1000+ IBPS PO Mains Previous Year Question Paper Pdf - 1

Question: 1

We are tempted to assume that technological progress is real progress and that material success is the criterion of civilisation. If the Eastern people become fascinated by machines and techniques and use them, as western nations do, to build huge industrial organizations and large military establishments, they will get involved in power politics and drift into the danger of death. Scientific and technological civilization brings great opportunities and great rewards but also great risks and temptations. Science and technology are neither good nor bad. They are not to be tabooed but tamed and assigned their proper place. They become dangerous only if they become idols.
According to the author, people think that real progress lies in

(A) having large industries and political power

(B) material success and technological growth

(C) taking risks and facing temptations

(D) working on the same lines as the western nations

Question: 2

According to the author, science and technology should be

(A) extensively exploited for industrial production

(B) encouraged and liberally used

(C) used in a controlled and careful manner

(D) tabooed and eliminated from life

Question: 3

From the passage, one gathers that the Eastern people must

(A) appreciate scientific achievements

(B) be fascinated by machines

(C) avoid being controlled by machines and techniques

(D) build huge industrial organizations

Question: 4

Science and technology will bring benefits to

(A) only eastern countries

(B) only western nations

(C) all, if tamed properly

(D) nobody