(Paper) C-SAT Sample Test Paper- 4 : English Language Comprehension Skills

Direction (Q. 01-15): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Capitalism is a great slave, bout a pathetic master. This truth unfortunately gets lost in our chase for that elusive dream...... especially gets lost in our chase for that been marketed as that land of dreams ---the great western dream. It’s the dream of being independent masters of our lives of making big bucks and of being happy-----even if that happiness is being bought by money which all of them chase out there. No doubt, the west, on its part, has been fairly successful in creating material comforts aplenty. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. It has improved the living standard of its average citizen. However, it has been achieved as a result of more than 200 year of unbridled growth and exploitation. And that is what has made the rest of the world mindlessly chase westernism, not necessarily happiness or an ideal form of society. All because the shop window looks very impressive and it has been marketed very well.

But a deep look inside the shop tells a different tale. A different world lies behind, a world that is not quite visible to the starry eyed millions- for whom that western way of life seems to be the ultimate dream.
Thus, we have Indians dreaming to become or to get married to an NRI and Indian middle class father dreaming of their sons reaching the Bay area and landing tech jobs, unmindful of the second-class life they end up landing in the west. What goes unseen and almost unheard is that the top in terms of the number to be the land that is right amongst the top in terms of the number of divorces per thousand, the number of single parent families per thousand, the number of old people -age homes, the number of suicides, homicides, and of course, the number of college/ school shootouts.

And why not! After all, such societies are constantly driven towards higher profits and materialism. Expectedly, this materialism comes at a cost that the world is paying today. This is the reason why we have millions dying of curable diseases in Africa and other underdeveloped countries, while the rich grow richer. Their growth richer. Their growth will be reduced, if they were to start thinking of the poor. So what do they do to justify their greed for more? They most shrewdly propagate and market a ridiculously primitive law of the jungle for our 21st-century civilization, the ‘Law of survival of the fittest’ !
The interesting thing about material things is that they only give an illusion of happiness; such happiness is always momentary in nature. Ergo, at this juncture, you feel you are the happiest person in the world, after buying you new car or flat-screen TV, and just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy. while you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power make you happy-family, emotions and love. Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss; and you don’t even realise when you’ve become a dry-eyed cripple......and then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out then real meaning of life-or whatever these workshops are capable of explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also drives by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by them its really too late.
By then, you have made profits out of arms, and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. you've sold guns across counters at supermarkets and made more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man, and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realise one day that the they ate your own children who are in the line of fire against the school goer who opens fire at his schoolmates.

This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason, and for none but himself. It is the utter I destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self-gratification. Where so many bring single-parent families and divorces exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers any better.

01. Who does the author hold responsible for the shooting spree in schools and colleges ?
A. Lack of love and emotion in the society in general
B. Increased focus on self-gratification even when it comes at the cost of innocent lives
C. Deteriorating social structure leading to break-up of families resulting social structure leading to break-up of families resulting in lack fo moral development in children
(a) Only A
(b) Only C
(c) Only B and C
(d) All of these
(e) None of these

02. Why does the authors refer to the law of survival of the fittest as ridiculous ?
(a) This law is primitive and does not hold good for developed nations.
(b) The law is often used to justify the accumulation of wealth by a selected few.
(c) People from developing countries use it rationalize their immigration to the western countries.
(d) It does not lead to any material profits and material wealth.
(e) None of these

03. According to the passage, which of the following is a reason for poverty and hunger in underdeveloped countries ?
A. Mindlessly chasing the western way of living
B. They have fallen prey to the idea of happiness through material comforts rather than love and emotional bond.
C. They do not have marketing techniques ad good as the western countries.
(a) Only B
(b) Only C
(c) Only A
(d) Only B and C
(e) Not mentioned in the passage.

04. Why do the ‘starry-eyed millions’ harbor a wish to become NRI ?
A. They are driven towards higher profits and materialism.
B. They appreciate the western way of life as it appears to them.
C. They have become emotionless and lost any attachment to the motherland.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only A and B
(d) Only C
(e) All A, B and C

05. Why does the author diseregard the western way of living even though an average citizen in the west enjoys better living standards ?
(a) Many Indians want to ape their lifestyle, leading to a cultural dilution of their traditions.
(b) The west has failed to market their lifestyle in an appropriate way.
(c) According to time, the law of ‘survival of the fittest’ is now obsolete.
(d) It only looks forward to material comfort rather than happiness within.
(e) None of these

06. What does the author mean by ‘intercepting someone’s share of daily bread’ ?
(a) Hindering the process of marking in underdeveloped countries by the developed countries
(b) Denying material comfort to the western world
(c) Affecting the social life of those working towards material comforts only
(d) Excess of wealth in western world while people in poorer nations struggle for survival
(e) None of these

07. What does the author mean by ‘shop window of the west’ when he suggest to look inside the shop?
A. The sprawling supermarkets have been making profits out of inhuman activities.
B. To look closed at the existing societal structure rather than superficially appreciations the delusive dazzle
C. To study their marking techniques closely
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only A and B
(d) Only B and C
(e) Only C

08. The author’s main objective in writing the passage is
(a) to explain that consumerist societies have their own drawbacks, which are overlooked by those who are blinded by their material glare
(b) to explain how too many material comforts have improved the living standard of common man in the west
(c) that young children should not be given access to guns and other ammunitions
(d) All NRIs are leading unmindful, second-class lives abroad
(e) None of these

09. Which of the following is not true according to the passage ?
(a) Over-indulgence in accumulating material wealth has led to many problems on the social and emotional fronts.
(b) People should visit the sermons more often since this is the only way to achieve peace and happiness.
(c) For the sake of making profits, people have taken decisions which have proved to be harmful to the society.
(d) There are plenty of material comforts in the western countries.
(e) All are true

Directions (Q. 10-12): Chose the which is most similar in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

10. Shrewdly
(a) Roughly
(b) Rightly
(c) Rudely
(d) Courteously
(e) Astutely

11. Chase
(a) Follow
(b) Capture
(c) Run
(d) Catch
(e) Conquer

12. Elusive
(a) Terrifying
(b) Unusual
(c) Unachievable
(d) Haunting
(e) Displeasing

Directions (Q. 13-15): Chose the word/phrase which is most opposite in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

13. Dejected
(a) Apologetic
(b) Anxious
(c) Accepted
(d) Elated
(e) Enlightened

14. Unbridled
(a) Enthusiastic
(b) Controlled
(c) Rebellious
(d) Considerate
(e) Approved

15. Momentary
(a) Sporadic
(b) Futuristic
(c) Brief
(d) Homogenous
(e) Perpetual

Directions (Q. 16-25): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part will be the answer. If there is no error, mark (e) as the answer. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

16. In emergine economies, / the private credit
(a)
(b)
market / remains highly segmented and thus
(c)
/ weaken power of monetary plicy. No error
(d)
(e)

17. The recent election campaign / has been one
(a)
(c)
of / the most noisiest campaigs/in the last
(c)
(d)
decade. / No error
(e)

18. Wholesome strategic planning / was the
(a)
focus as the firm manage throgh a difficult
(b)
period / a couple of years ago. No error
(c)
(d)
(e)

19. In spite of the best goernmental efforts, /emission
(a)
of greenhouse gases / and noxious chemicals /
(b)
(c)
remain a cause of worry. No error
(d)
(e)

20. The rate of metabolism of / a body is comparatively
(a)
(b)
lowest when / it is at rest and is / thus optimum for
(c)
(d)

21. The oppostion leader tried / to bolster his
(a)
(b)
position/with the voters by pressing /corruption
(c)
(d)
charges against rivals. No error
(e)

22. The recently imposed dress code / in the
(a)
university has enraged /the students who will
(b)
(c)
be going / on strike. No error
(d)
(e)

23. Ever since he took over / as the chief minister of the state,
(a)
(b)
/rate for unemployment / has drasticaly increased.
(c)
(d)
No error
(e)

24. Although the brilliant writer,/an underlying /
(a)
(b)
 pessimism pervails in / all her novels.
(c)
(d)
No error
(e).

25. Changed social setting / demands the
(a)
(b)
schools to teach / moral and social values /
(c)
among with the academic skills. No error
(d)
(e)

Directions (Q. 26-30): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correction ? If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark (e) as the answer.

26. The grim job market has taken its toll on students, many of those had hoped for a much better future.
(a) much of whom
(b) many of whom
(c) several of those
(d) many of which
(e) No correction required

27. The relationship we have with our clients are the cornerstone of our future.
(a) our client are
(b) each elients is
(c) our clients is
(d) all clients are
(e) No correction required

28. Many developed countries have been attenmpting to buy agricultural land in other countries to meet their own demand.
(a) has been attempting
(b) have being attempting
(c) are being attempting
(d) have been attempted
(e) No correction required

29. A nuclear testing fills the air with radioactive dust and left the area uninhabitable
(a) and leave the
(b) also leaves the
(c) and leaving the
(d) and making the
(e) No correction required

30. Modern ideas of govenace started back to the time when people began to question kings.
(a) started when
(b) set back to
(c) started back to
(d) date back to
(e) No correction required

Direction (Q. 31-35): Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) to mark a meaningful paragraph and then answer the question which follow
A. Had it been not for them, Indian banks would have had their hands tied down.
B. Today, almost all the countries are facing the heat of recession.
C. One of these is the strice RBI and SEBI rules which regulated banking sector very efficiently.
D. This could have led to massive losses to them, which could have percolated to other sectors as well.
E. However, there are a few things which help India in bouncing back from the state of recession.
F. Like others, India too has not remained immune to the epidemic.

31. Which of the following sentences should be the THIRD after rearrangement ?
(a) A
(b) E
(c) D
(d) F
(e) C

32. Which of the following sentences should be the FIRST after rearrangement ?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E

33. Which of the following sentence should be the SECOND after are arrangement ?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) D
(d) E
(e) F

34. Which of the following sentences should be the SIXTH (LAST) after rearrangement ?
(a) A
(b) E
(c) D
(d) B
(e) F

35. Which of the following sentences should be the FIFTH after rearrangement ?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) F

Directions (Q. 36-40) : Each question below has two blanks. each blanks indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

36. The organization _______to popularize Indian classical music among the youth which has last _______with its cultural roots.
(a) endeavours, touch
(b) wishes, interest
(c) efforts, experience
(d) exerts, intrigue
(e) need, relation

37. One of the major critiques of the examination system is that it _______to a spirit of__________ competiton among the students.
(a) results, defective
(b) accompanies, adequate
(c) develops, intense
(d) takes, severe
(e) leads, unhealthy

38. Auroras are natural light displays in the sky, usually ________at night, ________in the polar regions.
(a) watch, upward
(b) noticed, peculiar
(c) observed, only
(d) found, most
(e) follows, mainly

39. After the board examinations, students are______ up for the various entrance examinations_______ for next month.
(a) ready, mainly
(b) gearing, scheduled
(c) prepard, programmed
(d) set, duration
(e) geared, kept

40. The governmental _____spurred dramatic improvements in the way waste management is ______out in many hospitals.
(a) rule, thrown
(b) plans, conduct
(c) crusade, one
(d) efforts, carried
(e) venture, disposed

Directions (Q. 41-50): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/phrases are suggested, one of which best fits the blank appropriable. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.
Today, it (41) recognized that the 21st century will be driven by knowledge. To (42) the challenges of this century, India needs to usher in a knowledge revolution that (43) to bring about systemic changes in education.
While our economy has made significant strides, the education system has not kept (44) with the aspirations of the youth. The vast disparity in the country today is s result of skewed (45) to knowledge. To address this, we need a substantial expansion in educational opportunities, with a special (46) on inclusion of the underprivileged.
At the bottom of the pyramid, steps must be taken to (47) access to quality education. While the government has taken steps to ensure education to all, where it lacks in its efforts is the quality perspective. Being a spirally upward drive, education can not be (48) to improve at the very grassroots level. The top of the pyramid, ie higher education, is also uneven. Students struggle to compete in the exams which (49) a sound knowledge of English. While candidates are expected to travel several kilometers to reach school to obtain any education, the higher education organisations often (50) candidates from vernacular media through State-sponsored exams and proudly affirm them as ‘unbiased’.

41. (a) thickly
(b) widely
(c) ample
(d) partly
(e) considered

42. (a) adhere to
(b) gather
(c) cover
(d) contact
(e) meet

43. (a) sought (b) wanted
(c) seeks
(d) attempt
(e) determined

44. (a) adequate
(b) sufficient
(c) influence
(d) pace
(e) ahead

45. (a) access
(b) approaching
(c) rights
(d) infiltration
(e) excess

46. (a) aspiration
(b) intensity
(c) important
(d) place
(e) emphasis

47. (a) enjoy
(b) help
(c) provide
(d) diminish
(e) deepen

48. (a) awaited
(b) judged
(c) thought
(d) expected
(e) said

49. (a) demand
(b) has
(c) consume
(d) expects
(e) wants

50. (a) discourages
(b) disobey
(c) contest
(d) assume
(e) reject