Management Aptitude Test Dec 2019 Paper

Directions (Q Nos. 1-20) Read the passages given below to answer the questions.

PASSAGE-1 During the Second Industrial Revolution, there was a manifold increase in food production which was possible through the use of new agricultural implements and of a host of chemicals as fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides and fungicides. They could get agricultural products throughout the year without major fluctuations in price. Improvements in transport made possible, and increasingly faster, the movement of vast quantities of goods and of people from one place to another. New means of communication, which started with the introduction of postal system, soon improved with the introduction of telegraph, telephone and wireless. With the coming of radar and satellite, communication became faster. Better health and increase in the life-span of human beings were possible due to the improved nutrition, health and sanitation facilities. Physicians now use various complex and sophisticated machines to obtain detailed information about the human body. A large number of problems had to be solved and various kinds of equipment invented before it became possible for humans, for example, to land and walk on the surface of the moon or to transplant the heart.
In the twentieth century, different household appliances and gadgets like the sewing-machine, refrigerator, deep-freezer, cooking-gas, oven, stove, washing-machine, drying-machine, dish-washer, pressure cooker, mixer-grinder, and floor cleaner have made it possible to relieve human beings from drudgery and create longer hours of leisure. The coming of motion picture, radio and TV has opened up new means of entertainment. The development of the newsprint, paper and printing technology, together with photography and sound engineering, have opened up a new area of communication which has the potentiality to remove illiteracy and expand the scope of education.