SSC GD Constable Reading Comprehension Question and Answers download PDF based on previous year question paper of SSC GD exam. 10 Very important Reading Comprehension questions for GD Constable.<\/p>\n
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS FOR SSC GD PDF<\/a><\/p>\n GET 20 SSC GD MOCK FOR JUST RS.117<\/a><\/p>\n FREE SSC EXAM YOUTUBE VIDEOS<\/a><\/p>\n Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n Read the given passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n Has NASA, the monolithic space agency, failed in it’s quest to put man out into the cosmos. Will profit coupled with mans need to explore be the driving engine which sends man into the cosmos. Think about what has moved technology forward within the American society over the past 100 years or so. Was Orville and Wilbur Wright employed by the government. Of course not. Most of their research and development for the invention of the airplane took place within a small bike shop in western Dayton, Ohio, the birth place of aviation. Thomas Edison, who is accredited with 1,093 patents earning him the nickname “The Wizard of Menlo Park” used his own money to build the Menlo Park research labs in New Jersey. In 1889 Thomas Edison established the Edison General Electric Company. Thomas Edison is considered the most prolific inventor of our time and his inventions were created within the realm of private enterprise. Did the seed for the invention of the personal computer germinate within a government lab. The invention of the personal computer came from an assortment of various inventions and from the tinkering of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Job’s garage in an area now called Silicon Valley. Their tinkering led to the development of Apple Computers. The story of Bill Gates and the development of the Microsoft family of operating systems took place within private enterprise. The Windows family of operating systems is the most widely used on earth and has been a major player in bringing information technology to the developed world.<\/p>\n Examples of major technological advancement within the realm of private enterprise are numerous. Most major technological advancements within society have occurred outside the purview of government intervention. Governments were intended to govern the people. The government’s role is to preserve the environment of freedom and democracy so that intellectual curiosity can flourish within this environment. The governments role is also to provide funding, and should not be in the nuts and bolts operation of putting man into space. The ingenuity of man within the realm of private enterprise has resulted in most of the technological advancements we enjoy today.<\/p>\n Question 1:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following is a correct match?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Bill Gates – Aviation<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Steve Jobs – Operating System<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Thomas Edison – Information Technology<\/p>\n d)\u00a0None of the above<\/p>\n Question 2:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following is not a role played by the government as given in the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0To provide funding for the inventions.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0To preserve the liberal order.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0To facilitate the freedom of expression.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0To put man into space<\/p>\n Question 3:\u00a0<\/b>What is the meaning of the word \u2018monolithic\u2019 as per the context of the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0ancient<\/p>\n b)\u00a0unique<\/p>\n c)\u00a0subjugating<\/p>\n d)\u00a0very large and powerful<\/p>\n Question 4:\u00a0<\/b>Who is known as \u2018The Wizard of Menlo Park\u2019?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Orville Wright<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Wilbur Right<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Thomas Edison<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Steve Jobs<\/p>\n Question 5:\u00a0<\/b>What is the main idea of the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Private enterprises are better than the government, when it comes to inventions.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Private enterprises have played an important role in many significant inventions.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Though private enterprises facilitated, it has been the government which is the driving force behind major inventions<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Private enterprises are technologically more advanced than the government.<\/p>\n SSC GD FREE PREVIOUS PAPERS<\/a><\/p>\n SSC GD MOCK TEST 2019<\/a><\/p>\n Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:<\/p>\n In the Snark<\/em>, as in the Alice<\/em> books of 1865 and 1871, the commonsense assumptions that usually govern language and meaning are turned upside down. It makes us wonder what all of those assumptions are up to, and how they work. How do we know that this sentence is trying to say something serious, or that where we are now is not a dream?<\/p>\n Language can\u2019t always convey meaning alone – it might need sense<\/em>, which is the governing context that framed it. We talk about \u2018common sense\u2019, or whether something \u2018makes sense\u2019, or dismiss things as \u2018nonsense\u2019, but we rarely think about what sense itself is, until it goes missing. The German logician Gottlob Frege in 1892 used sense<\/em> to describe a proposition\u2019s meaning, as something distinct from what it denoted. Sense therefore appears to be a mental entity, resistant to fixed definition.<\/p>\n Shortly after Carroll\u2019s death in 1898, a seismic turn took place in both logic and metaphysics. Building on Frege, logical positivists such as Bertrand Russell sought to deploy logic and mathematics in order to establish unconditional truths. A logical truth was, like mathematics, true whether or not people changed their minds about it. Realism, the belief in a mind-independent reality, began to assert itself afresh after a long spell in the philosophical wilderness.<\/p>\n Sense and nonsense would therefore become landmines in a battle over logic\u2019s ability to untether truth from thought. If an issue over meaning seeks recourse in sense, it seeks recourse in thought too. Carroll anticipated where logic was headed, and the strangest of his creations was more than a game, an experiment conceived, as the English author G K Chesterton once wrote of his work, \u2018in order to study that darkest problem of metaphysics\u2019.<\/p>\n Nina Lyon<\/p>\n This article was originally published at Aeon<\/a> and has been republished under Creative Commons.<\/p>\n Question 6:\u00a0<\/b>All of the following statements are true except<\/p>\n a)\u00a0We do not think about sense unless it goes missing.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0In the Alice books, the commonsense assumptions are turned upside down.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0The strangest creation of Carroll was just a game.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Russell used maths and logic to establish unconditional truths.<\/p>\n Question 7:\u00a0<\/b>We can infer from the given passage that<\/p>\n a)\u00a0unconditional truths and realism are at loggerheads with each other.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0realism believes in the existence of a mind-independent reality.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0realism does not use logic and mathematics to establish its existence.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Russell was a believer in unconditional truths but did not believe in realism.<\/p>\n Question 8:\u00a0<\/b>We can ascertain that all of the following persons worked in the space of \u2018logic and metaphysics\u2019 except<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Gottlob Frege<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Bertnard Russelll<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Chesterton<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Carroll<\/p>\n Question 9:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following is a valid inference that can be made on reading the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0A seismic event occurred shortly after Carroll\u2019s death in 1898.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Frege used a preposition to describe the meaning of sense.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Carroll wrote that he conceived the experiment to study the darkest problem of metaphysics.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Sense is different from what it denotes, just like a preposition.<\/p>\n Question 10:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following statements best captures the idea discussed in the second paragraph of the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0We lack the ability to distinguish the difference between \u2018common sense\u2019 and \u2018nonsense\u2019 when the feeling of \u2018sense\u2019 goes missing.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0When the meaning of something is combined with the sense (i.e, the context), a language is born.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Frege was a pioneer in defining \u2018sense\u2019 and before his period, sense was considered as something resistant to definition.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Sense, along with language, plays a pivotal role in conveying the meaning of something.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD APP TO ACESS DIRECTLY ON MOBILE<\/a><\/p>\n Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n Read the given passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n Vedanta summarises the metaphysics of the Upanishads, a clutch of Sanskrit religious texts, likely written between 800 and 500 BCE. They form the basis for the many philosophical, spiritual and mystical traditions of the Indian sub-continent. The Upanishads were also a source of inspiration for some modern scientists, including Albert Einstein, Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger and Werner Heisenberg, as they struggled to comprehend quantum physics of the 20th century.<\/p>\n The Vedantic quest for understanding begins from what it considers the logical starting point: our own consciousness. How can we trust conclusions about what we observe and analyse unless we understand what is doing the observation and analysis? The progress of AI, neural nets and deep learning have inclined some modern observers to claim that the human mind is merely an intricate organic processing machine – and consciousness, if it exists at all, might simply be a property that emerges from information complexity. However, this view fails to explain intractable issues such as the subjective self and our experience of qualia, those aspects of mental content such as \u2018redness\u2019 or \u2018sweetness\u2019 that we experience during conscious awareness. Figuring out how matter can produce phenomenal consciousness remains the so-called \u2018hard problem\u2019.<\/p>\n Question 11:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following do we experience during conscious awareness?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0farsightedness<\/p>\n b)\u00a0laziness<\/p>\n c)\u00a0brightness<\/p>\n d)\u00a0kindness<\/p>\n Question 12:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following is true as per the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Vedanta gives importance to consciousness.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Modern observers give importance to consciousness.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Vedanta does not give importance to consciousness.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Both Vedanta and modern observers give importance to consciousness.<\/p>\n Question 13:\u00a0<\/b>What is the meaning of the word \u2018intricate\u2019?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0helpful<\/p>\n b)\u00a0complicated<\/p>\n c)\u00a0necessary<\/p>\n d)\u00a0relevant<\/p>\n Question 14:\u00a0<\/b>What does \u2018they\u2019 refer to in the line \u201cThey form the basis for the many philosophical, spiritual and mystical traditions of the Indian sub-continent.\u201d<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Upanishads<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Vedanta<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Religious Texts<\/p>\n d)\u00a0Metaphysics<\/p>\n Question 15:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following scientists made a significant contribution to the Upanishads?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Albert Einstein and Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger only<\/p>\n b)\u00a0Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger and Werner Heisenberg only<\/p>\n c)\u00a0Albert Einstein, Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, and Werner Heisenberg<\/p>\n d)\u00a0None of the above<\/p>\n FREE SSC PRACTICE SET (DAILY TEST)<\/a><\/p>\n Instructions<\/b><\/p>\n Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:<\/p>\n Cryptocurrencies had a rough ride in 2018. As of January 7, 2018, the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies tracked by CoinMarketCap.com came to more than$800 billion, its highest point ever. As I write this on January 3, 2019, that total market capitalization is down to about $130 billion \u2014 about 1\/6th of the market\u2019s high point.<\/p>\n You might be surprised to learn that I\u2019m still a cryptocurrency fan. But, just to be up front, yes, I am.<\/p>\n Not because I\u2019m sitting on a huge pile of the stuff, nor because I expect to make a killing speculating.<\/p>\n I\u2019m still enthusiastic about cryptocurrency because I\u2019ve seen what it can do and make plausible predictions about what it will be able to do in the future. Cryptocurrency seizes control of money from governments and puts it in the hands of people. With improvements in its privacy aspects, that\u2019s only going to become more true. In short, cryptocurrency fuels freedom.<\/p>\n But can it last? Will it win? I think that the last year, far from dispelling that notion, reinforces it. Let me explain.<\/p>\n Two kinds of noise related to cryptocurrency seem to have faded in tandem with the market cap\u2019s downward trend. As one might expect, the ultra-bullish \u201cBitcoin will go to $100,000 real soon now!\u201d voices have gone down in number and volume. But so have the voices comparing cryptocurrency to a Ponzi scheme or to the 17th century \u201ctulip bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, there are exceptions. One is Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, who still seems to think that transaction costs and lack of \u201ctethers\u201d to fiat government currencies will make crypto a bad bet. Of course, Krugman also said, in 1998, that \u201c[b]y 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet\u2019s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine\u2019s.\u201d So however expert he may be in other areas, I doubt I\u2019m alone in discounting his predictive abilities when it comes to technological advancements.<\/p>\n Question 16:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following statements can be said to be true going by the author\u2019s opinion of Paul Krugman?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0The author believes that Paul Krugman is not an expert in any area, let alone digital markets.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0The author is of the view that Paul Krugman made a correct prediction about the impact of internet.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0The author doubts the predictive abilities of Krugman in technological advancements provided his track record in the space.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0The author thinks that he is the only one who is doubting the predictive abilities of Krugman on the impact of technological advancements.<\/p>\n Question 17:\u00a0<\/b>What does the author mean by the line \u201c I think that the last year, far from dispelling that notion, reinforces it\u201d?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0The author believes that the last year\u2019s downturn has reinforced the notion that cryptocurrencies will fade out soon.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0The author believes that the downturn last year has counter-intuitively helped to reinforce the notion that cryptocurrencies are here to stay.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0The last year\u2019s downturn has raised a lot of questions regarding the future of cryptocurrency and has strengthened the fears that people had.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0The author believes that the downturn has unfortunately strengthened the notions that cryptocurrency was supposed to dispel.<\/p>\n Question 18:\u00a0<\/b>According to the passage, cryptocurrency<\/p>\n a)\u00a0seizes money from the Government and puts it in the hands of the people.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0is similar to a ponzi scheme and the Tulip bubble of 17th century.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0is all set to hit the $100,000 mark in a short while.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0is not linked to government backed fiat currencies.<\/p>\n Question 19:\u00a0<\/b>Which of the following statements can be said to be true using the information provided in the passage?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0Cryptocurrencies reached their highest market capitalization on the 7th of January, 2018.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0The price of cryptocurrencies has declined consistently over the last year.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0The market capitalization of the cryptocurrencies traded on CoinMarketCap.com reached $800 billion on the 7th of January, 2018.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0The number of cryptocurrencies on the 3rd of January, 2019 is nearly a sixth of what it was on the 7th of January, 2018.<\/p>\n Question 20:\u00a0<\/b>Why is the author positive about cryptocurrency?<\/p>\n a)\u00a0The value of cryptocurrencies increased by more than 6 times their original value last year.<\/p>\n b)\u00a0The author has a hordes of cryptocurrencies and plans to make money by betting on future prices.<\/p>\n c)\u00a0The author believes that the value of crytocurrency will rise exponentially in the near future.<\/p>\n d)\u00a0The author is convinced of the potential that crypocurrencies hold and believes that they promote freedom.<\/p>\n Answers & Solutions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n Bill Gates is related to Information Technology and Operating System. 2)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n From the second paragraph, we can infer that that the author does not want the government to put man into space. 3)\u00a0Answer\u00a0(D)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Monolithic\u2019 means very large and powerful. Here, it is used as an adjective for NASA.
\nThomas Edison is related to Electric inventions.
\nSteve Jobs is related to Apple Computers.
\nSo, none of the given pairs is correctly matched.
\nHence, option D is the correct answer.<\/p>\n
\nHence, option D is the correct answer.<\/p>\n
\nHence, option D is the correct answer.<\/p>\n