GATE XH-C5 Reading Comprehension PYQs & Answers

Questions 1–10 of 19. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

In the given passage, fill in the blanks with most suitable set of given words:

The future must no longer be__ by the past. While, the effects of the past are still with us, each day is a new__. Therefore, one should from solely believing in destiny and crave towards charting their own path of success with grit and labour. Positive_____ is imperative.

Your answerChoose one option.

Determined, beginning, refrain, anticipation

Fascinated, one, include, physiology

Explored, suffering, content, psychiatry

Marred, life, hinder, labyrinth

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Mental health is a global concern, especially among the youth. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when schools and colleges were operating online, students were left with no option but to stay at home leading to negligible social interaction. Several studies indicate that even when offline classes have now resumed post Covid-19 pandemic, these students are finding it difficult to establish social connect leading to mental health issues. To deal with this situation, schools and colleges are trying hard to implement different strategies to combat their student’s mental health depending on their unique culture, overall strength, and resources. Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above passage?

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

India is a young nation.

Different schools and colleges will have their own way to tackle the issue of mental health.

A combination of online and offline class is good for students.

Social connect is important for mental health.

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Many countries are facing water shortage crises in the past few years. A report of the United Nation has named India among the worst countries for poor quality of water. The report ranks 122 countries according to the quality of their water as well as their commitment to improve the situation. Some countries in Europe are considered the worst because of the quality of its ground water. Rain failed in some parts of India in the past. The vast areas of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh were affected by severe drought. People without water turn desperate and violent. Consequently, the food downs were attacked in some of the states.

Based on the details given in the passage, which of the following option(s) is/ are correct statement(s)?

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

There is no proof that India is affected by poor quality of water.

A few European countries are suffering due to occurrence of drought.

Lack of access to water can lead to social unrest.

Intense shortage of water is visible in some states of India.

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Ama’s tone in the context of the given passage is that of:

For Ama, the difference between men and women was a kind of discrimination and inequality; she felt strongly about women’s rights but was not familiar with concepts like gender and patriarchy. She would have dismissed Betty Friedan because she was predominantly dealing with the problems of white middle-class women in the United States. Ama, and women of her generation, could de-link the oppression of women from the wider struggle for the liberation of human beings from class exploitation and imperialism. So Ama continued to play her role as mother and wife, but would often complain: ‘I am a doormat on which everyone wipes their emotional dirt off’.

Your answerChoose one option.

Compromise

Protest

Contentment

Resignation

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The narrator’s use of ‘I’ in the given passage is/are:

I have never been any good at the more lurid sort of writing. Psychopathic killers, impotent war-heroes, self-tortured film stars, and seedy espionage agents must exist in the world, but strangely enough I do not come across them, and I prefer to write about the people and places I have known and the lives of those whose paths I have crossed. This crossing of paths makes for stories rather than novels, and although I have worked in both mediums, I am happier being a short-story writer than a novelist.

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

Self-conscious

Apologetic and regretful

Confessional and communicating

Egotistical and vain

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Read the page and identify the statement(s) which follow(s) from it:

The purpose of this work is to inform educators about the brain science related to emotion and learning, and, more important, to offer strategies to apply these understandings to their own teaching. Although many of the approaches I describe will be familiar, integrating the lens of emotion and the brain may be a new concept. As an educator I had been trained in how to deliver content and organize my lessons, but I had not been taught how to design learning experiences that support emotions for learning.

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The author wishes, through his work, to inform us about brain science and learning.

The author, through his work, wishes to offer strategies to apply our learnings to our teaching.

The author feels that the newness of his approach lies in linking emotion oriented approach to brain.

The author wants to use emotions as a strategy for learning.

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Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it?

We tend to think of cancer as a ‘modern’ illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a disease of overproduction, of sudden growth, a growth that is unstoppable, tipped into the abyss of no control. Modern cell biology encourages us to imagine the cell as a molecular machine. Cancer is that machine unable to quench its intial command (to grow) and thus transform into an indestructible, self-propelled automaton.

[Adapted from The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee]

Your answerChoose one option.

It is a reflection of why cancer seems so modern to most of us.

It tells us that modern cell biology uses and promotes metaphors of machinery.

Modern cell biology encourages metaphors of machinery, and cancer is often imagined as a machine.

Modern cell biology never uses figurative language, such as metaphors, to describe or explain anything.

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The stranger is by nature no "owner of soil" -- soil not only in the physical, but also in the figurative sense of a life-substance, which is fixed, if not in a point in space, at least in an ideal point of the social environment. Although in more intimate relations, he may develop all kinds of charm and significance, as long as he is considered a stranger in the eyes of the other, he is not an "owner of soil." Restriction to intermediary trade, and often (as though sublimated from it) to pure finance, gives him the specific character of mobility. If mobility takes place within a closed group, it embodies that synthesis of nearness and distance which constitutes the formal position of the stranger. For, the fundamentally mobile person comes in contact, at one time or another, with every individual, but is not organically connected, through established ties of kinship, locality, and occupation, with any single one.

What assumptions can be made about the stranger from the passage above?

Your answerChoose one option.

The stranger can become an owner of soil through developing all kinds of charm in more intimate relations.

The stranger cannot become an owner of soil either in the physical or psychological sense.

The stranger can become an owner of soil through establishing ties of kinship and so on.

The stranger might become an owner of soil in the physical sense but not in the psychological

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“I told you the truth,” I say yet again, “Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.”

What are the different ways in which ‘truth’ can be understood from the passage?

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

Truth is what can be verified by hard empirical evidence.

Truth is based on what can be perceived by the senses.

Truth is the product of memory that is fallible, selective and slanted.

Truth is contingent on the observer and can only be partial.

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The Arecibo telescope does not resemble what most of us think of when we hear the word telescope. Its reflective surface covers an area of 20 acres, which is quite remarkable. Dangling above it are towers and cables, sub-reflectors and antennas, all of which can be positioned using 26 motors to transmit radio waves and receive echoes with astonishing precision.

From the passage, it can be inferred that most telescopes

Your answerChoose one option.

are not as large as Arecibo

do not have reflective surface

cannot be re-positioned

strictly have 26 motors

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