Passage 9: Note Making and Summarizing | Class 11 English Grammar PDF Download

Read the following passage carefully:

1. The one industry that remains unaffected by any depression in trade is the beauty industry. The women world over continue to spend money on their faces and bodies even when there is a great slump in other areas of trade. The number of advertisements proclaiming the miracles performed by the various beauty aids goes to support the fact that, today, with all the talk about emancipation, equality of sexes and feminism, women are still observed with their physical beauty as they were in the times of Cleopatra.
2. America leads the figures, literally and metaphorically. Many parts of Europe by virtue of being affected by political and economic instability, leave precious little for women to beautify themselves. May be, all that women in Europe, can then do is to wash and hope for the best. But, the rich and upper middle class women, everywhere in the world, block a substantial amount of their income on beautifying themselves. Why is it so?
3. The richer the man gets the more obsessed he becomes with high powered cars and electronic gadgets and bank balances. On the contrary, the women, especially the urban upper middle class women, find their bodies and faces worthy of investing a major part of their income.
4. Women, these days, are much freer than they were in the last century. Not only are they free to take part in social and professional functions of a society as an equal to man, but also to look attractive in any given situation. The beauty industry is shrewd enough to exploit this trend and women in every walk of life have something to buy from the range of products that the beauty industry offers. The British matron, today, is the thing of the past.
5. As a result of the number of beauty parlours that have sprung up in every street corner of the metropolises, and the exercises, the health motors and the skin foods that they offer, you can hardly run into an old woman these days. One could say ‘old ladies’ are fast becoming an extinct species. White hair, wrinkles, bent backs and hollow cheeks are features of a bygone era. Cosmetic surgery has slowly eradicated these unwanted phenomena. If children of posterity want to look at an old woman, they might have to run to an art gallery and find a medieval painting.

Q.1. On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it, using recognizable abbreviations where necessary. Use a format you consider suitable. Supply an appropriate title.

Title: Beauty Industry
Notes:

1. Flourishing Ind.
   (a) Unaffected by depn.
   (b) Advts. – miracles of bty. aids .
   (c) Phy. bty – still pop. among women
2. Craze for Beautification
   (a) America leads figs.
   (b) Parts of Europe – little for bty. aids
   (c) Everywhere in the world – sub. amt.
   (i) Rich
   (ii) Upp. mid. els.
3. Reasons
   (a) Rich women – invt on bodies & faces
   (b) Women’s freedom – eq. to man
   (i) social/prof, funct. of soc.
   (ii) Look attractive in any sitn.
   (c) Shrewdness of bty ind.
   (i) Exploits the trend to look btyful
   (ii) Women of all classes – buy beauty aids
4. Old ladies – extinct species
   (a) Beauty parlours
   (i) ex. thro, health motors
   (ii) skin foods
   (b) Cosmetic surgery
5. No white hair, wrinkles, bent backs or hollow cheeks

Q.2. Make a summary of the passage.

Summary:
Beauty industry has become flourishing industry which is unaffected by any depression. Advertisements proclaim miracles of beauty aids. Women loves to maintain their physical beauty in all nations. America leads the figures, though in some parts of Europe the women are not crazy for beauty. Yet everywhere in the world the women spent a big amount of their income on beautifying themselves. The women of all classes buy beauty aids and pay a handsome amount in beauty parlours. The features of old age has been challenged by cosmetic surgery. So the old ladies are fast becoming an extinct species.