CPO Tier II English Mock Test - Part 3

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In the technological system of tomorrow-fast, fluid and self-regulating will deal with the flow of physical materials; men with the flow of information and insight. Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home.

Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second man will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organization needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.

In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical Judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in CP. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
In the technological system of tomorrow-fast, fluid and self-regulating will deal with the flow of physical materials; men with the flow of information and insight. Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home.

Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organization needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical Judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in CP. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
In the technological system of tomorrow-fast, fluid and self-regulating will deal with the flow of physical materials; men with the flow of information and insight. Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home.

Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organization needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical Judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in CP. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
In the technological system of tomorrow-fast, fluid and self-regulating will deal with the flow of physical materials; men with the flow of information and insight. Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home.

Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organization needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical Judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in CP. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
In the technological system of tomorrow-fast, fluid and self-regulating will deal with the flow of physical materials; men with the flow of information and insight. Machines will increasingly perform tasks. Machines and men both, instead of being concentrated in gigantic factories and factory cities, will be scattered across the globe, linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home.

Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organization needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical Judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in CP. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

The originator of the theory of evolution Charles Darwin, an eminent scientist and writer of “The Origin of Species’ and “The Descent of Man”, came from a distinguished family. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin, was an eminent physician, an inventor and a competent author with liberal views. In one of his works, he had even suggested the idea of evolution. Charles' grandfather on his mother’s side was Josiah Wedgwood, the industrialist who established the world famous pottery works.

Because his father wished him to follow the family profession of medicine, he sent Charles to a classical secondary school and then to medical school at Edinburgh University. Charles did poorly at both places, because he was less interested in these studies than in several hobbies that he had cultivated. He joined a club of young zoologists and made several expeditions along the shores of England to study marine life. He pursued books on travel, natural philosophy, geology, botany and zoology. The beginning of his thinking on evolution may possibly be traced to his reading of scientist Lamarck and to his grandfather’s journal which suggested this idea.

As a last hope for a serious and respectable career, Charles’s family thought he might become a clergyman, and he was sent to Christ College. But he joined a group or young sportsmen and gave attention to the riches and marksmanship. At this point he had accepted the position as a naturalist on the ship Beagle which was to make an exploratory around the world trip under Captain Fitzory.

Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

The originator of the theory of evolution Charles Darwin, an eminent scientist and writer of “The Origin of Species’ and “The Descent of Man”, came from a distinguished family. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin, was an eminent physician, an inventor and a competent author with liberal views. In one of his works, he had even suggested the idea of evolution. Charles' grandfather on his mother’s side was Josiah Wedgwood, the industrialist who established the world famous pottery works.

Because his father wished him to follow the family profession of medicine, he sent Charles to a classical secondary school and then to medical school at Edinburgh University. Charles did poorly at both places, because he was less interested in these studies than in several hobbies that he had cultivated. He joined a club of young zoologists and made several expeditions along the shores of England to study marine life. He pursued books on travel, natural philosophy, geology, botany and zoology. The beginning of his thinking on evolution may possibly be traced to his reading of scientist Lamarck and to his grandfather’s journal which suggested this idea.

As a last hope for a serious and respectable career, Charles’s family thought he might become a clergyman, and he was sent to Christ College. But he joined a group or young sportsmen and gave attention to the riches and marksmanship. At this point he had accepted the position as a naturalist on the ship Beagle which was to make an exploratory around the world trip under Captain Fitzory.

Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

The originator of the theory of evolution Charles Darwin, an eminent scientist and writer of “The Origin of Species’ and “The Descent of Man”, came from a distinguished family. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin, was an eminent physician, an inventor and a competent author with liberal views. In one of his works, he had even suggested the idea of evolution. Charles' grandfather on his mother’s side was Josiah Wedgwood, the industrialist who established the world famous pottery works.

Because his father wished him to follow the family profession of medicine, he sent Charles to a classical secondary school and then to medical school at Edinburgh University. Charles did poorly at both places, because he was less interested in these studies than in several hobbies that he had cultivated. He joined a club of young zoologists and made several expeditions along the shores of England to study marine life. He pursued books on travel, natural philosophy, geology, botany and zoology. The beginning of his thinking on evolution may possibly be traced to his reading of scientist Lamarck and to his grandfather’s journal which suggested this idea.

As a last hope for a serious and respectable career, Charles’s family thought he might become a clergyman, and he was sent to Christ College. But he joined a group or young sportsmen and gave attention to the riches and marksmanship. At this point he had accepted the position as a naturalist on the ship Beagle which was to make an exploratory around the world trip under Captain Fitzory.

Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

The originator of the theory of evolution Charles Darwin, an eminent scientist and writer of “The Origin of Species’ and “The Descent of Man”, came from a distinguished family. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin, was an eminent physician, an inventor and a competent author with liberal views. In one of his works, he had even suggested the idea of evolution. Charles' grandfather on his mother’s side was Josiah Wedgwood, the industrialist who established the world famous pottery works.

Because his father wished him to follow the family profession of medicine, he sent Charles to a classical secondary school and then to medical school at Edinburgh University. Charles did poorly at both places, because he was less interested in these studies than in several hobbies that he had cultivated. He joined a club of young zoologists and made several expeditions along the shores of England to study marine life. He pursued books on travel, natural philosophy, geology, botany and zoology. The beginning of his thinking on evolution may possibly be traced to his reading of scientist Lamarck and to his grandfather’s journal which suggested this idea.

As a last hope for a serious and respectable career, Charles’s family thought he might become a clergyman, and he was sent to Christ College. But he joined a group or young sportsmen and gave attention to the riches and marksmanship. At this point he had accepted the position as a naturalist on the ship Beagle which was to make an exploratory around the world trip under Captain Fitzory.

Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. 

The originator of the theory of evolution Charles Darwin, an eminent scientist and writer of “The Origin of Species’ and “The Descent of Man”, came from a distinguished family. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin, was an eminent physician, an inventor and a competent author with liberal views. In one of his works, he had even suggested the idea of evolution. Charles' grandfather on his mother’s side was Josiah Wedgwood, the industrialist who established the world famous pottery works.

Because his father wished him to follow the family profession of medicine, he sent Charles to a classical secondary school and then to medical school at Edinburgh University. Charles did poorly at both places, because he was less interested in these studies than in several hobbies that he had cultivated. He joined a club of young zoologists and made several expeditions along the shores of England to study marine life. He pursued books on travel, natural philosophy, geology, botany and zoology. The beginning of his thinking on evolution may possibly be traced to his reading of scientist Lamarck and to his grandfather’s journal which suggested this idea.

As a last hope for a serious and respectable career, Charles’s family thought he might become a clergyman, and he was sent to Christ College. But he joined a group or young sportsmen and gave attention to the riches and marksmanship. At this point he had accepted the position as a naturalist on the ship Beagle which was to make an exploratory around the world trip under Captain Fitzory.