Indian Civil
Services Exam-2012-CSAT Model Test Paper 2-Part 1
OBJECTIVE ENGLISH
Passage 1:
Today the game reserves of East Africa are facing a number
of threats. Although they earn considerable revenue by attracting tourists,
they take up land which is increasingly sought by the local people. While these
reserves feed and protect animals, they are in danger of turning into barren
areas or deserts. Trees, shrubs and grass are gradually being eaten by grazing
herds.
Another problem is to be found in the changing attitudes of
the animals themselves. Many of them are losing their hereditary fear of man.
In this way they may become a danger to visitors and thus to themselves.
Attacks on vehicles are beginning to increase, and it is possible that the
problem will become serious in a few years time.
The
problem of shortage of land is not a simple one. As the population increases,
more and more people look hungrily at the land set aside for game reserves.
They claim that a Government’s first duty is to its inhabitants and not to
tourists or to wild animals. Despite the income obtained from tourism, this is
an argument which it is difficult to answer satisfactorily.
Questions:
1.
According to the
passage the Government maintains the game reserves because it
1)
Wants to prevent people using the land
2)
Aim of generating income from tourism
3)
Wants to control the vegetation
4)
Desires to beautiful the nation.
a) 1
only b) 2 only c) 1 and 2 only
d) 3 and 4 only
Answer: (b)
2.
Local people look
hungrily at the game reserves for
1)
Satisfying their hungry by eating the animals
2)
They dislike living in a deserted place
3)
The animals pose a danger to them and their villages
4)
They want land for their own cultivation.
a) 1
and 2 only b) 3 and 4 only c) 1 only d)
4 only
Answer: (D)
3.
In the last
sentence of the passage “this” refer to
1)
The demand about the duty of the Government
2)
The income as parking space from the tourists
3)
The revenue from visiting tourists
4)
Problems afflicting the reserves in East Africa.
a) 1
only b) 2 only c) 1 and 2 only
d) 3 and 4 only
Answer: (a)
4.
The cause of soil
erosion in game reserves is
1)
The high temperature of the tropical region
2)
The violent storms caused by herds
3)
The disappearance of vegetation as they are eaten by animals
4)
The loss of fear of man among animals.
a) 1
only b) 2 only c) 3 only d) 1 and 2 only
Answer: (c)
5.
What shall be the
attitude of animals after a few years?
1)
They may chase out every visitor to the reserve
2)
They may stay enmasse from the reserves and attack local
3)
They might shy away from human sight
4)
They may become a nuisance in many ways.
a) 1
and 2 only b) 3 and 4 only c) 1 only d)
4 only
Answer: (D)
Passage 2:
Science engenders hope in the future of human
achievement. In the study of literature and art, on the other hand, our
attention is perpetually riveted upon the past; the men of Greece or of the
Renaissance did better than any men do now; the triumphs of former ages, so far
from facilitating fresh triumphs in our own age, actually increase the
difficulty of fresh triumphs by rendering originality harden of attainment. Not
only is artistic achievement not cumulative, but it seems even to depend upon a
certain freshness and ‘naiveté’ of impulse and vision which civilisation tends
to destroy. Hence comes to those who have been nourished on the literary and
artistic production of former ages, a certain peevishness and undue
fastidiousness towards the present, from which there seems no escape into the
deliberate vandalism which ignores tradition and in the search after
originality achieves only the eccentric. But in such vandalism there is none of
the simplicity and spontaneity out of which great art springs; theory is still
the canker in its core, and insincerity destroys the advantages of a merely
pretended ignorance.
Questions:
6. Great art originates from
1)
Simplicity and spontaneity
2)
Over looking tradition
3)
Originality of thinking
4)
Acts of vandalism.
a) 1
and 2 only b) 3 and 4 only c) 1 only d)
4 only
Answer: (c)
7.The reason that science generates hope is
that scientist
1)
Study natural events the past
2)
Works for the future
3)
Study natural phenomena
4)
Do not care about the glory of the past
a) 1
and 2 only b) 3 and 4 only c) 1 only d)
4 only
Answer: (d)
8.In this passage “Naiveté of impulse”
means
a)
Childish sentiments
b)
Powerful and potential Emotions
c)
Pure inspiration
d)
Innocent feelings.
Answer: (d)
9. Artistic achievement according to the
passage is
a)
Cumulative
b)
Fresh
c)
Both
d)
None
Answer: (a)
Directions for the 2 items below:
Each of the
2 statements of 4 statements of these 2 can both be true, but both can be
false. Study them carefully and identify the 2 that satisfy the above
condition. Select the correct answer using the code given below each set of
statements.
10.Examine the following statements.
1. All
human beings are vegetarians
2. Some
human beings are not vegetarians
3. Human
beings are non-vegetarians
4. Some
human beings are Vegetarians
Codes:
a)
1 and 2 b) 1 and 3 c) 2 and 3 d) 3 and 4
Answer: (d)
11. Examine
the following Statement.
1. No car is run on diesel as fuel.
2. Some Cars are not run on diesel as fuel.
3. All cars run on diesel as fuel
4. Some cars run on diesel as fuel.
a) 1 and 3 b)
1 and 2 c) 1 and 4 d) 2 and 3
Answer: (d)
Directions
for the following 6 (six) items:
Read each of the following two passages and
answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on
the passages only.
Passage A:
The equitable
distribution of income among individuals and house-holds is central to a
nation’s welfare and has become a major public concern in both developed and
underdeveloped countries. Egalitarian philosophies stimulated by the industrial
revolutions of Western Europe have produced widespread expectations that
economic growth will equalise wealth and earning opportunities as well as raise
the average level of economic welfare. These expectations have not been borne
out. Even in economically advanced countries, the persistence of significant
hard-core poverty for large minorities in the midst of growing affluence for
the majority has contributed to serious social tensions and political conflict.
Public concern over income inequality has been heightened by both Marxian and
contemporary radical stress on forces in capitalist societies that tend to
increase the concentration of wealth and income and by more orthodox studies of
conflicts between distributional justice and economic efficiency.
12) The phrase
“Equitable distribution of income” in this passage refers to
1.
Fair and reasonable distribution
2.
Equal distribution
3.
Proportionate distribution
4.
Fair and proportionate distribution
Which of the
statements given above is /are correct
a)
1 & 2 only
b)
2 & 4 only
c)
1only
d)
2 only
Answer: (c)
13) The central
theme of the passage is
a) Socialistic philosophy
b) Communistic philosophy
c) Income equality
d) Equitable distribution of
income
Answer: (d)
14) Consider the
following assumptions
1. There will be a general
increase in national income
2. Poverty will be banished from
industrialised countries
3. Exploitation of man by man
will come to an end
With reference to the passage
which of the above assumption(s) is/are valid
a)
1 and 3 only
b)
2 and 3 only
c)
1 only
d)
2 only
Answer: (b)
Passage B:
Not only does the
lack of education among women make the dissemination of nutrition education
difficult, it appears also to be a major obstacle to campaigns for family
planning. It is significant that one of the more successful family planning
efforts has been in Korea, where literacy is over 80%. Thailand, Singapore,
Hong Kong and Taiwan have also had more satisfactory results than, for example,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India or Indonesia, where a large proportion
of the female population is illiterate. The education level of women is
significant also because it has a direct impact on their chances of employment;
and the number of employed women a country’s total labour force has a direct
bearing on both the gross national product and the disposable income of the
individual family.
Questions:
15). Consider the following assumptions
1. Education level of women
increase their chances of employment
2. Employed women in country’s
Labour force help increase the GNP
3. 20% of Korean women are
illiterate
With reference to the passage
which of the above assumption(s) is/are correct
a) 1 and 2
b) 1 and 3
c) 2 and 3
d)
1 2 and 3
Answer: (a)
16). Consider the
following statements with reference to the passage
1. A woman’s lack of Education
has a direct bearing on the GNP
2. Korea’s higher women literacy
rate made them family planning a success Which of the statement(s) given
is / are
a)
1 only
b)
2 only
c)
Both 1 and 2
d)
None of 1 and 2
Answer: (a)
17). which of the
following is/are implied by the passage?
1. Illiteracy among women
inversely affects family planning
2. Illiteracy among women makes
the nutrition education difficult
3. Illiterate women labour force
add to the GNP
Which of the statement(s) given
above is/are correct?
a)
1 and 2
b)
2 only
c)
1 and 3
d)
3 only
Answer: (b)
Directions for the following 4 (four) items:
Read the following passage and answer the
items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage
only.
Passage 6:
The capitalist system of society does not
foster healthy relations among human beings. A few people own all the means of
production and others, though nominally free, have to sell their labour under
conditions imposed upon them. The emphasis of capitalism being on the supreme
importance of material wealth, the intensity of its appeal is to the
acquisitive instincts. It promotes worship of economic power with little regard
to the means employed for its acquisition and the end that it serves. By its
exploitation of human beings to the limits of endurance its concentration is on
the largest profit rather than maximum production. Thus the division of human
family is done on the basis of economic circumstance. All this is injurious to
human dignity. And when the harrowed poor turn to the founders of religion for
succor, they rather offer a subtle defense of the established order. They
promise future happiness for their present suffering and conjure up visions of
paradise to redress the balance to soothe the suffering and the revolt of the
tortured men. The system imposes injustice, religion justifies it.
According
to the Passage,
1.
A few people own all the means of production.
2.
Capitalism encourages the worship of economic power.
3.
The means employed for acquiring economic power is not at
all a consideration.
4.
Capitalism appeal, to the acquisitive instinct of people.
18.
Which of the
statements given above are correct?
a)
1 and 2 only
b)
1 and 4 only
c)
1, 2 and 4 only
d)
1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: (a)
19.
What constitutes
capitalism?
1.
A majority contributing Labour under conditions imposed by a
few
2.
Supreme importance of economic power.
3.
Scanty respect for economic power.
4.
Subjudicating ends to the means.
Select the correct
answer from the codes below.
a)
1 and 2 only
b)
1, 3 and 4 only
c)
2, 3 and 4 only
d)
1, 2 and 4 only
Answer: (a)
20 What is injurious to human dignity?
1.
Exploitation of humans to the limits of endurance
2.
Division of human family on the basis of economic
circumstances
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
a)
1 only b) 2 only c) Both 1 and 2 d) None of 1 and 2
Answer: (c)
21 )
In a capitalistic society each individual aims
a) at
acquiring maximum wealth
b) at
producing maximum wealth
c) to
have visions of well being
d) to
reduce the setting of people.
Answer: (a)
22) An insurance company charges penalty
for the delayed payment of premium after the fifth annual premium at the rate
of Rs 10 per Rs 1000 of premium till 6 months and Rs 50 per month till the 12
th month. An insurance holder paying the 7th annual premium of Rs
6500/ after a delay of 9 months shall pay how much penalty?
a) 210
b) 2815 c) 390 d) 1365
Answer:
(d)
23) A
person has only Rs. 1 and Rs. 2 coins with her. If the total number of coins
that she has is 50 and the amount of money with her is Rs. 75, then the number
of Rs. 1 and Rs. 2 coins are, respectively
(a) 15 and 35
(b) 35 and 15
(e) 30 and 20
(d) 25 and 25
Answer:
d
24. Three particles start with a uniform
velocity of 10 m, 12m and 15m per sec. What is the minimum distance in kms they
have to travel so that each can cover the same distance in complete seconds?
a) 0.9 b)
0.6 c) 1.8 d) 3.6
Answer: (c)
25. If a person walks 3 kms in 45mts and
his friend walks 5kms in 1 ltr, 15 mk. What 0 the ration of distance walked by
them in one hour.
a) 1:2 b)
1:1 c) 2:1 d) 1:3
Answer: (b)
26. These 100 people in a group. Of this 50%
are diabetic, 40% have cardiac ailments and 15% have both diabetics and cardiac
problems. What is the number of people who are neither diabetic nor have
cardiac problems.
a) 30 b)
20 c) 10 d) None
Answer: (d)
27. A Charitable Hostel receives a tanker
full of water every week. The cylindrical container of the tanker is 10 m in
length and has 2 m radius. Hostel has 40 inmates and they use 150 liters of
water per day. What shall be the balance of water left at the end of 5 days?
a) 1000 liter b)
1500 liter c) 10,000 liter d) No balance
Answer: (b)
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