ENGLISH LANGUAGE - Reading Comprehension

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Some words are highlighted for your attention.

Patience is hardly an attribute that is associated with the Indian psyche, particularly of the male variety. Instances of road rage at the slightest pretext leading even to death are far too common. A flock is way more common a formation than a queue. Even if a queue is to be formed, violators run amok in total disregard of the conscientious and often the geriatric in the waiting. The urban phenomenon of delirious honking is another manifestation of patience running thin. The recent past, however, has thrown up a remarkable exception, namely, the general attitude in demonetised India. As we near the two-month mark, a consensus seems to be emerging among economists, from both sides of the ideological spectrum, that demonetisation will lead to significantly lower real GDP growth in the transition phase than expected but will have no effect in the long run. Estimates from academics and financial analysts suggest that demonetisation may lead to a decrease in annual real GDP growth of anything between 1 and 2 percentage points than expected.

One of the many crucial assumptions of course is that the national accounting norm remains the same. Irrespective of what the exact number is, evidence suggests that demonetisation has left behind a trail of economic consequences in terms of job loss and diminished economic activity, particularly in the informal sector, and will continue to do so in the near future. Besides the pure economic cost, the psychological cost of having to wait in serpentine queues for a couple of thousand rupees is enormous. And queuing up may not yield rewards anyway as ATMs continue to run dry, especially in the semi-urban and rural areas. Initial reports suggested that the queues in the second month have been significantly shorter than those in the first. Now it seems the shorter queues have a different explanation — people have a fair sense of how long cash will last, if at all, and rational that they are, do not wait if they think their turn will not come. All this for their own money, and this makes demonetisation even more exasperating and psychologically costly.

1).  What was discussed by the author from the above passage ?

a)    Issues faced  due to insufficient cash supply towards urban areas.

b)    Effect of Demonetisation over Indian Economy by means of country's  GDP value.

c)    People's mental make over towards the problems raised by Demonetisation.

d)    Effect of Demonetisation  over informal sectors of present and future.

e)    All the above

 2). Which of the following problems faced over ATM Centre from the above passage?

i) Issuing of only Rs.2000 currency

ii) Long standing queues

iii) ATM machines got Hanging frequently

iv) Limited cash storage in ATM machines

a)    Only iv    

b)    Both ii and iv 

c)    Both iii and iv  

d)    Only iii  

e)    Only ii

3). What is people's reaction on standing queue for long periods?

a)    They often go for protest.

b)    Make some people to break rules and pass through the queue.

c)    Make people to move towards bank branch.

d)    Make people to reduce their expenditure.

e)    Makes people to store their circulating money for future expense.

4). What was people's mentality on reduction  in length of queue over the second month after demonetisation?

a)    As people has other priority work than this.

b)    Thus people has sufficient amount of new currency for expense from bank branches.

c)    People aware  about the quantity of cash availability and how long it going to supply.

d)    Thus the restriction over cash withdrawal has been liberalised by RBI.

e)    None of these 

5). What was the effect of Demonetisations on country's GDP?

a)    It has lead to few points down on countries GDP.

b)    It has helped to boost the GDP to reach peak of the year

c)    It has faced the heavy down fall

d)    It made the GDP to remain constant for more than a month.

e)    All the above

6). What is the antonyms of " exasperating " which is used in the above passage?

a)    Confusing

b)    Puzzling

c)    worsening

d)    antagonizing

e)    Flattening

7). What is the synonyms of " geriatric " which is used in the above passage?

a)    Public

b)    patriarch

c)    white-collar

d)    Disabled Peoples

e)    Women

8). What is the antonyms of " amok " which is used in the above passage?

a)    rampage

b)    malicious

c)    placid

d)    jubilant

e)    noisy

9). What is the antonyms of " enormous " which is used in the above passage?

a)    extensive

b)    adequate

c)    realistic

d)    stipulate

e)    superfluous

10). Which of the following would be a suitable title for the above passage ?

a)    People and patience, post-demonetisation

b)    Problems and Patients

c)    Post-Demonetisation Effect

d)    Post-Demonetisation and its change over

e)    Post-Demonetisation and its Economical Impact

Answers:

1) E    

2) B    

3) B     

4) C    

5) A    

6) D    

7) B      

8) C     

9) E     

10) A