Sample Para completion questions
Pick the sentence that best concludes: "Many start-ups now adopt a so-called 'fail fast' culture. The reasoning is that early, small failures generate information that is more valuable than the steady progress of a single plan. By running many small experiments — most of which will fail — the firm narrows down to the few approaches that actually work. ___"
Pick the sentence that best concludes: "Climate models built in the 1990s predicted a steady rise in global average temperatures of roughly 0.2°C per decade. The observed warming has tracked this prediction closely. Where the early models were less accurate was in regional details: some areas have warmed substantially faster than the global average, others more slowly. ___"
Pick the sentence that best concludes: "The novelist sometimes complains that she is treated as a cultural commentator: a journalist asks her about politics or technology rather than about her craft. The complaint is understandable. But it ignores a longer historical pattern: ever since the eighteenth century, the novel has been the literary form most associated with the close observation of social life. ___"
Pick the sentence that best concludes: "Large language models are remarkable in part because they were not designed for any specific task. They are trained to predict the next word in a sequence, and from that single objective they acquire — apparently as a by-product — the ability to translate, summarise, code, and converse. ___"
Pick the sentence that best concludes: "A central question in the philosophy of personal identity is what makes you the same person you were ten years ago. The body has different cells. The brain has different neural connections. Memories have faded or been rewritten. None of the obvious physical or psychological continuities is exactly preserved. ___"
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