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Passage-10
Journalists argue over functions of a newspaper. I feel that a provincial paper’s purpose is not only to present and project the news objectively and imaginatively, but to help its readers to express themselves more effectively, canalising their aspirations, making more articulate their demands. A newspaper should reflect the community it serves-warts and all.
When the mirror is held to society it reveals neglect, injustice, ignorance or complacency. It should help to eradicate them. It would be pretentious to think that a newspaper can change the course of world affairs – but at the local limit it can exert influence, it can probe, it can help get things done. The individual’s voice must not be stifled. Instead, the readers should be encouraged to express their opinions, fears, hopes and or their grievances on this platform.
1. According to the author, what is the main purpose of a newspaper?
(A) Project the news objectively and imaginatively
(B) To present facts in a blunt manner
(C) Exert influence on the individual
(D) To encourage readers to be pretentious
2. How are local affairs influenced by a newspaper?
(A) By focusing on world affairs
(B) By probing into the evils to society and awakening the people for change
(C) By influencing people through half truths
(D) By encouraging reader to accept their grievances
3. How can the readers express their grievances?
(A) By being complacent and satisfied
(B) By writing to journalists
(C) By supporting the local newspaper
(D) By writing to their local newspaper
4. What is meant by the expression ‘warts and all’ as used in the passage?
(A) Problem of the community
(B) Hopes and fears
(C) Truthful and outspoken
(D) Grievances of readers
5. Which of the following fact does the writer want to highlight through the passage?
(A) A newspaper should reflect the community it serves.
(B) A newspaper should only concentrate on local affairs
(C) Newspapers can eradicate injustice from the society
(D) None of the above
Passage-11
After almost three decades of contemplating Swarovski-encrusted navels on increasing flat abs, the Mumbai film industry is on a discovery of India and itself. With budgets of over 30 crore each, four soon to be released movies by premier directors are exploring the idea of who we are and redefining who the other is. It is a fundamental question which the bling-bling, glam-sham and dishamdisham tends to avoid. It is also a question which binds an audience when the lights go dim and the projector rolls: as a nation, who are we? As a people, where are we going?
The Germans coined a word for it, zeitgeist, which perhaps Yash Chopra would not care to pronounce. But at 72, he remains the person who can best capture it. After being the first to project the diasporic Indian on screen in Lamhe in 1991, he has returned to his roots in a new movie. Veer Zaara, set in 1986, where Pakistan, the traditional other, the part that got away, is the lover and the saviour. In Subhas Ghai’s Kisna, set in 1947, the other is the English woman. She is not a memsahib, but a mehbooba. In Ketan Mehta’s The Rising, the East India Englishman is not the evil oppressor of countless cardboard characterisations, which span the spectrum from Jewel in the Crown to Kranti, but an honourable friend.
This is Manoj Kumar’s Desh Ki dharti with a difference: there is culture, not contentious politics; balle balle, not bombs: no dooriyan (distance), only nazdeekiyan (closeness).
All four films are heralding a new hero and heroine. The new hero is fallible and vulnerable, committed to his dharma, but also not afraid of failure – less of a boy and more of a man. He even has a grown up name: Veer Pratap Singh in Veer-Zaara and Mohan Bhargav in Swades. The new heroine is not a babe, but often a babe, dressed in traditional Punjabi clothes, often with the stereotypical body type as well, as in Bride and Prejudice of Gurinder Chadha.
1. Which word Yash Chopra would not be able to pronounce?
(A) Bling + bling
(B) Zeitgeist
(C) Montaz
(D) Dooriyan
2. Who made Lamhe in 1991?
(A) Subhash Ghai
(B) Yash Chopra
(C) Aditya Chopra
(D) Sakti Samanta
3. Which movie is associated with Manoj Kumar?
(A) Jewel in the Crown
(B) Kisna
(C) Zaara
(D) Desh Ki dharti
4. Which is the latest film by Yash Chopra?
(A) Deewar
(B) Kabhi Kabhi
(C) Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
(D) Veer Zaara
5. Which is the dress of the heroine in Veer-Zaara?
(A) Traditional Gujarati Clothes
(B) Traditional Bengali Clothes
(C) Traditional Punjabi Clothes
(D) Traditional Madras Clothes
Passage-12
Gandhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is based on what human beings need rather than what they want. His early introduction to the teachings of Jains, Theosophists, Christian sermons, Ruskin and Tolstoy, and most significantly the Bhagavad Gita, was to have profound impact on the development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and their ecological interrelation. His deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor and rural Perhaps the moral principle for which Gandhi is best known is that of active non-violence, derived from the traditional moral restraint of not injuring another being. The most refined expression of this value is in the great epic of the Mahabharata, (c. 100 BCE to 200 CE), where moral development proceeds through placing constraints on the liberties, desires and acquisitiveness endemic to human life. One’s action is judged in terms of consequences and the impact it is likely to have on another. Jainas had generalized this principle to include all sentient creatures and biocommunities alike. Advanced Jaina monks and nuns will sweep their path to avoid harming insects and even bacteria. Non-injury is a non-negotiable universal prescription.
1. Which one of the following have a profound impact on the development of Gandhi’s holistic thinking on humanity, nature and their ecological interrelations?
(A) Jain teachings
(B) Christian sermons
(C) Bhagavad Gita
(D) Ruskin and Tolstoy
2. Gandhi’s overall social and environmental philosophy is based on human beings’:
(A) need
(B) desire
(C) wealth
(D) welfare
3. Gandhiji’s deep concern for the disadvantaged, the poor and rural population created an ambience for an alternative:
(A) rural policy
(B) social thinking
(C) urban policy
(D) economic thinking
4. Colonial policy and modernization led to the destruction of:
(A) major industrial infrastructure
(B) irrigation infrastructure
(C) urban infrastructure
(D) rural infrastructure
5. Gandhi’s active non-violence is derived from:
(A) Moral restraint of not injuring another being
(B) Having liberties, desires and acquisitiveness
(C) Freedom of action
(D) Nature-blind technology and enslavement of human spirit and energies
