Question

1. Read the passage carefully. (8)

Martin Luther King, one of the greatest men ever to walk on this earth, started the defence

force with which the American Blacks got their rights gained freedom from the distressing

racial discrimination.

Martin was born on January 15, 1929. His family lived on the outskirts of Atlanta. The fact

that he could not play with White children, or that he had to offer a seat in the bus to a

White, disturbed him. When he was eight years old, his father a Baptist pastor, told the

family a sad story: Bessie Smith, a great singer, met with an accident. An ambulance rushed

her to the nearest hospital, but she was not admitted because she was a Black. The

ambulance took her from one hospital to another, but she could not find a place for herself

because these hospitals were only for the Whites. She died for want of blood. From that

day, Martin Luther King dreamt of becoming a liberator of the Blacks.

King completed his studies at More House College, and then earned a doctor’s degree in

theology at Boston University. In 1955, King married Alabama Soprano Coretta Scott. That

very year he became a pastor and preached his first sermon in the Baptist Church of

Atlanta. As a young man, he was greatly impressed by Mahatma Gandhi’s success in the

political field and the power of ahimsa. King decided to follow the path of non-violence and

get millions of Black their due. He felt that the Blacks had immensely contributed towards

the building of America, and there was no reason why they should not be treated with

respect. King drew national attention in 1956. Since the Blacks were not permitted to sit in

the same buses as the Whites, he led a boycott of public buses in Montgomery. A year later,

after many arrests and treats, the US Supreme Court gave a ruling that racial segregation of

public transport was unlawful. This victory taught the Blacks the power of non-violence.

After 1957, King began visiting various places to deliver lectures. Soon he became a

powerful orator, drawing the attention of people the world over.

King continued the fight, a peaceful fight, demanding the rights of the Blacks. In 1964, he

was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1967, King led many peaceful demonstration

against the Vietnam War and in 1968 he declared a Poor People’s Campaign. On April 4, of

that very year, while planning a demonstration of striking sanitation workers, he was shot

dead by an assassin.Secretary, Indian Medical Association in Delhi, points out: “Patients just want

momentary relief and aren’t willing to get to the root of the problem, so pills are eaten

like peanuts.”

5. Another reason for spiralling self-treatment is that general practitioners or GPs, doctors

who have shone the torch down our throats from our toothless babyhood to our aiming

adulthood, are gradually vanishing.

6. In real life, we patients do not have a family friend and a philosopher - our GPs who

know us by blood group, allergies, medical history and emotional upheavals. Hesitant

about dashing off to intimidating ENT specialist when we have throat trouble, we just

check with the chemist. That could be a dose for disaster.

A. Answer the following questions briefly: ( ) 2 4 ×

(i) Why do people indulge in self-medication?

(ii) Why can self-medication have dangerous results?

(iii) What is the effect of an aspirin on our health when taken on an empty stomach?

(iv) What does the habit of taking paracetamol for prolonged periods and in high dosage

cause?

B. Find a word in the passage which conveys similar meaning as the following: ( ) 1 4 ×

(i) fake

(ii) most obvious/easily understood

(iii) sensitivity

(iv) result solv it please ​

Answer 1

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