers in the defined benefit retirement plans increased multiple folds in 2014 as compared to the late ’70s.
    3. Two – thirds of the country’s citizens don’t contribute any money to a 401 (k) or other retirement accounts, according to Census Bureau researchers, and this could have larger implications for the economy, especially the private sector.
    4. Today’s scenario is so reliant on Social Security because companies that once provided pensions, began in the 1970s, turns the responsibility of retirement saving over to individuals in the private sector.
    Solutions
    Sentence I: It says that there has been a slump in the proportion of workers, private sector workers participating in defined – benefit retirement plans.

    Statement II: It says that since by 2014, private sector workers participating in defined – benefit retirement plans had increased many folds as compared to the 1970’s (which includes 1979).

    Sentence III: It says about the proportion of people contributing money in retirement account.

    Sentence IV: It says about the social security and retirement saving.
    Hence, statement I and II give contradictory information. Other options are also in context of the passage but don’t give contradictory information with respect to the passage.
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    Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.

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    1) The program focused on awareness about the power of RTI Act and its usage, besides sharing stories of success and transparency in government institutions.
    2) Former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi feels RTI has become a target of hardening attitudes from the power institutions.
    3) There has been a constant appreciation from the powerful people regarding the RTI, says former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi.
    4) Today is a historic day as people won't need to visit government's office to file RTI applications.
    Solutions
    Sentence 1 talks about a program that shares stories of success and transparency in government institutions due to RTI.
    Sentence 2 tells according to former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, people in power do not like the RTI.
    Sentence 3 tells according to former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, people in power are supportive of the RTI.
    Sentence 4 calls 'today' historic as we don’t need to visit government's office to file RTI applications.
    Clearly, sentence 2 & 3 are opposite in meaning. Hence, the correct answer is B.
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    Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.

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    I. Male Chimpanzees who throw stones vocalize and appear quite aroused, though an adult female and a juvenile also were observed to throw the stones, so the behaviour appears to have caught on more widely.
    II. As the water tumbles and foams, the world’s most famous chimpanzees sway rhythmically in a state of high arousal. First hurting rocks into the spray, the apes then quiet themselves and sit calmly, gazing at the waterfall before them.
    III. As per the research of a leading wildlife conservation group, the trait of throwing stones on certain events, exclusively found in male chimpanzees, is linked to dawn of spiritual understanding in this species.
    IV. The chasm between apes’ repeated throwing of stones taken from a cache at a tree, and apes’ creating the sacred through repeated action, is immense, and for Standard, not navigable by science.
    Solutions
    Sentence I: It says that the trait of throwing stones has been spread to female and juvenile chimpanzees as well.
    Statement II: It says that how the world’s most famous chimpanzees sway in a state of high arousal.
    Sentence III: It says that the trait of throwing stones is exclusively found male apes and is linked to spiritual understanding.
    Sentence IV: It says about the chasm between apes’ repeated throwing of stones and apes’ creating the sacred through repeated action
    Hence, statement I and III give contradictory information.
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    Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.

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    I. Over the last several months, plastic straws have come under fire from environmental activists in America who rightly point out that disposable plastics have created a swirling, centuries – long ecological disaster that is brutally difficult to clean up.
    II. Americans were primarily rural people in the early 19th century. Cities had few restaurants until the 1830s and 1840s, and most of the Americans hadn’t heard of straws till then.
    III. Straws were uniform in America up until the 1930s. They were tan in colour, thin, and exactly 8.5 inches long. Then someone in the soda – bottling business started marketing eight – ounce bottles, and straws grew to 10.5 inches.
    IV. At first, selling cups was a tough job in America. Straws were cheap, you could get 100 for nine cents in the 1930s, but cups were many times more expensive, and thus, straws were popular but not cups.
    Solutions
    Sentence I: It says that plastic straws and disposable plastics have created a swirling, centuries – long ecological disaster.
    Statement II: It says that Americans were primarily rural in the early 19th century and they were not aware about straws at that time.
    Sentence III: It says that in 1930s straws were uniform and then soda – bottling business started.
    Sentence IV: It says that though plastic cups were not that popular among Americans in 1930s, straws were.
    Hence, statement IV and II give contradictory information.
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    Direction: In the following question, four statements are given. Identify the pair of statements opposite in meaning to each other. If the correct opposite pair is not given in the alternatives, mark ‘None of these’ as the answer.

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    A. In a higher – education system that is often divided between two – and four – year colleges and further segregated between elite and non – elite institutions, it’s not often that a community college is mentioned in the same breath as an lvy League campus.
    B. The world of work in America is undergoing a massive shift. Not since the dawn of the Industrial revolution in the 18th and the 19th centuries and the information age that followed in the last century has the scale of disruption taking place in the workforce been so evident.
    C. The community college in America would typically wait for displaced workers to come to the campus to receive retraining instead of intervening before they were laid off.
    D. An opt – cited 2013 study from the University of Oxford predicted that nearly 90 percent of the American jobs would remain the same in terms of the risk involved and returns offered and the same can be seen taking shape in the country’s job – sector.
    Solutions
    Sentence I: It says about the division of the higher – education system between elite and non – elite institutions.
    Statement II: It says that job sectors in America are going through a phase of massive shift and the jobs in the country are facing a large scale disruption.
    Sentence III: It says about the community college in America waiting for displaced workers instead of intervening.
    Sentence IV: It says that the prediction of the nature of majority of the jobs being the same in America has turned out to be true.
    Hence, statement IV and II give contradictory information.
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    Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

    A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
    B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
    C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
    D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
    E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
    F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
    G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.

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    Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
    Solutions
    Refer to the last question of the series.
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

    A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
    B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
    C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
    D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
    E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
    F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
    G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.

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    Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
    Solutions
    Refer to the last question of the series.
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

    A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
    B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
    C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
    D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
    E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
    F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
    G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.

    ...view full instructions

    Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
    Solutions
    Refer to the last question of the series.
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

    A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
    B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
    C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
    D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
    E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
    F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
    G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.

    ...view full instructions

    Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
    Solutions
    Refer to the last question of the series.
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

    A) As in under consumption theory in economics, recessions and stagnation arise due to inadequate consumer demand relative to the amount produced.
    B) There are a variety of less orthodox voices who think that the informal sector and small-scale rural development is an important complement or even a competitor to formal sector employment.
    C) Employment is important both from the income side in providing the incomes that would make society more equal, and on the demand side in providing the demand needed to sustain its development.
    D) The shortfalls in new employment creation, particularly the lack of good formal sector jobs, are central to the analysis of what is wrong and unsustainable in present economic trends.
    E) Thus, under consumption as a major economic fault.
    F) Thereby, under consumption is more unorthodox.
    G) The need to increase formal sector employment in order to secure greater equity and more economic production seems part of the orthodox consensus.

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    Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
    Solutions

    The correct sequence is DCEAGBF.
    After reading all the statements, one can notice that it revolves around employment, that there is a shortfall in new employment creation and what is the take of orthodox and less orthodox voices on this.
    We can decipher that statement D introduces the theme of the passage while statement C is the reason for the problem discussed in the statement D. Therefore, DC is a mandatory pair.
    Statement E should be the third statement because it summaries the problem discussed in the first and second statements.
    Statement A gives the reason for why ‘under consumption is an economic fault’ and contains the meaning of ‘under consumption’ and elaborates on the subject. Therefore, statement A logically follows.
    Statements B and F are linked to each other because of ‘less orthodox’ and ‘more unorthodox.’ G would come before B as A is talking about the problem of “under consumption” and G gives a way out, i.e. the need to increase the formal sector employment. Also, the word “orthodox consensus” is introduced in sentence G and its variant, i.e. less orthodox voices must come in later.
    Statement F is a concluding statement since it has ‘thereby.’ Therefore, statement G logically follows A. BF as a pair follow G.

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