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31.P: he can’t hear Q: being completely
R: anything S: deaf
(1) SPQR
(2) QSPR
(3) PQRS
(4) SRPQ
32.P: had Q: eaten the fish than I started feeling sick
R: I S: no sooner
(1) PSRQ
(2) SRPQ
(3) SPRQ
(4) PRSQ
Directions (Question 33 to 40). In these questions, you have two brief passages with 4 questions following each passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer out of the four alternatives.
| PASSAGE – 1 The dog fence in Australia has been erected to keep out hostile invaders in this case hosts of yellow dogs called dingoes. The empire it preserves is that of wool growers. Yet the fence casts a much broader ecological shadow. For the early explorers, a kangaroo or wallaby sighting marked a noteworthy event. Now try not to see one. Without a native predator there is no check on the marsupial population. The kangaroos are now more cursed than the dingoes. They have become rivals of sheep, competing for water and grass. The State Governments now cull more than three million kangaroos a year to keep Australia’s national symbol from overrunning the pastoral lands. |
33. The fence is meant to keep the
1.kangaroo in and the dingo out
2.kangaroo in and the sheep out
3.sheep in and the kangaroo out
4. sheep in and the dingo out
34.Australia’s national symbol is
(1) kangaroo
(2) wallaby
(3) sheep
(4) dingo
35.What has led to the unchecked growth of the marsupial population
(1) the building of fences
(2) the absence of a native predator
(3) the culling of kangaroos
(4) the availability of water and grass
36.How many kangaroos are culled in Australia every year?
(1) 3 lakhs
(2) 30 lakhs
(3) 3 crores
( 4) 30 crores
PASSAGE – 2
There were three kinds of boarders in the convent. The first class boarders , who were given a breakfast of cereal , eggs and toast ,meat at lunch time ,snacks at tea and pudding after supper ; the second class girls , who had only cereal at the breakfast , rice and fish curry at lunch and no pudding at supper ; the third class boarders , who got only a gruel made of maize in the morning , rice at lunch and gruel again at night . Worse off than even the third class boarders were the children without parents. They were the ones who cleaned the lavatories, swept the droppings of the turkeys and the dead leaves from the kitchen yard, chopped firewood, helped in the kitchen and ate only two meals of gruel a day. They were white and exuded the smell of rancid coconut oil which they had applied to their dusty hair. These children were nearly always busy filling up the wooden tubs in the many bathrooms that they hated drawing water from the well for their own baths. They therefore bathed only once a week .The oldest of these children was a 70 years old lady called Rocky Mariam who cooked food for all of them. Her laughter resembled the cackle of birds. She was called Felicitas and was respected by all the children.
37.The fact that the orphans were treated in such a harsh manner shows that the members running the convent were :- (1) discriminatory
(2) miser
(3) indifferent
(4) pusillanimous
38.The orphans bathed only once a week because :-
1.they had no regard for cleanliness
2. they were not allowed to take bath everyday
3. they were not permitted to fill water for their baths
4. they hated to fill water for themselves
39.The lavatories were cleaned by :
(1) the orphans
(2) the first class boarders
(3) the second class boarders.
(4) the third class
40.The cook was known as :
(1) Felicitas
(2) a strict lady
(3) Rocky Mariam
(4) Both 1 and 3
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