CAT Question of the Day In each of the following sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative among them.
Science fiction has long known what science only recently confirmed: that at a mere 4.4 light years away, Alpha Centauri isn't just our nearest neighbouring star system, it is also home to at least one roughly Earth-sized alien world. The nifty bit of interstellar detective work that confirmed its existence was announced late last month, but ever since something has been bothering me. The name. Bb. _____________.
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | It just seems so boring and such a shame given the rich range of names people have already dreamed up for planets. | | | 2) | Why Bb, when there are so many better, more evocative alternatives? | | | 3) | Among my favourite suggestions were Heart and Mearth. | | | 4) | Is that the Bbest you can come up with? |
Tip of the Day Use this time to get prepared for the next round of selection – GD & PI. Brush up on newsmakers of the last six months and keep yourself updated with current affairs. Last year's Question of the day (26-Jan-12) The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in "poetics"—the study of the aesthetics of poetry. Some ancient societies, such as the Chinese through the Shi Jing, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, developed canons of poetic works that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. More recently, thinkers have struggled to find a definition that could encompass formal differences as great as those between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi, as well as differences in context spanning Tanakh religious poetry, love poetry, and rap.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Poetics: The Study of Poetry | | | 2) | Poetics and the reconciliation of different forms of poetry | | | 3) | The attempts made by ancient societies to study the aesthetics of poetry | | | 4) | Canons of Poetics | | | 5) | Shi Jong, One of the five Classics of Confucianism |
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