Reading Comprehension

1. The intense Middle Class intensely yearns for

• (a) better material resources

• (b) extensive practice of corruption

• (c) clean honest society

• (d) law of increasing returns

2. Teachers are not high on the list of corruption because they do not have

• (a) courage

• (b) opportunities

• (c) support

• (d) ambition

3. The Indian Middle class is

• (a) defiant

• (b) mysterious

• (c) homogeneous

• (d) stratified

4. Who figure on top of the list of corruption?

• (a) businessmen

• (b) lawyers

• (c) politicians

• (d) policemen

5. This yearning, over the years, has

• (a) persisted

• (b) soared

• (c) declined

• (d) disappeared

6. In the above paragraph the word ‘perception’ means

• (a) The ability to imagine

• (b) The ability to dream

• (c) The ability to see

• (d) To create predictions

7. Why there was high percentage of death of women and children?

• (a) Germ theory was not developed

• (b) Germs had killed everyone

• (c) War was declared

• (d) Humans had no medicines

8. In the above paragraph 'Paradigm shift' means:

• (a) Shifting of the planets

• (b) Fundamental change in basic concepts

• (c) A scientific endeavour

• (d) Paragraph editing

9. According to the paragraph above which scientific theory has more importance in the present The Newtonian model or the Einsteinian?

• (a) Newtonian model is based on physics while Einsteinian is not based on physics

• (b) Newtonian model was incomplete while Einsteinian was highly predictive

• (c) Both of them have less importance in the present world

• (d) Neither of the model have ever worked

10. Find the correct synonym for the word 'skirmish'

• (a) Combat

• (b) Victory

• (c) Argue

• (d) Lost