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Question 1

Direction: Given below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.

Urbanization and industrialization have often resulted in whole areas of forests being cleared to gain new land and to obtain timber for the various building projects. Large areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks. Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere. The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.
The writer express the belief that

Question 2

Direction: Given below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
Urbanization and industrialization have often resulted in whole areas of forests being cleared to gain new land and to obtain timber for the various building projects. Large areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks. Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere. The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.
The effect on forest areas produced by the activity described in the first sentence is called

Question 3

Direction: Given below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
Urbanization and industrialization have often resulted in whole areas of forests being cleared to gain new land and to obtain timber for the various building projects. Large areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks. Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere. The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.
The result of industrial development, according to the writer, are

Question 4

Direction: Given below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read a passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
Urbanization and industrialization have often resulted in whole areas of forests being cleared to gain new land and to obtain timber for the various building projects. Large areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks. Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere. The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.
The phrase ‘concrete jungle’ in the paragraph refers to the factories and houses built as a result of urbanization and industrialization. This phrase suggests that the author

Question 5

Each item in this section consists of a part with an underlined word followed by four words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
His ideas are obscure.

Question 6

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The universities in India must learn to(6) individuality, variety and dissent (7) a climate of tolerance. Dissent there is, even now, but usually of a sensational kind. The general tendency however, is, to produce the ‘organisation man’ who is (8) to challenge the accepted pattern of social behavior and social institutions at the intellectual level and who is(9)often anxious to worm himself into the good (10) of the people who count so that he may be able to ‘get on’ in life.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 7

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The universities in India must learn to(6) individuality, variety and dissent (7) a climate of tolerance. Dissent there is, even now, but usually of a sensational kind. The general tendency however, is, to produce the ‘organisation man’ who is (8) to challenge the accepted pattern of social behavior and social institutions at the intellectual level and who is(9)often anxious to worm himself into the good (10) of the people who count so that he may be able to ‘get on’ in life.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 8

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The universities in India must learn to(6) individuality, variety and dissent (7) a climate of tolerance. Dissent there is, even now, but usually of a sensational kind. The general tendency however, is, to produce the ‘organisation man’ who is (8) to challenge the accepted pattern of social behavior and social institutions at the intellectual level and who is(9)often anxious to worm himself into the good (10) of the people who count so that he may be able to ‘get on’ in life.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 9

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The universities in India must learn to(6) individuality, variety and dissent (7) a climate of tolerance. Dissent there is, even now, but usually of a sensational kind. The general tendency however, is, to produce the ‘organisation man’ who is (8) to challenge the accepted pattern of social behavior and social institutions at the intellectual level and who is(9)often anxious to worm himself into the good (10) of the people who count so that he may be able to ‘get on’ in life.

Find the appropriate word in each case.

Question 10

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer out of the four alternatives for the given blanks.

The universities in India must learn to(6) individuality, variety and dissent (7) a climate of tolerance. Dissent there is, even now, but usually of a sensational kind. The general tendency however, is, to produce the ‘organisation man’ who is (8) to challenge the accepted pattern of social behavior and social institutions at the intellectual level and who is(9)often anxious to worm himself into the good (10) of the people who count so that he may be able to ‘get on’ in life.

Find the appropriate word in each case.
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