English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide · English · Connotations & Denotations
Direction: In the paragraph below there are five sentences. In each...
Direction: In the paragraph below there are five sentences. In each sentence there are pairs of highlighted words (A, B). Select the most appropriate words to form correct sentences. Then from the options given select the correct option.
Rewari’s Civil Hospital is a drab; double-storey structure that A) carries B) caters to roughly 15 lakh people living in and around the district. Sitting on a wooden bench in the hospital premises, in a small park A) utilized B) littered with plastic cups, cigarette butts and polythene bags, is a frail man, mostly unnoticed by the crowd of visitors hurrying past him. In his late forties, he is a A) meagerly B) genuinely paid Physical Training Instructor at a local school. He A) augments B) moderates his modest income by training kabaddi students in his village. He fought against all odds, including the A) determined B) violently patriarchal mindset entrenched in Haryana’s culture, to fulfil the aspirations of his teenage daughter, a Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) topper in Haryana.
Options
- AABABA
- BBBAAB
- CAAABB
- DABAAB
Correct answer
B. BBAAB
Step-by-step solution
Smart approach:
Most of you must be wondering that it would be very time consuming to attempt these questions. But being smart is what it takes to attempt such questions correctly in order to get some brownie points over your competitors.
Let’s take the example of this question:
If we go through the first blank in this sentence, we see that B will fit here according to the given context that the Rewari Civil Hospitals give service to around 15 lakhs patients. A can be eliminated.
Now, you come to the options. In the options, only Option B is there that starts with B as the word for the first blank. There is no other option that starts with B. So, our answer will be B only. With this approach, you don’t even need to go through the other options and also the rest of the passage.
Detailed Explanation:
For blank I, A is not correct since the implication is that the said hospital gives service to 15 lakhs people residing in the village and by this logic caters is the right choice in this context.
Coming to Blank II, the context is that there are plastic cups all around the park in the premises of the Rewari Civil Hospital. Among the given words, B can actually mean that the park is full of plastic cups and other garbage.
For blank III, it is clear from the given context that the person was not earning enough and that is why he had to supplement his income with income from other sources. B cannot imply this sense whereas A is correct in order to imply the intended meaning.
Blank IV should be filled with A since we are talking about supporting the income of the person from the other sources and B will not fit in this context.
For blank V, we should go with B since it correctly explains the intended meaning of the author that the mindset revolves around patriarchy in the state of Haryana.
This makes the correct combination as BBAAB
Most of you must be wondering that it would be very time consuming to attempt these questions. But being smart is what it takes to attempt such questions correctly in order to get some brownie points over your competitors.
Let’s take the example of this question:
If we go through the first blank in this sentence, we see that B will fit here according to the given context that the Rewari Civil Hospitals give service to around 15 lakhs patients. A can be eliminated.
Now, you come to the options. In the options, only Option B is there that starts with B as the word for the first blank. There is no other option that starts with B. So, our answer will be B only. With this approach, you don’t even need to go through the other options and also the rest of the passage.
Detailed Explanation:
For blank I, A is not correct since the implication is that the said hospital gives service to 15 lakhs people residing in the village and by this logic caters is the right choice in this context.
Coming to Blank II, the context is that there are plastic cups all around the park in the premises of the Rewari Civil Hospital. Among the given words, B can actually mean that the park is full of plastic cups and other garbage.
For blank III, it is clear from the given context that the person was not earning enough and that is why he had to supplement his income with income from other sources. B cannot imply this sense whereas A is correct in order to imply the intended meaning.
Blank IV should be filled with A since we are talking about supporting the income of the person from the other sources and B will not fit in this context.
For blank V, we should go with B since it correctly explains the intended meaning of the author that the mindset revolves around patriarchy in the state of Haryana.
This makes the correct combination as BBAAB
Hence, option B is the correct choice among the given options.