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In every country, people imagine that they are the best and the cleverest and the others are not as good as they are. The Englishman thinks that he and his country are the best; the Frenchman is very proud of France and everything French; the Germans and Italians think no end of their countries and many Indians imagine that India is in many ways the greatest country in the world. This is all conceit. Everybody wants to think well of himself and his country. But really there is no person who has not got some good in him and some bad. And in the same way, there is no country which is not partly good and partly bad. We must take the good wherever we find it and try to remove the bad wherever it may be. We are, of course, most concerned with our country-India. Unhappily, it is in a bad way today and most of our people are very poor and miserable.
Questions :
(a) What do people imagine in every country?
(b) What does everyone want to think?
(c) What does the writer say about every man and every country?
(d) Give a suitable title to this passage.
(e) Find words in the passage which mean the same as (a) in part (b) wretched.
Answers :
(a) In every country, people imagine that they are the best in the world.
(b) Everyone wants to think well of himself.
(c) The writer says that there is not any man or any country which does not have some good in them.
(d) Good and bad in a country.
(e) (a) partly
(b) miserable.
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