NCHMCT JEE 2010 Question Paper with solutions for online practice
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Directions (Questions 91 – 100):
Read the following passages to answer the questions put there on
PASSAGE-I
Everything that men do or think concerns either the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the need to escape from pain. This must be kept in mind when we seek to understand spiritual or intellectual movements and the way in which they develop, for feeling and longing are the motive forces of all human striving and productivity however nobly these latter may display themselves to us.
What, then, are the feelings and the needs which have brought mankind to religious through and to faith in the widest sense? A moment's consideration shows that the most varied emotions stand at the cradle of religious thought and experience.
In primitive people it is, first of all, fear that awakens religious ideas-fear of hunger, of wild animals, of illness and of death. Since the understanding of causal connections is usually limited on this level of existence, the human soul forges a being, more or less like itself, on whose will and activities depend the experiences which it fears. One hopes to win the favour of this being by deeds and sacrifices, which according to the tradition of the race are supposed to appease the being or to make him well disposed to man. I call this the religion of fear. This religion is considerably stabilized, though not caused, by the formation of priestly caste which claims to mediate between the people and the being they fear and so attains a position of power. Often a leader or despot will combine the function of the priesthood with its own temporal rule for the sake of greater security; or an alliance may exist between the interests of the political power and the priestly caste.
PART-IV
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Directions (Questions 91 – 100):
Read the following passages to answer the questions put there on
PASSAGE-I
Everything that men do or think concerns either the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the need to escape from pain. This must be kept in mind when we seek to understand spiritual or intellectual movements and the way in which they develop, for feeling and longing are the motive forces of all human striving and productivity however nobly these latter may display themselves to us.
What, then, are the feelings and the needs which have brought mankind to religious through and to faith in the widest sense? A moment's consideration shows that the most varied emotions stand at the cradle of religious thought and experience.
In primitive people it is, first of all, fear that awakens religious ideas-fear of hunger, of wild animals, of illness and of death. Since the understanding of causal connections is usually limited on this level of existence, the human soul forges a being, more or less like itself, on whose will and activities depend the experiences which it fears. One hopes to win the favour of this being by deeds and sacrifices, which according to the tradition of the race are supposed to appease the being or to make him well disposed to man. I call this the religion of fear. This religion is considerably stabilized, though not caused, by the formation of priestly caste which claims to mediate between the people and the being they fear and so attains a position of power. Often a leader or despot will combine the function of the priesthood with its own temporal rule for the sake of greater security; or an alliance may exist between the interests of the political power and the priestly caste.
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