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MAT Question Paper
Directions (Qs. 1 to 5) : Read the passage given below carefully and then answer these questions based on what answer these questions based on what is stated or implied in the passage.

Anxiety and conscience are a pair of powerful dynamos. Of course, I can only speak for myself. Between them, they have ensured that one shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile. They are blind forces which drive but do not direct. Fortunately, I have also been moved by a third motive—the wish to see and understand. Curiosity is another motive for action. It is also one of the distinctive characteristics of human nature and contrasted with the natures of non-human animals. All human beings have curiosity in some degree and we also all have it about things which are of no practical use.

Curiosity may be focussed on anything in the universe, but the spiritual reality of the phenomena should be the ultimate objective of all curiosity for it to be fruitful. Thanks to my mother my approach to this ultimate objective is through the story of human affairs.

1. What is the main objective of this passage ?

(1) Distinguish between human beings and animals

(2) Project curiosity as a potent motivating factor

(3) Project anxiety and conscience as inadequate motivators

(4) Motivation and spiritual reality

2. A characteristic peculiar to human beings that is referred to is

(1) Superior intelligence

(2) Spirit of enquiry

(3) Capacity to rationalise and analyse

(4) Ability to sift the practical from the impractical

3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage ?

(1) Animals are as curious as human beings

(2) Curiosity is the only motive for action

(3) People motivated by curiosity do not need other motives to guide them

(4) People motivated by anxiety and conscience alone can be misdirected

4. According to the author

(1) Those who have little curiosity are curious about unimportant things

(2) Apart from humans no other living beings have the gift of curiosity

(3) The highest form of curiosity can be satisfied by study of human affairs alone.

(4) Spiritual reality is the ultimate goal of humans through action

5. The author subscribes to the view

(1) One’s curiosity should focus beyond the facade on the latent meaning of things

(2) Curiosity is an inherited family characteristic

(3) A study of human affairs is the most effective method of satisfying one’s curiosity

(4) In order to motivate, curiosity must be coupled with anxiety and conscience

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