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8. Choose the option that CORRECTLY matches the paragraph titles with paragraph number.

PARAGRAPH NUMBER TITLE

1. (i) The Shock about Maths and Science

2. (ii) The Key to Success in College

3. (iii) The Study of 2008

4. (iv) Importance of Technical Reading

5. (v) The Homework Tasks

(a) 1-(ii), 2-(i), 3-(v), 4-(iii), 5-(iv) (b) 1-(iii), 2-(i), 3-(iv), 4-(ii), 5-(v)
(c) 1-(iii), 2-(i), 3-(v), 4-(ii), 5-(iv) (d) 1-(iii), 2-(iv), 3-(v), 4-(ii), 5-(i)
9. Find a word from the passage which means ‘confused’. (para 2)

10. Find a word from the passage which means the opposite of ‘misunderstand’. (para 3)
11. How is technical reading becoming more and more important every day?

12. What is the conclusion of the passage?

XI. Read the following passage carefully.

SUBLIME THOUGHTS OF S. RADHAKRISHNANTHOUGHTS OF S. RADHAKRISHNAN
SUBLIME
(1) “Our opportunities are great but let me warn you when power outstrips ability, we
will fall on evil days. We should develop competency and ability which would help us
utilize the opportunities which are now open to us. From tomorrow morning–from
midnight today–we cannot throw the blame on the British. We have to assume the
responsibility ourselves for what we do.”

(2) “A free India will be judged by the way in which it will serve the interests of the
common man in the matters of food, clothing, shelter and social activities. Unless
we root out corruption in high places and root out every trace of nepotism, love of
power, profiteering and black marketing which have spoiled the good name of this
country in recent times, we will not be able to raise the standards of efficiency in
administration as well as in the production and distribution of the necessary goods
of life.”

(3) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru referred to the great contribution which this country will make
to the promotion of world peace and the welfare of mankind. The chakra, the Ashoka

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