Theme Detection Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Correct answer: can be eliminated with the help of safety rules

The passage is entirely about prevention, and every measure it lists - guarding exposed machinery, instructing mechanics, providing adequate lighting - is a safety rule of one kind or another. Its premise is therefore that accidents can be prevented if those rules are followed.

Options saying accidents cannot be entirely overcome or arise from ignorance or inadequate machinery contradict or go beyond that premise; the passage assigns no cause, only a remedy.

Answer: D

Correct answer: mercy is the noblest form of revenge.

The passage sets forgiveness against vengeance throughout: yielding to resentment is easy, restraining it takes a strong character, and the man who forgives proves himself the superior of the wrongdoer and puts him to shame.

That last clause is decisive. Forgiveness here is not merely kind - it defeats the offender more completely than retaliation would, which is exactly what calling mercy a form of revenge means.

Answer: D

Correct answer: boost up production qualitatively and quantitatively by analytical comparison of a country's products with those of the developed countries.

The passage says the exhibitions enable us to measure the extent of our own less advanced progress against the industrial power of the U.K., the U.S.A. and Russia. Measuring yourself against a stronger competitor is only worth doing if it leads to improvement, and the passage opens by saying such exhibitions play a major role in the economy. The options calling them useless to backward countries contradict that opening claim directly.

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: B

Correct answer: Indian economy is in a poor shape basically due to improper mobilization of man-power.

The passage sets out a chain: agriculture is over-manned, so releasing labour from it would raise the purchasing power of those who remain, which would create demand for goods, which would need workers, who would be exactly the surplus released from agriculture. The whole argument turns on manpower being in the wrong place, and its opening sentence puts the task of mobilising ten crore workers to the government and the planners.

Answer: A

Correct answer: a country’s economic standard can be best adjudged by per capita income.

The passage rejects one measure and supplies another. Trade balance, investments and bank balances are not an index of national prosperity; England exported more before the war yet is more prosperous now.

The reason given is that the income of the average worker - labourers, clerks, shop assistants, domestic workers - has risen. That is per capita income, and it is the only yardstick the passage endorses.

Answer: D

Correct answer: comes through the interaction with social situations.

The first sentence states the thesis: true education comes through the stimulation of the child’s powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. The second sentence describes what those demands do - they draw the child out of narrowness and towards the welfare of the group.

Action and feeling appear only as the narrowness he emerges from, and the passage says nothing about physical strength, about present-day schools, or about a self-centred approach.

Answer: C

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: In many places in India, domestic violence is acceptable to women, and cultural and ethical implications are imposed on their freedom.

The passage reports what happens rather than what ought to happen: honour killings, denial of education and freedom, violence and abuse, and girls treated as temporary people who will cease to exist for their fathers once married. That is a description of cultural constraint and accepted violence. The options about equal rights bringing progress or about hope for the future are recommendations and predictions the passage never makes.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Art is defined as a form of human expression of a creative nature.

Although the passage opens by noting that many argue art cannot be defined, it then supplies one: the deliberate arranging of elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions, across music, literature, film, sculpture and painting. Deliberate arrangement is creative, and the range listed is human expression. The options about external rules and about art attaining nothing except through art itself say the opposite of what the passage does.