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Directions (1-20): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below
it. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of
the questions.
When an individual has discovered new energy within himself, has learnt the art of fixing the
entire energy to the piece of work in hand, a great joy starts welling up in his mind called the joy
of the artisan. The joy of the artisan or the artist is the joy that you can understand only when you
experience it. An artisan or worker, working in the world outside and creating out of his work
something new-may be a toy, may be a great instrument of precision, it does not matter what is
he is producing, his is the joy – the joy of having created something on the world.
No doubt to a large extent the mechanization of life in this machine age robbed us of that joy
that the artisan of the past had. In those days when they made an article of furniture or a piece of
sculpture or painted a scene, they had a great joy that did something creative. But nowadays the
work is so much divided because a blind, dead iron monster called the engine is producing
everything. Furniture is produced by machinery; painting is replaced by photography, wherein the
photograph has no joy of having produced it. All his joy is that he has adjusted his camera
properly. Even when I find a good photo, I am not congratulating the photographer. I ask him
what kind of camera he has used. The photographer comes and says that he has got a prize in the
exhibition. We do not ask him what his techniques are. We only ask him what camera he is using
and what kind of filters, etc. The glory of the prize, in fact, the camera should have got the prize
because you have done nothing! Thus everywhere in anything that we produce we have no self-
congratulation at this moment, because we produce nothing; the machine produces and we only
tend the machine that produces. To that extent no doubt the life and joy of creation has gone
away from our life.
1. The joy of artisan can be understood (b) Toying with great ideas
by/through which of the following?
(c) Creating something
(a) Through experiences of others
(d) Making great contributions
(b) Through reading
(e) Completing the work in hand
(c) By seeing an artist’s work
3. Which of the following is meaning of the
(d) It can never be understood phrase “welling up” as used in the passage?
(e) None of these (a) Drying down (b) rising
2. What pleases the artist? (c) Diminishing (d) focusing
(a) Doing everything perfectly (e) Satisfying
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4. Why has the joy of creation not been 8. The joy of artist can be experienced by
available to us now? whom?
(a) Machines create which we used to create. (a) By any worker creating something new
(b) The quality of artists is not the same. (b) Only by artists who have high level of
energy
(c) The artists are not getting the required
facilities. (c) By painters only when painting a scene
(d) All of us want to create without taking (d) By those who handle machines
care of its quality.
(e) Only by those who write such articles
(e) None of these
9. According to the passage, who should get
5. Which of the following is true when we are credit for good photographs?
motivated to create?
(a) Film (b) Camera (c) Photographer
(a) We do not indulge in self-congratulation.
(d) Artist (e) None of these
(b) We create for mass production,
Directions (10-17): Choose the word which
(c) We are filled with energy. is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the
word given in bold as used in the passage.
(d) We become particular about quality and
precision. 10. FIXING
(e) We become devoid of energy. (a) Stabilising (b) hardening (c) focusing
6. Which of the following seems to be the (d) Distributing (e) repairing
main purpose of writing this passage?
11. TEND
(a) To honour the artist?
(a) Seek (b) watch (c) follow
(b) To advance painting over photography
(d) Direct (e) highlight
(c) To highlight pleasure of creating
12. CREATIVE
(d) To organise the artists
(a) Excellent (b) marvelous (c) fantastic
(e) To distinguish between today’s and
(d) Novel (e) perfect
tomorrow’s artist
13. ARTISAN
7. What is called a blind, iron monster?
(a) Skilled worker (b) show (c) heavy gun
(a) Production (b) Photographer (c) Camera
(d) Art (e) articulate
(d) Creation (e) Machine
14. DOUBT
Directions (1-20): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below
it. Certain words/phrases are printed in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of
the questions.
When an individual has discovered new energy within himself, has learnt the art of fixing the
entire energy to the piece of work in hand, a great joy starts welling up in his mind called the joy
of the artisan. The joy of the artisan or the artist is the joy that you can understand only when you
experience it. An artisan or worker, working in the world outside and creating out of his work
something new-may be a toy, may be a great instrument of precision, it does not matter what is
he is producing, his is the joy – the joy of having created something on the world.
No doubt to a large extent the mechanization of life in this machine age robbed us of that joy
that the artisan of the past had. In those days when they made an article of furniture or a piece of
sculpture or painted a scene, they had a great joy that did something creative. But nowadays the
work is so much divided because a blind, dead iron monster called the engine is producing
everything. Furniture is produced by machinery; painting is replaced by photography, wherein the
photograph has no joy of having produced it. All his joy is that he has adjusted his camera
properly. Even when I find a good photo, I am not congratulating the photographer. I ask him
what kind of camera he has used. The photographer comes and says that he has got a prize in the
exhibition. We do not ask him what his techniques are. We only ask him what camera he is using
and what kind of filters, etc. The glory of the prize, in fact, the camera should have got the prize
because you have done nothing! Thus everywhere in anything that we produce we have no self-
congratulation at this moment, because we produce nothing; the machine produces and we only
tend the machine that produces. To that extent no doubt the life and joy of creation has gone
away from our life.
1. The joy of artisan can be understood (b) Toying with great ideas
by/through which of the following?
(c) Creating something
(a) Through experiences of others
(d) Making great contributions
(b) Through reading
(e) Completing the work in hand
(c) By seeing an artist’s work
3. Which of the following is meaning of the
(d) It can never be understood phrase “welling up” as used in the passage?
(e) None of these (a) Drying down (b) rising
2. What pleases the artist? (c) Diminishing (d) focusing
(a) Doing everything perfectly (e) Satisfying
, 2
4. Why has the joy of creation not been 8. The joy of artist can be experienced by
available to us now? whom?
(a) Machines create which we used to create. (a) By any worker creating something new
(b) The quality of artists is not the same. (b) Only by artists who have high level of
energy
(c) The artists are not getting the required
facilities. (c) By painters only when painting a scene
(d) All of us want to create without taking (d) By those who handle machines
care of its quality.
(e) Only by those who write such articles
(e) None of these
9. According to the passage, who should get
5. Which of the following is true when we are credit for good photographs?
motivated to create?
(a) Film (b) Camera (c) Photographer
(a) We do not indulge in self-congratulation.
(d) Artist (e) None of these
(b) We create for mass production,
Directions (10-17): Choose the word which
(c) We are filled with energy. is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the
word given in bold as used in the passage.
(d) We become particular about quality and
precision. 10. FIXING
(e) We become devoid of energy. (a) Stabilising (b) hardening (c) focusing
6. Which of the following seems to be the (d) Distributing (e) repairing
main purpose of writing this passage?
11. TEND
(a) To honour the artist?
(a) Seek (b) watch (c) follow
(b) To advance painting over photography
(d) Direct (e) highlight
(c) To highlight pleasure of creating
12. CREATIVE
(d) To organise the artists
(a) Excellent (b) marvelous (c) fantastic
(e) To distinguish between today’s and
(d) Novel (e) perfect
tomorrow’s artist
13. ARTISAN
7. What is called a blind, iron monster?
(a) Skilled worker (b) show (c) heavy gun
(a) Production (b) Photographer (c) Camera
(d) Art (e) articulate
(d) Creation (e) Machine
14. DOUBT
