Question

SECTION - A (40 Marks )

Q 1. Read the passage given below and choose the correct answers to the questions that follow :

A. Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently there is

maladjustment. The whole psychology of the emotions and instincts is as yet in its infancy; a

beginning has been made by psychoanalysis, but only a beginning. What we may accept

from psychoanalysis is the fact that people will, in action, pursue various ends which they do

not consciously desire, and will have an attendant set of quite irrational beliefs which

enable them to pursue these ends without knowing that they are doing so. But orthodox

psychoanalysis has unduly simplified our unconscious purposes, which are numerous, and

differ from one person to another. It is to be hoped that social and political phenomena will

soon come to be understood from this point of view, and will thus throw light on average

human nature. Moral self-control, and external prohibition of harmful acts, are not

adequate methods of dealing with our anarchic instincts. The only adequate method is to

discover what are the needs of our instinctive nature, and then to search for the least

harmful way of satisfying them. Understanding of human nature must be the basis of any

real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the

physical world , but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars

and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a

happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create.

Questions : 5

Marks

i) What have machines failed to change ?

a) our feelings b) our way of life c) infancy d) society

ii) what is the suitable method to deal with our anarchic instincts ?

a) external prohibition b) moral self control

c) discover the needs of our nature and satisfy them d) all of these

iii) Human life must be improved by……………………….. .

a) Science b) understanding human nature

c) machines d) mastering the laws of physical world

iv) Our unconscious purposes are…………………………… .

a) simplified b)different c) numerous d) both b and c

v) Which of these is the least understood phenomenon ?

a) nature of electrons b) human nature c) nature of stars d) physical world​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) our way of life

2) discover the needs of our nature and satisfy them

3) understanding human nature

4) simplified

5) Human nature