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(i) uncertain (para 2) (ii) person interested in his own thoughts(para 4)(iii) doing something that one regards as undignified (para 6)Q.2 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it :1. In all these ways the parish, if not a true village, seemed quite a country placetwenty years ago, and its people were country people. Yet there was anotherside to the picture. The charm of it was a generalised one – I think an impersonalone; for with the thought of individual persons who might illustrate it there comestoo often into my memory a touch of sordidness, if not in one connection then inanother; so that I suspect myself, not for the first time, of sentimentality. Was asocial atmosphere after all anything but a creation of my own dreams? Was thevillage life really idyllic?2. Not for a moment can I pretend that it was. Patience and industry dignified it; acertain rough jollity, a large amount of good temper and natural kindness, kept itfrom being foul; but of the namby-pamby or soft-headed sentiment which manywriters have persuaded us to attribute to old English cottage life I think I have notin twenty years met with a single trace. In fact, there are no people so likely tomake ridicule or that sort of thing as my laboring class neighbours have alwaysbeen. They do not, like the middle classes, enjoy it. It is a commodity for whichthey have no use, as may appear in the following pages.3. To say this, however, is to say too little. I do not mean that the prevailing temperin the village was sordid, bitter, cruel, like that, say, of the Norman peasantry inde Maupassant’s short stories. By far the great majority of the people haveunusually seemed to me at the worst a little suspicious, a little callous, a littleundemonstrative, and at the best generous and happy-go-lucky to a fault.Nevertheless, tales as repulsive as any that the French writer has told of hiscountry people could have been collected here by any one with a taste for thatsort of thing. Circumstantial narratives have reached me of savage, or, say,brutish doings : of sons ill-treating their mothers, and husbands their wives; offights, and cruelties and sometimes – not often – of infamous vice. The likelihoodof these tales, which there was no reason to doubt, was strengthened by what Isaw and heard for myself. Drunkenness corrupted and disgraced the village life.So that good men went wrong and their families suffered miserably. I havehelped more than one drunkard home at night, and seen a wretched woman or afrightened child come to the door to receive him. Even in the seclusion of my owngarden I could not escape the evidences of mischief going on. For sounds echoup and down the valley as clearly as across the water of a lake; and sometimes aquiet evening would grow suddenly horrid with distracted noises of family quarrelin some distant cottage, when women shrilled and clamoured and men cursed,and all the dogs in the parish feel a-barking furiously.(Literary)
a. Answer the following questions briefly :(i) If village as a whole offered a charming picture which thought didindividual villagers convey to the writer’s mind?(ii) What had saved the village life from becoming foul?(iii) What is it that the writer could not find in village life?(iv) What did a majority of people happen to be?(v) What an overall picture of village life is portrayed in this passage?b. Find out words and phrases from the passage which have the followingmeanings:(i) dirty and unpleasant (para 1) (ii) cruelly insensitive (para 3)(iii) frightful (para 3)Assignment – 2 (Note-Making and Making Abstracts)Q.1 Read the following passage carefullyConsumerism has emerged as the dominant ideology of mankind at the turn ofthe Twentieth Century. Even the socialist countries which had been criticizing thewest stridently for its growing consumerism have been skillfully converted toconsumerism by the irresistible forces of advertisement unleashed by SatelliteTelevision.We find the pervasive influence of advertisement in our daily life. Advertisementcontrols our life from morning to evening. It dictates the brand of tea with whichwe begin our day and the brand of laxative we take before going to bed at night.We have developed a liking for a particular newspaper over the years. We havebeen told that the paper has the largest combined sale in the country or ispublished from the largest number of places. And this paper gives us admittanceinto a whole wideworld of advertisements at the beginning of the paper gives usadmittance into a whole wideworld of advertisements at the beginning of the day,While the man decides the exclusive brand of shirt he is to wear during theforthcoming annual review of performance by the top boss of the company from arange of readymade shirts advertised in the paper, the housewife makes up hermind to go to the “Fabulous Sarees” splashed in newspaper, posters andpamphlets doing the rounds in the town. The teenage daughter insists onwearing th jeans worn by her favourite filmstar shown in the Filmfare. The `onlyson’ in the family is determined to make the life of parents a hell if `Little MasterVideo-Games’ highly praised in the T.V. advertisement is not brought for himimmediately.Coaching schools have build up a roaring business, thanks to advertisements oftheir courses and success stories (true or false?) in the newspapers, magazinesand the Television. Many reluctant scholars have been enthused to part withhard-earned money to test their luck in competitions where success rate rangesfrom 1% to 2% at the most. For every success there are more than 98 failures.
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