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Book's First PageCOMPREHENSION TEST 652. 33 out of Australia’s 48 reefs have succumbed to 658. Biomimicry views the natural world as a (1) the impact of the Blue whale (1) mine for resources (2) mine field of ideas (2) the impact of tourism (3) mentor (4) source of inspiration (3) the destructive impact of white syndrome 659. What has helped solve many of the challeng- (4) the bleaching disease affecting the whales es encountered by man ? 653. The dying reefs acquired a (1) Biomimicry (2) Evolution (1) brilliant and multicolour (3) Innovation (4) Invention (2) kaleidoscopic hues 660. The two instances of biomimicry mentioned in the (3) brilliant blue colour like the whale passage are (4) sickly white pallor (1) flora and fauna (2) birds and burrs 654. Scientists’ main worry is that (3) copying and innovating (1) there will be a fall in tourism with the reefs gone (4) airplane and Velcro (2) the bleaching will make the water warmer Directions (661–670) : In the following questions, read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each (3) other endangered and undiscovered flora and question out of the four alternatives. fauna will also be damaged (SSC CGL Tier-II Exam. 12.04.2015) (4) future research on ‘white syndrome’ will stop The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the 655. The meaning of succumbing is United States will eventually produce a gradual increase in (1) giving way to an underground passage the proportion of women in the armed forces and in the (2) giving way to something powerful variety of women’s assignments, but probably not the dra- (3) following order matic gains for women that might have been expected. This (4) coming in the way of is so even though the armed forces operate in an ethos of PASSAGE- V institutional change oriented toward occupational equality and under the federal sanction of equal pay for equal work. The Wright brothers did not have to look far for ideas The difficulty is that women are unlikely to be trained for when building their airplane, they studied birds. The act of any direct combat operations. copying from nature to address a design problem is not new, but over the last decade the practice has moved from A significant portion of the larger society remains un- obscure scientific journals to the mainstream. The term comfortable as yet with extending equality in this direction. ‘biomimicry’, popularized by American natural-sciences writ- Therefore, for women in the military, the search for equal- ity will still be based on functional equivalence, not identity er Janine Benyus in the late 1990s, refers to innovation or even similarity of task. Opportunities seem certain to that take their inspiration from flora and fauna. Biomim- arise. The growing emphasis on deterrence is bound to icry advocates argue that with 3.8 billion years of research offer increasing scope for women to become involved in and development, evolution has already solved many of novel types of noncombat military assignments. the challenges humans now encounter. Although we often see nature as something we mine for resources, biomim- SOME IMPORTANT WORDS icry views nature as a mentor. From all around the globe, (1) ethos (N.) : the moral ideas and attitudes that belong there are countless instances where natural sources have to a particular group/society served as inspiration for inventions that promise to trans- (2) deterrence (N.) : the fact of somebody less likely to form every sector of society. One such instance occurred do something in 1941 when Swiss engineer, George de Mestral was out hunting with his dog one day when he noticed sticky burrs, (3) combat (N.) : fighting/a fight, especially during a time of war with their hundreds tiny hooks, had attached themselves to his pants and his dog’s fur. These were his inspiration 661. Which sentence is an incorrect one ? for Velcro. (1) The recent change to all voluntary armed forces in SOME IMPORTANT WORDS US will produce a gradual increase in the propor- (1) obscure (Adj.) : not well-known tion of women. (2) burrs (N.) : the seed container of some plants which (2) The difficulty is that women are likely to be trained is covered in very small hooks that stick to clothes/ for any direct combat operation. fur (3) Opportunities seem certain to arise (4) The difficulty is that women are unlikely to be 656. The airplane was inspired by trained for any direct combat operation (1) animals (2) plants 662. A suitable title for the passage might be (3) birds (4) flies (1) Current status of women in US military. 657. Biomimicry refers to designs that (2) Current status of women in US navy. (1) are inspired by natural things (3) Current status of women in US airforce. (2) transformed society (4) Current status of women in US teaching service. (3) are based on scientific engineering 663. According to the passage, despite the United States (4) arise out of man’s creativity armed forces’ commitment to occupational equality for SEE–969