Practice MCQ Questions and Answer on Theme Detection
1.
It is up to our government and planners to devise ways and means for the mobilisation of about ten crore workers whose families total up about forty crore men, women and children. Our agriculture is over-manned. A lesser number of agriculturists would mean more purchasing or spending power to every agriculturist. This will result in the shortage of man-power for many commodities to be produced for which there will be a new demand from a prosperous agrarian class. This shortage will be removed by surplus man-power released from agriculture as suggested above.
The passage best supports the statement that:
- (A) employment in production is more fruitful than employment in agriculture.
- (B) Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man-power.
- (C) a shift of labour from agricultural sector to the industrial sector would uplift the living standard.
- (D) the industrial sector is labour-deficient while the agricultural sector is over-manned in our country.
2.
Due to enormous profits involved in smuggling, hundreds of persons have been attracted towards this anti-national activity. Some of them became millionaires overnight. India has a vast coastline both on the Eastern and Western Coast. It has been a heaven for smugglers who have been carrying on their activities with great impunity. There is no doubt, that from time to time certain seizures were made by the enforcement authorities, during raids and ambush but even allowing these losses the smugglers made huge profits.
The passage best supports the statement that:
- (A) smuggling hampers the economic development of a nation.
- (B) smuggling ought to be curbed.
- (C) authorities are taking strict measures to curb smuggling.
- (D) smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.
3.
The future of women in India is quite bright and let us hope that they will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion. Napoleon was right when he declared that by educating the women we can educate the whole nation. Because a country can never rise without the contribution of 50% of their population.
The passage best supports the statement that:
- (A) India is striving hard for the emancipation of women.
- (B) all women should be well educated.
- (C) a nation can progress only when women are given equal rights and opportunities as men.
- (D) women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.
4.
The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition form one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times for, through the modern development of economy, the family as bearer of tradition and education has become weakened.
This passage best supports the statement that for transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next :
- (A) there are means other than the school.
- (B) several different sources must be tried.
- (C) economic development plays a crucial role.
- (D) modern technology must be put to use.
5.
The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling, and to conceive himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs.
The passage best supports the statement that real education:
- (A) will take place if the children imbibe action and feeling.
- (B) will take place if the children are physically strong.
- (C) is not provided in our schools today.
- (D) comes through the interaction with social situations.
6.
The attainment of individual and organisational goals is mutually interdependent and linked by a common denominator - employee work motivation. Organisational members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and they contribute their efforts to the attainment of organisational objectives as means of achieving these personal goals.
The passage best supports the statement that motivation:
- (A) encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.
- (B) is crucial for the survival of an individual and organisation.
- (C) is the product of an individual
- (D) is the external force which induces an individual to contribute his efforts.
7.
Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation's great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world.
The passage best supports the statement that the businessman:
- (A) is accountable to the society.
- (B) lives luxurious and comfortable life.
- (C) is the beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution.
- (D) is capable of raising his standard of living.
8.
There is a shift in our economy from a manufacturing to a service orientation. The increase in service-sector will require the managers to work more with people rather than with objects and things from the assembly line.
This passage best supports the statement that:
- (A) managers should have a balanced mind.
- (B) assembly line will exist in service organisations.
- (C) interpersonal skills will become more important in the future work place.
- (D) manufacturing organisations ignore importance of people.
9.
To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness; it is really a sign of strength. It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance; but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged himself and puts the wrong-doer to shame.
The passage best supports' the statement that:
- (A) the sufferer alone knows the intensity of his sufferings.
- (B) people tend to forgive the things happened in the past.
- (C) natural passions are difficult to suppress.
- (D) mercy is the noblest form of revenge.
10.
One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrialized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the pay cheque and this fixes social status.
The passage best supports the statement that:
- (A) technology decides individual's social status.
- (B) castes and religions are man-made.
- (C) human labour has dignity and value.
- (D) all individuals, irrespective of caste and creed, are born equal.