UPPSC Pre / ACF / RFO Pre exam paper 11 October 2020 – Paper 2 (Official Answer Key)

Instruction for Question Nos. 21 to 25 :

Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions that follows:

Education is a device for helping a man to grow to his full stature. It enables him to realize his nature both mentally and spiritually and in that realization to become all that he has it in him to be. It is to the child what perfect gardening is to the tree, a help so to grow that it may develop its own personality. A good gardener helps each plant to put forth that essential quality of its own that differentiates it from all other plants and makes it a thing of use and beauty in the world. The good education performs a similar office for the human being. To the man of trained faculties and developed tastes the world becomes literally a larger place, larger and the more exciting. He is able to see in it more beauty, more variety, more scope for his sympathy and understanding than ne saw before. So far as the understanding of the universe is concerned while education diminishes certainly of mnat is, it widens his sense of the possibilities of what may be and transforms the world from humdrum scene of Orkshop, factory and office to a universe of mystery and treasure house of beauty.

21. Education enables a man
(a) To realize his nature both mentally and spiritually
(b) To become a gardener
(c) To be physically strong
(d) To become a successful person

22. What an educated man is able to see in the world?
(a) Mountains, hills and bushes
(b) Roads, meadows and inns
(c) More beauty, more variety, more scope for his sympathy and understanding than he saw before
(d) Rivers, lakes and rocks

23. The passage “universe of mystery and a treasure house of beauty” means
(a) Helping a man to develop the best in him
(b) Universe full of mysterious and beautiful things
(c) Education of universe makes a man wise and beautiful
(d) Education of universe makes him bounteous and large hearted

24. What is the work of a good gardener ?
(a) To help each plant to take water
(b) To help each plant to put forth the essential quality of its own
(c) To help each plant to grow
(d) To help each plant to be green and healthy

25. The world becomes a larger place and the more exciting

(a) For a wrestler
(b) For a thief
(c) For a cheat
(d) For a man of trained faculties and developed tastes

26. In the sentence, “he finished the job at one go”, the word ‘go’ is
(a) Verb
(b) Noun
(c) Adverb
(d) Adjective

27. Change the sentence “I never eat meat, he explained” into indirect speech.
(a) He explains that I eat meat
(b) He explained to eat meat
(c) He explained that he never ate meat
(d) I explained that he never eats meat

28. The word ‘rendezvous’ means
(a) Endeavour
(b) A piace appointed for a meeting
(c) A secret place
(d) Adventure

29. Which of the following word is wrongly spelt?
(a) Correspondence
(b) Conscience
(c) Occurrence
(d) Conveneince

30. Change the sentence “let it be done at once” into active voice.
(a) Let it happen at once
(b) Do it atleast once
(c) Let it occur at once
(d) Do it at once

31. Punctuate the following sentence :
“Whatever is is right.”
(a) Whatever is Is right?
(b) Whatever. Is is right.
(c) Whatever is, is right.
(d) Whatever, is, is right

32. Choose the correct conjunction from the following options to complete the sentence :
“He got ____ he was ill”.
(a) Until
(b) Because
(c) Although
(d) If

33. “White elephant” means
(a) A rare object
(b) An uneconomical possession
(c) An object that does not exist
(d) A useful possession

34. Choose the correct synonym of the word ‘abominable’.
(a) Disgusting
(b) Cold
(c) Abusive
(d) Hot

35. ‘In the pipeline’ means
(a) In the process of being developed
(b) Partake
(c) Pinnacle
(d) Prions

36. संगठनात्मक सम्प्रेषण में निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा अन्तरवैयक्तिक अवरोध नहीं है ?
(a) प्रजाति केंद्रिता
(b) अर्थात्मकता
(c) अनुग्रहण
(d) छवि प्रबन्धन

37. सम्प्रेषण निष्कपटता का उच्चतम अंश पाया जाता है
(a) अनौपचारिक सम्प्रेषण में
(b) मेटा-सम्प्रेषण में
(c) प्रत्यक्ष सम्प्रेषण में
(d) अप्रत्यक्ष सम्प्रेषण में

38. निम्नलिखित में से कौन-सा व्यवहार सहकर्मियों के शाब्दिक अपशब्द को तितर-बितर करने में सर्वाधिक उपयुक्त है ?
(a) रक्षात्मक हो जाना।
(b) वाद विवाद में पड़ना
(c) हानिकारक भाषा को स्वीकार करने से इंकार
(d) आक्रामक देह भाषा बनाये रखना।

39. ‘सामीप्य’ (प्रोक्सेमिक्स) सम्बन्धित है
(a) तटस्थ सम्प्रेषण से
(b) एक दिशोन्मुख सम्प्रेषण से
(c) शाब्दिक सम्प्रेषण से
(d) अशाब्दिक सम्प्रेषण से

40. प्रभावी अन्तरवैयक्तिक सम्प्रेषण का मुख्य तत्त्व है
(a) अमूर्तता
(b) विसंवेदीकरण
(c) सक्रिय श्रवण
(d) आत्मकेन्द्रित सुदृढ़ीकरण