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1. Read the following passage carefully: 1.Right from childhood, our minds are conditioned to suit a particular society. We are taught what to think and what not to think, but are never taught how to think intelligently. We meet a person for the first time and form an opinion about him according to our own perception or according to the conditioning of our mind. 2.Minds are set like clay in a mould and to break this needs lots of effort. Minds are conditioned to think in a particular way. This is called unintelligent thinking. Thanks to the Hindi movies of the Seventies and Eighties, a heroine in a sari or a salwar suit means she is almost like a goddess. The vamp, of course, is in Western attire. 3.What kind of clothes a person wears is that person's personal business. But the question is why women don't have the same sort of confidence that men have when wearing clothes they want to. Why do women concentrate so much on their physical appearance in the first place? 4.A slightly plump lady is reluctant to jump into a pool full of men, never mind what size or appearance the men have. The issue is that of freedom of mind. The mind cannot be free as long as it remains moulded or conditioned. The conditioned mind cannot go beyond the barriers it has built around itself. Most of us fit into a mould where we remain stuck throughout our lives. 5.Hence, children should be encouraged to investigate and question these stereotypes. They should not be moulded in a particular scheme of things. The issue of clothes is only one aspect of a conditioned mind. 6.It is a little strange that even in the world of computers and the internet, people have not changed. Meditation helps the mind to think clearly and form opinions independent of social pressure. The development of a good mind is the chief concern of true education and independent thinking. 7.In cultivating intelligence, there must be a sense of freedom. This does not mean freedom to do whatever one wants. It is the freedom with which a person is aware of his/her own motives and desires - which are revealed to him/her through daily thoughts, feelings and actions.
1.1. Based on your reading of the above passage, complete the following statements. Write the answers in your answer sheets against correct blank number.
a. Our minds are conditioned to suit a particular society as
b. The drawback is that
c. Two factors that help a person to form an opinion about a stranger are 1. and 2.
d. 'Unintelligent thinking' occurs when
e. The author gives the illustration of clothes to highlight a point. The issue is that
f. Two factors that help the development of a good mind are 1. and 2.
g. In cultivating intelligence there must be a sense of freedom. One should enjoy freedom
h. 'Freedom' however does not mean
l.ii. Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following words, a. making the mind, feeling etc. more educated and refined (para 7) -
b. quality of understanding, insight (para 1) -
c. unwilling to agree (para 4) -
d. fixed, unchanging or standardized, without individuality (para 5) -​

Answers

Answered by jayansapolia
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Answer:

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Explanation:

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