Which of the following conclusions are valid?
- 1.Sport is more than just games; it is a way of life.
- 2.Sport can help mitigate the problems of seclusion among the young.
- 3.Earning laurels in sport can help one secure a job on the basis of an assigned quota.
- 4.Standard corporate sector skills cannot be learnt through sport.
Select the answer using the code given below.
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3
The passage treats sport as a way of life, says it can help children who are inactive and rarely leave the house, and takes sports-quota jobs as a given benefit. Statement 4 contradicts the skills it lists — time management, teamwork, coordination.
- ✓ 1. The passage opens with 'Sport is not just about winning medals…' and ends by calling for sport to be seen 'as a way of life'.
- ✓ 2. Children who are 'inactive and rarely leave the house' are described, and 'Sport can help tackle these problems.'
- ✓ 3. 'getting jobs through a sports quota' is mentioned as one of the things sport already brings; the passage only adds that sport is more than that.
- ✗ 4. The passage lists time management, teamwork and coordination as things learnt from sport — the opposite of this statement.
Remember · A statement that denies something the passage lists as a benefit is invalid, however plausible it sounds.
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