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Reading Comprehension Test

(D) People now do not meet merely for the pleasure of Isn’t there a line between journalistic licence and licentious
meeting one another. journalism at pompous sermonising here but merely an
effort to see if there is a sense of awareness in a section of
6. People who do which of the following now would look the sports press of the responsibilities that go with
like visitors from some other world? inalienable freedom to inform.
(A) Eradication of poverty and establishing social
equality. 8. The author’s objective in writing the passage seems to
(B) Strengthening the ties of love and affection through be :
recurring informal meetings. (A) make a comparison of old and current trends in
( C) Reducing the burden of household cares by sports journalism.
extending monetary assistance. (B) highlight the role of media in communication
(D) Installing into the people the spirit of laughter revolution.
through their hearts. ( C) make a case for a balanced flow of information in
sports journalism.
(D) praise the role of media in global coverage of
7. Which of the following statements is definitely TRUE
in the context of the passage? sports events.
(A) Poor people in the past generation did not have the
9. According to the author it is not necessary of
right to enjoy anything without permission.
journalism to make any comments on the :
(B) We have ceased to bring people together solely for
the pleasure of meeting them. (A) poor performance of players
( C) Dying rays of intimate sociability was the (B) techniques of sports journalism.
characteristic of the last generation. ( C) public’s tight to have information.
(D) The gap between different strata of the present (D) personal life of the sports personalities.
society is on the increase.
10. The author’s attitude evidently is :
Passage 2 (A) idealistic
(B) orthodox
This is the era of information in a world that has shrunk to ( C) cynical
drawing room proportions. In an era of information (D) critical
explosion, everything is as close as you want it to be. The
communication revolution has made its effect on the world 11. Which of the following, according to the passage, is
of sports, too. Today the fax machines and computers have NOT an outcome of information boom?
made it that Stefan Edberg suffers a shock at Wimbledon at (A) Players are earning more money these days
1.20 a.m. 1st, the news can comfortably make the morning (B) Sports-person are now being treated as celebrities
papers in New Delhi. Today the media - especially TV and ( C) Quick and fast communication of sports news
the Press - attention on sports persons has turned the best of (D) Poor performance of Players
them into national heroes, international celebrities. There
were days when top players walked out of tournament site to 12. According to the author, what is going on in the world
neighbourhood markets for a window shopping Sachin of sports under the name of ‘information boom’ is
Tendulkars and Vishwanathan Anand cannot afford such a really :
privileged - they would be mobbed at every turn, whether it (A) misreporting
is New Delhi, or Lords or Beijing. Inevitably, the (B) reporting of things not related with the
information boom triggered by the media obsession with performance of the players
sports persons has been both a blessing and a curse for the ( C) worldwide coverage of various sports events and
superstars of sport. While, on the one hand, the media focus other aspects of sports-persons
has made them more marketable, and the lucrative contracts (D) development of communication network and
modernization of media machinery.
- than they would have been otherwise, the constant glare
has also put enormous pressures on the best of them. Tennis
fan of the 50s and 60s would hardly know the name of Rod 13. According to the passage which of the following is the
Laver’s wife. Now any 12 or 13 year old seems to be able to ‘right’ in the sentence - “is that right absolute”?
tell you the name of Stefan Edberg’s girlfriend. This is just (A) Right to play.
one example. There are hundreds of others in the world of (B) Right to information.
( C) Right to worldwide coverage of sports events
sport. In such cases, where the information - if you can call it
(D) Right to secrecy.
that - has nothing to do with a player’s game or even he
player can take the media shelter behind the public’s right to 14. How does media help the sport-persons?
know? Is that right absolute? If one’s right to swing his (A) By using them in commercial advertisements.
arms ends where the other’s nose begins, then doesn’t the (B) By information about their private life to public.
right of the media to inform and that of the public to be
informed end where the sports person’s private life begins?
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