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

Total Questions: 50

31. Nature now needs to be protected from man because [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (b) man is rapidly destroying Nature
Solution:

Nature now needs to be protected from man because man is rapidly destroying Nature.

32. Forests are being destroyed in order to [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) provide necessities as well as needless comforts and pleasures
Solution:

Forests are being destroyed in order to provide necessities as well as needless comforts and pleasures.

33. The evil effect of destroying Nature instead of using it is seen in [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (c) the unfavourable changes in climate
Solution:

The evil effect of destroying Nature instead of using it is seen in the unfavourable changes in climate.

34. Climatic changes and soil erosion are results of [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) deforestation
Solution:

Climate changes and soil erosion are results of deforestation.

35. Directions (Q.Nos. 35-38) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

According to the civil laws of most countries, obedience is no longer the duty of a wife, every woman has the political right to vote, but these liberties remain theoretical as long as she does not have economic freedom.

A woman supported by a man is not liberated from the male. It is through gainful employment that woman has traveled most of the distance that separated her from the male, and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice.

I once heard a maidservant declare, while cleaning the stone floor of a hotel lobby, “I never asked anybody for anything; I succeeded all by myself.” She was as proud of her self-sufficiency as a Rockefeller, Ford or Birla.

However, the mere combination of the right to vote and a job does not mean complete liberation: working, today, is not a liberty. A recent study of women workers in a car factory shows that they would prefer to stay in the home rather than work in the factory.

The majority of women do not escape from the traditional feminine world. Their jobs at the factory do not relieve them of housekeeping burdens; they get from neither society nor their husbands, the assistance they need to become in concrete fact the equals of men.

Which of the following helps women?

Correct Answer: (b) Civil liberties
Solution:

Civil liberties help women.

36. Why does the writer talk about the maidservant in the hotel lobby? [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Economic independence is necessary for women’s liberation
Solution:

The writer talks about the maidservant in the hotel lobby because Economic independence is necessary for women’s liberation.

37. In which paragraph does the writer say that it is revealed that some woman would not like to work in the factory? [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (a) In paragraph four
Solution:

In paragraph four the writer says that it is revealed that some women would not like to work in the factory.

38. ‘These liberties’ in the first paragraph refer to [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (b) The right to vote and not to obey
Solution:

These liberties in the first paragraph refer to the right to vote and not to obey.

39. Directions (Q.Nos. 39-41) Read a passage carefully and answer the items based on it. [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Passage 19

During the past three generations, the diseases affecting Western societies have undergone dramatic changes.

Polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, commonly known as TB, are vanishing; one injection of an antibiotic often cures deadly diseases such as pneumonia or syphilis, and so many mass killers have come under control that two-thirds of all death is now associated with the diseases of old age.

Those who die young are more often than not victims of accidents, violence, or suicide. These changes in health status are generally equated with the decrease in suffering and attributed to more or better medical care.

Almost everyone believes that at least one of his friends would not be alive and well except for the skill of a doctor. But there is, in fact, no evidence of any direct relationship between this change in the pattern or nature of sickness on the one hand and the so-called progress of medicine on the other hand.

These changes are the results of political technological changes. They are not related to the activities that require the preparation and status of doctors or the costly equipment in which doctors take pride.

In addition, an increase in the number of new diseases in the last fifteen years are themselves the result of medical intervention. They are doctor-made or iatrogenic.

In the Western societies, the occurrences of polio, diphtheria, and tuberculosis has

Correct Answer: (c) decreased
Solution:

In the Western societies, the occurrences of polio, diphtheria, and tuberculosis has decreased.

40. More death are now associated with old age than in the past because [Evening Shift-2017 (II)]

Correct Answer: (b) deadly diseases affecting the young have been well controlled
Solution:

More death are now associated with old age than in the past because deadly diseases affecting the young have been well controlled.