List of top Questions asked in CUET (UG)

Read the given passage carefully and answer the five questions that follow.
Cottage industry is the smallest manufacturing unit. The artisans use local raw materials and simple tools to produce everyday goods in their homes with the help of their family members or part-time labour. Finished products may be for consumption in the same household or for sale in local (village) markets. Capital and transportation do not wield much influence as this type of manufacturing has low commercial significance and most of the tools are devised locally. Some common everyday products produced in this sector of manufacturing include foodstuff, fabrics, mats, containers, tools, furniture, shoes and figurines of wood from the forest, shoes, thongs and other articles from leather, pottery and bricks from clays and stones. Goldsmiths make jewellery of gold, silver and bronze. Some artefacts and crafts are made out of bamboo and wood obtained locally from the forests.
Small scale manufacturing is distinguished from household industries by its production techniques and place of manufacture (a workshop outside the home/cottage of the producer). This type of manufacturing uses local raw materials, simple power-driven machines and semi skilled labour. It provides employment and raises local purchasing power. Therefore, countries like India, China, Indonesia and Brazil, etc. have developed labour intensive small-scale manufacturing in order to provide employment to their population.
Large scale manufacturing involves a large market, various raw materials, enormous energy, specialised workers, advanced technology, assembly line mass production and large capital. This kind of manufacturing developed in the last 200 years, in the United Kingdom, North eastern USA and Europe. Now it has diffused almost all over the world.
Read the given passage carefully and answer the five questions that follow.
Jhabua district is located in the westernmost agro-climatic zone in Madhya Pradesh. It is, in fact, one of the five most backward districts of the country. It is characterised by a high concentration of tribal population (mostly Bhils). The people suffer due to poverty which has been accentuated by the high rate of resource degradation, both forest and land. The Watershed Management Programmes funded by both the ministries of ”Rural Development” and ”Agriculture”, Government of India, have been successfully implemented in Jhabua district which has gone a long way in preventing land degradation and improving soil quality. Watershed Management Programmes acknowledge the linkage between land, water and vegetation and attempt to improve livelihoods of people through natural resource management and com- munity participation. In the past five years, the programmes funded by the Ministry of Rural Development alone (implemented by Rajiv Gandhi Mission for Watershed Management) have treated 20 percent of the total area under Jhabua district. The Petlawad block of Jhabua is located in the northernmost part of the district and represents an interesting and successful case of Government-NGO partnership and community participation in managing watershed programmes. The Bhils in Petlawad block, for example, (Sat Rundi hamlet of Karravat village) through their own efforts, have revitalized large parts of Common Property Resources (CPR). Each household planted and maintained one tree on the common property. They also have planted fodder grass on the pasture land and adopted social-fencing of these lands for at least two years. Even after that, they say, there would be no open grazing on these lands, but stall feeding of cattle, and they are thus confident that the pastures they have developed would sustain their cattle in future. An interesting aspect of this experience is that before the community embarked upon the process of management of the pasture, there was encroachment on this land by a villager from an adjoining village. The villagers called the Tehsildar to ascertain the rights on the common land. The ensuing conflict was tackled by the villagers by offering to make the defaulter encroaching on the CPR, a member of their user group and sharing the benefits of greening the common lands/pastures.
Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the five questions that follow:
In the North-East, regional aspirations reached a turning point in the 1980s. This region now consists of seven States, also referred to as the ‘Seven Sisters’. The region has only 4 percent of the country’s population but about twice as much share of its area. A small corridor of about 22 kilometers connects the region to the rest of the country. Otherwise, the region shares boundaries with China, Myanmar, and Bangladesh and serves as India’s gateway to South-East Asia.
The region has witnessed a lot of change since 1947. Tripura, Manipur, and Khasi Hills of Meghalaya were erstwhile Princely States which merged with India after Independence. The entire region of North-East has undergone considerable political reorganization. Nagaland
State was created in 1963; Manipur, Tripura, and Meghalaya in 1972, while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became separate States only in 1987. The Partition of India in 1947 had reduced the North-East to a land-locked region and affected its economy. Cut off from the rest of India, the region suffered neglect in developmental terms. Its politics too remained insulated. At the same time, most States in this region underwent major demographic changes due to an influx of migrants from neighboring States and countries. The isolation of the region, its complex social character, and its backwardness compared to other parts of the country have all resulted in the complicated set of demands from different States of the North-East. The vast international border and weak communication between the North-East and the rest of India have further added to the delicate nature of politics there. Three issues dominate the politics of North-East: demands for autonomy, movements for secession, and opposition to ‘outsiders’. Major initiatives on the first issue in the 1970s set the stage for some dramatic developments on the second and the third in the 1980s.
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows by choosing the correct options.
The figure in the boat was of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face. He was about twenty-eight years old, although he looked older. Lizzie, his daughter, a girl of nineteen, was handling a pair of sculls very easily. Had he not been so recognizable as an old man, the girl loved this dark girl of nineteen or twenty. It was often there that, now in time, he could be seen. She was in her boat, pulling on her sculls, or washing out, or stroking with her long line. And he could be a fisherman’s land. He did this at no time, and no one he looked at ever looked at him, and so doing he could not be considered either a river-rat or waterman. There was no reason for anyone to look for him, but take heed and not be caught in the same situation. There was no glare or insolence in her boat, no cargo for delivery, no hope of a most fervent searching before she died, as had happened more times than could be counted. She watched every inch before her, a tide that swept as dictated by the movement of the boat, down river and little race and eddy. The tide had turned an hour before. She was running against its sternmost and last, according to the compass which she bore beneath her left hand. She was a divine watchwoman. And little girl, she did not falter, did not turn back, was slight against waves. Her eyes were fixed intensely. And little girl, the boat swept on. It moved microcosm. As much as he drove stem and bow as suddenly thus and there, the two, so obviously doing were so obviously one. 
A fixed boat at the bottom of the river, neither in the fury of its current or eddies, but the surface, by season of the slime and ooze with which it was covered and its sodden state. This boat the drift, the lorry of them there, doing something that they often did, with his brown arms often bared half above the elbow and a with his knee resting on his matched bead on his bare breast, between flesh of shoulder and shoulder, such as no loose wearing of kerchief  could ever undo, were they to be in wilderness savage men, with bodies. He wore a looser with every little motion of the girl, with her boat, of her perhaps usage of his with her steady gaze. So to be made out of the things he began still to turn wrist sometimes like savage men do or with her boat, they must act as one. Keep her out, Lizzie. The tide runs strong here.
Read the following passage and answer the question that follows by choosing the correct options.
Prem Chand was born at Lamhi, a village a short distance from Banaras, on 31st July 1880. He descended from a family that owned one of the richest and and runs large estates. Prem Chand’s grandfather, Govind Lal, was a patwari. His father, Ajaib Lal, a clerk in the post office, was an accomplished writer. Prem Chand’s mother was his father’s second wife, Devi, nurtured and accomplished woman, remained ever grateful to him. His brother was Dhanpat Rai. It is said this family owned about twenty five bighas in landThe childhood of Prem Chand was spent in the village. He was a sportive and lively,boy veryfond of playing about. Prem Chand was fond of playing about; stealing things from the fields.He had a sweet tooth and was particularly fond of raw sugar. At lamhia, he had his early schooling and picked up his Urdu and Persian. As is based on some record that he was severely punished for stealing one rupee.Prem Chand is based on his childhood memories. Kazmi,was a postal messenger, who travelled long distances and always back overnight, is on record with his love for Prem Chand. In the short story “Batie Ghar Ki Beti,” the child brought something delicious for the child. Prem Chand’s deep-rooted hatred for British rule, during the post office punished for theft. His figure became clearer as the years rolled by; a little demagogue for the downtrodden Kazzmi, was indeed, full of dignity and self-respect, with the human aspect of kindness overflowing on him.
It may be noted that Prem Chand was pen-name adopted by the author over his years. He was named Dhanpat Rai and when he started writing stories as a government servant, he used pen-name, Nawab Rai. Many stories written as Nawab Rai brought him fame. When the government proscribed his first collection of short stories “Service’s Vim” Prem Chand discarded the pen-name Nawab Rai and all his later work appeared under the pen-name Prem Chand.