CTET -2 (Science & Math) Mini Mock Test 2023 : 78

Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.
It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much knowledge as you possibly can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs, and your Mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The Brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products or the aeons of Evolution: the other is the imponderable ‘Social instinct’. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from the animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and higher Intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo-Sapiens.
Knowledge and mental self-culture will confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics. You will know your duty and do it. To be wise and independent in your politics, not to be doped and duped by the selfish priests and the scheming politicians of Capitalism and so called Socialism: is this not a noble aim worth striving for ? Most men and women today are not free and wise : they are like kites flown by the priests and politicians who hold the string. They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance.

Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.
Once upon a time, there lived a sparrow in a tree. He was very happy to have a beautiful and comfortable nest of his own in the tree. The sparrow used to fly to far off places to pick at grains from so many fields, full of crops. At the sunset he would return to his perch.
One day, the sparrow ate his fill, but could not return to his nest, because of the heavy rains which continued for the whole night. The sparrow had to spend the whole night in a big banyan tree, a little distance away from home.
The next morning, when the rain stopped and the sky became clear, the sparrow returned to his tree. He was astonished to find a rabbit occupying his beautiful and comfortable nest.
The sparrow lost his temper and spoke to the rabbit, “It’s my home your’re sitting in. Please quit this place at once.”
“Don’t talk like fools,” replied the rabbit. “Trees, rivers and lakes don’t belong to anyone. Places like these are yours only so long as you are living in. If someone else occupies it in your absence, it belongs to the new occupant. So go away and don’t disturb me anymore.”
But the sparrow was not satisfied with this illogical reply. He said, “Let’s ask a person of wisdom and only then case will be settled.”
At a distance from the tree, there lived a wild cat. The cat, somehow, overheard the discussion that took place between the sparrow and the rabbit.
The cat immediately thought of a plan, took a holy dip in the river, and then sat like a priest and began chanting God’s name in a loud tone. When the rabbit and the sparrow heard the cat chanting God’s name, they approached him with a hope to get impartial justice and requested him to pass a judgement in the matter.
The cat became very happy to have both of them in front of him. He pretended to listen to their arguments. But as soon as the right opportunity came, the cat pounced upon both of them and killed and ate them together with great relish.
(from Panchtantra)

निर्देश: पद्यांश को पढकर निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों के सबसे उचित विकल्प चुनिए-

जब तक साथ एक भी दम हो, हो अवशिष्ट एक भी धड़कन।

रखो आत्म-गौरव से ऊँची, पलकें, ऊँचा सिर, ऊँचा मन ॥

एक बूंद भी रक्त शेष हो, जब तक मन में हे शत्रुजय !

दीन वचन मुख से न उचारो, मानो नहीं मृत्यु का भी भय ॥

निर्भय स्वागत करो मृत्यु का, मृत्यु एक है विश्राम-स्थल।

जीव जहाँ से फिर चलता है, धारण कर नव जीवन-संबल ॥

मृत्यु एक सरिता है, जिसमें, श्रम से कातर जीव नहाकर ।।

फिर नूतन धारण करता है, काया-रूपी वस्त्र बहाकर ॥

निर्देश:- अधोलिखितं गद्यांशं पठित्वा उत्तराणि लिखत

    रेलयाने प्रथमश्रेण्याः प्रकोष्ठे एकस्यां शायिकायां एक: वृद्धः सज्जनः भारतीय वेशभूषायां, धौतवस्त्रकञ्चुकादि धारयन् उपविष्टोऽभूत्। सहयात्री द्वे मित्रे वसन्त किशोरश्च तस्य वेशभूषां दृष्ट्वा उपहासं अकुरुताम्। एवं हासं श्रुत्वा सः वृद्धः गंभीरमुद्रया द्वे मित्रे दृष्ट्वा सहज-निश्चिन्त-भावेन शायिकोपरि उपविश्य पूजनस्य, पाठस्य ध्यानस्य वा काञ्चन क्रियां तूष्णीं निर्द्वन्द्वतया च कर्तुमारभत् । सः आस्तिक-कृत्यं शान्तिपूर्वकं समाप्य शयानोऽभूत्। प्रात:काले संजाते सः वृद्धः पूर्वतः एव उत्थाय समाचार-पत्रं पठन्नभूत्।

    स एकं समाचार-पत्रं तु भारतीय भाषायाः वाचयन्नभूत् किन्त्वपरं समाचार-पत्रं आंग्लभाषायाः अपि तत्सविधेऽभूत्। तस्य नाम शशांकशेखरवन्द्योपाध्याय आसीत्। सः विश्वविद्यालये आंग्लभाषायाः विभागाध्यक्षः आसीत्। केवलं वेशभूषां दृष्ट्वा ये मित्रे तस्य उपहासं अकुरुताम्। तौ इदानीम् एवं ज्ञात्वा स्वमनसि पश्चातापं अनुभवताम् किन्तु वृद्धः सज्जनः गंभीरप्रकृतिः आसीत्। सः तौ किमपि न अवदत्।