Reading Comprehension Practice Paper Set 3 for SBI Clerk 2014

Reading Comprehension Practice Paper Set 3 for  SBI Clerk 2014

Directions for the Questions 1 to 5: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer for questions that following it.

Cosmology is the study of the Universe at large, its beginning, its evolution , and its ultimate fate. More than any other branch of science, cosmology can be studied by using the mind alone. This is just as true today as it was seventy-five years ago, when Albert Einstein developed the general theory of relativity, and thereby invented the science of theoretical cosmology.

When scientists refer to the 'classical' ideas of physics, they are not referring back to the thoughts of the Ancient Greeks. Strictly speaking, classical physics is the physics of Isaac Newton, who laid the foundations of the scientific method for investigating the world, back in the seventeenth century. Newtonian physics reigned supreme until the need of the nineteenth century, when it was overtaken by two revolutions, the first sparked off by Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the second by the quantum theory. The first is the best theory we have of how gravity works; the second explains how everything else in the material world works. Together, these two topics, relativity theory and quantum mechanics, from the two pillars of modern twentieth-century science. The Holy Grail of modern physics, sought by many, is a theory that will combined the two into one mathematical package.

There is another, more colloquial way in which scientists use the term 'classical physics' essentially, to refer to anything developed by previous generation of researchers, and therefor more than about twenty-five years old. In fact, going back twenty-five years from today does bring us to a landmark event in science: the discovery of pulsars, in 1967, the year Stephen Hawking celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday. These objects are now known to be neutron stars, the collapsed cores of massive stars that have ended their in vast outbursts known as supernova explosions.

Questions:

1) What paved the way to theoretical cosmology ?

1. Mathematical calculations
2. Space probes
3. Contemplations of human mind
4. Einstein's general theory of relativity

2) What is Classical Physics ?

1. is the physics that was studied before 17th century.
2. was the physics of the Ancient Greeks.
3. is the physics of Newton.
4. is the Physics disregarded by Einstein.

3) What does quantum theory explain ?

1. how gravity works.
2. how every thing else in the material world works.
3. theoretical cosmology.
4. the classical ideas of ancient Greeks.

4) The ' Holy Grail' of modern physics is 

1. the theory that combines relativity theory with quantum theory.
2. everything discovered in physics so far.
3. the ideas of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Albert Einstein.
4. the classical theories on cosmology.

5) What are pulsars ?

1. Neutron stars
2. Supernova explosions
3. Black holes
4. Massive stars

Important Links:

• Reading Comprehension Practice Paper Set 1
• Reading Comprehension Practice Paper Set 2
• English Practice Paper for Bank Tests