Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. the knowledge related to the businesses of men
Options
A. knows about all the principal characters in history
B. sees not with the eyes of others
C. is acquainted with the streets of Constantinople and Peking
D. knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation.
Correct Answer
knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation.
1. In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it. Button her lip
2. The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph. This idea, however startling it may at X-first appear, is quite in accordance, as Y-before stated, with the analogy of changes Z-now going on in certain regions of the globe
3. In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'. The two children, (1)/ brother and sister, were onto (2)/ their way to school. (3)/No Error (4)
4. In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'. Economically, we (1)/ understand the world (2)/ round us in terms of scarcity. (3)/No Error (4)
6. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. The given passage implies that
Options
A. knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them
B. a learned man cannot deliver lectures
C. a learned man is not interested in Calmuc Tartars
D. a learned man is not aware of the optics and the rules of perspective
8. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence. A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force
9. The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph. Cars were owned by A-only a privileged few and B-my class of society was C-as yet untouched by it