31-08-2021 Answers

1. The attainment of individual and organisational goals is mutually interdependent and linked by a common denominator - employee work motivation. Organisational members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and they contribute their efforts to the attainment of organisational objectives as means of achieving these personal goals.

The passage best supports the statement that motivation

Answer: encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals. 

2. 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, what is now required is that strong efforts should be made to displace the excessive craze for fashion from the minds of these youngsters.

The passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.

3. Satisfaction with co-workers, promotion opportunities, the nature of work, and pay goes with high performance among those with strong growth needs. Among those with weak growth needs, no such relationship is present - and, in fact, satisfaction with promotion opportunities goes with low performance.   

This passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: relationship between job satisfaction and performance is moderated by growth need.

4. The future of women in India is quite bright and let us hope that they will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion. Napoleon was right when he declared that by educating the women we can educate the whole nation. Because a country can never rise without the contribution of 50% of their population.   

The passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.

5. There is a shift in our economy from a manufacturing to a service orientation. The increase in service-sector will require the managers to work more with people rather than with objects and things from the assembly line.   

This passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: interpersonal skills will become more important in the future work place

6. Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of persons have been attracted towards this anti-national activity. Some of them became millionaires overnight. India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Western 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 the enforcement authorities, during raids and ambush but even allowing these losses the smugglers made huge profits.

The passage best supports the statement that

Answer: smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.

7. 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

Answer: has contributed to the growth of civilisation.

8. 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 becomes 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 supports the statement that:

Answer: what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.

9. 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 except through art itself.   

This passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: art is for the sake of art alone

10. Deforestation results from removal of trees without sufficient reforestation; however, even with reforestation, significant biodiversity loss may occur. There are many causes, ranging from slow forest degradation to sudden and catastrophic wildfires.

The passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: In developing countries, massive deforestation is ongoing and is shaping climate and geography.

11. The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition form one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times for, through the modern development of economy, the family as bearer of tradition and education has become weakened. 

This passage best supports the statement that for transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next

Answer: economic development plays a crucial role

12. 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 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:

Answer: a country's economic standard can be best adjudged by per capital income. 

13. It is up to 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 agriculturists 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:

Answer: Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man- power.

14. 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 an 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:

Answer: mercy is the noblest form of revenge.

15. One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrialized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the pay cheque and this fixes social status.   

The passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: human labour has dignity and value. 

16. The press should not be afraid of upholding and supporting a just and righteous cause. It should not be afraid of criticising the government in a healthy manner. The press has to be eternally vigilant to protect the rights of the workers, backward and suppressed sections of the society. It should also give a balanced view of the things so that people can be helped in the formation of a healthy public opinion.   

The passage best supports the statement that

Answer: the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy

17. The children, who know no English and haven’t received any formal school education, quickly begin playing with the machine and, within days, they’re learning English, browsing the internet and teaching each other what they discover.

The passage best supports the statement that:

Answer: The proliferation of mobile devices and social networks is leading to entirely new ways of learning.

18. Industrial exhibitions play a major role in a country's economy. Such exhibitions, now regularly held in Delhi, enable us to measure the extent of our own less advanced industrial progress and the mighty industrial power and progress of countries like the U.K., U.S.A. and Russia whose pavilions are the centres of the greatest attention and attractions.   

The passage best supports the statement that industrial exhibitions

Answer: boost up production qualitatively and quantitatively by analytical comparison of a country's products with those of the developed countries.

19. 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 supports the statement that real education

Answer: comes through the interaction with social situations

20.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 supports the statement that industrial accidents

Answer: can be eliminated with the help of safety rules