Theme Detection

11. The prevention of accidents makes it necessary not only that safety devices be used to guard exposed machinery but also that mechanics be instructed in safety rules which they must follow for their own protection, and that lighting in the plant be adequate.

The passage best supports the statement that industrial accidents:


Option”D” is correct

can be eliminated with the help of safety rules.

12. To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness; it is really a sign of strength. It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance; but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged himself and puts the wrong-doer to shame.

The passage best supports’ the statement that:


Option”D” is correct

mercy is the noblest form of revenge.

13. Industrial exhibitions play a major role in a country’s economy. Such exhibitions, now regularly held in Delhi, enable us to measure the extent of our own less advanced industrial progress and the mighty industrial power and progress of countries like the U.K., U.S.A. and Russia whose pavilions are the centres of the greatest attention and attractions.

The passage best supports the statement that industrial exhibitions:


Option”D” is correct

boost up production qualitatively and quantitatively by analytical comparison of a country.

14. The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition form one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times for, through the modern development of economy, the family as bearer of tradition and education has become weakened.

This passage best supports the statement that for transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next :


Option”C” is correct

economic development plays a crucial role.

15. Emerson said that the poet was landlord, Sealord, airlord. The flight of imagination made the poet master of land, sea and air. But a poet’s dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement and a reality for all men. Even those who invented, improved and perfected the aeroplane could hardly have dreamt of the possibility of flight into outer space.

The passage best supports the statement that:

  • what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.


Option”C” is correct

what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.

16. Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation’s great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world.

The passage best supports the statement that the businessman:


Option”E” is correct

has contributed to the growth of civilisation.

17.There is a shift in our economy from a manufacturing to a service orientation. The increase in service-sector will require the managers to work more with people rather than with objects and things from the assembly line.

This passage best supports the statement that:


Option”C” is correct

interpersonal skills will become more important in the future work place.

18. The virtue of art does not allow the work to be interfered with or immediately ruled by anything other than itself. It insists that it alone shall touch the work in order to bring it into being. Art requires that nothing shall attain the work except through art itself.

This passage best supports the statement that:


Option”C” is correct

art is for the sake of art alone.

19. Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation’s great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world.

The passage best supports the statement that the businessman:


Option”E” is correct

has contributed to the growth of civilisation.