MISC. ENGLISH QUIZ For SSC CGL Tier-II 2016

Directions (1-6): Read the following passage carefully and answer these questions.
Among the natural resources that can be called upon in national plans for development, possibly, the most important is human labour. Since the English language suffers from a certain weakness in its ability to describe groups composed of both male and female members, this is usually described as ‘manpower’.
Without a productive labour force, including effective leadership and intelligent middle management, no amount of foreign assistance or natural wealth can ensure successful development and modernization.
The manpower for development during the next quarter century will come from the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents. But we are not sure that they will be equal to the task. Will they have the health, the education, the skills, the socio-cultural attitude essential for the responsibilities of development?
For far too many of them the answer is no. The reason is basic. A child’s most critical years, with regard to physical, intellectual, social and emotional development, are those before he reaches five years of age. During those critical formative years he is cared for almost exclusively by his mother, and in many parts of the world the mother may not have the capacity to raise a superior child. She is incapable of doing so because of her own poor health, ignorance and lack of status and recognition of social and legal rights, and economic parity of independence.
One essential factor has been overlooked or ignored – the role of women. Development will be handicapped as long as women remain second-class citizens, uneducated, without any voice in family or community decisions, without legal or economic status, married when they are still practically children, and thereafter producing one baby after another, often only to see half of them die before they are of school-going age.
We can enhance development by improving “woman power”, by giving women the opportunity to develop themselves. Statistics show that the average family size increases in inverse ratio to the mother’s years of education – is lowest among college graduates, highest among those with only primary school training or no education. Malnutrition is most frequent in large families and increases in frequency with each additional sibling.
The principle established seems that an educated mother has healthier and more intelligent children, and that this is related to the fact that she has fewer children. The tendency of educated, upper-class mothers to have fewer children exists even without access to contraceptive services.
The educational level of women is significant also because it has a direct influence upon their chances of employment; and the number of employed women in a country’s total labour force has a direct bearing on both the Gross National Product and the disposable income of the individual family. Disposable income, especially in the hands of women, influences food purchasing and therefore the nutritional status of the family. The fact that this additional income derives from the paid employment of women provides a logical incentive to restrict the size of the family.

Q1. Among the natural resources that can be called upon in national plans for development
(a) the most important is certainly human labour
(b) the most important is possibly human labour     
(c) the least developed is certainly human labour
(d) the least developed is undoubtedly human labour

Q2. Without a productive labour force, including  effective leadership and intelligent middle management, 
(a) no productive work is possible
(b) entrepreneurs with incur heavy losses
(c) economic development with not keep pace with nationalist movements
(d) no amount of foreign assistance or natural wealth can ensure successful development and modernisation  

Q3. The manpower development during the next quarter-century
(a) will be adversely affected by the threat of war
(b) will come from the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents   
(c) will be well taken care of by the current emphasis on free education for women
(d) will be adversely affected by the country’s economic losses and political instability

Q4. The writer made only one of the following statements; indicate which one.
(a) the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents is very healthy
(b) the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents is very sickly
(c) the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents may not be equal to the task   
(d) the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents is likely to become morally bankrupt

Q5. The writer directly or indirectly made three of the following statements; indicate the one he didn’t make.
(a) Many of the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents will not have the health, the education, the skills, the socio-cultural attitudes essential for the responsibilities of development.
(b) A child’s most critical years with regard to physical, intellectual, social and emotional development, are those before he reaches five years of age.
(c) Development will be handicapped as long as women remain second-class citizens.
(d) In the advanced countries of the world, women are regarded as first-class citizens but in developing countries they are third-class citizens.   

Q6. According to the writer, we can enhance development by
(a) giving women the opportunity to develop themselves   
(b) making greater capital investments in agriculture and industry
(c) establishing a Ministry of Economic Planning and Development
(d) increasing wages and improving general condition of service for all workers

Directions (7-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.

Q7. To cause troops, etc. to spread out in readiness for battle.
(a) collocate
(b) deploy
(c) disperse
(d) align

Q8. Anything written in a letter after it is signed.
(a) postscript
(b) posterity
(c) corrigendum
(d) post diction

Q9. To send an unwanted person out of the country.
(a) exclude
(b) expatriate
(c) deport
(d) ostracize

Q10. A person who rules without consulting the opinion of others.
(a) democrat
(b) bureaucrat
(c) autocrat
(d) fanatic

Q11. To slap with a flat object.
(a) hew
(b) swat
(c) chop
(d) gnaw

Q12. Person who believes that God is everything and everything is God.
(a) agnostic
(b) theist
(c) pantheist
(d) pan Technicon

Q13. One who cannot die.
(a) stable
(b) Immortal
(c) perpetual
(d) perennial

Q14. Belief or opinion contrary to what is accepted.
(a) unbelief
(b) superstition
(c) non-conformity
(d) heresy

Q15. Science of fixing dates.
(a) chronology
(b) karyology
(c) anthropology
(d) entomology


Answers ------
S1. Ans.(b)  -Sol. the most important is possibly human labour    

S2. Ans.(d)  -Sol. no amount of foreign assistance or natural wealth can ensure successful development and modernization 

S3. Ans.(b) -Sol. will come from the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents  

S4. Ans.(c) - Sol. the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents may not be equal to the task  

S5. Ans.(d) - Sol. In the advanced countries of the world, women are regarded as first-class citizens but in developing countries they are third-class citizens.  

S6. Ans.(a) - Sol. giving women the opportunity to develop themselves  

S7. Ans.(b) - Sol. deploy-move (troops) into position for military action.

S8. Ans.(a) - Sol. postscript-an additional remark at the end of a letter, after the signature and introduced by ‘PS’

S9. Ans.(c) - Sol. deport-expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.

S10. Ans.(c) - Sol.  autocrat-a ruler who has absolute power.

S11. Ans.(b) - Sol.  swat-hit or crush (something, especially an insect) with a sharp blow from a flat object.

S12. Ans.(c) - Sol.  pantheist- the belief that God is the only reality, transcending all, and that the universe and everything in it are mere manifestations of Him.

S13. Ans.(b) - Sol.  Immortal-living forever; never dying or decaying.

S14. Ans.(d) - Sol.  heresy-belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine.

S15. Ans.(a) Sol.  chronology-the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

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