Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain
words/phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some
of the questions
Since 1947, Indians have not spoken out so strongly and clearly for a
completely new brand of people running government. Mercifully, there are no
ministers educated abroad. Thankfully, none of them has been brainwashed at
Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, the World bank or the IMF, subtly forcing expensive
Western solutions on typically Indian problems at the cost of the poor. Look what
the high powered, foreign returned degree wallahs have reduced this country to.
They wasted opportunities to show the inner strength of what is essentially Indian
because they never really knew their own people living in Bharat. In the eyes of the
World, we have lost our self-respect, dignity and identity.
All the ministers now have gone through average government schools.
Some have never been to college. Many have experienced poverty, exploitation,
injustice and discrimination at some point of time in their lives. It is truly the first
barefoot government ever to be voted into power in independent India. Where else
in the World would you have a one time tea seller on a railway station becoming
Prime Minister, shaping the destiny of more than one billion people?
The first example the Modi government must set is by drastically reducing
the perks and privileges of MPs. Free power, food, housing, travel to those whose
personal assets run into crores and a Rs.2 Crore annual fund for development for
over 500 MPs is costing the exchequer nearly Rs.2000 Crore. Only the Prime
Minister will be able to make it happen and, at the same time, stifle any dissent
from BJP MPs. The time is now.
No other government in the World has a Class 12 pass woman ministers
speaking as an equal to almost 120 heavily qualified, on paper, vice chancellors (90
% male). Today, as we judge them, the VCs are all to intellectually and morally
fatigued. There is something dreadfully wrong with an education system that
produces graduates from even private, expensive, snobbish schools and colleges
who are still prejudiced about caste, class, religion, sex and colour. These“graduates”,
who roam the streets of small towns and cities by the thousands, call
themselves “educated”, practise the worst forms of cruelty, slavery and crimes
against humanity, against society and in their own families. Indeed, some of them
rose to the level of their incompetence by becoming ministers in previous
governments, reinforcing the status quo, wasting vast public resources by
implementing silly Western ideas, listening to foreign returned “experts” and
making a hopeless mess of this country. The tragedy is that they cannot see the
colossal damage they have done to the very fabric of this country.
121. What is/are true about the ministers of the new government formed
at the Centre?
a) Some of them are ghighly qualified and foreign degree holders.
b) Only a few of them are t he products of average government schools.
c) There are so me ministers who have never been to college.
d) Our Prime Minister is a postgraduate in Political Science.
122. Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the
ministers of the last government at the Centre?
a) Some of the ministers of the last government at the Centre were educated
abroad.
b) The ministers of the last government were brainwashed at foreign
universities to suggest Western solutions for Indian problems.
c) The Western degree holder ministers coming from the elite class never
knew their own people living in Bharat.
d) Though the ministers of the last government were Western educated yet
they had great concern about the gripping problems of India
123. Which of the following statements is based on the facts mentioned
in the passage?
a) The present government aims at reducing the perks and privileges of
MLAs.
b) There is something wrong with those educational institutions that
produjce graduates who remain prejudiced about caste, class and gender
c) The elitist education policy has still managed to make students humble
and sensitive towards humanity.
d) None of the present ministers has gone through poverty, injustice,
exploitation and discrimination
124. What is the perception about India in the eyes of the World?
a) That India is a developing nation
b) That we don’t have self respect, dignity and identity
c) That India is still a c ountry of snake charmers
d) That India is an educationally backward nation
125. Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning
to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
Destiny
a) Objective b) Prospect c) Future
d) Concept
126. Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning
to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
Perks
a) Benefits b) Candy c) Loss
d) Constraints
127. Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning
to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
Fatigued
a) Fresh b) Lively c) Exhausted
d) Vivacious
128. Choose the word/group of words which is most opposite in
meaning of the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
Dissent
a) Strife b) Marvellous c) Objections
d) Approval
129. Choose the word/group of words which is most opposite in
meaning of the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
Snobbish
a) Haughty b) Pompous c) Arrogant
d) Humble