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Nations are built by the imagination and untiring enthusiastic efforts of generations. One generation transfers the fruits of its toil to another, which then takes forward the mission. As the coming generation also has its dreams and aspirations for the nation’s future, it therefore adds something from its side to the national vision; which the next generation strives hard to achieve. This process goes on and the nation climbs steps of glory and gains higher strength. The first vision: Freedom of India

Any organisation, society or even a nation without a vision is like a ship cruising on the high seas without any aim or direction. It is the clarity of national vision which constantly drives the people towards the goal.
Our last generation, the glorious generation of freedom fighters, led by Mahatma Gandhi and many others set for the nation a vision of free India. This was the first vision, set by the people for the nation. It therefore went deep into the minds and the hearts of the masses and soon became the great inspiring and driving force for the people to collectively plunge into the struggle for freedom movement. The unified dedicated efforts of the people from every walk of life won freedom for the country. The second vision: Developed India
The next generation (to which I also belong) has put India strongly on the path of economic, agricultural and technological development. But India has stood too long in the line of developing nations. Let us, collectively, set the second national vision of Developed India. I am confident that it is very much possible and can materialise in 15 – 20 years’ time. Developed status
What does the developed nation status mean for the common man? It means the major transformation of our national economy to make it one of the largest economies in the world, where the countrymen live well above the poverty line, their education and health is of high standard, national security is reasonably assured, and the core competence in certain major areas gets enhanced significantly so that the production of quality goods, including exports, is rising and thereby bringing all-round prosperity for the countrymen.
What is the common link needed to realise these sub-goals? It is the technological strength of the nation, which is the key to reach this developed status. Build around our strength
The next question that comes to the mind is, how can it be made possible? We have to build and strengthen our national infrastructure in an all-round manner, in a big way. Therefore, we should build around our existing strengths including the vast pool of talented scientists and technologists and our abundant natural resources. The manpower resource should be optimally utilised to harness health care, services sectors and engineering goods sectors.

Questions

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any five out of the seven questions by choosing the correct option.

(i) According to the author, what, from the following, a nation without a vision is?
(a) Futuristic
(b) Prudent

(c) Desultory (d) Belligerent
(ii) Select the option that suitably completes the dialogue with reference to the above passage.

John: The diversity of India is a gift, wouldn’t you agree? I think it adds to the glory of our nation and makes it unique in its existence.

Matt: I do agree. In fact, I think ................ .
1. (a) If everyone stays isolated, that would nurture the nation’s strength
2. (b) Unity in diversity is what will make our nation great
3. (c) Generalisation of every citizen as a part of one single community is very integral to the growth of the nation
4. (d) It separates our nation and makes India superior than all others
(iii) Choose the option that best conveys the message in – “It therefore went deep into the minds and the hearts of the masses and soon became the great inspiring and driving force...”

(a) A person is a coward because they think they are.
(b) A person is brave because their family and friends support them.
(c) A person’s happiness depends upon a healthy relationship with the society.
(d) A person’s valour is determined by their contribution to the world.

(iv) What qualities do the writer of the above passage displays when they talk about the necessary steps to build our nation’s strength? Choose one option from the following.

(a) Ambitious and alertness
(b) Tendency to help everyone in need
(c) Visionary and confident
(d) Leading people by trying to do everything in their own way
(v) Select the option with the underlined words that can suitably replace ‘driving’.
(a) He was the acting force behind the new ballet company. (b) You should never take chance while swiftly drunk riding a car.

(c) Covered in engine, dragging forcefully the 31-foot propeller shaft for the 2 propellers.

(d) During the first year of the war, he was active in exerting force out and maltreating Union men.
(vi) What does the author advise, in paragraph 7?

(a) To strengthen the nation’s technological strength.
(b) To strengthen the nation’s defensive strength.
(c) To strengthen the nation’s nuclear strength.
(d) To strengthen the nation’s educational strength.
(vii) Choose the option that lists the quote best expressing the central idea of the passage. (a) Not merely a nation, but a nation of nations. (Lyndon B Johnson)
(b) To survive in peace and harmony united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. (Pauline Hanson)
(c) After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. (Nelson Manela)
(d) In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. (F. D. Roosevelt)

Passage

Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. Let’s get the takes back to their books, is perhaps the expert view, if not in so many words. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of course, classes, camps and workshop involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like that seem to cram their calendar. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcase. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
It is a far cry from summer holidays one experienced while growing up. For holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seem to be centered around this annual ritual of homecoming and of affirmation. We tendered tacit apologies for the separateness entailed in being individuals even as we scurried back into the cauldron of community and continuity represented by family. Summer vacation was a time sticky with oneness, as who we were and what we owned oozed out from our individual selves into a collective pot.
Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to re-affirm one’s connectedness with one’s larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. As times change, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in fundamental ways. Today, we are attached much more to the work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. Summer breaks have become like working vacations, especially for the children. We refuel our individual selves now and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer vacation was the best time of their lives.

Questions
Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any five out of the seven questions by choosing the correct option.
(i) According to the passage, what, from the following, is the lesson being taught by the author’s nostalgic mention of the summer holidays of the older times?
(a) It was a time when everyone looked for adventure and new experiences.
(b) It was a time when everyone went back to their homes and relaxed.
(c) It was a time when everyone apologised to their loved ones.
(d) It was a time of mending broken relationships and building new ones.
(ii) Select the option that suitably completes the dialogue with reference to the above passage.
Jai: Vacations are starting from next week. Let’s get together to decide where we want to go on a tour. What do you think?
Prateek: No, I can’t come with you. My parents .................. .
(a) Are taking me and my siblings to our grandparents’ village to meet our relatives
(b) Want me to stay home and work on my studies

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