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SSC English Reading Comprehension Practice Set 31 - Expert+ Level | 3 Passages | 10 Questions

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Q1. What is the central argument of the passage?

A. Categories are inherently misleading because reality contains no genuine divisions.

B. Classification is useful and often necessary, but its boundaries and generalisations must be interpreted relative to their purpose and the variation they conceal.

C. Administrative categories are less reliable than scientific classifications because they create artificial boundaries.

D. A classification becomes objectively correct when it accurately describes the average member of each group.

Q2. Why does the author use the example of the eighteenth birthday?

A. To argue that legal age restrictions lack any rational justification

B. To demonstrate that biological development stops being gradual after adulthood

C. To show that a practically necessary categorical boundary need not correspond to an equally abrupt change in the underlying phenomenon

D. To establish that age is unsuitable for administrative classification

Q3. Group A has a higher average score than Group B on a test. Which conclusion would commit the error criticised in the third paragraph?

A. The distributions of scores in the two groups may overlap.

B. The difference between the group averages does not reveal the score of every individual.

C. Every member of Group A must have scored higher than every member of Group B.

D. Additional information about within-group variation would help interpret the difference in averages.

Q4. Which situation best illustrates the claim that classifications can influence the phenomena they describe?

A. Scientists discover that two previously classified species have nearly identical DNA.

B. A tax authority introduces a category for small businesses, after which firms reorganise their operations to qualify for it.

C. A librarian moves a book after discovering that it was placed on the wrong shelf.

D. A researcher develops more precise instruments for measuring height.

Q5. Which principle follows most strongly from the final two paragraphs?

A. When two classification systems differ, at least one must be objectively false.

B. The best classification is always the one containing the largest number of categories.

C. Classification systems should be evaluated partly by the distinctions relevant to the purposes they are intended to serve.

D. Differences concealed by a category are unimportant whenever the category has practical uses.

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