Comprehension UPSC Questions

What according to the passage are the manifestations of social movement?
1. Aggressiveness and being incendiary.
2. Instigation by external forces.
3. Quest for social quality and individual freedom
4. Urge for granting privilege and self-respect to disparaged sections of the society.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
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With reference to the passage, consider the following statements:
1. To be a creative society it is essential to have a variety of social movements.
2. To be a creative society, it is imperative to have potential contradictions and conflicts.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Directions for the following three items:
The following nine items (Questions 64 to 72) are based on three passages in English to test the comprehension of English Language.
Read each passage and answer the items that follow.
Passage - I
He walked several miles that day but could not get anything to eat or drink except some dry bread and some water, which he got from cottagers and farmers. As night fell he slept under a haystack lying in a meadow. He felt frightened at first, for the wind blew awfully over the empty fields. He felt cold and hungry, and was feeling more lonely than he had ever felt before. He, however, soon fell asleep, being much tired with his long walk. When he got up next day, he was feeling terribly hungry so he purchased a loaf of bread with a few coins that he had.

When the night fell, he slept
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He soon fell asleep because
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with reference to the passage consider the following statements:
1. He was walking through the countryside.
2. The cottagers and farmers gave him enough food so that be could sleep at night without feeling hungry.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Directions for the following three items:
I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me. Had I packed my toothbrush? I don't know how it is, but I never do know whether I've packed my toothbrush.

My toothbrush is a thing that haunts me when I'm travelling, and makes my life a misery. I dream that I haven't packed it, and wake up in a cold perspiration, and get out of bed and hunt for it. And, in the morning, I pack it before I have used it, and it is always the last thing I turn out of the bag; and then I repack and forget it, and have to rush upstairs for it at the last moment and carry it to the railway station, wrapped up in my pocket-handkerchief.

When he was going to close the bag, the Idea that occurred to him was
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