| GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: English Short Paper- 1 for CLAT 2013 Sep 23rd 2012, 10:22 | GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012 | | The most comprehensive career education and test preparation forums in india. | | | English Short Paper- 1 for CLAT 2013 Sep 23rd 2012, 10:07 Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Number of Questions: 40 (Total Marks: 40) As a place where any significant fraction of a country's population is expected to live, as a normal habitat for human life, the giant city, the urban concentration larger than a half–million, let us say, is a very late arrival in human history. Before the mid–nineteenth century an overwhelming number of people in every country, including countries thought to be 'modern', lived in towns and villages. The chances are really quite overwhelming that not one of your great–grandfathers was born in a large city. Even today, in practically every country, big city–dwellers constitute a minority. Because the very recent phenomenon of the giant city has made it a symbol of modernisation and modernity, particularly for developing countries, visions of a society with few, if any, giant cities are typically brushed off as nostalgic evocations of an irrecoverable past. Yet the 'modernity' of the giant city derives from the age of industrialisation, not from the more recent age of late or post–industrialisation. In post–industrial society, the giant city becomes an obsolescent, unnecessary and crippling habitat that persists less because of need than from inertia, sunk costs, a failure of imagination and audacity. So much is the giant city an elephantine perversion of the city that we have no suitable name for it. As if to mock us, the Latin roots of the word 'city' remind us of what is most lacking in the giant city: citizenship; while the origins of the term 'metropolis' convey a meaning precisely opposed to present usage Literally metropolis means mother city (from the Greek 'metre', a mother; and 'polis', a city). Unlike us, the ancient Greeks assumed that no decent city should be permitted to grow indefinitely. A large city would outstrip its own resources, become unwieldy and ill–proportioned, inconvenient, an unfit place for living, a habitat that must inevitably reduce citizens, who might hope to know their city and one another well, into anonymous inhabitants each dominated by his own private concerns and lacking common goals or interests – no true city, then, no 'polis', but a mere heaping up of people and buildings. To avoid this catastrophe was both desirable and possible. The 'polis' invited its citizens, not least its youth, to join in establishing a new 'polis'. So the original city gave birth to the new, and the original thus became the mother city, a metropolis. Thus cities of human proportion could be built and preserved. 1. According to the passage, the concept of the giant city is (a) primitive (b) ancient (c) about 300 years old (d) recent 2. Which of the following statements is incorrect? (a) A giant city exceeds half a million inhabitants. (b) Even in a modern country a giant city is a late arrival. (c) A big fraction of the population today lives in cities. (d) None of our great grandfathers may have been born in a big city. 3. In developing countries, the giant city symbolises (a) industrialisation (b) modernisation (c) democratisation (d) urbanisation 4. The people in a modern city are (a) individualistic (b) materialistic (c) sociable (d) patriotic 5. In this passage, the author has been (a) appreciative (b) satirical (c) sympathetic (d) critical Part B Directions: Each of the following sentences is divided into four parts. One of the parts contains a mistake. Identify that part. If there is no mistake mark (e). 6. Birds are warm–blooded / vertebrate animals whose / bodies are covered by / feathers. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 7. The teaching of English / is more difficult than / teaching / any other subject. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 8. How could / she bear such words / from any other man / but him? / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 9. Gandhi was one of / the most unselfish leader / who had served / their country. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 10. He is the Manager / and the Secretary / of the College / which has bagged the 'best institution' prize. (a) (b) (c) (d) this year. / No error. (e) 11. Do you not realise / that finding fault in others / is a bad habit / which should be discarded. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 12. He is right / to hold the opinion / that people get the government / they deserve. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 13. It is time / we resume / the priority / we had given to family planning earlier. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 14. It is I / who has been entrusted / with the doing of this piece of work; / hence please don't interfere. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 15. I shall avail / of your advice / which is / as precious as gold. / No error. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) | | | |  | |
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