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Read the passage below and answer the questions following it.
The Mumbai that we know about is a land of riches and dazzles. It is also the
land of teeming millions who struggle to make a living. Mumbai is also the
tinsel town, where people come with dreams and aspirations to make it big. That
is a familiar Mumbai. It is celebrated in speeches and advertised on television
and in magazines. It has the highest mass standard of living India has ever
known.
In the 1950’s this Mumbai worried about itself yet even its anxieties were
products of abundance. The title of a brilliant book was widely misinterpreted,
and the familiar Mumbai began to call itself the affluent society. There was
introspection about the Maine Lines and tail fins; there was discussion of the
emotional suffering taking place in the suburbs. In all this, there was an
implicit assumption that the basic grinding economic problems had been solved
in the metropolitan Mumbai. In this theory the city’s problems were no longer a
matter of basic human needs, of food, shelter and clothing. Now, they were seen
as qualitative, the questions of learning to live decently amid luxury.
While this discussion was carried on, there existed another Mumbai. In it dwelt
somewhere between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 citizens of this land. They were
poor. They still are. To be sure, the other Mumbai is not impoverished in the
same sense as those poor nations where millions cling to hunger as a defence
against starvation. The city has escaped such extremes. That does not change
the fact the tens of millions of Mumbaites, at this very moment, maimed in body
and spirit, exist at levels beneath those necessary for human decency. If these
people are not starving, they are hungry and sometimes fat with hunger, for
that is what cheap foods do. They are without adequate housing and education
and medical care.
1. The clause, “where millions cling to hunger as a defence against starvation”
means
a) That the people of the poor nations foolishly accept hunger as a barrier
against starvation
b) That the people of the poor nations endure both hunger as a barrier against
starvation
c) That the people of the poor nations cannot escape either hunger or
starvation
d) That the people of the poor nations try to transcend both hunger and
starvation
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ANSWER: That the people of the poor nations foolishly accept hunger as a
barrier against starvation
2. The citizens of the other Mumbai
a) Are hungry because they go without any food
b) Are hungry because they do not get a rich diet
c) Are hungry because they get only cheap food
d) Are fat yet hungry because the food that they eat is poor in nutritive
value.
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ANSWER: Are fat yet hungry because the food that they eat is poor in
nutritive value
3. The phrase, “basic grinding economic problem” means
a) That the basic needs of the people have been solved
b) That the people suffer terribly due to the absence of adequate housing,
education and medical care
c) That the people are without good housing, education and shelter facilities
d) That the people have become desperate due to widespread poverty
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ANSWER: That the people suffer terribly due to the absence of adequate
housing, education and medical care
4. The worries of this Mumbai were:
a) Were a product of the second world war
b) Were a product of world- wide economic crisis
c) Were the result of its wealth
d) Were products of cut – throat competition
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ANSWER: Were a product of world- wide economic crisis
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