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

Total Questions: 50

11. Directions (Q.Nos. 11-15) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Which varieties of caterpillars ‘build’ shelters to protect themselves?

Correct Answer: (a) Leaf roller and aquatic larva
Solution:

Leaf roller and aquatic larva built shelters to protect themselves.

12. Which one of the following caterpillars produces a sticky covering? [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Jelly slug
Solution:

Jelly slug produces a sticky covering.

13. Which one of 'the following pairs of words in the passage describes enemies of the caterpillar? [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Predator and marauding ants
Solution:

Predator and marauding ants are the enemies of caterpillar.

14. Which one of the following makes itself unpalatable? [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Jelly slug
Solution:

Jelly slug extrudes a sticky coating which makes itself unpalatable.

15. The main idea of the passage is that caterpillars [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) have to protect themselves while feeding
Solution:

The main idea of the passage is that caterpillars have to protect themselves while feeding.

16. Directions (Q.Nos. 16-20) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Passage 14

I have always opposed the idea of dividing the world into the Orient and the Occident. It is however, the tremendous industrial growth that has made the West what it is.

I think the difference, say, between India and Europe in the 12th or 13th century would not have been very great.

Difference has been intensified by this process of industrialisation which has promoted material well-being tremendously and which is destroying the life of the mind, which is in a process of deterioration, chiefly because the environment that has been created by it does not give time or opportunity to individuals to think.

If the life of the mind is not encouraged, then inevitably civilisation collapses.

The words ‘the Orient and the Occident’ mean

Correct Answer: (b) the East and the West respectively
Solution:

The words ‘the orient and the occident’ mean the ‘East and the West respectively.’

17. The author believes that the difference between India and Europe in the 12th or 13th century was not very great because [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) Industrialisation had not yet taken place
Solution:

The author believes that the difference between India and Europe in the 12th or 13th century was not very great because industrialisation had not yet taken place.

18. In the opinion of the author, industrialisation is [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) more of a curse than a blessing
Solution:

In the opinion of the author, industrialisation is more of a curse than a blessing as it has destroyed the life of mind and men does not get time to think.

19. The author says that the mental life of the world is in a process of deterioration because the modern generation is [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (d) brought up in an environment unfavourable to the growth of the mental life
Solution:

The author has said that because modern generation is brought up in an environment unfavourable to the growth of the mental life. So it is under deterioration.

20. The title that best expresses the central idea of the passage is [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) impact of industrialisation on our civilisation
Solution:

The best suitable title of the passage would be ‘Impact of industrialisation on our civilisation’.