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sathish

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· 1 Months ago

English (Question: 144587.6 )

Scramble : Clamber
how come paroxysm

Question:

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to enable you to identify them while answering questions on them.


Will the forces of globalism continue to push the world toward American-style capitalism?


As the 21st century begins, advocates of the free market have no doubt that they have won the economic argument. Socialism is dead. Moreover, as a means of creating wealth and material progress, American capitalism seems to be clearly superior to the Asian variety, with its greater level of government planning, or the European version, with its emphasis on social welfare and protection of workers from losing their jobs.


The proponents see the coming era as a period of global transformation: prosperity will rise around the world as technological change and global integration spread along with democracy. ''This new boom has the potential to pull the whole world into it, allowing literally billions of people to move into middle-class lifestyles,'' Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt write in their 1999 book, ''The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity.''


Certainly capitalism has extended to areas where it was previously unfamiliar. From Ghana to Mongolia, stock markets have sprung up, even as the world's largest -- the New York Stock Exchange -- scrambles to hold on to its position as technology opens up new ways to trade. Private enterprise is the dominant economic force, and it is hard to see that changing soon.


Moreover, the technological revolution brought on by computers is tying the world together as never before. Peter F. Drucker, the business historian and management thinker, compares the effect of the Internet to that of the railroad. By lowering transportation costs, the railroad made national businesses possible. Now, with information available instantly, the Internet allows even small businesses to have global ambitions, and it places pressure on nations to relax regulations and cut taxes that make it more difficult for their businesses to compete.


That pressure is to follow the American path. By making it relatively easy to start companies -- and to hire and fire workers -- the American way has produced innovation. Microsoft, the company that investors think is worth more than any other, did not exist a quarter century ago. Without such flexibility, the computer revolution might not have been so dominated by American companies.


But the forces of globalism and American capitalism face resistance. The Asian economic collapse in 1997 brought home the risk to countries of dealing with huge, uncontrolled capital flows. Free trade may bring overall benefits, but there are losers whose political influence may be substantial. The protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle last month united those who fear world government with those who want stricter standards on the environment and the treatment of workers.


The suspicion has grown, even among Americans, that globalism is really a means of helping big business. In a poll of Americans by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, 54 percent said that Washington trade officials gave ''too much'' consideration to the views of multinational corporations; 73 percent believed ''too little'' attention was paid to the views of ''people like you.''

Which word is not synonyms to “scramble”?

Options:
A) Clamber
B) Disarray
C) Clutter
D) Paroxysm
E) Tussle
Solution:

Scramble, disarray, clutter, tussle means to move or confusion in order to act very quickly or confusion whereas Paroxysm means eruption.

Aditya Soni

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· 1 Months ago

Q is: Which word is not synonyms to “scramble”?
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