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UP Board 2026 English Most Important Passage
Passage -1
Man’s life is not measured by the number of days, months and years that he has lived but by the deeds he has done and by the achievements he has made. What is the real significance in life is not the quantity but the quality of experience. A short life devoted to noble endeavours is far more valuable than a long life of over a hundred years spent in trivial pursuits. “We live in deeds not in years.”
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Noble deeds, splendid ideas, and fine sentiments constitute the real glory of character and not the length of time one has lived in the world.
Questions:
(a) How does the world measure man’s life?
(b) Which life is more valuable – a short life or a long life?
(c) What should one prefer to do in life?
(d) What things make character glorious?
(e) (i) Which word in the passage means ‘importance’?
(ii) What is meant by ‘noble endeavours?
(iii) What is the difference between ‘indeed’ and ‘in deed?
Passage -2
Early rising leads to health and happiness. The man who rises late, can have little rest in the course of the day. Anyone who lies in bed late is compelled to work till a late hour in the evening. He has to go without the evening exercise which is so necessary for his health. In spite of all his efforts, his work will not produce as good results as that of the early riser. The reason for this is that he cannot take advantage of the refreshing hours of the morning. Some people say that the quiet hour of midnight is the best time for working. Several great thinkers say that they can write best only when they burn the midnight oil. Yet it is true to say that few men have a clear brain at midnight when the body needs rest and sleep. Those who work at that time soon ruin their health. Bad health must, in the long run, have a bad effect on the quality of their work.
Questions:
(a) Why is early rising better than rising late?
(b) Why do some thinkers burn the midnight oil?
(c) What is the disadvantage of working at midnight?
(d) What are the possible advantages of both morning hours and midnight hours?
(e) (i) Which word in the passage is opposite of ‘noisy”?
(ii) What do you mean by ‘burning midnight oil”?
(iii) What is the synonym of ‘ruin’?
Passage -3
The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity. Metal and stones can never be real ornaments. The names of women like Sita, Savitri and Damayanti have become sacred to us for their unsullied virtue, never for their jewellery, if they wore any. My asking from you, your jewellery has also a wider significance. Several sisters have told me that they feel all the better for getting rid of their jewellery. I have called this an act of merit to more ways than one. No man or woman is entitled to the possession of wealth unless he or she has given a fair share of it to the poor and helpless. It is a social and religious obligation and has been called a sacrifice by the Bhagavad Gita. He/she who does not offer this sacrifice has been called a thief. The Gita has enumerated many forms of sacrifice, but what greater sacrifice can there be than to serve the poor and the needy? For us, today there, can be no sacrifice higher than to forget the distinctions of high and low and to realise the equality of all men and women. I also wish to bring home to the women of India that the real ornamentation lies not in loading the body with metal and stone but in purifying the heart and developing the beauty of soul.
Questions:
(a) What is the real ornamentation for women?
(b) What thing has been called a sacrifice by the Bhagavad Gita?
(c) What is considered to be the greatest sacrifice today?
(d) Where does the real ornamentation lie?
(e) (i) Which word in the passage means ‘spotless”?
(ii) Which word in the passage is the opposite of ‘insignificance’?
(iii) What does the phrase ‘getting rid of mean in the passage
Passage -4
Why are examinations such a terror? Perhaps because chance plays such a great part in them. The examination paper is like a lottery uncertain, undependable. The element of uncertainty and surprise is bound to shake the most confident examinee. Sometimes our nervousness is so great that we seem to forget our best prepared lessons. Before the examination, we feel sure of doing well, but once the question paper is before us, our mind becomes perfectly blank. We fail to recall our most memorised lessons. Some candidates even faint in the examination hall. The question paper springs a complete surprise. None of the ‘sure hints’, over which we have spent days and nights appear in the examination. On the contrary, just those very topics, which we left out as unimportant and unexpected, stare us in the face. In Geography, we prepared the map of Europe but we are required to draw a free-hand map of Asia and the question is compulsory. Surely the fates and their friend, the examiner have played a cruel joke upon us.
Questions:
(a) Why are examinations considered to be a terror?
(b) How does the chance play an important role in the examinations?
(c) How do the fates and the examiner play a cruel joke upon the students?
(d) Why do some students get nervous in the examinations?
(e) (i) Find a word from the passage that means ’empty’.
(ii) Find out the synonym of ‘totally’ from the passage.
(iii) Which word in the above passage is the antonym of ‘optional’?