Para Summary Quiz Question - 3

 A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan. In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms. These are just the latest sources of concern in a turbulent period that began two years ago when food shortages hit many countries in Africa and Asia due to a worldwide spike in prices. Higher food prices meant that poor people, already struggling to meet basic human needs, were pushed deeper into poverty.

(a) An impending food crisis looms over southern Sudan where higher food prices have pushed people deeper into poverty.

(b) The food crisis in Africa and Asia, especially in southern Sudan already struggling under food shortages, higher prices, and poverty may worsen owing to further a rise in the cost of staple crops.

(c) As many countries in Africa and Asia are experiencing prolonged food shortages, an impending food crisis threatens Sudan due to a rise in the cost of staple crops.

(d) The food crisis in Africa and Asia already struggling under food shortages, higher prices, and poverty may worsen owing to further a rise in the cost of staple crops.

(e) The food crisis in southern Sudan struggling under food shortages, higher prices, and poverty may worsen owing to further a rise in the cost of staple crops.

Answer & Explaination

S3. Ans.(c)

Sol. The gist of the passage is: Asia and Africa are already experiencing food shortages for two years. The cost of crops is expected to rise in Sudan – this may trigger a severe food crisis in Sudan. In option (A), Asia and Africa are left out. Options (B) and (D) extend the crisis to Asia and Africa, especially the rise in the cost of crops. Option (E) leaves out Asia and Africa. Option (C) gives the gist without distortion of idea.

 

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Para Summary Quiz Question - 2

Russia and the United States have signed a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty. Officially, the treaty cuts their weapons by one-third; in fact, each party will decommission only several dozen. Nevertheless, the treaty is a considerable achievement. It normalizes political relations between the two countries, thereby facilitating their further cooperation and rapprochement.

(a)   The new strategic arms reduction treaty signed between Russia and the United States may facilitate further cooperation between them.

(b)   The new strategic arms reduction treaty signed between Russia and the United States may lead to cordial relations between them.

(c)    Russia and the United States have signed a strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty to reduce weapons by one-third.

(d)   Russia and the United States have signed a new strategic nuclear-arms reduction treaty which normalizes political relations between the two countries.

(e)   Russia and the United States have signed a new strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty is a considerable achievement.

Answer & Explaination

Ans.(d)

Sol. Options (A) and (B) mention “arms treaty” instead of “nuclear arms treaty.” Option (C) misses out on the normalizing of relationship and rapprochement. Option (E) misses out on the significant “normalizing of relations.” Option

(D)  is the best concise description.

 

Para Summary Quiz Question - 1

The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.

Creativity is now viewed as the engine of economic progress. Various organizations are devoted to its study and promotion; there are encyclopedias and handbooks surveying creativity research. But this proliferating success has tended to erode creativity's stable identity: it has become so invested with a value that it has become impossible to police its meaning and the practices that supposedly identify and encourage it. Many people and organizations committed to producing original thoughts now feel that undue obsession with the idea of creativity gets in the way of real creativity.

1. The obsession with original thought, and how it can be promoted and researched, has made it impossible for people and organizations to define the concept anymore.

2. The value assigned to creativity today has assumed such proportions that the concept itself has lost its real meaning and this is hampering the engendering of real creativity.

3. The industry that has built up around researching what comprises and encourages creativity has destroyed the creative process itself.

4. Creativity has proliferated to the extent that it is no longer a stable process, and its mutating identity has stifled the creative process.

Answer & Explaination

Option (ii) is the best representation of the paragraph since it is completely representing the idea that how real creativity is getting lost in front of giving too much value to creativity and that the original thoughts are getting suppressed.

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