Unseen Passage Practice Set-32 important quiz questions

CTET Sep 2015 paper 02 Unseen Passage in English language mcq quiz with answers

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options.

In the affluent, industrialized nations giant surpluses of wheat, maize and sorghum are commonplace; cattle, swine and poultry are fed and fattened on cereal grains; meat, milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables are within the economic reach of most of the population; well-balanced diets are more or less automatically achieved and cereal products constitute only a modest portion of the ‘daily bread’. Consequently, most of the people in such societies have difficulty in comprehending and appreciating the vital significance of providing high-yielding strains of wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and millet for the people of the developing nations.

Understandably, then the majority of the urbanites in the industrialized nations have forgotten the significance of the words they learned as youngsters. ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ They know that food comes from the supermarket, but only a few see beyond the necessary investments, the toil, struggle and frustrations on the farms and ranches that provide their daily bread. Since, the urbanites have lost their contact with the soil, they take food for granted and fail to appreciate the tremendous efficiency of their farmers and ranchers, who although constituting only five percent of the labour force in a country such as the United States, produce more than enough food for their nation. Even worse, urbanites often vociferously criticize their government for attempting to bring into balance the agricultural production of its farmers with the domestic and foreign market demands for farm products and attempting thereby to provide the consumer an abundant food supply at reasonable cost and also to assure areasonable return to the farmer and ranchers.

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