Verification of Truth of the Statement Questions and Answers

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: Parents

Every child has been born, and being born means having had parents. Toys, friends and education are all things a child may lack.

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: D

Correct answer: Life

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. Life is what makes a creature an animal at all - nothing without it counts as one. Lungs are absent in fish and insects, which breathe by gills or tracheae; skin varies; and a mind in any developed sense belongs to few animals.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Wheels

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A car runs on wheels. It may stand without a driver, and the bonnet and bumper are features of particular designs.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Workers

A factory is a place where things are made, and making them needs workers. A chimney belongs to some industries only, electricity to some processes, and files to an office.

Answer: C

Correct answer: A circular shape

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A wheel is by definition a circular object that turns about its centre, so its shape is what makes it one. Spokes are a refinement: the earliest wheels were solid discs, and many still are - a potter’s wheel, a grindstone. Rubber is a tyre material of the last century and a half; wheels were wood and iron for millennia. An axle is the shaft a wheel turns on, so it is a separate part rather than a component of the wheel - and a wheel lying detached is still a wheel.

Answer: D

Correct answer: People

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A crowd is a large number of people gathered together, so people are what constitute it. Noise is usual but not necessary: a crowd observing a silence is still a crowd. Disorder is a quality of some crowds and not of an orderly queue or a seated audience. A leader belongs to an organised gathering; a crowd assembled by chance in a street has none, and the absence of one is what distinguishes a crowd from a procession.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Opposing arguments

The question asks what is always present, not what usually is. A debate is a formal discussion in which opposing arguments are put, so opposition is what constitutes it - a discussion in which everyone agrees is not a debate. An audience is usual but not necessary; a debate may be held in private or recorded for later. A trophy belongs to competitive debating alone. A timekeeper enforces speaking limits in formal contests and is absent from an ordinary parliamentary or academic debate.

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.