Reading -5

Directions: Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by

selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.
It is generally believed that the Second World War began on September 1, 1939,
with the invasion of Poland by Germany. Some historians link it to the start of
the Second Sino-Japanese War on July 7, 1937. According to AJP Taylor, two wars
were fought simultaneously; the Sino-Japanese War in East Asia and a Second
European War in Europe and her colonies. These two wars merged in 1941
resulting in a single global armed conflict that continued till 1945. There is not a
single universally agreed upon date of the end of the Second World War either. It
is believed that the conflict ended with the armistice of August 14, 1945,
popularly known as the Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day), a few days before the
formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. According to some European
Historians, it ended as early as on May 8, 1945, known as the Victory in Europe
Day (VE Day).
The main purpose of the text is
1. To throw light on the views of AJP Taylor about the beginning of World War II
2. To highlight the generally held view about the start and end of World War II
3. To prove that World War II did not end on particular day throughout the world
4. To discuss the varying views about the start and end of World War II
Directions: Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by
selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.
As the earth rotates, a sequence of two high tides, separated by two low tides, is
produced each day. Twice in each lunar month, when the sun, moon, and earth
are directly aligned, with the moon between the earth and the sun (at new
moon) or on the opposite side of the earth from the sun (at full moon), the sun
and the moon exert their gravitational force in an additive fashion. Higher high
tides and lower low tides are produced. These are called spring tides. At two
positions 90 degrees in between, the gravitational forces of the moon and sun
tend to counteract each other. These are called neap tides.
Which of the following most accurately summarizes the opinion of the
author in the text?
1. Tides involve alternating rise and fall in the large water bodies of the earth.
2. The moon and the sun act to add or counteract the tide generating effect of
each other.
3. Tides are caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and the moon.
4. The period between succeeding tides varies as the result of movements of the
sun and the moon.
Directions: Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the
correct responses. More than one response is correct.

Observe the dilemma of the fungus: it is a plant, but it possesses no chlorophyll.

While all other plants put the suns energy to work for them combining the
nutrients of ground and air into the body structure, the fungus must look
elsewhere for energy supply. It finds it in those other plants which, having
received their energy free from the sun, relinquish it at some point in their cycle
either to animals (like us humans) or to the fungi.
In this search for energy the fungus has become the earths major source of rot
and decay. Wherever you see mould forming on a piece of bread, or a pile of
leaves turning to compost, or a blown-down tree becoming pulp on the ground,
you are watching a fungus eating. Without fungus action the earth would be
piled high with the dead plant life of past centuries. In fact, certain plants which
contain resins that are toxic to fungi will last indefinitely; specimens of the
redwood, for instance, can still be found resting on the forest floor centuries after
having been blown down.
QUESTION 3 OF 15-Which of the following statements in respect of the
fungus cannot be derived from the text?
1. Fungus cleans up the planet for us.
2. Fungus is a non-parasitic plant.
3. Mould is a representation of fungus.
4. Fungus cannot eat some types of dead matter.
5. Fungus cannot source energy at its own.
DIRECTIONS: Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the
correct responses. More than one response is correct.
It is necessary to have a standard of education. We can set two sorts of
standards there. First, a minimum standard below which no one is allowed to fall,
in the shape of so many years of elementary education in such and such
subjects. And secondly, and in a way even more important, a standard of equal
opportunity for all, to ensure that no boy or girl is deprived of the chance of
climbing to the top of the educational ladder through poverty or the accidents of
birth. There are also standards of economic security. During the recent past, the
sense of insecurity has been the single greatest cause, both of individual anxiety
and frustration, and of social instability and unrest. A state must see to it that it
gives to all its citizens minimum standards of security against ill health, against
unemployment, against widowhood, against old age.
Issues of social security are, therefore, interlinked, irrespective of whether they
are in the field of basic education, basic health, employment or even protection
against economic needs arising out of old age, disability etc. The state
expenditure on social security is bound to fall upon the shoulders of the society
at large. A society that cannot take due care of such basic needs of each and
every of its members is not fit to be called in the true sense of the term.
QUESTION 4 OF 15-Which of the following statements in respect of
education and social security are true as per the text?
1. Equality of opportunity is a cornerstone of the standard of education.

2. The state is obligated to cater to the basic needs of its citizens.

3. A socially insecure person depends on the state to find a secure job.
4. It is not possible to take the issues of health and education in isolation.
5. Every citizen has an inherent right to climb to the top of the educational
ladder.
QUESTION 5 OF 15-The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in
a random order. Restore the original order by dragging the text boxes
from the left panel to the right panel.
1. A perfect voice speaks so directly to the soul of the hearer that all appearance
of artfully prepared effect is absent.
2. Every tone sung by a consummate vocal artist seems to be poured forth freely
and spontaneously.
3. There is no evidence of calculation, of carefully directed effort, of attention to
the workings of the voice, in the tones of a perfect singer.
4. Yet if the accepted idea of Voice Culture is correct, this semblance of
spontaneity in the use of the voice can result only from careful and incessant
attention to mechanical rules.
5. In no other form of expression do art and nature seem so closely identified as
in the art of singing
QUESTION 6 OF 15-The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in
a random order. Restore the original order by dragging the text boxes
from the left panel to the right panel.
1. Some people think that in this cooperative endeavour, the intelligent students
stand to lose since they cannot make the best of their talents, but this seems to
be a vague fear.
2. It is only when a child works within a group that his qualities of leadership will
manifest themselves.
3. His character will only be shaped by coming into contact with others and by
working with them.
4. An important feature of modern education is that it encourages cooperation
rather than competition.
5. In fact, personality development can only take place by working in cooperation with others and not in isolation.
QUESTION 7 OF 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are
missing. Drag words from the box below to the appropriate place in the
text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below
the text.
There are the pessimists, largely the biologists who think that we are alone, that
the appearance of life on Earth is a Blank 1 of such Blank 2 events that not
even the astronomical numbers can compensate for it. The Blank 3 are

impressed by the vastness of the universe and think otherwise. For them, it is
the belief that once we know how life originates we will find it not such a rare
Blank 4.
Options of 7 question-Tragic, optimists, game, phenomenon, structure, combination, rare

QUESTION 8 OF 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are

missing. Drag words from the box below to the appropriate place in the
text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below
the text.
True success requires respect, appreciation, integrity, and patience all of which
are Blank 1 that by human nature are genuinely difficult to Blank 2 especially
in the face of modern marketers who relentlessly deceive us, Blank 3 our
thoughts, and usurp our independence in order to increase their Blank 4.
OPTION OF 8 QUESTION -Forfeit, Traits, relinquish, control, integrity,
bottom-line, attain, misery
Question 9 of 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are missing.
Drag words from the box below to the appropriate place in the text. To
undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text.
Although George Orwell was an Blank 1 columnist and essayist as well as the
author of nine published books, nothing could have Blank 2 him for the success
of the short novel, Animal Farm, so brief he had considered self-publishing it as a
Blank 3. The novel brought together important Blank 4 politics, truth, and
class conflictthat had concerned Orwell for much of his life.
OPTION OF 9 QUESTION- principles, pamphlet, experienced ,
compendium , novice. Themes
QUESTION 10 OF 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are
missing. Drag words from the box below to the appropriate place in the
text. To undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below
the text.
Early humans lived in China about 1.66 million years ago; they used stone Blank
1 on bones of deer to butcher them for food. Ann Gibbons Blank 2 the various
maverick fossil hunters such as Brunet and Leakey who endured Blank 3 heat,
blowing sand and other Blank 4 of fieldwork in Africa.
OPTION OF 10 QUESTION -Ornaments, weapons, extreme, extra,
hazards , flows, things, tools
QUESTION 11 OF 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on
each blank, a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer
choice for each blank.
Hatshepsuts rule was free from wars and she got ample time to maintain
religious, political and social order. Her major policy was to expand the Egyptian
trade and to maintain the order of her fathers legacy. She sent Blank 1 to the
land of Punt searching for the ivory, animals, spices and gold and aromatic trees
that Egyptians coveted. The details of these expeditions are well documented in

the hieroglyphic Blank 2 on the walls of her temple. She also sent Thothmese III
with huge army to Nubian and after the campaign she assumed the title of the
King of lower Egypt. Being the fifth ruler of the 18th dynasty, she Blank 3
many things in her kingdom. She became the pioneer of strong female Egyptian
rulers going as forward as Cleopatra. At Karnak, she repaired many temples,
assuring herself the favours of the Egyptian priests. She ordered to build a tomb
in the Valley of the Kings which was never completed. Her famous Mortuary
Temple is an excellent piece of architecture. A tree lined Blank 4 of sphinxes
led up to the temple, and ramps led from terrace to terrace. The south side
reliefs of the middle terrace show the Queens expedition to the land of Punt.
Throughout the temple, statues and sphinxes of the Queen Blank 5.
Blank 1
Blank 2
Blank 3

company, expeditions, missionaries, troops

description, sides, history, inscriptions
accomplished, ruled out, vanished, damaged

Blank 4

tunnel outlet avenue exit

Blank 5

extinct escalated deceased proliferated

QUESTION 12 OF 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on

each blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer
choice for each blank.
Rudimentary elevators, or hoists, were in use during the Middle Ages and can be
traced back to the third century BC. They were Blank 1 by animal and human
power or by water-driven mechanisms. The elevator as we know it today was
first Blank 2 during the 1800s and relied on steam or hydraulic plungers for
lifting capability. In the latter application, the cab was affixed to a hollow plunger
that lowered into an underground cylinder. Liquid, most commonly water, was
injected into the cylinder to create pressure and make the plunger elevate the
cab, which would simply lower by Blank 3 as the water was removed. Valves
governing the water flow were manipulated by passengers using ropes running
through the cab, a/an Blank 4 later enhanced with the incorporation of lever
controls and pilot valves to regulate cab speed. The "granddaddy" of today's
traction elevators first Blank 5 during the 19th century in the U.K., a "lift" using
a rope running through a pulley and a counterweight tracking along the shaft
wall.
BLANK 1 operated,completed,provided, supported
BLANK 2
BLANK 3
BLANK 4
BLANK 5

established , constructed , created, developed

gravity

power

magnitude

order apparatus approach system

secured, emerged, appeared , acquired

Question 13 of 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each

blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice
for each blank.

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River
Seine in Paris. It is the tallest structure in Paris and among the most Blank 1
symbols in the world. The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the
entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World Fair marking the centennial
celebration of the French Revolution. The tower was Blank 2 on March 31, 1889,
and opened on May 6. The tower is constructed of 18,038 pieces of wrought iron
held together with three and a half million rivets. Because of this design, the risk
of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is an open Blank
3 without any intermediate floors, except the two platforms. Yet, because Eiffel
took safety precautions including use of guard-rails and screens, only one man
died, during the installation of its elevators.
Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, it is a premier tourist
destination. On the Eiffel Tower, seventy two names of French scientists,
engineers and some other notable people are engraved in recognition of their
contributions by Gustave Eiffel. This engraving was painted over at the beginning
of the twentieth century and restored in 1986-1987 by Socit Nouvelle
d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, a Blank 4 contracted to operate business related
to the Tower. The Tower is owned by the city of Paris.
BLANK 1

verified, spotted, noticed , admitted , recognised

BLANK 2

inaugurated, closed ,installed ,instituted ,introduced

BLANK 3

building , cage , frame ,stage ,system

BLANK 4

intuition, bank, company , person organisation

QUESTION 14 OF 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on

each blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer
choice for each blank.
Scientists, artists, authors, inventors and many others create new and unique
ideas which result in products of different kinds from Blank 1 machinery to
household gadgets, novels and films for entertainment and mathematical or
social concepts that changes the way people think and understand events and
situations. These are products of peoples minds and Blank 2. Human progress
depends on such developments. Without them life would not be as interesting
and comfortable.
The Blank 3, in turn, must have a proportional right on such products of his
mind, as much as he has such rights in physical property that he owns. At the
same time human progress requires that such inventions and discoveries are
Blank 4 and used widely. In this century many countries have got access by
imitation and usually without reward to the inventor.
There is always a Blank 5 between the need to provide incentives for discovery
and invention and the need to limit this incentive both to a time period and on
cost. In this way, the rights to intellectual property are looked at in a different
way from physical property by society.
BLANK 1

complex ,plant, domestic ,commercial

BLANK 2

bodies ,brains ,bodies ,imaginations

BLANK 3

scientist , artist, inventor ,discoverer

BLANK 4

disseminated ,known ,found, explained

BLANK 5

quarrel ,conflict , discourse ,paradox

QUESTION 15 OF 15-Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on

each blank; a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate answer
choice for each blank.
The first thing to be aimed by young should be a good character. In all their plans
and future Blank 1 it should form the grand starting point. It should be the
foundation of every hope and thought of prosperity as well as happiness in days
to come. It is the basis on which a hope should mature to full Blank 2. A good
character established in the season of youth becomes rich and productive.
Finally the Tree of life would spring in a vigorous growth. Its roots would be
deep and strong. The result would be luxuriant foliage and boughs Blank 3 due
to rich, golden fruit. The young who overlook these and lay the foundation of
their career without a worthy reputation lack long lived growth. A good name
earned in youth has a long way to go. But those who overlook this make a
lamentable mistake, which unless speedily corrected can prove disastrous
throughout life. For a young man, a good character is the best Blank 4 he can
possess to start with in life. It is more dependable than gold. Reputation is most
important for success even during failure, for when money abandons, Blank5
stays
BLANK 1 viewpoints, thoughts, prospects ,ventures
BLANK 2
BLANK3

fruition , freedom Inclination implementation

rising, bending scaling ,developing

BLANK 4liability ,bet ,capital, prospect

BLANK 5

character, career ,planning ,Reputation