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

Total Questions: 50

41. Read the passage and answer the following questions:

Question:- (41 to 50)
I do not wish to suggest that because we were one nation, we had no differences, but it is submitted that our leading men travelled throughout India either on foot or in bullockcarts. They learned one another languages and there was no aloofness amongst them. What do you think could have been the intention of those farseeing ancestors of ours who established Setubandha (Rameshwar) in the South, Jagannath in the East and Haridwar in the North as places of pilgrimage? You will admit they were no fools. They knew that worship of God could have been performed just as well at home. They taught us that those whose hearts were aglow with righteousness had the Ganges in their own homes. But they saw that India was one undivided land so made by nature. They, therefore, argued that it must be one nation.
Arguing thus, they established holy places in various parts of India and fired the people with an idea of nationality in a manner unknown in other parts of the world. And we Indians are one as no two Englishmen are. Only you and I and others who consider ourselves civilised and superior persons imagine that we are many nations. It was after the advent of railways that we began to believe in distinctions and you are at liberty now to say that it is through the railways that we are beginning to abolish those distinctions. An opium-eater may argue the advantage of opium-eating from the fact that he began to understand the evil of the opium habit after having eaten it. I would ask you to consider well what I had said on the railways.
According to the author, India 

Correct Answer: (c) has always been one nation along with differences
Solution:

The author has stated in the passage that India has always been one nation along with diversities or differences.

42. Why did the great sages of India establish pilgrimages in the different corners of the country?

Correct Answer: (b) Because they could observe the underlying unity of the country as made by nature.
Solution:

The great sages of India established pilgrimages in the different corners of the country because they could observe the underlying unity of the country as made by nature. For them, India was one undivided nation.

43. In the passage, the author’s attitude towards the railways is:

Correct Answer: (a) critica
Solution:

The author’s attitude towards the railways is critical. According to the author, due to railways people have been able to see the diversities of nature, people, food, etc. But railways have also helped to unite people of different states.

44. What does the author mean when he says that ‘‘Whose hearts were aglow with righteousness had the Ganges in their own homes’’?

Correct Answer: (d) The purity of heart is superior to observance of any ritua
Solution:

According to the author, if one’s heart is pure, there is no need to observe any rituals like going on pilgrimages or visiting different temples and other prayer structures. God resides in a pure heart.

45. The passage is written in a:

Correct Answer: (c) descriptive style
Solution:

The passage is written in a descriptive style. In descriptive writing style, the author specifies an event, an object or a thing.

46. .......... forest prevent erosion:

Correct Answer: (b) Dense
Solution:

‘Dense’ is the appropriate word for the blank as it means ‘containing a lot of things (trees) close together.’ Other words do not fit in the blank.

47. Three people were arrested and an illegal arms unit was ........ by the police in a raid:

Correct Answer: (d) busted
Solution:

‘Busted’ is the appropriate word for the blank. It means ‘raid or search by the police where illegal activity is suspected.’ Other words do not fit in the blank to make the sentence meaningful.

48. A woman got into the car and............ :

Correct Answer: (a) drove off
Solution:

‘Drove off’ is the correct phrase to make the sentence meaningful. It means ‘force someone to go away and to stop attacking or threatening you.’

49. The lecture was not very interesting. Infact I................in the middle of it.

Correct Answer: (c) dozed off
Solution:

'Dozed off’ is correct phrasal verb to be filled in the blank. It means ‘to fall into a light sleep unintentionally.’

50. The cops ...........murder by kin.

Correct Answer: (a) suspect
Solution:

‘Suspect’ is the appropriate word for the blank to make the sentence meaningful. Suspect means ‘to have doubts or mistrust.’
Other words are not relevant here.