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As we all know, Verbal Aptitude is an
important component of a number of competitive examinations such as the UPSC
Civil Services Examination, Banking Entrance Examinations, SSC CGL/CHSL
Examination, MBA Entrance Examination, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc.
In order to help you practise and improve your verbal ability, we provide you
this English Quiz.
Given below are a few questions from
SSC examinations held in the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in
the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!
Directions (Q.Nos. 1-5) Read the
passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four
alternatives.
Unlike the
masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind of propaganda
that works so well on the majority. Intellectuals are the kind of people who
demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They
regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for
the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations, which are
the propagandist’s stock-in-trade.
1. The first sentence of the passage
suggests that
(a)
all individuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts
(b)
groups consist of intellectuals
(c)
intellectuals behave like individuals, not like members of a crowd
(d)
individuals are intellectuals
2. The majority of people
(a)
resist propaganda
(b)
do not possess a critical habit of mind
(c)
work well with intellectuals
(d)
possess a critical habit of mind
3. Intellectuals are the kind of
people who
(a)
demand logical inconsistencies and fallacies
(b)
ignore faulty logic and wrong beliefs
(c)
look for evidence in support of logical inconsistencies and fallacies
(d)
accept only those things which are logically consistent and well supported by evidence
4. ‘Fallacies’ means
(a)
false evidence
(b)
false beliefs
(c)
illogical arguments
(d)
inconsistencies
5. A trait which intellectuals do not
possess is
(a)
critical thinking
(b)
rationality
(c)
over-simplification
(d)
logical thinking
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Answers:
1(c)
2(b) 3(d) 4(b) 5(c)