English (Part – A) NDA/NA SOLVED PAPER 2019 (II) (01 to 50)

Total Questions: 50

41. Read the passage given below and answer the following question :

Question:- (41 to 50)
Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

According to the author, why should one study?

Correct Answer: (c) For pleasure, enhance capability and holistic growth
Solution:

As stated in the passage, studies should be done for pleasure, enhancing capability and for holistic growth of a mind.

42. Why does the author not recommend too much of studies?

Correct Answer: (a) Because it reflects idleness
Solution:

The author does not recommend too much of studies as it can make a person lazy or idle

43. According to the author, how can the studies be perfected?

Correct Answer: (d) By experience
Solution:

According to the author, studies can be perfected via experience.

44. What kind of human beings denounce studies?

Correct Answer: (b) Cunning
Solution:

Crafty or Cunning human beings denounce studies.

45. According to the author, one should read to:

Correct Answer: (c) evaluate and understand
Solution:

As stated in the passage, a person should read to ‘evaluate and understand’.

46. The Election Commission on Saturday..............that the Assembly elections in the five States will be held from November 12th to December 7th.

Correct Answer: (b) announced
Solution:

‘Announced’ is the appropriate word to fill the given blank. Announce means ‘make a formal public statement about a fact, occurrence or intention’

47. The victims were fruit vendors and they were going in an auto when they...........an accident on the way.

Correct Answer: (a) met with
Solution:

According to the given sentence, ‘Met with’ is the correct alternative to fill the blank as it means ‘to experience something, such as an accident’.

48. Scores of villagers are ………… a sit-in protest against the consruction of a new underpass

Correct Answer: (c) staging
Solution:

‘Staging’ is the appropriate word for the given blank. Staging means ‘the method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance.’

49. It is common for patients to stop……… medicine as soon as they start feeling better.

Correct Answer: (d) taking
Solution:

According to the given sentence, option (d) ‘taking’ is the correct alternative to fill the blank as ‘taking medicine’ refers to swallow medicine. Other words are irrelevant.

50. A four-year-old girl got a new lease of life after doctors at a hospital ……… a cancerous tumour from one of her kidneys.

Correct Answer: (b) removed
Solution:

Here, ‘removed’ is the correct alternative to fill the given blank as ‘removed’ means ‘take something off or away’. Other words do not fit in the blank.