Reading Comprehension

The traveler could not feel the breeze because

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Passage - I
As I slung my pack onto my shoulders, a big mosquito thudded against my cheek. There had been a few through the day, but it was early in the season - the ice had gone out just two weeks before and I had scarcely noticed them. But now as I would down the ridge, the last breeze faded and they were on me. Rising in clouds from the soggy tundra, they pelted against my face. I reached in my pocket for the repellent and came up empty.

In the dark dungeon, he always waited for

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Passage—VI
Ah! whatever could be said was said. All held him guilty. Even his own mother who claimed to understand him the best. All had betrayed him in his hour of need. Yet, there he was, still with a sparkling hope and knew that the truth must prevail. In the cold, dark and damp cell he never for a moment lost faith in God and goodness and was waiting anxiously for an angel to come, plead non-guilty for him and free him of his miseries.

The man caught author's attention because

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Passage – V
Once while traveling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing, I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man’s face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics.

The author found that man's reply quite startling because

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Passage – V
Once while traveling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing, I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man’s face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics.

From the passage, we gather that

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Passage – V
Once while traveling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing, I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man’s face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics.

The author calls growth of specialisation 'inevitable'. Which one of the following statements is likely to be the most correct reason for this inevitability?

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Passage – IV
With the inevitable growth of specialization, we see the universities facing two great dangers. Firstly, it is very easy to get so involved in the technical details of education that the object of education is lost. Secondly, in an effort to condition a university to the needs of its students and to the needs of the State, it may lose its power to make or mould those students into responsible men, capable of thinking for themselves, and capable of expressing the results of their thoughts to others.

Her unpleasant feeling passed when

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Passage - II
The unpleasant feeling passed and she glanced guardedly up at him. He was walking unmarked in moonlight, innocent of her reaction to him. She felt then - this thought had come to her before - that there might be more to him than she had imagined. She felt ashamed as she had never thanked him for the help he had given to her father.

Three of the following statements indicate that he had a sparkling hope. Which of the following statements does not indicate the same?

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Passage—VI
Ah! whatever could be said was said. All held him guilty. Even his own mother who claimed to understand him the best. All had betrayed him in his hour of need. Yet, there he was, still with a sparkling hope and knew that the truth must prevail. In the cold, dark and damp cell he never for a moment lost faith in God and goodness and was waiting anxiously for an angel to come, plead non-guilty for him and free him of his miseries.

The firewood had been

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Passage - III
One December night, a family had gathered around their fireside and piled it high with wood gathered from mountain streams and ruins of great trees that had come falling down the mountain sides. The fire roared and brightened the room with its light. The faces of the father and mother had a quiet gladness, the children laughed, the oldest daughter was the picture of happiness at seventeen and the aged grandmother who sat sewing in the warmest place was the picture of happiness grown old.

The truth must prevail means

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Passage—VI
Ah! whatever could be said was said. All held him guilty. Even his own mother who claimed to understand him the best. All had betrayed him in his hour of need. Yet, there he was, still with a sparkling hope and knew that the truth must prevail. In the cold, dark and damp cell he never for a moment lost faith in God and goodness and was waiting anxiously for an angel to come, plead non-guilty for him and free him of his miseries.

When he was in the arctic, the time of the year was

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Passage - I
As I slung my pack onto my shoulders, a big mosquito thudded against my cheek. There had been a few through the day, but it was early in the season - the ice had gone out just two weeks before and I had scarcely noticed them. But now as I would down the ridge, the last breeze faded and they were on me. Rising in clouds from the soggy tundra, they pelted against my face. I reached in my pocket for the repellent and came up empty.

Whatever others said about him, he

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Passage—VI
Ah! whatever could be said was said. All held him guilty. Even his own mother who claimed to understand him the best. All had betrayed him in his hour of need. Yet, there he was, still with a sparkling hope and knew that the truth must prevail. In the cold, dark and damp cell he never for a moment lost faith in God and goodness and was waiting anxiously for an angel to come, plead non-guilty for him and free him of his miseries.

The man was scribbling down

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Passage – V
Once while traveling by the local bus, I got a seat beside a very strange man. He seemed interested in every passenger aboard. He would stare at a person, scribble some odd mathematical notations on his long notebook and then move on to the next. Being quite interested in what he was doing, I asked him what all those notations meant and then came the startling reply. He saw a man’s face not as a single unit but as thousands of squares put together. He was in fact a statistical expert and a budding artist learning the art of graphics.

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How does one become social?

Cooperation is an associative as well as basic process of social life. Without this society cannot exist. The mutual attraction between man and woman and the spirit of cooperation are at the root of human creation. Kinship relations depend on the mutual cooperation of family members and close relatives. Man's psychological, biological, social, cultural, economic and political needs inspire the members of the group for mutual cooperation. Rationality, self-control and the capacity to organize them are the necessary elements of cooperation.

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What does “Patriotism” mean?

Patriotism means to have the feeling of love for one's country. Patriotism is a common virtue. There is hardly anyone who does not love his country. If there is, he is not fit to be alive. One who is patriotic will be ready to make any sacrifice for his country. He will never live selfishly for himself alone. A soldier for instance makes the supreme sacrifice of his life for the sake of his country. Great men like Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukhdev, Bose and others are famous for their patriotism; it was their patriotism which made them carry on the national struggle for independence. They made many sacrifices but never gave up the struggle for freedom. One can be a patriot by keeping a proper image of one's country before the eyes of foreigners. A patriot will never do anything to lower his country in the eyes of others. He will never criticize his government before foreigners. He will try to project the best image of his country when he comes into contact with people of other lands.