Target SBI PO Mains – Day -4 – English

Directions (1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer these questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in BOLD to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Can anyone deny the fact that child labour exists in many countries, even today. Children below 14 years working in various places is a UBIQUITOUS sight. They work on agricultural fields, rice mills, Restaurants, provisional stores, bus stands and the like. They are offer seen PERILOUSLY hanging out of autos, buses, touting for passengers.

Child labour is not a recent phenomenon. It has been existing from time immemorial. Abject poverty is the main cause of child labour. Poor people living in squalid surroundings, often abandon their children, unable to feed them. DESTITUTE children are forced to FEND for themselves and they seek work whenever they can find it. This situation is EXPLOITED by people who engage and pay them PALTRY sums of money. Children work for a PITTANCE, if only to buy a meal. It is APPALLING to see children working, when they should be in a school studying.

Child Labour is such a serious malady that Government and the society, IN TANDEM, should take effective steps to eradicate it. It the issue has to be addressed adequately half measures will not help. Merely passing legislation to make child labour a crime, is not enough. Since the law LACKS TEETH, people merrily indulge is it. The authorities should CRACKDOWN on the offenders with an iron hand. Society should also be alert and ensure that children are not deprived of the fundamental right to education, so that they lead a decent life when they grow up.

1. Which of the following is correct according to the writer?

(a) Child labour should be encouraged

(b) Problem of child labour cannot be tackled

(c) Child labour is a recent phenomenon

(d) Child labour deprives the child of fundamental Right to education

(e) None of these

2. Synonyms of the word ‘UBIQUITOUS’

(a) Tremendous

(b) Universal

(c) Unseemly

(d) Beautiful

(e) None of these

3. Which among the following is most nearly opposite to PERILOUSLY

(a) Playfully

(b) Dangerously

(c) Safely

(d) Adventurously

(e) None of these

4. Which among the following is same or most nearly the same in meaning as DESTITUTE?

(a) Despicable

(b) Helpless

(c) Dull

(d) Criminal

(e) None of these

5. Which among the following is not correct according to the passage?

(a) Problem of child Labour should be dealt with only by the Government

(b) Legislation on child Labour is not effective

(c) Children are paid poorly by unscrupulous elements

(d) Abject poverty is the main cause of child labour

(e) None of these

6. FEND FOR ONESELF- means

(a) Please one self

(b) Care for one self

(c) Throw up one’s hands is distress

(d) Give an excuse for working

(e) None of these

7. IN TANDEM- means

(a) In quick time

(b) In disharmony

(c) Together

(d) In desperation

(e) None of these

8. Lacks TEETH means

(a) Not smiling

(b) Lack discipline

(c) Not effective

(d) Unlimited

(e) None of these

9. What is the main reason for child labour according to the passage?

(a) The children’s are not interested to go schools.

(b) The support family some children run away or furtively work outside of the home.

(c) Poverty problem can be considered as one of the foremost reasons of child labour.

(d) Low parental income causes child labour.

(e) None of these.

10. What are all the steps taken by the government to reduce the child labour according to the passage?

(a) Several social programs for the rehabilitation for children who are rescued from child labour are run at the central and state level.

(b) The establishment of special schools for child labour who are withdrawn from work.

(c) Government provided with education, vocational training, stipends, nutrition and health checks.

(d) Not mentioned in passage

(e) There have been specific legislation aimed at curbing the problem.