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
Awareness means the capacity to see a coffee pot and hear the birds sing in one’s own way, and not the way one was taught. It may be assumed on good grounds that seeing and hearing have a different quality for infants than for grownups and that they are more aesthetic and less intellectual in the first years of life. A little boy sees and hears birds with delight. Then the ‘good father’ comes along and feels he should ‘share’ the experience and help his son ‘develop’. He says, “That’s a jay and this is a sparrow.” The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. He has to see and hear them the way his father wants him to. Father has good reasons on his side: since few people can afford to go through life listening to the birds sing, sooner the little boy starts his ‘education’ the better. Maybe he will be an ornithologist when he grows up.

  1. How do children perceive things around them?









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    Aesthetically

    Correct Option: A

    Aesthetically


  1. What does the writer mean by ‘awareness’?









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    The capacity to see and hear things in one’s own way.

    Correct Option: B

    The capacity to see and hear things in one’s own way.



  1. The given passage implies that









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    knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them. A writer of remarkable versatility.

    Correct Option: A

    knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them. A writer of remarkable versatility.


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
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his next-door neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective.

  1. The passage suggests that a learned man









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    does not know his old acquaintances

    Correct Option: B

    does not know his old acquaintances



  1. A learned man, as described in the passage,









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    does not care about men and things

    Correct Option: B

    does not care about men and things