Comprehension


Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
In general it is better to use too little make-up than too much. The audience should not be aware that the actor’s face is painted. For the actor who is playing his own age, the artist uses make-up to strengthen the features, particularly eyes and mouth, and to add lifelike colour to the face. Character make-up does these things in addition to transforming the face to another age, another type or another race. This transformation, particularly for young actors playing old characters, can be helped greatly by hats and hairdos. Make-up consists of applying a base colour, then modelling the face by highlighting and shadowing (sinking the cheeks, for example, with a darker colour). Sometimes, modelling is done by applying false (putty or plastic) noses, enlarged eyebrows, or scars. Lines to suggest wrinkles are drawn on with a dark make-up pencil (brown or maroon, not black) or brush. Each line is highlighted with another line, either white or a light tint of the base colour. Lips are outlined and coloured, and a similar colour is applied to the cheeks. After make-up is complete, powder is applied.

  1. What do artists use to help young actors playing old men?









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    Hats and hairdos.

    Correct Option: B

    Hats and hairdos.


  1. The artist uses make-up to strengthen the features, particularly eyes and mouth, and to add life like colours to the face for the actor who is playing ___ .









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    his own age.

    Correct Option: C

    his own age.



Direction: A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Even the majority of elders turn their homes into hives of worry as they have too little to do in too much time. Those who have retired thus find retirement tiresome when hobbies, instead, could have turned it into a period of creativity and contentment. This common problem of inability to utilise leisure pleasurably and profitably is not restricted to Indians. In fact, Japanese are the worse sufferers. Their weekends, rather than increase their enjoyment of life, have wreaked havoc on their health and happiness. Unable to while away the long, unstructured hours, many of them have become addicts to coffee or hard liquor, and have even taken to gambling. How has this social malady come about? Ironically, the syllabusloaded education system is the main culprit. It places a heavy work–load on children and youth, laying emphasis as it does on memory rather than intelligence.

  1. The passage tells us that









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    Hobbies play a crucial role in physical and mental development.

    Correct Option: B

    Hobbies play a crucial role in physical and mental development.


  1. The author thinks that









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    Hobbies play an important role in changing the unfortunate situation.

    Correct Option: B

    Hobbies play an important role in changing the unfortunate situation.



  1. The syllabus–loaded education system









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    Places a heavy burden on the youth

    Correct Option: A

    Places a heavy burden on the youth