1 .	Direction : In Question nos. 1 to 10, you have brief passages with 5 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and mark it by blackening the appropriate oval [ ] in the Answer Sheet. PASSAGE - I Tagore had a very healthy contempt for mere agitational politics which he likened to an engine which continually whistles and throws out columns of smoke without ever moving. To the Pilots of India’s ship of destiny his advice was, “Fear not the waves of the sea, but mind the leaks in your own vessels.” If we became a subjectpeople, it was not because the British were wicked but because we were weaklings. We had ceased to believe in ourselves. Instead of tapping the sources of our own power, we were content to pick rags from other peoples’ dustbins. Unlike Gandhi, Tagore believed in the power and resources of science, though he dreaded the prospect of man becoming the slave of machines instead of machines being the slaves of man. In fact, he dreaded every form of organised power, whether social, political or industrial, which ignored human values and tended to stifle the personality of man. Though outside India Tagore upheld and interpreted the Indian philosophy of life, in his own country he was the severest critic of its social instituti ons and religious practices, which encouraged superstition and inequality and tolerated injustice. Tagore compared agitational politics with
[ A ]    an e ver-movi ng engi ne ete rnal l y spewing smoke [ B ]    an eternally stationary engine that does not make any noise [ C ]    a stationary engine that sometimes breathes smoke and fire [ D ]    an engine that whistles, lets out smoke, but remains stationary
Answer : Option D Explanation :
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