MM-80
Paber: English
YT=3hrs
30 marks
Section-A (Reading)
(12 marks)
1 Read the passage given below carefully:
Time is our tyrant) We are chronically aware of the moving minute hand, even of
the moving second hand, we have to be. There are trains to be caught, clocks to be
punched, tasks to be done in specified periods, records to be broken by fractions of a
second, machines that set the pace and have to be kept up with. Our consciousness of
the smallest units of time is now acute. To us, for example, the moment 8.17 am means
something-something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily
train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentri instant was without significance- did not
even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stephenson were part inventors of
time.
Another time emphasising entity is the factory and its dependent, the office. Factories
exist for the purpose of getting certain quantities of goods made in a certain time. The
old artisan worked as it suited him, with the result that consumers generally had to wait
for the poods they had ordered from him. The factory is a device for making workmen
hurry. The machine revolves so often each minute: so many movements have to le
made, so many pieces produced each hour. As a result, the factory worker (and the
same is true of the office worker) is compelled to know time in its smallest fractions. In
the handwork age, there was no such compulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds.
Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely
whenever our travels take us me some corner of the world where people are not
Interested in minutes and seconds) The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is
appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fived man
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