12th Class English Sample Paper English Olympiad Model Paper-6

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    Given below is the body of a letter to the editor with four blanks. Fill those blanks with P,Q,R,S in correct order to make it readable.
    In drawing attention to the plight of the widows of Vrindavan, the BJP's Member of Parliament from Mathura, Hema Malini, got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Many of the _____(1)_____from singing bhajans. But the solution thought up by the actor-turned- politician was for the widows to go to temples in their home-States, and not take the train to Mathura. The way ______(II)_______away. But in the first place, the destitute widows ended up in Vrindavan because they had no other place to go. Many of them were abandoned by their families, and they would be worse off in any other town or village. It is not religion but poverty that forced them to Vrindavan. Their problems would not vanish if they left Vrindavan or stayed at home. In subsequent tweets, the MP sought to clarify her statement: that ______(III)________mothers. None could have objected if she had merely called for the invoking of the ______________(IV)_______to provide for food, clothing, residence and medical attendance of their parents, in the case of the Vrindavan widows. But she framed the issue as a problem of Vrindavan, and not as one the destitute widows
    P: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, which puts the onus on adult progeny
    Q: Vrindavan widows are without any means of sustenance, and forced to beg to supplement their meagre earnings
    R: she was saying the sons and daughters could not discard their duty toward their widowed
    S: she saw the situation, Vrindavan had a problem with the widows, a problem that would go away if only destitute widows from other places stayed
     

    A)  RQPS

    B)  SRQP

    C)  PQSR

    D)  QSRP

    E)  None of these

    Correct Answer: D


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