GENERAL ENGLISH #38
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Directions:
In the following questions, you have two passages with 5 questions in each
passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each
question out of the four alternatives.
Passage-I
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe are known for their
theories about cycles of generations in American history. They refer to each
cycle of four generations as a constellation, and they posit that each
constellational era corresponds to “recurring types of historical events” and
moods. They state that adjacent generations do not live similar lives, and that
each generation ages as a singular cohort as time moves forward. According to
Stratus and Howe, each generation is comprised or people who possess (1) common
age (2) common beliefs and (3) perceived membership in the same generation. A
generation is approximately 22 years in length. Since a lifetime may reach
80-90 years, members of 4 generations are alive at one time. The four
generational archetypes identified by Strauss are Idealist, Reactive, Civic and
Adaptive. Idealist are “increasingly indulged youth after a secular crisis,”
who cultivate principle rather than pragmatism in midlife, and emerge as
“visionary elders.” Reactives grow up “Under protected and criticized youths
during a spiritual awakening,” mature into risk taking adults, mellow into
“pragmatic midlife leaders during a secular crisis,” and become reclusive
elders. Civics grow up “increasingly protected youths after a spiritual awakening,”
become “a heroic and achieving cadre of young adults,” build institutions as
midlifers, and “emerges as busy midlifers, attacked by the next spiritual
awakening.”
Adaptive grow up as “overprotected and suffocated youths
during a secular crisis,” become “risk-average, conformist rising adults,” mature
into “indecisive arbitrator leaders during a spiritual awakening,” and become
sensitive elders.
1. What
is the assumption made by Strauss and Howe?
(a) Alternate generations live similar lives
(b) Four generation co-exit at one and the same time
(c) The cycles of generations share some common features
and moods
(d) Each constellational era corresponds to recurring
types of historical events and moods
Answer:
(d)
2. What
is the dissimilarity between adjacent generations?
(a) Adjacent generations do not live similar lives
(b) Each generation focuses on its specific traits
(c) Adjacent generations are not influenced by each other
(d) Adjacent generations are not in touch with each other
Answer:
(a)
3. According
to the passage which of the following statements can be inferred?
(a) Idealist are one generation younger than the
Reactives
(b) Adaptives are elders when Civics are midlifers
(c) When Reactives are adults, Civics are youths
(d) Reactives are one generation younger than the Civics
Answer:
(c)
4. According
to the passage, what happens to the Civic generation at its members enter
midlife?
(a) It is attacked by Idealists who are coming of age
(b) It is a attacked by Idealists who are visionary
elders
(c) It is attacked by Adaptives who are rising adults
(d) It is attacked by Adaptives who are youths
Answer:
(b)
5. ‘Pragmatic’
most closely means ……………
(a) behaving in a reckless way
(b) acting in a practical way
(c) acting on the basis of principle
(d) behaving in a reclusive way
Answer:
(b)
Passage-II
In the word have we made health an end in itself? We have
forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person to do his work and do
it well. A lot of modern medicine is concerned with promotion of good health.
Many patients as well as many physicians pay very little attention to health;
but very much attention to health makes some people imagine that they are ill.
Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspaper, the
health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of the television
programme and all those books on medicine we talk about health all the time.
Yet for the most only result is more people with imaginary illnesses. The
healthy man should not be wasting any time talking about health, he should be
using health for work, the work he does and the work that good health makes
possible.
6. Modern
medicine is primarily concerned with ……………
(a) promotion of good health
(b) people suffering from imaginary illnesses
(c) people suffering from real illnesses
(d) increased efficiency in work
Answer:
(a)
7. A
healthy man should be concerned with ……………
(a) his work which good health makes possible
(b) looking after his health
(c) his health which makes work possible
(d) talking about health
Answer:
(a)
8. Talking
about health all the time makes people ……………
(a) always suffer from imaginary illnesses
(b) sometimes suffer from imaginary illnesses
(c) rarely suffer from imaginary illnesses
(d) often suffer from imaginary illnesses
Answer:
(d)
9. The
passage suggests that ……………
(a) health is an end in itself
(b) health is a blessing
(c) health is only means to an end
(d) we should not talk about health
Answer:
(a)
10. The
passage tells us ……………
(a) how medicines should be manufactured
(b) what a healthy man should or should not do
(c) what the television programmes should be about
(d) how best to imagine illnesses
Answer:
(b)
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