CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE NECKLACE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Poverty is being very ____
A
Rich
B
Fancy
C
Sad
D
Poor
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money. The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way: “Poverty is hunger.

Detailed explanation-2: -The face of poverty is primarily rural and young; 80% of the extreme poor and 75% of the moderate poor live in rural areas. Over 45% of the extreme poor are children younger than 15 years old, and nearly 60% of the extreme poor live in households with three or more children.

Detailed explanation-3: -Impoverishment is the state or fact of being extremely poor. A neighborhood’s impoverishment is sometimes obvious from its many abandoned buildings. You can use the noun impoverishment to mean “poverty, ” and also the act of forcing someone into poverty.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Ragnar Nurkse explains that the vicious circle implies a circular constellation of forces tending to act and react upon one another in such a way as to keep a poor country in a state of poverty. The entire argument is summed up in Nurkse’s words: “A country is poor, because it is poor.”

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