SCRA Exam Paper on General Ability - 2010

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General Ability

Passage-I

It may seem strange then that there could possible be any room for pleasure in suh a disagreeable task. Still, for every agony there is at least one pleasure. How can one adequately describe to listeners who have never had such an expereience, the satisfaction felt by the operator when the rises early and when going outdoors he is greeted by the sparkling freshness of the morning ? when the mounts to the seat of his tractor he is about to know an experience shared only by those who love fine machinery and earn a living with it. It is the satifaction of hearing his tractor burst into action with an authoritative roar the instant he pushes the starter button. To listen to the smooth. flawwless operation of machinery which he himself has turned to perfection is to the ears of the operator as the harmonious music of an accomplished symphony orchestra is to the lover of fine music. How can one describe the sweetness which rises from the new-mown hay in the adjacent field ?

1. The given passage deals with

(a) the inability of the writer to express himself

(b) the pleasures and pains that he hs to endure

(c) the satisfaction he felt in operating a tractor

(d) the pleasure of listening to music

2. The writer evidently

(a) considers his task disagreeable

(b) likes to wander around to get the smell of new-mown hay

(c) does not like to get up early in the morning

(d) likes to push the starter button of his machinery

3. The passage conveys the pleasure especially derived from

(a) farms and field

(b) working with machinery

(c) sights and smells of early morning

(d) harmonious music of an accomplished symphony orchestra

4. The smooth, flawless operation of machinery in the passage to

(a) the writer's love of fine music

(b) the satisfaction of rising early

(c) the authoritative roar of the tractor

(d) the sweetness of new-mown hay in the adjacent field

5. According to your reading of the passage, the writer

(a) is only a visitor to the farm

(b) could be one who has come to do some work in the farm

(c) could be one engaged in an unfamilar task

(d) could be one looking out for the sparkling freshness of the morning

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SCRA Exam Paper on General Ability Test - 2010