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Answers
: SECTION-III |
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DIRECTIONS for
questions 96 to 145: Read
the following Passage and answer the question that follows.
PASSAGE –1
Any analysis
of the New Wave unorthodoxy must in the end boil down to an
analysis of the methods of Jean-Luc Godard.
Godard decided that film could be made cheaply and quickly,
and then set out boldly to work out what conventional items of
expense could be dispensed with without destroying the
essential purity of the art form.
In effect, this was a fresh exploration of the
fundamentals of film making, and it involved the questioning
of all known methods and trying out new ones in their places.
As Breathless and subsequent films proved, Godard was
perfectly justified in applying rough and ready methods to
film which dealt basically with unconventional people in an
unconventional era. In
other words, the Godard form grew out of the Godard content,
and the Godard content has always embraced some aspect of contemporary European youth –
journalist, soldier, prostitute, working girl, intellectual
– caught in the whirl of modern living.
The syntax is new, the pace and rhythm are new , the
conception of narrative is new.
Godard is the first director in the history of the cinema to
have totally dispensed with what is known as the plot line.
Indeed, it would be right to say that Godard has
devised a totally new genre for the cinema.
This genre cannot be defined, it can only be described.
It is a collage of story, tract, newsreel, reportage,
quotations, allusions, commercial short, and straight TV
interview – all related to a character or a set of
characters firmly placed in a precise contemporary milieu.
A cinema of the head and not of the heart, and
therefore , a cinema of the minority.
The means by which Godard is able to discard plot by doing
away with the kind of obligatory scenes which would set the
audience speculating on possible lines of development.
This forces one not to anticipate but only to watch and
absorb.
Let me give an example. Masculine-Feminine
opens in a restaurant where a by and a girl, sitting at
separate tables set at least twenty feet apart, strike up an
acquaintance,. They
talk, but since the camera is t a distance from them, and
since there is heavy traffic on the street outside (seen
through the glass door), we do not make out what they are
saying. Godard
here reverses convention by keeping the noise of the traffic
deliberately and, if I may say so, realistically, above the
level of conversation. This
goes on for some time when suddenly a man gets up from another
table, walks out of the restaurant, and is immediately
followed by a woman who takes out a pistol from her handbag
and shoots him down at point-blank range.
The boy and the girl make some inaudible comments on
this, and the scene ends.
It remains to add that the boy and the girl continue to
be the focal point of the film, while the murder is never
brought up again.
At a cursory viewing, it would be
easy to dismiss the scene as pointless and incoherent.
But on second thoughts (or perhaps second viewing), it
might begin to dawn on one that the scene not only presents
actuality in a more truthful way than one is used to in the
cinema, but it also makes some valid comments on our life and
times. Film grammar tells us that essentials should be stressed, and
enumerates the various audio-visual ways of doing so; but what
if a director has a totally new angle on what is essential and
what is not? In
the scene just described, what has been established beyond
dispute is that a boy and a girl met in a restaurant and
talked. What they
said is, to Godard, inessential.
It is also established
that while they sat taking a woman murdered a man
(Husband? Lover? – inessential) within their sight.
Now, it is customary for directors to arrange
background action for their scenes where such action is called
for. This usually
takes the form of unobtrusive but characteristic bits of
business which make up- a credible atmosphere without
disturbing the main lines of action in the foreground.
But what if someone uses an extremely violent bit of
action in the background, if only to suggest that we live in
an age where violence is all around us?
And the youthful pair’s apparent unconcern – does
it not suggest the apathy to violence which can grow out of a
prolonged exposure to a climate of extreme violence?
It is important to
note that with Godard the reversal of convention is not a
gimmick or an affectation, but a positive and meaningful
extension of the film language.
Godard is fully aware that he treads on dangerous ground when
he drops all pretence of telling a story.
But being as much concerned about the audience as
anybody else, he provides attractive handholds for them to
latch on to in the absence of a story line.
Among these are the telling details which breathe life
into the shorts, superb action from all the performers (stars
even-for what else is Jean Paul Belmondo?), and quick changes
of mood achieved with wit, grace and style.
In
his recent films, Godard has sacrificed art for politics; but
even in his best and most characteristic early works, h has
been a bad model for young directors simply because his kind
of cinema demands craftsmanship of the highest order, let
alone various other equipment on an intellectual plane.
In order to turn a convention upside down, one needs a
particularly firm grip on convention itself.
This Godard had, thanks to years of assiduous film
studying at the Cinematheque in Paris. Those who have seen his first short story film Every Man is Called Patrick now what a sure grasp
of narrative he had before he made Breathless. |
Question
96. |
Godard’s films in a chronological order as suggested
in the passage is
A. Masculine-Feminine,
Breathless, Every Man is Called Patrick
B. Every Man is Called Patrick, Masculine-Feminine, and
Breathless
C. Breathless, Masculine-Feminine, Every Man is called
Patrick
D. None of the above
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Question
97. |
Godard’s films
are unconventional/innovative because
A. he had his own unique style of filmmaking
B. he made optimum use
of film as a visual art
C. his films are set in contemporary times
D. he made optimum use of his budgets
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Question
98. |
What qualities of a Godard film do audiences find
interesting?
A. Watching
his films require a concentrated effort
B. They can watch the film from any point – they don’t have to watch from the
beginning
C. They throw up a lot of disconcerting questions about
violence
D. They are very visual and thus a viewer’s delight
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99. |
Godard is not an ideal role model for filmmakers
because
A. he concentrated more on the polities of the times
B. his films cater only to an intelligent audience
C. he believes in enlivening every singly shot at the cost
of sequence
D. One needs to be a genius with/in film formulae
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100. |
This
passage is
A. descriptive
B. analytical
C. argumentative
D. fictitious
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101. |
91.
Which of the following statements can be deduced from
the passage?
Godard’s
films:
A] are an ideal for upcoming directors.
B] have mass
appeal
C] are
a commentary on contemporary lifestyle.
D]
are a study in film narrative
A. C & D
B. A & B
C. only C
D. none of the above
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102. |
In the example of Masculine-Feminine, following the
‘convention’ would have meant
A. increasing the violence in the action in background
B. reducing the noise level of the traffic
C. having unrelated but interesting action in the
background
D. having directly related but uninteresting action in the
background
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Question
103. |
“The Godard form grew out of the Godard content”
From this statement we can deduce that
A. Godard first works on a story line and then style
B. Godard’s films are unconventional
C. Godard’s film language is born of his unconventional
subject
D. Godard makes films according to the availability of
equipment
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104. |
The
scene in the film wouldn’t have made sense if
A. the girl ran up to the murdered man
B. the boy cheers the woman
C. the rest of the movie focuses on why the woman turned
murderer
D. all of the above
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105. |
If the girl had fainted after witnessing the murder
A. the film could be a murder mystery
B. the film would be a comedy
C. the film would be a romantic suspense
D. cannot be said
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PASSAGE
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Contemporary
New York is raucously multi-ethnic and
post-Christian, a site for the worship of Mammon and
Dionysus rather that of the baby Jesus.
Specifically Christian notes, in fact, are rare in the
city’s seasonal decorations.
Long gone are the days when the Jewish owners of
emporiums like Bloomingdale’s and Stern’s made creches,.
With tenderly smitten shepherds and resplendent gift-bearing
magi the centerpiece of their display windows, Snowmen,
reindeer, and the silvery sparkle of artificial frost signify
the season with an unobjectionable minimalism.
Symbolized by Santa Claus, evergreens, angels, and
baubles, Christmas belongs to everyone. In his novel the Counterlife Phillip Roth
Salutes Irving Berlin for having brilliantly
secularized the two major
Christian holidays with two popular songs, “white
Christmas” and “Easter Parade”, that leave Christ quite
out of it.
Christmas in
New York offers foreign tourists an excellent study in the
accommodations of the American melting pot.
One fourth of the new Yorkers are Jewish; Jewish energy
and cleverness and warmth set the city’s tone, or, rather,
have conformed to and strengthened a tone that was always
there, a tone of
mercantile brashness that was haughtily noted by Bostonians
and Philadelphians while the colonies were still ruled by a
king across the ocean. The
eight days of Hanukkah have been blended with Christmas into
“holiday season”, and the Hanukkah menorach and the Nordic
pine tree have merged wit the camels carrying the magi across
the Sinai peninsula and Tiny Time and Rudolph
the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a welter of acceptable
Christmas imagery, available to window-dressers as elements of
the message intended to excite holyday spending.
New
York is also home to one of the world’s greatest
concentrations of people of sub-Saharan Africans blood, and
black-faced Santa Clauses, in white beards and mustaches, can
be seen on may a street corner.
How many of these are, behind their beards, black
Muslims does not bear looking into.
In an age of weakening Christian orthodoxy, the
vigorous dogmas of political correctness and ethnic diversity
an enforced everywhere. Of
two ten-foot wooden soldiers standing guard on the south side
or Rockefeller Center, one was female and one was black.
Snowmen, once a common symbol of the season, have
become, in their unalterable whiteness, something of an
embarrassment, though a few survive. |
Question
106. |
“Contemporary New York is raucously multi-ethnic and
post Christian, a site for worship of Mammon and Dionysus
rather than of the baby Jesus. “what does this statement
mean?
A. New Yorkers no longer celebrate Christmas for religious
reasons along
B. New Yorkers are mostly non-Christians who worship Pagan
gods
C. Christmas in new York is not celebrated for religious
reasons
D. [B] & [C]
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107. |
Which of the following symbols are essentially Jewish?
A. Hanukkah menorah, camels carrying the magi across the
Sinai peninsula
B. Nordic pine tree and Hanukkah menorah
C. Tiny Tim and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
D. All of the above
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Question
108. |
“Snowmen, reindeer and the silvery sparkle of
artificial frost signify the season with an unobjectionable
minimalism"”(Para 1).
from this statement we can infer that
A. the author regrets the loss of artistic diligence of
the past
B. window dressers do not feel the need to use detailed
religious themes for Christmas
C. display window use either of this symbols to indicate
Christmas
D. all of the above
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109. |
According to the passage what
are the reasons for New York Christmas being a secular
festival?
A. Weakening Christian orthodoxy
B. Commercialization where profitability is priority
C. Political correctness
D. All the above
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110. |
Phillip Roth salutes
Irving Berlin because
A. two of his popular songs secularized two otherwise
Christian holidays
B. ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Easter Parade’ are not
hymns
C. he popularised two of his songs
D. all of the above
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Question
111. |
Which of the following statements are not from the
passage? A. Snowmen are
no longer a popular Christmas symbol
B. In the past, hews did take part in the Christmas spirit
C. White Christmas is the popular anti racist song
D. New York Christmas is an excellent example of
secularity |
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112. |
Which of the following statements can be deduced from
the passage?
A. The majority
influential Jews have managed to combine their festival
Hanukkah and Christmas to come up with marketing over-drive of
a holiday season
B. The Jewish business community strengthen the already
existing tone of mercantile brashness
C. The majority Jewish community is responsible for the
growing Commercialization of Christmas
D. None of the above
A. A
& B
B. B & C
C. only C
D. only D
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113. |
Which of the following statements of the author has
definite racist undertones?
A. Of two ten foot wooden soldiers standing guard on the south
side of Rockefeller Center, one was female and one was black
B. Jewish energy and cleverness and warmth set the cities
tone, or rather, have confirmed to and
strengthened to tone that was always there a tone
of a mercantile brashness
C. Snowmen, once the common symbol of the season, have become,
in their unalterable whiteness, some thing of an
embarrassment, though a few survive
D. How many of these are behind their beards, black Muslims
does not bear looking into.
In an age of weakening Christian orthodoxy, the
vigorous dogmas of political correctness and ethnic diversity
are enforced everywhere
A. only A
B. only B
C. C & D
D. none of these
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114. |
The tone of the passage is
A. critical
B. racist
C. nostalgic
D. optimistic
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Question
115. |
In this passage the author
A. congratulates New Yorkers on making Christmas a secular
festival
B. misses the traditional ways of celebrating Christmas
C. gives examples of Christmas turning into a marketing orgy which then necessarily needs to
be secular and politically correct
D. all
of the above
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Question
116. |
“Christmas in New York offers foreign tourists an
excellent study in the accommodations of the American melting
pot.” What does
the underlined word mean in the context of the passage?
A. board
B. adapt
C. contain
D. adjust
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PASSAGE –3
At the stroke of midnight on 14 August, when the rest of India
gets set to celebrate the country’s 50th
anniversary of Independence, one group of businessmen will
turn uncharacteristically morose:
seafood exporters.
For that is the precise hour when their prospects of a
bountiful future will come under new pressure as an EU ban on
Indian seafood exports takes effect.
At Rs.4,100 crore, seafood may constitute only 4 per
cent of India’s total exports, but following the end of the
Kerala government’s ban on trawling during the monsoon
months, the sector was poised for a big recovery.
Nothing
could have better illustrated the history of Indian trade over
the last five decades. Just
when you think the worst is behind you, up springs another
hurdle. So even
though total exports may have swelled from Rs.647 crore in
1951 (the first year for which detailed figures are available)
to Rs.108,478 crore in 1996, and imports from Rs.650
crore to Rs.131,944 crore, India commands a mere 1.02 per cent
of world trade.
At Rs. 201
crore in 1951, cotton made-ups led Indian exports, followed by
goods manufactured from jute (Rs.111 crore) and tea (Rs.80
crore). Today,
none of these figures in the list6 of top exports. Instead, gems and jewellery, ready-made garments and
engineering goods dominate.
But the composition of imports has remained constant
over the year, with capital goods and oil and petroleum
products ranking high.
The late 1950s
saw the opening up of new export markets.
Indian goods went out for the first time to countries
like Norway, Sweden and Latin America.
Simultaneously, official socialist passions stressed
import substitution and restrictive trade policies.
As a result, imports of items like machinery and
transport equipment, textile fibres, iron, steel and cereals
decreased.
The truly
marked change in Indian trade occurred in 1967, after the
Indian rupee depreciated by 33 per cent.
That year’s exports jumped to Rs.1,157 crore from the
previous year’s Rs.810 crore, while imports rose from
Rs.1,409 crore to Rs.2,078 crore.
Yet, exports of traditional items (tea, jute, textiles,
tobacco) did not grow as much since the demand for them
overseas was inelastic. The
Ministry of International Trade, the precursor of today’s
Ministry of Commerce, launched a number of export promotion
measures like export credit at concessional prices,
supply of key inputs at international prices, duty
drawback and freight concessions.
The movement of international crude oil prices has had a major
impact on Indian trade. Just
when the balance had started shifting in India’s favor came
the oil shock of the early 1970s.
India’s oil and petroleum products bill more than
doubled, from Rs.204 crore in 1973 to Rs.560 crore in 1974.
When oil prices leaped again in 1981, the import bill
jumped to Rs.5,263 crore, 42 percent of the total value of
Indian imports, accounting for 90 per cent of the trade
deficit. But when
crude oil prices dipped sharply in 1986, the oil import bill
fell by about 55 per cent.
Similar
fluctuations have been observed in Indo-Russian trade.
This was important for strategic and defence, rather
than economic, considerations.
Even at their zenith in the mid-1980s, exports to
Russia were merely around Rs.2,400 crore and imports around
Rs.1,200 crore. But
when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, several Indians
dealing with Russia, particularly Calcutta-based jute and tea
exporters, were wiped out of business
Frequent
swings between ecstasy and despondency-that has been the story
of Indian trade in the last 50 years. The traders blame it all
on the lack of government encouragement, abysmal
infrastructure and a deep-rooted conspiracy by OECD countries
to slam the door on their faces.
Yet,
never will they admit that their products sorely need to be
improved. The EU
ban , for example, came about because cholera germs were
detected in some of the shrimp consignments shipped out.
Clearly, Indian exporters have suffered because they
have neglected that most magical of mantras: quality.
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Question
117. |
On 14th August 1997, the Indian seafood
exporters were elated because
A. Kerala had lifted the ban on trawling during the
monsoons but were worried about the EU ban of Indian seafood
B. the Kerala government had lifted the ban on trawling so
they were looking forward for a big recovery
C. their exports which constituted only 4 percent were
poised for a big recovery
D. none of the above
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Question
118. |
Which
of the following statements follow from the passage?
A. India started exporting seafood in 1951
B. Indian seafood exporters have a data bank of figures
since 1951
C. There has not been a detailed compilation of figures
for Indian exports prior to
1951
D. B & C
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119. |
Which of the following statements do not follow from
the passage?
A. There is a change in the export trend since 1951
B. There has been a major shift in the composition of imports since 1951
C. There has been a shift in the composition of exports
since 1951
D. Socialist India has always implemented restrictive
trade policies
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120. |
In the 50s, official socialist passion led to
A. India exporting cotton ready-mades, jute and tea to
Norway, Sweden and Latin America
B. an increase of Rs.201 crores in exports
C. import of only capital goods oil petroleum
D. none of the above
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Question
121. |
Which of the following statements best describes Indian
trade in 1967?
A. The Ministry of International Trade launched a number
of export promotion measures because of the increase in
income from exports
B. India was still exporting traditional items like tea,
jute, textile and tobacco
C. Through demand for Indian exports did not increase,
planners saw a rise in income from exports due to the Rupee
depreciation
D. Indian exports
rose from Rs.1,409 crores to Rs.2,078 crores
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Question
122. |
The Ministry of International Trade launched a number
of export promotion measures
A. because demand for Indian exports remained the same
even though the rupee had depreciated
B. as the jump in exports in 1967 was not high enough
C. to discourage imports
D. to encourage imports of items like machinery and
transport equipment.
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123. |
Which of
the following statements describes best Indian economy’s
budgetary dependence on International crude oil prices
A. The trade deficit is
in equal proportion to crude oil prices
B. Since crude oil tops the list of Indian imports, in
1981, the total value accounted to 42%
C. The reduction of crude oil prices in 1986 left Indian
Planners ecstatic
D. All of the
above
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Question
124. |
Indian exports
overall have suffered in the last 50 years because of
A. India’s restrictive trade policy which led to heavy
crude oil imports and the ire of OECD countries
B. Indian exporters neglect of quality of goods
C. the policy makers concentration on strengthening Indo
Russian trade even through it did not make economic sense
D. all the above
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125. |
What is the author’s proposition in this passage?
A. The movement of international oil prices has had a
major impact on Indian trade
B. Just when you think the worst is behind, up springs
another hurdle
C. Indian exporters have suffered because they have
neglected that most magical of mantras: quality
D. Frequent swings between ecstasy and despondency-that
has been the story the Indian trade in the last fifty years
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Question
126. |
Even at their zenith in the mid 1980’s exports to
Russia were merely around Rs.2400 crore and imports around
Rs.1200 crore. What
does this example prove?
A. In the mid 1980’s even when Indo-Russian trade was at
its peak, the income was significant enough to make a
difference to the trade deficit
B. Economic policy makers were short sighted in
encouraging Indo Russian trade
C. Economic policy makers were short sighted in
encouraging Indo Russian trade
D. Soviet union collapse in 1980 led to a loss of business
for many Indian business men
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PASSAGE – 4
Many Netizens
will admit to having had a magical, near-orgasmic experience
when they first came online.
Being directly in touch with other people in another
part of the world, being able to see and interact with their
online representation of themselves, has been known to prompt
and adrenaline rush alongside feelings, of warmth and empathy-
a marvellous combination of responses which has largely eluded
the counterculture in 50 years of searching for just this sort
of high.
But the ‘one world’ feeling seems to operate according
to a law of diminishing returns.
Each time the Netizen goes online, the more the
experience tends to become unexceptional.
The same goes for the Internet industry as a whole.
Already it
has recognised that the experience of simply being on the
Internet is no longer a marketable commodity.
Increasingly, the industry is concerned with the
content of what’s online, rather than trying to sell the
novelty of just
being there.
Some commentators have referred to this process as
‘desensitization’, and inferred that we should feel a little
bit guilty for allowing ourselves to become jaded so quickly.
But how else could it be?
The
initial moment of online joy is surely an expression of the
desire in each and every one of us to escape our mutual
alienation and reconnect with each other. This in turn is a reflection of the universalizing potential
of the modern world – a world which is already connected,
albeit indirectly, through the global market; and which
carries within it the capacity to transcend itself by putting
all of its people into a direct and
creative relationship with each other.
However, this
potential is continually stifled by the particular
historical form of the society in which we live – a
society which prevents productive cooperation among the
majority except when such cooperation profits a privileged
minority: and which , as a consequence, also tends to promote
atomization and individuation.
Our experience of the Internet cannot help but be
shaped by this contradiction.
So it is that the more being online becomes part of
every day experience as lived in our anti-social society, the
more its universalizing potential tends to be obscured, and
even forgotten entirely.
Furthermore,
the ‘one world’ feeling is not unique to the Internet.
In the postwar period, it was thought that television
would promote a sense of interconnectedness.
‘Television offers the soundest basis for
world peace that has yet been presented’ , declared
Scientific American in June 1954.
‘Peace must be created on the bulwark of
understanding. International
television will knit together the peoples of the world in
bonds of mutual respect; its possibilities are vast indeed’.
Likewise, in
the first half of the twentieth century, the development of
the telephone network
provoked a similar response.
My father, who was brought up in rural Oxfordshire
around the time of the First World War, recalls that telephone
users would preface their conversations by asking ‘Are you
there?’ this question which now seems absurdly quaint, must
have been redolent with the sort of wonderment and naïve,
pleasure, which now surrounds our initial experiences online.
In each of
these historical instances, the personal experience of the
world in its interconnectedness has been a source of joy,
initially at least, to the individuals involved it.
But none of these pleasurable experiences was simple
the result of the new technology which facilitated it.
On he contrary, the successive technologies involved
were themselves dependent on the social relations which
predated them.
Long before TV
or even the telephone, the world was already ‘wired’
through the operation of the market (established in Europe and
he United States of America in the first half of the
nineteenth century) and
the international division of labour (established by means of
the externalizing dynamic of imperialism towards the end of
the nineteenth century).
On each occasion the connections which already existed
as a consequence of the social relations of production were
intensified by the introduction of new technology. But in our antisocial society, the intensification of our
connectedness also has the contradictory effect of further
obscuring social relations and emphasizing our alienation.
The shift in
the perceived role of television, from the expectation
of social coherence and community building in the
fifties to the assumption that TV promotes atomization and
‘couch potato’ passivity in the nineties, bears
witness to this contradiction.
The culture surrounding the Internet, however, is the
social/anti-social space where the contradiction between the
universal and the particular finds its most intense
expression.
It often happens that individuals go online with the avowed
intention of opening themselves up to a new range of
experiences. But
from the point of view of the particular individual, the sheer
volume of postings on the Internet seems imponderable.
So what can you do but scale down the range of sites
you may consider visiting?
And in this scaling down, what tends to get left out
are those sites which do not interest you when there is so
much else out there, including stuff which fits your
intellectual profile like a data glove.
In
other words, the Netizen may set out travel the digital world
by the most popular route turns out to be the path to his own
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Question
127. |
What is the process of desensitization of a Netizen?
A. The process by which a Netizen gets used to connecting
with people and stops meeting them
B. The point at which ‘one world’ feeling stops
operating
C. The process by which each time a Netizen accesses the
Net, there is a reduction in the novelty and interest
D. not explained in the passage
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Question
128. |
In the statement (Para 5) “Our experience of the Internet cannot help but be shaped
by this Contradiction”.
What is the contradiction?
A. The initial moments of online joy later turn to
disappointment
B. The internet has the potential of the internet to allow
human society to come together and work for the betterment of
mankind. Instead
a few vested interests thwart such efforts
C. The global market has the potential to allow human
society to come together and work for the betterment of
mankind. Instead
a few vested interests thwart such efforts
D. all of the above
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Question
129. |
“Are you there?” – if taken as a symbol of 20th
century technology it would mean
A] anxiety
B] peace and
mutual respect
C] wonderment and
naïve pleasure
D]
man’s eternal quest to find new worlds, to reach out
to the far beyond
A. A& B
B. only B
C. C&D
D. only D
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130. |
“The culture surrounding the Internet, however, is
the social/anti-social space where the contradiction between
the universal and the particular finds its most intense
expression”. In
this statement in Para 10 what is the contradiction?
A. As soon as a netizen is on the net he is cut off from
the real world
B. A netizen
is not able to surf every single website on the net
C. A netizen makes his choice to surf only those websites
which interest him.
Thus joining a group of people with similar idealogies
D. All of the
above
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Question
131. |
In this passage, the author is talking about
A. the net paves the way leading to your own backyard
B. the latest innovation – the web site has had the same
effect as television, of promoting atomization and
individuation because of our anti social attitudes
C. our anti social attitudes have led 20th
century innovations to narrowing our horizon
D. all of the above
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132. |
Which of the following statements cannot be directly
inferred from the passage?
A] Social relations all over the world were
defined by production and markets.
B] Foreign trade,
labour specializations lead to prioritising quality control
C] People
realised the potential of new technologies that could make
life easier.
D]
Social relations across the world changed as a direct result
of the introduction of technology
A. A & D
B. all of the above
C. B & C
D. only B
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133. |
What led
to inventions like telephones and television?
A. These inventions were too hard to resist and became
popular because they were means of
pleasure
B. The need to the wired to bring together the ‘new and
the development worlds
C. To speed up operations within the western world and
reduce distances
D. To supply cheap labor to the imperialist countries
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134. |
The author begins the passage by discussing cyber space
and moves on to television and telephones because
A. all of them brought the entire world into your backyard
B. all of them helped in globalisation of
a fragmented world
C. all of them were pleasurable experiences
D. the consequence on society contradicts the initial
reasons for their introduction, in all the cases
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135. |
The extract is probably taken from
A. a book on the internet
B. a sociology book
C. a text book on contemporary social history
D. not clear from the passage
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136. |
Which quote, illustrates best, the proposition of this
passage?
A. The one world feeling seems to operate according to a
law of diminishing returns
B. The culture surrounding the internet, however, is the
social/anti-social space where the contradictions between the
universal and the particular finds its most intense expression
C. The Netizen may set out travel the digital world but
the most popular route turns out to be the path to his own
backyard
D. Increasingly, the
industry is concerned with the content of what’s on line,
rather than trying sell the novelty of just being there
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PASSAGE
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What does it mean to simulate something?
According to Baudrillard.
“To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has.
To simulate is to feign to have what one hasn’t.”
More than this , he says, “simulation threatens the
difference between ‘true’ and ‘false’ between
‘real’ and ‘imaginary’. Simulations can have powerful effects on our senses and
constructions of reality.
Umberto Eco illustrates this with his description and
analysis of Marine World in San Diego Zoo:
The
symbolic center of Marine World is the Ecology Theater where
you sit in a comfortable amphitheater (and if you can’t sit,
the polite but implacable hostess will make you, because
everything must proceed in a smooth and orderly fashio0n and
you can’t sit where you choose, but if possible next to the
latest to be seated, so that the line can move properly and
everybody takes his place without pointless search), you face
a natural area arranged like a stage.
Here, there are three girls with long blond hair and a
hippie appearance; one
plays very sweet folk songs on the guitar, the other two show
us, in succession, a lion cub, a little leopard, and a Bengal
tiger only six months old.
The animals are on leashes, but even if they weren’t
they wouldn’t seem dangerous because of their tender age and
also because, thanks perhaps to a few poppy seeds in their
food , they are somewhat sleepy.
One of the girls explains that the animals,
traditionally ferocious, are actually quite good when they are
in a pleasant and friendly environment, and
she invites the children in the audience to come up on
state and pet them. The
emotion of petting a Bengal tiger isn’t an everyday
occurrence and the public
is spurting
ecological goodness from every pre.
From the pedagogical has a certain effect on the young
people, and surely it will tech them not to kill fierce
animals. Assuming
that in their later life they happen to encounter any.
But to achieve this ‘natural peace’ (as
an indirect allegory of social peace) great efforts had
to be made: the
training of the animals, the construction of an artificial
environment that seems natural, the preparation of the
hostesses who educate the public.
So the final essence of this apologue on the goodness
of nature is Universal Taming.
Killer
whale and dolphin pools are coming to possess many of the same
qualities. In
many modernistic “ dolphinariums”,
constructed in 1970s or thereabouts, a concrete pool
painted in garish blue, with clear, sweeping lines and
expansive vistas, contains the dolphins, which are made to
bounce colored balls, jump through hoops, and somersault over
sticks by their youthful, brightly dressed, California
surfer-style trainers. Here
nature is visibly subjugated.
Tamed and arguably even improved by the triumph of
human technology.
In
the post modern dolphinarium at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium,
however, the pool is surrounded on three sides by huge windows
so the audience look out onto
and feel and inclusive part of what they imagine to be
the ocean, even though it is only Lake Michigan, in which a
dolphin could never live.
The vast oceanarium of which the dolphin pool is a part
consists of sophisticated reconstruction of the Pacific
Northwest complete with timber, islands board-walks, bird
calls, and the like. This
is more like the Pacific Northwest than the Pacific Northwest
itself. Members
of the audience perch on rough-hewn steps, seemingly carved
out of the vary cliffs abutting the pool.;
the dolphins still do somersaults, slap their tails,
and open their jaws on command, but now their quietly spoken, wet-suited and
“ecologically correct” trainers assure us that all this
behavio9r is “natural”, that they tell the dolphins not
what to do, only
when to do it. More
than this, they say, having the dolphins open their jaws on
command makes it less stressful when they need to have their
teeth checked, just as cuddling the dolphins out of the water
makes it easier to administer injections when they are sick-
all in the interest of their health and natural development,
of course. (Just
one day after I first drafted this paragraph, two of the
Aquarium’s recently captured Beluga whales died after
receiving routine injections!)
The
dolphins are doing the same tricks as captive dolphins always
have – but the simulated imagery gives their behavior a very
different meaning. This
simulation of nature, its order and goodness, it achieved only
by dissimulating the capture, control and containment of the
animals which make the experience possibly even unentertaining
behavior in which these animals might otherwise indulge if
left to their own desires.
This
postmodern phenomenon of safe simulation has a significance
that extends far beyond the
theatrical worlds of zoos, museums and theme parks.
Changing approaches to the in service training and
development of teachers have some disconcerting parallels with
changing approaches to the training of dolphins! This is most
evident in those activities in classrooms and staff rooms,
which involve creating a culture of cooperation and
collaboration among students, teachers, or both.
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137. |
Which of the following statements describe simulation?
A. Not to feign
to have what one hasn’t
B. To make believe that one has something when in
reality it isn’t so
C. The difference between real and imaginary is blurred
D. To make believe that one does not have something when
in reality one does
A. B & C
B. A & D
C. B, C & D
D. A & C
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138. |
91.
Love for nature at the Ecology Theater
A] is created
using artificial means
B] in reality
creates an unnatural peace.
C] introduces the
animals in their true light.
D]
teaches us not to kill ferocious animals
A. C & D
B. A, B & D
C. A & B
D. A,B &C
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139. |
Which of the following are examples of dissimulation?
A. Incident at Ecology Theater
B. Bengal tiger snaps at the audience
C. Dolphins being taught tricks for their own good
D. To think
you have a tame
animal when you actually have a wild one
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140. |
The author feels that the effects of using simulation
are far reaching because
A. soon our classrooms will be simulated environments where real world problems will be
controlled but not addressed
B. our classrooms will have more sports oriented
activities
C. teachers will issue
orders which students will unwillingly follow
D. none of the above
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141. |
The author condones
A. simulated learning
B. dissimulated learning
C. safe simulation
D. none of the above
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142. |
Where is
this extract probably taken from? A. A book on tourist attractions
B. A book on animal training
C. A book on education
D. A book on a new methods of teaching |
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143. |
The author gives the example of Chicago Shedd Aquarium
to illustrate that
A. training dolphins is essential for their own well being
B. simulated environs can fool an animal into behaving
normally
C. essentially, placing animals out of their
natural environments is harmful
D. none of the above
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144. |
The tone of the passage is
A. descriptive
B. analytical
C. critical
D. narrative
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145. |
Which of the following statements do not follow from
the passage?
A. The behavior of animals in simulated environs is
natural
B. Dolphinariums and marine theatres standardise animal
responses as enthusiastic and friendly
C. Safe simulation reaches new parameters in our
classrooms
D. Universal Taming is an indirect allegory of social
peace
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