Reasoning Aptitude
THEME DETECTION MCQs
Total Questions : 56
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Question 41. One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrialized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the pay cheque and this fixes social status. The passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: Option C. -> human labour has dignity and value.
human labour has dignity and value.
human labour has dignity and value.
Question 42. The attainment of individual and organisational goals is mutually interdependent and linked by a common denominator - employee work motivation. Organisational members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and they contribute their efforts to the attainment of organisational objectives as means of achieving these personal goals.
The passage best supports the statement that motivation:
The passage best supports the statement that motivation:
Answer: Option A. -> encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.
encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.
encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.
Question 43. Exports and imports, a swelling favourable balance of trade, investments and bank-balances, are not an index or a balance sheet of national prosperity. Till the beginning of the Second World War, English exports were noticeably greater than what they are today. And yet England has greater national prosperity today than it ever had. Because the income of average Englishmen, working as field and factory labourers, clerks, policemen, petty shopkeepers and shop assistants, domestic workers and other low-paid workers, has gone up. The passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: Option A. -> a country's economic standard can be best adjudged by per capital income.
a country's economic standard can be best adjudged by per capital income.
a country's economic standard can be best adjudged by per capital income.
Question 44. Satisfaction with co-workers, promotion opportunities, the nature of work, and pay goes with high performance among those with strong growth needs. Among those with weak growth needs, no such relationship is present - and, in fact, satisfaction with promotion opportunities goes with low performance. This passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: Option C. -> relationship between job satisfaction and performance is moderated by growth need.
relationship between job satisfaction and performance is moderated by growth need.
relationship between job satisfaction and performance is moderated by growth need.
Question 45. The only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. Through these demands he is stimulated to act as a member of a unity, to emerge from his original narrowness of action and feeling, and to conceive himself from the standpoint of the welfare of the group to which he belongs. The passage best supports the statement that real education:
Answer: Option D. -> comes through the interaction with social situations.
comes through the interaction with social situations.
comes through the interaction with social situations.
Question 46. It is up to our government and planners to devise ways and means for the mobilisation of about ten crore workers whose families total up about forty crore men, women and children. Our agriculture is over-manned. A lesser number of agriculturists would mean more purchasing or spending power to every agriculturist. This will result in the shortage of man-power for many commodities to be produced for which there will be a new demand from a prosperous agrarian class. This shortage will be removed by surplus man-power released from agriculture as suggested above. The passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: Option B. -> Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man-power.
Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man-power.
Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilisation of man-power.
Question 47. The press should not be afraid of upholding and supporting a just and righteous cause. It should not be afraid of criticising the government in a healthy manner. The press has to be eternally vigilant to protect the rights of the workers, backward and suppressed sections of the society. It should also give a balanced view of the things so that people can be helped in the formation of a healthy public opinion. The passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: Option C. -> the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy.
the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy.
the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy.
Question 48. Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation's great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world. The passage best supports the statement that the businessman:
Answer: Option E. -> has contributed to the growth of civilisation.
has contributed to the growth of civilisation.
has contributed to the growth of civilisation.
Question 49. The virtue of art does not allow the work to be interfered with or immediately ruled by anything other than itself. It insists that it alone shall touch the work in order to bring it into being. Art requires that nothing shall attain the work except through art itself. This passage best supports the statement that:
Answer: Option C. -> art is for the sake of art alone.
art is for the sake of art alone.
art is for the sake of art alone.
Question 50. Throughout the ages the businessman has helped build civilisation's great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world. The passage best supports the statement that the businessman:
Answer: Option E. -> has contributed to the growth of civilisation.
has contributed to the growth of civilisation.
has contributed to the growth of civilisation.