Reading Comprehension (CDS-Solved Paper)

Total Questions: 50

31. What is the most appropriate time for having evening meal? [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Three or four hours before sleeping
Solution:

Evening meal, ideally, should be taken three or four hours before sleeping.

32. According to the passage, how many times a day should we have food? [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) Has not been specified
Solution:

It has not been specified in the passage as how many times a day should we have food?

33. According to the passage, people over-eat [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Correct Answer: (a) because they can afford to
Solution:

According to the passage, people over eat because they can afford and can get as much as they desire generally over-eat the food.

34. Directions (Q.Nos. 34-37) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Much has been said of the common ground of religious unity. I am not going just now to venture my own theory. But if anyone here hopes that this unity will come by the triumph of anyone of the religions and the destruction of the others, to him I say, “Brother, yours’ is an impossible hope.”

Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. The seed is put in the ground and earth and air and water are placed around it.

Does the seed become the earth, or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant. It develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth and the water, converts them into plant substance and grows into a plant.

Similar is the case with religion. The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the sprit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth.

If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: it has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.

In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: ‘Help and not fight,’ ‘Assimilation and not Destruction,’ ‘Harmony and Peace and not Dissension.’

According to the author of the passage, people should 

Correct Answer: (c) follow their own religions and respect other religions
Solution:

According to the passage, people should follow their own religions and respect other religions also.

35. The Parliament of Religions is [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) a platform for discussion about every religion of the world
Solution:

It is a platform for discussion about every religion of the world.

36. What does the author think about those who dream about the exclusive survival of their own religions and the destruction of the others? [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Correct Answer: (c) He pities them
Solution:

There is nothing like ‘My Religions’ only. The author takes a pity on those people who dream about the exclusive survival of their own religions and the destruction of the others. All religions are same and all basics of any religion are also the same.

37. According to the passage, what is ‘impossible hope’? [Morning Shift-2019 (I)]

Correct Answer: (a) One day, all the people of the world will follow only one religion
Solution:

According to the passage, the impossible hope is that one day, all the people of the world will follow only one religion.

38. Directions (Q.Nos. 38-42) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Daily consumption of a certain form of curcumin improved memory and mood in people with mild, age-related memory loss. The research examined the effects of an easily absorbed curcumin supplement on memory performance in people without dementia, as well as curcumin’s potential impact on the microscopic plaques and tangled in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Found in turmeric, curcumin has previously been shown to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties in laboratory studies. It has also been suggested as a possible reason that senior citizens in India, where curcumin is a dietary staple, have a lower prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and better cognitive performance.

Which of the following statements are true?

1. Senior citizens in India have high level of' Alzheimer’s disease because of consumption of turmeric.
2. Senior citizens in India do not, have high prevalence of Alzheimer’s because of consumption of turmeric.
3. Consumption of turmeric enhances cognitive performance.
4. Curcumin is an antioxidant.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below

Correct Answer: (a) 2, 3 and 4
Solution:

Statement 2, 3 and 4 are true as per the passage.

39. Curcumin has positive effect on people [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (c) without dementia and with Alzheimer’s disease
Solution:

As stated in the passage curcumin has positive effect on people without dementia and also on people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

40. Which word in the passage means ‘earlier’? [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Previously
Solution:

‘Previously’ means earlier or in the time gone by.