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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 1008
Book's First PageCOMPREHENSION TEST 1108. What do we see when we look at an object? 1114. What does the words “effluence of their very core” (1) The object reflected by the light. mean? (2) The light reflected from the object. (1) Expression which is the outflow from the heart (3) The shadow of the object. of the author. (4) The object as it is. (2) Expression which is the influence from people’s 1109. The eye is similar to the television camera because talk. both (3) Expression of things that the author may have (1) convert light energy to mechanical energy. thought of. (2) convert light energy to electrical energy. (4) Expression that the author wrote accidentally. (3) convert energy to mechanical light 1115. Literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been ___ into the actual life of (4) convert mechanical light to electrical energy. the person who reads. 1110. The sense perception that the brain releases after the eye converts light to nerve impulses is known as (1) transfigured (2) transgressed (1) blindness. (2) image. (3) translated (4) transmuted (3) sight. (4) glare. 1116. If a world is deprived of literature, what would 1111. The average rate of blinking of an eye is happen to the broad, the noble and the generous? (1) six times every second (1) They would be living a free life without care. (2) once every six seconds (2) They would worry themselves into petty issues. (3) six times every six seconds (3) They would tend to dissappear and life would be (4) once every second correspondingly degraded. 1112. Lachrymal glands or tear glands are situated (4) They would celebrate life. (1) inside the eye. 1117. What is the function of literature? (2) in the black of the eye. (1) To raise the plain above sea level. (3) at the outer corner of the eye. (2) To raise everything so that it does not sink to the (4) on the eyelid. sea level. Directions (1113-1142) : Read the following passages (3) To raise the peaks towards the highest mountain, carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the (4) To raise the plain towards the top level of the question out of the four alternatives. peaks. (SSC CGL Tier-II (CBE) Exam. 01.12.2016) Passage–II Passage–I (Q. Nos. 1118–1122) (Q. Nos. 1113–1117) A classless society, however, does not mean a society Great books do not spring from something accidental without leaders. It means rather one in which every citizen in the great men who write them. They are the effluence of becomes for the first time eligible for leadership, if he has their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. the power to lead. It means a society in which every one is And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose given, as far as possible, the chance to develop this power until it has been translated into the actual life of him who by the widest diffusion of educational opportunities in the reads. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and emotions. broadest sense, and by keeping the career wide open to In a world deprived of literature, the broad, the noble, the talents of every useful kind. It is often said that a community generous would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded, because the wrong idea and the of equals will not allow itself to be led. But in fact, most petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas men are, in most things, very willing to be led, and more in and emotions of genius. Only by conceiving a society without danger of giving their leaders too much than too little literature can it be clearly realised that the function of authority, especially if they are free to choose them, and literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the assured that the leaders cannot exploit them for personal peaks. Literature exists so that where a man has lived finely, economic advantage; leadership, so far from disappearing, ten thousands may afterwards live finely. It is a means of will come into its own in a truly democratic society. But it is life, it concerns the living essence. likely to be a more diffused leadership than we are used to; for a better-nurtured people will have more citizens with MEANINGS OF WORDS/PHRASES strong wills and minds of their own, wishful to lead; some (1) effluence (N.) : the process of flowing out in politics, some in industry, and some in professions and (2) core (N.) : the most important/central part of arts of life. something This is the idea of a classless society. Some will reject it as contrary to their interest, some as utopian and against 1113. How have great books been written? ‘Human nature’, for there are some who deny, indeed if not (1) By an accidental means. in word, that the aim of society should be to promote the (2) By great men who write them. greatest happiness and welfare of the greatest number and (3) By men who think too much. others who hold, with pessimistic honesty, that most men (4) By men who imagine sometimes must be driven and not led. SEE–1015