Read the following extract and complete the activities given below : (12 marks)Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. It has been tried again and again; by the people…
Q.2 (A) Read the following extract and complete the activities given below : (12 marks)
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. It has been tried again and again; by the people of the Middle Ages, and also by the French Revolution, a secular movement which reasserted the Brotherhood of Man. And it has always failed. The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. ‘Love is what is needed,’ we chant, and then sit back and the world goes on as before. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something much less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. No one has ever written an ode to tolerance, or raised a statute to her. Yet this is the quality which will be most needed after the war. This is the sound state of mind which we are looking for. This is the only force which will enable different races and classes and interests to settle down together to the work of reconstruction.
The world is very full of people — appallingly full; it has never been so full before, and they are all tumbling over each other. Most of these people one doesn’t know and some of them one doesn’t like. Well, what is one to do? If you don’t like people, put up with them as well as you can. Don’t try to love them; you can’t. But try to tolerate them. On the basis of that tolerance a civilized future may be built. Certainly I can see no other foundation for the post-war world.
A1. Choose two correct alternatives which define the theme of the extract : (2)
(i) Love is a greater force in private as well as in public affairs.
(ii) To rebuild civilization we need tolerance more than love.
(iii) Patience is the solution in any sort of confrontation.
(iv) When you do not like people, nations or civilizations, you need to love them to change them.
A2. Complete the following table with the help of the extract : (2)
Give one merit and one demerit of ‘Love’ and ‘Patience.’
| Love | (i) .......... | (ii) .......... |
| Patience | (i) .......... | (ii) .......... |
A3. Write how we can build up a civilized society; with the help of the extract. (2)
A4. ‘Love and tolerance are the true indicators of a civilized person.’ Justify. (2)
A5. Do as directed : (2)
(i) It has been tried again and again. (Identify the correct Active Voice of the above sentence from the given options and rewrite.)
(a) They had tried it again and again.
(b) They has tried it again and again.
(c) They tried it again and again.
(d) They have tried it again and again.
(ii) It is the sound state of mind which we are looking for. (Identify the correct simple sentence from the given options and rewrite.)
(a) It is the sound state of mind and we are looking for it.
(b) We are looking for the sound state of mind.
(c) We are looking for it but it is the sound state of mind.
(d) The sound state of mind is looked for.
A6. Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meanings in column ‘B’. (2)
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
|---|---|
| (i) Secular | (a) feeling of great friendship and understanding between people. |
| (ii) Absurd | (b) a society which has its own highly developed culture and ways of life. |
| (iii) Civilization | (c) not connected with any religion. |
| (iv) Brotherhood | (d) not at all logical or sensible. |