Theme Detection Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: The impact of the developments in the financial sector on economic growth in India.

The passage reports a model extended to relate financial development to economic growth, and then gives its findings one by one - market capitalisation dampening growth, turnover having no significant effect, the money market rate having a positive one. Each is a financial-sector variable measured against growth in India, so this option names what the passage as a whole is about. The other options seize on a single finding or on an unrelated topic.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Social life of Indian farmers in India.

Every sentence is about the farmer’s social occasions: festivals through the year, the weddings of his sons and daughters, the entertaining of kin, friends and neighbours. The passage neither complains about his condition nor recommends modern farming, and it says nothing about touts or moneylenders. This option is the only one that names what is actually described.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.

The passage is a general account of what a social network service is: web-based, offering means to interact over the internet, individual-centred rather than group-centred, and letting users share ideas, pictures, activities and interests with people in their network. This option gives the corresponding general definition. The others narrow to one company, to philanthropy, or to business technology, none of which the passage discusses.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Child Labour is a social evil in every nation.

The passage describes children working in agriculture, livestock, forestry and fisheries, and in dhabas, on trucks and in domestic service, with long hours, unhygienic conditions and low wages, all driven by poverty. That catalogue of harm is what makes the practice an evil. The other options bring in laws, treaty rights and awareness, none of which the passage mentions.

Answer: C

Correct answer: It is a law of the jungle to use muscle power and force to get things done.

The passage defines terrorism as the policy of striking terror in people’s minds by violent methods to achieve some end. Achieving an end by force rather than by argument or consent is precisely what the jungle law describes, so this option restates the passage’s definition in other words. The remaining three options are about parenting and ballet class and have no connection with the passage at all.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The proliferation of mobile devices and social networks is leading to entirely new ways of learning.

The passage describes children with no English and no formal schooling who begin playing with a machine and within days are learning English, browsing the internet and teaching one another. That is learning happening through a device and through each other rather than through a school, which is the claim this option makes. The other options concern language acquisition and speech delay, which the passage does not touch.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The words in which they are conveyed seem to be their greatest strength for now.

The passage says the manifestos are semantic adaptations of the same expressions, differing only a little, and that what will eventually separate the parties is strategy and implementation. Strategy and implementation lie in the future; for the present all a party has to distinguish itself is its wording. This option states that consequence. Note that the passage says the parties try to force a consensus, not that one has been achieved.

Answer: D

Correct answer: In developing countries, massive deforestation is ongoing and is shaping climate and geography.

The passage is about deforestation as a continuing process with many causes, from slow degradation to catastrophic wildfire, and about the biodiversity lost even where replanting occurs. This option is the only one that stays on that subject. The others narrow to a single modelling study, to the Sahara, or to a point about key species that the passage does not make.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Large-scale deforestation and the disturbances caused by poachers and illicit liquor-brewers could be forcing king cobras to migrate.

The passage gives an observation - thirty sightings in residential areas in a year - and then the researchers’ explanation, that the king cobra is under increasing pressure from habitat loss. This option supplies the same causal account: habitat destruction driving the snakes out. The option claiming king cobras were never known to enter human territory adds a fact the passage does not give, and the one about butterflies changes the subject.

Answer: D

Correct answer: India is a country where diversity in religion still exists .

The passage is a religious census in miniature: 84 percent Hindu across four predominant sects, about 13 percent Muslim, then Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains in smaller numbers. Listing that many communities, and the internal variety of the largest, is a demonstration of religious diversity. The options about language and about birthplaces raise matters the passage never mentions.