In making decision about important questions, it is desirable to be able to distinguish between ?strong? arguments and ?weak? arguments so far as they relate to the question. Strong arguments are those which are are of major importance and directly related to the question. Weak arguments are those which are minor importance and also be directly related to the question of may be related to a trivial aspect of the question.
After each question two Argument I and II are given. You have to decide which argument is strong and which argument is weak.
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. If there is no error, the answer is E. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any).
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrase are printed in ??bold?? to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
Using infant mortality as a key indicator of the status of children, we now begin to have the broad features of a hypothesis as to the cause of the higher or lower mortality rates. One aspect is the ??complex?? of factors involving the ??access?? of mothers to trained personnel and other facilities for children delivery, the nutritional status of pregnant and nursing mothers and the quality of health-care and nourishment which babies receive. The other aspect, indicated by rural-urban differentials, is the possible importance of human settlement patterns in relation to the availability of health-care and related facilities such as potable water, excreta disposal systems, etc. Thus, in a special sense it is much cheaper available to a community when it is densely settled rather than widely dispersed.
It is possible to argue, however, that both these sets of factors are closely related to a third one, namely income levels. Poorer mothers and babies have less access to health-care facilities and nourishment than those who are better-off, urban communities are on average much better-off than rural communities. That economic conditions play a crucial role in determining the status of both mother and child is beyond dispute. But the question really is whether this is the only decisive factor or whether factors such as the availability of medical facilities, health-care programmes and nutritional programmes have an independent role. If so, then the settlement patterns which affect service delivery to the mother and child target groups become a relevant consideration. These are clearly issues of some importance for policy and programme planning.
In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions is implicit in the statement.
The remains of an ancient civilization of 4000 BC were discovered in??..
1). Gulf of Mannar
2). Gulf of Cambay
3). Bay of Bengal
4). Indian Ocean