Directions for next five questions:
Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question of the four alternatives.
Passage (Five questions)
The question of race has caused bloodbaths throughout history. Take the case of the Negro, a negro is someone with black skin who comes from Africa. It is an old-fashioned word and is offensive. Some people used to write that way deliberately. The word ‘nigger’ is also very offensive. The word was later replaced by ‘coloured’ which gave way to ‘black’, Black is a colour with negative suggestion.
So we have expressions like ‘black deed’, black day’ and ‘blackmail’. So no wonder the word ‘black’ too assumed unfavourable meanings. (Although in the 1960’s the famous slogan ‘Black is beautiful’ was colned, and it did not help). The Blacks of the United States therefore came to be called Afro-Americans. Now, the politically correct phrase is African Amercian.
Directions for next five questions:
Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage (five Questions)
The world is becoming a dangerous place to live in, and this is despite our claims of being civilized, of having evolved from the primitive to the modern man and from the cave man to cultured being.
Many reasons can be attributed to this. A man longs to be the king of all kingdoms, but is too extravagant and idle. He desires that his writ should run through the whole world. But then he is lazy and lethargic. Man is mean, far inferior to other species. We are more human than hamane. We have negative qualities such as anger, ego, envy, greed, hatred, and jealously, that we should consider overcoming.
We have allowed these qualities to become our consuming passions. We think that we are mightier than most. We are capable of destroying anything by using our might. Today, we have acquired weapons of mass destruction, which are capable of obliterating all life from the face of this planet.
As men we arm men. Then we destroy people without arms. Then why are we giving vent to this anger? We let our wrath take over our senses. We fight to satisfy our egos. The overpowering obsession of a man with himself motivates him to grab everything and to fulfill his greed.
