So, here we will provide you a set of 10 questions of English Language, important for SSC MTS exam.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Organizations are institutions in which members compete for status and power. They compete for the resources of the organization, for example, finance to expand their own departments, for career advancement and for power to control the activities of others. In pursuit of these aims, groups are formed and sectional interests emerge. As a result, policy decisions may serve the ends of the political and career systems rather than those of the concern. In this way, the goals of the organization may be displaced in favour of sectional interests and individual ambition. These preoccupations sometimes prevent the emergence of organic systems.
Many of the electronics firms in their study had recently created research and development departments employing highly qualified and well-paid scientists and technicians. Their high pay and expert knowledge were sometimes seen as a threat to the established order of rank, power and privilege. Many senior managers had little knowledge of the technicalities and possibilities of new developments and electronics. Some felt that close co-operation with the experts in an organic system would reveal their ignorance and show that their experience was now redundant.
Q1 The author makes out a case for:
A. research and development in organizations.
B. a refresher course for senior managers.
C. an understanding between senior and middle level executives.
D. organic system
Q2 The author tends to see the senior managers as
A. ignorant and incompetent.
B. jealous of their younger colleagues.
C. a little out of step with their work environment.
D. robbed of their rank, power and privilege.
Q3 ‘Organic system’, are related to the organization implies its:
A. natural and impeded growth
B. growth with inputs from science and technology.
C. growth with the help of expert knowledge.
D. steady all-round development.
Q4 Policy decisions in organization would involve:
A. modernization of the organization
B. co-operation at all levels in the organization.
C. attracting highly qualified personnel.
D. keeping in view the larger objectives of the organization.
Q5 The theme of the passage is
A. groupism in organizations.
B. frustration of senior managers.
C. individual ambitions in organizations.
D. emergence of sectional interests in organizations.
Q6 Choose the word most nearly the Similar in meaning to the word given in bold.
Repugnance
A. Approval
B. Affection
C. Like
D. Disinclination
Q7 Choose the word most nearly the Similar in meaning to the word given in bold.
Encumberance
A. Disturbance
B. Burden
C. Distraction
D. Hindrance
Q8 Choose the word most nearly the Similar in meaning to the word given in bold.
Virile
A. Vigorous
B. Boastful
C. Pompous
D. Athletic
Q9 Choose the word most nearly the Similar in meaning to the word given in bold.
Apologue
A. After thought
B. Ancient Legend
C. Moral fable
D. Explanation
Q10 Choose the word most nearly the Similar in meaning to the word given in bold.
Inanition
A. Silliness
B. Emptiness
C. Strictness
D. Passivity
Answers :-
Q.1 (4)
Q.2 (1)
Q.3 (2)
Q.4 (3)
Q.5 (4)
Q.6 (4)
Q.7 (2)
Q.8 (1)
Q.9 (2)
Q.10 (3)
