TET - 2019
முந்தைய ஆண்டு Original வினாத்தாள் - 2012
தாள் - II (English)
Read the following passage. Select the best answer from among the given choices for each question:
Most of us the products of science - railways, aeroplanes, electricity, phones and thousands of others - without thinking how they came into existence. We take them for granted, as if we are 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. 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.
1. Which one of the following statements is correct?
A) An engine driver cannot be compared to Plato or Socrates.
B) Plato or Socrates is in no way inferior to the engine driver.
C) Plato or Socrates surpassed the engine driver in every respect.
D) An engine driver is cleverer than Plato or Socrates.
Ans : A
2. People today are very proud beause they
A) live in a philosophically advanced age
B) live in a spiritually advanced age
C) enjoy digital communications
D) live in a scientifically advanced age
Ans : D
3. Many of us make use of machines
A) with full knowledge of their genesis
B) without knowing how they were invented
C) with very little knowledge of their mechanism
D) without any knowledge of their historical significance
Ans: B
4. In this passage, Plato and Socrates are mentioned to emphasize that
A) they had a great respect for learning
B) they were men of great scholarship
C) people as individuals in the modern age are not more advanced than their predecessors.
D) the engine is a better mode of locomotion than Planto′s chariot
Ans : C
5. The phrase "height of absurdity" implies
A) the possible extent of rationality
B) the impossible extent of rationality
C) the possible extent of irrationality
D) the impossible extent of rationality
Ans : C
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