NTSE Sample Questions 2016-17 : Odisha Language (Stage-1)

Directions (1 – 5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it:

Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passions. It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to the human mind. It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men, for nothing but what comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry. Poetry is the universal  language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else. Wherever there is a sense of beauty or power or harmony as in the motion of a wave of the sea.\, in the growth of a flower, there is poetry in its birth.

1. Poetry is the language that stems from:
(A) the imagination                               (B) the passions
(C) the imagination and passions         (D) the intellect

2. Poetry relates to that matter:
(A) which gives nothing to human mind (B) which titillates human mind
(C) which irritates human mind (D) which gives immediate pleasure or pain to human mind

3. What can be a subject for poetry:
(A) that which comes in opaque shape (B) that which comes in the most general and intelligible shape
(C) that which comes in intangible shape (D) that which comes in particular shape

b. Poetry is the universal language because:
(A) the heart cannot hold with nature (B) the mind holds with itself
(C) the heart holds with nature and itself (D) the passion holds with itself

5. There is poetry in its birth wherever:
(A) there is a sense of beauty or power or harmony
(B) there is a chaotic scene
(C) there is music in high pitch
(D) there is disharmony and discord

Directions (6 – 10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it:
A gentleman is he who never inflicts pain. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as a parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal nature, like an easy chair or a good fire which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue, though nature provides both means of rest and animal heat without them.

6. A gentleman is he:
(A) who looks after himself (B) who behaves politely with others
(C) who never inflicts pain (D) who shies away

7. A gentleman is mainly occupied in:
(A) removing the obstacles which hinder free and unembarrassed action
(B) causing obstacles
(C) helping other people
(D) solving their problem

8. His benefits may be considered as a parallel to what are called comforts or convenience in arrangements of:
(A) a general nature (B) a social nature (C) a protective nature (D) a personal nature 

9. An easy chair and a good fire help in:
(A) diffusing fatigue (B) dispelling cold and fatigue
(C) generating comfort zone (D) provides coziness

10. Nature provides both means of rest and animal heat without:
(A) comforts and convenience (B) arrangements of personal nature
(C) a parallel (D) an easy chair or a good fire

Directions (11 – 15): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it:
To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness, it is really a sign of strength. It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance, but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged him and puts the wrong doer to shame. Forgiveness may even turn a foe into a friend. So mercy is the noblest form of revenge.

11. To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness because

(A) it is an act of piety and compassion
(B) it is easy to be carried away by resentment and hatred and indulge in an act of vengeance
(C) it is easy to suppress anger
(D) it is not easy to take revenge

12. To forgive an injury is really a sign of strength because
(A) a weak character likes it
(B) a character is not easily ever taken by resentment
(C) a character is not carried away by hatred
(D) a strong character restrains those natural passions

13. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior because
(A) he shows his generosity and puts the wrong doer to shame
(B) he is not easily provoked
(C) he who causes injury is inferior
(D) he is god fearing

14. A foe may be turned into a friend through
(A) vengeance (B) anger (C) forgiveness (D) ignorance

15. The noblest form of revenge is
(A) hatred (B) malice (C) mercy (D) vengeance

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