Question

The towns and cities where the buying and selling of goods takes place are known as:

• A. quasi-urban centres
• B. trading centres
• C. periodic markets
• D. departmental stores
• A. Urban marketing centres
• B. Periodic markets
• C. Rural marketing centres
• D. Chain stores
• A. Retail Trading
• B. Urban marketing centres
• C. Rural marketing centres
• D. Periodic markets
• A. Consultants
• B. Local collection and distribution
• C. Veterinary doctors
• D. Markets for labour
• A. They are pure urban centres with specialisation in rural products.
• B. They are most rudimentary type of trading centres.
• C. Here professional and personal services are not well-developed.
• D. Most of these have mandis (wholesale markets).

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question asks for the general term used to describe towns and cities where the buying and selling of goods occur, based on the provided passage.
Step 2: Locating the Answer in the Passage:
The first paragraph of the passage states: "Trade is essentially the buying and selling of items produced elsewhere... The towns and cities where all these works take place are known as trading centres."
Step 3: Final Answer:
The passage explicitly defines these locations as "trading centres."

Answer 2

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question asks to identify the type of centre that is described as "quasi-urban" and serves nearby settlements, based on the passage.
Step 2: Locating the Answer in the Passage:
The fourth paragraph begins with the sentence: "Rural marketing centres cater to nearby settlements. These are quasi-urban centres." This directly links the term "quasi-urban centres" to "Rural marketing centres."
Step 3: Final Answer:
The passage clearly states that rural marketing centres are quasi-urban and cater to nearby settlements.

Answer 3

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question provides a description of a specific type of market and asks to identify it from the options, based on the passage.
Step 2: Locating the Answer in the Passage:
The fifth paragraph describes these markets: "Periodic markets in rural areas are found where there are no regular markets and local periodic markets are organised at different temporal intervals. These may be weekly, bi-weekly markets where people from the surrounding areas meet their temporally accumulated demand." This description exactly matches the one given in the question.
Step 3: Final Answer:
The description provided in the question refers to periodic markets.

Answer 4

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question asks to identify a service that is NOT a feature of urban marketing centres, as described in the passage.
Step 2: Analyzing the Passage:
The last paragraph describes urban marketing centres. It states they have "widely specialised urban services," offer "manufactured goods," "specialised developed markets, e.g. markets for labour, housing," and "Services of... professionals such as teachers, lawyers, consultants, physicians, dentists and veterinary doctors." So, consultants (1), veterinary doctors (3), and markets for labour (4) are all explicitly mentioned or implied as features of urban centres.
In contrast, the fourth paragraph, which describes rural marketing centres, states: "These form local collecting and distributing centres." This function is specifically attributed to rural centres, which are described as rudimentary and less developed than urban ones.
Step 3: Final Answer:
"Local collection and distribution" is a characteristic feature of rural marketing centres, not the more specialized urban marketing centres.

Answer 5

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
The question asks to identify the statement that is NOT a correct description of rural market centres based on the passage.
Step 2: Analyzing the Passage's Description of Rural Market Centres:
The fourth paragraph describes rural marketing centres. Let's check the options against this description:


Option (2): "They serve as trading centres of the most rudimentary type." This is directly stated in the passage.
Option (3): "Here, personal and professional services are not well-developed." This is also directly stated.
Option (4): "Most of these have mandis (wholesale markets)..." This is also stated in the passage.
Option (1): "They are pure urban centres..." This is explicitly contradicted. The passage says they are "quasi-urban centres" and "not urban centres per se".
Step 3: Final Answer:
The statement that rural market centres are "pure urban centres" is false according to the passage.