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e. Blind patriotism is unfavourable to:
i) Individuals ii) national progress iii) both
2. Answer the following questions.
a. Why is travelling considered to be an integral part of education.
b. Why do travellers enjoy returning home from a journey?
c. Describe the home-abiding men?
d. What retards material and moral progress?
D. Read the passage on Villages of India and answer the questions that follow.
India is primarily a land of villages. Hence, Gandhiji laid a great stress on rural
upliftment, village economy and cottage industry. Village life has been changing rapidly
since independence. Schools, colleges, hospitals, parks, etc. have been set-up in
villages. Villages are being electrified. They are being linked with the cities and other
villages with good roads. The villagers used to be superstitious and custom-ridden in
the past. But TV, newspaper and cinema have brought them in touch with the
modern world. The government has started several projects to provide employment
to the villagers. Their traditional crafts are being encouraged by giving them incentives.
This will help in stopping the migration of the rural people to the cities. Life in Indian
village is natural, chaste and simple. Nature is around them. Social relations in our
villages are sincere and polite. Life here moves on at a slow but sure pace.
1. Put a tick (3) on the correct option.
a. Social relations in our villages are ___________.
i) sincere ii) polite iii) both
b. Gandhiji laid great stress on ___________.
i) village industry ii) cottage industry iii) both
c. In the past, the villagers used to be ___________.
i) superstitious ii) custom ridden iii) both
d. Traditional crafts are being encouraged by giving them ___________.
i) incentives ii) opportunity iii) none
e. India is primarily a land of ___________.
i) towns ii) cities iii) villages
2. Answer the following questions.
a. What did Gandhiji lay stress upon?
b. What is our government doing for the upliftment of villages?
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