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Second Year Honours Examination-2019 English (COMPULSORY) Subject Code: 221109 Exam held: 14/11/19 Time: 3 hours; Full marke: 100 IN. B. The figures in the right margin indicate full marks] Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: There is one unpleasant certainty in life: criticism. No one escapes it entirely. And often our careers, our emotional stability, our happiness depend on how we react to it. There are really two kinds of criticism-the gentle, tactful, constructive variety and the blunt, harsh and hostile kind. Controlling our emotional reaction is the hardest. Criticism is a direct attack on your self-respect. So, it is all easy to react with resentment and anger. But this just makes you weaker, you are only poisoning yourself. The first step, then, is to force yourself to be dispassionate. This is never easy, but it can be done. Another way to steady your emotions under attack is to reflect that strong men and women have always been criticised. If you