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QuizMoz offers one of the Internet's largest collection of quizzes for you to tease your brain and pit your wits against the experienced QuizMoz quiz masters. Go ahead and find out what you know about yourself and the world around you. Best of luck!! Coverage : The SAT Practice Test - Critical Reading has been designed to test the important aspects of Critical Reading. The test entails reading a long or a short passage based on general subjects and determine any of the folowing: - the author's point in the passage - the author's tone - the gist of the passage The test may also contain dual passages, and the test taker may be asked questions on both the first and the second passage.  Free SAT Practice Test - Critical Reading Test Discussion Forum   This Question is based on the following passage:   The passage discusses the values that are of importance in the corporate world today. Change seems to be the only constant in the world today. Business is not immune to this trend for revolutions in every field and aspect of life. It is today is going through yet another overwhelming revolution. This current revolution is 5 powered by the perseverance of the customers in demanding faster and more personalized services. Consumers want their needs to be complied with immediately and in a manner that fulfills their personal requirements. Developments in the field of information technology have 10 made it viable for providers to rise half way to this challenge. The search for the perfect formula to draw the best talent as employees and attract clients for sustained business success is all-pervasive. Several people believe that the most exigent challenge today is to compete in ever changing 15 market place. Others say the real challenge is in controlling employee attrition. There are yet others, who emphasize the need for being in the forefront of technology. The real task in facing the organizations today is in fashioning an atmosphere that cherishes human values, 20 protracts learning, and fosters creativity. Companies in the corporate world today need a culture where each person is appreciated and esteemed as an individual, where a person can risk and find physical and emotional support, a culture where one can learn and grow. The strategies required for 25 meeting this challenge are neither far nor distant. The present e-revolution surge provides many clues. Today's e- business model is based on seamlessly integrating all stake holders, such as suppliers and customers, into the organization. Conventionally, they were seen as outsiders. 30 People well-versed in negotiation skills dealt with them to strike the best deals. In the contemporary world however, artnership and collaboration is the mode of working. At the very foundation of any organization there must exist a set of well-articulated core values and not a thick book of corporate 35 company rules. These values charter what the organization deems important. Operating out of implicitly stated values creates confidence and admiration in the individual's capability to unreservedly choose with a sense of responsibility in each situation. The precincts of right and 40 wrong are hazy in a dynamic universe. The option often seems to be between two rights or two wrongs. Only deeply- embedded values empower an individual to respond "responsibly" in such a situation. The new paradigm of business organization is founded on a set of well expressed 45 values. Information is the raw-material for knowledge, in an organization there are many echelons in the information hierarchy. Nevertheless, the need has often restricted the amount of access an employee has to the information and thus curtailed the efficiency with which he can make 50 decisions and perform the assigned task. Immense power arises in the hands of the managers by hoarding information. Information gets dispensed in small amounts. The e-business model argues against this closed mode of information allocation. Information access is imperative to compliant and 55 variable response. Corporate intranets and extranets give us a conduit for information sharing. Bulletin boards and knowledge repositories provide a place for everyone to sound their questions and contributions. Executive briefings, knowledge sharing forum and open houses can create an 60 ambience of sharing information. We should be able to openly accept the fact that easily available information provides the fundamental constituent for effectual performance of the organization. It does not eat into the manager's power base. There is a degree of 65 vulnerability one will experience in making oneself open to giving away what we know. However, rich creativity is ossible when information is shared in diligent abundance. 1.  Why is information vital to the development of a company? a. it decreases the rate of employee attrition b. it has sustained the clientele of the company c. it has made the world a smaller place d. it is the source of a company's growth e. it removes the blur between fact and fiction Please provide appropriate updations Ques Why is information vital to the development of a company? a. b. c. d. e. Your Name Please describe the changes made by you Please provide appropriate updations Your Name Please comment why is this inappropriate.   This Question is based on the following passage:   The passage elucidates the parameters of artistic excellence. The prestige of a masterpiece, in the most curious way, dominates the degree of appreciation and understanding of music. Theater, cinema, poetry, narrative fiction, none pay allegiance to its ideal of excellence in the tyrannical way that 5 music does. They recognize no unbridgeable chasm between 'great works' and lesser efforts. Consider the world of painting; even though it also is a victim of "appreciation" rackets based on the concept of gilt-edged equality, it still is more penetrable to reason in this regard. But music today 10 seems committed to the idea that superlative work in composition is separable from the rest of the music-writing by a distinction as radical as that recognized in theology between the elect and the damned. This pretentious definition of excellence is disparate from the 15 classical concept of a republic of letters. It reclines, rather, on the theocratic ideas that inspiration is less a privilege of the private citizen than of the ordained sibyl. The concept however, loses its ground due to the fact that music is not a religion. Dealing in general ideas, morality or 20 salvation does not come within the precincts of music. It is an art. It expresses private sentiments through skill and sincerity, both of which are a privilege, a duty of the private citizen, and no monopoly of the prophetically inclined. "Masterpiece", was once considered to be merely a 25 graduation piece which hailed the student advance from apprenticeship to master status. Later, it referred to any artist's most accomplished work, the highpoint of production. Today, most people comprehend it as a piece differing from the run of the repertory by a degree of concentration in its 30 expressivity that establishes a difference of kind. The idea that any composer, however gifted or skillful, is merely a masterpiece factory would have been repellant to Bach or Hadyn or Mozart or Handel. But all the successors of Beethoven who aspired to his positions quite consciously 35 imbued their music with the "masterpiece" tone. This tone is lugubrious, portentous, and world-shaking; and length, as well as heavy instrumentation, is essential to it. The masterpiece cult tends to substitute an impressive manner for specific expression, just as an oratory does. That 40 music should stoop to the procedures and techniques of contemporary political harangue is lamentable. There are occasions (funerals for instance) where the tone of a discourse is more important than its content, but the concert is not one of them. The concert is habitual thing like a meal; 45 the ceremonial is only incidental to it. And restricting one's menu to what observes the fictitious "masterpiece" tone is like limiting one's nourishment only to heavier party foods. If the idea can be got rid of that a proper concert should consist of only "masterpieces", either historic or 50 contemporary, our programs will cease to be repetitive and monotonous. 2.  In the passage, funerals signify: a. illustrate metaphorically, the death of inspiration in music b. predicting the future of music c. continuing misconceptions in music d. linking music with other aspects of life e. substantiating the domination of tone over content   Please provide appropriate updations Ques In the passage, funerals signify: a. b. c. d. e. Your Name Please describe the changes made by you Please provide appropriate updations Your Name Please comment why is this inappropriate.   This Question is based on the following passage:   The author discusses the developmental challenges faced in the rapidly changing global scenario. The challenge of development in an extensive sense is to enhance the quality of life, especially in the world's poor countries. A better quality of life usually calls for higher incomes but it involves much more. It incorporates a blend of 5 better education, higher standards of health and nutrition, poverty alleviation, a cleaner environment, more equality of opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural life. Precepts of development have undergone a paradigm shift 10 during the past few decades. Progress has not moved along a straight line from darkness to light. Instead, there have been successes and failures, and a gradual accumulation of knowledge and insight. On some matters, a fairly clear understanding has emerged, but many questions still remain 15 contentious and unanswered. Climate, culture, and natural resources were once thought to be the keys to economic development. Rapid industrialization, using explicit and implicit taxes on agriculture to fund industrial investment was for many years a much favored 20 strategy. After the Great Depression and through the1960s, most policy makers favored import substitution combined with focus on infant industries. In its day, this view was endorsed, and the strategy supported, by external aid and finance agencies. 25 These views have not stood the test of time. Now there is clearer evidence, from both developing and industrial countries, that it is better not to ask governments to manage development in details. Discriminatory taxes on agriculture have turned out to be taxes on development. Economic isolation behind trade barriers has proved to be costly. Retarding competition and interfering with prices, deliberately or accidentally, have very often proved to be counter- productive. As the importance of openness and competition has been realized, the conviction has grown that they are insufficient by themselves. Investing in people, if done rightly, provides the firmest foundation for lasting development. And therefore, the economic role of government is larger than merely standing in for markets if they fail to work right. In defining and protecting rights, providing effective legal and judicial system, improving the efficiency of the officials providing services of the government, and protecting the environment, the state forms the very core of development. Political and civil liberties are not, contrary to a once popular view, inconsistent with economic growth. 3.  Which of the following statements are TRUE in context of the above passage? II. The much favored strategies of the pre-1960 era did not come out successfully over a period of time. III. Development is synonymous with increase in per capita income. IV. An improved quality of life can only result from education. a. I is true and II is false. b. Both I and II are true. c. Only III is true d. Only I is true. e. I, II and III, all are true. Please provide appropriate updations Ques Which of the following statements are TRUE in context of the above passage?<br>II. The much favored strategies of the pre-1960 era did not come out successfully over a period of time.<br>III. Development is synonymous with increase in per capita income.<br>IV. An improved quality of life can only result from education.<br> a. b. c. d. e. Your Name Please describe the changes made by you Please provide appropriate updations Your Name Please comment why is this inappropriate.   This Question is based on the following passage:   The author discusses the developmental challenges faced in the rapidly changing global scenario. The challenge of development in an extensive sense is to enhance the quality of life, especially in the world's poor countries. A better quality of life usually calls for higher incomes but it involves much more. It incorporates a blend of 5 better education, higher standards of health and nutrition, poverty alleviation, a cleaner environment, more equality of opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural life. Precepts of development have undergone a paradigm shift 10 during the past few decades. Progress has not moved along a straight line from darkness to light. Instead, there have been successes and failures, and a gradual accumulation of knowledge and insight. On some matters, a fairly clear understanding has emerged, but many questions still remain 15 contentious and unanswered. Climate, culture, and natural resources were once thought to be the keys to economic development. Rapid industrialization, using explicit and implicit taxes on agriculture to fund industrial investment was for many years a much favored 20 strategy. After the Great Depression and through the1960s, most policy makers favored import substitution combined with focus on infant industries. In its day, this view was endorsed, and the strategy supported, by external aid and finance agencies. 25 These views have not stood the test of time. Now there is clearer evidence, from both developing and industrial countries, that it is better not to ask governments to manage development in details. Discriminatory taxes on agriculture have turned out to be taxes on development. Economic isolation behind trade barriers has proved to be costly. Retarding competition and interfering with prices, deliberately or accidentally, have very often proved to be counter- productive. As the importance of openness and competition has been realized, the conviction has grown that they are insufficient by themselves. Investing in people, if done rightly, provides the firmest foundation for lasting development. And therefore, the economic role of government is larger than merely standing in for markets if they fail to work right. In defining and protecting rights, providing effective legal and judicial system, improving the efficiency of the officials providing services of the government, and protecting the environment, the state forms the very core of development. Political and civil liberties are not, contrary to a once popular view, inconsistent with economic growth. 4.  The word 'contentious' (line 15) means nearly the same as: a. Paradoxical b. Controversial c. Mooted d. Acrimonious e. Refulgent Please provide appropriate updations Ques The word 'contentious' (line 15) means nearly the same as: a. b. c. d. e. Your Name Please describe the changes made by you Please provide appropriate updations Your Name Please comment why is this inappropriate. 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