NDA (I) 2025 General Ability Test · Question 3 of 150

Correct — B, there is hardly any language to be discovered in the world. The passage says only 'A few new languages do continue to be discovered', which best supports the idea that just a handful — hardly any — remain to be found. The other three statements each contradict a specific line, so (b) is the best-supported choice.

• (a)Language surveys have been conducted by all nations — False — the passage says such surveys 'are incomplete or have not even begun' in many countries.
• (c)All the languages are either complete languages or dialects of other major languages — Contradicted — the passage shows some supposed 'dialects' later prove to be separate languages, so the neat split does not hold.
• (d)No new language needs to be discovered since all languages are known to the world — False — the passage explicitly says 'A few new languages do continue to be discovered'.

A 'which statement is correct' comprehension item settled by elimination — three options each clash with a line in the passage, leaving the one that paraphrases 'a few new languages do continue to be discovered'.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  A passage says 'few volcanoes remain unmapped'. Which statement is correct?

  • (a)All volcanoes are unmapped
  • (b)Only a small number of volcanoes remain unmapped
  • (c)No volcano has ever been mapped
  • (d)Mapping volcanoes is impossible

  Answer(b) Only a small number remain unmapped — it paraphrases 'few remain unmapped'.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  When three options in a comprehension question each contradict the passage, the correct answer is —

  • (a)the first option
  • (b)the remaining option, by elimination
  • (c)the longest option
  • (d)none of them

  Answer(b) the remaining option, by elimination — the survivor that the text does not contradict.