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UPPSC Mains 2019 General Hindi PYQ

Official questions in exam order — Section A (8 marks, 125 words) and Section B (12 marks, 200 words). Each answer will sit on one canonical WRAP URL.

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Q1 · UPPSC 2019 · UPHIN · 30 marks · Solution

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.Just as literature, religion and science must enter the broad life of the people, art is equally necessary for the culture of life and the condition of society. If art remains merely luxury or curiosity for a few lovers of beauty, the people will suffer great loss. Art is truly the canopy of the subtle and beautiful layer of life; under it the whole people, satisfying their festive and cultivating impulses, can experience the peace and harmony of the higher mind. Man wishes for his final welfare that the gross material world around him be shaped into beautiful form. The mental and spiritual world above the gross is made highly attractive and beautiful through character and knowledge. Between this twofold beauty life becomes fully worth living. When life's character and moods spread around us, filling the atmosphere with their waves and delighting and inspiring our inner world, it becomes essential that the crude forms of material objects surrounding us also melt under art's influence so that beauty and grace spring from them. Every example of art, like a glowing lamp, keeps sending rays of light all around.(a) Write the purport/gist of the passage in your own words. (5 marks)(b) जीवन किस स्थिति में रहने योग्य बनता है? गद्यांश के आधार पर स्पष्ट कीजिए। (5 marks)(c) Explain the underlined lines of the passage. (20 marks)
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Q2 · UPPSC 2019 · UPHIN · 30 marks · Solution

Read the following passage and answer as directed.Thinking of life in its totality and thinking of life with a specific intent are two different kinds of preparation; whenever literature uses language one-sidedly or monotonously like politics, it limits or cripples its original power. In the idiom of politics we speak the language of a class for which language is not the main thing—it is a second- or third-rate use of language, merely a means to reach a fixed goal. It is not as interested in the capacity, authenticity or truth of language as literature is. Its language may be propaganda-led, rhetorical and artificial because for politics language is a practical expedient, whereas for the writer language is the living part of the truth of life which he seeks to establish or restore in its original dignity and power, saving it from political, commercial, practical or selfish violence, breakage and pollution. Literature's task is not to lose its identity in the language of politics but to make itself almost a stranger to that false language and stand alone—so that politics must repeatedly seek language from literature for authenticity and truth, rather than literature becoming political language and losing its identity.(a) Give an appropriate title to the passage. (5 marks)(b) What is the main difference between the language of literature and politics? Explain. (5 marks)(c) Write a precis of the passage. (20 marks)
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Q7 · UPPSC 2019 · UPHIN · 10 marks · Solution

(a) Correct the following sentences. (5 marks)1.राम घर जाती है।2.मैंने जाना है।3.मैंने आपके घर में रखी पुस्तक को देख ली।4.विद्यालय में सभी कक्षा के विद्यार्थी बुलाए गए हैं।5.मनोज रोती है।(b) Correct the spelling of the following words. (5 marks)1.निष्पापी2.पूर्ती3.मुनी4.लिपी5.नीती
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Q8 · UPPSC 2019 · UPHIN · 30 marks · Solution

Write the meanings of the following idioms/proverbs and use each in a sentence.1.यथा राजा तथा प्रजा2.अरहर की टट्टी गुजराती ताला3.आ बैल मुझे मार4.नौ दो ग्यारह हो जाना5.जैसा देश वैसा भेष6.दाल भात में मूसरचंद7.ऊँची दूकान फीके पकवान8.मान न मान मैं तेरा मेहमान9.अंधेर नगरी चौपट राजा10.आसमान से गिरा खजूर में अटका
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