English Language-Reading Comprehension [NTSE Stage-2 (National-Level) Scholastic-Aptitude & Language Comprehension]: Questions 41 - 45 of 95

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Passage

Finally, the bomb was prepared. The site chosen for the test explosion was the desert region, two hundred miles from Los Alamos. Ten seconds before zero hour a green flare warned the spectators to keep down. Then, came the blinding flash. The entire area was suddenly brighter than the brightest daylight and the bomb was like a ball of fire. Then, came the tremendous roar and the heavy pressure wave, which knocked down two men outside the control Centre and then came the cloud-the mushroom cloud, all the colours of the rainbow, ironically beautiful, surging up to our 40000 feet over 10000 feet higher than the Everest.

Question 41 (4 of 5 Based on Passage)

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The passage uses many words and phrases dealing with colour and light. This is because the writer wants to-

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Choice (4)Response

a.

convey to us his own sense of satisfaction

b.

indicate the humanity has achieved something really great

c.

suggest that the event took place at night

d.

make us see vividly the entire cycle of events

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Question 42 (5 of 5 Based on Passage)

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Which of the following best helps to bring out the precise meaning of zero hour?

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Choice (4)Response

a.

Twelve o՚clock in the middle of the day

b.

Exact time at which operations are to begin

c.

6 o՚clock in the morning

d.

Twelve o՚clock at night

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Passage

In case of zamindari system, the landlord was considered as the ultimate owner of the land. He was responsible for the payment of land revenue to the government, which had been settled once for all under the Permanent Settlement System. The zamindari system manifested absentee landlordism at its worst and was largely responsible for the continuously deteriorating conditions of tenant farmers. The landlords became merely rent-receivers and did nothing for increasing the productivity of land held by their tenants. The pressure of population led to a gradual extension of cultivation and a greater demand for land. As a result, a large army of intermediaries between the state and the actual tiller cropped up. This also made it possible for the landlords to extort high rents from tenants. All that it amounted to was the exploitation and moral degradation of the tiller.

Immediately after independence, a strong voice was raised against these vested interests in land. As a result, more importance was given to the abolition of the zamindari system. Accordingly, every state enacted its own legislation for the abolition of intermediary interests. By 1952, the necessary legislation had been enacted in all the states.

Question 43 (1 of 5 Based on Passage)

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Under the zamindari system, the zamindar-

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Choice (4)Response

a.

was not responsible in any way to the government

b.

was the landlord of the land

c.

used all the income for himself

d.

lived on the land he owned

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Question 44 (2 of 5 Based on Passage)

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The zamindari system was responsible for-

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Choice (4)Response

a.

the prosperity of the tenant-class

b.

keeping the zamindars in urban places

c.

deteriorating conditions of tenant farmers

d.

increase in the productivity of land

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Question 45 (3 of 5 Based on Passage)

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Under the system, the landlords-

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Choice (4)Response

a.

merely looked on the idleness of the tenants

b.

abandoned cultivation in order to escape the payment of land revenue to the government

c.

became rent-receivers who did not pay the land revenue

d.

extorted high rents and did not contribute to increased productivity

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