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Q24.Consider the following paragraphs: Somewhere, on some remote planet set at precisely the right distance from a star of just the right magnitude and the right temperature, on the other side of our galaxy, there is at this moment a committee nearing the end of a year-long study of our own tiny, provincial solar system. The intelligent beings of that place are putting their signatures (numbers of some sort, no doubt) to a paper which asserts, with finality, that life is out of the question here and the place is not worth an expedition. Their instruments have detected the presence of that most lethal of all gases, oxygen, and that is the end of that. They had planned to come, bringing along mobile factories for manufacturing life-giving ammonia, but what's the use of risking strangulation? The only part of this scenario that I really believe in is that committee. I take it as an article of faith that this is the most fundamental aspect of nature that we know about. If you are going to go looking for evidences of life on other celestial bodies, you need special instruments with delicate sensors for detecting the presence of committees. If there is life there, you will find consortia, collaborating groups, working parties, all over the place. At least this is true for our kind of life. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above?

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Q26.Read the three statements below, and the conclusions deduced from these statements. Statements: All letters of the Greek alphabet have symbol-to-sound mapping. Some letters of the Greek alphabet are aspirated plosives. All aspirated plosives in Greek are consonants in Greek. Based on the above, which of the conclusions actually follows from the statements?

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Consider the following paragraph: A central part of disgust's pathology is the bifurcation of the world into the "pure" and the "impure"-the construction of a "we" who are without flaw and a "they" who are dirty, evil, and contaminating. Much bad thinking about international politics shows the traces of this pathology, as people prove all too ready to think about some group of others as black and sullied, while they themselves are on the side of the angels. We now notice that this very deep- seated human tendency is nourished by many time-honored modes of storytelling to children, which suggest that the world will be set right when some ugly and disgusting witch or monster is killed, or even cooked in her own oven. Many contemporary stories for children purvey the same worldview. We should be grateful for artists who suggest to children the world's real complexity: the Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, for example, whose wild and fantastic films contain a view of good and evil that is both gentler and more nuanced, in which dangers may come from such real and complex sources as decent humans' relation to the environment; or Maurice Sendak, whose Max, in Where the Wild Things Are-which has now become an impressive film- romps with monsters that represent his own inner world and the dangerous aggression that lurks there. Nor are the monsters even entirely hideous; for the hatred of one's own internal demons is a frequent source of the need to project them outward onto others. Stories learned in childhood become powerful constituents of the world we inhabit as adults. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above?

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