MAH CET 10th Mar 2024 Slot 3

DIRECTION for the questions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

People very often complain that poverty is a great evil and that it is not
possible to be happy unless one has a lot of money. Actually, this is not
necessarily true. Even a poor man, living in a small hut with none of the
comforts and luxuries of life, may be quite contented with his lot and achieve
a measure of happiness. On the other hand, a very rich man, living in a
palace and enjoying everything that money can buy, may still be miserable,
if, for example, he does not enjoy good health or his only son has taken to
evil ways. Apart from this, he may have a lot of business worries which keep
him on tenterhooks most of the time. There is a limit to what money can buy
and there are many things which are necessary for a man's happiness and which money cannot procure.

Real happiness is a matter of the right attitude and the capacity of being contented with whatever you have is the most important ingredient of this attitude.

DIRECTION for the question: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

Even an ordinary everyday activity may lead to an insight into human nature. A picnic had been arranged by the department. Everyone was supposed to join it. I, being older than a good many, was ill at ease at he thought of joining a bunch of callow youngsters dreaming of some soft and sweet company on he way to the hill resort.

But the morning of the adventure found the boy in me climbing the first ascent-rather steep and hard, to the applause of all Adams and Eves in the troop.

Half way through we started finding snow all around us, but, the boy in me by then was once again lost into oblivion. I found myself lagging behind and often falling down on the soft snow due to soft foam rubber soles of my shoes.

A laughing stock I was. But soon I found strong, healthy arms supporting me. I pleaded, "Let me go, I'll not be able to make it," but they would not let me.

They were the arms of two hill folks who as people, had been described as withdrawn, selfish and aloof by my friends from the plains.

DIRECTION for the questions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

We are tempted to assume that technological progress is real progress and that material success is the criterion of civilisation. If the Eastern people become fascinated by machines and techniques and use them, as western nations do, to build huge industrial organisations and large military establishments, they will get involved in power politics and drift into the danger of death. Scientific and technological civilisation brings great opportunities and great rewards but also great risks and temptations. Science and technology are neither good nor bad. They are not to be tabooed but tamed and assigned their proper place. They become dangerous only if they become idols.