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(Qs. 1 to 6): Read the following passage and answer within its context.
The world dismisses curiosity by calling it
idle, or mere idle curiosity – even though curious persons are seldom idle.
Parents do their best to extinguish curiosity in their children because it
makes life difficult to be faced every day with a string of answerable
questions about what makes fire hot or why grass grows. Children whose
curiosity survives parental discipline are invited to join our university.
Within the university, they go on asking their questions and trying to find the
answers. In the eyes of a scholar, that is mainly what a university is for.
Some of the questions that scholars ask seem to the world to be scarcely worth
asking let alone answering. They ask questions too minute and specialized for
you and me to understand without years of explanation. If the world inquires of
one of them why he wants to know the answer to a particular question he may
say, especially if he is a scientist, that the answer will in some obscure way
make possible a new machine or weapon or gadget. He talks that way because he
knows that the world understands and respects utility. But to you who are now
part of the university, he will say that he wants to know the answer simply
because he does not know it. The way a mountain climber wants to climb a
mountain simply because it is there. Similarly, a historian when asked by
outsiders why he studies history may come out with the argument that he has
learnt to repeat on such occasions. Something about knowledge of the past
making it possible to understand the present and mold the future. But if you
really want to know why a historian studies the past, the answer is much
simpler: something happened, and he would like to know what. All this does not
mean that the answers which scholars find to their questions have no
consequences.
They may have enormous consequences but
these seldom form the reason for asking the question or pursuing the answers.
It is true that scholars can be put to work answering questions for the sake of
the consequences as thousands are working now, for example, in search of a cure
for cancer. But this is not the primary function of the scholar, for the
consequences are usually subordinate to the satisfaction of curiosity.
1.
Common people consider some of the questions asked by scholars as unimportant
(a) Since they are not worth asking of
answering.
(b) As the question is related to new
machines and gadgets.
(c) As the common man doesn’t understand
questions without years of explanations.
(d) Scholars ask very minute, specialised
questions beyond the comprehension of the common man.
2.
In the statement ‘that is mainly what a university is for’ ‘that’ refers to
(a) Parents refusal to answer questions.
(b) Children’s curiosity that survives
parents’ structures.
(c) Questions not worth answering.
(d) The aim and scope of the university to
provide an opportunity to curious minds to find out the answers to their
questions.
3.
According to the passage the general public respects
(a) New inventions
(b) Any useful invention
(c) Any invention that makes life easier
for them
(d) A scientist who invents gadgets and
machines for them
4.
The writer compares the scientist to
(a) a historian and mountain climber
(b) a historian
(c) a mountain climber
(d) a scholar
5.
The primary function of a scholar is different from the search for a cure for
cancer because
(a) The answers to the scholar’s question
have no consequence unlike the results of the research involving a cure for cancer.
(b) The answer sought by the scholar is
selfish unlike the consequences of cancer research which are for the common
weal.
(c) The primary function of a scholar is
satisfaction of his mental curiosity, while research involving a cure for
cancer demands a constant, systematic and planned pursuit by several scholars.
(d) Several scholars work for a cancer cure
while a single scholar works with a selfish motive.
6.
Idle curiosity means
(a) Curiosity is lazy
(b) Idle people are curious
(c) Curiosity is apt
(d) Casual curiosity
7.
In the following sentence choose the erroneous segment.
We
took a taxi (a)/ so we would be on time (b)/ for the meeting (c)/ No Error (d)
(a) Error in segment A
(b) Error in segment B
(c) Error in segment C
(d) No error
8.
Find the ODD one out from the group of words which are related in some way or
the other
(a) din
(b) cacophony
(c) racket
(d) cadence
9.
NEOPHYTE is the opposite of
(a) student
(b) clown
(c) veteran
(d) professional
10. Find the maximum number of times that
any one of the given words fits the set of sentences.
Disabled
flimsy crippled lame
1) Don’t make ………………. excuses.
2) Liberalization may have ………….
smaller manufacturers.
3) Being a defaulter at the stock exchange
makes him a ………… duck.
4) A ……………. person may limp.
(a) in all the four sentences
(b) in three sentences
(c) in two sentences
(d) in only one
11.
Which of the following does not make a sensible word/phrase when added to the
given word?
FIRE
(a) fly
(b) engine (c) stick (d) escape
12.
Arrange the sentence 1,2,3,4 to form a logical sequence between sentences I and
II. Choose the alternative where the four combinations make a meaningful
sentence.
I.
We all value having the freedom
1)
which many of us fail to honour
2)
to make the choices we want in our careers
3)
but with great freedom comes great responsibility
4)
so most companies fall prey to the policies which become rigid
II.
and that’s probably one reason we find most companies not following what they
preach
(a) 1, 3, 4, 2
(b) 2, 3, 1, 4
(c) 1, 4, 2, 3
(d) 3, 2, 1, 4
13.
A contextual usage is provided for the word below. Pick the word that is most
inappropriate.
MALINGER:
The young man made it a point to malinger inspite of the assigned work load.
(a) Wander
(b) Laze
(c) Evade
(d) Argue
14.
The following is a scrambled sentence with the segments marked 1,2,3 and 4.
Choose the alternative with the order of segments that best reconstruct the
sentence.
1.
For all the padre’s rhetoric about the English as God’s Chosen People, the
padre had a whole tribe of Anglo- Indian first cousins.
2.
Padre Rotton was an even more striking case.
3.
by various Indian wives, all of whom were at that moment engaged in fighting on
the rebel side in Avadh, where they took an active part in besieging the
British Residency in Lucknow.
4.
These included James Rotton who could not speak English and the twenty two
Muslim sons of his convert cousin, Felix Rotton
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 2, 1, 4, 3
(c) 1, 4, 2, 3
(d) 2, 4, 1, 3
15.
Choose the sentence in which the given word is used correctly (grammatically
and semantically)
ALMOST
(a) As I crossed the road a scooterist
almost hit me.
(b) Crossing the road a scooterist hit me
almost.
(c) A scooterist across the road almost hit
me.
(d) A scooterist almost hit me crossing the
road.
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Answers
1(d) 2(d)
3(b) 4(a) 5(c)
6(d) 7(b) 8(d)
9(c) 10(b) 11(c)
12(b) 13(d) 14(b)
15(a)