Reading Comprehension (Part-3) (CDS-Solved Paper)

1. The incident took place early in the morning.
2. Yuri threw the snake away.
Which of these assumptions is/are correct?

Passage 25

Urbanisation and industrialisation have often resulted in whole areas of forests being cleared to gain new land and to obtain timber for the various building projects.

Large areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles, many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks. Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes, which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere.

The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide. areas of fields and forests have disappeared to make way for concrete jungles, many of which are fitted with huge plants and chimney stacks.

Industrial growth has necessitated the increased demand for fuel oil to run the machines and in doing so produces industrial gases and fumes, which belch through the chimney and pollute the atmosphere.

The most evident elements in the contamination of the atmosphere are dust, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide.

The writer expresses the belief that

This phrase suggests that the author

Passage 26

I must say a word about the Eiffel Tower. I do not know what purpose it serves today. But I then heard it greatly disparaged as well as praised. I remember that Tolstoy was the chief among those who disparaged it.

He said that the Eiffel Tower was a monument of man’s folly, not of his wisdom. Tobacco, he argued, was the worst of all intoxicants, in as much as a man addicted to it was tempted to commit crimes, which a drunkard never dared to do; liquor made a man mad, but tobacco clouded his intellect and made him build castles in the air.

The Eiffel Tower was one of the creations of a man under such influence. There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition.

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the Exhibition.

So long as we are children, we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

1. Man was foolish to build it.
2. Huge man-made structures did not appeal to him.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Passage 27

One of the most important things to notice about the power of art is the way in which great works continue to exert their influence through the ages. Scientific discoveries, which are of major importance at the time, when they are made, are superseded.

Thus, Newton’s theory of gravitation has been superseded by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Hence, the work of great scientists has value in stages on the way to a goal, which supersedes them.

Broadly speaking, the achievements of generals, politicians, and statesmen have an importance only in their own time. Hence, these people and their acts, great as they may have been are like milestones which mankind passes on its way to something else.

But with works of art it is not so. The place which they occupy in the estimation of succeeding ages and the power, which they exercise over men’s spirits are as great as they were in the age, which produced them; indeed, their power tends to increase with time, as they came to be better understood.

The power of art can be judged through