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• Read the following passage carefully and on the basis of your reading answer the questions given below it : A nation does not live by its big factories, dams or buildings. During the hundred years of foreign rule, our moral character was shaken. Now students are still in the process of training. It is their sacred duty to build up their character.They must learn from the very beginning the lessons of self help, self-reliance and self-sacrifice. These are the essential qualities of character which they must acquire. The time has come now when competition must give way to co-operation in every walk of life. Students must learn to co-operate with each-other in their class-rooms, on the playground and in other activities of life. For them, no duty is of greater importance than the development of character. 1. What makes a nation great? 2. Why was our moral character shaken during the last hundred years? 3. Point out the main duty of the students. 4. What should the students try to learn from the very beginning? 5. Explain the italicized words in the passage. 6. Give a suitable title to the above passage.
• Read the following passage carefully and on the basis of your reading answer the questions given below it : Lions usually are among the foolest of creatures and by reason of their love of dead flesh and their habit of returning to their victims again and again after being driven away, they are fairly easy to poison when they become troublesome. Poison, therefore, is the most effective weapon to use against them. Man -eaters, as a rule, however, are extremely difficult to destroy by their method; their meeting with man seems to fill them with an unusual cunning. The most striking example I know of this cunning of a man-eater is connected with a panther, which was killed in the Garhwal district of the lower Himalayas, but not until it had terrorised the place for seven years and during this time had killed 125 persons. Every method which the skill of man could think of failed. This terrible man-eater was at last shot-dead by a European man, who sat up mightly for ten weeks till he got his chance. 1. Why are the lions the most foolish of creatures? 2. Why do they return to their victim again and again? 3. What is the most effective weapon to get rid of a lion? 4. How many persons did the panther of Garhwal kill? 5. Explain the italicized words in the passage. 6. Give a suitable title to the above passage. 
• Read the following passage carefully and on the basis of your reading answer the questions given below it : There is a lovely story of a tree and a little boy who used to play in its shade. They had become friends. One day, the boy sat leaning against the trunk of the tree, crying. He was hungry, “Eat my fruit”, said the kind tree bending down one of its branches. The boy ate the fruit and was happy. The boy grew up. One day, he sat under the tree with an anxious look on his face. “What is the matter”? asked the tree. “I am going to marry and I want a house to live in.” said the young man.”Cut down my branches and build your house”; said the tree. The young man built a house with the branches of the tree. The young man became a sailor. One day, he sat under the tree with a worried look. “What is the matter?” asked the tree. “My Captain is a cruel fellow. I want a ship of my own,” said the sailor. “Cut down my trunk and build a ship.” The sailor lost his ship and returned home as a helpless old man. On a cold winter’s day, he stood where the tree once was leaning on his stick, and trembling with cold. “Make a fire of me,” said the stump of the tree, and warm yourself,” The stump of the unselfish tree burnt in the fire, softy humming a tune”.1. What was the boy doing, leaning against the trunk of the tree? 2. What did the kind tree say to the little boy? 3. Why did the boy sit under the tree, one day, with an anxious look on his face? 4. How were the tree and the little boy related to each other? 5. Explain the italicized words in the passage. 6. Give a suitable title to the above passage.
• Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot passengers, but she replied: 'I‘m going to walk where I like. We‘ve got liberty now.‘ It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road it also entitled the cab-driver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting in everybody else‘s way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy. There is a danger of the world getting liberty-drunk in these days like the old lady with the basket, so it is just as well to remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman, say, at Piccadilly Circus steps into the middle of the road and puts out his hand, he is the symbol not of tyranny, but of liberty. You may not think so, you may, and being in a hurry and seeing your motor-car stopped by this insolence of office, feel that your liberty has been violated. How dare this fellow interfere with your free use of the public highway? Then, if you are a reasonable person, you will reflect that if he did not interfere with you he would interfere with no one, and the result would be that you would never cross Piccadilly Circus at all. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality. Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social contract. It is an adjustment of interests. In matters which do not touch anybody else‘s liberty of course, I may be as free as I like. If I have a fancy for dyeing my hair, or waxing my moustache, or wearing a tall hat or going to bed late or getting up early, I shall follow my fancy and ask no man‘s permission. In all these and a thousand other details you and I please ourselves and asks no one‘s leave. We have whole kingdoms, in which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise or ridiculous, harsh or easy, conventional or odd. But directly we step out of that kingdom, our personal liberty of action is restricted by other people‘s liberty. I might like to practise on the trombone from midnight till three in the morning. If I went to the top of a hill to do it,I could please myself but if I do it out in the streets the neighbours will remind me that my liberty to blow the trombone must not interfere with their liberty to sleep in quiet. There are a lot of people in the world, and I have to accommodate my liberty to their liberties.1. Answer the following questions.(a) Why does the writer think that the old lady with the basket was wrong in her interpretation of liberty?(b) The policeman at Piccadilly Circus is a symbol of liberty and not tyranny. Explain.(c) What does the writer mean by the phrase ‗liberty drunk?‘ How is liberty a social contract?(d) When does individual liberty become anarchy? Give two examples.2. Choose the correct option that is similar in meaning to the words given below. (a)Perili)danger ii)threat iii)curse iv)pride(b) anarchyi) complete neglect of law and rule ii)complete neglect of orderiii) complete ignorance iv)complete subordination(c)insolencei)goodbehaviour ii) insulting or offensive behaviouriii) plausiblebehaviour iv)rude behaviour(d) curtailedi)enhanced ii) reduced iii) decreased iv) obscured
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