Here in English Scoring Part we are providing 10 Questions in Reading Comprehension, 5 Questions in Cloze Test, 5 Questions in Error Spotting, total 20 questions in 15 Minutes. By practicing these questions regularly you can increase your calculation speed and it will help you to increase your score.
Directions (Q. 1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Certain words/ phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
In philosophy, the accent is on coming up with a right question. The underlying principle is that there is an answer to every right question. At some level, questioning is cerebral. However, providing answers is the task of sloggers . They have to delve deep into available literature, triangulate multiple strands to eliminate internal contradictions, and provide a clue that is consistent with both the legal and ethical frameworks. One of the frequent requests we receive is for a takedown of a particular story from our digital archive. These readers invoke the right to be forgotten and often cite the European Court of Justice’s 2014 judgment that directed the search engine, Google, to remove thousands of web links. The primacy of privacy supersedes freedom of expression and the accuracy of historical record in this judgment.Why does this newspaper not encourage takedown requests? Does the non-existence of a particular material online erase it from all other forms of archiving? What about the existence of the physical newspaper, with the content that some readers want to take down, that exists not only in the newspaper’s office but also across various public libraries? Is the onus of monitoring and restricting a specific web link the job of a search engine? If a particular string is blocked by an algorithm, what prevents the interested parties from creating parallel strings to keep the expunged content alive online? Is it not important to remember the observation of the founders of Google: “The web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous collections”?
A scholar I rely on when dealing with the vexatious questions that arise from the contested interface between digital technologies and journalism is George Brock, a well-known journalist who worked for the Observer and The Times. Mr. Brock is now the head of the Graduate School of Journalism at City University, London and he served as president of the World Editors Forum. His 2013 book, Out of Print, argued that journalism can flourish in a new digital world if it is willing to adopt a transformative change while retaining its four core tasks: verification, sense-making, eye-witness and investigation.Mr. Brock in his last book, The Right to be Forgotten (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford) looked at the rules that govern the preservation of information of public value, its contours and boundaries, and did not restrict himself to only what is in public interest now but what might be of interest in the future. He explains the power data harvesters have to alter the normal effects of the passage of time in the present context where information never fades into the past but often returns to the present with a keystroke. He wryly cites Lucas D. Introna and Helen Nissenbaum: “In twenty first century life, to exist is to be indexed by a search engine.” He concedes that there are problems that flow from this instant retrieval system where the information has a perpetual existence. For him, the issue goes beyond immediate concerns such as “censorship” or “deleting history on any scale”. He is rightly worried about ratchet moves that can extend the law’s grasp to shrink free expression. The carelessness of tech giants, with the unintended consequences of data protection, he argues, may have been the moral force behind legal restraint. But, he asserts, that should not lead to a situation that falls much short of the basic legal tenet of “specific and proportionate remedies for identifiable wrongs”.
1). What is the main challenge before the answer provider?
1. They have to give answer of each question.
2. They have to give answer only of right question.
3. They have to give answer by keeping different aspects in mind and have to provide a clue too.
Answer: C
2). What is true about digital archive?
1. The privacy of any document is more important that its freedom of expression.
2. Its much frequent to remove any particular story from digital archive.
3. Its as easy to remove any particular story from digital archive as to remove story from newspaper.
Answer: D
3). What are the main questions asked by the writer in the passage?
1. Why the search engines restrict any specific web link?
2. What about the removal of content in physical newspapers?
3. How removal of any online material assure about the removal of that material from all other sources?
Answer: E
4). According to George Brock what can be the challenges before journalism to flourish in a new digital world?
1. Verified and real news is a challenge in new digital world.
2. News must make sense. It shouldn’t be senseless.
3. Search engine optimization must be great to gain the highlights.
Answer: D
5). According to Mr. Brock what is the main issue in digital world?
1. Issue of censorship.
2. History deletion.
3. Issue of clickbait.
Answer: D
Directions (Questions- 06-08): Choose the word/group of words which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
6). Sloggers
Answer: A
7). Delve
Answer: C
8). Supersedes
Answer: A
Directions (Questions- 09,10): Choose the word/group of words which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning of the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
9). Vexatious
Answer: B
10). Expunged
Answer: A
Directions (11-15):In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Even blank has four alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the work given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”.
Just over 250 years ago, Robert Clive arrived in India. Few would have (1)[pledge] on him to be successful. He had been renowned for his (2)[tone] tantrums as a child, and patience was certainly not one of his virtues when he arrived in Madrassapatinam. He twiddled his thumbs unhappily as a clerk until the French attacked and captured Fort St George (3)[on] 1746. Clive escaped after being taken prisoner and thence began a remarkable career that saw him rise higher and higher in the service of the East India Company at a time when the Company was moving from being involved primarily in trade to a role of intervening in the politics of India to its own benefit — and that of its officers.Clive’s remarkable ability to influence events and to be in the right place (4)[on] the right time eventually led him to Plassey in 1757, where he defeated Sirajud-Dawla, the nawab of Bengal and his French allies. With the (5)[cache] of Bengal and northern India opened up to him, Clive could not only claim to be a successful general, but also one of the richest men in the world.</span>
11). ?
Explanation:- ‘Bet’ will be the appropriate word to be used here.
12). ?
Explanation:- ‘Temper’ means state of mind like moody.
13). ?
Explanation:- The correct preposition here will be ‘in’.
14). ?
Explanation:- The correct preposition here will be ‘at’ because it tells about time.
15). ?
Explanation:- Here, ‘treasuries’ means safe where valuables are kept, so it is correct here.
Directions (16-20): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e):-
16). Despite his political stance outside the Constituent Assembly, (a)/ within it Ambedkar said nothing substantial in (b)/ the debates on cow slaughter, (c)/ only that he accepted Bhargava’s amendment. (d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- Past form of the verb will be used according to sentence.
17). The State shall endeavour to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on (a)/ modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, (b)/ take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, (c)/ and prohibiting the slaughter, of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle. (d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- Gerund will be used (improving).
18). I had then stated that just as the practice of untouchability (a)/ was going to be declared (b)/ an offence so also we should declare (c)/ the slaughter of cows to be an offence. (d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- Preposition is missing.
19). Protection ostensibly was restricted (a)/ to cows and calves, (b)/ milch cattle and those (c)/ cattle capable of pulling heavy loads. (d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- Correct preposition is of.
20). Would the country not have (a)/ been safer and better off (b)/ had Ambedkar stuck to his first draft, (c)/ which had no reference to cow slaughter at all? (d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- Past form of the sentence will be used with context of sentence.
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