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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ::
The door led to the back of a steep tier of narrow wooden benches rising from the lecturer's desk like a football stand. Behind the desk were three large blackboards screwed to the walls, which were otherwise panelled with stained perpendicular planks. The roof was lost in a criss-cross of thin iron girders through which half a dozen electric globes were suspended to supplement the thin light that filtered through the windows under the eaves.
[1] The passage describes
(a) a stadium
(b) a lecture theatre
(c) an operation theatre
(d) a cinema hall[2] The word "eaves" means
(a) heavy curtains
(b) electric globes
(c) over-hanging part of a sloping roof
(d) the ceiling[3] The writer says "The roof was lost..." because
(a) it was very dark
(b) the roof was covered with soot
(c) the roof was covered with a large number of iron beams
(d) there was a canopy[4] What is the appropriate description of the passage?
(a) Objective
(b) Rhetorical
(c) Impressionistic
(d) Verboseasked in General Ability, 2009
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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ::
I once saw a tigress stalking a month old kid. The ground was very open and the kid saw the tigress while she was still some distance away and started bleating, whereon the tigress gave up her stalk and walked straight upto it. When the tigress had approached to within a few yards, the kid went forward to meet her, and on reaching the tigress stretched out its neck and put up its head to smell her. For the duration of a few heart beats the month-old kid and the queen of the forest stood nose to nose, and then the queen turned and walked off in the direction from which she had come.
[1] 'Stalking' in this context means
(a) running threateningly
(b) moving about in circles
(c) targeting a victim
(d) moving quietly without being seen or heard[2] The tigress walked straight up to the kid because
(a) running would frighten the kid
(b) stalking was useless now
(c) the tigress was patient
(d) she was sure of her victim[3] The kid's behaviour indicates that
(a) it was familiar with the sight of tigress
(b) it was attracted by the tigress's smell
(c) it took the tigress for a playmate
(d) it was not aware of the danger involved[4] The expression 'for the duration of a few heart beats' suggests
(a) the few seconds the tigress and the kid spent smelling each other
(b) the fear of the kid
(c) the excitement of the tigress
(d) the anxiety of the watcherasked in General Ability, 2009
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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ::
"Let us laugh," says, W. Mathews, "it is the cheapest luxury man enjoys. It stirs up the blood, expands the chest, clears away the cobwebs from the brain and gives the whole system a healthy treatment." So is it not nice to laugh a lot? It is said, "Laughter is the best medicine." For those who dislike medicine, sweet or bitter, a good joke that provokes laughter is prescribed. It is nice to have a good laugh but a "guffaw" may sometime lock one's jaws and so it is suggested that those who enjoy a loud guffaw go slow and subside into a gurgle but the best thing is, as done in Hon'ble courts before Hon'ble Judges, just titter. And finally, I feel that I should smile, laugh heartily (without the predicament of lockjaw) and be able to enjoy all jokes including ones directed at myself. But never making a laughing stock of myself in the process. Let us remember the wise saying, "He is not laughed at that laughs at himself."
[1] It is said that laughter is the best medicine because
(a) it is the cheapest luxury man enjoys
(b) it is available free of cost
(c) it is cheaper whereas medicines in the shops are costly
(d) it provides better treatment than costly medicines[2] The writer says he would never make a laughing stock of himself. It means he should not
(a) let others ridicule him
(b) show disrespect to Judges
(c) laugh, but simply smile at others
(d) let others laugh[3] The writer feels laughter is to be prescribed to those who
(a) are seriously ill
(b) dislike medicines
(c) cannot buy medicines
(d) do not need medicines[4] By quoting a wise saying in the last line the writer
(a) reiterates the point that laughter is the best medicine for us
(b) guides us about what we should do from being laughed at
(c) cautions us as to how we should conduct ourselves in the Hon'ble Courts
(d) censures those who cannot laugh at themselvesasked in General Ability, 2009
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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ::
I had undertaken this perilous swim, not to gain fame or trophies but to prove to the world that Indians are no longer afraid. To the youth of India this triumph would dramatically demonstrate that nothing is impossible for them. All they have to do is to believe and persevere, and the goal will be theirs ! For it is my firm conviction that unless we individually become adventurous and nationally restless and enterprising, India will not be able to break the bonds of apathy and tradition, whether on the physical or on the intellectual fronts. My Indian Ocean venture was a humble contribution towards this end.
[1] The passage suggests that the author is a
(a) politician
(b) writer
(c) teacher
(d) famous swimmer[2] The author swam because be wanted
(a) to become famous
(b) to win awards
(c) the young Indians to swim like him
(d) the world to know that the modern Indians are fearless[3] To become winners, the author says the Indian youth become
(a) richer
(b) persevering
(c) restless
(d) emotional[4] The expression 'perilous swim' means
(a) painful
(b) useless swim
(c) risky swim
(d) interesting swimasked in General Ability, 2009
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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ::
An astrologer passing through the village called Koopal foretold that Velan would live in a three-storeyed house surrounded by many acres of garden. At this everybody gathered round Velan and made fun of him. For Koopal did not have a more ragged and God-forsaken family than Velans'. His father had mortgaged every bit of property he had and worked with his whole family on other people's lands in return for a few annas a week. Athree-storeyed house for Velan indeed !... But those who made fun of him would have congratulated the astrologer if they had seen Velan about thirty or forty years later. He became the sale occupant of "Kumar Baugh" - that palatial house on the outskirts of Malgudi town.
[1] The astrologer
(a) visited the village
(b) belonged to the village
(c) happened to pass through the village
(d) was invited by the villagers[2] The village where Velan lived was
(a) Malgudi
(b) Koopal
(c) Kumar Baugh
(d) None of these[3] Everyone made fun of the forecast because
(a) Velan was too small to be the owner of the three-storeyed building
(b) Velan was a funny character
(c) In the present situation it was unbelievable
(d) his father had mortagaged the house[4] The villagers would have congratulated the astrologer because
(a) he indeed became the owner of the palatial house
(b) he could change the fate of Velan
(c) his forecast turned out to be a reality
(d) he was a man of great knowledgeasked in General Ability, 2009
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