AP ICET 16th May 2016

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A shot smashed the wing-mirror and I trod on the accelerator even harder trying to coax a little more speed out ofthe screaming engine. Beside me Priya was quite calm, but I could sense that she was as terrified as I was. She was clinging onto herseat so as not to be thrown on to me as we hurled round bends and comers, and bounced up and down on the rough surface. It was no more than cart track, really. My only thoughtwas to get to a town or village or at least to some sign of humanity — they would never dare shoot us down in cold blood in front of witnesses.

The little van was out of sight now round oneof the bends, but when we cameto an unexpectedly straight part of the lane, I could see it behind us in the driving mirror. Then there was a crash as our rear window exploded, a bullet whistled between our heads, and the windscreen shattered into a thick white fog.

“Knock it out, Priya! For God’s sake, knockit out!” I screamed. Priya was sobbing, choking back fear and with her gloved hands she beat at the windscreen, using her hand bag as a hammer and managed to knock a hole through which I could see the road ahead. The wind blew the broken glass in and my lap and chest were covered withlittle pebbles of glasses. Nowan icy gale whistled through the hole and madeit difficult to see where
we were going. My eyes were watering andit was all I could make out the bendsinthelane.

Read the following passage and answer questions

Duty rounds the wholeoflife, from our entrance intoit until our exit from it. There is duty to superiors, duty to inferiors, and duty to equals. There is duty to man, and duty to God. Wherever there is power to use or to direct, there is duty.

The abiding sense of duty is the very crown ofcharacter. It is the upholding law of man in his highest attitudes. Withoutit the individual totters and falls before the first purr of adversity or temptation. Whereas, inspired byit, the weakest becomes strong and full of courage.

Duty is based upon a sense of justice — justice inspired by love, which is the most perfect form of goodness. Duty is not a sentiment, but a principle pervading life. It exhibits itself in conduct and in acts, which are mainly determined by man’s conscience and free will.

The voice of conscience speaksin duty alone. Withoutits regulating and controlling influence, the brightest and greatest intellect may be merely a light that leads us astray. Conscience sets a man upon his feet. Conscience is the moral governor of the heart. It is the governor of right action, right thought, right faith and right life. Only through its dominating influence can the noble and upright character be fully developed.