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SILVER BELLS SCHOOL Ist UNIT TEST ENGLISH - STD:12th MM 50 General instructions:1. This paper is divided into 2 sections A and B. 2. Separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary. Read these instructions very carefully and follow them. PART A READING (10) 1. Read the passage given below 1. It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing. - Swami Vivekanada. Woman are not born, but made. What is better than India to exemplify this statement by Simon de Beauvior with the whole world celebrating International Women s Day with great pomp and show. It would be on apt to analyse the position and space Indian women occupy today, and comparing it to the times 60 years ago when the country had just gained Independence. With the woman participating in nationalist movements to being pushed into domestic household place to their resurgence as the woman in our count have seen it all. 2. There have been innumerable debates about gender in India over the years. Much of it include women s position in society, their education , health, economic position , gender equality etc. what one can conclude from such discussion is that woman has always held a certain paradoxical position in our developing country. One the one hand , the country has seen an increased percentage of literacy among women and woman are allowed to enter into professional fields , while on the other hand the practices of female infanticide , poor health condition and lack of education still persist. Even patriarchal ideology of the home being a woman s real domain and marriage being her ultimate destiny hasn t changed much. 3. The matrimonial advertisements , demanding girls of the same caste, with fair skin and slim figure, or the much criticized fair and lovely ads, are the indicators of the slow
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