XAT 2018 — VARC Question 22
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
A spirit that lives in this world and does not wear the shirt of love, such an existence in a deep disgrace.
Be foolish in love, because love is all there is.
There is no way into presence except through love exchange.
If someone asks, But what is love? Answer, dissolving the will.
True freedom comes to those who have escaped the question of freewill and fate.
Love is an emperor. The two worlds play across him. He barely notices their tumbling game.
Love and lover live in eternity. Other desires are substitute for that way of being.
How long do you lay embracing a corpse? Love rather the soul, which cannot be held.
Anything born in spring dies in the fall, but love is not seasonal.
With wine pressed from grapes, expect a hangover.
But this love path has no expectations. You are uneasy riding the body?
Dismount, travel lighter. Wings will be given.
Be clear like mirror holding nothing.
Be clean of pictures and the worry that comes with images.
Gaze into what is not ashamed or afraid of any truth.
Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them.
Be pure emptiness. What is inside of that? You ask. Silence is all I can say.
Lovers have some secrets they keep.
Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the question that follows:
The size of oceanic waves is a function of the velocity of the wind and of fetch, the length of the surface of the water subject to those winds. The average impact of waves against a coastline is a function of the size of the waves and the shape of the sea bottom. The degree of erosion on coastline is a function of the average impact of waves and the geologic composition of the coastline.
According to the above paragraph, which of the following options will be true?
Answer & solution
- A
The fetch of wind is related to the shape of the sea bottom.
- B
The size of oceanic waves will not fluctuate far from average.
- C
The size of oceanic wave is correlated with the shape of the sea bottom.
- D
Degree of erosion on coastline is not related with the velocity of wind.
Degree of erosion on coastline is related to shape of the sea-bottom.
The last sentence states that, “The degree of erosion on coastline is a function of the average impact of waves…” The sentence prior to that tells us that, “The average impact of waves against a coastline is a function of … the shape of the sea bottom”. From these two sentences, it can be concluded that the degree of erosion on coastline is related to the shape of the sea-bottom.
Hence, the correct answer is option 5.