Statement and Assumption Easy Questions and Answers

Statement and Assumption

Direction: In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumption numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumption and decide which of the assumption is implicit in the statement.

Statement:
There was a time when the rivers were pure. The earth clean, the air clear. Those days have gone. But there are still ways for you to live healthy.
Assumptions:
I. The environment affects the health of people.
II. People are responsible for making the environment polluted.

I is implicit here. That is why the speaker is talking about another way of living when the environment has been polluted. II can't be assumed from the statement.

Correct Option: A

I is implicit here. That is why the speaker is talking about another way of living when the environment has been polluted. II can't be assumed from the statement.

Statement:
"The state's executive machinery should take all necessary measures to stop hazardous and poisonous effluents from being discharged into Yamuna."--A court order
Assumptions:
I. The water of Yamuna is contaminated.
II. State machinery has failed to take adequate measures to prevent the problem of water pollution in Yamuna.

Why did the court intervene and direct the state's executive machinery?

Correct Option: E

Why did the court intervene and direct the state's executive machinery?

Statement:
" All the State Govts and UTs should go for compulsory video-filming of the post -mortem examinations in the cases of custodial deaths." ---National Human Right Commission.
Assumptions:
I. Doctors sometimes give false post-mortem report in case of custodial deaths.
II. The Kith and Kin of the victims do not get justice for custodial violence.

The NHRC is assuming both ; that is why this new system has been made compulsory.

Correct Option: E

The NHRC is assuming both ; that is why this new system has been made compulsory.

Statement:
Income in the hands of women contributes much more to the household food security and child nutrition then the income controlled by men.
Assumptions:
I. Women pay more attention to household nutrition.
II. Men are more interested in outside affairs.

I is a restatement. But II is implicit because it is on this assumption that the comparison has been made.

Correct Option: B

I is a restatement. But II is implicit because it is on this assumption that the comparison has been made.

Statement:
The parents of students are demonstrating at Legislative Council to protest against fee hike revision by the capital's educational institutions.
Assumptions:
I. The parents are unable to afford increased fee.
II. In view of large-scale protestation Legislative Council may direct the capital's educational institutions to stop the fee hike.

Even able parents may be not willing to pay the increased fee. Hence I can't be assumed. Why are they demonstrating in front of Legislative Council? Clearly, they are assuming II. Hence II is implicit.