Practice Test: Reading Comprehension - 1 | English Language for JAMB PDF Download

The passage states that India recognized and commended the achievements of the Soviet Union, including the achievement of one hundred percent literacy and rapid industrialization. This is mentioned in the sentence: "The people of India realized that the achievement of one hundred per cent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with similarly complicated ethnic and religious groupings, the rapid industrialization of a nation that was a primarily agrarian society when the Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917..."

The passage mentions that the West primarily focused on the Soviet State's human rights violations but did not specifically mention the deliberate uprooting and mass migration of ethnic people in the name of industrialization. This is stated in the sentence: "In contrast, all that the West focused on were the massive human rights violations by the Soviet State on its people, the deliberate uprooting and mass migrations of ethnic peoples from one part of the country to another in the name of industrialization, the end of religion."

The passage states that India recognized the achievements of the Soviet Union and took the pain not to condemn the people of Russia in black and white terms. It implies that the Indian perception was applauding rather than negative. This is mentioned in the sentence: "they took the pain not to condemn the people of that broad country in black and white terms; they understood that mingled in the shades of grey were grains of uniqueness."

The passage presents a comparison between the Indian perception of the Soviet Union and the West's focus on the negative aspects of Communism. It analyzes the reasons for India's recognition of Soviet achievements and the contrasting viewpoints.