GENERAL ENGLISH #16
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Directions (1-10): In these questions, you have brief
passages with 5 (five) questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage-I
The world’s largest living organism is not the blue whale
which still is the world’s largest living animal but Australia’s Great Barrier
Reef one of the country’s prime living animals and prime tourist attraction. Sadly,
size notwithstanding, it is slowly succumbing to the killer ‘white syndrome’, a
bleaching disease which has invaded 33 of its 48 reefs.
Otherwise brilliantly multicoloured and teeming with a
kaleidoscope of life, the affected reefs have acquired a deathly white pallor,
the result of dying tissues. The bleaching of the reef happened following the
recording of the warmest ever sea water temperature in the area here. Scientists
fear that the naturally gorgeous reef are endangered and the as yet
undiscovered animal and plant species would soon suffer irreplaceable damage. This
is only because of the rising of water temperature.
1. Which
of the following statements is not true?
(a) The Great Barrier Reef is not the world’s largest living
mammal.
(b) The Blue Whale is dying of white syndrome.
(c) The ‘white syndrome’ is a new bleaching disease.
(d) The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest living
organism.
Answer:
(b)
2.
33 out of Australia’s 48 reefs have succumbed to:
(a) the impact of the Blue whale
(b) the impact of tourism
(c) the destructive impact of ‘white syndrome’
(d) the bleaching disease affecting the whales
Answer:
(c)
3. The
dying reefs acquired a:
(a) brilliant and multicolour
(b) kaleidoscopic hues
(c) brilliant blue colour like the whale
(d) sickly white pallor
Answer:
(d)
4.
Scientists’ main worry is that:
(a) there will be a fall in tourism with the reefs gone
(b) the bleaching will make the water warmer
(c) other endangered and undiscovered flora and fauna
will also be damaged
(d) future research on ‘white syndrome’ will stop
Answer:
(c)
5. The
meaning of ‘succumbing’ is:
(a) giving way to an underground passage
(b) giving way to something powerful
(c) following order
(d) coming in the way of
Answer:
(b)
Passage-II
The Wright brothers did not have to look far for ideas
when building their airplane, they studied birds. The act of copying from
nature to address a design problem is not new, but over the last decade the
practice has moved from obscure scientific journals to the mainstream. The term
‘biomimicry’, popularized by American natural-sciences writer Janine Benyus in
the late 1990s, refers to innovation that take their inspiration from flora and
fauna. Biomimicry advocates argue that with 3.8 billion years of research and
development, evolution has already solved many of the challenges humans now
encounter. Although we often see nature as something we mine for resources,
biomimicry views nature as a mentor. From all around the globe, there are
countless instances where natural sources have serve as inspiration for
inventions that promise to transform every sector of society. One such instance
occurred in 1941 when Swiss engineer, George de Mestral was out hunting with
his dog one day when he noticed sticky burrs, with their hundreds tiny hooks,
had attached themselves to his pants and his dog’s fur. These were his
inspiration for Velcro.
6. The
airplane was inspired by:
(a) animals
(b) plants
(c) birds
(d) flies
Answer:
(c)
7. Biomimicry
refers to designs that:
(a) are inspired by natural things
(b) transformed society
(c) are based on scientific engineering
(d) arise out of man’s creativity
Answer:
(a)
8. Biomimicry
views the natural world as a:
(a) mine for resources
(b) mine field of ideas
(c) mentor
(d) source of inspiration
Answer:
(c)
9. What
has helped solve many of the challenges encountered by man?
(a) biomimicry
(b) evolution
(c) innovation
(d) invention
Answer:
(b)
10. The
two instances of biomimicry mentioned in the passage are:
(a) flora and fauna
(b) birds and burrs
(c) copying and innovating
(d) airplane and velcro
Answer:
(d)
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