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  • Question 1
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    Read the passage given below and choose the option that completes the blank:
    The Indian culture of our times is in the making. Many of us are striving to produce a blend of all cultures that seem today to be in clash with one another. No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. There is no such thing as a pure Aryan culture in existence in India today. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India or were unwelcome intruders, does not interest me much. What does interest me is the fact that my remote ancestors blended with one another with the utmost freedom and we of the present generation are a result of that blend. I do not want my house to be walled in, on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I would have any young men and women with literary tastes to learn as much of English and other world-languages as they like, and then expect them to give the benefits of their learning to India and the world alike like a Bose, a Ray or Tagore. But I would not have a single Indian forget, neglect or be ashamed of his mother tongue, or feel that he or she cannot think or express the best thoughts in his or her own vernacular. Mine is not a religion of the prison house.

    The author wants Indians to _____________________.
    Solution
    The fifth sentence conveys the author's feeling that Indians should learn English and other languages and impart the knowledge they gain to India. In the sixth sentence, he clarifies that although Indians can learn whatever language they wish to, they shouldn't neglect, forget or feel ashamed of their mother tongues. Hence, D is correct.
    The other options are not in line with the contents of the passage.
  • Question 2
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    Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

    What is to be the limit of forgiveness? It would probably have been allowed by many of the ancients that an unforgiving temper was not to be commended. They would have said, we are not to exact a penalty for every nice offence; we are to overlook somethings; we are to be blind sometimes. But they would have said at the same time, we must be careful to keep our self-respect, and to be on a level with the world. On the whole, they would have said, it is the part of a man fully to requite to his friends their benefits and to his enemies their injuries.

    Which one of the following is the correct statement? In ancient times, people were __________. 
    Solution
    In the second sentence, the author says that our ancestors may have thought that an unforgiving temper shouldn't be appreciated. This proves that our answer C is correct.
    We cannot accept the other choices. They are inconsistent with the contents of the passage. 
  • Question 3
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    Read the passage and answer the question that follows. 

    Once while travelling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man's face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics. 

    The author found that man's reply quite startling because ____. 
    Solution
    The fourth sentence mentions that the author was interested in what the man was doing and when he asks the man about it, he gets a startling reply. The reply was that the man sees a face as thousands of squares and not as a single unit. Thus, D is the correct answer.
    The other choices are not accepted. None of them represents the man's reply.
  • Question 4
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    Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

    The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various. But all have something in common. The typical unhappy man is one who, having deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one ' kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of "pleasure". This is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide-the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. 

    Who is a typical unhappy man?
    Solution
    The second sentence states that a typical unhappy man is one who was deprived of some normal satisfaction in youth. Hence, A is correct.
    The other choices are inconsistent with the contents of the passage. We cannot accept them.
  • Question 5
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    Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

    While I stood drinking in the beauty of this placid scene I became conscious of an alteration. In a moment the sole porter emerged from his midday nap, operated a signal that clanked noisily into position, and then ambled slowly towards me for my return half-ticket, whilst I remarked that his red amiable face and easy-going gait were in perfect harmony with the tranquil surroundings.
     A wisp of smoke on the horizon with a dark snake crawling beneath it announced the approach of the train. As it drew nearer, the deep silence of the place was gradually displaced by a creaking of brakes and a hissing of steam. Save for myself, no one entered the train and no one alighted. The porter with leisurely expertness, trundled a couple of milk churns on board, the door was slammed, the guard signalled to the driver, and we moved off, leaving the small station once more to its drowsy silence.

    The central idea of the passage is _____________.
    Solution
    The correct answer for this would be option A, leisure and peace. The author of the passage has tried to illustrate the serene nature and surrounding of the speaker, juxtaposing it with the humdrum of a train station. The tone of the speaker conveys a peaceful environment. The statements of options B,C and D are incoherent with the tone of the passage, and thus, are incorrect. 
  • Question 6
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    Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

    What is to be the limit of forgiveness? It would probably have been allowed by many of the ancients that an unforgiving temper was not to be commended. They would have said, we are not to exact a penalty for every nice offense; we are to overlook somethings; we are to be blind sometimes. But they would have said at the same time, we must be careful to keep our self-respect, and to be on a level with the world. On the whole, they would have said, it is the part of a man fully to requite to his friends their benefits and to his enemies their injuries.

    Which one of the following is the correct statement? We must ______. 
    Solution
    The fourth sentence tells us about the author's assumption that our ancestors may have decided to overlook certain things and to be blind sometimes. Hence, D is correct.
    The rest of the choices are inconsistent with the contents of the passage.
  • Question 7
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    Read the passage and answer the question that follows. 

    With the inevitable growth of specialization, I see the universities facing two great dangers. First, it is very easy to get so involved in the technical details of education that the object of education is lost. And secondly, in an effort to condition a university to the needs of its students and to the needs of the State it may lose its power to make or mould those students into responsible men, capable of thinking for themselves and capable of expressing the results of their thoughts to others. 

    The author calls the growth of specialization 'inevitable'. Which one of the following statements is likely to be the correct reason for this inevitability?
    Solution
    According to the third sentence, universities are offering specialization in order to meet the needs of the students and the state. The State can be involved in education or anything only for one particular reason, which is economy. Hence, C is the correct answer. D is incorrect. 
    We reject A and B. They are inconsistent with the contents of the passage.
  • Question 8
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    Read the passage and answer the question that follows. 

    Once while travelling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man's face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics. 

    The man caught author's attention because ______. 
    Solution
    Option C is the right answer because it is clearly mentioned in the passage that - 'He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next.'
    Options A, B, and D are incorrect because the right answer is Option D.
  • Question 9
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    Read the passage given below and choose the option that best fits the question that follows:

    While I stood drinking in the beauty of this placid scene I became conscious of an alteration. In a moment the sole porter emerged from his midday nap, operated a signal that clanked noisily into position, and then ambled slowly towards me for my return half-ticket, whilst I remarked that his red amiable face and easy-going gait were in perfect harmony with the tranquil surroundings.
     A wisp of smoke on the horizon with a dark snake crawling beneath it announced the approach of the train. As it drew nearer, the deep silence of the place was gradually displaced by a creaking of brakes and a hissing of steam. Save for myself, no one entered the train and no one alighted. The porter with leisurely expertness, trundled a couple of milk churns on board, the door was slammed, the guard signalled to the driver, and we moved off, leaving the small station once more to its drowsy silence. 

    Who had a midday nap? 
    Solution
    Option D: As mentioned in these lines from the passage, "In a moment the sole porter emerged from his midday nap",
    the porter had a midday nap. Hence option D is correct.
    Option A: The author was awake during the time, or else he would not have narrated the scene around him during midday.
    Option B: There is no mention of a passenger.
    Option C: Similarly, the Station-master isn't mentioned anywhere in the passage.
    Hence options A, B and C are incorrect.
  • Question 10
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    [passage-header]Read the passage and choose the correct answer which follow the question.[/passage-header]The word 'request' in Indian English is generally used in the sense of 'pray' and seldom in the sense of 'ask'-the usual meaning of the term in the Queen's English. If while addressing a vice-chancellor, a student writes: I ask you to grant me leave", or "Could I ask you to grant me leave, "instead of the usual form "I request you to grant me leave", he will be considered rude, and would even invite disciplinary action. Then there is an additional factor, the status which determines the syntactical structure in which the word is going to figure. A subordinate addressing his boss in an office in India writes, "I request you to look into the case", while the boss writing to a subordinate will normally write the passive, "You are requested to look into the case". If the latter form is used by a subordinate it may mean an insult. If bureaucratic usages in other forms of English are also found to be in favor of the passive one can safely endure a generalization that "the more secure in his position (and in his inferior's esteem) the senior person is, the more he can afford to relax his style". 

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    'Usual form' means ____.
    Solution
    Taking into account the context of the second sentence of the passage, 'usual form' means the common or usual way the sentence is constructed. Hence option C is the correct answer. 
    Option A is incorrect because it does not exactly state the normal construction of what is being mentioned. Options B and D are incorrect because these answers are not in accordance with the information given in the passage. 
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