Paper 1 · Comprehension
UGC NET December 2023 (12.12.2023) Shift-II
Passage
Science and the techniques to which it has given rise have changed human life during the last hundred and fifty years more than it had been changed since men took to agriculture, and the changes that are being wrought by science continue at an increasing speed. There is no sign of any new stability to be attained on some scientific plateau. On the contrary, there is every reason to think that the revolutionary possibilities of science extend immeasurably beyond what has so far been realized. Can the human race adjust itself quickly enough to these vertiginous transformations, or will it, as innumerable former species have done, perish from lack of adaptability? The dinosaurs were in their day the lords of creation, and if there had been philosophers among them, not one would have foreseen that the whole race might perish. But they became extinct because they could not adapt themselves to a world without swamps. In the case of man and science there is a wholly new factor, namely that man himself is creating the changes of environment to which he will have to adjust himself with unprecedented rapidity. Although these changes come about through human agencies, they have, or at any rate have had so far, something of the inexorable inevitability of natural forces. Whether men will be able to survive the changes of environment that their own skill has brought about is an open question. If the answer is to be in the affirmative, men will have to apply scientific ways of thinking to themselves and their institutions.
Which of the following statements about the sculpture of the wooden horse are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- 1. The horse is loaded with goods of people
- 2. It has been made in paper mache style
- 3. It has been made by a Kashmiri artist
- 4. It shows a fallen horse
- 5. It depicts the pain experienced by the people during the partition migration
A1, 2 and 4 only
B2, 3 and 5 only ✓ Correct
C2 and 3 only
D3, 4 and 5 only
Correct answer: (B) 2, 3 and 5 only — The correct statements are that it is in paper mache style, by a Kashmiri artist, and depicts the pain of migration, so the answer is 2, 3 and 5.
Explanation
★The correct statements are that it is in paper mache style, by a Kashmiri artist, and depicts the pain of migration, so the answer is 2, 3 and 5.
★The passage describes a wooden sculpture of a horse in paper mache style.
★It was made by the Kashmiri artist Veer Munshi.
★It conveys the pain of people during the migration.
★The horse is loaded with skeleton and bones, not with goods, so statement 1 is false.
★It is a horse loaded with bones, not a fallen horse, so statement 4 is false.
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