Deriving Conclusions From Passages Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: Definitely false

The word ‘only’ is what makes this false. The passage treats self-medication as a fact of life with broad use and social acceptance, and argues that health policy should ask how that momentum can be leveraged rather than ignore it. Restricting the practice to knowledgeable consumers would narrow it sharply, which runs directly against the passage’s recommendation.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Definitely true

The passage lists what the fringe benefit groups contain: transportation, medical and housing assistance in many companies, with some also providing for children’s education or a family allowance. Shelter, health care and the means of getting to work are the basic physiological needs, and the passage says many companies provide them, which is exactly the claim made.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Definitely false

The passage contradicts this twice over. The number of items in the package rose as one ascended the management hierarchy, so the package is not even uniform within a single company; and under the cafeteria approach the final choice of benefits is left to the executive concerned, which the passage explicitly calls individualising the system. A standard universal package is the opposite of what is described.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage describes what Indian companies do - fringe benefit groups, items rising with the hierarchy, and the cafeteria approach in some firms. It never says where those practices came from, and never mentions foreign companies at all. The origin of the design is simply not part of the information given, so no verdict is possible.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Definitely true

This is the cafeteria approach the passage describes. It says that what is sought there is that the benefits must meet an executive’s needs, and that an appropriate selection is made in terms of his needs after consulting him. Establishing a match between needs and benefits is a restatement of that, and the passage is careful to say only some companies have adopted it - which is what ‘certain companies’ claims.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Definitely false

The passage identifies what the survey looked at: the compensation package for executives in the core section of the companies analysed. Its every finding is about executives and the management hierarchy. A survey defined by its subject in that way did not cover employees at other levels, so the statement conflicts with the description given rather than merely going beyond it.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage says very few laboratory tests are available for the diagnosis of rabies in India. It says nothing whatever about the position in western countries. A shortage in one country tells you nothing about provision in another - it does not even establish a contrast, since the passage never draws one - so the statement can be neither confirmed nor denied from what is given.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Data inadequate

The passage explains that the virus is present in the saliva of an infected animal, but it never discusses screening healthy dogs, nor the periodic testing of any animal. It gives precautionary measures for the bite victim - washing the wound, then cetavlon, tincture of iodine or spirit - not a programme of surveillance. The recommendation in the statement is simply not addressed.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Definitely false

The passage supplies the figure that settles this: if not treated, about half of such cases develop rabies. Half is not all, so a bite cannot be said definitely to result in the disease - and if the wound is treated promptly the proportion is lower still. The word ‘definitely’ is what makes the statement false; without it the claim would have been a reasonable one.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Definitely true

The passage gives the mechanism, not merely the usual route. The virus lives in the saliva of the infected animal and causes the disease by being deposited in a wound, from which it multiplies and travels to the brain and spinal cord. A bite is only the commonest way of delivering infected saliva into a wound; wherever saliva meets an open cut the same mechanism operates, so the statement follows from what is given.