Verification of Truth of the Statement Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Money transactions

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A bank is an institution that deals in money - taking deposits and lending - so money transactions are its defining activity. A locker facility is an additional service offered by some branches and not others. An ATM is a machine of the last fifty years, and banks existed for centuries without one. A cheque book is one payment instrument among several, and many accounts today are operated entirely without cheques.

Answer: C

Correct answer: A duty to guard

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A watchman is defined by the duty to guard or keep watch, which is what the word means. A uniform identifies a watchman in formal employment and is absent from an informal or village watchman. A weapon is carried by armed guards and by very few others; most watchmen carry none. A whistle is a traditional accessory in some places and no part of the role.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Exchange

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. To bargain is to negotiate the terms of an exchange - without something passing each way there is nothing to bargain about. Lavishness, triviality and eloquence have nothing to do with it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: News

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A newspaper is defined by the news it carries - a periodical publication of current events. The others are near-universal in practice but not necessary. Photographs came late to newspapers: the earliest carried none at all, being purely typeset. Advertisements are the commercial foundation of most papers but not part of what makes one, and some subscriber-funded publications carry none. A crossword is a feature added for entertainment, absent from many papers and from all of them before 1913.

Answer: B

Correct answer: A starting point

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. Every journey must begin somewhere, so a starting point is unavoidable. A destination is the tempting alternative, but wandering, exploring or travelling without a fixed end is still a journey - and a journey abandoned part way was still a journey. A vehicle is absent from a journey made on foot. A ticket belongs to paid public transport and to nothing else.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Patients

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A hospital is an institution for the care of the sick, so patients are what make it one. An operating theatre belongs to hospitals that perform surgery, and many - a convalescent hospital, a small clinic-hospital - do not. An ambulance is a vehicle for bringing patients in and is owned by services rather than always by the hospital. A canteen is an amenity, not a defining feature.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Words

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A poem is a composition in words, so words are what it cannot lack. Rhyme is a device many poems use and many do not: blank verse and free verse are unrhymed, and most of Shakespeare’s dramatic verse rhymes only occasionally. A title is a convenience of publication, and a great many poems are known only by their first lines. Stanzas divide some poems and not others; a continuous verse paragraph is equally a poem.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Blades

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A fan moves air, and it does so with its blades. A switch, wire and current belong to an electric fan; a hand fan has none of them.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Cause

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. Every disease arises from something, so it always has a cause. Germs cause only the infectious ones; many diseases have no cure; and the word names the condition rather than the sufferer.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Hardness

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. Diamond is the hardest natural substance, and that property belongs to every diamond. Brilliance depends on the cut, its uses vary, and diamond is a poor conductor of electricity.