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D
Superficial (not careful with details, cursory, brief)
is the opposite of meticulous (painstaking, careful with detail).
Placid is calm and is the opposite of agitated (upset,
active).
A. Incorrect. Clandestine means secretive.
B. Incorrect. Languorous means listless, sluggish, not
energetic.
C. Incorrect. Novel means new ( Nov. = new).
E. Incorrect. Parched means dry.
- D
The words are synonyms. Something duplicitous (having duality,
deceptive) will deceive. Something stultifying will be
dull, boring.
A. Incorrect. To carp is to complain or criticize.
B & E Incorrect.
C. Incorrect. Innovative means new, creative.
- B
Embattled means to be involved in a conflict. Our ears
are constantly in conflict with various kinds of noise (conflict) in
today’s life.
A & E Incorrect.
C. Incorrect. The passage addresses the fact that age has much less
to do with hearing loss than noise has to do with hearing loss.
D. Incorrect. Though the passage talks about the effects sound brings
about (affecting the ears), it does not specifically refer to noise
pollution.
- C
The conventional belief is that as people age there is loss of hearing.
A. Incorrect.
B. Incorrect. If these organs were useless after a certain age, today
the world would have had a billion deaf people.
D. Incorrect. Ears are a delicate organs. It is very difficult to
repair damaged ears.
E. Incorrect. Hair loss has got nothing to do with hearing loss.
- E
Endure means to withstand, last. It becomes difficult for
our vulnerable ears to sustain perennial noises from all over.
A. Incorrect. Perish means to get destroyed or ruined.
B. Incorrect. Most of us will not "experience" the
noise levels punkers experience. This is close to being right, but
"withstand" includes an element of abuse that experience
does not necesarily include.
C. Incorrect. Reciprocate is to respond.
D.Incorrect. Alternate is to change repeatedly, succeed
by turn (in case of two things).
