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Question 1
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
The passage is about:
Question 2
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
The writer says that teachers should
Question 3
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
According to the author many boys and girls read books to
Question 4
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
“The mistake has been on the teacher’s side”. Here, the ‘mistake’ refers to
Question 5
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teacher has said that this that or the other is a good book and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy. It, So, a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they put off the idea of classical novels or they take a dislike to dickens and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach-ache and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
Indigestion and violent stomach-ache will be the result if the child
Question 6
Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
Atonement for one's sins
Question 7
In the following question, select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word.
INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL
Question 8
If in each number, first and the last digit are interchanged, which one of the following will be the lowest number?
Question 9
Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it?
_dbc_d_ca_bcad_c_db_
_dbc_d_ca_bcad_c_db_
Question 10
Who was the chairman of the 14th Finance Commission?
Question 11
Which of the following is not a natural disaster?
Question 12
The famous poet Kalidasa lived in the court of_______.
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