Q1. Write an essay in about 600 words on any one of the following topics: (100 marks) (a) Mathematics: A mirror of modern civilization. (b) New frontiers of science need to be explored in the current times. (c) Education is a means of shaping character and of social change. (d) The role of literature in a common man's life. Q2. Read carefully the passage given below and write your answers to the questions that follow in clear, correct and concise language: (15×5=75marks) Not so long ago a book on human origins would have devoted a substantial number of pages to descriptions of the fossil evidence for primate evolution. This was in part because it was assumed that at each stage of primate evolution one of the fossil primates would have been recognizable as the direct ancestor of modern humans. However, we now know that for various reasons many of these taxa are highly unlikely to be ancestral to living higher primates. Instead, this account will concentrate ...