RC- 04

Passage- 1

Harold a professional man who had worked in an office for many years had a fearful dream. In it, he found himself in a land where small slug-like animals with slimy tentacles lived on people's bodies. The people tolerated the loathsome creatures because after many years they grew into elephants which then became the nation's system of transport, carrying everyone wherever he wanted to go. Harold suddenly realised that he himself was covered with these things, and he woke up screaming. In a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatised for Harold what he had never been able to put into words; he saw himself as letting society feed on his body in his early years so that it would carry him when he retired. He later threw off the "security bug" and took up freelance work.

1. In his dream Harold found the loathsome creatures

A: in his village

B: in his own house

C: in a different land

D: in his office

2. Which one of the following phrases best helps to bring out the precise meaning of 'loathsome creatures'?

A: Security bug and slimy tentacles

B: Fearful dream and slug-like animals

C: Slimy tentacles and slug-like animals

D: slug-like animals and security bug

3. The statement that 'he later threw off the security bug' means that

A: Harold succeeded in overcoming the need for security

B: Harold stopped giving much importance to dreams

C: Harold started tolerating social victimisation

D: Harold killed all the bugs troubled him

Passage- 2

Laws of nature are not commands but statements of acts. The use of the word "law" in this context is rather unfortunate. It would be better to speak of uniformities in nature. This would do away with the elementary fallacy that a law implies a law giver. If a piece of matter does not obey a law of nature it is punished. On the contrary, we say that the law has been incorrectly started.

4. If a piece of matter violates nature's law, it is not punished because

A: it is not binding to obey it

B: there is no superior being to enforce the law of nature

C: it cannot be punished

D: it simply means that the facts have not been correctly stated by law

5. Laws of nature differ from man-made laws because

A: the former state facts of Nature

B: they must be obeyed

C: they are natural

D: unlike human laws, they are systematic

6. The laws of nature based on observation are

A: conclusion about the nature of the universe.

B: true and unfalsifiable.

C: figments of the observer imagination.

D: subject to change in the light of new facts.

7. The author is not happy with word 'law' because

A: it connotes rigidity and harshness

B: it implies an agency which has made them

C: it does not convey the sense of nature's uniformity

D: it gives rise to false beliefs

Passage- 3

Male lions are rather reticent about expanding their energy in hunting more than three-quarters of kills are made by lionesses are in front, tensely scanning ahead, the cubs lag playfully behind and the males bring up the rear, walking slowly, their massive heads nodding with each step as if they were bored with the whole matter. But slothfulness may have survival value. With lionesses busy hunting, the males function as a guard for the cubs, protecting them, particularly from hyenas.

8. Male lions protect their cubs

A: from the members of their own species

B: from hyenas only

C: from hyenas as much as from other enemies

D: more from hyenas than from other animals

9. Lioness go for hunting

A: all alone

B: with their male partners

C: with their clubs and male partners

D: with their clubs only

10. When the lionesses go in search for their prey, they are very

A: serious

B: cautious

C: playful

D: sluggish