Reading Comprehension (Part-2) (CDS-Solved Paper)

Total Questions: 50

1. 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.

‘You give promise of good hunting’ means

Correct Answer: (a) you are vulnerable
Solution:

The statement ‘you give promise of good hunting’ means that you are vulnerable which means exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed either physically or emotionally.

2. Directions (Q.Nos. 2-5) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Passage 11

We live in a curious age. We are offered glimpses of a world civilisation slowly emerging, e.g., the UN special agencies dedicated to health and education.

But along with these are sights and sounds that suggest that the whole civilisation is rapidly being destroyed. Two official policies clash and instantly embassies are attacked by howling mobs of students, at once defying law, custom and usage.

And that this may not be merely so many hot-headed lads escaping all control and may itself be part of the policy of the political parties, that is, mob antics as additional propaganda to deceive world opinion, makes the situation even worse.

Parties have always been dishonest, but now it seems as if power-mania is ready to destroy those civilities that make international relations possible. There is something even worse.

What inspires these students to burn cars and books is not their political enthusiasm but a frensied delight in destruction, an urge towards violent demolition.

The author calls our age curious because

Correct Answer: (d) it is an age of contradictions consisting of constructive and destructive activities
Solution:

The author says that this modern age is curious because it is an age of contradictions consisting of constructive and destructive activities.

3. It is deplorable to witness mob attacks on embassies following a clash of policies of two official policy makers because [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (c) they are overlooked by the policy planners themselves
Solution:

As remarked or mentioned in the passage, the attacks by students are overlooked by the policy planners or policy makers themselves.

4. One aspect of the mob indulging in violence and arson is that they [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (c) get a mad delight in destruction for the sake of destruction only
Solution:

A worrying aspect of mob attack is that they get a mad delight in destruction for the sake of destruction only.

5. In the passage, the word ‘demolition’ has the meaning as the word. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

Correct Answer: (c) destruction
Solution:

Destruction or knocking down.

6. Directions (Q.Nos. 6-10) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (a) Over-population gives birth to poverty, which (poverty) itself is the cause of over-population
Solution:

Over-population gives birth to poverty, which (poverty) itself is the cause of over-population.

7. What is the general tone of the passage? [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Sombre
Solution:

The passage conveys a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness. Hence, the tone of the passage is somber.

8. What in the author’s view, severely affects the economic growth of our country? [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (c) Over population
Solution:

Over-population severely affects the economic growth of our country.

9. What according to the author, is the biggest reason behind over-population? [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) Poverty
Solution:

According to the author, poverty is the biggest reason behind over-population.

10. “It has largely diluted the fruits of the remarkable economic progress”. Find antonym of the underlined word. [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) Consolidated
Solution:

Consolidated will be the appropriate antonym of diluted as used in the sentence. Here diluted means weakened while consolidated means strengthened.