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	27-Jan-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback 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? discuss | yesterday's solution | more questions 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. more tips 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 discuss TestFunda.com - LEARN with THE LEADER in Online MBA Test Prep Demo Lessons   |   Take a Demo Test   |   Buy Courses   |   Fun Learning Games   |   100-Percentilers About TestFunda.com - TestFunda is backed by www.ZeusLearning.com. 3 IIT-IIM graduates form the Management Team. - The 85+ member team has vast experience in MBA Coaching and Computer-Based Training and Testing. - For 12 years Zeus has created award-winning courseware for companies like Discovery Channel, Reader's Digest, Texas Instruments, Pearson Education. - The TestFunda Advisory Board comprises CEOs and MDs of international educational companies. About This Newsletter You received this email because you have registered with www.TestFunda.com. If you do not want to receive this email or want to sign up for other newsletters from TestFunda  click here. Please do not reply to this mail. Mails sent to this account will not be monitored. Post your comments and solutions under the Question of the Day forum. Problems getting this mail? To get this mail in your inbox, add noreply@testfunda.com to your contact list.       UNSUBSCRIBE / SUBSCRIBE | ABOUT | WHY TESTFUNDA | FAQ | PRIVACY | SUPPORT | CONTACT | DISCUSS   © Enabilon Learning Private Limited. All rights reserved