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On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
As children Kalam and his friends did not have any
Options
religious differences
right upbringing
realization that they were different in any way
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As children Kalam and his friends did not have any religious differences .
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WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Read the passage carefully and familiarize yourself with the new words used in the passage by working out their meanings. Match the words in column A
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| Column A | Column B |
| (a) foster | (i) the act of accepting someone as a part of a group |
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| (c) integration | (iii) encourage the development of |
| {d) fanaticism | (iv) agreement and support resulting from shared interests, feelings or opinions |
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