Passage 1
In simple matters like shoe - making we think only a specially trained person will serve our purpose, but in politics we presume that everyone knows how to get votes knows how to administer a State. When we are ill, we call for a trained physician, whose degree is a guarantee of specific preparation and technical competence – we don’t ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one; well then, when the whole state is ill should we not look for the service and guidance of the wisest and the best?
1. Which of the following statements best reflects the message of the author of the passage?
a) We assume that in a democracy, any politician is qualified to administer a state.
b) Politicians should be selected from those trained in administration
c) We need to devise a method of barring incompetence from public office
d) As voters select their administrators, the eligibility of politicians to administer a state cannot be questioned.
Passage 2
The poverty line is quite unsatisfactory when it comes to grasping the extent of poverty in India. It is only because of its extremely narrow definition of ‘who is poor’ and the debatable methodology used to count the poor, but also because of a major fundamental assumption underlying it. It exclusively relies on the notion of poverty as insufficient income or insufficient purchasing power. No one can better categorize it by calling it income poverty. If poverty is ultimate about depravations affecting human well – being, then income poverty is only one aspect of it. Poverty of life, in our view, lies not merely in the impoverished state in which the person actually lives but also in the lack of real opportunity given by social constraints as well as personal circumstances – to choose other type of living. Even the relevance of the low income, meagre possessions, and other aspects of what are standardly seen as economic poverty relate ultimately to their role in severely restricting the choices of people have lead variable and valued lives.
2. What is the methodology adopted in India to count the ‘poor’ debatable?
a) There is some confusion regrading what should constitute the poverty line.
b) There are wide diversities in the condition of the rural and urban poor.
c) There is no uniform global standard for measuring income poverty
d) It is based on the proposition of poverty as meagre income or buying capacity.
3. Why is income poverty only one measure of counting the ‘poor’?
a) It talks of only one kind of deprivation ignoring all others.
b) Other deprivations in a human life have nothing to do with lack of purchasing power.
c) Income poverty is not a permanent condition, it changes from time to time.
d) Income poverty restricts human condition from time to time.
4. What does the author mean by ‘poverty of a life’?
a) All deprivations in a human life which stem not only from lack of income but lack of real opportunities.
b) Improvised state of poor people in rural and urban areas.
c) Missed opportunities in diverse personal circumstances.
d) Material as well as non-material deprivations in a human life which restrict human choices permanently.
5. X and Y run a 3 km race along a circular course of length 300 m. Their speeds are in the ratio 3:2. If they start together in the same direction, how many would the first one pass the other (the start-off is not counted as passing)?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
6. If the order of the letters in the English alphabet is reversed and each letter represents the letter whose position it occupies, then which one of the following represents ‘LUCKNOW’?
a) OGXPMLD
b) OGXQMLE
c) OFXPMLE
d) OFXPMLD
7. In a tournament of chess having 150 entrants, a player is eliminated whenever he loses a match. It is given that no match results in a tie/draw. How many matches are played in the entire tournament?
a) 151
b) 150
c) 149
d) 148
8. How many 3-digits natural numbers (without repetition of digits) are there such that each digit is odd and the number is divisible by 5?