Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each…
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Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
• Facts (F), which deal with the pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification.
• Inferences (I), which are conclusions drawn about unknown, on the basis of the known.
• Judgments (J), which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future.
Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements:
(A) Any country that cannot stay ahead of credit-crunched Greece is in deep trouble.
(B) That triggered a deal on €7.16bn in emergency funding, to enable the government to pay its arrears with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its July bill from the European Central Bank (ECB).
(C) Any hopes that the euro area would be more resilient to the global credit crisis have been firmly dashed.
(D) Prudence is not always a virtue: the instinct to save for a rainy day seems only to harden when the rains set in.
- A.
FFJJ
- B.
JFJJ
- C.
IIJJ
- D.
FFJJ
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Correct answer: B
Correct classification: JFJJ.
Statement 1: "Any country that cannot stay ahead of credit-crunched Greece is in deep trouble." — Judgment. This expresses an evaluative opinion about a country's situation.
Statement 2: "That triggered a deal on €7.16bn in emergency funding, to enable the government to pay its arrears with the IMF and its July bill from the ECB." — Fact. This reports a specific, verifiable event.
Statement 3: "Any hopes that the euro area would be more resilient to the global credit crisis have been firmly dashed." — Judgment. This is an evaluative conclusion rather than a directly verifiable fact.
Statement 4: "Prudence is not always a virtue: the instinct to save for a rainy day seems only to harden when the rains set in." — Judgment. This expresses an opinion about behavior and outcomes.