Question

The passage can be best termed as

• A. Expository
• B. Descriptive
• C. Abstract
• D. Narrative
• A. Suggest that people succeed only when they have great strategies.
• B. Highlight the fact that execution is as indispensable as planning and strategy.
• C. Illustrate the impact of poor planning and weak strategy
• D. Highlight the hurdles that come in the way of execution.
• A. Tested and tried strategies are essential for success.
• B. Surveys and data calibration are a sheer waste of time
• C. Consumers change brand preferences too frequently.
• D. Changes in consumers’ habits should not be taken for granted.
• A. Propagates an approach that is similar to Benjamin Franklin’s
• B. Suggests an approach that is different from Benjamin Franklin’s.
• C. Believes that the main control is in the hands of consumers.
• D. None of the above.
• A. Onomatopoeia ……….. stagnant
• B. Simile …………. unpredictable
• C. Metaphor……….. wavering
• D. Anaphora………oscillating

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

The correct Answer is (A): Expository

Answer 2

The question asks which single word best labels the overall style of the passage on planning versus execution.

1. A) Expository: The passage sets out a debate, presents arguments and evidence on both sides using quotes and a real example, and explains a conclusion. Explaining and analyzing an idea this way is exactly what expository writing does.
2. B) Descriptive: Descriptive writing paints a picture of a person, place, or scene using sensory detail. The passage does not describe a scene; it argues a position using reasoning and examples, so this label does not fit.
3. C) Abstract: An abstract, as a genre, is normally a short standalone summary of a longer piece of writing. This passage is not a summary of something else; it is a full argument developed across several paragraphs, so this label is out of place here.
4. D) Narrative: Narrative writing tells a story with a sequence of events, characters, and a plot. Aside from the brief New Coke anecdote used as one supporting example, the passage as a whole is not telling a story; it is building an argument.

Since the passage explains and argues a position on planning versus execution using evidence and quotations rather than describing a scene or telling a story, it fits the expository style.

The correct answer is A) Expository.

Answer 3

The correct Answer is (B):Highlight the fact that execution is as indispensable as planning and strategy.

Answer 4

The question asks for the author's overall purpose in writing this passage, which should match its concluding argument rather than just one part of it.

1. A) Suggest that people succeed only when they have great strategies: This overstates the passage's actual position. The passage gives examples, Steve Jobs and entrepreneurs who execute first, where success came from acting and adjusting rather than from having a perfect strategy in place first, so this option contradicts part of the passage.
2. B) Highlight the fact that execution is as indispensable as planning and strategy: The passage presents strong cases for both planning and execution, then closes by saying a balance of pragmatic planning, effective strategies and efficient execution is likely to ensure the accomplishment of tasks, which places execution on equal footing with planning rather than treating either as secondary.
3. C) Illustrate the impact of poor planning and weak strategy: This describes only the first half of the passage, the examples of failures caused by poor planning. It leaves out the entire second half about execution and the New Coke example, so it captures only part of the author's purpose.
4. D) Highlight the hurdles that come in the way of execution: The passage does mention that execution can hit unexpected situations, but this is a supporting detail, not the passage's main point. The overall argument is about the relationship between planning and execution together, not a list of execution hurdles.

Only option B matches the passage's actual conclusion, which balances planning and execution as equally necessary rather than favoring one or focusing only on failure.

The correct answer is B) Highlight the fact that execution is as indispensable as planning and strategy.

Answer 5

The correct Answer is (D): Changes in consumers’ habits should not be taken for granted.

Answer 6

The question asks what specific lesson the company drew from the failure of New Coke, based on the passage's own explanation of why it failed.

1. A) Tested and tried strategies are essential for success: The passage says the company did test the new recipe on two lakh consumers before launch, and it still failed, which is the opposite of proving that testing alone guarantees success.
2. B) Surveys and data calibration are a sheer waste of time: The passage does not say the testing itself was pointless; it says the testing missed a specific factor, product loyalty and old habits, not that gathering data in general has no value.
3. C) Consumers change brand preferences too frequently: This is not what the passage identifies as the cause of failure. The issue was the opposite of consumers switching too easily; it was that consumers stayed loyal to the old product and their existing habits.
4. D) Changes in consumers' habits should not be taken for granted: The passage states directly that the company had not considered the product loyalty and old fashioned habits of the consumers during data collection. This means the company had assumed consumer habits would shift easily to the new product, an assumption that turned out to be wrong.

The passage's own explanation ties the failure to an unconsidered assumption about consumer habits, not to a lack of testing or to consumers being fickle.

The correct answer is D) Changes in consumers' habits should not be taken for granted.

Answer 7

The correct Answer is (B): Suggests an approach that is different from Benjamin Franklin’s.

Answer 8

The question asks how Steve Jobs' view on accomplishing a project compares with Benjamin Franklin's view, based on the quotes given in the passage.

1. A) Propagates an approach that is similar to Benjamin Franklin's: Franklin's line, failing to plan is planning to fail, puts the emphasis on planning ahead of action. Jobs' line, ideas are worth nothing unless executed and execution is worth millions, puts the emphasis on carrying an idea out. These two quotes stress different stages of a project, so calling the approaches similar does not match the text.
2. B) Suggests an approach that is different from Benjamin Franklin's: Franklin's quote is about the value of planning before acting, while Jobs' quote is about the value of executing an idea rather than just having it. Since one leans on planning and the other leans on execution, Jobs' stated approach is different from Franklin's.
3. C) Believes that the main control is in the hands of consumers: Jobs' quoted line is about the value of execution over ideas alone; it says nothing about consumers holding control over a project's success. This idea appears later in the passage in connection with Bill Gates, not Jobs.
4. D) None of the above: Since option B accurately captures the contrast between Jobs' emphasis on execution and Franklin's emphasis on planning, an option denying all four cannot be correct.

Franklin's quote and Jobs' quote each highlight a different stage of getting something done, planning versus execution, which makes Jobs' stated approach different from Franklin's.

The correct answer is B) Suggests an approach that is different from Benjamin Franklin's.

Answer 9

The correct Answer is Metaphor……….. wavering():

Answer 10

This question has two parts to check: the correct name for the figure of speech in consumer is the capricious weather, and the correct word describing the kind of demands being referred to.

1. A) Onomatopoeia, stagnant: Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates a sound, such as buzz or clang. Consumer is the capricious weather contains no sound imitating word, so this figure of speech does not apply here, and stagnant, meaning unmoving, is also the opposite of how the passage describes consumer demand.
2. B) Simile, unpredictable: A simile makes a comparison using like or as, for example the consumer is like the weather. The actual sentence says the consumer is the weather, with no like or as, which is a direct equation rather than a simile.
3. C) Metaphor, wavering: A metaphor describes one thing by directly calling it another, without using like or as. Saying the consumer is the weather does exactly this. The passage separately describes consumer demand as vacillating desires and trends and wavering market trends, so wavering is the word the passage itself uses for this kind of shifting demand.
4. D) Anaphora, oscillating: Anaphora is the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses or sentences. There is no such repeated opening phrase around consumer is the capricious weather, so this label does not fit the sentence.

Since the sentence equates two things directly without like or as, it is a metaphor, and the passage's own wording elsewhere, wavering market trends, confirms that wavering is the correct match for the kind of consumer demand being described.

The correct answer is C) Metaphor, wavering.