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Q1:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

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The differences between urban and rural lifestyles were crucial factors in the disruption experienced by migrants to American cities.

The failure to integrate in-migrants, along with social problems like poverty, was a significant reason for the rise in crime in American cities.

According to social disorganisation theory, fast-paced social change provides fertile ground for the rapid growth of crime.

According to social disorganisation theory, the social integration of African American migrants into Chicago was slower because they were less organised.

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Q2:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q2:

Chicago School; Native-born Whites; European immigrants; Poverty

Durkheim; Marx; Toennies; Shaw

Rapid population growth; Heavy industry; Segregation; Crime

Chicago School; Social organisation; Migration; Crime

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Q3:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q3:

Demographic transition in America in the twentieth century is strongly marked by an out-migration from rural areas.

Economists have found that throughout the twentieth century, the size of the labour force in America has always been largest in rural areas.

A population census conducted in 1952 showed that more Americans lived in rural areas than in urban ones.

The estimation of per capita income in America in the mid-twentieth century primarily required data from rural areas.

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Q4:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q4:

the best circumstances for crime to flourish are when there are severe racial disparities.

to prevent crime, it is important to maintain social order through maintaining social segregation.

according to European sociologists, crime in America is mainly in Chicago.

rapid population growth and demographic diversity give rise to social disorganisation that can feed the growth of crime

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Q5:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q5:

they were led by the data processed by digital templates.

the digital templates forced them to acquire tunnel vision.

the data collected were not sufficient for appropriate triage.

they used the wrong type of digital templates for the case.

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Q6:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q6:

they wanted to avoid making mistakes.

they did not have the skill-set to address complicated tasks.

they were hoping that the software would help carry out the tasks.

the other group was carrying out the tasks more efficiently.

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Q7:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q7:

it could mislead people.

it stunts the development of its users.

it stops users from exercising their minds.

computers could replace humans.

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Q8:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q8:

a smart-home system that changes the temperature as instructed by the resident.

software that auto-completes text when the user writes an email.

medical software that provides optional feedback on the doctor's analysis of the medical situation.

software that offers interpretations when requested by the human operator.

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Q9:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q9:

Nature; Computers; Carrots; Milk cows; Genetic engineering

Complex systems; Carrots; Milk cows; Convergence; Technos-logic

Complex systems; Bio-logic; Bioengineering; Technos-logic; Convergence

Nature; Bios; Technos; Self-repair; Holsteins

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Q10:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Easy

Q10:

purposeful design represents the pinnacle of scientific expertise in the service of human betterment and civilisational progress.

genetic engineers and bioengineers are the same insofar as they both seek to force evolution in an artificial way.

the biological realm is as complex as the mechanical one; which is why the logic of Bios is being imported into machines.

historically, philosophers have known that the laws of life can be abstracted and applied elsewhere.

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Q11:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q11:

Nature; Computers; Carrots; Milk cows; Genetic engineering

Complex systems; Carrots; Milk cows; Convergence; Technos-logic

Complex systems; Bio-logic; Bioengineering; Technos-logic; Convergence

Nature; Bios; Technos; Self-repair; Holsteins

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Q12:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q12:

"Mechanical" and "life" were earlier seen as opposite in meaning, but the difference between the two is increasingly blurred.

"Mechanical" and "life" are words from different logical systems and are, therefore, fundamentally incompatible in meaning.

"Bios" and "Technos” are both convergent forms of logic, but they generate meanings about the world that are mutually exclusive.

A bionic convergence indicates the meeting ground of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence.

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Q13:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q13:

India's spiritualism served as a salve for European colonisers.

Orientalists' understanding of Indian history was linked to colonial concerns.

Indian texts influenced Orientalist scholars.

Orientalist scholarship influenced Indians.

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Q14:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q14:

India's culture has evolved over the centuries.

the Orientalist view of Asia fired the imagination of some Western poets.

Indian culture acknowledges the material aspects of life.

India became a colony although it matched the technical knowledge of the West.

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Q15:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q15:

Reading 18th century accounts by travellers to India to see how they viewed Indian life and culture of the time.

Studying artefacts excavated at a palace to understand the lifestyle of those who lived there.

Reading about the life of early American settlers and later waves of migration to understand the evolution of American culture.

Analysing Hollywood action movies that depict violence and sex to understand contemporary America.

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Q16:

CAT

Reading Comprehension

Medium

Q16:

examine the complex reality of that nation's society.

develop an oppositional framework to grasp cultural differences.

read widely in the country's literature.

examine their own beliefs and biases.

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Q17:

CAT

Medium

Q17:

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Q18:

CAT

Medium

Q18:

The alphabetic order took several centuries to gain common currency because of religious beliefs and a lack of appreciation of its efficacy in the ordering of things.

Unlike the alphabet, once the efficacy of the alphabetic sequence became apparent to scholars and administrators, its use became widespread.

The ban on the use by scholars of any form of categorisation - but the divinely ordained one - delayed the adoption of the alphabetic sequence by several centuries.

While adoption of the written alphabet was easily accomplished, it took scholars several centuries to accept the alphabetic sequence as a useful tool in their work.

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Q19:

CAT

Medium

Q19:

Victims of jokes must not only be politicians and royalty, but also arrogant people from lower classes should be mentioned by comedians.

Every joke needs a victim and one needs to include people from lower down the society and not just the upper class.

Cancel culture does not understand the role and duty of comedians, which is to deride and mock everyone.

All jokes target someone and one should be able to joke about anyone in the society, which is inconsistent with cancel culture.

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Q20:

CAT

Medium

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Q21:

CAT

Easy

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Q22:

CAT

Medium

Q22:

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4312

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Q23:

CAT

Medium

Q23:

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Q24:

CAT

Medium

Q24:

Taking fashion ideas from any cultural group without their consent is a form of appropriation without giving due credit, compensation, and respect.

Media has encouraged mass production; images are copied effortlessly without care or concern for the interests of ethnic communities.

Cultural collaboration is the need of the hour. Beautiful design ideas of indigenous people need to be showcased and shared worldwide.

Copying an embroidery design or pattern of textile from native communities who own them is tantamount to stealing and they need to be compensated.

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