English Comprehension Passages with Questions and Answers

English Comprehension Passages with Questions

Direction (11-15): A vexed problem facing us is the clamour to open more colleges and to reserve more seats for backward classes. But it will be a sheer folly to expand such facilities recklessly without giving any thought to the quality of education imparted. If admissions are made far more selective, it will automatically reduced the number of entrants. This should apply particularly colleges, many of which are little more than degree factories. Only then can the authorities hope to bring down the teacher-student ratio to manageable proportion. What is more, teachers should be given refresher courses, every summer to brush up their knowledge. Besides, if college managements increase their library budget it will help both the staff and the to new students a great deal. 

At the same time, however, it will be unfair to deny college education to thousands of young men and women, unless employers stop insisting on degrees even for clerical jobs. For a start, why can't the Government disqualify graduates from securing certain jobs, say class III and IV posts? Once the link between degrees and jobs is severed at least in some important departments, in will make young people think twice before joining college. 

Q.11. What can automatically help to reduce admission:

(A) Though entrance tests

(B) Discouragement to open new coll1eges

(C) Selective admissions

(D) Abolishing reservation

Q.12. Many of the new college are – 

(A) Centres of advanced learning

(B) Research institutions

(C) Factories producing degree holders 

(D) Knowns for their academic excellence

Q.13. How can teachers are – 

(A) By arranging refresher courses 

(B) By providing monetary help/incentive

(C) By providing better library facilities

(D) By sending them abroad

Q.14. The author is in favor of restricting college admissions – 

(A) Only when degrees are delinked form jobs

(B) When alternative avenues are open for the students

(C) When the teacher student ratio is reduced

(D) Only when parents think gtwice before sending their children

Q.15. The phrase “Vexed problem” means

(A) A serious problem

(B) A debatable problem

(C) A difficult problem

(D) An irritating problem