MCQ: Reading Comprehension - 5(Hard) - SSC CGL MCQ
15 Questions MCQ Test English Language & Comprehension for SSC CGL - MCQ: Reading Comprehension - 5(Hard)
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
To be able to grow into self-confident, fearless, and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India, her prospects of all-round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of son preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of male supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only are girls socially unequipped to question the injustices done to them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. A large number of girls are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are known as street children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.
Q. Do the girls really live their lives in their own terms?
To be able to grow into self-confident, fearless, and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India, her prospects of all-round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of son preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of male supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only are girls socially unequipped to question the injustices done to them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. A large number of girls are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are known as street children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
To be able to grow into self confident, fearless and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India. her prospects of all round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of sun preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of make supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only girl are socially unequipped to question the injustices done them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. Large number of the girl are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are know as children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.
Q. How the birth of a girl is celebrated in our society?
To be able to grow into self confident, fearless and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India. her prospects of all round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of sun preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of make supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only girl are socially unequipped to question the injustices done them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. Large number of the girl are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are know as children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.
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Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
To be able to grow into self confident, fearless and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India. her prospects of all round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of sun preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of make supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only girl are socially unequipped to question the injustices done them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. Large number of the girl are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are know as children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.
Q. Girl in our society are victim of ?
To be able to grow into self confident, fearless and active women, a girl must be nurtured in an atmosphere where she can be valued. However, for the average girl child in India. her prospects of all round healthy development are severely constrained. Born into a socially inhospitable environment, a girl is considered to be an expense - someone who will never contribute to the family income and at the time of her marriage will take large assets as dowry. So deeply entrenched is the ideology of sun preference, that a mother not only hopes and prays for a boy but actually fears the birth of a daughter. In India, girls are socialized from the very beginning to accept the ideology of make supremacy, which makes them a prey to discriminatory practices. This means that not only girl are socially unequipped to question the injustices done them, but in the absence of models of role and conduct, they actually propagate the dominant social and cultural values which are against their interests. Large number of the girl are allowed to die because of malnutrition and disease, which are not properly treated. Children who are working and are on the street are know as children. A street child may be defined as a minor for whom the street has become his or her habitual abode and who is without adequate protection.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Q. What happens when the time to be spent on some work increases?
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Q. Who is the person likely to take more time to do work:
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Q. Explain the sentence: 'Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion' .
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Q. What does the expression 'pillar box' stand for?
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. The general recognition of this fact is show in the proverbial phrase, 'It is the busiest man who has time to spare. 'Thus, an elderly lady at leisure can spend the entire day writing a postcard to her niece. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another hunting for spectacles, half an hour to search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition and twenty minute in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar box in the street. The total effort that would occupy a busy man for three minutes, all told, may in this fashion leave another person completely exhausted after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
Q. What is the total time spent by the elderly lady in writing a postcard?
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The last half of my life was spent at one of those painful epochs of human history, during which the world seemed to be getting worse; where past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through the world through an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was hunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly any-one thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Q. The author felt sad about the latter part of his life because:
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The last half of my life was spent at one of those painful epochs of human history, during which the world seemed to be getting worse; where past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through the world through an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was hunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly any-one thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Q. The word 'definitive' used in the passage means:
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The last half of my life was spent at one of those painful epochs of human history, during which the world seemed to be getting worse; where past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through the world through an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was hunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly any-one thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Q. The victories of the past:
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The last half of my life was spent at one of those painful epochs of human history, during which the world seemed to be getting worse; where past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through the world through an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was hunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly any-one thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Q. During the Victorian age people believed that:
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The last half of my life was spent at one of those painful epochs of human history, during which the world seemed to be getting worse; where past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through the world through an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was hunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly any-one thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Q. " A brief interlude between past and future barbarism" can be interpreted as:
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The news that the Indian Railways are going to incur a shortfall of Rs 1000 crore in their resources generation - and will, therefore, have to seek budgetary support to that extend - will not surprise many. That's a scenario that has been played out for years now, and the outcome, too, has been predictable - with railways budget doing is duty by doling out public money. But it's time to look at the problem differently, in view of the current concerns of the government in economizing its charity and the feeling that the railways have to stand on their own legs.
The Railways have, over the last few months, continued to experience a shortfall of Rs 85 crore per month, a feature that could add to their woes if it continue. Fall in expected goods traffic, in the rate per tonne and also a dip in passenger traffic have contributed to the shortfall. All these may not be new concerns for the Railways; the relevant point, however, is how the system and the government hope to tackle it.
Clearly, budgetary support should be considered only in the last instance, after various measures to both reduce expenditure and raise resources have been tried out. Consider subsidies on passenger traffic --- the expenditure which really digs into the government's coffers. In fact, passenger traffic subsidy accounted for nearly 90 per cent of the railways' losses in 1992/93, with freight traffic subsidies taking up the rest.
Freight traffic subsidy cuts should prove more easy if this year's budget exercise is any indication. Till now, sixteen commodities were subsidized. In 1993/94, budget subsidy on four commodities were removed. Prices did not rise, there was little protest and now the Railways ought to be emboldened to do more Reduction in passenger subsidies is more tricky given the dependence of such a large population, mostly poor, on the system and most governments have been reluctant to do much. In fact, passenger rates have been hiked very few times and that, too, only in recent years.
One area where the Railways could do a lot more pruning is in shutting uneconomic branch lines. For instance, in 1992/93 it was found that 114 branch lines contributed a loss of Rs 121 crore.
To its credit, however, the railways have been looking around for sources of funds other than the budget.
Q. Which of the following has the same meaning as the word dip as it has been used in the passage.
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
The news that the Indian Railways are going to incur a shortfall of Rs 1000 crore in their resources generation - and will, therefore, have to seek budgetary support to that extend - will not surprise many. That's a scenario that has been played out for years now, and the outcome, too, has been predictable - with railways budget doing is duty by doling out public money. But it's time to look at the problem differently, in view of the current concerns of the government in economizing its charity and the feeling that the railways have to stand on their own legs.
The Railways have, over the last few months, continued to experience a shortfall of Rs 85 crore per month, a feature that could add to their woes if it continue. Fall in expected goods traffic, in the rate per tonne and also a dip in passenger traffic have contributed to the shortfall. All these may not be new concerns for the Railways; the relevant point, however, is how the system and the government hope to tackle it.
Clearly, budgetary support should be considered only in the last instance, after various measures to both reduce expenditure and raise resources have been tried out. Consider subsidies on passenger traffic --- the expenditure which really digs into the government's coffers. In fact, passenger traffic subsidy accounted for nearly 90 per cent of the railways' losses in 1992/93, with freight traffic subsidies taking up the rest.
Freight traffic subsidy cuts should prove more easy if this year's budget exercise is any indication. Till now, sixteen commodities were subsidized. In 1993/94, budget subsidy on four commodities were removed. Prices did not rise, there was little protest and now the Railways ought to be emboldened to do more Reduction in passenger subsidies is more tricky given the dependence of such a large population, mostly poor, on the system and most governments have been reluctant to do much. In fact, passenger rates have been hiked very few times and that, too, only in recent years.
One area where the Railways could do a lot more pruning is in shutting uneconomic branch lines. For instance, in 1992/93 it was found that 114 branch lines contributed a loss of Rs 121 crore.
To its credit, however, the railways have been looking around for sources of funds other than the budget.
Q. Which of the following is true regarding the passenger fare charged by the Railways?
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