CAT VARC QUIZ 24

Direction for Reading Comprehension : Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
A yellow bird sings on the jamun tree and makes my morning walk a pleasure. I keep a lookout for the pair of hornbills that sometimes drift into my garden. Ten Rajaji Marg is my abode after Rashtrapati Bhavan. I am told that it once housed Edwin Lutyens, the architect of New Delhi.
Time passes like the wind, keeping me busy in teaching and research in India and aboard. The enthusiasm and resolve on the young faces I see in the classrooms gives me energy too.
The last few years have demonstrated to me the passionate desire of the people to realize the mission of a developed India and their commitment to contribute whatever they can. As I think back and revisit my presidential days some keys events come to mind. The events represent the diverse characteristics of this divers country, with its glorious past and challenging present. But one message is clear: India will be a developed nation by 2020.

What was the address of the author after Rastrapati Bhavan ?

Direction for Reading Comprehension : Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
A yellow bird sings on the jamun tree and makes my morning walk a pleasure. I keep a lookout for the pair of hornbills that sometimes drift into my garden. Ten Rajaji Marg is my abode after Rashtrapati Bhavan. I am told that it once housed Edwin Lutyens, the architect of New Delhi.
Time passes like the wind, keeping me busy in teaching and research in India and aboard. The enthusiasm and resolve on the young faces I see in the classrooms gives me energy too.
The last few years have demonstrated to me the passionate desire of the people to realize the mission of a developed India and their commitment to contribute whatever they can. As I think back and revisit my presidential days some keys events come to mind. The events represent the diverse characteristics of this divers country, with its glorious past and challenging present. But one message is clear: India will be a developed nation by 2020.

Who did use to live earlier at Ten Rajaji Marg before writer?

Direction for Reading Comprehension : Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
A yellow bird sings on the jamun tree and makes my morning walk a pleasure. I keep a lookout for the pair of hornbills that sometimes drift into my garden. Ten Rajaji Marg is my abode after Rashtrapati Bhavan. I am told that it once housed Edwin Lutyens, the architect of New Delhi.
Time passes like the wind, keeping me busy in teaching and research in India and aboard. The enthusiasm and resolve on the young faces I see in the classrooms gives me energy too.
The last few years have demonstrated to me the passionate desire of the people to realize the mission of a developed India and their commitment to contribute whatever they can. As I think back and revisit my presidential days some keys events come to mind. The events represent the diverse characteristics of this divers country, with its glorious past and challenging present. But one message is clear: India will be a developed nation by 2020.

what is the meaning of the word ‘drift’, according to the passage ?

Direction for Reading Comprehension : Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
A yellow bird sings on the jamun tree and makes my morning walk a pleasure. I keep a lookout for the pair of hornbills that sometimes drift into my garden. Ten Rajaji Marg is my abode after Rashtrapati Bhavan. I am told that it once housed Edwin Lutyens, the architect of New Delhi.
Time passes like the wind, keeping me busy in teaching and research in India and aboard. The enthusiasm and resolve on the young faces I see in the classrooms gives me energy too.
The last few years have demonstrated to me the passionate desire of the people to realize the mission of a developed India and their commitment to contribute whatever they can. As I think back and revisit my presidential days some keys events come to mind. The events represent the diverse characteristics of this divers country, with its glorious past and challenging present. But one message is clear: India will be a developed nation by 2020.

What message is clear about India ?

Direction for Reading Comprehension: The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life.
A man is rewarded according to his thoughts and motives. The lord is like Kalpataru, the wish-yielding tree of heaven. Everyone gets from him whatever he seeks. A poor man’s son, having received education and become a judge of the High Court by hard work, is apt to think, ‘now I am happy. I have reached the highest rung of the ladder. It is all right now.’ To him the lord says,’do thou remain so.’ But when the judge of High Court retires on pension and reviews his past, he understands that he has wasted his life, and exclaims, ‘Alas, what real work have I done in this life!’ To him the Lord also says, ‘Alas ! What hast thou done!’

Direction for Reading Comprehension: The passage given here are followed by some question that have four answer choices; read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life.
A man is rewarded according to his thoughts and motives. The lord is like Kalpataru, the wish-yielding tree of heaven. Everyone gets from him whatever he seeks. A poor man’s son, having received education and become a judge of the High Court by hard work, is apt to think, ‘now I am happy. I have reached the highest rung of the ladder. It is all right now.’ To him the lord says,’do thou remain so.’ But when the judge of High Court retires on pension and reviews his past, he understands that he has wasted his life, and exclaims, ‘Alas, what real work have I done in this life!’ To him the Lord also says, ‘Alas ! What hast thou done!’

Direction for Reading Comprehension: Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life.
A man is rewarded according to his thoughts and motives. The lord is like Kalpataru, the wish-yielding tree of heaven. Everyone gets from him whatever he seeks. A poor man’s son, having received education and become a judge of the High Court by hard work, is apt to think, ‘now I am happy. I have reached the highest rung of the ladder. It is all right now.’ To him the lord says,’do thou remain so.’ But when the judge of High Court retires on pension and reviews his past, he understands that he has wasted his life, and exclaims, ‘Alas, what real work have I done in this life!’ To him the Lord also says, ‘Alas ! What hast thou done!’

How does a man get rewarded ?

Direction for Reading Comprehension: Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life.
A man is rewarded according to his thoughts and motives. The lord is like Kalpataru, the wish-yielding tree of heaven. Everyone gets from him whatever he seeks. A poor man’s son, having received education and become a judge of the High Court by hard work, is apt to think, ‘now I am happy. I have reached the highest rung of the ladder. It is all right now.’ To him the lord says,’do thou remain so.’ But when the judge of High Court retires on pension and reviews his past, he understands that he has wasted his life, and exclaims, ‘Alas, what real work have I done in this life!’ To him the Lord also says, ‘Alas ! What hast thou done!’

What is the context of this lines “Alas! What hast thou done! According to the passage ?

Direction for Reading Comprehension : Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
A yellow bird sings on the jamun tree and makes my morning walk a pleasure. I keep a lookout for the pair of hornbills that sometimes drift into my garden. Ten Rajaji Marg is my abode after Rashtrapati Bhavan. I am told that it once housed Edwin Lutyens, the architect of New Delhi.
Time passes like the wind, keeping me busy in teaching and research in India and aboard. The enthusiasm and resolve on the young faces I see in the classrooms gives me energy too.
The last few years have demonstrated to me the passionate desire of the people to realize the mission of a developed India and their commitment to contribute whatever they can. As I think back and revisit my presidential days some keys events come to mind. The events represent the diverse characteristics of this divers country, with its glorious past and challenging present. But one message is clear: India will be a developed nation by 2020.

What does make the writer energetic ?

Direction for Reading Comprehension: Read the passage carefully and pick the option whose answer best aligns with the passage.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life.
A man is rewarded according to his thoughts and motives. The lord is like Kalpataru, the wish-yielding tree of heaven. Everyone gets from him whatever he seeks. A poor man’s son, having received education and become a judge of the High Court by hard work, is apt to think, ‘now I am happy. I have reached the highest rung of the ladder. It is all right now.’ To him the lord says,’do thou remain so.’ But when the judge of High Court retires on pension and reviews his past, he understands that he has wasted his life, and exclaims, ‘Alas, what real work have I done in this life!’ To him the Lord also says, ‘Alas ! What hast thou done!’

What is the meaning of Kalpataru ?