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As SSC CGL & MTS 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 CGL & MTS 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.
1-5. 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.
1 What perplex the writer here?
A. How a neuron gets 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
2 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.
3 “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 statement, given above?
A. Neurons and stimuli
B. Bodily and mental relationship
C. Conscious State of mind
D. Propositional attitudes.
4 What do we mean by the word “confronted?”
A. Surrender
B. Dodge
C. Challenge
D. Front
5 According to the passage where does the stimuli come from?
A. From Pizza
B. From Mind
C. From Sensory organ
D. From External world
6-10. In the following question, find out which part of a sentence has an error and mark corresponding to the appropriate letter (A, B, C). If there is no error mark (D) as your answer.
6 She regards (A)/ negotiating prices with customers (B)/ as her special expertise (C) No error.(D)
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
7 People are worried more because (A)/ of the frequency of the crime rate rather (B) than the magnitude of crime. (C) No error(D)
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
8 When he used to walk on (A)/ the road a wild and (B)/ ferocious dog knocked him down. (C)/ No error (D)
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
9 It was clear from the way (A)/ they were moving that all possessed (B)/ the required experience. (C) No error (D)
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
10 Very few people know (A)/ that the climate of Shimla (B)/ is better than Srinagar. (C)/ No error.(D)
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Answers:-
Q.1 (C)
Q.2 (D)
Q.3 (B)
Q.4 (C)
Q.5 (D)
Q.6 (D)
Q.7 (B)
Q.8 (A)
Q.9 (D)
Q.10 (C)
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