55. Reading Skills Comprehension: Rupee

Rupee

 A very popular and the most desired word rupee has been derived from a divine language Sanskrit. It has two words Rupya or Rupa. The meaning of both of these words is silver. The very early coins, before the second century B.C., were all made of silver but the coins were neither of any standard weight nor had any face or value printed on them. The silver coin was first called rupia by Sher Shah Suri. The last silver coins were minted in 1940 with the face of King George VI on them. The year 1942 was a great revolutionary one because it was the first time when silver coin was altogether replaced by a cupro-nickel one.

 Money was invented by man to get power but now money has become more powerful than man. All over the world, money and power go together. The more money a person has, the more successful he is judged to be. A rich man is accepted by society even if he is corrupt or evil.  

The man works hard to earn more and more money and saves a lot of it. He thinks that money will give him more freedom to enjoy himself and to have lots of fun. He thinks he will not be anyone’s slave but he his own master. But soon he becomes the slave of money. The more he has, the more he wants. He is never satisfied with what he has got but always wants something more even though he knows that in the end, he cannot carry anything with him. Money can buy everything but it cannot buy peace or happiness or a ticket to heaven.         

1. Based on your reading of the above passage, complete the notes given below :            

(a)What money can do?

(b)  What money cannot do?

(c)The word rupee is a derivative from which words of which language?

(d)What do the words mean?

 (e)What did man intend to gain after inventing money?

(f) Unfortunately what became the result?.

(g) What should man realize in the present context?

(h) What does it show that man is never satisfied?

Answers-

(a) Money can give freedom to a man to enjoy himself and to have lots of fun.

(b) Money cannot buy peace or happiness or a ticket to heaven.

(c) the Sanskrit word `Rupya’ or ‘Rupa’                                             

(d) silver

(e) power                                                                                            

(f) Money became more powerful than man.

(g)there is a power to buy anything but money cannot provide peace and happiness.

(h) It shows that man is never likely to become completely happy.

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