ibps-so 2018 · Question 345 of 356

A circular upon the re safety ttings of the branches of a region rests upon the two propositions that follow. Statements : No siren is a gong. All gongs are alarms. Conclusions : I. No alarm is a siren. II. Some alarms are not sirens.

1. AOnly conclusion I follows
2. BOnly conclusion II followsCorrect
3. CEither conclusion I or conclusion II follows
4. DNeither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
5. EBoth conclusion I and conclusion II follow Directions (Q121–Q125) : The passage below is taken from a note prepared for the records committee of a public institution upon the preservation of material held in electronic form. In the passage there are ve blanks, each of which has been numbered to correspond with a question. Against each number ve words are suggested, of which one alone ts the blank both grammatically and in sense, in the context of the passage as a whole. The alternatives are close in meaning, and the choice is to be made upon the sense the passage requires. Find out the appropriate word in each case. It is among the smaller ironies of the age that the more of the record we produce, the more __(121)__ that record becomes. A clay tablet neglected for three thousand years is still a clay tablet. A le written thirty years ago may be perfectly __(122)__ upon its disc and yet wholly unreadable, because the program that made sense of it no longer exists and the machine that ran the program has been scrapped. Paper decays slowly and legibly; digital material does not decay at all until the moment at which it becomes entirely __(123)__. Librarians have therefore had to abandon the assumption upon which their profession was built, that preservation is a matter of leaving a thing alone in a cool room. What is required in its place is __(124)__ intervention – copying, checking, and carrying the material from one format to the next – an activity that never nishes and that no institution nds it easy to fund, since its success is invisible and its failure is discovered only by somebody who wanted a le and could not have it. The habit of thinking of storage as cheap has made the di culty worse rather than better, for cheapness has encouraged us to keep everything and to __(125)__ nothing, and a collection that has never been selected is a collection that cannot be maintained.