MCA Entrance Previous Year Question Bank

Read the passage carefully and answer the following question. Certain words/phrases in the passage are ITALICISED to help you to lосаtе them whide answering the question

The present industrial age is steadily placing into out hands power and instruments which are expected to relieve us of mechanical drudgery and give us more time for cultural and artistic pursuits. Machines have undoutitedly lightened human toil, but have also added somewhat to human misery. Modern industrialization based a minute subdivision of labor has rebbed the worker of the sense of beauty and craft. The craftsman has become a mechanic, a mere tool for the ends of greater production The development of intelligence and character which skillful creative work produces now sought in other activities. The workers seek their pleasure outside their work. They claim higher wages and more leisure and opportunities for recreation and relaxation. But the leisure won aftar so much effort is wasted in costly amusements. Leisure is seldom used for the noble pursuits of the mind. Besides, the industrial age has made us worshipers of wealth. In the social hierarchy, anyone who has the luck or the ability to make money occupies a high place. Before the industrial revolution, we had different standards of social valuation. Saints, men of learning, poets and philosophers were at the top of the social scale. The days when human values like honesty, sympathy, understanding justice and service were considered the most desirable qualities in man are over. Money making has become one of the most popular industries of the modern world and material progress has resulted in the creation of new wants. The consumer's appetite grows by what it feeds on. To want more and to get more is the way of material progress. By means of this exciting competition we are concealing from ourselves the barrenness of life, The most serious consequence of the industrial movement is the passing away of the home. We see it in many western countries. Parents pursue their own pleasures with little consideration of their duties to children. The poverty of an empty life drives children into undesintile channels. Unless some corrective measures adopted to reverse this trend, we may see in the not so distant future a total disintegration of the family According to the author, children go astray due to………

Read the passage carefully and answer the following question. Certain words/phrases in the passage are ITALICISED to help you to lосаtе them whide answering the question

The present industrial age is steadily placing into out hands power and instruments which are expected to relieve us of mechanical drudgery and give us more time for cultural and artistic pursuits. Machines have undoutitedly lightened human toil, but have also added somewhat to human misery. Modern industrialization based a minute subdivision of labor has rebbed the worker of the sense of beauty and craft. The craftsman has become a mechanic, a mere tool for the ends of greater production The development of intelligence and character which skillful creative work produces now sought in other activities. The workers seek their pleasure outside their work. They claim higher wages and more leisure and opportunities for recreation and relaxation. But the leisure won aftar so much effort is wasted in costly amusements. Leisure is seldom used for the noble pursuits of the mind. Besides, the industrial age has made us worshipers of wealth. In the social hierarchy, anyone who has the luck or the ability to make money occupies a high place. Before the industrial revolution, we had different standards of social valuation. Saints, men of learning, poets and philosophers were at the top of the social scale. The days when human values like honesty, sympathy, understanding justice and service were considered the most desirable qualities in man are over. Money making has become one of the most popular industries of the modern world and material progress has resulted in the creation of new wants. The consumer's appetite grows by what it feeds on. To want more and to get more is the way of material progress. By means of this exciting competition we are concealing from ourselves the barrenness of life,

The most serious consequence of the industrial movement is the passing away of the home. We see it in many western countries. Parents pursue their own pleasures with little consideration of their duties to children. The poverty of an empty life drives children into undesintile channels. Unless some corrective measures adopted to reverse this trend, we may see in the not so distant future a total disintegration of the family In the context of the passage,

which of the following statements is not applicable to the present-day workers?

Read the following short passage carefully and answer the following question. The avowed pupose of the exact sciences is to establish complete intellectual control over experience in terms of precise rules which can be formally set out and empirically tested. Could that ideal be fully achieved, all truth and all error could henceforth be ascribed to an exact theory of the universe, while we who accept this theory would be relieved of any occasion for exercising our personal judgement. We should only have to follow the rules faithfully. Classical mechanics approaches this ideal so closely that it is often thought to have achieved it. But this leaves out of account the element of personal judgement involved in apllying the formulae of mechanics to the fact of experience. The purpose of the exact sciences is to

Climate scientists argue that planting trees in urban areas can significantly reduce air pollution levels. They cite evidence showing that trees absorb hamful gases and particulate matter. However, some critics argue that urban tree planting programs are expensive and do not address the root causes of pollution, such as industrial emissions. Which of the following is a logical inference from the passage?