Para 1 Summary – Author introduces concept of evolution of life where intellect formation is a nonstop progress among all animals including man. Further every living being has taken its place in the environment according to the degree of understanding. Finally author, short of words, clams that thinking is important.
Para 2 Summary – Here the author brings a contrast from what he/she said previously by saying/asking confusingly that our thought is not capable of explaining logically about evolution. The reason behind so is that our thoughts itself are only a part of evolution and further weighs it with examples in the underlined statement.
Summary – Author takes note about an aspect(intellect) of evolution of life and explains the mystery about its existence and incompleteness. He/she raises questions about why it is so in a confused manner.
1. What is the main purpose of the author in writing the passage? (A) To discuss a puzzling situation –
CORRECT. First para is all about intellect being important however in second author raises puzzling questions. (B) To clarify a confusion – WRONG. Author is not clarifying anything. For that he/she should have taken a position which is actually absent in the passage.
(C) To raise doubts about a commonly held belief – WRONG. Again to raise doubts the author must have had taken a position which he/she didn’t .
(D) To discuss the history of a theory – WRONG. Author didn’t mention any positives or negatives to discuss anything.
(E) To define a term – WRONG. Author is not defining a term.
2. Which of the following can be inferred from the information in the passage? Got the answer WRONG. Confused between B and E and chose E thinking that that is what is all over the passage when instead inference–wise B is CORRECT. A misunderstanding of mine on inference part.(A) There is no clarity at the moment on how intellect has been formed.
(B) Our thoughts are also a part of the evolutionary process.
(C) Certain categories of thoughts can be applied to specific aspects of life.
(D) Humans have most likely stopped evolving.
(E) Thoughts cannot explain evolution.
3.What is the function of the lines ‘As well contend...brought it there’? (A) To further emphasize the confusion of thoughts explaining evolution while also being part of evolution –
CORRECT. Author puts weight(through underlined statement) behind his/her thought of confusion which he/she brought in the beginning of the para 2 and by asking questions just before the underlined sentence.(B) To introduce multiple categories of thoughts – WRONG. Author doesn’t introduce any categories o thoughts anywhere in the passage.
(C) To conclude that thoughts cannot be used to explain evolution – WRONG. Conclusion is missing in the whole passage so incorrect.
(D) To display how intellect has been formed – WRONG. Formation of intellect if any is a part in the first para not second one.
(E) To state that it may indeed be possible for our thoughts to explain evolution. – WRONG. Exactly the opposite of what passage is all about. Hence incorrect.
Took 9:18 minutes instead of 6:30 i targeted.
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