SSC CGL Tier-2 30-November-2016 English

Instructions

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.
Passage:

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

Question 181

The author considers specialization as :

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Question 182

One of the core elements of education is :

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Question 183

The examination system is an opiate because

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Question 184

The purpose of education is

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Question 185

The author

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Instructions

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.
Passage:

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend, - who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan to plan, and veers like a weather-cock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in any thing, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly, and then executes his purpose with flexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line. Take your course wisely, but firmly; and
having taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution, and the Alps and Pyrenees will sink before you.

Question 186

A man who cannot decide which of the two things he will do first, end up doing_______.

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Question 187

What is the meaning of "retrograde" in the passage?

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Question 188

What will the man who sticks to his resolve and executes it advance to?

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Question 189

Who is daunted by petty difficulties?

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Question 190

The writer advises us to be ______.

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