SPEECH (C.D.S. 1996) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue,… Read More »
CROWD The crowd surged forward through the narrow streets of Paris. There was a clatter of shutters being closed hastily by trembling hands—the citizens of Paris knew that once the fury of the people was excited there was no telling what they might do. They came to an old house which had a workshop on the ground floor.… Read More »
Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- CONSERVATION There are certain people, however, with whom one has a right to be bored-people who are so self-centred that they cannot listen to anyone else talking, people who engage in long conversations with their cats when visitors are present, people who engage endless reminiscences of their old school… Read More »
Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- REAL TEMPTATION (I.E.S. 1994) The low unit of gas is a real temptation to anyone choosing between gas and electrical processes. But gas-fired processes are often less efficient, require more floor space, take longer and produce more variable product quality. The drawbacks negate the savings many businesses believe they… Read More »
PRIMITIVE MAN (S.S.C.1995) Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery… Read More »
DEMOCRACY Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Democracy, so long as it is what it is, imperfectly educated, throws a great responsibility on the leaders. The average voter even in educated England has no opinion of his own on many questions. He chooses his party by tradition or by his agreement with its central aims… Read More »
BOOKS (N.DA. 1993) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Books are, by far, the most lasting product of human effort. Temples crumble into ruin, pictures and statues decay, but books survive. Time does not destroy the great thoughts which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s mind. These thoughts speak… Read More »
CONGENITALLY (I.E.S. 1993) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Until very recently, it was universally believed that men are congenitally more intelligent than women; even so enlightened a man as Spinoza decided against votes for women on this ground. Among white men, it is held that white men are by nature superior to men of… Read More »
DESTINY Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- We stand poised precariously and challengingly on the razor’s edge of destiny. We are now at the mercy of atom bombs and the like which would destroy us completely if we fail to control them wisely. And wisdom in this crisis means sensitiveness to the basic values of… Read More »
COUNTRYSIDE (C.D.S. 1993) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Overall the countryside, wherever one goes, indications of the technique are visible to the Seeing Eye. By technique is meant an exercise of skill acquired by practice and directed to a well- foreseen end. It is the name for the action of any of our powers… Read More »
JOURNALISM Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Journalism combines writing with news gathering and interpretation. While the journalist’s work obviously varies from the newspaper. To newspaper and from magazine to magazine, all journalists are as much research workers, as they are writers. They cannot write their news or feature stories unless they locate it and… Read More »
MODERN ECONOMICS (C.D.S. 1993) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Modern economics does not differentiate between renewable and non-renewable materials, as its method is to measure everything by means of a money price. Thus, taking various alternative fuels, like coal, oil, wood or water power: the only difference between them recognized by modern economics is… Read More »
NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION (S.S.C. 1994) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- Education, as Mahatma Gandhi described it, “is the tool for the development of consciousness and reconstitution of society”. Since Independence, India has stressed reforming and restructuring the educational system as part of state intervention. The National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986, which is… Read More »
CIVILISATION (C.D.S. 1995) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- At this stage of the civilization, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should be diminished, that they should begin to understand a little of one… Read More »
CENSUS Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- If the census tells us that India has two or three hundred languages, it also tells us, I believe, that Germany has about fifty or sixty languages. I do not remember anyone pointing out this fact in proof of the disunity or disparity of Germany. As a matter… Read More »