Question

Q1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (8 Marks)
As the Indian middle class is getting more affluent the number of celebration parties is growing
and so is the guest list. We have functions for birth celebrations, for birthday celebrations
promotions, sixteenth birthday celebrations, engagements, marriage celebrations marriage
jubilees and even retirement policies. Just inviting people to such celebrations is not a problem.
Because if a person eats at ore place, he/she would save the food he would have eaten
elsewhere. The problem is that there is no RSVP (Reply, if you please) culture in India. We
send invites, but we don't ask people if they plan to attend or not. The host does not get
feedback and has a vague idea of how many people will show up. Certainly, if more people
turned up unexpectedly and had no food to eat it would be embarrassing. So they just end up
making enough for a large number of people. The result is wastage of food, cooking gas and
manpower And because electricity is costly and food storage equipment is not easily available
a huge amount of food goes waste
Then we have people offering food and oil to Gods, while so many people go hungry, we are
bathing our gods in honey, milk or oil. We throw rice on couples at marriages. There is a lot of
wastage on how we get our food. The last end of our food supply chain is food vendors, who
lack the infrastructure to reduce food wastage.
Our best software engineers are writing software for banks in US and companies in Europe
Can't we launch a website that makes it possible for people to reply to invitations using an easy
online or mobile application? Yes, we need this one change in our culture-replying to invites
and confirming whether we can make it to the celebration or not? Best of the best MBAs ate
launching marketing campaigns worldwide to increase the market share of consumer products
worldwide. Can we launch a Eulture change company?
We make choices and every choice has a consequence. Sadly, when faced with the
consequences of our choices, we externalize the blame. We find someone else at fault. We
imagine only of the evil outside. We, pious, people would continue living our pristine and perfect
lives. If we stop wasting all this food, it would make extra food available thereby reducing food
demand and ultimately reducing food prices
1 On the basis of your reading answer the following questions by choosing the correct option
A. What is the meaning of the word "affluent"? (1 mk.)​

Answer 1

Answer:

affluent means increase, especially in terms of money

here it means increase in money/wealth