SSC CGL Tier-2 4th-September-2011 English

In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage V:

An old shepherd was playing on a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him.

“Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said.

“Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd.

The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes.

“But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said.

The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her place.

The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the Kind of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he had an the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her land, saying:

“Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.”

But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd.

“What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.”

In the following questions, you have eight brief passage with 5/10 questions following each passage. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage VI:

The environment comprises all the physical, social and cultural factors and conditions influencing the existence or the development of
an organism. Due to indiscriminate industrialization, man has created a state of decadence. He has continuously tampered “with nature which has resulted in the threat to the sustenance of mankind. Although, attempts have been made to restore nature to its previous state of purity and serenity, the efforts have not been whole-hearted.

Earth is the home we all share and would pass on to our future generations as their legacy. But if they inherit the present state of the world, they would be unable to sustain themselves. Man has steadily improved the technologies and other means necessary for higher production of wealth and for the availability of devices that could give more physical and mental pleasures. The industrial revolution led to a drastic escalation of earth’s surface temperature. Man exploited nature for his benefits, without any foresight as to what
the implications of his actions would be. Indiscriminate industrialization resulted in urban migration as the rural poor settled in cities in search of opportunities. Cities, already facing a population crisis could not accommodate the migrants and this led to the development of slums. This had resulted in increased pressure on the available resources and further degradation of the environment.