It's a Question of your Career!

Question : Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

You go up a dark, rickety stairwell of a building on a crowded street in Calcutta. You enter a small room. The centre of the room is empty but the corners are stacked with bedrolls, utensils and water bottles. Musical instruments, drums, cymbals and gongs are piled in a corner. Today, the room is filled with the laughter of men and women in colourful attire. Among the happy chorus of congratulations and laughter, the bride Chumki Pal and the groom Sandeep can be seen smiling. They are both blind, as are most of the people surrounding them. Pal is wearing a bright turquoise blue sari. “I know it’s blue because people have told me but I can’t imagine how it looks. But believe me, when I dream, I dream only in colours,” she says. Their romance blossomed when they met as members of Blind Opera, the only one of its kind in the country as well as in Asia.

The 36 spirited members of Blind Opera demonstrate that physical disability is not an obstacle. They enact plays by Rabindranath Tagore, considered challenging even by veteran theatre groups. Blind Opera was launched in 1996 by four theatre aficionados, who took it as a challenge to get together the talents of these visually impaired people. The challenge to present the cast on stage is immense since space management is a problem. To solve this, the directors use ropes to separate the stage and the wings. When the actors step on the rope they know that it is the entrance to the stage. The members cannot see, but they can smell, hear and touch – three elements inherent to any theatre. At Blind Opera, they “believe that the blind can see. That is, they see in their own way, if not in our way, with the help of these abilities.”

For the visually impaired, theatre is the medium for the expression of their creative urges. They respond instinctively; they cannot copy anyone else because they cannot see. Their body language tells the story and hence it is very spontaneous. The members have earned kudos from Calcutta audiences. For the members of the troupe, discovering the language of the body is in a way also a journey of the persona. Coming from diverse backgrounds but bound together by the same disability, they have found an outlet for their creativity through the plays. They do not feel isolated anymore because they can relate to their fellow performers. There is also a greater purpose behind it: to use theatre to build a community and mainstream the huge number of disabled living in isolation. Together they can be a force to demand better facilities in public life. Blind children should enter the mainstream from the beginning. The big dream of the group is to establish a drama school following the ideal of Tagore’s Shantiniketan, offering a platform for creative expression to all those who are economically and socially forced to stay in the periphery. Like Chumki Pal, they all dream in colour.

Question:

Which of the following is NOT a key element inherent to any theatre?

Option 1: Sense of touch

Option 2: Sense of hearing

Option 3: Sense of taste

Option 4: Sense of smell

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

The secretary was noting down the dictation.

Option 1: The secretary noted the dictation.

Option 2: The dictation was noted down by the secretary.

Option 3: The notes were noted by the secretary.

Option 4: The dictation was being noted down by the secretary.

Question : Directions: Select the number that will replace the question mark (?) in the following series.
65, 88, 77, 98, 91, 108, ?, 118, 125

Option 1: 104

Option 2: 95

Option 3: 99

Option 4: 107

Question : 40% of the cost price of an article is equal to 25% of its selling price. What is the profit percentage?

Option 1: 150%

Option 2: 120%

Option 3: 50%

Option 4: 60%

Question : The marked price of an article is Rs. 250. After allowing two successive discounts of 20% and $x$% on the marked price, it is sold for Rs. 185.60. What is the value of $x$?

Option 1: 8.4%

Option 2: 7.2%

Option 3: 6.8%

Option 4: 7.6%

Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is error-free, your answer is "No Error".

Kindly submit your documents to the clerk.

1. Kindly submit
2. to the clerk.
3. your documents
4. No Error

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 2

Option 3: 3

Option 4: 4

Question : Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.
A fully grow Chihuahua weighs less than the average house cat.

Option 1: fullest grown

Option 2: fully growth

Option 3: No improvement

Option 4: fully grown

Question : Select the most appropriate phrase for the underlined segment in the given sentence.

She brought new ideas for the innovative promotion of the product.

Option 1: Draw on

Option 2: Swept off

Option 3: Came up with

Option 4: Carry off

Question : Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.

Cupidity

Option 1: Largesse

Option 2: Avarice

Option 3: Greed

Option 4: Hatred

Question : Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox and Lutheran teaching, all of their faithful departed in heaven are considered saints, although some are deemed deserving of more praise or emulation.
B. In religious belief, a saint is a person who is viewed as possessing an uncommon degree of holiness, similarity, or proximity to God.
C. The term saint, however, is used differently depending on the setting and denomination.
D. Some saints receive official ecclesiastical recognition and, as a result, a public cult of veneration through the process of canonisation in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Option 1: BCAD

Option 2: BCDA

Option 3: CBDA

Option 4: BDAC