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(B) India’s strength lies in its moral sands on frescoes, pictures and statues. I am inclined to think that
international issues. our present passion for comfort is a little exaggerated.
( C) India’s potential for originality in science and Though I personally enjoy comfort, I have lived most
technology is over utilized. happily in houses devoid of everything that Anglo-Saxons
(D) Our scientists though criticised in our country are deem indispensable. Orientals and even South Europeans
recognized abroad. who know not comfort and live very much as our ancestors
did centuries ago seem to go on very well without elaborate
42. What according to the passage is the criterion to decide apparatus and padded luxuries. However, comfort for me
the strength of a country? has a justification it facilitates mental life. Discomfort
(A) The country’s population. handicaps thought, it is difficult to use the mind when the
(B) The moral valued of the people. body is cold and aching.
( C) International understanding cherished by the
people. 45. Choose the word which is SIMILAR in meaning of the
(D) None of these. word ‘devoid of’ as used in the passage.
(A) available
(B) false
43. The author of the passage thinks that :
(A) India should continue to borrow technology from ( C) empty
(D) lacking
abroad.
(E) deficient
(B) India’s potential for originality is not put to
optimum utilization. 46. How do people manage to keep the love of comfort
( C) India lacks the necessary potential to compete with alive?
other nations. (A) By pumping in more comfort goods in the market.
(D) Our scientists did all their best to prevent the (B) By sacrificing high profits on comfort goods.
exposure of drawbacks in nuclear establishments ? ( C) By targeting youth in the sales campaign.
(i) The concept of secrecy 3
(ii) The constraint of National Security (D) By appealing to the emotionally of people.
(iii) The investigative approach of the Media. (E) None of these.
(A) Only (i)
(B) Only (ii) 47. What is the author’s prediction about comfort?
( C) Only (iii) (A) The value of comfort will increase.
(D) Only (i) and (ii). (B) People will value more spiritually thus reducing
the value of comfort.
( C) People will desire a simple life style.
Passage 6 (D) The advertisements will play down the comfort
aspects of goods.
(E) None of these.
Comfort is now one of the causes of its own spread. It has
now become a physical habit, a fashion, an ideal to be 48. What was the characteristic of affluent man of an
pursued for its own sake. The more comfort, discomfort is a earlier age?
real torture. The fashion which now decrees the worship of
comfort is quite as imperious as any other fashion. (A) He used to put higher premium on comfort.
Moreover, enormous material interests are bound up with (B) He was relying much on advertisement.
the supply of the means of comfort is brought into the world, ( C) He believed more in simple and cheaper things.
the more it is likely to be valued. To those who have known ( D) He was more quantitative in his emphasis rather
comfort, discomfort is a real torture. The fusion which now than being quantitative.
(E) His emphasis was on beauty.
decrees the worship of comfort is quite as imperious as the
supply of the means of comfort. The manufacturers of 49. What change, according to the author, has taken place
furniture, of heating apparatus, of plumbing fixtures cannot in the attitude to comfort?
afford to let the love of comfort die. In modern (A) It is taken for granted in the modern way of living.
advertisements they have found a means for compelling it to (B) It has become now an ideal to be pursued for its
live and grow. A man of means today, who builds a house is, own sake.
in general, concerned primarily with the comfort of his ( C) It is now believed that discomfort handicaps
future residence. He will spend a great deal of money on
bathrooms, heating apparatus, padded furnishings, and thought.
having spent he with regard his house as perfect. His (D) It is thought that comfort helps body and mind to
counterpart in an earlier age would have been primarily function effectively.
concerned with the impressiveness and magnificence of his
dwelling with beauty, in a word, rather than comfort. the 50. Choose the word which is SIMILAR in meaning to the
word ‘decree’ as used in the passage.
money our contemporary would spend on baths and central
heatings would have been spent on marble staircases,
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