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READING COMPREHENSION MCQs

Comprehension, Verbal Comprehension Passage

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Question 781. Which of the following groups of words is SIMILAR in meaning as the word lest as used in the passage?

for want of
in order to
for fear that
in spite of
None of these

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> for fear that
Answer: (c)The meaning of the word ‘lest’ as mentioned in the passage is ‘for fear that’; ‘in order that ... not’.

Question 782. How has the author defined management?

It refers to creating a vision to help direct the change effort.
Creating better performance through customer orientation.
It is the system of aligning people with the direction it has taken.
It is the process of adapting organisations to changing circumstances.
None of these

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> It refers to creating a vision to help direct the change effort.
Answer: (a)Planning can be defined as ‘creating a vision’, which is an important aspect of management.

Question 783. What is the historical reason for many organisations not having leadership?

Leaders are weak in carrying out traditional functions of management
Leaders allow too much complacency in organisations
Leaders lack managerial skills and organisations need managers
A view that leaders are born, they are not made
None of these

Discuss Question

Answer: Option E. -> None of these
Answer: (e)For most of this century, as a large number of organisations were created for the first time in human history, emphasis was given on management and leadership was overlooked.

Question 784. Management education was emphasized in the management programmes because

strategies for producing change was the main focus of organisations
organisations wanted to create powerful guiding coalition
motivating employees was thought to be done by managers
establishing direction was the main focus of organisations
management was the main item of agenda in organisations

Discuss Question

Answer: Option E. -> management was the main item of agenda in organisations
Answer: (e)

Question 785. Why does the attention of large organisations turn inward?

Their success creates market dominance.
They want to project their predictability.
They have to keep themselves under control.
Their managers become arrogant.
None of these

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> They have to keep themselves under control.
Answer: (c)

Question 786. In the passage, management is equated with

Organisational vision
Bureaucracy
Leadership
Organisation
Managerial training

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> Bureaucracy
Answer: (b)Managers are also bureaucrats.

Question 787. Which of the following is SIMILAR in the meaning of the word NURTURED as used in the passage?

thwarted
surfaced
developed
created
halted

Discuss Question

Answer: Option C. -> developed
Answer: (c)
The meaning of the word ‘nurtured’ as mentioned in the passage is ‘to help the development of something’.
Hence the words ‘nurtured’ and ‘developed’ are synonymous.

Question 788. What, according to the author, is leadership?