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UNSEEN PASSAGES (SOLVED)
Q.1 (A)
Read the following extract and answer the questions given below :
(9 Marks)
PASSAGE 1
People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief
that if people had plenty of money, they would be happy, and get more out of life. As
a rule there is more genuine satisfaction in life and more is obtained from life in
the humble cottage of the poor man than in the palace of rich men, who are attended
by servants and governesses at a later stage. At the same time I am glad to think
they do not know what they have missed.
It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest poverty
is, how free from perplexing care and social envies and jealousies, how loving and
united the members are in the common interest of supporting the family that I
sympathise with the rich man’s boy and congratulate the poor man’s son. It is for
these reasons that from the ranks of the poor so many strong eminent self-reliant
men have always sprung. If you read the list of the “Immortals who were not born to
die” you will find that most of them have been poor.
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What is the popular notion about poverty?
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The popular notion about poverty is that it is a great evil.
Where can one get more genuine satisfaction in life ?
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One can get more genuine satisfaction in life in the humble cottage of the poor
man.
Why does the author pity the rich man’s boy?
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The author pities the rich man’s boy because he does not know the sweetness,
happiness and purity of honest poverty.
(a) They do not know what they have missed. (Make it affirmative)
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(b) People moan about poverty. (Frame a wh-type)
(a) They are ignorant of what they have missed.
(b) What do people moan about?
Find two other words in the passage with similar meanings to ‘confusing’
and self - dependent.
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The word ‘perplexed’ means ‘confusing’...