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Read the following hypothetical text and answer the given questions: 

Sustainable development is the synonymous in the minds of many with the colour green and for good reasons. Twenty years ago, at the First Earth Summit at Rio de Janerio, in Brazil, world leaders set out what today is conventional wisdom: 

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HUMAN PROGRESS - cannot be divorced from environmental protection unless both are advanced together, both will flounder together. Sustainable development is as much about health, education and jobs, as it is about the ecosystems. It is about ever widening inclusion and movement away from decisions that erode democratic space and do not address social inequality, intolerance, and violence. Sustainable Development is about changes that transform impoverished people, communities, and countries into informed, educated healthy and productive societies. It is about wealth creation that generates equality and opportunity. 

Sustainable Development is about consumption and production patterns that respect planetary boundaries; it is also about increasing tolerance and respect for human rights at all levels. Building on human development legacy that oriented with Economists like Amartya Sen and Mahbub-Ul-Haq and was captured by the first Human Development Report in 1990. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has long promoted alternative approaches to measure human progress, along with the Human Development Index (HDI). Today, we are building on this legacy by exploring how to adjust the index to reflect environmental sustainability, so that governments and citizens might better track real progress towards truly sustainable development. This must be our collective objective.

1. Which of the following is not one of the ways to attain the goal of sustainable development? (choose the correct alternative) 

a) Use of cleaner fuels 

b) Use of traditional knowledge and practices 

c) Spreading awareness 

d) Sticking to methods to promote inequalities. 

2. State whether the given statement is true or false: 

As per the UNDP Report education and health are the broader issues of human development. 

3. Sustainable development and economic growth are __________ (directly/indirectly) related. (choose the correct alternative) 

4. Read the following statements - 

Assertion (A) and Reason ( R)

Assertion (A): Sustainable Development is about changes that transform impoverished people, communities, and countries into informed, educated, healthy and productive societies. 

Reason (R): Sustainable Development advocates about wealth creation that generatesSocio-economic equality and opportunity. 

Select the correct alternative from the following: 

a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true. 

b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are false. 

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1 d) Sticking to methods to promote inequalities. 

2 True 

3 Directly 

4 a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true.

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