GATE ME 2019 Set 2 | Verbal Ability Question 18 | General Aptitude

GATE ME 2019 Set 2

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

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While teaching a creative writing class in India, I was surprised at receiving stories from the students that were all set in distant places: in the American West with cowboys and in Manhattan penthouses with clinking ice cubes. This was, till an eminent Caribbean writer gave the writers in the once-colonised countries the confidence to see the shabby lives around them as worthy of being “told”

The writer of this passage is surprised by the creative writing assignments of his students, because______.

Some of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys

None of the students had written about ice cubes and cowboys

Some of the students had written stories set in foreign places

None of the students had written stories set in India

GATE ME 2018 Set 1

MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

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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.