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c) Human brain is considered to be a sophisticated machine. It is the most sophisticated machine that is able to operate on ever-changing conditions and standards of judgment.
d) The expression means that there is no scope of imagination when we drive cars. If we have imagination at the time of driving, we may face accidents.
e) There are similarities between human brain and CPU. CPU is the prime unit of the computer. In the same way brain is the main organ of us. CPU controls the functions of a computer. Similarly, human brain controls all our activities.
5. Read the following text and answer the questions A and B.
Universities should never be made into mechanical organizations for collecting and distributing knowledge. Through them the people should offer their intellectual hospitality, their wealth of mind to others, and earn their proud right in return to receive gifts from the rest of the world. But in the whole length and breadth of India there is not a single University established in the modern time where a foreign or an Indian student can properly be acquainted with the best products of the Indian mind. For that we have to cross the sea, and knock at the doors of France and Germany. Educational institutions in our country are India’s alms-bowl of knowledge; they lower our intellectual self-respect; they encourage us to make a foolish display of decorations composed of borrowed feathers. Man’s intellect has a natural pride in its own aristocracy, which is the pride of its culture. Culture only acknowledges the excellence whose criticism is in its inner perfection, not in any external success. When this pride succumbs to some compulsion of necessity or lure of material advantage, it brings humiliation to the intellectual man. Modern India, through her very education, has been made to suffer this humiliation. Once she herself provided her children with a culture which was the product of her own ages of thought and creation. But it has been thrust aside, and we are made to tread the mill of passing examinations, not for learning anything, but for notifzing that we are qualified for employments under organizations conducted in English. Our educated community is not a cultured community, but a community of qualified candidates. Meanwhile the proportion of possible employments to the number of claimants has gradually been growing narrower, and the consequent disaffection has been widespread. At last the very authorities who are responsible for this are blaming their victims. Such is the perversity of human nature. It bears its worst grudge against those it has injured.
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives.            a) What does the word ‘hospitality’ in the passage refer to?
i. parsimony 
ii. miserly 
iii. niggardly 
iv. friendliness
Ans : iv. friendliness
b) How should be the universities according to Rabindranath Tagore?
i. It should be mechanical
ii. It should be for collecting education
iii. It should be for distributing education
iv. It should be for acquiring true knowledge
Ans : iv. It should be for acquiring true knowledge
c) What does the word ‘acquaint’ in the passage refer to?
i. inform 
ii. convey 
iii. familiarize 
iv. attach
Ans : iii. familiarize
d) Why do the Indians go the France and Germany?
i. They go there to get the best knowledge
ii. They go there for sightseeing
iii. They go there for learning their educational system
iv. They go there to live permanently
Ans : i. They go there to get the best knowledge
e) What does the word ‘aristocracy’ in the passage refer to?
i. royalty 
ii. nobility 
iii. fashion 
iv. yield
Ans : ii. nobility
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