CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper All India with answers 2017 (2)

CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper All India with answers 2017 (2). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations. 

SECTION A

(Reading) 

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

1 Respect of others is a critical measure of the significance of your own life. Have you noticed that as people grow older, how important being respected becomes to them ? As life plays itself out and the end seems near, the only things that seem important are love and a healthy regard by those who matter to us. Respect is a measure of a life well spent, a life that was useful to others.

2 Men had it easy in earlier times. Regardless of his position outside, a man was the king in his own house, with wife and children pandering to every wish, tiptoeing around him and creating a respectable aura for him. Remember how Grandma treated Grandpa ? Or, how our parents barely spoke with their own Dads out of a respectful fear and a distant regard ? Grandma made sure to create a respectful aura around the man of the house, and he revelled in that feeling of regard.

3 Such respectful pandering creates an aura around a person, which forces others to look at him in a new light, a rub-off from the regard of others; those men earned that respect merely by being the providers and protectors. As roles diffused, the man‖s aura diminished and he came to be treated less God-like. Now he had to earn that respect by other means. Some accepted this more easily than others.

4 Respect does have a ripple effect. You tend to respect those who are respected by others. And so, it becomes important to be respected by those immediately around you. Certainly there is a regard you gain by sheer dint of your position or your relationship with someone. But far more precious is the regard you earn through who you are, how you conduct yourself, and how you interact with others.

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