ENGLISH KA MAHASAGAR BY ADV.PANKAJ JOSHI

  Passage 4:  Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who write them. They are the affluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been translated into the actual life of him who reads. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and emotions. In a world deprived of literature, the broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded because the wrong idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of genius. Only by conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realized that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exists so that where a man has lived finely, ten thousand may afterward live finely. it is a means of life, it concerns the living essence. 1. How have great books been written ? By men wh...

  Passage 3 : The size of the workforce in Brazil, the number of kids at home and parents to sustain will obviously have a great impact on the extent of poverty in Brazilian households. In fact, the demographic transition that has been ongoing in Brazil for the past few decades has helped a lot in reducing poverty. Less children were born in poorer families and that's less children that ended up involved in street violence, drugs, gangs and so on. More parents were then able to push their kids to go to school and get an education. Of course, the situation is still pretty bad in Brazilian slums (favelas), but it's estimated that the demographic transition had an impact equivalent to + 0.5% in GDP growth, which is not bad at all considering that the average GDP growth (per capita) was about 3% per year at the time. And since this transition happened over 30 years, its impact on the economy is equal to around 15% of growth in GDP (over three decades). Overall, the change in the fa...

Rajasthali Clat Institute  Reading section    Passage 2 : Superstitions are a universal phenomena having their own peculiar place in the cultural ethos and milieu of a people. They epitomize man's fear of the unknown, fear of evil, blind faith in omens and portents. Superstitions are inter-woven with myth, legend, unnatural phenomena and disaster, customs and traditions, and are mainly the outcome of ignorance. They are unreasoned and irrational beliefs that gradually become matters of faith. When certain things and happenings are rationally inexplicable people tend to assign mysterious and supernatural reasons for their operation. Thus a natural disaster is explained in terms of God's wrath and the failure of one's project is assigned to the black cat which crossed the path just as one set out on the errand. The primitive human beings were mainly governed by superstitions. Superstitions were widespread before the dawn of civilization when science had not advanced. Thus, ...

  Write meaning of following phrases  1.back to square one  A.fruitful result  B.fruitless result  C.tremendous result  D . worthless result  Answer b 2 .Rat Race  A race of Rats  B.dangerous competition  C.blind competition  D.competition for power only  Answer c  3.escape by whisker  A.escape by narrow margin B.escape by wide margin  C.escape luckily  D.escape in fatal accident  Answer a  4.small fry  A.worthy things  B.worthless things  C.expensive things D.cheap things  Answer b 5.queer fish A.mad person  B.rich person  C . poor person  D . eccentric person  Answer D  Write synonyms of following words  6.tangy  A.delicious  B.sipid  C.insipid  D.spicy  Answer d 7.ache  A.pain B.memorise  C.commemorate  D.digonsis  Answer a 8.petty  A.priceless  B.worthy  C.trifle  D.expensive ...

    Phrases  1.back to the square one ----fruitless result I had prepared for IAS exam but I did not succeed in exam so I backed to the square one . 2.Rat race -----blind race for something  The politicians are participating in Rat race for power and pelf . 3.escape by whisker ----had a narrow escape  4.small fry ----worthless things  5.queer fish ---bizarre person  Sub+used to+v1+object Passive  Ob+used to be+V3+by su Or Sub+would +v1+ob Passive Ob+would be+V3+by sub  इस नियम का प्रयोग भुत काल की किसी नियमित आदत को बताने के लिए किया जाता है जिसका अर्थ है किया करता था  1.general sentence  1.i used to go to school on foot  due to my abysmal poverty  2.he used to eat tangy food in his childhood despite  his stomach ache  3.he used to beat his  neighbour over pretty issues due to his pugnacious nature. 4.they used to insult /humiliate me in an elegant party . 5.we used to honour/esteem  our teachers i...

 CLAT ENGLISH PAPER  Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. It has been prevalent in society since ancient times. History reveals that it was present even in the Mauryan period. Great scholar, Kautilya, mentions the pressure of forty types of corruption in his contemporary society. It was practiced even in the Mughal and Sultanate period. When the East India Company took control of the country, corruption reached a new height. Corruption in India has become so common that people now are averse to thinking of public life with it. Corruption has been defined variously by scholars. But the simple meaning of it is that corruption implies perversion of morality, integrity, character or duty out of mercenary motives, i.e. bribery, without any regard to honor, right, and justice. In other words, undue favor for anyone for some monetary or other gains is corruption. Simultaneously, depriving the genuinely deserving of their right or privilege is also a corrupt practice. Shrinkin...