Statement and Assumption problems
- 1. Statement:
" The days of ghazal can never be over."----A singer
Assumptions:
I. Aspiring singers should concentrate on ghazal rather than on pop.
II. Ghazal has been written off by many.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if only assumption II is implicit.
Explanation:
II is implicit by the very need of the singer to defend ghazal. I is not implicit because the singer does not compare ghazal to pop.
- 2. Statement:
"Railway wagons of Eastern Railway will carry your message."-- ad by Eastern Railway.
Assumptions:
I. Other railways are already in practice and earning profits.
II. The railway will get responses for the above ad.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if only assumption II is implicit.
Explanation:
Eastern Railway may be initiator of this practice. Hence I is not implicit. Assuming I, the Eastern Railway officials have advertised so.
- 3. Statement:
Order can be maintained only when law becomes enforceable. Law implies the corpus of rules or injunctions that need to be obeyed by one and all without exception.
Assumptions:
I. The acceptance of law by the people is a must for its effectiveness.
II. There is a section of people who are law unto themselves.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Because he is assuming I that is why he has used the term 'enforceable' in his statement. Speaker is assuming II; that is why he stressed that law should be obeyed by all without exception.
- 4. Statement:
Sanskrit is a 'dead' language and its study in school is obsolete.
Assumptions:
I. Sanskrit has no utility in our day-to-day life.
II. Schools should teach the students only such matters as are related to what they want to do in their lives.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Both are implicit. The term 'dead' clears speaker's intention.
- 5. Statement:
"In India, the wheels of justice hardly move."---An American newspaper
Assumptions:
I. Judicial process in India is dilatory, expensive, and beyond the reach of common people.
II. It is necessary for a civilised society to have a prompt judiciary.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if neither I nor II is implicit.
Explanation:
The newspaper's view on the expensiveness of justice can't be guessed from the given statement. Hence I is not implicit. In assumption II, the term 'civilized society' twists his view.
- 6. Statement:
To India and Indians, monsoon can be a bringer of bounty as well as harbinger of death.
Assumptions:
I. The economy and the vast majority of the people in India are still dependent on rain.
II. In India, almost every year some part or the other is ravaged by floods.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Both are implicit.
- 7. Statement:
So long as there is a caste-based society in our country, there is no harm in having caste-based organisations to look after the welfare of their castes.
Assumptions:
I. There is nothing wrong in having religious organisations to spread their ideals.
II. Political parties cannot look after the welfare of different castes like caste-based organisations can.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if only assumption II is implicit.
Explanation:
I is not implicit. Note: So long as there is......means option is situational. He assumes that caste-based organisations are the best caretaker of caste- based society. Hence II is implicit.
- 8. Statement:
After destroying the Kshatriya kings, Parasuram asked the gods a way of penance.
Assumptions:
I. Parasuram deemed the act of destroying the kings to be a sin.
II. There is a way out even after having committed such ghastly acts.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if only assumption I is implicit.
Explanation:
I is implicit in the word penance---- an act to wash away one's sins. II is not implicit. Form the statement, we don't know whether the goods showed Parasuram the way out.
- 9. Statement:
We grew up in joint families, which meant less space for the individual.
Assumptions:
I. Big houses were unknown in the past.
II. One has to make much adjustment in a joint family.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if only assumption II is implicit.
Explanation:
Here "less space" does not imply physical space so much. Instead, it implies less freedom.
- 10. Statement:
Our urban young are less at ease with their own language than with English !
Assumptions:
I. One feels most comfortable with one's mothertongue.
II. English language books sell more than their vernacular counterparts.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
Correct Answer: if only assumption I is implicit.
Explanation:
Note the exclamation mark(!). Which implies that the phenomenon is surprising . Hence I is implicit. II is a conclusion, not an assumption.
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