MCQ: Reading Comprehension - 1(Hard) - SSC CGL MCQ

Direction: When your coach tells you the intervals to hold in a set, confidence is the belief that you can make the Intervals. When you are at Nationals for the first time and step up on the block for your race, confidence is the belief in your ability to race up to your capabilities. Research on elite athletes across sports suggests that a high level of self-confidence, as well as the ability to maintain that high level over time, is a factor they have in common. The challenge is in figuring out this skill/characteristics can be developed in athletes. Contrary to what most people think,people who have high self-confidence sometimes doubt themselves or their abilities; elite athletes report feelings of apprehension and pressure prior to competition but still perform well. So being confident doesn’t mean the absence of negative thoughts or feelings. Rather, self-confident athletes believe in their ability to perform well despite feelings such as apprehension or doubt

Q. What do sportsperson have according to the research ?

Direction: When your coach tells you the intervals to hold in a set, confidence is the belief that you can make the Intervals. When you are at Nationals for the first time and step up on the block for your race, confidence is the belief in your ability to race up to your capabilities. Research on elite athletes across sports suggests that a high level of self-confidence, as well as the ability to maintain that high level over time, is a factor they have in common. The challenge is in figuring out this skill/characteristics can be developed in athletes. Contrary to what most people think,people who have high self-confidence sometimes doubt themselves or their abilities; elite athletes report feelings of apprehension and pressure prior to competition but still perform well. So being confident doesn’t mean the absence of negative thoughts or feelings. Rather, self-confident athletes believe in their ability to perform well despite feelings such as apprehension or doubt

Q. Self-confident in the passage means ?

Direction: When your coach tells you the intervals to hold in a set, confidence is the belief that you can make the Intervals. When you are at Nationals for the first time and step up on the block for your race, confidence is the belief in your ability to race up to your capabilities. Research on elite athletes across sports suggests that a high level of self-confidence, as well as the ability to maintain that high level over time, is a factor they have in common. The challenge is in figuring out this skill/characteristics can be developed in athletes. Contrary to what most people think,people who have high self-confidence sometimes doubt themselves or their abilities; elite athletes report feelings of apprehension and pressure prior to competition but still perform well. So being confident doesn’t mean the absence of negative thoughts or feelings. Rather, self-confident athletes believe in their ability to perform well despite feelings such as apprehension or doubt

Q. What is meant by the confidence ?

Direction: Classics are works of enduring excellence, judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality. The world they recreate serves as an anchor to the past, preventing us from deviating too far from the values, traditions and morals that have come to define the best of human society. If making a literary work more ‘current’ involves corrupting it, should we not think twice about doing so? Modern society may already have hit rock bottom, there is no need to dig deeper and erode the little decency that remains. And what is the use of making a classic more ‘accessible’ if it results in losing the subtle charm, appeal, and charisma of the original? If the magic is lost, the young reader today will see little reason to explore the classic anyway. And the claim that the modifications will preserve the original’s beauty doesn’t seem convincing. This is not to say that the classics are devoid of sensuality. However, it is conveyed through subtlety, delicacy and restraint-where what is not said is just as important as what is, and where good taste and decency triumphs over needlessly lurid prose. This is something that society today needs more of meaningful entertainment that broadens the consumer’s horizons and improves his outlook. Otherwise, all sense and sensibility will be gone with the wind!.

Q. What will happen incase the subtle charm is lost ?

Direction: Classics are works of enduring excellence, judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality. The world they recreate serves as an anchor to the past, preventing us from deviating too far from the values, traditions and morals that have come to define the best of human society. If making a literary work more ‘current’ involves corrupting it, should we not think twice about doing so? Modern society may already have hit rock bottom, there is no need to dig deeper and erode the little decency that remains. And what is the use of making a classic more ‘accessible’ if it results in losing the subtle charm, appeal, and charisma of the original? If the magic is lost, the young reader today will see little reason to explore the classic anyway. And the claim that the modifications will preserve the original’s beauty doesn’t seem convincing. This is not to say that the classics are devoid of sensuality. However, it is conveyed through subtlety, delicacy and restraint-where what is not said is just as important as what is, and where good taste and decency triumphs over needlessly lurid prose. This is something that society today needs more of meaningful entertainment that broadens the consumer’s horizons and improves his outlook. Otherwise, all sense and sensibility will be gone with the wind!.

Q. Which of the following is the need of society ?

Direction: Classics are works of enduring excellence, judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality. The world they recreate serves as an anchor to the past, preventing us from deviating too far from the values, traditions and morals that have come to define the best of human society. If making a literary work more ‘current’ involves corrupting it, should we not think twice about doing so? Modern society may already have hit rock bottom, there is no need to dig deeper and erode the little decency that remains. And what is the use of making a classic more ‘accessible’ if it results in losing the subtle charm, appeal, and charisma of the original? If the magic is lost, the young reader today will see little reason to explore the classic anyway. And the claim that the modifications will preserve the original’s beauty doesn’t seem convincing. This is not to say that the classics are devoid of sensuality. However, it is conveyed through subtlety, delicacy and restraint-where what is not said is just as important as what is, and where good taste and decency triumphs over needlessly lurid prose. This is something that society today needs more of meaningful entertainment that broadens the consumer’s horizons and improves his outlook. Otherwise, all sense and sensibility will be gone with the wind!.

Q. The classical in the passage is understood as ?

Direction: The basic culture of the company flows top down. And therefore, it becomes paramount on the part of the top management to lead by precedents. If you look around, there is a severe dearth of leaders who talk and talk the walk. We often see leaders openly preaching austerity but practicing opulence with nauseating disesteem in the constraint of their four walls. ‘You reap what you sow’ is the law of nature. By sowing double standards, you cannot expect principled conduct from your employees. A majority of the people fall prey to mounting insecurities as they climb up the ladder of success, that is why the basis of people management is totally forgotten and sycophantic attributes are embraced with impunity. It is a known fact that right conduct is practiced by half while wrong actions are espoused manifold. Employers need to respect their employees and have to be compassionate towards them; only then can you create the progressive edifice.

Q. What becomes the vital part of top management ?

Direction: The basic culture of the company flows top down. And therefore, it becomes paramount on the part of the top management to lead by precedents. If you look around, there is a severe dearth of leaders who talk and talk the walk. We often see leaders openly preaching austerity but practicing opulence with nauseating disesteem in the constraint of their four walls. ‘You reap what you sow’ is the law of nature. By sowing double standards, you cannot expect principled conduct from your employees. A majority of the people fall prey to mounting insecurities as they climb up the ladder of success, that is why the basis of people management is totally forgotten and sycophantic attributes are embraced with impunity. It is a known fact that right conduct is practiced by half while wrong actions are espoused manifold. Employers need to respect their employees and have to be compassionate towards them; only then can you create the progressive edifice.

Q. What are the leaders doing instead of what they should do ?

Direction: The basic culture of the company flows top down. And therefore, it becomes paramount on the part of the top management to lead by precedents. If you look around, there is a severe dearth of leaders who talk and talk the walk. We often see leaders openly preaching austerity but practicing opulence with nauseating disesteem in the constraint of their four walls. ‘You reap what you sow’ is the law of nature. By sowing double standards, you cannot expect principled conduct from your employees. A majority of the people fall prey to mounting insecurities as they climb up the ladder of success, that is why the basis of people management is totally forgotten and sycophantic attributes are embraced with impunity. It is a known fact that right conduct is practiced by half while wrong actions are espoused manifold. Employers need to respect their employees and have to be compassionate towards them; only then can you create the progressive edifice.

Q. In what does the double standard adopted by the management result ?

Direction: In my opinion, it is all about the skills that one possesses rather than merely a qualification or some league of institution that one has studied in. One’s thirst for knowledge is another crucial factor. People who succeed in their careers are inquisitive souls who are always in a quest for finding answers. They want to know more, look up information, ask people who know it better and get it right. A willingness to learn continuously is another common trait found in most successful people. Knowledge can be objective and it is mainly about being informed. Learning is a process and it can happen in any environment, whether or not related to what a person does at the workplace. Moreover, the mark of a good learner is that he/she can modify and customize what is learned. The next step involves balancing empathy and assertiveness make great strides in their career and life.

Q. How can success be achieved in the career ?

Direction: In my opinion, it is all about the skills that one possesses rather than merely a qualification or some league of institution that one has studied in. One’s thirst for knowledge is another crucial factor. People who succeed in their careers are inquisitive souls who are always in a quest for finding answers. They want to know more, look up information, ask people who know it better and get it right. A willingness to learn continuously is another common trait found in most successful people. Knowledge can be objective and it is mainly about being informed. Learning is a process and it can happen in any environment, whether or not related to what a person does at the workplace. Moreover, the mark of a good learner is that he/she can modify and customize what is learned. The next step involves balancing empathy and assertiveness make great strides in their career and life.

Q. What is considered as a process to the author ?

Direction: In my opinion, it is all about the skills that one possesses rather than merely a qualification or some league of institution that one has studied in. One’s thirst for knowledge is another crucial factor. People who succeed in their careers are inquisitive souls who are always in a quest for finding answers. They want to know more, look up information, ask people who know it better and get it right. A willingness to learn continuously is another common trait found in most successful people. Knowledge can be objective and it is mainly about being informed. Learning is a process and it can happen in any environment, whether or not related to what a person does at the workplace. Moreover, the mark of a good learner is that he/she can modify and customize what is learned. The next step involves balancing empathy and assertiveness make great strides in their career and life.

Q. The common quality found in the successful people is ?