TS ICET 2018 Shift 2

Read the following passage and answer questions:

Passage:
Private victory precedes public victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundations of good relationships with others. Some people say that you have to like yourself before you can like others. I think that idea has merit, but if you don’t knowyourself. if you don’t control yourself. if you don’t have
mastery over yourself, it is very hard to like yourself.

Independence is an achievement. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Unless we are willing to achieve real independence, it is foolish to try to develop human relations skills.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations rather than from own inner core. others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside us, inside our own character. As we become independent — proactive, centred in correct principles
— we then can choose to become interdependent capable of building rich, enduring. highly productive relationships with other people.

Read the following passage and answer questions:

Passage:
The origin and progress and future promotion of civilization are all ill understood and misconceived. These should be made the chief theme of education. but much hard work is necessary before we can reconstruct ourideas of man and his capacities and free ourselves from innumerable persistent musapprehensions. There have been obstructionists in all times. not merely the lethargic masses, but the moralists. the rationalizing theologians, and mostof the philosophers, all busily if unconsciously engaged in ratifying existing ignorance and mistakes and discouraging creative thought. Naturally. those who reassure us seem worthy of honour and respect. Equally naturally those who puzzle us with disturbing criticisms and invite us to change our ways are objects of suspicion and readily discredited. Our personal discontent does not ordinarily extend to any critical questioning of the general situation in which we find ourselves. In every age prevailing conditions of civilization have appeared quite natural and inevitable to those who grew up in them. Indeed, we are usually quite unaware that a gameis being playedat all.