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Read the passage and answer the following questions.

The real indictment against colonialism was to be found in the villages of India. There was a rot at the top, too, in the thousands of young intellectuals trained in English schools for jobs that did not exist except in the limited Civil Service. The towns and cities were frothing with unhappy young men, cultured and well educated, who could find no jobs and were not allowed by the old super-structure of empire to create them. But the real proof of evil, I say again, was in the miserable villages. I thought I had seen poverty in China, yet when I saw the Indian villages, I knew that the Chinese peasant was rich in comparison. Only the Russian peasant I had seen years before could compare with the Indian villager, although that Russian was a very different creature and inferior in many ways. And the children, the little children of the Indian villages, how they tore at my heart thin, big bellied and all with huge dark eyes! I wondered that any Englishman could look at them and not excuse himself. Three hundred years of English occupation and rule and could there be children like this? Yes, millions of them!. And the final indictment surely was that the life span in India was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years! No wonder, then that a man married very young so that there could be children, as many as possible, before he died. I loved England, remembering all the happy journeys there, but in India I saw an England I did not know.

The writer believes that a/an... should feel sorry at the sight of these poor children.

• Russian

• Englishman

• Indian

• Chinese

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

The real indictment against colonialism was to be found in the villages of India. There was a rot at the top, too, in the thousands of young intellectuals trained in English schools for jobs that did not exist except in the limited Civil Service. The towns and cities were frothing with unhappy young men, cultured and well educated, who could find no jobs and were not allowed by the old super-structure of empire to create them. But the real proof of evil, I say again, was in the miserable villages. I thought I had seen poverty in China, yet when I saw the Indian villages, I knew that the Chinese peasant was rich in comparison. Only the Russian peasant I had seen years before could compare with the Indian villager, although that Russian was a very different creature and inferior in many ways. And the children, the little children of the Indian villages, how they tore at my heart thin, big bellied and all with huge dark eyes! I wondered that any Englishman could look at them and not excuse himself. Three hundred years of English occupation and rule and could there be children like this? Yes, millions of them!. And the final indictment surely was that the life span in India was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years! No wonder, then that a man married very young so that there could be children, as many as possible, before he died. I loved England, remembering all the happy journeys there, but in India I saw an England I did not know.

The English rule made India

• technically rich

• economically poor

• industrially strong

• culturally strong

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

The real indictment against colonialism was to be found in the villages of India. There was a rot at the top, too, in the thousands of young intellectuals trained in English schools for jobs that did not exist except in the limited Civil Service. The towns and cities were frothing with unhappy young men, cultured and well educated, who could find no jobs and were not allowed by the old super-structure of empire to create them. But the real proof of evil, I say again, was in the miserable villages. I thought I had seen poverty in China, yet when I saw the Indian villages, I knew that the Chinese peasant was rich in comparison. Only the Russian peasant I had seen years before could compare with the Indian villager, although that Russian was a very different creature and inferior in many ways. And the children, the little children of the Indian villages, how they tore at my heart thin, big bellied and all with huge dark eyes! I wondered that any Englishman could look at them and not excuse himself. Three hundred years of English occupation and rule and could there be children like this? Yes, millions of them!. And the final indictment surely was that the life span in India was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years! No wonder, then that a man married very young so that there could be children, as many as possible, before he died. I loved England, remembering all the happy journeys there, but in India I saw an England I did not know.

The average life of an Indian during the British rule was 27 yr. The result was that

• Indians married young

• Indians lived a healthy life

• Indians did not have many children

• India was full of young people

Read the passage and answer the following questions.

The real indictment against colonialism was to be found in the villages of India. There was a rot at the top, too, in the thousands of young intellectuals trained in English schools for jobs that did not exist except in the limited Civil Service. The towns and cities were frothing with unhappy young men, cultured and well educated, who could find no jobs and were not allowed by the old super-structure of empire to create them. But the real proof of evil, I say again, was in the miserable villages. I thought I had seen poverty in China, yet when I saw the Indian villages, I knew that the Chinese peasant was rich in comparison. Only the Russian peasant I had seen years before could compare with the Indian villager, although that Russian was a very different creature and inferior in many ways. And the children, the little children of the Indian villages, how they tore at my heart thin, big bellied and all with huge dark eyes! I wondered that any Englishman could look at them and not excuse himself. Three hundred years of English occupation and rule and could there be children like this? Yes, millions of them!. And the final indictment surely was that the life span in India was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years! No wonder, then that a man married very young so that there could be children, as many as possible, before he died. I loved England, remembering all the happy journeys there, but in India I saw an England I did not know.

The towns and cities were frothing with unhappy young men. The underlined phrase means

• devoid of

• angry with

• full of

• lacking in

Which one of the following recommended the 'Three Language Formula'?

• National Policy on Education, 1968

• Chattopadhyaya Commission, 1985

• National Policy on Education, 1986

• Kotthari Commission, 1966

Giving effective feedback to the learners means

• diagnosing problems and guiding the learners on how to improve

• correcting their mistakes in the class

• giving appropriate time and space for corrections

• focus on positive aspects as well as areas of development

Constructivist approach to learning does not emphasise

• that authentic task in a meaningful context should be used

• teaching as the transmission of knowledge from the enlightened to the unenlightened

• that learners construct knowledge for themselves

• knowledge construction instead of knowledge reproduction

A purposeful collection of students' work that demonstrates their efforts, progress and achievement in a given area is called a/an

• anecdotal record

• portfolio

• checklist

• rating scale

A learner-centered class should not be one where

• the learners should do the given exercise silently as silence is better for learning to occur

• the learner's personal views and feelings are taken into consideration

• the learners are intrinsically interested and are inclined to explore

• the teacher acts more as another participant in the learning process

While selecting a reading text for your students, which of the following is least important?

• It is appropriate for their age level

• The content of text is accessible to the learners to apply their own background knowledge

• It hardly gives space to think ahead, hypothesize and predict

• The language of the text is comprehensible to the learners