MCQ: Reading Comprehension - 3(Easy) - SSC CGL MCQ

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Although an Eco-friendly process and one of the important ways to save the environment, recycling is not gaining pace in the industry. The recycling undergoes many process. First is collecting and sorting of garbage. This required a lot of manpower and tools which are expensive. Another disadvantage of recycling which makes it unviable is that for the manufacturers economically, the recycled material is not highly demanded since its quality is not as good as the original material. So, if the marketing of recycled goods is not worthwhile then the whole process of recycling cannot be economically efficient. Recycled products face other disadvantage as well, such life, difficult in de-linking the dyed products and less durability etc.

Why is the marketing of recycled products not worthwhile according to the author ?
1. The original products are being sold at a much lower price as compared to the recycled products.
2. The overall effects of recycle on the environment is detrimental rather than beneficial.
3. It does not give appropriate economic returns since recycled products lack demand in the market.
Q. Which of the above statement is/are correct ?

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Although an Eco-friendly process and one of the important ways to save the environment, recycling is not gaining pace in the industry. The recycling undergoes many process. First is collecting and sorting of garbage. This required a lot of manpower and tools which are expensive. Another disadvantage of recycling which makes it unviable is that for the manufacturers economically, the recycled material is not highly demanded since its quality is not as good as the original material. So, if the marketing of recycled goods is not worthwhile then the whole process of recycling cannot be economically efficient. Recycled products face other disadvantage as well, such life, difficult in de-linking the dyed products and less durability etc.

Q. The authors highlights the problem of?

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Although an Eco-friendly process and one of the important ways to save the environment, recycling is not gaining pace in the industry. The recycling undergoes many process. First is collecting and sorting of garbage. This required a lot of manpower and tools which are expensive. Another disadvantage of recycling which makes it unviable is that for the manufacturers economically, the recycled material is not highly demanded since its quality is not as good as the original material. So, if the marketing of recycled goods is not worthwhile then the whole process of recycling cannot be economically efficient. Recycled products face other disadvantage as well, such life, difficult in de-linking the dyed products and less durability etc.

Q. What are the basic requirements of recycling?

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"Cloning is an advanced technological invention for producing a genetic twin of a living thing, an organism that starts life with the same genes as its parents. In mammals, DNA is taken from an adult animal and then it is inserted into an egg cell from another animal. This egg then divides into an embryo. The embryo is then transplanted into a surrogate mother and grown to term. This process has worked in animals like cows, sheep, goats, mice, pigs, rats, cat, monkeys, and horses." The opponents of human cloning say that an embryo at any stage of development is a human life. worthy of protection and any kind of research that entails destroying an embryo is immoral, unethical, no matter how worthy the intent may be. It involves using human beings as means; it turns human life into a commodity and fosters a culture of dehumanization.

Q. Find out the false statement out of the given options.

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"Cloning is an advanced technological invention for producing a genetic twin of a living thing, an organism that starts life with the same genes as its parents. In mammals, DNA is taken from an adult animal and then it is inserted into an egg cell from another animal. This egg then divides into an embryo. The embryo is then transplanted into a surrogate mother and grown to term. This process has worked in animals like cows, sheep, goats, mice, pigs, rats, cat, monkeys, and horses." The opponents of human cloning say that an embryo at any stage of development is a human life. worthy of protection and any kind of research that entails destroying an embryo is immoral, unethical, no matter how worthy the intent may be. It involves using human beings as means; it turns human life into a commodity and fosters a culture of dehumanization.

Q. What does this passage talk about?

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"Cloning is an advanced technological invention for producing a genetic twin of a living thing, an organism that starts life with the same genes as its parents. In mammals, DNA is taken from an adult animal and then it is inserted into an egg cell from another animal. This egg then divides into an embryo. The embryo is then transplanted into a surrogate mother and grown to term. This process has worked in animals like cows, sheep, goats, mice, pigs, rats, cat, monkeys, and horses." The opponents of human cloning say that an embryo at any stage of development is a human life. worthy of protection and any kind of research that entails destroying an embryo is immoral, unethical, no matter how worthy the intent may be. It involves using human beings as means; it turns human life into a commodity and fosters a culture of dehumanization.

Q. What does a 'surrogate mother' mean?

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For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehradun jail, and I began to feel as if I was almost a part of it. I was familiar with every bit of it, I knew every mark and dent on the whitewashed walls and on the uneven floor and the ceiling with its moth-eaten rafters. In the little yards outside I greeted little tufts of grass and odd bits of stone as old friends. I was not alone in my cell, for several colonies of wasp and hornets lived there, and many lizards founds a home behind the rafters, emerging in the evening in search of prey.

Q. Which of the following explains best the sentence in the passage " I was almost a part of it" ?

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For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehradun jail, and I began to feel as if I was almost a part of it. I was familiar with every bit of it, I knew every mark and dent on the whitewashed walls and on the uneven floor and the ceiling with its moth-eaten rafters. In the little yards outside I greeted little tufts of grass and odd bits of stone as old friends. I was not alone in my cell, for several colonies of wasp and hornets lived there, and many lizards founds a home behind the rafters, emerging in the evening in search of prey.

Q. The passage attempts to describe ?

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For fourteen and a half months I lived in my little cell or room in the Dehradun jail, and I began to feel as if I was almost a part of it. I was familiar with every bit of it, I knew every mark and dent on the whitewashed walls and on the uneven floor and the ceiling with its moth-eaten rafters. In the little yards outside I greeted little tufts of grass and odd bits of stone as old friends. I was not alone in my cell, for several colonies of wasp and hornets lived there, and many lizards founds a home behind the rafters, emerging in the evening in search of prey.

Q. The author of the passage seems to suggest that?

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The government has initiated, sustained and refined many programmes since independence to help the rural poor, In order to minimize unemployment in rural areas, the Government of India launched a number of programmes and schemes from time but they dis not achieve the desired quantum and became ineffective. Employment is the primary requirement for prosperous villages. Poverty and unemployment are inter related and form a vicious circle. Villages are unable to break it. Population, employment discontent and violence is on the rise, playing havoc in the villages. The remedies are being applied half-heartedly as if concealing the wound with beautiful cover might heal it or catchy slogans might solve the problems. Right from the days of community development, this process is going on and the results are obvious.

Q. What government action was taken to resolve the problem according to his paragraph?

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The government has initiated, sustained and refined many programmes since independence to help the rural poor, In order to minimize unemployment in rural areas, the Government of India launched a number of programmes and schemes from time but they dis not achieve the desired quantum and became ineffective. Employment is the primary requirement for prosperous villages. Poverty and unemployment are inter related and form a vicious circle. Villages are unable to break it. Population, employment discontent and violence is on the rise, playing havoc in the villages. The remedies are being applied half-heartedly as if concealing the wound with beautiful cover might heal it or catchy slogans might solve the problems. Right from the days of community development, this process is going on and the results are obvious.

Q. What the unemployment and poverty results into?

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The government has initiated, sustained and refined many programmes since independence to help the rural poor, In order to minimize unemployment in rural areas, the Government of India launched a number of programmes and schemes from time but they dis not achieve the desired quantum and became ineffective. Employment is the primary requirement for prosperous villages. Poverty and unemployment are inter related and form a vicious circle. Villages are unable to break it. Population, employment discontent and violence is on the rise, playing havoc in the villages. The remedies are being applied half-heartedly as if concealing the wound with beautiful cover might heal it or catchy slogans might solve the problems. Right from the days of community development, this process is going on and the results are obvious.

Q. What is the problem occurring in the way of making life of villagers happy?