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1. Read the passage given below and answer any ten questions that follow -
(10 X 1 = 10)
I know poverty and misery and I quite appreciate by personal experience what it is to be
poor, what it is to have no clothes, what it is to have no books, what it is to struggle through
life, what it is to walk through the streets without an umbrella, without conveyance along
miles on dusty roads. I have been through it all and I can understand the difficulties that most
of you graduates have to face today. I am speaking from a long experience of 60 years. Please
do not imagine that all the 60 years are milk and roses. To be able to accomplish something, I
want to tell you that you have to go through such experiences.
I admit success in life is not always to be intelligent or be strong, and it is to some extent a bit
of a gamble, but those who got their minds right and those who know their job sooner or
later, will sooner perhaps than later make their way in life. But they should not be
disappointed if they do not, they have to face up life and take it as they find it.
What I say is that the great things in life are not really great things in life. What I love is to
enjoy the common things of life. I am happy that I am still able to sleep at night provided I
have three miles walk in the evening. I am still able to enjoy a good lunch or a good dinner. I
am still able to look at the blue sky and like it. I still like to walk in the open fields and like
the smell of the Ragi or the Jowar.
We think that happiness consists of going to pictures and seeing thrilling films and
technicolur dramas. Not at all, the
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