Dear Readers,
As SSC CPO notification is out and candidates have started their preparation for this exam. Mahendras also has started special quizzes for this examination. This series of quizzes are based on the latest pattern of the SSC CPO examination. Regular practice of the questions included in the quizzes will boost up your preparations and it will be very helpful in scoring good marks in the examination.
Q1-2 Which of the following best expresses the meaning of the given Idiom/phrases and mark your answer.
Q1 TAKE TO
A. Accept something
B. Prove the wit
C. Form a habit
D. Solve the problem
Q2 SET FORTH
A. Suggest
B. Complain
C. Attribute
D. Discover
Q3-5 In the question given below out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence and mark it as your answer.
Q3 One who is a habitual drunkard
A. Honorary
B. Catholic
C. Debonair
D. Toper
Q4 One who is not virtuous but shows himself like
A. Imposter
B. Egotist
C. Egoist
D. Cannibal
Q5 One who hates war and loves peace
A. Optimist
B. Pessimist
C. Pacifist
D. Conservative
Q6-10 Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions.
The mind-body problem concerns the explanation of the relationship that exists between minds, or mental processes, and bodily states or processes. The main aim of philosophers working in this area is to determine the nature of the mind and mental states/processes, and how—or even if—minds are affected by and can affect the body.
Human perceptual experiences depend on stimuli which arrive at one’s various sensory organs from the external world and these stimuli cause changes in one’s mental state, ultimately causing one to feel a sensation, which may be pleasant or unpleasant. Someone’s desire for a slice of pizza, for example, will tend to cause that person to move his or her body in a specific manner and in a specific direction to obtain what he or she wants. The question, then, is how it can be possible for conscious experiences to arise out of a lump of grey matter endowed with nothing but electrochemical properties. A related problem is to explain how someone’s propositional attitudes (e.g. beliefs and desires) can cause that individual’s neurons to fire and his muscles to contract in exactly the correct manner. These comprise some of the puzzles that have confronted epistemologists and philosophers of mind from at least the time of René Descartes.
Q6 What perplexs the writer in the given passage?
A. How a neuron get stimulated seeing a slice of pizza.
B. How conscious experience can arise out of grey matter.
C. How someone propositional attitude can cause the neurons to fire and muscles to contract.
D. The nature of the mind and mental states/processes
Q7 Which of the following is not true according to the passage.
A. The main aim of philosophers is to determine the nature of the mind.
B. Conscious experiences arise out of a lump of grey matter.
C. Perceptual experiences depend on stimuli
D. Some of the puzzles have confronted epistemologists.
Q8 “The main aim of philosophers working in this area is to determine the nature of the mind”.
Which area is being talked about in the above statement?
A. Neurons and stimuli
B. Bodily and mental relationship
C. Conscious State of mind
D. Propositional attitudes.
Q9 What do we mean by the word “confronted?”
A. Surrender
B. Dodge
C. Challenge
D. Front
Q10 Where does the stimuli come from?
A. From Pizza
B. From Mind
C. From Sensory organ
D. From External world
Answers:-
Q.1 (3)
Q.2 (3)
Q.3 (4)
Q.4 (1)
Q.5 (3)
Q.6 (3)
Q.7 (4)
Q.8 (2)
Q.9 (3)
Q.10 (4)
