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Read the following extracts and answer the questions:

'The past brings us many gifts.' What are the gifts received from our past?

“The past brings us many gifts.”


The past is like a window, and definitely brings us many gifts. These are the gifts of culture, civilisation, science and knowledge or wisdom of truth. Man learns so much from the past that it is no less than a gift from the bygones. Therefore, man feels an obligation to acknowledge the past.


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'Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair: the man of letters


may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life.' Bring out the contrast in the reactions


of the two types of individuals in captivity.

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Read the following extracts and answer the questions:

'It is absurd for us to judge past people as if they lived now and thought as we do'. Why is it


absurd to do so?

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Read the following extracts and answer the questions:

'Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it.'


Explain, with an example, how 'danger' adds zest to life.

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Read the following extracts and answer the questions:

'People avoid action often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means


risk and damages.' Explain this attitude to action? Is this appropriate in day to day life?


Give reasons.