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COMMON LAW ADMISSION TEST-2020 -UGEnglish
Climate change is considered to be one of the most serious threats to sustainable
development, with adverse impact on the environment, human health, food security,
economic activity, natural resources and physical infrastructure. According to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the effects of climate change have
already been observed, and scientific findings indicate that precautionary and prompt action
is necessary. Vulnerability to climate change is not just a function of geography or
dependence on natural resources; it also has social, economic and political dimensions which
influence how climate change affects different groups. Poor people rarely have insurance to
cover loss of property due to natural calamines i.e. drought, floods, super cyclones etc. The
poor communities are already struggling to cope with the existing challenges of poverty and
climate variability and climate change could push many beyond their ability to cope or even
survive. It is vital that these communities are helped to adapt to the changing dynamics of
nature. Adaptation is a process through which societies make themselves better able to cope
with an uncertain future. Adapting to climate change entails taking the right measures to
reduce the negative effect of climate change (or exploit the positive ones) by making the
appropriate adjustments and changes. These range from technological options such as
increased sea defences or flood proof houses on stilts to behavioural change at the individual
level, such as reducing water use in times of drought. Other strategies include early warning
systems for extreme events, better water management, improved risk management, various
insurance options and biodiversity conservation. Because of the speed at which climate
change is happening due to global temperature rise, it is urgent that the vulnerability of
developing countries to climate change is reduced and their capacity to adapt is increased and
national adaptation plans are implemented. Communities must build their resilience,
including adopting appropriate technologies while making the most of traditional knowledge,
and diversifying their livelihoods to cope with current and future climate stress. Local coping
strategies and knowledge need to be used in synergy with government and local
interventions. The need of adaptation interventions depends on national circumstances. There
is a large body of knowledge and experience within local communities on coping with
climatic variability and extreme weather events. Local communities have always aimed to
adapt to variations in their climate. Local coping strategies are an important element of
planning for adaptation. Traditional knowledge can help to provide efficient, appropriate and
time tested ways of advising and enabling adaptation to climate change in communities who
are feeling the effects of climate changes due to global warming.
1. To address the challenge of Climate Change, Developing countries urgently require:
(a) Implementation of National Adaptation Plans
(b) Adoption of short term plans
(c) Adoption of technological solutions
(d) Imposition of Climate Change tax
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION A
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,2. Given below are the factors of vulnerability of poor people to climate changes. Select the
option that contains the correct answer.
(1) Their dependence on natural resources
(2) Geographical attributes
(3) Lack of financial resources
(4) Lack of Traditional knowledge
Codes:
(a) (2), (3) and (4)
(b) (1), (2), (3) and (4)
(c) (3) only
(d) (1), (2) and (3)
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION D
3. Which of the following is against the idea portrayed in the passage?
(a) Co-ordination between regional and national efforts is necessary.
(b) The process of Adaptation to climate change does not take into account the factor of
prevailing national circumstances.
(c) Social dimensions of climate change also need to be appreciated.
(d) Combining Traditional Knowledge with appropriate technology is the need of the hour.
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION B
4. The Traditional Knowledge should be used through
(a) Improvement in national circumstances
(b) Synergy between Government and local interventions
(c) Imposition of Climate Change Tax.
(d) Its dissemination
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION B
5. What is the meaning of the word ‗Resilience‘ occurring in the passage?
a) Toughness
b) Fragility
c) Flexibility
d) Vulnerability
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION C
The uncovering of a private Instagram group styling itself ‗Bois Locker Room‘ featuring
students from some prominent South Delhi schools discussing their female classmates in
disturbingly violent ways including plans of sexual assault is a wakeup call for parents and
authorities. The group formed last month or so kicked up a social media storm when
screenshots surfaced. Police have questioned a 15 year old boy to identify other members.
Similar incidents involving minors discussing rape/ gang rape of classmates have been
reported on other digital platforms like WhatsApp too, across cities. The exchanges in the
now deleted group require precise responses from police, parents and school authorities
around whom the fates of the juveniles involved now revolve. It is important to recognise
where a teenager spouting objectification of his female counterparts is coming from. People
of all ages, not just children, are retreating deeper into the recesses of their online avatars
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,during this lockdown. But the heavy technological investment in children‘s education,
including flooding them with personal smartphones, has not been matched by serious
conversations centred on responsible internet usage and equality. Young, impressionable
minds absorb the normalisation of rape from the adults around them. When what they see,
read and hear is toxic masculinity, that is what they perform. That‘s what peer pressure
becomes about. But if this youthful role play of macho dominance receives timely
counselling, it can prevent far graver adult offences. Schools and parents have a critical role
to play in educating children on gender equality. Digital platforms which claim to have zero
tolerance towards content that violates community standards must also explain why such
abuses go undetected, despite boasts about Artificial Intelligence-driven technologies to stop
them. They should play a more proactive role in stopping the sexual harassment of real
people in the guise of virtual sport.
[Editorial Published in Times of India, dated 6 May, 2020]
6. What is the Central Idea being conveyed by the Author in the passage above?
a) Modern Social Networking platforms must take the lead in regulating young people from
using these platforms for sexual abuse.
b) It is significant to educate children and youngsters about gender equality.
c) Digital Platforms need to have a zero tolerance policy towards content leading to sexual
abuse.
d) None of the above.
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION A
7. As per author, why is this incident a wake-up call for parents?
a) Because even the parents are indulged heavily in social networking platforms.
b) Because parents have failed to stop their children from committing such blunders.
c) Because it is the primary responsibility of parents to control their children.
d) Because the parents have failed in educating their children regarding fair internet usage
and have simply invested in the technology driven education of their children.
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION D
8. According to the author, in order to understand the root cause of such insensitive incidents,
it is important to:
a) Understand and examine the kind of socialisation process these children are exposed to.
b) Adopt Artificial Intelligence driven technologies.
c) Strengthen the environment of discipline in schools and colleges.
d) All of the above.
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION D
9. On the basis of your reading of the passage, which of the following statements can be
inferred?
a) Sexual Offenses can be reduced by timely counselling from parental and quasi-parental
authorities i.e., parents and teachers respectively.
b) If digital platforms implement a Zero Tolerance Policy towards such a menace, sexual
offenses can be completely stopped.
c) Investment in education of children is enough to curb the menace.
d) All of the above.
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION A
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, 10. Which of the following words are synonymous with the word ‗Spouting‘?
a) Pouring
b) Streaming
c) Erupting
d) All of the Above.
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION D
The snow was falling, and the Cat's fur was stiffly pointed with it, but he was imperturbable.
He sat crouched, ready for the death-spring, as he had sat for hours. It was night but that
made no difference, all times were as one to the Cat when he was in wait for prey. Then, too,
he was under no constraint of human will, for he was living alone that winter. Nowhere in the
world was any voice calling him; on no hearth was there a waiting dish. He was quite free
except for his own desires, which tyrannized over him when unsatisfied as now. The Cat was
very hungry. almost famished, in fact. For days the weather had been very bitter...and the
Cat's long hunt had availed him nothing. But he waited with the inconceivable patience and
persistency of his race; besides, he was certain. The Cat was a creature of absolute
convictions, and his faith in his deductions never wavered. The rabbit had gone in there
between those low-hung pine boughs. The Cat had seen her enter...so he sat down and
waited, and he waited still in the white night, listening angrily to the north wind starting in
the upper heights of the mountains with distant screams, then swelling into an awful
crescendo of rage, and swooping down with furious white wings of snow like a flock of
fierce eagles into the valleys and ravines. The Cat was on the side of a mountain, on a
wooded terrace. Above him, a few feet away towered the rock ascent as steep as the wall of a
cathedral. He had often looked with wonder at the rock, and miauled bitterly and resentfully
as man does in the face of a forbidding Providence. At his left was the sheer precipice.
Behind him...was the frozen perpendicular wall of a mountain stream. Before him was the
way to his home. When the rabbit came out she was trapped; her little cloven feet could not
scale such unbroken steeps. So the Cat waited. The tangle of trees and bushes clinging to the
mountain-side with a stern clutch of roots, the prostrate trunks and branches, the vines
embracing everything with strong knots and coils of growth, had a curious effect, as of things
which had whirled for ages in a current of raging water, only it was not water, but wind,
which had disposed everything in circling lines of yielding to its fiercest points of onset. It
was as if ice needles pricked his skin through his beautiful thick fur, but he never faltered and
never once cried. He had nothing to gain from crying, and everything to lose; the rabbit
would hear him cry and know he was waiting.
[Excerpts from a Short story, „The Cat‟ by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]
11. Which of the following suggests a synonymous meaning to the words ‗Providence‘ and
‗Crescendo‘ respectively?
a) Nemesis, Apex
b) Zenith, Nadir
c) Laxity, Prudence
d) Short-sightedness, Upsurge
CORRECT ANSWER : OPTION A
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