Critical Reasoning Questions with Solutions (Test 1)

Directions for Questions 1 to 10 : Read the information in each question given below and answer the question that follows:

Q1. But because the idea of private property has been permitted to override, with its selfishness, the common good of humanity, it
does not follow that there are not limits within which that idea can function for the general convenience and advantage. Which
of the following is most likely to weaken the argument?

Q2. The writer can only be fertile if he renews himself and he can only renew himself if his soul is constantly enriched by fresh
experience. Which of the following is most likely to support the above thought ?

Q3. Unless you devote your whole life to it, you will never learn to speak the language of another country to perfection; you will never know its people and its literature with complete intimacy. Which of the following is likely to undermine the above argument?

Q4. I have been studying it, consciously and subconsciously, for forty years and I still find men unaccountable; people I know
intimately can surprise me by some action of which I never thought them capable or by the discovery of some trait exhibit a side
of themselves that I never even suspected. The idea in this sentence can be best summarised as

Q5. Now the audience is very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. If these were graded from A to Z, decreasing with succeeding letters to the zero of the hysterical shop girl, I should say its mental capacity would come around about the letter O. According to the above statements

Q6. Efficiency is all right in its place, in the shop, the factory, the store. The trouble with efficiency is that it wants to rule our play as well as our work; it won’t be content to reign in the shop, it follows us home.
It can be inferred from the above passage that

Q7. In order to ease the traffic congestion, the transport planners decided to have a sophisticated system of elevated monorail travel in the city. However, it was pointed out by somebody that a metro rail system would be a more effective solution to the traffic problem. The plan was thus stalled. Moreover, since a budget had not been drawn up for the project, it was deemed fit to stall the work of the monorail for some time. In the meanwhile, the traffic planners of the city decided to build an efficient system of subways and flyovers in the city with the aim of easing the same problem. At the instant when the planners were preparing to award the contracts to the concerned parties, the transport planners came up with the contention that the subways interfered with the site of a pillar of the monorail system. The traffic planners had to give up the idea and think of other possible solutions.
On the basis of the above passage it can be inferred that,

Q8. The company encourages its managers to interact regularly, without a pre-set agenda, to discuss issues concerning the company and society. This idea has been borrowed from the ancient Indian concept of religious congregation, called satsang. Designations are forgotten during these meetings; hence, it is not uncommon in these meetings to find a sales engineer questioning the CEO on some corporate policy or on his knowledge of customers
Based on the information provided in the above passage, it can be inferred that

Q9. From Cochin to Shimla, the new culture vultures are tearing down acres of India’s architectural treasures. Ancestral owners often fobbed off with a few hundred rupees for an exquisitely carved door or window, which fetches fifty times that much from foreign dealers, and yet more from the drawing room sophisticates of Europe and the US. The reason for such shameless rape of the Indian architectural wealth can perhaps, not wrongly, be attributed to the unfortunate blend of activist disunity and local indifference.
It can be inferred from the above passage that

Q10. Deepa Mehta’s Fire is under fire from the country’s self-appointed moral police. Their contention is that the film is a violation of the Indian cultural mores and cannot be allowed to influence the Indian psyche. According to them, such films ruin the moral fabric of the nation, which must be protected and defended against such intrusions at all cost, even at the cost of cultural dictatorship.
Based on the information in the above passage, it can be inferred that