General English #38 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

GENERAL ENGLISH #38

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

General English : Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

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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