tailieunhanh - Management Aptitude Test (December 2000)

All India Management Aptitude Testing Service (AIMATS) Section I : Language Comprehension Directions Directions (Qs. 1 to 5) : Read the passage given below carefully and then answer these questions based on what is stated or implied in the passage. Anxiety and conscience are a pair of powerful dynamos. Of course, I can only speak for myself. Between them, they have ensured that one shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile. They are blind forces which drive but do not direct. . | Management Aptitude Test December 2000 All India Management Aptitude Testing Service AIMATS Section I Language Comprehension Directions Qs. 1 to 5 Read the passage given below carefully and then answer these questions based on what is stated or implied in the passage. Anxiety and conscience are a pair of powerful dynamos. Of course I can only speak for myself. Between them they have ensured that one shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile. They are blind forces which drive but do not direct. Fortunately I have also been moved by a third motive the wish to see and understand. Curiosity is another motive for action. It is also one of the distinctive characteristics of human nature and contrasted with the natures of non-human animals. All human beings have curiosity in some degree and we also all have it about things which are of no practical use. Curiosity may be focussed on anything in the universe but the spiritual reality of the phenomena should be the ultimate objective of all curiosity for it to be fruitful. Thanks to my mother my approach to this ultimate objective is through the story of human affairs. 1. What is the main objective of this passage 1 Distinguish between human beings and animals 2 Project curiosity as a potent motivating factor 3 Project anxiety and conscience as inadequate motivators 4 Motivation and spiritual reality 2. A characteristic peculiar to human beings that is referred to is 1 Superior intelligence 2 Spirit of enquiry 3 Capacity to rationalise and analyse 4 Ability to sift the practical from the impractical 3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage 1 Animals are as curious as human beings 2 Curiosity is the only motive for action 3 People motivated by curiosity do not need other motives to guide them 4 People motivated by anxiety and conscience alone can be misdirected MANAGEMENT APTITUDE TEST AT A GLANCE 1 4. According to the author 1 Those who have little .