Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Every man that is born in this world has a desire to live well. Life has various aims for various people. To some, life is an empty dream without a motive. They eat and drink and continue to exist for the sake of living. They have no idea, no mission for which to struggle and fight. Their idea is to eat well, to make merry and enjoy the material things of life. Their activities aim at amassing wealth by hook or by crook and using that wealth for the sake of luxury and comfort and pleasures.
Life is, however, not so easy at present. Even to make money for the sake of comforts and luxuries you have to work hard and perform social duties before the society can allow one to earn a lot of money and amass wealth. Modern states work under certain principles of social behaviour and do not allow people to go about making money without caring to perform certain duties which are useful to society.
A businessman or an industrialist must pay his labourers well so that the labourer does his duty honestly and diligently and enable the entrepreneur to make profits from the goods produced. The only easy way of making money is cheating or stealing which have consequences of their own.
Law has prescribed imprisonment for the robbers, thieves and the cheats. Life is complicated in these times. It needs to be well planned if you want to achieve something worthwhile. Whether your mission or ideal is materialistic or spiritual you should have a clear plan. To make life worth living you must work hard towards the object of your mission. A life without mission is a life lost. A life without planning is a life wasted.
Discipline, mission and hard work are important virtues of a successful man. If you are a patriot and desire to be a politician to earn name and fame in the service of society, you must plan exactly what you want. If you want to serve the people and to represent their cause in elected assemblies, you must win over the support of the voters by giving them an honest account of services.
You must fight for their interest, show great achievements before you can enjoy the popularity of the masses. It is not simply a slogan mongering that matters in politics now – a – days. A successful public man has to be an able administrator who can resolve practical issues with the authorities and win practical benefits for the people.
1. What is the desire of every man in this world?
2. What is the ideal of the majority of people?
3. What is the easy way to earn money?
4. What is needed to achieve something worthwhile?
5. Write the important virtues of a successful man.
6. How can a man reach up to assemblies?
Choose from the passage the words that mean:
7. Useful enough.
8. Purpose of doing something.
9. Phrase expressing a political or advertising message.
