SECTION-A: READING
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. A noble purpose gives meaning to one's own life and if os benefit to other. I realised this when
researching on and writing about the life of Jamsetji Tata. What gave one man living in a colonised
country the vision to advance it in the community of nations? He not only gave India the power of
steel and hydroelectric but also an institute of research.
energy,
2. He sent an educationist to Europe and the United States to report on what should be the best Model
for India. The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was recommended as the Model. But Jamsetji Made it a point to see that his name was not associated with the university. After his death, his
dream came true with the establishment of the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. It was to bethe fountainhead of Science in the decades to
3. There are others too whose purpose in life has made a difference to society. Mother Teresa had a comfortable life at Loretto Convert, Kolkata. On a train journey to Darjeeling, she felt her
'calling' and wanted to give up her comfortable life in the convent and serve the poor and theneedy
4. After that, she took a three-month nursing course and returned to Kolkata. She devoted her time to the sick and the homeless. Touched by her sacrifice, some of her students joined her and work
began. Not everyone has such a strong calling. When I asked her how one could be sure of one's
calling, she replied, Deep down in our hearts we know exactly what our calling is, if we are
sincereOne's purpose I shaped over a period of time, but every noble purpose is based on a feeling forthe suffering of others and a esire for alleviating that condition. Some years ago, in Kerala, a
young man saw his father join Gandhiji and fight for opening temples to the Harijans. When he
grew up, the boy decided to take up agricultural studies, because he had seen the havoc caused by
the Bengal Famine. He went to Europe and studied agriculture. On his return to India, he spearhead the Green Revolution Dr. M.S Swaminathan demonstrates hot purpose intensifies with time
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Section: A [Reading]
Read the passage given below.
(10 Mark)
1. Like Bunny and me, perhaps you too are beginning to think twice before having people over
for lunch or dinner. Soaring food prices of everything from tomatoes to tapioca, from
potatoes to pumpkins, are part of the problem, but only part.
2. The real problem is diet. Many, if not most, of the people, you known, gender and age no
bar, are on some sort of diet. To further complicate matters, everyone's on a different die
from everyone else's. In a middle-class India, everyone is becoming health-conscious, diet
are the latest fad and going on a special designer diet is even more fashionable than
snapping selfies with your latest model customized iphone.
3. There's one diet, called the Atkins diet, in which people will eat only proteins (meat, fish
eggs) and veggies, but no cereals or crabs, as carbohydrate are referred to in diatese, the
special language in which dieters speak to each other.
4. Then there are people who'll eat all carbs but won't eat wheat be use wheat has gluten in it.
There are diehard non-vegetarians who become venetians on Tuesday or during certain
phases of the moon. There are vegans who are not only pure vegetarians but won't eat any
animal products, like cheese or Paneer, thought food cooked in ‘asli ghee' is presumably
exempt
5. There's even something called the paleo diet or caveman's diet, in which you are only
allowed to eat what our prehistoric ancestors ate before they invented agriculture. So,
and berries and pls markbranilest