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It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much as you possibly can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs, and your mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products of the aeons of Evolution, the other is the imponderable 'Social instinct'. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from the animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and higher Intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo sapiens.

Knowledge and mental self-culture confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics, not to be doped and duped by the priests and the politicians of capitalism and so called Socialism: is this not a nobel aim worth striving for? Most men and women today are not free and wise.

They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance.

The passage compares our mind to a little bucket. It does so because:

(1) our brain is designed like a bucket to store the water needed by our metabolism

(2) our brain as the physical organ of our mind is capable of accepting and storing the information we acquire from life

(3) the shape of our brain is like that of a bucket

(4) the brain has a bucket like cavity for storage of physical matter

✅ Correct Option: 2

The passage compares knowledge to a deep well and the mind to a little bucket that draws from it. This metaphor implies that our brain (the physical organ of the mind) is capable of accepting and storing the knowledge we acquire, the amount limited by what we can assimilate.

Question 13

According to the passage, we the Homo sapiens are different from the beasts because:

(A) We have strong sense of smell and sight unlike some of the predatory animals

(B) We were able to develop our brains and our social instinct over the past millions of years unlike the other animals

(D) we only use computers for our information and knowledge today

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A)

(2) (B)

(3) (C)

(4) (D)

Question 14

According to the passage, along with our highly evolved brain we as humans have also been blessed with the asset of "Social Instinct" which:

(A) allows us to become social predators

(B) helps us to become wise fair, just and independent that gives us our superior position in the Animal kingdom

(D) makes us inordinately lazy and cruel

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A) only

(2) (C) only

(3) (B) only

(4) (D) only

Question 15

According to the passage, it is our duty to:

(1) train our mind and acquire as much knowledge as possible

(2) train our mind and travel in trains to see beautiful places and landscapes

(3) train our mind and wait for someone to tell us what to do next

(4) never train our mind as we are born with a lot of artificial intelligence

Question 16

According to the passage knowledge and mental self culture can bestow unimaginable blessings on us because:

(A) knowledge and mental self-culture will make us classy and elegant

(B) mental self-culture will help us get free of prejudice, and arrogance due to the wisdom we gain from knowledge

(D) knowledge and mental self culture will push us towards arrogance and superstitions

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A) only

(2) (D) only

(3) (B) only

(4) (C) only

Question 18

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I	List - II
(A) It is our duty to develop	(I) Not free and wise because they have remained victims of superstitions and ignorance
(B) Knowledge is like a deep well	(II) fed by everlasting and perpetual springs
(C) It has taken millions of year	(III) to evolve our brain to what it is now-a wonderful asset that makes us superior and evolved
(D) Most men and women today are still	(IV) our mind to gain knowledge

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(2) (A) - (II), (B) - (I), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)

(3) (A) - (IV), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (I)

(4) (A) - (II), (B) - (I), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)

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