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  • Question

  • Critical reading is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and, with pencil in hand, perform specific operations on the text. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant.
    This paragraph best supports the statement that


  • Options
  • A. critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential process
  • B. the best critical reading happens at critical times in a person's life.
  • C. readers should get in the habit of questioning the truth of what they read.
  • D. critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention.
  • E. critical reading should take place at the same time each day.

  • Correct Answer
  • critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention. 

    Explanation
    This answer is implied by the whole paragraph. The author stresses the need to read critically by performing thoughtful and careful operations on the text. Choice a is incorrect because the author never says that reading is dull. Choices b, c, and e are not supported by the paragraph.

    • More questions

    • 1. Choose the picture that would go in the empty box so that the two bottom pictures are related in the same way as the top two:

    • Options
    • A. 1
    • B. 2
    • C. 3
    • D. 4
      • Discuss
    • 2. Choose the picture that would go in the empty box so that the two bottom pictures are related in the same way as the top two:

    • Options
    • A. 1
    • B. 2
    • C. 3
    • D. 4
      • Discuss
    • 3. Choose the picture that would go in the empty box so that the two bottom pictures are related in the same way as the top two:

    • Options
    • A. 1
    • B. 2
    • C. 3
    • D. 4
      • Discuss
    • 4. Statements: National Aluminium Company has moved India from a position of shortage to self-sufficiency in the metal.

      Conclusions:

      1. Previously, India had to import aluminium.
      2. With this speed, it can soon become a foreign exchange earner.


    • Options
    • A. Only conclusion I follows
    • B. Only conclusion II follows
    • C. Either I or II follows
    • D. Neither I nor II follows
    • E. Both I and II follow
      • Discuss
    • 5. Statement: Footpaths of a busy road are crowded with vendors selling cheap items.

      Courses of Action:

      1. The help of police should be sought to drive them away.
      2. Some space should be provided to them where they can earn their bread without blocking footpaths.


    • Options
    • A. Only I follows
    • B. Only II follows
    • C. Either I or II follows
    • D. Neither I nor II follows
    • E. Both I and II follow
      • Discuss
    • 6. 8 12 9 13 10 14 11

    • Options
    • A. 14 11
    • B. 15 12
    • C. 8 15
    • D. 15 19
    • E. 8 5
      • Discuss
    • 7. Statement: The government has decided to hold the employers responsible for deducting tax at source for all its employees.

      Assumptions:

      1. The employers may still not arrange to deduct tax at source for its employees.
      2. The employees may not allow the employers to deduct tax at source.


    • Options
    • A. Only assumption I is implicit
    • B. Only assumption II is implicit
    • C. Either I or II is implicit
    • D. Neither I nor II is implicit
    • E. Both I and II are implicit
      • Discuss
    • 8. Statement: Mr. X, an active member of the Union, often insults his superiors in the office with his rude behaviour.

      Courses of Action:

      1. He should be transferred to some other department.
      2. The matter should be referred to the Union.


    • Options
    • A. Only I follows
    • B. Only II follows
    • C. Either I or II follows
    • D. Neither I nor II follows
    • E. Both I and II follow
      • Discuss
    • 9. Choose the picture that would go in the empty box so that the two bottom pictures are related in the same way as the top two:

    • Options
    • A. 1
    • B. 2
    • C. 3
    • D. 4
      • Discuss
    • 10. Statements: Some dreams are nights. Some nights are days.

      Conclusions:

      1. All days are either nights or dreams.
      2. Some days are nights.


    • Options
    • A. Only conclusion I follows
    • B. Only conclusion II follows
    • C. Either I or II follows
    • D. Neither I nor II follows
    • E. Both I and II follow
      • Discuss

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