JEMAT – ENGLISH

Directions : Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer out of the four alternatives and choose E if none of them is true.

Passage 1

As medium of literary expression, the common language is inadequate. Like the man of letters, the scientist finds it necessary to 'give a purer sense to the words of the tribe'. But the purity of scientific language is not the same as the purity of literary language. The aim of the scientist is to say only one thing at a time, and to say it unambiguously and with the greatest possible clarity. To achieve this, he simplifies and jargonizes. In other words, he uses the vocabulary and syntax of common speech in such a way that each phrase is susceptible to only one interpretation; and when the vocabulary and syntax of common speech are too imprecise for this purpose he invites a new technical language, or jargon specially designed to express the limited meaning with which he is professionally concerned. At its most perfectly pure. Scientific language ceases to the matter of words and terms into mathematics. The literary artist purifies the language of the tribe in a radically different way. The scientist's aim, as we have seen is to say one thing, and only one thing at a time. This most emphatically, is not the aim of the literary artist. Human life is lived simultaneously in many levels and has many meanings. Literature is a device for reporting the multifarious facts and expressing their various significances . When the literary artist undertakes to give a pure sense to the words of his tribe, he does so with the express purpose of creating a language capable of conveying, not the single meaning of some particular science, but the multiple significance of human experience, its most private was well as on its more public levels.

The passage highlights the difference between ?

'Jargon' in the context of the passage means :

The purpose of literature according to the passage is :

The language of science is :

According to the passage :

Passage-2

Alzheimer's disease impairs a person's ability to recall memories, both distant and as a few hours before. Although there is no cure yet for the illness, there may be hope for a cure with a protein called nerve growth factor. The protein is produced by nerve cells in the same region of the brain where Alzheimer's occurs. Based on this relationship,scientists from the University of Lund is Sweden and the University of California at San Diego designed an experiment to test whether doses of nerve growth factors could service the effects of memory loss caused by Alzheimer's. using a group of rats with impair ed memory, the scientist gave half of the rats doses of nerve growth factor while giving the other half a blood protein as a placebo, thus creating a control group. At the end of the four-week test, the rats given the nerve growth factor performed equally to rats with normal memory abilities, while experiments do not show that nerve growth factor can stop the general process of deterioration caused by Alzheimer's they do show potential as a means to slowing the process significantly.

1. This passage is mainly concerned with :

According to the passage where is nerve growth factor produce in the body ?

The word impairs (underlined) is most similar to which of the following ?

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage ?

The passage most closely resembles which of the following patterns of organization ?

Passage -3 Over four hundred years after his death, scholars are still traveling the mysteries of Michelangelo's art. Recently one mystery that was revealed was that his famous drawing of a pensive Cleopatra included a hidden drawing of a different Cleopatra on the reverse side. This hidden Cleopatra shows a tormented woman, whose eyes stare out at the viewer and whose mouth is open, screaming in horror. The two images, drawn on two sides of the same paper, can be viewed simultaneously. A second mystery concerns Michelangelo's architectural plan for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Did he intend for the dome to look like the model he built between 1558 and 1561 ? Or did he change his mind after building the model and decide to elevate the dome in the way it is today ? Scholars do not agree on the answer. A third mystery about one of the greatest artists who ever lived was why he destroyed hundred or thousands of his drawings before he died. Did he feel they were unimportant ? Die he want posterity to see only his finished products ? It can be inferred from the passage that the most unusual aspect of the Cleopatra drawing is that ?

The word "pensive" (underlined) can best be substituted with the word :

The dome of St. Peter's Basilica :

According to the passage, Michelangelo is :

Why did Michelangelo destroy so many drawings before he died ?

Passage 4

There is one circumstance in a learned education which ought to have much weight, even with those who have no learning at all. The books read at school and colleges are full of incitements to virtue and discouragements from vice, drawn from the wisest reasons, the strongest motives, and the most influencing examples. Thus, young minds are filled early with an inclination to good and an abhorrence of evil, both which increase in them according to the advances they make in literature; and, although they may be, and too often are, drawn by the temptations of youth, and the opportunities of a large fortune, into some irregularities when they come forward into the great world, it is ever with reluctance and compunction of mind, because their blas to virtue still continues,They may stray sometimes out of infirmity or compliance, but they will soon return to the right road and keep it always in view. I speak only of those excesses which are too much the attendants of youth and warmer blood, for, as to the points of honour, truth, justice, and other noble gifts of the mind wherein the temperature of the body hath no concern, they are seldom or ever known to be wild.

1. The books one reads at school and college

'Some irregularities' as used in the passage means

When young people enter the great world they

Even if young people commit some irregularities they are never completely lost because

Noble gifts of the mind refers to

Directions: Each of these question consists of a word, followed by four words. Choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word given in question: MYOPIC

TENACIOUS

RADICAL

FLAMBOYANT

TANTALISING

PROLIFERATE

REMOTE

IMMACULATE

DOCILE

EQUIVOCAL

Directions : Each of these questions consists of a word given in CAPITALS, followed by four words. Choose the word that is most nearly the same in meaning to the given in CAPITALS. Since some of the questions require you to distinguished the fine shades of meaning, be sure to consider all the choices before deciding which one is the best :

SERENDIPITY

PUCKISH

SACCHARINE

TENACIOUS

INEBRIETY

INUNDATE

AUXILIARY

AWRY

BRAZEN

CACHE

DICTIONARY USAGE Directions : In each questions, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways, numbered (A) to (D). Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate. Near

Hand

For

Fallout

Passing

Bolt

Help  

Reason  

Paper  

Business  

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Physicians may soon have to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the nerves that once controlled their muscles.  

The interest is a medium where users have nearly choices and constraints about where to go and what to do  

Companies that try to improve employees; performance by rewards encourage negative kinds of behaviour instead of a genuine interest in doing the work well.

The regions of Spain all have unique cultures, but the views within each region make the issue of an acceptable common language of instruction an even more contentious one.

Since, her face was free of there was no way to if she appreciated what had happened.  

In this context, the of the British labour movement is particularly  

Though one eye is kept firmly on the the company now also promotes contemporary art.  

It will take some time for many South Koreans to the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to what to make of their northern cousins.  

When children become more experience with words as visual symbols, they find that they can gain meaning without making sounds.