Group A : Grammar( 40*1=40)
Reading Comprehension Context
Direction: Read the passage carefully and select the best option answer based on its contents.
Television acts as a narcotics on children- mesmerizing them, stunting their ability to thick, and displacing such wholesome activities as book reading and family discussions. Right? Wrong, says researchers Daniel Anderson, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Anderson doesn't have any particular affection for Garfield and friend, MTV clips, or Gilligan's Island returns. But he does believe it's important to distinguish television's impact on Children from influences of the family and the wider culture. We tend to blame TV, he says, for problem it doesn't really cause. In the process, we overlook our own roles in shaping children's minds. One conventional belief about television is that it impairs a child 's ability to think and to interpret the world. But Anderson's own research and reviews of the scientific literature discredit this assumption. While watching TV, children do not merely absorb words and images. Instead they muse upon the meaning of what they see, its plausibility, and its implications for the future- weather they've tuned in to a news report of a natural disaster or an action show. Because television relies on such cinematic techniques as montage and crosscutting, children learn early how to draw inference about the passage of time, character psychology, and implied events. Even preschoolers comprehend more than just the information supplied on the tube.
Group B : Mathematics ( 50*1=50)
Group C : General Knowledge & IT (10*1=10)