Question

PASSAGE-5
Most of us use the products of science-railways, aeroplanes, electricity, wireless and thousands of others-without thinking how
they came into existence. we take them for granted, is if we were entitled to them as a matter of right. And we are very proud
of the fact that we live in an advanced age and are ourselves so very ‘advanced'. Now, there is no doubt that our age is a very
different one from previous ages and I think it is perfectly correct to say that it is far more advanced. But that is a different thing
from saying that we as individuals or groups are more advanced. It would be the height of absurdity to say that because an
engine-driver can run an engine and Plato or Socrates could not, the engine-driver is more advanced than, or is superior to
Plato or Socrates. But it would be perfectly correct to say that the engine itself is a more advanced method of locomotion than
Plato's chariot was.
Now answer these questions on the basis of reading the above passage.
1. Which one of the following statements is true?
(a) all the previous ages in some respect.
(a) An engine-driver is cleverer than Plato or Socrates.
(b) the age of Socrates and Aristotle in some respects.
(b)Plato or Socrates is in no way inferior to the engine driver. (c) some of the previous ages in all respects
(c) Plato and Socrates surpassed the engine driver in every (d) all the previous ages in all respects.
respect.
4. Many of us make use of machines
(d) The engine-driver cannot be compared to Plato or Aristotle. (a) with very little knowledge of their mechanism.
2. In this passage the author mentions Plato and/or Socrates to (b) without any knowledge of their historical significance.
emphasise that
(c) with full knowing of their genesis,
(a) they are/were men of great scholarship.
(d) without knowing how they were invented.
(b) people as individuals in the modern age are not more
5. People today are very proud because they live
advanced than their predecessors.
(a) in a philosophically advanced age.
(c) the engine is a better mode of locomotion than Plato's
(b) in a materially advanced age
chariot.
(c) in a scientifically advanced age.
(d) Plato and Aristotle had greater respect for learning.
(d) in a spiritually advanced age
3. According to the author the present age is far more advanced
than
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. a)
2. c)
3. d)
4. d)
5. c)

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