36. Reading Skills Comprehension: Industrialisation

Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:-

INDUSTRIALIZATION

(C.D.S. 1903)

Mahatma Gandhi believed that industrialization was no answer to the problems that plague the mass of India’s poor and that villagers should be taught to be self-sufficient in food, weave their own cloth from cotton and eschew the glittering prizes that the twentieth century so temptingly offers. Such an idyllic and rural paradise did not appear to those who inherited the reins of political power.

1. Mahatma Gandhi’s views opposed the industrialization of villages because

(a) it would take away the skill of the villagers.

(b) it would undermine self-sufficiency and destroy the beauty of the life of the villager.

(c) it would help the poor and not the rich.

(d) it would affect the culture of the Indians.

2. The meaning of ‘the glittering prizes that the twentieth century so temptingly offers’ is

(a) replacement of rural by urban interests

(b) absence of violence and corruption

(c) pursuit of commercialized material culture

(d) complete removal of poverty

3. The basis of ‘an idyllic and rural paradise’ is

(a) self-sufficiency in food and clothes and simplicity of lifestyle

(b) supporting those holding powerful political positions

(c) rapid industrialization of villages

(d) bringing to the villages the glittering prizes of the twentieth century

4. Which of the following best illustrates the relationship between the phrases:

(i) ‘eschew the glittering prizes’; and

(ii) ‘idyllic and rural paradise’?

(a) the meaning of (i) is directly opposite to (ii).

(b) (i) and (ii) are identical in meaning.

(c) first of all, you must have (ii) in order to do (i).

(d) unless you do (i), you cannot have (ii).

ANSWERS:-

1.(b)

2. (c)

3. (a)

4. (d)

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