Question-1
Read the passage carefully and select the statement that best supports the contents of the given passage:
Though the investment of time or the expenditure on fashions is very large, yet fashions have come to stay. They will not go, come what may. However, what is now required is that strong efforts should be made to displace the excessive craze for fashion from the minds of these youngsters.
a)Work and other activities should be valued more than the outward appearance.
b)Youth of today are not bothered
c)Fashion is the need of the day
d)The craze for excessive fashion should be done away with so as not to not ignore development
e)The excessive craze for fashion is detrimental to one’s personality
Explanation
SOLUTION [D]-)The craze for excessive fashion should be done away with so as not to not ignore development
Question-2
To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness; it is really a sign of strength. It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance; but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged himself and puts the wrong-doer to shame.
The passage best supports the statement that:
a)natural passions are difficult to suppress
b)people tend to forgive the things happened in the past
c)mercy is the noblest form of revenge
d)the sufferer alone knows the intensity of his sufferings.
e)a person with calm and composed nature has depth of thought and vision
Explanation
SOLUTION[C]-mercy is the noblest form of revenge
Question-3
The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child’s powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling, and to conceive himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs.
The passage best supports the statement that real education:
a)is not provided in our schools today
b)will take place if the children imbibe action and feeling.
c)comes from the self-centred approach of the students
d)will take place if the children are physically strong
e)comes through the interaction with social situations
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Explanation
SOLUTION[E]-comes through the interaction with social situations
Question-4
The passage given below is followed by Five alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Several of the world’s earliest cities were organised along egalitarian lines. In some regions, urban populations governed themselves for centuries without any indication of the temples and palaces that would later emerge; in others, temples and palaces never emerged at all, and there is simply no evidence of a class of administrators or any other sort of ruling stratum. It would seem that the mere fact of urban life does not, necessarily, imply any particular form of political organization, and never did. Far from resigning us to inequality, the picture that is now emerging of humanity’s past may open our eyes to egalitarian possibilities we otherwise would have never considered.
a)We now have the evidence in support of the
existence of an egalitarian urban life in some ancient cities, where political and civic organisation was far less hierarchical
b)Egalitarian society is and has been but just a pipe dream
c)Contrary to our assumption that urban settlements have always involved hierarchical political and administrative structures, ancient cities were not organised in this way.
d)The lack of hierarchical administration in ancient cities can be deduced by the absence of religious and regal structures such as temples and palaces.
e)The emergence of a class of administrators and ruling stratum transformed the egalitarian urban life of ancient cities to the hierarchical civic organisations of today.
Explanation
SOLUTION[A]-We now have the evidence in support of the existence of an egalitarian urban life in some ancient cities, where political and civic organisation was far less hierarchical
Question-5
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
We can think of the history of life on earth as a vast, long-term experiment in pure competition. Every living organism is competing with all other living organisms for resources (nutrients, sunlight, water, territory, etc.). Nature, or the natural world, is a laboratory of unfettered competition. It’s a dog-eat- dog, no-holds-barred, day-in and day-out struggle.
There are no governmental regulators to protect the weak or favor the strong. All organisms are given a chance, but not necessarily an equal chance. As the climate and the environment change (and change they do), some organisms are favored over others at times, but these advantages are fleeting. What nature gives, nature can take away.
a)Without unforgiving competition, the planet will be inundated with the weak
b)Nature gives a fair opportunity to every organism to survive
c)Forgiveness is alien to the natural world
d)Competition is critical to ensure the survival of the fittest
e)Brutal competition is the only constant in the natural world
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Explanation
SOLUTION[E]-Brutal competition is the only constant in the natural world
Question-6
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow : And that has to do with the question of uncertainty and doubt. A scientist is never certain. We all know that. We know that all our statements are approximate statements with different degrees of certainty; that when a statement is made, the question is not whether it is true or false but rather how likely it is to be true or false. We must discuss each question within the uncertainties that are allowed. And as evidence grows it increases the probability perhaps that some idea is right or decreases it. But it never makes absolutely certain one way or the other. Now, we have found that this is of paramount importance in order to progress. We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified- how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know
what it is all about or what the purpose of the world is or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.
Which of the following most correctly describes the essence of the given passage
a)Doubting the established world order is the purpose of science
b)Science can never give a conclusive answer to a question
c)Reasonable discomfort with certainty is the path for progress
d)Reasonable scepticism is the characteristic of a scientific mind
e)Progress involves questioning accepted truths
Explanation
SOLUTION[D]-)Reasonable scepticism is the characteristic of a scientific mind
