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Book's First PageCOMPREHENSION TEST 1298. What does not seem as not good or normal in the 1306. “............ as well a touching inducement to marry.” context of this essay? Here inducement means (1) the new interest in free market (1) agreement (2) invocation (2) being captivated by spell of the free market (3) reminder (4) encouragement (3) that which does not accord with the requirement 1307. Olive, after her parents’ death became of the free market (1) rich (2) honest (4) the economists who are captivated by the free (3) brave (4) fat market Passage-IV 1299. Who, according to the economists, are the right group (Q. Nos. 1308-1312) of people to set the price of a commodity? All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is (1) the aggregate of consumers a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present (2) the buyers experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the (3) the sellers past to project a vision of the future, is man’s greatest and (4) the economists distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of 1300. Price-fixing is a phenomenon that is normal in Aristotle’s argument that poetry is valuable precisely be- (1) agricultural societies cause it shows men not simply as they are, but as they (2) industrialised societies ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as (3) pre-industrial societies they are capable of becoming. (4) globalised societies 1308. According to the author, all art is 1301. A major act of will will bring about price-fixing that (1) a reflection of life. (2) art will be seen as (3) an escape (4) an important sense. (1) effective and productive 1309. The author believes that man’s greatest and distin- (2) constructive and practical guishing ability is (3) normal and having valuable economic function (1) his ability to project the future (4) systematic and relevant (2) his capacity to escape from his present experi- 1302. Selling a commodity at a price that is not more than ence that charged by competitors is (3) his consciousness of the past (1) rejected by the free market system (4) None of the above. (2) opposed by the advocates of the free market theo- 1310. Aristotle argues that poetry is ries (1) valuable (2) an escape (3) considered suspicious by the free market theo- rists (3) an art (4) All of the above (4) recognised by the advocates of the free market 1311. Accordingly to the author _______ enables him to theories project a vision of the future Passage-III (1) man’s present experience (Q. Nos. 1303-1307) (2) man’s accumulated consciousness of the past But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike (3) man’s sympathetic nature were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as (4) None of the above. eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and 1312. Aristotle’s argument supports the view that poetry was killed. The country gave Patience a widow’s pension, shows as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of (1) men not simply as they are grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they (2) what men ought to be died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a (3) what men are capable of becoming vast fortune and a Trustee. (4) All of the above. 1303. The writer says war is Passage-V (1) bloodless (2) partial (Q. Nos. 1313-1317) (3) destructive (4) unimportant To avoid the various foolish opinions to which man- 1304. In the passage, it is stated that “friend and foe alike kind are prone, no superhuman brain is required. A few were almost drowned in blood.” What does it con- simple rules will keep you free, not from all errors, but vey? from silly errors. If the matter is one that can be settled by (1) friends and enemies forgot their differences. observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could (2) both suffered similarly. have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer (3) both started liking each other. teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle (4) war made people hate each other. to keep her mouth open while he counted. Thinking that you know when in fact you do not is a bad mistake, to 1305. From this passage we learn that Tony Vassal was which we are all prone. I believe myself that hedgehogs eat (1) Patience’s husband (2) a soldier’s son black beetles, because I have been told that they do; but if (3) Nathan’s relative (4) very successful I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should SEE–1032