Daily Parajumble/PQRS Compilation December 2017€¦ · clerks — a woman in a hijab who seemed in charge, B. In the line, along with my friend, were women in hijabs who had come

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Daily Parajumble/PQRS Compilation

December 2017(Important for SBI, IBPS, RBI & SSC)

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1. It is a comprehension based exercise.

2. Your understanding of the text is the most importantrequirement is this exercise.

3. Order of the sentence: - We talk about General thing firstthen specific things

a. General - Specificb. Theory – examplesc. Problems – solutionsd. Statements - supporting sentences.

4. Look for pronouns. Pronouns succeed nouns. Look fornouns of particular pronoun.

5. It and There can be used as introductory subjects.

6. Look for transitional words. These will help youunderstand the flow of the paragraph. Words are:-

a. Additional words – and, also, as well as, along with,besides, moreover, what’s more

b. Equivalent words – in the same way, likewise,similarly, like, as

Connecting words – furthermore, thus, therefore, in brief, toconclude, to sum up briefly

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01st Dec

SE412

A. by the series of photographs anintelligent editor would upload on socialmedia of himself posing with variousvisiting stars.

B. We were asking the same question asIvanka Trump did her whirlwind Indiatour,

C. Some years ago, I remember being morethan a little disappointed

D. The stars were always female.

E. And I remember wondering what it wasabout a sexily dressed woman that madethe sharpest men lose all semblance ofgood judgment.

F. raising a storm of television and socialmedia attention that quickly reachedtwister proportions.

02nd Dec

SE413

A. an unchanging, peaceful part thatpervades everything, including humans;

B. The worldview derived from authenticyoga is that the world is divided into twoparts:

C. and a messy, changeable part thatincludes the world as we experience itevery day.

D. That is, even though we have peaceinside us as part of our essential nature,

E. and the ever-changing world within us.

F. we are seldom aware of it because of theever-changing world around us

Learning Grammar makesyou feel confident (till exam result)

but reading, writing andunderstanding

everything you read;makes you believe in yourself.

04th Dec

SE414

A. While a casual reading would create theimpression of India

B. it is neither appropriate norrepresentative of hunger prevalent in acountry.

C. The 2017 GHI score has India ranked100 out of the 119 countries listed.

D. closer scrutiny shows that it should notbe taken at face value as

E. However, despite improvements, Indiastill faces a problem ofundernourishment and poor childhealth.

F. being among the worst performers andunderachievers in addressing food andnutrition security,

05th Dec

SE415

A. Amidst this unremarkable scene, youngclerks — a woman in a hijab whoseemed in charge,

B. In the line, along with my friend, werewomen in hijabs who had come in theafternoon.

C. kept time with periodic rattles andthuds, like a bored mridangam player ata Carnatic concert.

D. Last month, I accompanied a friend toapply for an Aadhaar card at an AkshyaKendra office in a small town in theheart of Malappuram district in Kerala.

E. and three men who handled themachines — went about processing theforms, fingerprinting, and scanning eyeswith admirable earnestness andefficiency.

F. The afternoon sun was ablaze and sincethe air conditioner was no longerfunctioning, a table fan in the cornerdesultorily






06th Dec

SE416

A. Ms. Iyer then had the dream of being thebest in the world and win Wimbledonsome day.

B. and a series of elbow surgeries followinga fall down a flight of stairs, keptinterrupting her life, and career intennis.

C. However, a recurrent knee injury, anabdominal tear, a brain surgery,

D. She went to Duke University in NorthCarolina to complete her graduation.

E. Undaunted by the turn of events and ashattered dream, Ms. Iyer realigned herfocus to academics.

F. Undaunted by the turn of events and ashattered dream, Ms. Iyer realigned herfocus to academics.

G. Two Indian girls competing in the finalon foreign soil in a tournament that wasnext only to the Grand Slams wassomething rare.

07th Dec

SE417

A. mostly reported grave threats to animalsand plants due to loss of habitat andunsustainable farming and fisheriespractices.

B. to vulnerable thanks to New Zealand’sprogress in controlling predators likestoats and cats.

C. in a mostly grim assessment of globalspecies at risk of extinction.

D. The International Union for theConservation of Nature upgraded theOkarito kiwi and the Northern Brownkiwi from endangered

E. Two types of New Zealand kiwi birds area rare bright spot

F. But the conservation group’s latestupdate of its Red List of endangeredspecies, issued on Tuesday,

08th Dec

SE418

A. The 10-member group will evaluate howtechnological advancements, particularlyin wearable and portable devices,

B. as well as suggest a policy frameworkkeeping in view the interests ofpolicyholders.

C. This apart, it would examine variousaspects that are bound to impact thepricing

D. Insurance regulator IRDAI hasconstituted a working group to examinethe use of wearable and portable devicesin the insurance framework.

E. may be treated from a “point of view ofrisk improvement, risk assessment anduse/distribution of such devices as partof policy design.”

09th Dec

SE419

A. Sample this: it takes about 30 secondsto complete an across-the-counter cashpayment;

B. which contains your contactless card,tap against the terminal and tuck itback in.

C. A lot of us believe cash is faster, easy tohandle and convenient.

D. It takes about three seconds to conductthe same using a contactless card;including the time to pull out your wallet

E. Digital solutions could never replace thesimplicity and ease of using cash, orcould they?

F. including the time taken to pull out thecurrency from your wallet, look forchange and ensure the money is safelytucked in.






11th Dec

SE420

A. Entering into force in October 1967, thetreaty provided a basic framework ofinternational space law.

B. It states that the exploration and use ofouter space shall be carried out for thebenefit and in the interests of allcountries, and shall be the province ofall mankind.

C. It also outlines that states shall notplace nuclear weapons or other weaponsof mass destruction in orbit, or oncelestial bodies, or station them in outerspace in any other manner.

D. In January 1967, the Outer SpaceTreaty was opened for signature by thethree depository governments—theUSSR, the United Kingdom and theUnited States of America.

E. This framework includes manyprinciples which signatory nations needto follow.

12th Dec

SE421

A. “Never send a human to do a machine’sjob” became popular.

B. Dark-suited, sunglasses-sporting‘agents’ — powerful, sentient AIprogrammes — patrolled the Matrix, ledby Hugo Weaving’s snarling villainousAgent Smith.

C. What’s the first thing that comes tomind when you think of the term“artificial intelligence?”

D. They suppressed human rebellion bydodging bullets and punching throughconcrete.

E. I am reminded of the famous 1999movie Matrix in which the dialogue

F. The movie, Wachowski brothers’cyberpunk action classic, was set in agrim future where intelligent machineshad enslaved mankind, keeping themsubdued with a simulated reality calledthe Matrix.

13th Dec

SE422

A. We have talked in this column beforeabout how entrepreneurs tend to be veryconfident people who are enamoured oftheir ideas.

B. Because, to them, the concept thatsomeone else may have also had thesame idea before they did isunthinkable, they never get to findingout.

C. In one sense, it is a good thing, becauseit helps them convince customers,investors, and the world at large to buyinto their idea and give their youngstartups business or money.

D. But it is this self-belief that also stopsthem from asking themselves some veryimportant questions about the ideabehind their startup.

E. “Am I the first one to come up with thisidea? Has anyone else already thought ofit before?”

14th Dec

SE423

A. the Telecom Regulatory Authority ofIndia (TRAI), published a definitive set ofrulings on Net neutrality.

B. with user-driven informationtransactions, minimal proprietarycontrols, and open access to all who paya basic charge.

C. Late-November, after a process thatstretched over months of wideconsultations,

D. this was a detailed statement ofprinciples and procedures to preservethe internet as an open domain,

E. Since the February 2016 decisionordering an end to any kind of“discriminatory pricing” of data services,






15th Dec

SE424

A. “It’s led people to seek fresh designs thatare unique, with inspirations originatingfrom a more personal angle.”

B. “I think those typical motifs have beendone for so many years, and interpretedin so many different ways, that theyhave become a little tired,” says SarahFotheringham, co-founder of Delhi-based designer home brand Safomasi.

C. We look at four brands, who are tellingthis story.

D. Gone are the Mughal motifs and theumpteenth interpretation of the lotusblossom, as patterns take inspirationfrom everyday life, travel and memories.

E. We can’t quite say kitsch has had itsday, but of late designers are going adifferent, and very welcome, directionwhen it comes to prints for home décor.

16th Dec

SE425

A. In the digital world, over the year thetide turned against social and towardsthe niche.

B. Silicon Valley’s social media giants whohad projected themselves as knights inshining armour to media houses indistress, are now squeamish about newsafter getting their fingers burnt with theTrump fiasco.

C. Advertisers becoming jittery aboutseeing their products next to any kind ofpolitical news have not helped either.

D. This was the year that social media gotblamed for everything, from Trumpwinning to grandparents wasting theirtime on smartphones.

E. One of the prime drivers of this changewas the damage caused by an incessantflow of news, or what masqueraded asnews, on social platforms.

18th Dec

SE426

A. Recensions of epics that have survivedover millennia are associated withnames, many of which are oftenindistinguishable across generations.

B. Styles of writing, editorship, or even thetext itself that we associate with a singlename were often assisted by more thanone creative mind.

C. One of the great cultural inventions ofthe modern age is the idea of the‘author’. From Karl Knausgaard to LewisCarroll,

D. the romance of a figure of talent andsuffering bringing forth into the world abook, a unique and irreplaceable visiononto paper, is now widespread acrosscultures.

E. For much of human history, however,this idea of a single ‘author’ of a text hasbeen suspect.

F. A.K. Ramanujan notes that among thesubtle miracles of Cankam poetry is that“by a remarkable consensus, they [thepoets] all spoke this common languageof symbols for some five or sixgenerations.”

If you’re following

comprehension method(120 Marks – SSC Mains) then it’seasier to solve PQRS, Cloze Test,

Passage, Fill up the blanks,Sentence Improvement, optionelimination in vocabulary part.

And

If you’re following grammar &vocabulary (80 Marks – SSCMains), then it’s a guessing

game. You hit sometimes andyou miss many times






19th Dec

SE427

A. but are little promoted by the Indianscientific establishment, even neglectedin graduate teaching.

B. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri incosmology, G.N. Ramachandran inprotein crystal structures, and C.K.Majumdar and Dipan Ghosh whoextended the quantum Heisenberg spinmodel.

C. like hidden figures in their ownhomeland.

D. Many of the greatest scientists thatindependent India has produced arelittle known,

E. These are household names in theinternational scientific field,

20th Dec

SE428

A. I stand by the altar of the guilty as well.

B. who sign up for gym memberships, stopby the end of January.

C. It’s that time of the year when everyonestarts resolving to make a resolution forthe New Year.

D. Most are clichés.

E. Studies from various parts of the worldreport 8 out of the 10 people

F. Clichés that pretty much puts intoperspective a surge in gymmemberships after the binge drinking inDecember.

21st Dec

SE429

A. The annual motorcycle show is globallyregarded as the Holy Grail formanufacturers to show off new productsand upgrades,

B. but this year brought in something veryspecial for India from four very variedmanufacturers.

C. that don’t quite burn a hole in thepocket

D. and now, at EICMA 2017 in Milan, Italy,it seems like the next big revolution hasjust been shaped.

E. Over the years the Indian motorcyclingenthusiast has had a growing choice ofperformance-oriented motorcycles

22nd Dec

SE430

A. Users will now get notifications whentheir images pop up on the socialnetwork, according to director of appliedmachine learning Joaquin QuinoneroCandela.

B. “If you’re in a photo and are part of theaudience for that post, we’ll notify you,even if you haven’t been tagged,” Mr.Candela said.

C. Facebook on Tuesday added a way forpeople to know when their pictures areposted anywhere on the leading socialnetwork.

D. Facebook users will be able to tagthemselves in images posted elsewherein the social network, or expressconcerns about pictures to people whopost them, according to Mr. Candela.

E. The notifications will rely on optionalnew tools that tap into face-recognitioncapabilities.






23rd Dec

SE431

A. but the same may seem probable withthe local MLA or MLC,

B. Such conjectures may seem neither herenor there

C. For an ordinary mortal, getting anappointment with the Prime Minister isnext to impossible,

D. but the point is they pale in comparisonwhen the issue of finding the correcttime to talk to the very own husbandcrops up.

E. and definitely possible with the wardcorporator.

25th Dec

SE432

A. “Papa, will Santa come this year also?”asked my younger son, a four-year-oldnursery student, with a twinkle in hiseyes.

B. He said, “What toy would Santa bringme?”

C. “You bet,” I said. “And for my brother?”he asked. “Yes, for him too!” I replied.

D. “I’m sure, he will,” I replied, whichbrought a huge smile on his face andprompted him to ask the next question,“Will he bring me chocolate as well?”

E. He then asked me a question thatstumped me.

26th Dec

SE433

A. But now, among designers, disc jockeys,club promoters, bloggers and thrift-storeowners, curate is code for ‘I have adiscerning eye and great taste’.”

B. He writes: “In more print-centric times,the term of art was ‘edit’ — as in aboutique edits its dress collectionscarefully.

C. In ancient Rome, senior civil servants incharge of various public projects wereidentified as curators.

D. Curation is a much-maligned term.What does it actually mean?

E. Today, as journalist Alex Williams writesin The New York Times, curation seemsto have become a fashionable word foranyone who is culling and selecting.

F. In the medieval period, priests who weredevoted to ‘the care of’ souls were giventhis distinction.

27th Dec

SE434

A. Cutting-edge product designs have beenbalanced out by much-hyped products,

B. but there is still quite a lot to take a lookat.

C. By all accords, 2017 has been a busy,bittersweet year for the tech industry.

D. This has not really been the year ofconsistent breakneck innovation,

E. and sometimes entire companies, goingbust.






28th Dec

SE435

A. Scientists have said that the solarsystem could have formed in the bubblesproduced by a giant, long-dead star,which was 40 to 50 times the size of thesun.

B. They burn the hottest of all stars,producing tonnes of elements which areflung off the surface in an intense stellarwind.

C. Despite the many impressive discoverieshumans have made about the universe,scientists are yet to come to a consensusabout the birth story of the solar system.

D. The prevailing theory is that the solarsystem formed billions of years ago neara supernova.

E. But the new scenario, explained in apaper in the Astrophysical Journal ,begins with a giant type of star called aWolf-Rayet star.

29th Dec

SE436

A. It is because the brain reacts moreresponsively to receiving rewards duringadolescence, finds a study.

B. Teenage years have been known to beinextricably linked to reckless behaviour.

C. while a person can never be old enoughto learn a new skill, teenage years canmake learning easier.

D. This is due in part to increased activityin the corpus striatum – a small areadeeply hidden away inside the brain.

E. However, the new study showed thatthis increased activity in the corpusstriatum does not have only negativeconsequences.

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Daily Parajumble/PQRS Compilation December 2017€¦ · clerks — a woman in a hijab who seemed in charge, B. In the line, along with my friend, were women in hijabs who had come