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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it. Each question has 4 options. Choose the correct option/answer for each question :
I worked for a brief while in a college in Delhi, and among my more uncomfortable memories is a language exercise, I gave a group of eight undergraduates : I asked them to imagine that they had already graduated and wanted them to write an application for a suitable job. Seven of the eight students wrote applications for the jobs of clerks. Even in one of the good universities, and in a college that had a reputation for its academic standards, the system has snuffed out all youthful ambition.
Choose the correct option from the given passage:

प्रश्न 1   How long did the author work in a Delhi College ?
 (अ) for one year
 (ब) for a long time
 (स) for a short time
 (द) for eight years

उत्तर : for a short time

प्रश्न 2   What exercise did the author give the students ?
He gave them ..............

 (अ) a language exercise-to write an application for a suitable job.
 (ब) an exercise for testing skills in English.
 (स) an exercise to test clerical aptitude.
 (द) an exercise for the imagination.

उत्तर : a language exercise-to write an application for a suitable job.

प्रश्न 3   The author wanted the students to imagine that they were already -
 (अ) bureaucrats
 (ब) graduates
 (स) undergraduates
 (द) clerks

उत्तर : graduates

प्रश्न 4   The number of students who wrote applications for the jobs of clerk was -
 (अ) one
 (ब) eight
 (स) five
 (द) seven

उत्तर : seven

प्रश्न 5   According to the author, the system had -
 (अ) killed the students’ ambitions.
 (ब) motivated the students’ ambitions.
 (स) taught them to write applications.
 (द) inspired them to become scholars and scientists and statesmen.

उत्तर : killed the students’ ambitions.

प्रश्न 6   “Snuffed out” in the passage means -
 (अ) encouraged
 (ब) killed
 (स) incited
 (द) persuaded

उत्तर : killed
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow
It is very important that you should have a clear and. accurate conception of the subject of the essay before you attempt to write on it - what exactly it is and (equally important) what it is not.
Some subjects are so simple that you can scarcely make a mistake about them; but some want looking into to define them exactly. For example, 'The uses of computers.' The subject is not how computers work. Nor is it the history of computers. Yet some students, carelessly reading the subject, might easily take up a large part of their essay with such topics.
In a short-school-essay there is no room for irrelevant matter. You have to come to the point at once, and start away with the subject. The subject in this case is the uses of computers in offices, in industries, in aircraft, in space craft, etc. It is, therefore, very necessary that you should define the subject clearly in your mind, or you may waste much time and paper in writing on more or less irrelevant matters.

प्रश्न 7   When one starts writing an essay, one should
 (अ) be clear and accurate about the subject of the essay
 (ब) never bother about the subject
 (स) write whatever one known
 (द) be superficial

उत्तर : be clear and accurate about the subject of the essay

प्रश्न 8   In the writer's opinion, chances of making mistakes are minimum in essays on
 (अ) difficult subjects
 (ब) simple subject
 (स) computer subject
 (द) science subjects

उत्तर : simple subject

प्रश्न 9   According to passage, an essay on the ‘Uses of computers‘’ should tell us -
 (अ) how computers work
 (ब) about the history of computers
 (स) about the assembly of computers
 (द) about the uses of computers in different offices and departments

उत्तर : about the uses of computers in different offices and departments

प्रश्न 10   In a short essay the matter should be -
 (अ) irrelevant
 (ब) relevant
 (स) detailed
 (द) dull

उत्तर : relevant

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