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Reading Comprehension Test

89. Government contributed to the Consumer Protection 93. Suitable title for this passage can be :
Movement : (A) Nationalism breeds unity.
(A) setting by infrastructure. (B) Nationalism a road to world unity.
(B) enactment of the Consumer Protection Act. ( C) Nationalism is not enough.
( C) cleaning the backlog cases in the consumer court. (D) Nationalism and national problems.
(D) toning up a district level redressal machinery.
94. Aggressive nationalism :
90. Role of consumer bodies : (A) breeds threat to international relations.
(A) to exercise social control over the market. (B) leads to stunted growth.
(B) to make a plea to industry to exercise self control. ( C) endangers national unity.
( C) to function as a watchdog. (D) isolates a country.
(D) to maintain minimum standards of quality.
95. ‘The greatest problem’ in the middle of the passage
91. Consumer Protection Act proposes to give the refers to the questions :
consumer protection against : (A) how to mitigate hardship to human beings.
(A) cheating by selling substandard goods. (B) how to contain the dangers of aggressive
(B) highly priced substandard goods. nationalism.
( C) not getting his money’s worth. ( C) how to share the economic burden equally.
(D) denial of relief if the product is not up to the mark. (D) how to curb international hatred.

Passage 12 96. Negative national feeling can make a nation :
(A) selfish
(B) self-centered
Nationalism, of course, is a curious phenomenon which at a ( C) indifferent
certain stage in a country’s history gives life, growth and (D) dangerous.
unity but, at the same time, it has a tendency to limit one,
because one thinks of one’s country as something different
from the rest of the world. One’s perspective changes and Passage 13
one is continuously thinking of one’s own struggles and
virtues and failing to the exclusion of other thoughts. The Several years ago my parents, my wife, my son and I ate at
result is that the same nationalism which is the symbol of a restaurant. After a wonderful dinner, the waiter set the bill
growth for a people becomes a symbol of the cessation of in the middle of the table. That’s when it happened; my
that growth in the mind. Nationalism, when it becomes father did not reach for the bill.
successful, sometimes goes on spreading in an aggressive Conversation continued. Finally it dawned on me. I was
way and becomes a danger internationally. Whatever line of
supposed to pay the bill. After hundred of restaurant meals
thought you follow, you arrive at the conclusion that some
with my parents, after a lifetime of thinking of my father as
kind of balance must be found. Otherwise something that the one with the money, it had all changed. I reached for the
was good can turn evil. Culture, which is essentially good bill, and my view of myself suddenly altered. I was an
becomes not only static but aggressive and something that adult.
breeds conflict and hatred when looked at from a wrong
point of view. How are you to find a balance, I don’t know. some people mark off their lives in years; I measure mine
Apart from the political and economic problems of the age, in small events - in rites of passage. I did not become a
perhaps that is the greatest problem today because behind it young man at a particular age, like 13, bur rather when a
there is a tremendous search for something which it cannot boy strolled into the shop where I worked and called me
find. We turn to economic theories because they have an “mister”. The realization hit me like a punch : I was
undoubted importance. It is folly to talk of culture or even of suddenly a mister.
God when human beings starve and die. Before one can talk
about anything else one must provide the normal essentials I never though that I would fall asleep in front of the
television set as my did. Now its what I do best. I never
of life to human beings. That is where economics comes in.
thought I would prefer to stay at home, but now I find
Human beings today are not in the mood to tolerate this myself forgoing parties. I used to think that people who
suffering and starvation and inequality when they see that watched birds were weird, but this summer I found myself
the burden is not equally shared. Other profit while they “watching them, and may be I’ll get a book on the subject.
only bear the burden.
I yearn for a religious conviction that I never though I’d
92. ‘Others’ in the last sentence refers to : want, feel close to my arguments with my son, I still lose.
(A) other people One day I became a father, and not too long after that I
(B) other nations picked up the bill for my own father. I thought then it was a
( C) other communities. rite of passage for me.
(D) other neighbours

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