Wednesday, January 09, 2008

SC's Question number - 811 , 812

811). The psychologist William James believed that facial expressions not only provide a visible sign of an emotion, actually contributing to the feeling itself.

(A) emotion, actually contributing to the feeling itself

(B) emotion but also actually contributing to the feeling itself

(C) emotion but also actually contribute to the feeling itself

(D) emotion; they also actually contribute to the feeling of it

(E) emotion; the feeling itself is also actually contributed to by them


812). The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience

(A) contact with it directly with

(B) direct contact with it by way of

(C) contact with the latter directly through

(D) direct contact with the latter by means of

(E) contact directly with the mystical level due to


Answers:

811). OA - C

A, D, E - incorrect - violating parallelism - ...not only...should be followed by ..but also...

B - incorrect - violating parallelism - ....provide....contributing...

812) OA - D - idiomatic - ...direct contact with...

A, B - incorrect - it has unclear referent

C, E - incorrect - contact is used a s a noun here..thus we need direct (adjective) here to modify noun contact. (directly is an adverb)


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