Question

08 Annual examination 2020-21 Subject English Time:3hrs Class 9th. MM-100 1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Our opportunities are great but let me warn you that when power outstrips ability, we will fall on evil days. We should develop competence 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. A free India will be judged by the way in which it will serve the interests of the common man in the matter of food, clothing, shelter and social activities. Unless we destroy 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 administrations well as in the production and distribution of the necessary goods of life. Questions: a) What is meant by 'when power out strips ability'? b) Who has to assume responsibility now? Why? What are the consequences of corruption? d) Find out from the passage: Synonym of the word 'competence Antonym of the weakness'​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer:

a).we will fall on evil days.

b).We have to assume the responsibility ourselves for what we do.

c).Undermining the Sustainable Development Goals

d). ability is meaning

strength is opposite