- RC forms an important part of the verbal ability section. This section mainly focuses on to check the ability to understand the language and the underlying concept of the passage. The main focus should be to have a good command over the language as well as time management.
- Make sure you attempt these passage on a regular basis and with complete seriousness.
- Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.
- Once you are finished, click the ‘Get Results’ button below. Any items you have not completed will be marked incorrect.
Passage:
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty,” as the saying goes. Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
RC (Level-1) Passage-30
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Question 1 |
The people who are flying overhead are called highly civilized because they
are involved in advanced technical tasks | |
are doing their duty | |
are trained bombers | |
draw hefty salaries |
Question 1 Explanation:
The line which helps us to find the answer is ‘As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.’ Remember, these people are flying planes over this person and this indirectly refers to the advance of civilisation.
Question 2 |
The person who succeeds in killing the author will
never sleep undisturbed | |
be without any remorse | |
suffer a lot | |
consider himself a sinner |
Question 2 Explanation:
The answer to this question can be indirectly found in the concluding lines of the passage: But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction.
Compunction means ‘a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)’.
Question 3 |
The reason why they are trying to kill the author is that
they have murderous instincts | |
they have a grudge against the author | |
they have an assigned job | |
the author is not as law-abiding as they are |
Question 3 Explanation:
As understood by the passage, the job is assigned to them and they have to do it.
Question 4 |
In this passage, the author assumes that doing one's duty to one's country
heightens one's sensibility | |
exonerates a person of his act of killing | |
makes one kind-hearted | |
makes one desist from doing anything unscrupulous |
Question 4 Explanation:
The answer can be derived from the lines: Most of them are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. But if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces, he will still be able to sleep without any degree of compunction.
The answer becomes very evident from these lines.
Question 5 |
What is the author's attitude towards the ways of civilized societies?
Deeply concerned | |
Mildly Indifferent | |
Mildly Hostile | |
Mostly Casual |
Question 5 Explanation:
The author of the passage is deeply concerned by the state of affairs and he adopts an indirect manner to express his dissatisfaction in the given case. The answer that best reflects the given situation is option (a).
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