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English Communicative Maximum marks: 80 Time-3hours The question paper is divided into four sections.Section A: Reading comprehension 20 marksSection B: Writing 20 marksSection C: Grammar 20 marksSection D: Literature 20 marksSECTION A(READING -20 MARKS)Q1 Read the following passage carefully. (5 Marks)Sponsored FestivalsThis is the high noon of the Age of Sponsorship. For several years now, we have become used to all kinds of events being sponsored. In many newspapers, every possible feature, barring the editorials, is sponsored. Even the daily weather report is.Student organizations, which were once content to hold low-key festivals in their college, now find corporate sponsors and get massive media exposure for such events.Ganesh Chaturthi, the festival was once an affair confined to individual homes. Today, in Mumbai it provides competition for rival sponsors as the size of the idols grows in height and girth every year and the festivities are held with greater gusto and noiseDuring Dushera, Mumbai reverberates to the beat of drums. Thousands of young people spend nights dancing to the various versions of the traditional Gujarati ‘garba’ dance- including the mutant-“disco garba”. It is one of those strange twists of irony that dance, which actually liberated women and gave them a legitimate reason to dance their hearts out, has now become a highly sponsored event in which there is no place for traditional ‘garba’ dancers. In the past, the dancing was free of both self consciousness, as it was a women’s dance, and commerce as it was held in the courtyard.Thus each year