Question

8. To the assembled guests and the watching world, I said: Today, all of us dob
presence here... confer glory and hope to new born liberty. Out of the experience
extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which an
humanity will be proud. We, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given
the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. We thank all
of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the
people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for
justice, for peace, for human dignity.
(a) Thé extraordinary human disaster that Mandela has mentioned in the extract is
the policy of ....
(i) apartheid (ii) freedom (iii) slave trading (iv) governance
(b) The speaker wished to refer to the victory as a common victory for ......
for peace, for human dignity.
(i) Blacks (ii) justice (iii) Whites (iv) none
(c) The speaker called the victory as a common victory because the entire world was
.......... of apartheid.
(d) Give an antonym of 'common' from the extract.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

1) apartheid

2) justice

3) under the hold of

4) rare

Answer 2

The answers are 1) apartheid, 2) justice, 3) under the hold of, and 4) rare.

Explanation:

• In the extract, Mandela mentioned about apartheid, which he considers as the extraordinary human disaster.
• The speaker wished that the victor becomes common when it is for justice, for human dignity and for peace.
• The victory was called as common victory by the speaker because the entire world was under the hold of apartheid.
• The meaning of the word, ‘common’ is general. The antonym for the word, ‘common’ is ‘rare’.

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