SSC Multi Tasking Model Paper 3

Directions (Q. 89 - 93): In these question you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hemamalini? The songs of Vividh Bharti? Or the mouth-watering masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be,each yields pride of place to that false symbol of a new era-the synthetic fiber. In less than twenty years, the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers : glass nylon, crepe nylon, terry mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles,the wrist watches or the transistor radios, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away from the village square. The village lass treasures, the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy city bread contemporaries and the Neo-rich craze for 'phoren' is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled. Stolen, begged borrowed secondhand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.