Theme Detection Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Correct answer: human labour has dignity and value.

The first sentence names the theme outright - technology imparts greater dignity and value to human labour - and the rest of the passage simply explains how: in an industrial society productivity, not birth, fixes pay and therefore status.

The mention of Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu is evidence for that claim, not the claim itself, which is why the options about social status and about caste being man-made pick up a supporting detail and mistake it for the theme.

Answer: C

Correct answer: economic development plays a crucial role

The passage gives one reason why the school matters more today than before: through the modern development of the economy, the family as a bearer of tradition has been weakened. Economic change is therefore the force that has shifted the burden of transmission from the family to the school - it plays a crucial role, though an indirect one. The other options all contradict the passage, which names the school as the most important means and the family as weakened.

Answer: D

Correct answer: has contributed to the growth of civilisation.

The passage credits the businessman with building the great cities, providing luxuries, giving artists patronage, raising the standard of living, and seeding the Industrial Revolution around the world. That is a list of contributions to civilisation, and no other option gathers them. Note that the businessman is described as the source of these things, not their beneficiary - the option about him enjoying a luxurious life reverses the passage.

Answer: B

Correct answer: what man imagined has never been impossible; he has always turned it a reality through his conception of ideas and sheer hard labour.

The passage traces one line: the poet imagines mastery of land, sea and air; a poet’s dream of yesterday becomes today an actual achievement; and flight, once imagined, was built and then surpassed by flight into space.

So imagination is presented as the first step towards achievement, not as a test of poetic skill and not as a claim that every imagining comes true - the passage speaks of what has been realised, not of everything conceivable.

Answer: A

Correct answer: the freedom of press is essential for the proper functioning of democracy.

Each sentence describes something a press can do only if it is free: uphold a just cause, criticise the government, protect the rights of workers and suppressed sections, and give a balanced view so people can form a healthy public opinion.

Informed public opinion is the mechanism democracy runs on, so freedom is being presented as a requirement rather than a privilege. The option that the press merely has a great role to play states less than the passage argues.

Answer: D

Correct answer: a,e,c

Take the three together and see whether they can all be true at once. If other professionals’ starting salaries have risen 20 percent, and the gap between teachers’ and theirs has nevertheless shrunk, then teachers’ salaries must have risen faster still - which supports the conclusion that starting teachers are no longer underpaid. The other sets mix in the average age of first-year teachers or the claim about formal education, neither of which bears on salary levels, so nothing follows from them.

Answer: A

Correct answer: encourages an individual to give priority to personal goals over organisational goals.

Read the second sentence closely. Members are motivated to satisfy their personal goals, and organisational objectives are pursued as means of achieving these personal goals. The personal goal is the end; the organisational goal is the route to it.

That ordering is the whole point of the passage, and only the keyed option states it. The passage never claims motivation is necessary for survival, never traces it to physical and mental energy, and calls it a common denominator inside the organisation rather than an external force.

Answer: D

Correct answer: smuggling is fast increasing in our country owing to the quick profit it entails.

The passage opens with cause and effect: because of the enormous profits, hundreds have been drawn to smuggling and some became millionaires overnight. It then adds that seizures notwithstanding, the smugglers still made huge profits - so the incentive survives enforcement.

The other options are judgements the passage never makes. It does not discuss economic damage, does not say smuggling ought to be curbed, and describes enforcement as occasional raids rather than strict measures.

Answer: C

Correct answer: the hoard for fashion should be done away with so as not to let down the constructive development.

The passage concedes two things before making its point: the expenditure is large, and fashion is here to stay. What it then asks for is that strong efforts be made to displace the excessive craze from young minds. That is a call to remove the obsession while accepting the thing itself, which is what this option says. The option about fashion being detrimental to personality states a harm the passage never claims.

Answer: D

Correct answer: women ought to be imparted full freedom to prove their worth and contribute to the progress of the nation.

The passage puts two ideas side by side: women will justify their abilities by rising to the occasion, and a country cannot rise without the contribution of half its population. Both are about giving women the opportunity to contribute.

Education appears as Napoleon’s illustration of that opportunity, not as the conclusion, so all women should be well educated narrows the theme. Emancipation and equal rights are consequences the passage gestures at but never states.