Reading Comprehension (CDS-Solved Paper)

Total Questions: 50

41. Eating turmeric [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (a) will reduce the chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease
Solution:

As inferred from the passage, consumption of turmeric can reduce the chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease as it contains as antioxidant called curcumin.

42. ............ of a disease in a region depends on the food habits too. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (b) Prevalence
Solution:

Prevalence is the best option for this sentence. The word means widespread presence or a condition which is quite common.

43. Directions (Q.Nos. 43-47) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Mr. Rowland Hill. when a young man was walking through the lake district, when he one day saw the postman deliver a letter to a woman at a cottage door.

The woman turned it over and examined it and then returned it, saying she could not pay the postage, which was a shilling. Hearing that the letter was from her brother.

Mr. Hill paid the postage, in spite of the manifest unwillingness of the woman. As soon as the postman was out of sight, she showed Mr. Hill how his money had been wasted, as far as she was concerned.

The sheet was blank. There was an agreement between her brother and herself that as long as all went well with him, he should send a blank sheet in this way once a quarter and she thus had tidings of him without expense of postage.

The story uses irony as a technique because

Correct Answer: (a) the woman returned her own brother’s letter without opening It
Solution:

Woman returned her own brother’s letter without opening it.

44. The woman returned the letter to the postman because [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (c) she already knew the contents of the letter
Solution:

The woman returned the letter to the postman because she already knew the contents of the letter.

45. Mr. Hill paid the postage because [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) he wanted to be kind to her
Solution:

Mr. Hill paid the postage because he wanted to be kind to the woman as letter was from her brother.

46. The envelope contained [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) a blank sheet
Solution:

As mentioned in the passage, the envelope contained a blank sheet only.

47. The woman and her brother had agreed that [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (b) the blank sheet meant being well
Solution:

There was an agreement between the woman and her brother that the blank sheet meant all was well with him.

48. Directions (Q.Nos. 48-50) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Passage 10

In good many cases unnecessary timidity makes the trouble worse than it needs to be. Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

A dog will bark more loudly and bite more easily when people are afraid of it than when they treat him with contempt and the human herd has something of this same characteristic.

If you show that you are afraid of them, you give promise of good hunting, whereas if you show indifference, they begin to doubt their own power and therefore, tend to let you alone.

If we are afraid of public opinion, the attitude of the people towards us is

Correct Answer: (d) ruthless
Solution:

According to the passage if we are afraid of public opinion, the altitude of the people towards us is ruthless or tyrannical.

49. The statement, “A dog will bark more loudly and bite more easily when people are afraid of him, than when they treat him with contempt .............” implies that [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) if we are afraid of people, they will try to scare us more
Solution:

This statement implies that if we are afraid of people, they will try to scare us more.

50. The author compares men with dogs in respect of [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (b) attacking others when they are weak
Solution:

People as well as dogs try to attack others when they are weak or afraid of them.