Directions (Q. 1 – 3): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The interesting thing about material things is that they only think of happiness; how much happiness is always momentary in mature. Ergo, at this future, you feel you are the happiest person in the world, after buying your new car or flat screen TV just a few days later, these are the very possessions that cease to make you happy.
While you chase the bigger car and spend that extra bit of the wealth, you intercept someone’s share of the daily bread and also sacrifice those who have the maximum power to make you happy – family emotions and love.
Prolonged abstinence in feeling emotions finally destroys bliss and you don’t even realize when you’ve become a dry – eyed cripple …….. and then you land up in a sermon workshop to find out the real meaning of life – or whatever these workshops are capable of explaining. The truth is that such workshops are also driven by merchants who cash in on the dejected state of the people, a state created by their own fictional dreams. But by then it’s really too late.
By then you have made profits out of arms and engineered wars to keep that industry alive. You’re sold guns across country at supermarkets and trade more profits. You’ve lobbied that guns should be made accessible to the common man and all for the sake of profits. This makes you realize one day they are your own children who are in their one of the fire against the school goer, one who open fire at his schoolmates.
This is the society that finally creates an emotionless monster, who gets satisfaction in killing innocent adults and children alike for no cause, no reason and for none, but himself. It is the utter destruction of spiritualism and the total focus on endless self – gratification. Where so many single parent families and divorced exist, it is impossible to bring up children or influence the killers, any better.
1.What does the author mea by ‘intercepting someone’s share of daily bread? (4)
(1) Hindering the process of marketing in underdeveloped countries by the develop countries
(2) Denying material comfort to the Western world
(3) Affecting the social life of those working towards material comforts only
(4) Excess of wealth in Western world while people in poorer nations struggle for survival
(5) None of the above
2.What does the author mean by ‘shop window of the West’ when suggests to look inside the shop? (3)
(1).The sprawling supermarkets have been making profits out of inhuman activities.
(2)To look closely at the existing societal structure rather than superficially appreciating the delusive dazzle.
(3)To study their marketing techniques closely.
(1) Only A (2) Only B (3) A and B (4) B and C (5) Only C
3.The author’s main objective in writing the passage is (1)
(1) to explain that consumerist societies have their own draws backs which are overlooked by those who are blinded by its material glare
(2) to explain how too many material comforts have improved the living standard of common man in the West
(3) that young children should not be given access to guns and other ammunitions
(4) all NRIs are leading unmindful, second class lives abroad
(5) None of the above
