UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, June-2020 ENGLISH (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:

Daybreak
At dawn she lay with her profile at that angle Which, sleeping, seems the stone face of an angel; Her hair a harp the hand of a breeze follows To play, against the white cloud of the pillows. Then in a flush of rose she woke, and her eyes were open,
Swimming with blue through the rose flesh of dawn. From her dew of lips the drop of one word Fell, from a dawn of fountains, when she murmured 'Darling' - upon my heart the song of the first bird.
'My dream glides in my dream' she said, 'come true. I waken from you to my dream of you.' O, then my waking dream dared to assume The audacity of her sleep. Our dreams Flowed into each other's arms, like streams.
- Stephen Spender

Which among the following best describes the lady's face as "At dawn she lay....." asleep?

Correct Answer: (b) The side-view of her face appears to be that of a sculpted angel's.
Solution:

The side-view of her face appears to be that of a sculpted angel's.

92. Match List I with List II

 List I (The Item) List II (What it is an example of)
 A. 'Her hair' I. player
 B. 'pillows' II. 'a harp'
 C. 'breeze' III. 'rose'
 D. cheeks IV. 'cloud'

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Solution:

Her Hair           -          A harp
Pillows          -        Cloud
Breeze           -         Player
Cheeks          -        Rose

93. Match List I with List II

 List I (Item) List II (What it is an example of)
 A. 'Her hair a harp' I. Simile
 B. 'the hand of a breeze' II. Metaphor
 C. 'seems the stone face'  III. Oxymoron
 D. 'my waking dream' IV. Synecdoche (or Personification)

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Solution:

Her hair a harp             -           Metaphor
The hand of a breeze     -          Synecdoche
Seems the stone face      -           Simile
My waking dream          -         Oxymoron

94. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow

Logic cannot have any empirical part that is, a part in which the universal and necessary laws of thought should rest on grounds taken from experience; otherwise it would not be logic, i.e. a canon for the understanding or the reason, valid for all thought, and capable of  demonstration. Natural and moral philosophy, on the contrary, can each have their empirical part since the former has to determine the laws of nature as an object of experience; the latter, the laws of the human will, so far as it is affected by nature: the former however, being laws according to which everything does happen; the latter, laws according to which everything ought to happen. Ethics, however, must also consider the conditions under which what ought to happen frequently does not. Immanuel Kant.

"Logic cannot have any empirical part", because:

1. laws of thought are subjective.
2. it propounds laws whose applicability can be shown.
3. its laws are valid for all thought.
4. its laws are valid for everyone experience.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) 2 and 3 only
Solution:

Logic cannot have any empirical part because it propounds laws whose applicability can be shown.

95. Based on the given passage which two of the following statements are correct?

1. For natural philosophy, nature influences the laws.
2. For moral philosophy, nature is to be experienced.
3. Natural philosophy does not describe how things actually do happen.
4. Moral philosophy accounts for what should be.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) 1 and 4 only
Solution:

In the above passage, the statement 'For natural philosophy, nature influences the laws' and 'Moral philosophy accounts for what should be' is correct.

96. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow

And the creature run from the cur?
There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. - Thou rascal beadle hold thy bloody hand! Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance ofjustice hurtles breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
King Lear

Who speaks these lines and to whom?

Correct Answer: (c) Lear to Gloucester
Solution:

In the above passage, King Lear speaks these lines to Gloucester.

97. In the passage the church officer is asked to whip his own back rather than the prostitute's because:

Correct Answer: (c) men like him make them prostitutes.
Solution:Option (c) is correct.

98. The two sentences in the lines from "Through tatter'd clothes...." to ".... straw doth pierce it" deal with two foibles, (i) vice and (ii) sin. About these two, the speaker says that

Correct Answer: (d) Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong.
Solution:

Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong.

99. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow

The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold, white lips passionately on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly around; shuddered; fell back - and died. They chafed her breast, hands, temples; but the blood had stopped forever. They talked of hope and comfort. They had ben strangers too long. 'It's all over, Mrs. Thingummmy!' said the surgeon at last.

In the expression, "passed her hands over her face", the 'face' is of:

Correct Answer: (d) the patient
Solution:The face is of the patient.

100. The implication of "they had been strangers too long" is

Correct Answer: (c) 'Hope and comfort' had been stranger to the patient too long.
Solution:

Hope and comfort had been stranger to the patient too long.