R. S. Aggarwal Solutions for Chapter: Theme Detection, Exercise 1: EXERCISE

To forgive an injury is often considered to be a sign of weakness; it is really a sign of strength. It is easy to allow oneself to be carried away by resentment and hate into an act of vengeance; but it takes a strong character to restrain those natural passions. The man who forgives an injury proves himself to be the superior of the man who wronged himself and puts the wrong-doer to shame.
The passage best supports the statement that:

Exports and imports, a swelling favourable balance of trade, investments, and bank-balances, are not an index or a balance sheet of national prosperity. Till the beginning of the Second World War, English exports were noticeably greater than what they are today. And yet England has greater national pros­perity today than it ever had. Because the income of average Englishmen, working as a field and factory labourers, clerks, policemen, petty shopkeepers and shop assistants, domestic workers, and other low-paid workers, has gone up.

The passage best supports the statement that:

Throughout the ages, the businessman has helped build civilization’s great cities, provided people with luxuries and artists with patronage, and lift his fellow citizens to understand the standard of living. In the last few centuries, the businessman has seeded the Industrial Revolution around the world.

The passage best supports the statement that the businessman:

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today to an even higher degree than in former times for, through the modern development of the economy, the family as bearer of tradition and education has become weakened.

This passage best supports the statement that for transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next,

One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrial­ized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable, for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the paycheque and this fixes social status.

The passage best supports the statement that:

One of the important humanitarian by-products of technology is the greater dignity and value that it imparts to human labour. In a highly industrial­ized society, there is no essential difference between Brahmin and Dalit, Muslim and Hindu; they are equally useful and hence equally valuable, for in the industrial society individual productivity fixes the size of the pay cheque and this fixes social status.

The paragraph above also supports the statement that:

The press should not be afraid of upholding and sup­porting a just and righteous cause. It should not be afraid of criticizing the government in a healthy man­ner. The press has to be eternally vigilant to protect the rights of the workers, backward and suppressed sections of the society. It should also give a balanced view of things so that people can be helped in the formation of a healthy public opinion.

The passage best supports the statement that:

There is a shift in our economy from a manufacturing to a service orientation. The increase in the service-sector will require the managers to work more with people rather than with objects and things from the assembly line.

This passage best supports the statement that: