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Reading Comprehension for SBI PO 2018 | Set – 65
Directions:(1-5) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Shaw’s defense of a theater of ideas brought him up against both his great bugbears—commercialized art on the one hand and Art for Art’s Sake on the other. His teaching is that beauty is a by-product of other activity; that the artist writes out of moral passion (in forms varying from political conviction to religious zeal), not out of love of art; that the pursuit of art for its own sake is a form of self-indulgence as bad as any other sort of sensuality. In the end, the errors of “pure” art and of commercialized art are identical: they both appeal primarily to the senses. True art, on the other hand, is not merely a matter of pleasure. It may be unpleasant. A favorite Shavian metaphor for the function of the arts is that of tooth-pulling. Even if the patient is under laughing gas, the tooth is still pulled.
The history of aesthetics affords more examples of a didactic than of a hedonist view. But Shaw’s didacticism takes an unusual turn in its application to the history of arts. If, as Shaw holds, ideas are a most important part of a work of art, and if, as he also holds, ideas go out of date, it follows that even the best works of art go out of date in some important respects and that the generally held view that great works are in all respects eternal is not shared by Shaw. In the preface to Three Plays for Puritans, he maintains that renewal in the arts means renewal in philosophy, that the first great artist who comes along after a renewal gives to the new philosophy full and final form, that subsequent artists, though even more gifted, can do nothing but refine upon the master without matching him. Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting, assigns to himself the role, not of the master, but of the pioneer, the role of a Marlowe rather than of a Shakespeare. “The whirligig of time will soon bring my audiences to my own point of view,” he writes, “and then the next Shakespeare that comes along will turn these petty tentatives of mine into masterpieces final for their epoch.”
“Final for their epoch”—even Shakespearean masterpieces are not final beyond that. No one, says Shaw, will ever write a better tragedy than Lear or a better opera than Don Giovanni or a better music drama than Der Ring des Nibelungen; but just as essential to a play as this aesthetic merit is moral relevance which, if we take a naturalistic and historical view of morals, it loses, or partly loses, in time. Shaw, who has the courage of his historicism, consistently withstands the view that moral problems do not change, and argues therefore that for us modern literature and music form a Bible surpassing in significance the Hebrew Bible. That is Shaw’s anticipatory challenge to the neo-orthodoxy of today.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that Shaw would probably agree with all of the following statements about Shakespeare EXCEPT:
A. He wrote out of a moral passion.
B. All of his plays are out of date in some important respect.
C. He was the most profound and original thinker of his epoch.
D. He was a greater artist than Marlowe.
E. His Lear gives full and final form to the philosophy of his age.
2. Which of the following does the author cite as a contradiction in Shaw?
A. Whereas he pretended to be vain, he was actually modest.
B. He questioned the significance of the Hebrew Bible, and yet he believed that a great artist could be motivated by religious zeal.
C. Although he insisted that true art springs from moral passion, he rejected the notion that morals do not change.
D. He considered himself to be the pioneer of a new philosophy, but he hoped his audiences would eventually adopt his point of view.
E. On the one hand, he held that ideas are a most important part of a work of art; on the other hand, he believed that ideas go out of date.
3. The ideas attributed to Shaw in the passage suggest that he would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
A. Every great poet digs down to a level where human nature is always and everywhere alike.
B. A play cannot be comprehended fully without some knowledge and imaginative understanding of its context.
C. A great music drama like Der Ring des Nibelungen springs from a love of beauty, not from a love of art.
D. Morality is immutable; it is not something to be discussed and worked out.
E. Don Giovanni is a masterpiece because it is as relevant today as it was when it was created.
4. The passage contains information that answers which of the following questions?
I. According to Shaw, what is the most important part of a work of art?
II. In Shaw’s view, what does the Hebrew Bible have in common with Don Giovanni?
III. According to the author, what was Shaw’s assessment of himself as a playwright?
A. I only
B. III only
C. I and II only
D. II and III only
E. I, II, and III
5. According to the author, Shaw’s didacticism was unusual in that it was characterized by
A. idealism
B. historicism
C. hedonism
D. morality
E. religious zeal
Directions:(6-10) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
The distinguishing feature of life is that here the relational modes are of a dynamic nature, such that reality or existence of any particular mode is dependent on other modes of a different order and vice versa. We have here a situation in which a particular relation – mode or function does not exist per se but through others, and there is thus a mutual dependence of such a nature that it is impossible to start with any one of them as being prior to the other. We have here a circle of revolutions in which any point can be regarded either as the first or as the last. Yet the first is in the last and the last is in the first. If this relationship is such in life, it is still more so with regard to the flowing activity of the mind-complex, which absolutely unrepresentable by any terms of physical notation, which behaves as an integrated growing whole and yet keeps its co-variant relations with life-processes, the body and the environment. Another point is that even the cellular membrane has a special selective action which attains its highest evolution and development in instinct and human intelligence. The selective action in the case of all animals beginning with the uni-cellular is to be found in the peculiar phenomenon called behaviour, which is the registration in an unknown manner of past experiences. This peculiar phenomenon of behaviour serves to destroy the barrier of time and makes the past, present and the future coalesce at any given instant, and thus starts the history of the individual as personality. In the lower grades of life where the behaviour of the individual animal is largely under the control of the body-complex, the term personality may not suitably be used. But as the mind emerges out of the body and begins to assert itself in its spontaneous existence though carrying with it the peculiar body-emergents as appetitive functions, begins to show itself as a true individual, the integrated history of which, having risen above the appetitive functions, begins to reveal itself in accordance with a selective purpose, which is its own emergent as value. The appetitive functions here do not lose their existence but have a transmuted modification in consonance with the value-sense. Here the biological tendencies are not destroyed but their potency, and indeed the potency of the whale life-history, converges towards the achievement of the self-emergent purpose, the value. There -is thus here a new ordering of the old existent states of previous history producing by their harmony, contentment, and blissfulness associated with the progressive march of the higher man. In the lower order the conflicts between the animal and the environment are annulled by the life-process itself in a very naturalistic manner. With the evolution of mind, mental conflicts of different orders arise through our intercourse with other minds. Such conflicts are natural and obvious; and the life-process instead of annulling them often increases them. But as a new selective purpose as value emerges in man, he sets his house in order. The integrated history behaves as a person and the conflicts are annulled and the whole history becomes a history of self-realisation in the light of the value. Where the emergent value cannot exert itself as the real and constant selective purpose of the man but is in conflict with the biological selective purpose and only inconstantly shows its supremacy from time to time, we have the picture of the ordinary struggling man.
6. The factor that most distinguishingly discriminates a lower-being with a higher-being is that
A. the former misses the special selective action
B. the physical purpose dominates the value-purpose
C. the former lacks harmony, contentment and blissfulness
D. the former lacks the dynamic nature of relation
E. All of the above
7. Which one of the aspects of behaviour is not supported by the passage?
A. Every organism is blessed with it.
B. It passes through the phases of evolution.
C. It transcends temporal barrier.
D. Gradually the physical aspect of behaviour pales into insignificance.
E. None of the above
8. The phrase “ registration in an unknown number of past experiences” signifies that
A. behavioral tenets from the past superimpose one over another.
B. personality is an exhibition of all the three aspects of time.
C. experiences when accumulated transcend the barrier of time.
D. one is not discriminating while learning lessons from the past.
E. None of the above
9. Which one of the following represents the main theme of the passage most suitably?
A. An ordinary man struggles because he lives physically.
B. With the evolution of cellular organism there is an evolution of behaviour.
C. There occurs a transmutation of appetitive functions in Homo-sapiens.
D. Behaviour is an evolution from physical to mental.
E. Value orientation gives precedence to mind over body.
10 . Choose the word among the given options which is most similar in meaning to the word “ COALESCE” as used in the passage.
A. Unfasten
B. Sever
C. Affiliate
D. Sunder
E. Lacerate
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