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2023-24
REVISION TEST
TOPIC – READING SECTION
TIME:50 Mins M.M.:22
Reading Comprehension

1. Read the following text. 12

1. From the moment a baby first opens its eyes, it is learning. Sight and sensation spark off a learning
process which will determine in large measure, the sort of person it will become. Language stands head
and shoulders over all other tools as an instrument of learning. It is the language that gives man his lead
in intelligence over all the other creatures. No other creature can assemble a list of ideas, consider them,
draw conclusions and then explain his reasoning. Man can do all this because he possesses language.
And if thought depends on language, the quality of an individual’s thought will depend on that person’s
language-rudimentary or sophisticated, precise or approximate, stereotyped or original.
2. Very young babies are soothed by human voice uttering comforting words close to them. This essentially-
emotional response provides early evidence that feeling is an important component of language learning.
Children learn to use language in interaction with other human beings and this learning proceeds best
against a background of affectionate feedback from the person who is closest to them. This is seen to
perfection in the interaction between parent and a baby: eyes locked together, the adult almost physically
drawing ‘verbal’ response from the baby, both engulfed by that unique experience of intimate and joyful
connecting, which sets the pattern of the relationship between two people.
3. Thus, long before they can speak, children are involved in a two-way process of communication, which is
steadily building a foundation on which their later use of language will be based. Constantly surrounded
by language, they are unconsciously building structures in their minds into which their speech and
reading will later fit grammatical constructions, tense sequences and so on. The forms of these structures
will depend on the amount and complexity of speech they hear. Fortunate are those children who listen
to articulate adults, expressing ideas and defending opinions. They will know, long before they can
contribute themselves and understand, that relationships are forged through this process of speaking and
listening; that warmth and humour have a place in the process, as have all other human emotions.
4. Using books is the most important means of ensuring a child’s adequate language development. None
of us can endlessly initiate and maintain speech with very small children; we run out of ideas or just get
plain sick of it. Their lives are confined to a limited circle and they do not have enough experience to
provide raw material for constant verbal interaction.

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5. Parents and children who share books share the same frame of reference. Incidents in everyday life
constantly remind one or the other of a situation, a character, an action, from a jointly enjoyed book,
with all the generation of warmth and well-being that is attendant upon such sharing. All too often, there
is a breakdown of communication between parents and children when the problems of adolescence arise.
In most cases, this is most acute when the give-and-take of shared opinions and ideas have not been
constantly practised throughout childhood. Books can play a major role in the establishment of thisverbal
give-and-take because they are rooted in language.
6. Young children’s understanding greatly outruns their capacity for expression as their speech strains to
encompass their awareness, to represent reality as they see it. Shades of meaning which may be quite
unavailable to the child of limited verbal experience are startlingly talked to toddler. All the wonderful
modifying words-later, nearly, tomorrow, almost, wait, half, lend, etc. begin to steer the child away from
the simple extremes of “Yes” and “No” towards the adult world of compromise from the child’s black
and white world to the subtle shades and tints of the real world. The range of imaginative experience
opened up by books expands the inevitably limited horizons of children’s surroundings and allows them
to make joyful, intrigued, awestruck acquaintance with countless people, animals, objects and ideas in
their first years of life.
7. Books also open children to new points of view, besides their own as they unconsciously put themselves
into other people’s places-if that could happen to him, it could happen to me: This imaginative self-
awareness brings apprehensions and fears as well as heightened hopes and joys.
8. In books, children can experience language which is subtle, resourceful, exhilarating and harmonious;
languages that provide the human ear (and understanding) with a pointed and precise pleasure, the
searing illuminating impact of good and true words.
Answer the following questions, based on the passage above.
i. What makes a man superior over all the other creatures? 1
(a) Their body-language (b) Their language
(c) Their way of observing things (d) Their skills

ii. What are the most important means of ensuring a child’s adequate language development? 1
(a) Two-way process of communication
(b) Providing raw material for constant verbal interaction
(c) Maintaining speech
(d) Using books

iii. How can language distinguish between human beings and others? Answer in about 40 words. 2

iv. Complete the sentence appropriately. 1

The parents can’t rely only on constant verbal interactions because .
v. What are the advantages of books mentioned in the above passage? 1
(a) It enables children to see things from other’s point of view.
(b) It creates self awareness in children.
(c) Expose children to a wide range of vocabulary.
(d) All of these
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vi. How do children develop language? Answer in about 40 words. 2

vii. What is an important component of language learning? 1

viii. What role do books play? Answer in about 40 words. 2

ix. Read the given headlines and identify the option that does not correspond with the message of the
passage. 1
1. Develop new viewpoints through book.
2. Sight and sensation - The spark of learning.
3. No role played by adults in children’s language acquisition.
4. Communication - A two way process.
5. Walk faster - show some hustle.
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) Only 3 (d) 2, 3 and 5

2. Read the following text. 10

1. The first Indian woman physician Anandibai Joshi, graduated in 1886. Starting from that single figure,
about 125 years later, Indian women have started to outnumber men in admissions to medical colleges
and the trend continues to grow stronger by the year, particularly over the last five years. During this
period, India has produced 4500 more female doctors than male ones.
2. In India, women constituted 51% of the students joining medical colleges, cornering 23,522 seats in 2014-
15, compared to 22,934 men. In fact, in the neighbouring countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh
there are much higher portions of women in medical colleges, with figures standing at 70% and 60%
respectively.
3. According to the medical journal Lancet, only 17% of all allopathic doctors and 6% of those in rural
areas are women. This is less than one female allopathic doctor per 10,000 population in rural areas,
whereas the ratio is 6:5 in urban areas.
4. According to a paper on women in medicine published in the journal ‘Indian Anthropologis’ by sociologist
Dr Mita Bhadra, the gender gap persists at the postgraduation and doctoral levels. The percentage of
women doctors here is around one-third of male doctors. She also observed that positions of leadership
in academics and administration are still mostly occupied by men.
5. In Pakistan, though 70% of medical students are women, only 23% of registered doctors were females
because a large number of those who graduated never took to practising. The trend of more women
joining the medical profession is welcomed in all these countries as female doctors are seen as committed
and caring. A paper on women in medicine published by Dr Rakesh Chaddha and Dr Mamta Sood of
the psychiatry department of AIIMS noted that medicine has been a male-dominated profession because
it demands long working hours that are disadvantageous to women who, even today, struggle to juggle
career and family responsibilities.
6. Earlier, though women were largely restricted to fields such as obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics,
this is changing now. There has always been a preponderance of women in pre-clinical subjects like
anatomy, physiology and biochemistry and paraclinical subjects like pharmacology, pathology and
microbiology, right from the 70s. In departments headed by women, the women faculty was 49% as

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 compared to just 19% in those headed by men, says Dr Chaddha, giving the example of the
neurology department at the AIIMS, which saw a lot of women faculty joining when the HOD was
a woman. ‘It isprobably because the head of the department becomes a role model and more women
are encouraged tojoin,’ said Dr Chaddha.
7. There are skews within the medical profession in most parts of the world with some medical
specialties,such as surgery and other disciplines requiring emergency duty with irregular hours
being male- dominated. Even in the United Kingdom, though women account for 56% of those
opting for medical education, 49% are public health and only 8% are surgeons, according to a
Royal College of Physiciansexpert.
8. Among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (OECD), across
ten ofthem, predominantly from the erstwhile Eastern Bloc, the proportion of female physicians is
more than 50%, ranging from a high 73.8% in Estonia to 50.2% in Spain. In two non-OECD
countries, Latvia and Lithuania, females accounted for over 74% and 70% of physicians. In
contrast, only one in five doctorsin Japan and Korea were women. In the United States it is one in
three, confirming the fact that the disproportion among women and men doctors is a universal
phenomenon.
Answer the following questions, based on the passage above.
i. Infer the purpose of the survey as mentioned in the given extract. Answer in about 40 words. 2

ii. What is the number of women joining the medical profession in Pakistan and Bangladesh? 1
(a) It equals women doctors in India.
(b) It is growing faster than the doctors in India.
(c) It is much lower than the figures in India.
(d) It is higher than the figures in India.

iii. How does the woman HOD impact faculty? 1

iv. Identify the surgeon from the following three. 1

(a) Roshan: People come to me in fever.
(b) Latasha: I work over tooth of the people.
(c) Suraj: I perform surgeries.

v. By how much did the female doctors have outnumbered the male doctors in 125 years in India? 1
(a) 4500 (b) 4300
(c) 4000 (d) 2383

vi. At what level did the gender gap persist in the extract? What did Dr Mita Bhadra observe? Answer
in about 40 words.
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vii. Complete the sentence appropriately.

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Pharmacology, pathology and microbiology are termed as .

viii. State TRUE or FALSE.

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The title, “Studying is disadvantageous to women” is appropriate for the given passage.

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