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Railway Controller Tough English Unseen Passage – Set 8

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Q1. What is the central idea of the passage?

A. Railway controllers should focus exclusively on maintaining punctuality.

B. Effective railway control often involves anticipating and preventing problems whose avoidance may not be immediately visible.

C. Experienced controllers should rely entirely on previous incidents when making decisions.

D. Railway efficiency can be measured accurately only through the number of delayed trains.

Q2. Why is successful prevention difficult to evaluate according to the passage?

A. Because preventive decisions are never recorded.

B. Because preventing a problem often leaves little visible evidence of what would otherwise have occurred.

C. Because passengers usually oppose preventive action.

D. Because controllers are unable to explain their decisions.

Q3. The word "congested" as used in the first paragraph most nearly means:

A. Overcrowded or heavily occupied

B. Completely abandoned

C. Recently constructed

D. Technically defective

Q4. What does the passage suggest about the immediate and wider effects of an operational decision?

A. They are always identical.

B. An immediately inconvenient decision may produce a beneficial wider effect.

C. Only immediate consequences should influence a controller.

D. Wider consequences are impossible to anticipate.

Q5. Why must controllers think in terms of consequences rather than isolated train movements?

A. Because every train follows exactly the same timetable.

B. Because a decision involving one movement may affect several interconnected parts of the railway network.

C. Because individual train movements have no operational importance.

D. Because controllers are responsible only for passenger connections.

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