Question

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

One more Olympics has gone by. A total of 974 medals were won

by 87 countries; 54 countries won at least one Gold. The U.S flew

home with the best medal tally of all time for that country with 121

medals. Notwithstanding the individual brilliance and the face-saving

medals of P.V.Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, India's performance is the

poorest among all big countries.

The discourse on this is an unhappy one: there has been a lot of hand-

wringing, blame on the Sports Ministry and sports administrators,

complaints about lack of facilities, grumbles about corruption being

the villain, and so on. India says the same things, once in four years,

during and after every Olympics. It should instead look for simple

lessons, develop a strategy to win medals and execute it diligently.

No, I don't believe that India should be planning for the Olympics

scheduled eight or twelve years from now. While long-term thinking

is good, any leader will tell you that it istoo slow. We should aim to win

a lot more medalsinTokyo in 2020.But how?

The final medals tally by country tells all sorts of stories. The top 22

countries

— those with a double —digit medals tally with a minimum of three

gold medals — took home a total of 702 medals, or 72 per cent of all

medals. The top ten suggests that only the established West (the

U.S., Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Australia) along with

Russia, Japan and South Korea will continue to dominate. The

emergence of China is explained as "you know the Chinese can dictate

anything, so they are not comparable." It is often implied that wealth

and size are the reasons for the success of these countries. They have

the facilities and programmes in place. They are bound to win. So goes

the argument and acceptance.

This logic should be probed further. Olympics medals are won by

people between the ages of 15 to 29, with a few exceptions on either

side of this age band. I looked at the number of medal wins in relation

to the population in the age group 15 to 29 in each country, for which

data is available. This was juxtaposed with medals won, to calculate

the numbers of medals won per lakh of population in this age group.

The story changes dramatically.



(a) What wasthe result of Olympics?

(b) How can India stand at the strong position in Olympics?

(c) How do the other countries dominate in Olympics?

(d) What are the short comings of the Olympic games?

2.2. Choose the most appropriate option: (4x1=4)

a) Identify the word which meansthe same as'a plan of action'(Para2)

(i) discourse (ii) wringing

(iii) complain (iv) strategy

b) Identify the word which meansthe same as'carry out'.(Para2)

a. strategy (ii) execute

(iii) grumbles (iv) diligently

c) Identify the word which meansthe same as'suggested'.(Para3)

(ii) implied (ii) established

(iii) dominate (iv) explained

d) Identify the word which meansthe same as

'investigated'.(Para4)

(i) exception (ii) juxtaposed

(iii) calculate (iv) probed​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

Explanation:

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