Logical Reasoning - Theme Detection

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Question - 1

Read each paragraph carefully and answer the question given below it:

The virtue of art does not allow the work to be interfered with or immediately ruled by anything other than itself.It insists that it alone shall touch the work in order to bring it into being.Art requires that nothing shall attain the work expect through art itself.

This passage best support the statement that:

  • A art is governed by external rules and conditions.
  • B art is for the sake of art and life
  • C art is for the sake of art alone
  • D artist realises his dreams through his artistic creation.
  • E artist should use his art for the sake of society.

Question - 2

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Though the waste of time or the expenditure on fashions is very large, yet fashions have come to stay.They will not go, come what may.However, made what is now required is that strong effort should be made to displace the excessive craze for fashion from the minds of these youngsters.

The passage best support the statement that:

  • A Fashion is the need of the day
  • B The excessive craze for fashion is detrimental to one's personality.
  • C The hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development 
  • D Work and other activities should be valued more than the outward appearance.

Question - 3

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Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of person have been attracted towards this anti-national activity.Some of them became mil lionaires overnight.India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Weatern Coast.It has been a heaven for smugglers who have been carrying on their activities with great impunity.There is no doubt, that from time to time certain seizures were made by enforcement authorities,during raids and ambush but even allowing these losses the smugglers made huge profits.

The passage best support the statement that:

  • A Smuggling hampers the economic development of a nation.
  • B Smuggling ought to be curbed
  • C Authorities are taking strict measures to curb smuggling
  • D Smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.

Question - 4

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The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling, and to conceive himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs.

The passage best support the statement that real education -

  • A Will take place if the children imbibe action and feeling.
  • B Will take place if the children are physically strong.
  • C Is not provided in our school today.
  • D Comes through the interaction with social situations.
  • E Comes from the self-centred approach of the students.

Question - 5

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Emerson said that the poet was landlord,sealord,airlord.The flight of imagination made the poet master of land, sea and air.But a poet's dream of yesterday become today an actual achievement and a reality for all men.Even those who invented, improved and perfected the aeroplane could hardly have dreamt of the possibility of flight into outer space 

The passage best support the statement that:

  • A Seemingly impossible imaginations make one a good poet.
  • B All imaginations become a reality some day.
  • C What man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.
  • D Man has reached the climax of technological development with his exploration into outer space

Question - 6

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The prevention of accidents makes it necessary not only that safety devices be used to guard exposed machinery but also that mechanics be instructed in safety rules which they must follow for their own protection, and that lighting in the plant be adequate

The passage best support the statement that industrial accidents-

  • A Are always avoidable
  • B May be due to ignorance
  • C Cannot be entirely overcome.
  • D Can be eliminated with the help of safety rules.
  • E Usually result from inadequate machinery.

Question - 7

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It is upto our government and planners to devise ways and means for the mobilisation of about ten crore workers whose families total up about forty crore men, women and children.Our agriculture is over-manned.A lesser number of agriculturist would mean more purchasing or spending power to every agriculturist.This will result in the shortage of man-power for many commodities to be produced for which there will be a new demand from a prosperous agrarian class.This shortage will be removed by surplus man-power released from agriculture as suggested above.

The passage best supports the statement that:

  • A Employment in production is more fruitful than employment in agriculture.
  • B Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man-power
  • C A shift of labour from agricultural sector to the industrial sector would uplift the living standard
  • D The industrial sector is labour-deficient while the agricultural sector is over-manned in our country.

Question - 8

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To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness; it is really a sign of strength.It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into act of vengeance; but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions.The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged himself and puts the wrong-doer to shame. 

The passage best supports the statement that:

  • A The sufferer alone knows the intensity of his sufferings
  • B people tend to forgive the things happened in the past.
  • C Natural passion are difficult to suppress.
  • D Mercy is the noblest form revenge.
  • E A person with calm and composed nature has depth of thought and vision.

Question - 9

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Exports and imports, a swelling favourable balance of trade, investments and bank balances, are not an index or a balance sheet of national prosperity.Till the beginning of the second world war, English exports were noticeably greater than what they are today.And yet England has greater national prosperity today than it ever had.Because the income of average Englishmen, working as a field and factory labourers, clerks, policemen, petty shopkeepers and shop assistants, domestic workers and other low-paid workers, has gone up.

The passage best supports the statement that:

  • A A country's economic standard can be best adjudged by per capita income.
  • B A country's balance of trade is the main criteria of determining its economic prosperity.
  • C A nation's economy strengthens with the increase in exports.
  • D English trade has continually increased since the second world war.

Question - 10

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Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation's great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living.In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world.

The passage best supports the statement that the businessman-

  • A Is accountable to the society
  • B Lives luxurious and comfortable life.
  • C Is the beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution 
  • D Is capable of raising his standard of living.
  • E Has contributed to the growth of civilisation