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Grade XII - English Worksheet

The passage discusses the critical role of human labor, particularly the empowerment and education of women, in national development. It emphasizes that women's status and education significantly influence child health and family size, which in turn affects overall development. The author argues that improving women's conditions is essential for fostering a productive labor force and achieving successful modernization.

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Grade XII - English Worksheet

The passage discusses the critical role of human labor, particularly the empowerment and education of women, in national development. It emphasizes that women's status and education significantly influence child health and family size, which in turn affects overall development. The author argues that improving women's conditions is essential for fostering a productive labor force and achieving successful modernization.

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ROJAVANAM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

English Worksheet
READING COMPREHENSION
Grade : XII

Read the passage given below. (10 Marks)

1. Among the natural resources which can be called upon in national plans for
development, possibly the most important is human labour. Since the English
language suffers from a certain weakness in its ability to describe groups composed
of both male and female members, this is usually described as “manpower”.

2. Without a productive labour force, including effective leadership and intelligent


middle management, no amount of foreign assistance or of natural wealth can
ensure successful development and modernization.

3. The manpower for development during the next quarter of century will come from
the world’s present population of infants, children and adolescents. But we are not
sure that they will be equal to the task. Will they have the health, the education, the
skills, the socio-cultural attitudes essential for the responsibilities of development?

4. For far too many of them the answer is no. The reason is basic. A child’s most
critical years, with regard to physical, intellectual, social, and emotional
development, are those before he reaches five years of age. During those critical
formative years, he is cared for almost exclusively by his mother and in many parts
of the world the mother may not have the capacity to raise a superior child. She is
incapable of doing so because of her own poor health, her ignorance and her lack of
status and recognition of social and legal rights, of the economic party of
independence. One essential factor has been overlooked and ignored. The forgotten
factor is the role of women. Development will be handicapped as long as women
remain second class citizen, uneducated without any voice in family or community,
decisions without legal or economic status, married when they are still practically
children, and henceforth producing one baby after another, often to see half of them
die before they are of school age.

5. We can enhance development by improving women's power, by giving women


the opportunity to develop themselves. Statistics show that the average family size
increases in inverse ratio to the mother’s years of education- is lowest among
college graduates, highest among those with only primary school training, or no
education. Malnutrition is most frequent in large families, and increases in frequency
with each additional siblings. The principle seems established that an educated
mother has healthier and more intelligent children, and that is related to the fact that
she has fewer children. The tendency of educated, upper class mothers to have
fewer children operates even without access to contraceptive services.
6. The educational level of women is significant also because it has a direct
influence upon their chances of employment, and the number of employed women
in a country's total labour force has a direct bearing on both the gross national
product and disposable income of the individual family. Disposable income,
especially in the hands of women, influences food purchasing and therefore the
nutritional status of the family. The fact that the additional income derives from the
paid employment of women provides a logical incentive to restrict the size of the
family.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the questions given


below.

i. According to the passage, the development can be enhanced by improving _____.

ii. Human labour is usually described as ‘manpower’ because _____.

iii. According to the passage, which are the most critical years for a child’s
development?

iv. Pick out the option that is not true with reference to the above passage.
1.​ In many parts of the world, a woman is not capable of raising a superior child
due to her poor health.
2.​ Mother plays an important role in the overall development of a child.
3.​ Development can never be improved till the time women are considered
second class citizens.
4.​ The larger a family is, the healthier it will be since it has more members to
work and earn money.
(a)​ Both 1 and 2
(b)​ only 4
(c)​ only 3
(d)​ Both 2 and 3

v. According to the passage, malnutrition is most common in


(a)​ small families
(b)​ large families
(c)​ nuclear families
(d)​ joint families

vi. As per the principle mentioned in the above passage, it seems that a/an _____
mother has healthier and more intelligent children.

vii. What factor is there that weakens a woman’s identity as an individual?


1.​ Consideration of women as a second-class citizen.
2.​ Responsibilities that are laid on a woman’s shoulder.
3.​ Marriage at a very young age.
4. Ignorance in her social and legal rights.
5.​ Being financially independent.
(a)​ 1, 2 and 3
(b)​ 2, 3 and 4
(c)​ 1, 3, and 4
(d)​ 2, 4 and 5

viii. The educational level of women is significant and it also has a direct bearing on
1. her personal statue
2. the gross national product
3. disposable income of the individual
4. the marketing of local products
(a)​ 1 and 2​ (b) 2 and 3
(c)​ 3 and 4​ (d) 2 and 4

ix. The above passage gives stress on _____.

x. Disposable income, in the hands of a woman ensures the _____ status of a


family.
(a)​ emotional
(b)​ nutritional
(c)​ financial
(d)​ none of these

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