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1. Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. <br><br> At this stage of the civilization, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should begin to understand. A little of one another's historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to read as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing, because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.

The character of the nation is the result of

2. Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. <br><br> At this stage of the civilization, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should begin to understand. A little of one another's historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to read as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing, because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.

According to the author his countrymen should

3. Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. <br><br> At this stage of the civilization, when many nations are brought into close and vital contact for good and evil, it is essential, as never before, that their gross ignorance of one another should begin to understand. A little of one another's historical experience and resulting mentality. It is the fault of the English to expect the people of other countries to read as they do, to political and international situations. Our genuine goodwill and good intentions are often brought to nothing, because we expect other people to be like us. This would be corrected if we knew the history, not necessarily in detail but in broad outlines, of the social and political conditions which have given to each nation its present character.

Englishmen like others to react to political situations like

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