Directions(1-5): Read the passage carefully and answers the following questions.
It is to progress in the Human Sciences that we must look to undo the evils, which have resulted from a knowledge of the physical world hastily and superficially acquired by populations unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has made imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made. Fears are inevitable in our time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentedly glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems, so momentous and it is to Science that we must look to for a happy future.
Q1. What does Science liberate us from? It liberates us from
(a) bondage to physical nature
(b) fears and destructive passions
(c) idealistic hopes of a glorious future
(d) slavery to physical nature and from passions
Q2. The word ‘imperative’ means
(a) vital
(b) threatening
(c) trivial
(d) discrete
Q3. Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word ‘superficially’.
(a) gradually
(b) legally
(c) thoroughly
(d) primarily
Q4. ‘To keep in leash’ means
(a) To punish
(b) To control
(c) To observe
(d) To criticize
Q5. Pick out a word from the passage that means ‘the point just before a new situation begins’.
(a) previous
(b) rational
(c) threshold
(d) inevitable
DIRECTIONS(6-10) :Fill in the blanks with correct Prepositions.
Q6. They have achieved so much ______ the difficulties they have had to overcome.
(a) regarding
(b) against
(c) considering
(d) None of these
Q7. The cottage nestled ______ woodland on one side and pasture land on the other.
(a) between
(b) in
(c) behind
(d) None of these
Q8. This is the fourth floor and you need to go to the second floor to get to the bookshop. The ______ escalator is over there.
(a) under
(b) below
(c) down
(d) None of these
Q9. They galloped on horseback ______ the length of the beautiful coastline.
(a) along
(b) over
(c) through
(d) None of these
Q10. I’m just going ______ to water the garden.
(a) on
(b) outside
(c) outwards
(d) None of these
Solutions
S1. Ans.(d)
S2. Ans.(a)
S3. Ans.(c)
S4. Ans.(b)
S5. Ans.(c)
S6. Ans.(c)
S7. Ans.(a)
S8. Ans.(c)
S9. Ans.(a)
S10. Ans.(b)
