Read the following passages and choose the correct answers for the questions given below:
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awareness hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our genius, but by the mechanical nudging of some servitor, or not awakened by our own newly acquired for and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bell and a fragrance filling the air–to a higher life than we fell asleep from; and let the darkness bear its fruit, and prove itself to be good, no less than the light. But man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day and his genius tries again what noble life it can make.
The word 'somnolence' refers to ______.
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- activeness
- joviality
- dynamism
- drowsiness
The Correct Option is D
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A true day is guided by .......
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- mechanical impulses
- natural instincts
- greedy desires
- overexertion
The Correct Option is B
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People should believe each day to be ...........
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- sacred
- unholy
- mechanical
- commercial
The Correct Option is A
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____must be controlled for the soul of a man to be lifted.
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- Senses
- Morals
- Prayer
- Holiness
The Correct Option is A
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Morning is referred to in this passage as ........... hour.
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- dark
- dismal
- evening
- auroral
The Correct Option is D
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- Many countries are facing water shortage crises in the past few years. A report of the United Nations has named India among the worst countries for poor quality of water. The report ranks 122 countries according to the quality of their water as well as their commitment to improve the situation. Some countries in Europe are considered the worst because of the quality of its groundwater. Rain failed in some parts of India in the past. The vast areas of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh were affected by severe drought. People without water turn desperate and violent. Consequently, the food godowns were attacked in some of the states. Based on the details given in the passage, which of the following option(s) is/ are correct statement(s)?
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“Why do they pull down and do away with crooked streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the wealthier nations are pulling down one or another in their capitals and their great towns: they do not know why they do it; neither do I. It ought to be enough, surely, to drive the great broad ways which commerce needs and which are the life-channels of a modern city, without destroying all history and all the humanity in between: the islands of the past.”
(From Hilaire Belloc’s “The Crooked Streets”)
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
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“His life was divided between the books, his friends, and long walks. A solitary man, he worked at all hours without much method, and probably courted his fatal illness in this way. To his own name there is not much to show; but such was his liberality that he was continually helping others, and fruits of his erudition are widely scattered, and have gone to increase many a comparative stranger’s reputation.” (From E.V. Lucas’s “A Funeral”)
Based only on the information provided in the above passage, which one of the following statements is true?
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He became more cautious ………….. he grew older.
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