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The SAT Practice Test - Critical Reading has been designed to test the important aspects of Critical Reading. The test entails reading a long or a short passage based on general subjects and determine any of the folowing:
- the author's point in the passage
- the author's tone
- the gist of the passage
The test may also contain dual passages, and the test taker may be asked questions on both the first and the second passage.

SAT Test Practice Questions - Critical Reading Discussion Forum

This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage deals with the rampant spread of aggressive marketing world over.

"What is that women really want?" this universally popular
question was asked by Dr Sigmund Freud after almost three
decades of clinical psychoanalytic practice and analyzing the
ramifications of the female mind. The answer is, as most men 
5  would guess, still elusive, but Harvard Business School
experts believe that, in some small little way, they have been
able to identify the brainwaves that tell women to "buy, buy
now"; as also the negative "fight/fight" rejection waves that
compel her to say, "No, I will come again sometime." The 
10  Business School team worked with the university's
Psychology dean, applying a modern method known as
Positron Emission Tomography (PET). It is often said about
Harvard experts, "You can always tell them in any crowd,
but you can not tell them much." When it comes to shopping, 
15  say the researchers, it is because of an unconscious
process that whatever the consumer thinks and says is quite
different from what he does. Some giant names in the
corporate world today and multi-million dollar MNCs
are said to be sponsoring a hush-hush research and have reported 
20  some success in the advanced trials they have made with
the new techniques. In the 21st century, these corporations
hope to rake millions and billions by the proposed paradigm
shift in the market strategy. The late David Ogilvy used
to caution his copywriters that "the customer is not a moron�
25  she is your wife." The new marketing hypnosis will
greatly help the giant companies to create new products,
retail outlets and advertising so as to subconsciously
stimulate similar brainwaves, egging people to buy. Previous
market surveys went off the mark because they based their 
30  probes on the conscious mind; the trick is to trick the
subconscious and the "sublimely subliminal" is music to the
ears of sales people, jaded with sameness and a sense of d�j�
vu. Commentator Clive James once said, "The last stage of
fitting the product to the market is to fit the market to the 
35  product." Critics have called the subliminal research
"sinister" and charged big companies with unfair trade
practices, where the people's preferences are manipulated
and emotions of customers are crudely played with. In their
eagerness to assess facts, a car company reports a 30 per cent 
40  spurt in sales, while shoe-designers in Britain said the
Feng Shui way of rearranging their outlet had made a
difference. Perhaps even India's Vastu Shastra hides another
feel good component!

The word "elusive" (line 5) means the same as:

eschew

escritoire

avoid by cleverness

difficult to capture

indefinable

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage deals with the rampant spread of aggressive marketing world over.

"What is that women really want?" this universally popular
question was asked by Dr Sigmund Freud after almost three
decades of clinical psychoanalytic practice and analyzing the
ramifications of the female mind. The answer is, as most men 
5  would guess, still elusive, but Harvard Business School
experts believe that, in some small little way, they have been
able to identify the brainwaves that tell women to "buy, buy
now"; as also the negative "fight/fight" rejection waves that
compel her to say, "No, I will come again sometime." The 
10  Business School team worked with the university's
Psychology dean, applying a modern method known as
Positron Emission Tomography (PET). It is often said about
Harvard experts, "You can always tell them in any crowd,
but you can not tell them much." When it comes to shopping, 
15  say the researchers, it is because of an unconscious
process that whatever the consumer thinks and says is quite
different from what he does. Some giant names in the
corporate world today and multi-million dollar MNCs
are said to be sponsoring a hush-hush research and have reported 
20  some success in the advanced trials they have made with
the new techniques. In the 21st century, these corporations
hope to rake millions and billions by the proposed paradigm
shift in the market strategy. The late David Ogilvy used
to caution his copywriters that "the customer is not a moron�
25  she is your wife." The new marketing hypnosis will
greatly help the giant companies to create new products,
retail outlets and advertising so as to subconsciously
stimulate similar brainwaves, egging people to buy. Previous
market surveys went off the mark because they based their 
30  probes on the conscious mind; the trick is to trick the
subconscious and the "sublimely subliminal" is music to the
ears of sales people, jaded with sameness and a sense of d�j�
vu. Commentator Clive James once said, "The last stage of
fitting the product to the market is to fit the market to the 
35  product." Critics have called the subliminal research
"sinister" and charged big companies with unfair trade
practices, where the people's preferences are manipulated
and emotions of customers are crudely played with. In their
eagerness to assess facts, a car company reports a 30 per cent 
40  spurt in sales, while shoe-designers in Britain said the
Feng Shui way of rearranging their outlet had made a
difference. Perhaps even India's Vastu Shastra hides another
feel good component!

The term "d�j� vu", most literally (line 32) means:

similarity in comparison

contrast in comparison

experiencing something that one has not experienced before

feeling that one remembers something that one has not experienced before

striking features

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage discusses the author's philosophy that confusions and misconceptions of the human mind deflects one from attaining one's highest goal.

Human experience is usually a cacophony of voices,
thoughts and emotions. Many of us are in this position of
perplexity where our mind is captivated by wrong
perceptions of reality. This is why pain and suffering are 
5  integral to our lives, in spite of the material conveniences
and facilities that science has provided us with. The noise
that human beings make in the form of negative thoughts
and emotions is evidence of the absolute mess they have
made of themselves and their lives. Part of this confusion 
10  arises from the fact that most people go through life
without really knowing what they want. At any point in
life, if you go by past experience or if you trust your mind
to decide what is possible and what is not then you will
end up settling for mediocrity. We are always trying to create 
15  our life based on the reality that exists around us at that
 particular moment. Where we want to go tomorrow need
not be concerned with where we are right now.
Our highest goal in life need not have anything to do with
our present situation. If we enslave our vision to the current 
20  situation then we are once again settling for what is
attainable, what is easy, what we think is possible. If man
has a vision of what he wants to do with himself and the
world around him, it is not beyond man's capacity to create
it. It may happen in this lifetime, or it may take him a 
25  couple of lifetimes, but what is wished for by man will
definitely happen. This is because we will seek our vision
every moment of our life. Then the highest things in life
will fall at our feet. It is only because man is a bundle of
confusions and spends most of his time seeking what he 
30  doesn't want that things he really wants never come to
him. This lack of vision and will is definitely because of a
distorted understanding of reality.

The word 'mediocrity' means:

less

bad

level

inferior quality

imbalance

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This Question is based on the following passage:

    
Passage one traces the history of wine and drinking. Passage two highlights the author's trenchant view of prohibition by the state and imposed morality.

Passage-1

The god of wine, Dionysus is also called Bacchus
by both Romans and Greeks. In Homer's time,
Dionysus was not one of the patrician deities, but
a god whom the humble folks worshipped, a god 
5  who was brought into Greece from Thrace in
the 8th century B.C. by peripatetic bands of
rapturous worshippers. Dionysus was thus, a god
of vital, intoxicating powers of nature, and also,
because of his close connection with tillage and 
10  early civilization, he seen to be as a law giver.
He was represented as young, handsome, and
aesthetic in art forms, but later on, the artistic
representations of his form became slightly
effeminate. He was accompanied by a wild crowd 
15  of Satyrs, and Maenads, the latter hysterical
with wine and mystical exaltation, and carrying
cymbals, swords, or serpents, or the Thyrsus, a
wand wreathed with ivy and crowned with fir-
cone. Women were strongly attracted towards the 
20  worship of Dionysus. Many of them spent
their entire nights on the mountain in euphoric
dancing and tearing wild animals to pieces. The
myths of Dionysus are evidence that there was
first much opposition to the ritual use of wine and 
25  the frenzy it engendered. The earlier drink of
the Greeks had been a kind of beer flavored with,
ivy and mead, and mead was the drink of Homer's
Olympians. Wine was not invented by the Greeks
but imported by them from Crete whither the wine 
30  culture had spread from Mt. Nyasa, Libya.

Passage-2

I thoroughly disapprove of prohibition by law. It
is, according to me, a futile attempt at self-
arrogated morality. Wine is as old as gods and it
has come down to us through ages and scriptures 
5  as an unmatched soothe for the human misery.
It is our legacy of an age when gods were mortal
and men were divine, and even though wine was
considered to be a monstrous evil since its first sip
by man, he has not stopped drinking at its bubbly 
10  fountain of vice and forgetfulness. 
If legislation is needed, or sought after, by a
nation to maintain the morality of its people, I
deem it to be indeed a regrettable state of affairs. 
Saints have discoursed great sermons on the evil 
15  of drinking but this gospel of saints has
always remained a bad sermon in the world of
sinners. It is good for the saints to preach but daft
for the state to enforce that preaching, for what is
enforced by law ceases to be moral. A virtue is a 
20  virtue only when it is acquired through self-
realization, not when it is forced on the lives of
the people. Every new law creates a new crowd of
law-breakers and one more sin is added to the
sum-total of human crimes. As Goldsmith says, 
25  the virtue which requires, to be ever guarded,
is scarcely worth its sentinel.

In passage 2, the writer speaks of 'self-arrogated morality', who, in his view has arrogated morality?
A. The society
B. The state
C. The law-court
D. The police
E. The politicians

This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage discusses the values that are of importance in the corporate world today.

Change seems to be the only constant in the world today.
Business is not immune to this trend for revolutions in every
field and aspect of life. It is today is going through yet
another overwhelming revolution. This current revolution is 
5  powered by the perseverance of the customers in
demanding faster and more personalized services. Consumers
want their needs to be complied with immediately and in a
manner that fulfills their personal requirements.
Developments in the field of information technology have 
10  made it viable for providers to rise half way to this
challenge. The search for the perfect formula to draw the best
talent as employees and attract clients for sustained business
success is all-pervasive. Several people believe that the most
exigent challenge today is to compete in ever changing 
15  market place. Others say the real challenge is in
controlling employee attrition. There are yet others, who
emphasize the need for being in the forefront of technology.
The real task in facing the organizations today is in
fashioning an atmosphere that cherishes human values, 
20  protracts learning, and fosters creativity. Companies in
the corporate world today need a culture where each person
is appreciated and esteemed as an individual, where a person
can risk and find physical and emotional support, a culture
where one can learn and grow. The strategies required for 
25  meeting this challenge are neither far nor distant. The
present e-revolution surge provides many clues. Today's e-
business model is based on seamlessly integrating all stake
holders, such as suppliers and customers, into the
organization. Conventionally, they were seen as outsiders. 
30  People well-versed in negotiation skills dealt with them
to strike the best deals. In the contemporary world however,
artnership and collaboration is the mode of working. At the
very foundation of any organization there must exist a set of
well-articulated core values and not a thick book of corporate 
35  company rules. These values charter what the
organization deems important. Operating out of implicitly
stated values creates confidence and admiration in the
individual's capability to unreservedly choose with a sense of
responsibility in each situation. The precincts of right and 
40  wrong are hazy in a dynamic universe. The option often
seems to be between two rights or two wrongs. Only deeply-
embedded values empower an individual to respond
"responsibly" in such a situation. The new paradigm of
business organization is founded on a set of well expressed 
45  values. Information is the raw-material for knowledge, in
an organization there are many echelons in the information
hierarchy. Nevertheless, the need has often restricted the
amount of access an employee has to the information and
thus curtailed the efficiency with which he can make 
50  decisions and perform the assigned task. Immense power
arises in the hands of the managers by hoarding information.
Information gets dispensed in small amounts. The e-business
model argues against this closed mode of information
allocation. Information access is imperative to compliant and
55  variable response. Corporate intranets and extranets give
us a conduit for information sharing. Bulletin boards and
knowledge repositories provide a place for everyone to sound
their questions and contributions. Executive briefings,
knowledge sharing forum and open houses can create an 
60  ambience of sharing information.
We should be able to openly accept the fact that easily
available information provides the fundamental constituent
for effectual performance of the organization. It does not eat
into the manager's power base. There is a degree of 
65  vulnerability one will experience in making oneself open
to giving away what we know. However, rich creativity is
ossible when information is shared in diligent abundance.

The most significant factor needed in companies today is:

a hand book of rules

the extranets and intranets of the corporate sector

information and ethics

well characterized and explicit illustration of company's goals

a customer with realistic and practicable demands

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage elucidates the parameters of artistic excellence. 

The prestige of a masterpiece, in the most curious way,
dominates the degree of appreciation and understanding of
music. Theater, cinema, poetry, narrative fiction, none pay
allegiance to its ideal of excellence in the tyrannical way that 
5  music does. They recognize no unbridgeable chasm
between 'great works' and lesser efforts. Consider the world
of painting; even though it also is a victim of "appreciation"
rackets based on the concept of gilt-edged equality, it still is
more penetrable to reason in this regard. But music today 
10  seems committed to the idea that superlative work in
composition is separable from the rest of the music-writing
by a distinction as radical as that recognized in theology
between the elect and the damned. 
This pretentious definition of excellence is disparate from the 
15  classical concept of a republic of letters. It reclines,
rather, on the theocratic ideas that inspiration is less a
privilege of the private citizen than of the ordained sibyl. The
concept however, loses its ground due to the fact that music
is not a religion. Dealing in general ideas, morality or 
20  salvation does not come within the precincts of music. It
is an art. It expresses private sentiments through skill and
sincerity, both of which are a privilege, a duty of the private
citizen, and no monopoly of the prophetically inclined. 
"Masterpiece", was once considered to be merely a 
25  graduation piece which hailed the student advance from
apprenticeship to master status. Later, it referred to any
artist's most accomplished work, the highpoint of production.
Today, most people comprehend it as a piece differing from
the run of the repertory by a degree of concentration in its 
30  expressivity that establishes a difference of kind. The idea
that any composer, however gifted or skillful, is merely a
masterpiece factory would have been repellant to Bach or
Hadyn or Mozart or Handel. But all the successors of
Beethoven who aspired to his positions quite consciously 
35  imbued their music with the "masterpiece" tone. This
tone is lugubrious, portentous, and world-shaking; and
length, as well as heavy instrumentation, is essential to it.
The masterpiece cult tends to substitute an impressive
manner for specific expression, just as an oratory does. That 
40  music should stoop to the procedures and techniques of
contemporary political harangue is lamentable.
There are occasions (funerals for instance) where the tone of
a discourse is more important than its content, but the concert
is not one of them. The concert is habitual thing like a meal; 
45  the ceremonial is only incidental to it. And restricting
one's menu to what observes the fictitious "masterpiece"
tone is like limiting one's nourishment only to heavier party
foods. If the idea can be got rid of that a proper concert
should consist of only "masterpieces", either historic or 
50  contemporary, our programs will cease to be repetitive
and monotonous.

According to the passage, music now differs from other arts in terms of:

its range of quality

the goals of its creators

its public, rather than private nature

every musician expected to be a master

the standards used to judge its quality

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage elucidates the parameters of artistic excellence. 

The prestige of a masterpiece, in the most curious way,
dominates the degree of appreciation and understanding of
music. Theater, cinema, poetry, narrative fiction, none pay
allegiance to its ideal of excellence in the tyrannical way that 
5  music does. They recognize no unbridgeable chasm
between 'great works' and lesser efforts. Consider the world
of painting; even though it also is a victim of "appreciation"
rackets based on the concept of gilt-edged equality, it still is
more penetrable to reason in this regard. But music today 
10  seems committed to the idea that superlative work in
composition is separable from the rest of the music-writing
by a distinction as radical as that recognized in theology
between the elect and the damned. 
This pretentious definition of excellence is disparate from the 
15  classical concept of a republic of letters. It reclines,
rather, on the theocratic ideas that inspiration is less a
privilege of the private citizen than of the ordained sibyl. The
concept however, loses its ground due to the fact that music
is not a religion. Dealing in general ideas, morality or 
20  salvation does not come within the precincts of music. It
is an art. It expresses private sentiments through skill and
sincerity, both of which are a privilege, a duty of the private
citizen, and no monopoly of the prophetically inclined. 
"Masterpiece", was once considered to be merely a 
25  graduation piece which hailed the student advance from
apprenticeship to master status. Later, it referred to any
artist's most accomplished work, the highpoint of production.
Today, most people comprehend it as a piece differing from
the run of the repertory by a degree of concentration in its 
30  expressivity that establishes a difference of kind. The idea
that any composer, however gifted or skillful, is merely a
masterpiece factory would have been repellant to Bach or
Hadyn or Mozart or Handel. But all the successors of
Beethoven who aspired to his positions quite consciously 
35  imbued their music with the "masterpiece" tone. This
tone is lugubrious, portentous, and world-shaking; and
length, as well as heavy instrumentation, is essential to it.
The masterpiece cult tends to substitute an impressive
manner for specific expression, just as an oratory does. That 
40  music should stoop to the procedures and techniques of
contemporary political harangue is lamentable.
There are occasions (funerals for instance) where the tone of
a discourse is more important than its content, but the concert
is not one of them. The concert is habitual thing like a meal; 
45  the ceremonial is only incidental to it. And restricting
one's menu to what observes the fictitious "masterpiece"
tone is like limiting one's nourishment only to heavier party
foods. If the idea can be got rid of that a proper concert
should consist of only "masterpieces", either historic or 
50  contemporary, our programs will cease to be repetitive
and monotonous.

The "classical concept of a republic of letters" (line 15) can best be interpreted as meaning that:

each work of art should be appreciated for its own merit

the arts should be separate from religion

the arts should be measured, if at all, by the criterion of classical times

in a republic, literature should set the standard for all the arts

music is the domain of the spiritually inclined

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The passage elucidates the parameters of artistic excellence. 

The prestige of a masterpiece, in the most curious way,
dominates the degree of appreciation and understanding of
music. Theater, cinema, poetry, narrative fiction, none pay
allegiance to its ideal of excellence in the tyrannical way that 
5  music does. They recognize no unbridgeable chasm
between 'great works' and lesser efforts. Consider the world
of painting; even though it also is a victim of "appreciation"
rackets based on the concept of gilt-edged equality, it still is
more penetrable to reason in this regard. But music today 
10  seems committed to the idea that superlative work in
composition is separable from the rest of the music-writing
by a distinction as radical as that recognized in theology
between the elect and the damned. 
This pretentious definition of excellence is disparate from the 
15  classical concept of a republic of letters. It reclines,
rather, on the theocratic ideas that inspiration is less a
privilege of the private citizen than of the ordained sibyl. The
concept however, loses its ground due to the fact that music
is not a religion. Dealing in general ideas, morality or 
20  salvation does not come within the precincts of music. It
is an art. It expresses private sentiments through skill and
sincerity, both of which are a privilege, a duty of the private
citizen, and no monopoly of the prophetically inclined. 
"Masterpiece", was once considered to be merely a 
25  graduation piece which hailed the student advance from
apprenticeship to master status. Later, it referred to any
artist's most accomplished work, the highpoint of production.
Today, most people comprehend it as a piece differing from
the run of the repertory by a degree of concentration in its 
30  expressivity that establishes a difference of kind. The idea
that any composer, however gifted or skillful, is merely a
masterpiece factory would have been repellant to Bach or
Hadyn or Mozart or Handel. But all the successors of
Beethoven who aspired to his positions quite consciously 
35  imbued their music with the "masterpiece" tone. This
tone is lugubrious, portentous, and world-shaking; and
length, as well as heavy instrumentation, is essential to it.
The masterpiece cult tends to substitute an impressive
manner for specific expression, just as an oratory does. That 
40  music should stoop to the procedures and techniques of
contemporary political harangue is lamentable.
There are occasions (funerals for instance) where the tone of
a discourse is more important than its content, but the concert
is not one of them. The concert is habitual thing like a meal; 
45  the ceremonial is only incidental to it. And restricting
one's menu to what observes the fictitious "masterpiece"
tone is like limiting one's nourishment only to heavier party
foods. If the idea can be got rid of that a proper concert
should consist of only "masterpieces", either historic or 
50  contemporary, our programs will cease to be repetitive
and monotonous.

The author compares a concert and masterpiece to:

fiction and fact

discourse and its content

meal and heavy party foods

elect and the damned

heavy party foods and meal

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The author discusses the developmental challenges faced in the rapidly changing global scenario.

The challenge of development in an extensive sense is to
enhance the quality of life, especially in the world's poor
countries. A better quality of life usually calls for higher
incomes but it involves much more. It incorporates a blend of 
5  better education, higher standards of health and nutrition,
poverty alleviation, a cleaner environment, more equality of
opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural
life.
Precepts of development have undergone a paradigm shift 
10  during the past few decades. Progress has not moved along
a straight line from darkness to light. Instead, there have been
successes and failures, and a gradual accumulation of
knowledge and insight. On some matters, a fairly clear
understanding has emerged, but many questions still remain 
15  contentious and unanswered.
Climate, culture, and natural resources were once thought to be
the keys to economic development. Rapid industrialization,
using explicit and implicit taxes on agriculture to fund
industrial investment was for many years a much favored 
20  strategy. After the Great Depression and through the1960s,
most policy makers favored import substitution combined with
focus on infant industries. In its day, this view was endorsed,
and the strategy supported, by external aid and finance
agencies. 
25  These views have not stood the test of time. Now there is
clearer evidence, from both developing and industrial
countries, that it is better not to ask governments to manage
development in details. Discriminatory taxes on agriculture
have turned out to be taxes on development. Economic
isolation behind trade barriers has proved to be costly.
Retarding competition and interfering with prices, deliberately
or accidentally, have very often proved to be counter-
productive.
As the importance of openness and competition has been
realized, the conviction has grown that they are insufficient by
themselves. Investing in people, if done rightly, provides the
firmest foundation for lasting development. And therefore, the
economic role of government is larger than merely standing in
for markets if they fail to work right. In defining and protecting
rights, providing effective legal and judicial system, improving
the efficiency of the officials providing services of the
government, and protecting the environment, the state forms
the very core of development. Political and civil liberties are
not, contrary to a once popular view, inconsistent with
economic growth.

Which of the following was NOT taken into account in the pre-1960 views on economic development?

Use of easily available local resources.

Setting up of new industries.

Development of indigenous technology to reduce import.

Geographical factors.

Direct and indirect taxes on agriculture.

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The author discusses the developmental challenges faced in the rapidly changing global scenario.

The challenge of development in an extensive sense is to
enhance the quality of life, especially in the world's poor
countries. A better quality of life usually calls for higher
incomes but it involves much more. It incorporates a blend of 
5  better education, higher standards of health and nutrition,
poverty alleviation, a cleaner environment, more equality of
opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural
life.
Precepts of development have undergone a paradigm shift 
10  during the past few decades. Progress has not moved along
a straight line from darkness to light. Instead, there have been
successes and failures, and a gradual accumulation of
knowledge and insight. On some matters, a fairly clear
understanding has emerged, but many questions still remain 
15  contentious and unanswered.
Climate, culture, and natural resources were once thought to be
the keys to economic development. Rapid industrialization,
using explicit and implicit taxes on agriculture to fund
industrial investment was for many years a much favored 
20  strategy. After the Great Depression and through the1960s,
most policy makers favored import substitution combined with
focus on infant industries. In its day, this view was endorsed,
and the strategy supported, by external aid and finance
agencies. 
25  These views have not stood the test of time. Now there is
clearer evidence, from both developing and industrial
countries, that it is better not to ask governments to manage
development in details. Discriminatory taxes on agriculture
have turned out to be taxes on development. Economic
isolation behind trade barriers has proved to be costly.
Retarding competition and interfering with prices, deliberately
or accidentally, have very often proved to be counter-
productive.
As the importance of openness and competition has been
realized, the conviction has grown that they are insufficient by
themselves. Investing in people, if done rightly, provides the
firmest foundation for lasting development. And therefore, the
economic role of government is larger than merely standing in
for markets if they fail to work right. In defining and protecting
rights, providing effective legal and judicial system, improving
the efficiency of the officials providing services of the
government, and protecting the environment, the state forms
the very core of development. Political and civil liberties are
not, contrary to a once popular view, inconsistent with
economic growth.

10.

The statement 'it is better not to ask governments to manage development in details' (lines 26-27) is true in case of which of the following countries?

For both developing and developed countries.

For either developed or developing countries.

For neither developed nor developing countries.

Only for developing countries.

Only for developed countries.

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The author discusses the developmental challenges faced in the rapidly changing global scenario.

The challenge of development in an extensive sense is to
enhance the quality of life, especially in the world's poor
countries. A better quality of life usually calls for higher
incomes but it involves much more. It incorporates a blend of 
5  better education, higher standards of health and nutrition,
poverty alleviation, a cleaner environment, more equality of
opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural
life.
Precepts of development have undergone a paradigm shift 
10  during the past few decades. Progress has not moved along
a straight line from darkness to light. Instead, there have been
successes and failures, and a gradual accumulation of
knowledge and insight. On some matters, a fairly clear
understanding has emerged, but many questions still remain 
15  contentious and unanswered.
Climate, culture, and natural resources were once thought to be
the keys to economic development. Rapid industrialization,
using explicit and implicit taxes on agriculture to fund
industrial investment was for many years a much favored 
20  strategy. After the Great Depression and through the1960s,
most policy makers favored import substitution combined with
focus on infant industries. In its day, this view was endorsed,
and the strategy supported, by external aid and finance
agencies. 
25  These views have not stood the test of time. Now there is
clearer evidence, from both developing and industrial
countries, that it is better not to ask governments to manage
development in details. Discriminatory taxes on agriculture
have turned out to be taxes on development. Economic
isolation behind trade barriers has proved to be costly.
Retarding competition and interfering with prices, deliberately
or accidentally, have very often proved to be counter-
productive.
As the importance of openness and competition has been
realized, the conviction has grown that they are insufficient by
themselves. Investing in people, if done rightly, provides the
firmest foundation for lasting development. And therefore, the
economic role of government is larger than merely standing in
for markets if they fail to work right. In defining and protecting
rights, providing effective legal and judicial system, improving
the efficiency of the officials providing services of the
government, and protecting the environment, the state forms
the very core of development. Political and civil liberties are
not, contrary to a once popular view, inconsistent with
economic growth.

11.

What tone has been used by the author in the passage?

Altruistic

Sanguine

Idealistic

Matter-of-fact

Disapproving

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This Question is based on the following passage:

  The author discusses the developmental challenges faced in the rapidly changing global scenario.

The challenge of development in an extensive sense is to
enhance the quality of life, especially in the world's poor
countries. A better quality of life usually calls for higher
incomes but it involves much more. It incorporates a blend of 
5  better education, higher standards of health and nutrition,
poverty alleviation, a cleaner environment, more equality of
opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural
life.
Precepts of development have undergone a paradigm shift 
10  during the past few decades. Progress has not moved along
a straight line from darkness to light. Instead, there have been
successes and failures, and a gradual accumulation of
knowledge and insight. On some matters, a fairly clear
understanding has emerged, but many questions still remain 
15  contentious and unanswered.
Climate, culture, and natural resources were once thought to be
the keys to economic development. Rapid industrialization,
using explicit and implicit taxes on agriculture to fund
industrial investment was for many years a much favored 
20  strategy. After the Great Depression and through the1960s,
most policy makers favored import substitution combined with
focus on infant industries. In its day, this view was endorsed,
and the strategy supported, by external aid and finance
agencies. 
25  These views have not stood the test of time. Now there is
clearer evidence, from both developing and industrial
countries, that it is better not to ask governments to manage
development in details. Discriminatory taxes on agriculture
have turned out to be taxes on development. Economic
isolation behind trade barriers has proved to be costly.
Retarding competition and interfering with prices, deliberately
or accidentally, have very often proved to be counter-
productive.
As the importance of openness and competition has been
realized, the conviction has grown that they are insufficient by
themselves. Investing in people, if done rightly, provides the
firmest foundation for lasting development. And therefore, the
economic role of government is larger than merely standing in
for markets if they fail to work right. In defining and protecting
rights, providing effective legal and judicial system, improving
the efficiency of the officials providing services of the
government, and protecting the environment, the state forms
the very core of development. Political and civil liberties are
not, contrary to a once popular view, inconsistent with
economic growth.

12.

Over a period of time, all of the following views on development have undergone a revolutionary shift EXCEPT:

a high level of income is conducive for achieving development

natural resources are the only pre-requisite for development

heavily taxing agriculture so as to boost industrialization

implementing trade barriers and reducing imports to a bare-minimum level

totally relying on the government to achieve goals of development

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