TS ICET 2021 Question Paper Shift-1 (20th Aug)

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

When I worked in a second-hand book shop-so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise, where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios - the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people. Our shop had exceptionally interesting stock, yet I doubt whether ten percent of our customers knew a good book from a bad one. First edition snobs were much commoner than lovers of literature, but oriental students haggling over cheap text books were commoner still, and vague-minded women looking for birthday presents for their nephews were commonest of all.

Many of the people who came to us were of the kind who would be nuisance anywhere but have special opportunities in a bookshop. For example, the dear old lady who 'wants a book for an invalid (a very common demand, that), and the other dear old lady who read such a nice book in 1897 and wonders whether you can find her a copy. Unfortunately she does not remember the title or the author's name or what the book was about, but she does remember that it had a red cover. But, apati from these there are two well-known types of pest by whom every second hand bookshop is haunted. One is be decayed person smelling of old bread crusts who comes every day, sometimes several times a day, and tries to sell you worthless books. The other is the person who orders large quantities of books for which he has not the smallest intention of paying. In our shop we sold nothing on credit, but we would put books aside, or order them if necessary, for people who arrranged to fetch them away later. Scarcely half the people who ordered books from us ever came back.

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

Since we now know what a terrible evil war is, we must spare no effort to prevent its recurrence. To this reason must also be added an ethical one: In this, course of the last two wars, we have been guilty of acts of inhumanity which make one shudder, and in any future war we would certainly be guilty of even worse. This must not happen!

Let us dare to race the Situation. Man has become superman. He is a superman because he not only has at his disposal innate physical forces, but also commands, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the latent forces of nature which he can now put to his own use. To kill at a distance, man used to rely solely on his own physical strength; he used to bend the bow and to release the arrow. The superman has progressed to the stage where he can use the energy released by the combustion of a given combination of diemical product$. This enables him to employ a much more effective projectile and to propel it over far greater distances.

However, the superman suffers from a fatal flaw. He has failed to rise to the level of superhuman reason which should match that of his superhuman strength. He requires such reason to put this vast power to solely 1easonable and useful ends and not to destructive and murderous ones. Because he lacks it, the conquests of science and technology become a mortal danger to him rather than a blessing.