72. Reading Skills Comprehension: Cheating is a Major Defect

Cheating is a Major Defect

Read the following passage and answer the following questions:-

Cheating in an examination is a major defect of our educational system. It has become so common that students consider it their birthright to use unfair means in the examination. The root cause of this evil lies in our schools. Short-cuts have replaced hard-labour. Guides and notes are encouraged in place of textbooks. In all school examinations except the middle and the matric examinations, teachers show leniency to the students and pass most of them. Sometimes even parents are at fault. They get their undeserving wards promoted to the higher class. The students do not cultivate the habit of self-study and hard work. Then in the board examination students resort to copying. The teachers on duty encourage the students to use unfair means to pass the examination. The desire to show good results motivates them to adopt wrong methods.

1. What has become so common?

(A) The educational system

(B) The examination system

 (C) Cheating in examination

(D) Major defects.

2. How are parents responsible for this evil?

 (A) They do not cultivate the habit of self-study in their wards.

 (B) They help their wards in using unfair means.

(C) The teachers encourage guides and notes.

(D) They get their undeserving wards promoted to the higher class.

3. What is the root cause of this evil?

(A) Parents carelessness.

(B) Teachers show leniency to the students and pass most of them.

 (C) Teacher’s leniency in passing the students and promoting notes and guides both.

 (D) The students do not cultivate the habit of study.

4. Write down the noun form of `cultivate’—

(A) cultivated              (B) cultivating

(C) cultivation             (D) cultivator

ANSWERS

1. (C)            

2. (D)

3. (C)

4. (C)

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