MCQ: Reading Comprehension - 2(Hard) - SSC CGL MCQ

Direction: In 1900, to a shipping clerk---Alexander Fleming---a career in science seemed like a distant dream. Alexander the youngest son of a Scottish farmer from Ayrshire was born on 6, August, 1881. He was able to complete High school but then his family funds ran out. At sixteen he took a job as a shipping clerk and stayed there for four years. In 1901. Alexander came across a small legacy which enabled him to continue his education, and, on the advice of one of his brothers who was a doctor, he chose to prepare for a career in medicine. Alexander did unusually well in medical school along with rifle shooting, swimming, water polo and painting. After his graduation, his teacher Prof. Wright asked him to join him in bacteriological research, which he readily agreed.

Q. Whom should we thanks for enabling Alexader to fulfil his distance dream ?

Direction: In 1900, to a shipping clerk---Alexander Fleming---a career in science seemed like a distant dream. Alexander the youngest son of a Scottish farmer from Ayrshire was born on 6, August, 1881. He was able to complete High school but then his family funds ran out. At sixteen he took a job as a shipping clerk and stayed there for four years. In 1901. Alexander came across a small legacy which enabled him to continue his education, and, on the advice of one of his brothers who was a doctor, he chose to prepare for a career in medicine. Alexander did unusually well in medical school along with rifle shooting, swimming, water polo and painting. After his graduation, his teacher Prof. Wright asked him to join him in bacteriological research, which he readily agreed.

Q. What problem was faced by Alexander that nipped his completion of High School ?

Direction: In 1900, to a shipping clerk---Alexander Fleming---a career in science seemed like a distant dream. Alexander the youngest son of a Scottish farmer from Ayrshire was born on 6, August, 1881. He was able to complete High school but then his family funds ran out. At sixteen he took a job as a shipping clerk and stayed there for four years. In 1901. Alexander came across a small legacy which enabled him to continue his education, and, on the advice of one of his brothers who was a doctor, he chose to prepare for a career in medicine. Alexander did unusually well in medical school along with rifle shooting, swimming, water polo and painting. After his graduation, his teacher Prof. Wright asked him to join him in bacteriological research, which he readily agreed.

Q. How was he favoured by the fortune ?

Direction: The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various, but all have something in common. The typical unhappy man, is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of ‘pleasure'. This is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Q. Who is a typical unhappy man ?

Direction: The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various, but all have something in common. The typical unhappy man, is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of ‘pleasure'. This is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Q. What does the phrase "becoming less alive" imply ?

Direction: The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various, but all have something in common. The typical unhappy man, is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of ‘pleasure'. This is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Q. Which one of the following is the correct explanation for the given statements ?
Drinking helps the unhappy man only to ?

Direction: When I logged in to Facebook this week,i was greeted with updates from such friends as Mareah Carey, Natalie portman and
Ryan Gosling, right? Except that when i clicked through. It was clear that these posts were from my same, lame no-name
friends who were simply jumping on the latest Facebook bandwagon. Yes, it is (or was as these things don’t exactly have strict
expiration dates) Celebrity doppelganger week on Facebook , during which people replace their profile picture with the celeb
they think they look most like them.
This is the operative word here. I love my friends, but trust me-it’s a motley crew that little resembles anyone casting directors would want to put in a feature film. But more disturbing than the creative liberties they took in choosing their twins is that, this is just the latest example of how my friends-and hundreds of thousands of people around the world-are susceptible to face book groupthink. These are grass-roots names that spread virally throughout the site, making them difficult to trace back to an origin with any certainty. The Huffington post published what appeared to be the transcript of an interview with Bob Patel, and IT worker who says his resemblance to Tom selleck prompted the start of Doppelganger Week. But the claim (and the transcript itself) is dubious-the article is even tagged as “satire,” but that hasn’t stopped blogs and news organizations from citing Patel as the instigator.

Q. Which of the following options is true as per the passage ?

Direction: When I logged in to Facebook this week,i was greeted with updates from such friends as Mareah Carey, Natalie portman and
Ryan Gosling, right? Except that when i clicked through. It was clear that these posts were from my same, lame no-name
friends who were simply jumping on the latest Facebook bandwagon. Yes, it is (or was as these things don’t exactly have strict
expiration dates) Celebrity doppelganger week on Facebook , during which people replace their profile picture with the celeb
they think they look most like them.
This is the operative word here. I love my friends, but trust me-it’s a motley crew that little resembles anyone casting directors would want to put in a feature film. But more disturbing than the creative liberties they took in choosing their twins is that, this is just the latest example of how my friends-and hundreds of thousands of people around the world-are susceptible to face book groupthink. These are grass-roots names that spread virally throughout the site, making them difficult to trace back to an origin with any certainty. The Huffington post published what appeared to be the transcript of an interview with Bob Patel, and IT worker who says his resemblance to Tom selleck prompted the start of Doppelganger Week. But the claim (and the transcript itself) is dubious-the article is even tagged as “satire,” but that hasn’t stopped blogs and news organizations from citing Patel as the instigator.

Q. Which of the following best represents the theme of the passage ?

Direction: When I logged in to Facebook this week,i was greeted with updates from such friends as Mareah Carey, Natalie portman and
Ryan Gosling, right? Except that when i clicked through. It was clear that these posts were from my same, lame no-name
friends who were simply jumping on the latest Facebook bandwagon. Yes, it is (or was as these things don’t exactly have strict
expiration dates) Celebrity doppelganger week on Facebook , during which people replace their profile picture with the celeb
they think they look most like them.
This is the operative word here. I love my friends, but trust me-it’s a motley crew that little resembles anyone casting directors would want to put in a feature film. But more disturbing than the creative liberties they took in choosing their twins is that, this is just the latest example of how my friends-and hundreds of thousands of people around the world-are susceptible to face book groupthink. These are grass-roots names that spread virally throughout the site, making them difficult to trace back to an origin with any certainty. The Huffington post published what appeared to be the transcript of an interview with Bob Patel, and IT worker who says his resemblance to Tom selleck prompted the start of Doppelganger Week. But the claim (and the transcript itself) is dubious-the article is even tagged as “satire,” but that hasn’t stopped blogs and news organizations from citing Patel as the instigator.

Q. Which of the following best represents the attitude of the author ?

Direction: When I logged in to Facebook this week,i was greeted with updates from such friends as Mareah Carey, Natalie portman and
Ryan Gosling, right? Except that when i clicked through. It was clear that these posts were from my same, lame no-name
friends who were simply jumping on the latest Facebook bandwagon. Yes, it is (or was as these things don’t exactly have strict
expiration dates) Celebrity doppelganger week on Facebook , during which people replace their profile picture with the celeb
they think they look most like them.
This is the operative word here. I love my friends, but trust me-it’s a motley crew that little resembles anyone casting directors would want to put in a feature film. But more disturbing than the creative liberties they took in choosing their twins is that, this is just the latest example of how my friends-and hundreds of thousands of people around the world-are susceptible to face book groupthink. These are grass-roots names that spread virally throughout the site, making them difficult to trace back to an origin with any certainty. The Huffington post published what appeared to be the transcript of an interview with Bob Patel, and IT worker who says his resemblance to Tom selleck prompted the start of Doppelganger Week. But the claim (and the transcript itself) is dubious-the article is even tagged as “satire,” but that hasn’t stopped blogs and news organizations from citing Patel as the instigator.

Q. What does the author mean by "motley" ?

Direction: The King of Kanchi set off to conquer Karnat. He was victorious in the battle. The elephants were laden with sandalwood, Ivory, gold and precious stones taken from the conquered kingdom of Karnat. They would be a part of the victory parade for his subjects. On his way back home, he stopped at a temple, finished his prayers to the goddess and turned to leave. Around his neck was a garland of scarlet hibiscus and was the custom for all, his forehead was anointed with red sandal paste. His Minister and the court jester were his only companions. At one spot, in a mango grove by the wayside, they spied some children play. The king said, “Let me go and see what they are playing.”
The children had lined up two rows of clay dolls and were playing warriors and battles. The king asked, “Who is fighting whom?” They said, “karnat is at battle with Kanchi.” The King asked, “who is winning and who is the loser?” The children puffed their chests up and said, “karnat will win and kanchi will lose.” The Minister froze in disbelief, the King was furious and the jester burst into laughter. The king was soon joined by his troops and the children were still immersed in their game. The King commanded, “Cane them hard.” The children’s parents came running from the nearby village and said, “They are naive, it was just a game, please grant them pardon.”

Q. The king was angry with the children because ?

Direction: The King of Kanchi set off to conquer Karnat. He was victorious in the battle. The elephants were laden with sandalwood, Ivory, gold and precious stones taken from the conquered kingdom of Karnat. They would be a part of the victory parade for his subjects. On his way back home, he stopped at a temple, finished his prayers to the goddess and turned to leave. Around his neck was a garland of scarlet hibiscus and was the custom for all, his forehead was anointed with red sandal paste. His Minister and the court jester were his only companions. At one spot, in a mango grove by the wayside, they spied some children play. The king said, “Let me go and see what they are playing.”
The children had lined up two rows of clay dolls and were playing warriors and battles. The king asked, “Who is fighting whom?” They said, “karnat is at battle with Kanchi.” The King asked, “who is winning and who is the loser?” The children puffed their chests up and said, “karnat will win and kanchi will lose.” The Minister froze in disbelief, the King was furious and the jester burst into laughter. The king was soon joined by his troops and the children were still immersed in their game. The King commanded, “Cane them hard.” The children’s parents came running from the nearby village and said, “They are naive, it was just a game, please grant them pardon.”

Q. What excuse was given for the children's behaviour ?