Patna Civil Court Clerk Mock Test - 10 - Patna Civil Court Clerk MCQ

Direction: Read the following passages carefully and answer the question that follows.
Floriculture can be defined as the art and knowledge of growing flowers to perfection. Department of agriculture and co-operation under the Ministry of Agriculture is the nodal organization responsible for development of the floriculture sector. It is responsible for formulation and implementation of national policies and programmes aimed at achieving rapid agricultural growth through optimum utilization of land, water, soil and plant resources of the country. It also includes production of planting materials through seeds, cuttings, budding and grafting. Production of cut flowers for exports is also a thrust area for support. Researchers' key focus areas are crop improvement, standardization of agro-techniques including improved propagation methods, plant protection and post harvest management. In recent years, however, technologies for protected cultivation and tissue culture for mass propagation have also received attention. A large number of promising varieties of cut flowers have been developed

Q. How is the ministry of Agriculture playing its role in increasing the production of flowers?

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
It is not luck but labor that makes a man. Luck says an American writer, is every waiting for something to turn up; labor with keen eyes and strong will always turns up something . Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six and with busy pen and ringing hammer lays the foundation of competence. Luck whines, labor watches. Luck relies on chance, labor on character. Luck slips downwards to self-indulgence; labor strides upwards and aspires to independence. The conviction, therefore,
is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck. In other words, that a man's success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry, to his attention to small things.

Q. Which one of the statements is true about the passage?

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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?

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.

Siachen must be the strategically most bizarre and futile struggle in the world. Only India and Pakistan would waste lives and hundreds of crores of rupees on it every year. Some in the military argue that controlling Siachen is vital for the security of Kashmir and that Indian presence at Siachen usefully threatens the China-Pakistan Karakoram Highway. Given that hardly anyone can move through the glacier with falling into a crevasse or bursting his lungs and given that the Karakoram Highway is 200 km away, this is absurd. The Pm should forthrightly tell the military that this is complete strategic nonsense and that we should stop sacrificing the lives of jawans in this absurdity. India and Pakistan need to add substance to mostly symbolic diplomacy. Siachen would be a good place to being the march towards substance. Pakistan, for its part, must unequivocally give India MN status. Sir Creek Should be next on the list of substantial problem solving; this also was nearly solved in 1993. Then PM and his Pakistani counterpart need to shore up symbolic with real courage and resolve what is resolvable to create the base the base for a Kashmir settlement in the future.

Q. What is the problem for the Government of both India and Pakistan?

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: Read the following passages carefully and answer the question that follows.
Floriculture can be defined as the art and knowledge of growing flowers to perfection. Department of agriculture and co-operation under the Ministry of Agriculture is the nodal organization responsible for development of the floriculture sector. It is responsible for formulation and implementation of national policies and programmes aimed at achieving rapid agricultural growth through optimum utilization of land, water, soil and plant resources of the country. It also includes production of planting materials through seeds, cuttings, budding and grafting. Production of cut flowers for exports is also a thrust area for support. Researchers' key focus areas are crop improvement, standardization of agro-techniques including improved propagation methods, plant protection and post harvest management. In recent years, however, technologies for protected cultivation and tissue culture for mass propagation have also received attention. A large number of promising varieties of cut flowers have been developed

Q. The passage mainly focus on?

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
It is not luck but labor that makes a man. Luck says an American writer, is every waiting for something to turn up; labor with keen eyes and strong will always turns up something . Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six and with busy pen and ringing hammer lays the foundation of competence. Luck whines, labor watches. Luck relies on chance, labor on character. Luck slips downwards to self-indulgence; labor strides upwards and aspires to independence. The conviction, therefore,
is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck. In other words, that a man's success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry, to his attention to small things.

Q. "... Labour turns out at six and with busy pen and ringing hammer lays the foundation of competence." What does this statements mean?

Direction: Read the following passages carefully and answer the question that follows.
"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?

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.

Siachen must be the strategically most bizarre and futile struggle in the world. Only India and Pakistan would waste lives and hundreds of crores of rupees on it every year. Some in the military argue that controlling Siachen is vital for the security of Kashmir and that Indian presence at Siachen usefully threatens the China-Pakistan Karakoram Highway. Given that hardly anyone can move through the glacier with falling into a crevasse or bursting his lungs and given that the Karakoram Highway is 200 km away, this is absurd. The Pm should forthrightly tell the military that this is complete strategic nonsense and that we should stop sacrificing the lives of jawans in this absurdity. India and Pakistan need to add substance to mostly symbolic diplomacy. Siachen would be a good place to being the march towards substance. Pakistan, for its part, must unequivocally give India MN status. Sir Creek Should be next on the list of substantial problem solving; this also was nearly solved in 1993. Then PM and his Pakistani counterpart need to shore up symbolic with real courage and resolve what is resolvable to create the base the base for a Kashmir settlement in the future.

Q. What commendable task was done by both the governments?

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: Read the following passages carefully and answer the question that follows.
Floriculture can be defined as the art and knowledge of growing flowers to perfection. Department of agriculture and co-operation under the Ministry of Agriculture is the nodal organization responsible for development of the floriculture sector. It is responsible for formulation and implementation of national policies and programmes aimed at achieving rapid agricultural growth through optimum utilization of land, water, soil and plant resources of the country. It also includes production of planting materials through seeds, cuttings, budding and grafting. Production of cut flowers for exports is also a thrust area for support. Researchers' key focus areas are crop improvement, standardization of agro-techniques including improved propagation methods, plant protection and post harvest management. In recent years, however, technologies for protected cultivation and tissue culture for mass propagation have also received attention. A large number of promising varieties of cut flowers have been developed

Q. What techniques are used for "planting materials"?

Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.
It is not luck but labor that makes a man. Luck says an American writer, is every waiting for something to turn up; labor with keen eyes and strong will always turns up something . Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six and with busy pen and ringing hammer lays the foundation of competence. Luck whines, labor watches. Luck relies on chance, labor on character. Luck slips downwards to self-indulgence; labor strides upwards and aspires to independence. The conviction, therefore,
is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck. In other words, that a man's success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry, to his attention to small things.

Q. Which one of the following words in the passage indicate that the writer does not ultimately reject the element of Luck?

Directions: In the following question, a sentence is given with some part of it marked in underline. You have to identify the option that would replace the underline part and make the sentence contextually and grammatically correct.

This book is not a page-turner as it does not follow a strict narrative style and contains several philosophy interludes by their characters.

Directions: Spot the error in the underlined part of the sentence and choose the correct sentence accordingly.

Though subjected to varying influences, the distinctive features of China's artistic activity possess a unity which is quite as complete as that of our Western art.

Directions: The following question has a blank which indicates that something has been omitted. Choose the word for the blank that best fits in the context of the sentence.

Several news organizations often _______________ what official duties have been assigned to Vice President Kamala D. Harris, and where she happens to be while taking care of her assignments.

I. request
II. wonder
III. speculate

Directions: In the following question, a sentence is given followed by a blank. You are provided with three fragments I, II and III. You have to identify which fragment/s can carry forward the given sentence in the most logical way so as to make the sentence coherent and contextually correct.

Q. The concept of supply and demand is fundamental to economics because ______________.
I. it determines the prices of goods and services in the market. 
II. it helps businesses to maximize their profits.
III. it ensures that there is an equilibrium in the market.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a letter. Find the suitable word from the options given against each letter and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningful.

Scientists said on Monday they have used a laser beam to _____(A)_____ lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts -- and one day maybe even trigger them.

Lightning strikes between 40-120 times a second worldwide, killing more than 4,000 people and causing billions of dollars worth of _____(B)_____ every year.

Yet the main protection against these bolts from above is still the humble lightning rod, which was first _____(C)_____ by American polymath Benjamin Franklin in 1749.

A team of scientists from six research institutions have been working for years to use the same idea but replace the simple metal pole with a far more sophisticated and _____(D)_____ laser.

Now, in a study published in the journal Nature Photonics, they describe using a laser beam -- shot from the top of a Swiss mountain -- to guide a lightning bolt for more than 50 metres.

"We wanted to give the first _____(E)_____ that the laser can have an influence on lightning -- and it is simplest to guide it," said Aurelien Houard, a physicist at the applied optics laboratory of the ENSTA Paris institute and the study's lead author.

Q. Select the most appropriate option that will fill in the blank (D).

I. venerable
II. precise
III. exact

"आग" शब्द का तत्सम ______ है।

निम्न में से कौन सा शब्द पुल्लिंग है?

जंगल का पर्यायवाची शब्द क्या है ?

निर्देश: गद्यांश के आधार पर निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों के उत्तर दीजिए।
पिछले रविवार को में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय व्यापार मेला देखने गया। यह प्रदर्शनी प्रगति मैदान में लगाई गई थी। इसे लघु उद्योग विभाग ने आयोजित किया थाl यहाँ पर लोगों की बहुत भीड़ थी। उन लोगों ने अच्छे परिधान धारण किये हुए थे। ये एक बड़े मेले जैसा दिखाई देता है। अधिकांश राज्यों ने अपने-अपने पवैलियन स्थापित किये थे। यहाँ पर हस्तशिल्प, होजरी और बने - बनाये वस्त्र, खेलों का सामान और प्लास्टिक के खिलोने थे। खाने की वस्तुओं के स्टालों पर बहुत अधिक भीड़ थी। बच्चों के लिए अप्पू घर विशेष आकर्षण का केंद्र था। मैंने यहाँ पर प्रसन्नतापूर्वक समय व्यतीत किया। यह प्रदर्शिनी दर्शाती थी कि ग्रामों के उत्थान से ही भारत एक विकसित देश बन सकता है।

Q. गद्यांश में मेलें का अर्थ क्या है ?

निर्देश: गद्यांश के आधार पर निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों के उत्तर दीजिए।
पिछले रविवार को में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय व्यापार मेला देखने गया। यह प्रदर्शनी प्रगति मैदान में लगाई गई थी। इसे लघु उद्योग विभाग ने आयोजित किया थाl यहाँ पर लोगों की बहुत भीड़ थी। उन लोगों ने अच्छे परिधान धारण किये हुए थे। ये एक बड़े मेले जैसा दिखाई देता है। अधिकांश राज्यों ने अपने-अपने पवैलियन स्थापित किये थे। यहाँ पर हस्तशिल्प, होजरी और बने - बनाये वस्त्र, खेलों का सामान और प्लास्टिक के खिलोने थे। खाने की वस्तुओं के स्टालों पर बहुत अधिक भीड़ थी। बच्चों के लिए अप्पू घर विशेष आकर्षण का केंद्र था। मैंने यहाँ पर प्रसन्नतापूर्वक समय व्यतीत किया। यह प्रदर्शिनी दर्शाती थी कि ग्रामों के उत्थान से ही भारत एक विकसित देश बन सकता है।

Q. उत्थान का आशय क्या है?

निर्देश: दिए गए गद्यांश को ध्यानपूर्वक पढ़कर पूछे गए प्रश्नों का सही उत्तर दीजिए -
साहित्य की शाश्वतता का प्रश्न एक महत्वपूर्ण प्रश्न है। क्या साहित्य शाश्वत होता है? यदि हाँ, तो किस मायने में? क्या कोई साहित्य अपने रचनाकाल के सौ वर्ष बीत जाने पर भी उतना ही प्रासंगिक रहता है, जितना वह अपनी रचना के समय था? अपने समय या युग का निर्माता साहित्यकार क्या सौ वर्ष बाद की परिस्थितियों का भी युग-निर्माता हो सकता है। समय बदलता रहता है, परिस्थितियाँ और भावबोध बदलते हैं, साहित्य बदलता है और इसी के समानांतर पाठक की मानसिकता और अभिरुचि भी बदलती है।
अत: कोई भी कविता अपने सामयिक परिवेश के बदल जाने पर ठीक वही उत्तेजना पैदा नहीं कर सकती, जो उसने अपने रचनाकाल के दौरान की होगी। कहने का तात्पर्य यह है कि एक विशेष प्रकार के साहित्य के श्रेष्ठ अस्तित्व मात्र से वह साहित्य हर युग के लिए उतना ही विशेष आकर्षण रखे, यह आवश्यक नहीं है। यही कारण है कि वर्तमान युग में इंगला-पिंगला, सुषुम्ना, अनहद, नाद आदि पारिभाषिक शब्दावली मन में विशेष भावोत्तेजन नहीं करती।
साहित्य की श्रेष्ठता मात्र ही उसके नित्य आकर्षण का आधार नहीं है। उसकी श्रेष्ठता का युगयुगीन आधार हैं, वे जीवन-मूल्य तथा उनकी अत्यंत कलात्मक अभिव्यक्तियाँ जो मनुष्य की स्वतंत्रता तथा उच्चतर मानव-विकास के लिए पथ-प्रदर्शक का काम करती हैं। पुराने साहित्य का केवल वही श्री-सौंदर्य हमारे लिए ग्राह्य होगा, जो नवीन जीवन-मूल्यों के विकास में सक्रिय सहयोग दे अथवा स्थिति-रक्षा में सहायक हो। कुछ लोग साहित्य की सामाजिक प्रतिबद्धता को अस्वीकार करते हैं।
वे मानते हैं कि साहित्यकार निरपेक्ष होता है और उस पर कोई भी दबाव आरोपित नहीं होना चाहिए। किंतु वे भूल जाते हैं कि साहित्य के निर्माण की मूल प्रेरणा मानव-जीवन में ही विद्यमान रहती है। जीवन के लिए ही उसकी सृष्टि होती है। तुलसीदास जब स्वांत:सुखाय काव्य-रचना करते हैं, तब अभिप्राय यह नहीं रहता कि मानव-समाज के लिए इस रचना का कोई उपयोग नहीं है, बल्कि उनके अंत:करण में संपूर्ण संसार की सुख-भावना एवं हित-कामना सन्निहित रहती है। जो साहित्यकार अपने संपूर्ण व्यक्तित्व को व्यापक लोक-जीवन में सन्निविष्ट कर देता है, उसी के हाथों स्थायी एवं प्रेरणाप्रद साहित्य का सृजन हो सकता है।

Q. निम्नलिखित में से साहित्य की श्रेष्ठता का युगयुगिन आधार है?

निर्देश: दिए गए गद्यांश को ध्यानपूर्वक पढ़कर पूछे गए प्रश्नों का सही उत्तर दीजिए -
साहित्य की शाश्वतता का प्रश्न एक महत्वपूर्ण प्रश्न है। क्या साहित्य शाश्वत होता है? यदि हाँ, तो किस मायने में? क्या कोई साहित्य अपने रचनाकाल के सौ वर्ष बीत जाने पर भी उतना ही प्रासंगिक रहता है, जितना वह अपनी रचना के समय था? अपने समय या युग का निर्माता साहित्यकार क्या सौ वर्ष बाद की परिस्थितियों का भी युग-निर्माता हो सकता है। समय बदलता रहता है, परिस्थितियाँ और भावबोध बदलते हैं, साहित्य बदलता है और इसी के समानांतर पाठक की मानसिकता और अभिरुचि भी बदलती है।
अत: कोई भी कविता अपने सामयिक परिवेश के बदल जाने पर ठीक वही उत्तेजना पैदा नहीं कर सकती, जो उसने अपने रचनाकाल के दौरान की होगी। कहने का तात्पर्य यह है कि एक विशेष प्रकार के साहित्य के श्रेष्ठ अस्तित्व मात्र से वह साहित्य हर युग के लिए उतना ही विशेष आकर्षण रखे, यह आवश्यक नहीं है। यही कारण है कि वर्तमान युग में इंगला-पिंगला, सुषुम्ना, अनहद, नाद आदि पारिभाषिक शब्दावली मन में विशेष भावोत्तेजन नहीं करती।
साहित्य की श्रेष्ठता मात्र ही उसके नित्य आकर्षण का आधार नहीं है। उसकी श्रेष्ठता का युगयुगीन आधार हैं, वे जीवन-मूल्य तथा उनकी अत्यंत कलात्मक अभिव्यक्तियाँ जो मनुष्य की स्वतंत्रता तथा उच्चतर मानव-विकास के लिए पथ-प्रदर्शक का काम करती हैं। पुराने साहित्य का केवल वही श्री-सौंदर्य हमारे लिए ग्राह्य होगा, जो नवीन जीवन-मूल्यों के विकास में सक्रिय सहयोग दे अथवा स्थिति-रक्षा में सहायक हो। कुछ लोग साहित्य की सामाजिक प्रतिबद्धता को अस्वीकार करते हैं।
वे मानते हैं कि साहित्यकार निरपेक्ष होता है और उस पर कोई भी दबाव आरोपित नहीं होना चाहिए। किंतु वे भूल जाते हैं कि साहित्य के निर्माण की मूल प्रेरणा मानव-जीवन में ही विद्यमान रहती है। जीवन के लिए ही उसकी सृष्टि होती है। तुलसीदास जब स्वांत:सुखाय काव्य-रचना करते हैं, तब अभिप्राय यह नहीं रहता कि मानव-समाज के लिए इस रचना का कोई उपयोग नहीं है, बल्कि उनके अंत:करण में संपूर्ण संसार की सुख-भावना एवं हित-कामना सन्निहित रहती है। जो साहित्यकार अपने संपूर्ण व्यक्तित्व को व्यापक लोक-जीवन में सन्निविष्ट कर देता है, उसी के हाथों स्थायी एवं प्रेरणाप्रद साहित्य का सृजन हो सकता है।

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