PayPal Sample Verbal Questions

DIRECTIONS for the question 1 to 4: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.

Passage 1

Neuroscience has, as its primary resource, technology that captures images of processes within the living brain. Fear lights up a certain area, therefore fear is a function of that area, which developed for the purposes of maintaining homeostasis. It prepares the organism to fight or flee. Well and good. But fear is rarely without context. People can be terrified of spiders, dentists, the Last Judgment, germs, the need to speak in public, the number 13, extraterrestrials, mathematics, hoodies, the discovery of a fraud in their past. All of these fears are the creatures of circumstance, of the history and state of health of a specific brain. They identify threat, interpreting an environment in highly individual terms. They, not threat in the abstract, trigger alarm, and they are the products of parts of the brain that do not light up under technological scrutiny and would elude interpretation if they did. If they are not taken into account, the mere evidence of an excitation has little descriptive and no predictive value. A fearful person might take a pill, faint, or commit mayhem. The assumptions behind the notion that the nature of fear and the impulses it triggers could be made legible or generalizable for the purposes of imaging would have to exclude complexity—the factor that introduces individuality with all its attendant mysteries. In fairness, however, the neuroscientists seem well content with the technology they have, extrapolating boldly from the data it yields. Refinements that introduced complication might not be welcome.

This all appears to be a straightforward instance of scientists taking as the whole of reality that part of it their methods can report. These methods are as much a matter of vocabulary as of technology, though the two interact and reinforce each other. Here is an example. Neuroscientists seem predisposed to the conclusion that there is no “self.” This would account for indifference to the modifying effects of individual history and experience, and to the quirks of the organism that arise from heredity, environment, interactions within the soma as a whole, and so on. What can the word “self” mean to those who wish to deny its reality? It can only signify an illusion we all participate in, as individuals, societies, and civilizations. So it must also be an important function of the brain, the brain aware of itself as it is modified by the infinite particulars of circumstance, that is, as it is not like others. But this would mean the self is not an illusion at all but a product of the mind at other work than the neuroscientists are inclined to acknowledge. Of course, the physical brain is subject to every sort of impairment, the areas that light up during imaging as surely as any others. Impairments that seem to compromise the sense of self may be taken to demonstrate that it is rooted in the physical brain, that same fleshly monument to provident evolution the neuroscientists admire, selectively. If the physical disruption of the sense of self is taken to prove that the self is an experience created by the physical brain, then there are no better grounds to call its existence into question than there would be to question equilibrium or depth perception. Obviously, there is a conceptual problem here—equilibrium does not “exist” except in the moment-to- moment orientation of an organism to its environment. Say as much of the self, mutatis mutandis, and it is granted the same kind of reality.

A) equilibrium   B) symmetry      C) pressure         D) emotion

1. Fear is rarely without context    
2. Fear is majorly without context
3. Fear has an absolute undeniable relation to context
4. Fear is driven by context

1. neuroscientists are limited to a very narrow framework when it comes to analyzing broad human emotions such as fear
2. neuroscientists will never be able to see the role of self in the creation of human emotions
3. neuroscientists have stopped in their tracks and now are only bound to scientific studies and models based on data
4. neuroscientists are happy to stay within the rigid contours of data and deny the role and relation of an individual with respect to fear

1. Neuroscientists are inclined to believe that there is no "self."
2. Neuroscientists are not able to map all impairments of the human mind.
3. Generalizing human behaviour when it comes to fear means that we have difficulty explaining the variety of human responses to similar situations and stimuli.

A) I & II         B) II & III               C) I & III                                D) All of the above

DIRECTIONS for the question 5 to 7: Complete the sentence by filling in the appropriate blank/blanks from the options provided.

A) with B) by     C) at       D) on

A) razed               B) Dupe                                C) Encroached   D) Defaced

A) home, ushered           B) strong, ushered          C) home, increased         D) own, reigned

DIRECTIONS for the question 8 & 9: Given below are five sentences. Identify the sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

1. I checked my disguise in the mirror; a ski hat and sunglasses did a good job of concealing my identity, even if I did look absurd.
2. Normally I would have shared a laugh with my staff about this, but what we were doing that day was hardly any funny.
3. A few blocks away, at a tobacco shop, I spent $ 80 to buy several packages of drugs that when snorted have a similar effect as ecstasy but are many more toxic.
4. There was no back-alley drug dealer; there were no lowered voices or code words — just a small-business owner making a sale.
5. I am telling you today, first as a father and then as a doctor, that the ease of that transaction chilled me. Kids everywhere are in danger from this substance, and the threat is legal, cheap and very deadly.

A) A and C           B) B, C and E       C) A, B and C      D) C, D and E

1. Environmentalists and lawmakers spent years shouting at one another about whether the grim forecasts were true, but in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended.
2. Global warming, even most skeptics have concluded, is the real deal, and human activity has been causing them.
3. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would have been given us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem.
4. But glaciers, it turns out, can move with surprising speed, and so can nature.
5. What few people reckoned about was that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse.

A) A and E           B) B only              C) B, C and E       D) A and D

DIRECTIONS for the question 10: In each of the following question, out of the given group of wordings, choose one inappropriately spelled.

A) Pneumonia   B) Diarrheoa       C) Xenophobia  D) Amnesia