SSC Stenographer 13 September 2017 Afternoon Shift

Instructions

A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

Question 161

"Do you suppose you know better than your own mother?" his father jeered angrily.

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Question 162

The mother said, "well done son, I am proud of you."

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Question 163

He said "Let Parth come with us, mother. I’ll take care of him."

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Question 164

"I’ve worked for you for five years," man said to them, "What about giving me a raise?"

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Question 165

I told Reema, "I’ve been ill, but I’m better now, thanks for asking."

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Instructions

Read the given passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.

Dreams are both internal and external. Since the ego or the director is absent during sleep the neural pathways have a run of their own. Thus the day long experiences or the existing memories are the driving force for the internal dreams. However when there is tremendous thinking activity or Sanyam on a particular thought during waking time, it leads sometimes to solution dreams. Various great inventions and discoveries of the world have come through such dreaming process. Why we do not remember dreams has been researched by lots of brain scientists and there are many reasons - part of it is to do with creating long term memory. Nevertheless it is the dreams that we remember that make life interesting. There are many theories of dreams but we still do not know why we dream and why most of the time we have random and strange dreams. A possible answer may lie in how synapses behave during sleep. The more we dream during the night the less restful is the sleep. A really restful sleep is deep sleep without dreams. This helps in the flushing out of the toxic material from major part of the brain. Besides removing the toxins from the brain the increase of synaptic cleft may also help in explaining the dreaming process.

Question 166

What are dreams?

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Question 167

What does the synaptic cleft helps in?

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Question 168

According to the author, why are the dreams that we do not remember are not important?

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Question 169

What is a really restful sleep?

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Question 170

When do neural pathways have a run of their own?

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