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Q: Statement: Please do not use lift while going down- an instruction on the top floor of a five-stores building. Assumptions: I. While going down the lift is unable to carry any load. II. Provision of lift is a matter of facility and not of right.

Correct answer: If neither I nor II is implicitThe notice asks people to walk down; it does not say why. Assumption I supplies a mechanical reason - that the lift cannot carry load downward - which is not a property of lifts and is nowhere suggested. Assumption II states a general principle about facilities and rights, which is a justification the notice might invoke if challenged but does not rest on. The request stands as a request.

Q: Statement: You can win over new people by your warm smile. Assumptions: I. It is necessary to win over new people. II. It is possible for us to smile warmly at unknown people.

Correct answer: If only assumption II is inplicitAny advice presupposes that it can be acted on, so telling someone to win people over with a warm smile assumes such a smile at strangers is possible. Assumption I makes winning new people over a necessity, which is stronger than the statement, which offers a means to an end without arguing that the end must be pursued.

Q: Statement: Since the First Five- Year Plan, the Indian policy-makers have acknowledged the services rendered by the voluntary agencies. Assumptions: I. Voluntary agencies have been in existence in India even before the First Five - Year Plan. II. Voluntary agencies have contribution in designing of the First Five - Year Plan.

Correct answer: If only assumption I is inplicitTo have acknowledged services rendered by voluntary agencies since the First Five-Year Plan is to imply that those agencies were already at work - services cannot be acknowledged before they exist. Assumption II claims a hand in designing the Plan itself, which is a far more specific role than being acknowledged in it, and nothing in the statement suggests it.

Q: Statement: As a nation we are committed to protect and promote the interests of all those who are socio-economically vulnerable. Assumptions: I. It is possible to protect and promote interests of socio-economically weak people. II. A nation should have certain commitments for its people.

Correct answer: If both I and II are implicitA commitment presupposes two things at once. It presupposes that what is undertaken can be done, since a nation does not commit itself to an impossibility - assumption I. And it presupposes that having such commitments towards its people is a proper thing for a nation, which is assumption II; without that the declaration would have no standing. Both lie behind the sentence rather than being stated in it.

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Statement:

Please do not use lift while going down- an instruction on the top floor of a five-stores building.

Assumptions:

I. While going down the lift is unable to carry any load.

II. Provision of lift is a matter of facility and not of right.

A.If only assumption I is inplicit
B.If only assumption II is inplicit
C.If either I or II is implicit
D.If neither I nor II is implicit

Answer: D

Correct answer: If neither I nor II is implicit

The notice asks people to walk down; it does not say why. Assumption I supplies a mechanical reason - that the lift cannot carry load downward - which is not a property of lifts and is nowhere suggested. Assumption II states a general principle about facilities and rights, which is a justification the notice might invoke if challenged but does not rest on. The request stands as a request.

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Statement:

You can win over new people by your warm smile.

Assumptions:

I. It is necessary to win over new people.

II. It is possible for us to smile warmly at unknown people.

A.If only assumption I is inplicit
B.If only assumption II is inplicit
C.If either I or II is implicit
D.If neither I nor II is implicit

Answer: B

Correct answer: If only assumption II is inplicit

Any advice presupposes that it can be acted on, so telling someone to win people over with a warm smile assumes such a smile at strangers is possible. Assumption I makes winning new people over a necessity, which is stronger than the statement, which offers a means to an end without arguing that the end must be pursued.

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103.

Statement:

Since the First Five- Year Plan, the Indian policy-makers have acknowledged the services rendered by the voluntary agencies.

Assumptions:

I. Voluntary agencies have been in existence in India even before the First Five - Year Plan.

II. Voluntary agencies have contribution in designing of the First Five - Year Plan.

A.If only assumption I is inplicit
B.If only assumption II is inplicit
C.If either I or II is implicit
D.If neither I nor II is implicit

Answer: A

Correct answer: If only assumption I is inplicit

To have acknowledged services rendered by voluntary agencies since the First Five-Year Plan is to imply that those agencies were already at work - services cannot be acknowledged before they exist. Assumption II claims a hand in designing the Plan itself, which is a far more specific role than being acknowledged in it, and nothing in the statement suggests it.

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104.

Statement:

As a nation we are committed to protect and promote the interests of all those who are socio-economically vulnerable.

Assumptions:

I. It is possible to protect and promote interests of socio-economically weak people.

II. A nation should have certain commitments for its people.

A.If only assumption I is inplicit
B.If only assumption II is inplicit
C.If either I or II is implicit
D.If both I and II are implicit

Answer: D

Correct answer: If both I and II are implicit

A commitment presupposes two things at once. It presupposes that what is undertaken can be done, since a nation does not commit itself to an impossibility - assumption I. And it presupposes that having such commitments towards its people is a proper thing for a nation, which is assumption II; without that the declaration would have no standing. Both lie behind the sentence rather than being stated in it.

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