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The victory of the small Greek democracy of Athens over the mighty Persian Empire in 490 B.C. is one of the most famous events in history. Darius, king of the Persian Empire, was furious because Athens had interceded for the other Greek city-states in revolt against Persian domination. In anger the king sent an enormous army to defeat Athens. He thought it would take drastic steps to pacify the rebellious part of the empire.
Persia was ruled by one man. In Athens, however, all citizens helped to rule. Ennobled by this participation, Athenians were prepared to die for their city-state. Perhaps this was the secret of the remarkable victory at Marathon, which freed them from Persian rule. On their way to Marathon, the Persians tried to fool some Greek city-states by claiming to have come in peace. The frightened citizens of Delos refused to believe this. Not wanting to abet the conquest of Greece, they fled from their city and did not return until the Persians had left. They were wise, for the Persians next conquered the city of Eritrea and captured its people.
Tiny Athens stood alone against Persia. The Athenian people went to their sanctuaries. There they prayed for deliverance. They asked their gods to expedite their victory. The Athenians refurbished their weapons and moved to the plain of Marathon, where their little band would meet the Persians. At the last moment, soldiers from Plataea reinforced the Athenian troops.
The Athenian army attacked, and Greek citizens fought bravely. The power of the mighty Persians was offset by the love that the Athenians had for their city. Athenians defeated the Persians in both archery and hand combat. Greek soldiers seized Persian ships and burned them, and the Persians fled in terror. Herodotus, a famous historian, reports that 6,400 Persians died, compared to only 192 Athenians.
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Qs.5/5: The Athenians were _________ by some soldiers who arrived from Plataea.
Awelcomed
Bstrengthened
Cheld
Dcaptured
ENone of these
Answer: Option B
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I was a late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school because I didn't. I learned early on, although, that it's essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you're starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce.
Once my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing - they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn't help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that's what was needed and we needed to set ourselves apart.
In the first script Jerry and I wrote; a school girl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy- writing team.
Qs.1/3: What can help one get identified above the rest in today's harsh competitive world?
AOne's capabilities and talents.
BThe urge to move with the times.
CA distinctive and unique approach of seeing things.
DKeeping one's bio-data on the top of the pile.
EThe distinctively written bio-data.
Answer: Option C
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I was a late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school because I didn't. I learned early on, although, that it's essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you're starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce.
Once my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing - they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn't help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that's what was needed and we needed to set ourselves apart.
In the first script Jerry and I wrote; a school girl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy- writing team.
Qs.2/3: Writing for minor characters in the TV serials was not preferred by many
AAs there was less that could be written about them.
BAs it was thought that it was considered to be offering fewer career opportunities for them in the future.
CDue to lack of depth in their characters and less attraction for them among the masses.
DSince writing for them would not provide the desired career opportunities.
EAs they were less popular and didn't provide much details to the writers.
Answer: Option B
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I was a late bloomer and always envied those people who stood out in high school because I didn't. I learned early on, although, that it's essential to set yourself apart from the group. Life is one struggle after another to succeed, particularly when you're starting out. If your bio-data is sitting at the bottom of a pile of junk mail, sometimes a distinctive approach will get you noticed, especially if the competition is fierce.
Once my partner Jerry and I asked the other freelance writers of a TV serial what characters they hated to write for the most. Everybody said the same thing - they disliked writing for the minor characters because they felt that writing for them wouldn't help them get other jobs. Jerry and I decided that we would write scripts for the minor characters because that's what was needed and we needed to set ourselves apart.
In the first script Jerry and I wrote; a school girl falls in love with a boy in her class. The producers loved the story. And with that one script, Jerry and I were no longer just another comedy- writing team.
Qs.3/3: Which among the following best describes the content of the passage?
AA philosophical account of attaining success in professional life.
BThe account of the way in which two high scoring young men scaled high in their careers.
CAn inspirational description of the struggle that two young scholars undertook in their careers.
DThe inspiring tale of two average high school scholars who stood above the rest in their careers by taking a road not taken.
EA narrative account of the way in which two young men attained high position in their careers by leaving others behind.
Answer: Option D
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Until he was ten, young Alexander Fleming attended the nearby Loudon Moor School. He was then transferred to Dagvel School, which he attended with his brothers. Alexander learned a good deal about nature during that four-mile downhill hike to school and the four-mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Dagvel School, he was sent to Kilmarnock Academy. After two years he joined his brothers, John and Robert, at the home of his elder brother Thomas, who was to become a successful oculist in London. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alexander was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was sixteen, he obtained a job in a shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school where he decided to study medicine.
Qs.1/3: How did Alexander Fleming learn about nature?
AFrom his games with his brothers in fields spreading across four miles.
BDue to his innate interest in nature and its beauties.
CWhile his school lessons in Biology and nature studies.
DFrom his four mile long ride down and uphill while going and coming back from school.
EWhile his hikes up and down the hills that were located in his area.
Answer: Option D
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Until he was ten, young Alexander Fleming attended the nearby Loudon Moor School. He was then transferred to Dagvel School, which he attended with his brothers. Alexander learned a good deal about nature during that four-mile downhill hike to school and the four-mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Dagvel School, he was sent to Kilmarnock Academy. After two years he joined his brothers, John and Robert, at the home of his elder brother Thomas, who was to become a successful oculist in London. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alexander was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was sixteen, he obtained a job in a shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school where he decided to study medicine.
Qs.2/3: Who specialized in treatment of eye ailments in Alexander's family?
AJohn and Robert, his brothers.
BHis uncle Thomas.
CThomas, his elder brother.
DJohn and Thomas, his cousins.
ERobert and Thomas, his two uncles.
Answer: Option C
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Until he was ten, young Alexander Fleming attended the nearby Loudon Moor School. He was then transferred to Dagvel School, which he attended with his brothers. Alexander learned a good deal about nature during that four-mile downhill hike to school and the four-mile uphill return trip. He was a quick student and at twelve, the age limit prescribed for Dagvel School, he was sent to Kilmarnock Academy. After two years he joined his brothers, John and Robert, at the home of his elder brother Thomas, who was to become a successful oculist in London. However, the economic success of the family was yet to be and Alexander was forced to leave school for economic reasons. When he was sixteen, he obtained a job in a shipping company. Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity. In 1901, he received a share in a legacy which made it possible for him to return to school where he decided to study medicine.
Qs.3/3: What is meant by the sentence "Good fortune, however, was on his side and on the side of humanity"?
AThe good fortune of Alexander was to be used by the humans around him.
BWhen good fortune and opportunities, subsequently knocked at the doors of Alexander's family, the human race was benefitted in turn.
CThe human race and Alexander's family were lucky at the same time.
DHuman race was to be given a monetary benefit by the pleasant fortune that Alexander's family experienced.
EThe good fortune of Alexander's family was to be experienced by humanity at the same time.
Answer: Option B
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The great event of the New York cultural season of 1882 was the visit of the sixty two year old English philosopher and social commentator Herbert Spencer. Nowhere did Spencer have a larger or more enthusiastic following than in the United States, where such works as ?Social Statics and ?The Data of Ethics were celebrated as powerful justifications for laissez fair capitalism. Competition was preordained; its result was progress; and any institution that stood in the way of individual liberties was violating the natural order.Survival of the fittest a phrase that Charles Darwin took from Spencer made free competition a social as well as a natural law. Spencer was, arguably, the single most influential systematic thinker of the nineteenth century, but his influence, compared with that of Darwin, Marx, or Mill, was short lived. In 1937, the Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons asked, ?Who now reads Spencer?
Seventy years later, the question remains pertinent, even if no one now reads Talcott Parsons, either. In his day, Spencer was the greatest of philosophical hedgehogs: his popularity stemmed from the Page 54 fact that he had one big, easily grasped idea and a mass of more particular ideas that supposedly flowed from the big one. The big idea was evolution, but, while Darwin applied it to species change, speculating about society and culture only with reluctance, Spencer saw evolution working everywhere. ?This law of organic progress is the law of all progress, he wrote, ?whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, [or] Art.
Spencer has been tagged as a social Darwinist, but it would be more correct to think of Darwin as a biological Spencerian. Spencer was very well known as an evolutionist long before Darwin's ?On the Origin of Species was published, in 1859, and people who had limited interest in the finches of the Galapagos had a great interest in whether the state should provide for the poor or whether it was right to colonize India.
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Qs.1/8: Why did Spencer have a large enthusiastic following in the United States?
ABecause he believed in Darwin's theory of evolution
BBecause his work was perceived to justify capitalism
CBecause he was a English philosopher
DNone of these
Answer: Option B
Explanation:B
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The great event of the New York cultural season of 1882 was the visit of the sixty two year old English philosopher and social commentator Herbert Spencer. Nowhere did Spencer have a larger or more enthusiastic following than in the United States, where such works as ?Social Statics and ?The Data of Ethics were celebrated as powerful justifications for laissez fair capitalism. Competition was preordained; its result was progress; and any institution that stood in the way of individual liberties was violating the natural order.Survival of the fittest a phrase that Charles Darwin took from Spencer made free competition a social as well as a natural law. Spencer was, arguably, the single most influential systematic thinker of the nineteenth century, but his influence, compared with that of Darwin, Marx, or Mill, was short lived. In 1937, the Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons asked, ?Who now reads Spencer?
Seventy years later, the question remains pertinent, even if no one now reads Talcott Parsons, either. In his day, Spencer was the greatest of philosophical hedgehogs: his popularity stemmed from the Page 54 fact that he had one big, easily grasped idea and a mass of more particular ideas that supposedly flowed from the big one. The big idea was evolution, but, while Darwin applied it to species change, speculating about society and culture only with reluctance, Spencer saw evolution working everywhere. ?This law of organic progress is the law of all progress, he wrote, ?whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, [or] Art.
Spencer has been tagged as a social Darwinist, but it would be more correct to think of Darwin as a biological Spencerian. Spencer was very well known as an evolutionist long before Darwin's ?On the Origin of Species was published, in 1859, and people who had limited interest in the finches of the Galapagos had a great interest in whether the state should provide for the poor or whether it was right to colonize India.
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Qs.2/8: Which of the following will the author agree to?
AMill, Marx and Darwin are more famous than Spencer as of today.
BSpencer is more famous than Mill, Marx and Darwin as of today.
CMill, Darwin, Marx and Spencer are equally famous
DMill, Darwin, Marx and Parsons are very famous today today.
Answer: Option A
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The great event of the New York cultural season of 1882 was the visit of the sixty two year old English philosopher and social commentator Herbert Spencer. Nowhere did Spencer have a larger or more enthusiastic following than in the United States, where such works as ?Social Statics and ?The Data of Ethics were celebrated as powerful justifications for laissez fair capitalism. Competition was preordained; its result was progress; and any institution that stood in the way of individual liberties was violating the natural order.Survival of the fittest a phrase that Charles Darwin took from Spencer made free competition a social as well as a natural law. Spencer was, arguably, the single most influential systematic thinker of the nineteenth century, but his influence, compared with that of Darwin, Marx, or Mill, was short lived. In 1937, the Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons asked, ?Who now reads Spencer?
Seventy years later, the question remains pertinent, even if no one now reads Talcott Parsons, either. In his day, Spencer was the greatest of philosophical hedgehogs: his popularity stemmed from the Page 54 fact that he had one big, easily grasped idea and a mass of more particular ideas that supposedly flowed from the big one. The big idea was evolution, but, while Darwin applied it to species change, speculating about society and culture only with reluctance, Spencer saw evolution working everywhere. ?This law of organic progress is the law of all progress, he wrote, ?whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, [or] Art.
Spencer has been tagged as a social Darwinist, but it would be more correct to think of Darwin as a biological Spencerian. Spencer was very well known as an evolutionist long before Darwin's ?On the Origin of Species was published, in 1859, and people who had limited interest in the finches of the Galapagos had a great interest in whether the state should provide for the poor or whether it was right to colonize India.
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Qs.3/8: What does Talcott Parson's statement, "Who now reads Spencer?" imply?
ANo one read Spencer in 1937
BHe is asking a question to his students.
CEveryone should read Spencer
DNone of these
Answer: Option A
Explanation:Here is no explanation for this answer
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