1000+ Reading Comprehension for Bank Exams Pdf - 1

Question: 1

Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialisation was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India’s be self sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the twentieth century so temptingly offers. Such as idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.
The meaning of the glittering prizes that the twentieth century so temptingly offers is

(A) complete removal of property

(B) absence of violence and corruption

(C) replacement of rural by urban interests

(D) pursuit of a commercialized material culture

Question: 2

The basis of an idyllic and rural paradise is

(A) bringing to the villages the glittering prizes of the twentieth century

(B) rapid industralisation of villages

(C) supporting those holding powerful political positions

(D) self-sufficiency in food and clothes and simplicity of life style

Question: 3

Mahatma Gandhi's views opposed industrialisation of villages because

(A) it would help the poor and not the rich

(B) it would affect the culture of the Indians

(C) it would undermine self sufficiency and destroy the beauty of life of the villager

(D) it would take away the skill of the villagers