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Precis & descriptive writing MCQs with Answers

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Question 1

Four alternative summaries are given for the text below. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

Some decisions will be fairly obvious – “no-brainers”. Your bank account is low, but you have a two-week vacation coming up and you want to get away to some place warm to relax with your family. Will you accept your in-laws’ offer of free use of their Florida beachfront condo? Sure. You like your employer and feel ready to move forward in your career. Will you step in for your boss for three weeks while she attends a professional development course? Of course.

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Question 2

Four alternative summaries are given for the text below. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

Physically, inertia is a feeling that you just can’t move; mentally, it is a sluggish mind. Even if you try to be sensitive, if your mind is sluggish, you just don’t feel anything intensely. You may even see a tragedy enacted in front of your eyes and not be able to respond meaningfully. You may see one person exploiting another, one group persecuting another, and not be able to get angry. Your energy is frozen. You are not deliberately refusing to act; you just don’t have the capacity.

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Question 3

Direction: Four alternative summaries are given in the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

Develop Critical Thinking

The way we see the world and relate to others is intrinsically connected to our own set of values that govern the way we decide to live. However, the influence of fashion, consumerism, pop culture, broken homes, social unrest, and the media is all-pervasive. For many people, teachers and students alike, this influence goes unquestioned. Critical thinking, if successfully taught at this level, becomes the antidote for individual and social illiteracy. For the authors, critical thinking should constitute an indivisible part of the overall educational process. Facione (1995) comments: ‘Critical thinking lies at the root of civilisation. It is a cornerstone in the journey humankind is taking from beastly savagery to global sensitivity’.

Supporting the development of these skills involves reflective teaching and learning, which is highly complex and which some students may find difficult, or interpret as weakness on the part of the teacher. But in the long run, with patience on the part of the teacher, it will develop students who can view old or new material, from a variety of sources, through new eyes, using their skills to define their own stance and express it, often better in their second language, with an open-minded confidence.

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Question 4

The term Dyadic Communication in general refers to an interaction

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Question 5

The difference between 'hearing' and 'listening' is

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Question 6

From the options below, select the one that is a desirable feature of a Persuasive message

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Question 7

State which of the following is a false statement

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Question 8

Out of the options given, to which one does Proxemics pertain to in communication

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Question 9

Which of the following responses would be the most appropriate one as an example of core communication style when you are trying to close a conversation with another person?

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Question 10

Which of the following statements is TRUE.

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