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As SSC CGL | CPO | CHSL notification is out and candidates have started their preparation for this exam. Mahendras also has started special quizzes for this examination. This series of quizzes are based on the latest pattern of the SSC CGL | CPO | CHSL examination. Regular practice of the questions included in the quizzes will boost up your preparations and it will be very helpful in scoring good marks in the examination.
1-5. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of four alternatives and mark your answer.
One of the myths relevant to the contemporary human condition is that of Prometheus. It has positive and optimistic undertones. Man can better himself and aspire to higher world through his own efforts, though in the process he may suffer terrible tribulations, wars, revolutions, tortures of the body and the spirit. Time and again he would be tempted to throw in the towel or retire into passivity and to the dream world of drugs and delusions. But he will not, if made of the stuff of Prometheus, be diverted. He will stick to his goal, as Prometheus did in stealing fire form the gods suffering terrible retribution for his pains. It is then hardly surprising that be should have become a myth a legend. Most social reformers from Erasmus to Marx have believed in the Prometheus man. Their motto: man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Two world wars, several revolutions the possession of vast arsenals of nuclear weapons, the absence of any guarantee against the eventual depth of the Earth itself have shaken the belief in man’s ultimate triumph in his search for fulfillment. In the West, as a result of wars and their aftermath, as a result of the evils of colonialism and social disparities, the break-up of family life and the disintegration of the community into a collection of individuals alienated from one another by, on the one hand, assembly line production and on the other hand, the artificiality of city life, belief in God has eroded. Organised religious are barely patronised and religious values rarely obtrude in social relations.
1 According to the Prometheus legend
A. man can better himself without any suffering
B. man can better himself only if he suffers great mental torture
C. man can better himself at the cost of great physical and spiritual torture
D. man can never better himself
2 Prometheus
A. stole fire from the goods and was severely punished for it.
B. stole fire from the gods and enjoyed life after that
C. stole fire from the gods and was left unpunished
D. made an unsuccessful attempt to steal fire from the gods and was punished for the attempt.
3 Men of the Prometheus kind
A. can neither be destroyed nor defeated
B. can be destroyed but not defeated
C. can be defeated
D. can be destroyed as well as defeated
4 Which of the following statements is not true?
A. The Prometheus myth is relevant to the contemporary human condition.
B. The Prometheus myth has positive and optimistic undertones.
C. Most social reformers have denounced the Prometheus man.
D. Most social reformers have believed in the Prometheus man.
5 The phrase ‘throw in the towel’ means -
A. give over
B. give away
C. give up to
D. give up
6 The meaning of ‘succumbing’ is
A. giving way to an underground passage
B. giving way to something powerful
C. following order
D. coming in the way of
6-10. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of four alternatives and mark your answer.
The world’s largest living organism is not the blue whale - which still is the world’s largest living animal - but Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, one of the country’s prime living animals and prime tourist attraction. Sadly, size notwithstanding, it is slowly succumbing to the killer ‘white syndrome’, a bleaching disease which has invaded 33 of its 48 reefs. Otherwise brilliantly multicoloured and teeming with a kaleidoscope of life, the affected reefs have acquired a deathly white pallor, the result of dying tissues. The bleaching of the reef happened following the recording of the warmest ever sea water temperature in the area here. Scientists fear that the naturally gorgeous reef -are endangered and the as yet undiscovered animal and plant species would soon suffer irreplaceable damage. This is only because of the rising of water temperature.
7 Which of the following statements is not true?
A. The Great Barrier Reef is not the world’s largest living mammal
B. The Blue whale is dying of ‘white syndrome’
C. The ‘white syndrome’ is a new bleaching disease
D. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living organism
8 33 out of Australia's 48 reefs have succumbed to
A. the impact of the Blue whale
B. the impact of tourism
C. the destructive impact of ‘white syndrome’
D. the bleaching disease affecting the whales
9 The dying reefs acquired a
A. brilliant and multicolour
B. kaleidoscopic hues
C. brilliant blue colour like the whale
D. sickly white pallor
10 Scientists’ main worry is that
A. there will be a fall in tourism with the reefs gone
B. the bleaching will make the water warmer
C. other endangered and undiscovered flora and fauna will also be damaged
D. future research on ‘white syndrome’ will stop
Answers:-
Q.1 (C)
Q.2 (B)
Q.3 (B)
Q.4 (C)
Q.5 (D)
Q.6 (B)
Q.7 (B)
Q.8 (C)
Q.9 (D)
Q.10 (C)
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