Question: Which of the following methods of argument is used in the previous passage?

• 1. a specific example that illustrates the speaker.
• 2. attacking the beliefs of those who disagree with the speaker.
• 3. relying on an analogy to prove the speaker.
• 4. displaying statistics that back up the speaker.

Question: Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the speaker's argument?

• 1. studies showing computers are expensive.
• 2. research on the effect of computer games on children.
• 3. examples of high school students who use computers improperly.
• 4. evidence that using computers makes learning to read difficult.

Question: What is the point at issue between Quinn and Dakota?

• 1. whether sixteen-year-olds should be required to take drivers education before being issued a license.
• 2. whether schools ought to provide drivers education to fourteen- and fifteen-year-old students.
• 3. whether the standards for issuing drivers licenses should become more stringent.
• 4. whether sixteen-year-olds are prepared to drive in today.

Question: On what does Quinn rely in making her argument?

• 1. statistics
• 2. emotion
• 3. fairness
• 4. anecdotes

Question: On what does Dakota rely in making her argument?

• 1. statistics
• 2. emotion
• 3. fairness
• 4. actualities

Question: Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of persons have been attracted towards this anti-national activity. Some of them became millionaires overnight. India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Western Coast. It has been a heaven

• 1. smuggling hampers the economic development of a nation.
• 2. smuggling ought to be curbed.
• 3. authorities are taking strict measures to curb smuggling.
• 4. smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.

Question: Though the waste of time or the expenditure on fashions is very large, yet fashions have come to stay. They will not go, come what may. However, what is now required is that strong efforts should be made to displace the excessive craze for fashion from th

• 1. fashion is the need of the day.
• 2. the excessive craze for fashion is detrimental to one's personality.
• 3. the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.
• 4. work and other activities should be valued more than the outward appearance.

Question: One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrialized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equall

• 1. technology decides individual's social status.
• 2. castes and religions are man-made.
• 3. human labour has dignity and value.
• 4. all individuals, irrespective of caste and creed, are born equal.

Question: The future of women in India is quite bright and let us hope that they will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion. Napoleon was right when he declared that by educating the women we can educate the whole nation. Because a country can never ris

• 1. India is striving hard for the emancipation of women.
• 2. all women should be well educated.
• 3. a nation can progress only when women are given equal rights and opportunities as men.
• 4. women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.

Question: The prevention of accidents makes it necessary not only that safety devices be used to guard exposed machinery but also that mechanics be instructed in safety rules which they must follow for their own protection, and that lighting in the plant be adequat

• 1. are always avoidable.
• 2. may be due to ignorance.
• 3. cannot be entirely overcome.
• 4. can be eliminated with the help of safety rules.