GATE ME 2019 Set 1 | Verbal Ability Question 10 | General Aptitude

GATE ME 2019 Set 1

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Under a certain legal system, prisoners are allowed to make one statement. If their statement turns out to be true then they are hanged. If the statement turns out to be false then they are shot. One prisoner made a statement and the judge had no option but to set him free. Which one of the following could be that statement?

I did not commit the crime

I will be shot

You committed the crime

I committed the crime

GATE ME 2019 Set 1

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Congo was named by Europeans. Congo’s dictator Mobuto later changed the name of the country and the river to Zaire with the objective of Africanising names of persons and spaces. However, the name Zaire was a Portuguese alternation of Nzadi o Nzere, a local African term meaning 'River that swallows Rivers'. Zaire was the Portuguese name for the Congo river in the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the paragraph above?

The term Nzadi o Nzere was of Portuguese origin

As a dictator Mobuto ordered the Portuguses to alter the name of the river to Zaire

Mobuto was not entirely successful in Africanising the name of his country

Mobuto’s desire to Africanise names was prevented by the Portuguese

GATE ME 2018 Set 1

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Consider the following three statements:

(i) Some roses are red.

(ii) All red flowers fade quickly.

(iii) Some roses fade quickly.

Which of the following statements can be logically inferred from the above statements?

If (i) is true and (ii) is false, then (iii) is false.

If (i) is true and (ii) is false, then (iii) is true.

If (i) and (ii) are true, then (iii) is true.

If (i) and (ii) are false, then (iii) is false.