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Few animals are as useful or as unpopular as the goat. From ancient times it has supplied people with milk and meat. Its skin has been made into leather and the wool of some breeds woven into soft, warm cloth. Goats are hardly creatures, and can live on the green remains of a thorny bush or a poor grassland. Nevertheless, they have always had a bad reputation. Perhaps this is because the billy goats (males) often have a bad temper and a strong, unpleasant smell. Goats also do serious damage to young trees and other plants and can ‘quickly reduces lush’ grazing land to barren wasteland. For its size, the goat provides man with more useful things than almost any other animal, yet it often does not receive the food and care given to other animals. The goat will try to eat anything and will put up with the most uncomfortable surroundings. But if it is well-fed and carefully housed, the goat will produce much better milk, flesh and wool. The goat is very closely related to the sheep. In fact, it looks very much like a sheep except for three things. It has a shorter tail which turns up instead of hanging down. Goats (both males and females) have beards and backward slanting horns, whereas male sheep (rams) have curly horns. Goats have a hairy coat whereas sheep a woolly one. Goats can be divided into three groups – the Swiss goats, the eastern goats, and the wool goats. The Swiss goats, which are found all over Europe and have upright, pointed ears, produce a fine quality of milk. Goat’s milk is considered to be especially good for babies and invalids because it is easier to digest that cow’s milk. It is also made into cheese and used in the manufacture of the famous Swiss chocolate. The eastern goats which have long drooping ears, are raised both for milk and flesh. They are also valued for their short wool, which may be black, tan or white. However, the best wool comes from two goats in the third group – the Angora and the Cashmere breeds. The Angora, which came originally from near Ankara, the capital of Turkey is now bred in Eastern Europe, Southern Africa, Australia and the United States. the smaller Cashmere goat is difficult to raise outside its native home of Kashmir. Its soft under hair has long been used to make the famous Cashmere shawls.
Questions :
(i) What have goats supplied people from ancient times ?
(ii) What type of a creature are goats ?
(iii) What is peculiar about billy goats ?
(iv) What will goats do if better-fed and carefully housed?
(v) What are the three categories of goats ?
Over the last fifty years, millions of rupees have undoubtedly been spent on child care in this country. Yet, it is not Sub-Saharan Africa that is the home of the malnutritioned child but India where, according to UNICEF statistics, 53% of all children are malnourished. The reasons for malnutrition among Indian children are not far to seek. It is a multi-sectorial, multi-level problem that involves not just the availability but also adequate mother and child care in terms of easy access to health facilities, safe drinking water, environmental sanitation and of course, literacy. Neither the setting up of the National Nutrition Council in 1994, under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, nor the integrated child development scheme launched in 1975 to promote the holistic development of the child under six years of age, have made any visible or vocal difference or improvement in the sordid situation. Unfortunately, the purpose of strengthening the capacities of the community and of those who care has failed to deliver the goods because the schemes envisaged have had only marginal impact in the area of nutrition where it is most wanting and woeful. On paper we have plenty of policies and programmes, but as far as performance is concerned we have earned notoriety. The need of the hour is to translate them into deeds and results what we have tried to sell in the form of promises and populist pronouncements. The most urgent areas of attention and immediate actions are ‘nutrition, health and education’ of children, whose well-being reflects the health of the society and caring outlook of the polity. since the causes of malnutrition of children are many, like exploding population, bias against the female child, weak and suffering mothers, the remedy calls for ‘care of the mother and care by the mother’, besides an effective control over population explosion. Ignorance on what foods should be taken, is another contributory factor that results in malnutrition among women and children. The implementation of various schemes to fight the menace of malnutrition and undernourishment of children requires planning, co-ordination and monitoring by high-powered bodies right down to the village level.
Questions :
(i) How much money has been spent on child care in over last fifty years ?
(ii) Why were National Nutrition Council and integrated child development scheme launched ?
(iii) What are the most urgent areas of attention and immediate attention for children ?
(iv) What are the causes of malnutrition of children?
(v) What requires fighting menace of malnutrition and undernourishment of children ?
People talk of memorials to him in statues of bronze or marble but they thus mock him and belie his message. What tribute should we pay to him that he would have appreciated ? He has shown us the way to live and to die. If we have truely understood Gandhiji’s lesson, it would be better not to raise any memorial to him. He was a Hindu and an Indian and he was proud of being a Hindu and an Indian. To him India was dear because she had represented throughout the ages certain immutable truths. Though he was intensely religious and came to be called the Father of the Nation which he had liberated, yet no narrow religious or national, bond’s confined his spirit. And so he became the great internationalist, believing in the essential unity of man, the underlying unity of all religions, and the needs of humanity, and more specially, devoted himself to the service of the poor, the distressed and the oppressed millions everywhere.
Questions :
(i) Who is the author talking about in the passage ?
(ii) In the author’s view which memorial would he have appreciated ?
(iii) What memorial does the author suggest ?
(iv) Why was India dear to him ?
(v) Which country had he liberated ?
And this brings me to the point at which I asked, “What do we do with all the time which the machines have saved for us, and the new energy they have given us?” On the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little for the most part we use our time and energy to make more and better machines; but more and better machines only give us more time and more energy. What are we to do with them? The answer I think , is that we should try to become more civilized, For the machines themselves and the power which machines have given us, are not civilization but aids to civilization. Being civilized means making and liking beautiful things, thinking freely, and living rightly and maintaining justice equally between man and man. Man has a better chance today to do these things than he ever had before, he has more time, more energy, less to fear and less to fight against. If he will give his time and energy which his machines have won for him to making more and beautiful things, to finding out more and more about the universe to removing the causes of quarrels between nations, to discovering how to prevent poverty, then I think our civilization wold undoubtedly be the greater,as it would be the most lasting that there has ever been. – C.E.M. JOAD
Questions :
(i) What do we do in our free time ?
(ii) How should we use our free time ?
(iii) What according to the author comprises civilization ?
(iv) What vision of the future does the author have if we use our free time properly ?
(v) Make adjectives from :
(a) poverty
(b) justice
The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind and we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house, it must be treated with a certain considerate formality. You must see that it sustains no damage. It must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot leave it carelessly, you cannot mark it, you cannot turn down the pages, you cannot use it familiarly. And then, someday you ought to return it. But your own books belong to you; you treat them with affectionate intimacy that doesn’t require formality. Books are for use, not for show. You should not be afraid to mark them or to place them on the table wide open and face down. A good reason for marking favourite passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember the significant ones, to refer to them quickly and years later you have the pleasure of going over the old ground and recalling both the intellectual journey and your own earlier self. Everyone should begin collecting a private library in youth. One should have one’s own bookshelves, which should not have doors, glass windows or keys. They should be free and accessible to the hand as well as to the eye. The knowledge that they are there in plain view is both stimulating and refreshing.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Which habit is responsible for the growth of mankind ?
(ii) How are borrowed books different from books owned by us ?
(iii) To whom is a borrowed book compared ?
(iv) Why does the author think that marking a book is a good habit ?
(v) Give the opposites of :
(a) pleasure
(b) begin
Europe has her past. Europe’s strength lies in its history. We in India must make up our minds that we cannot borrow other people’s history and if we stifle our own we are committing suicide. When you borrow things that do not belong to your life, they only serve to crush your life. And therefore I believe that it does India no good to compete with Europe in its own field, we should follow our own destiny. We must know for certain that there is a future before us who are rich in moral ideals and not in mere things. We must recognize that it is providential that the West came to India. And yet some one must show East to the West and convince the West that the East has her own contribution to make to the history of civilization. India is no beggar of the West. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What happens if we borrow other people’s history ?
(ii) Why should Indians not compete with Europeans ?
(iii) What does the author suggest that the Indians should do ?
(iv) Where does the future of Indians lie ?
(v) Give the opposites of :
(a) borrow (b) before
Gifts or presents are synonyms for each other as words but if we go deep into their connotative meaning they differ from each other. The word ‘gift’ seems to be more frequently used than ‘present’. Both the words can be used as noun as well as verb. Though they can be used as other parts of speech also e.g. gift pack, gift card, gift box etc. Here we cannot say present pack, present card, present box etc. Similarly, we usually say his talent is god gifted or he/she is a gifted child. So, gifts can be talents also. They are abstract while presents are more concrete as in a sentence ‘a gifted child delivered a speech and got a no. of presents from the people. It seems that giving a gift or a present is a proper way to congratulate someone. There is hardly anybody who doesn’t like gifts. Whatever the occasion is gifts are exchanged frequently. Now a days, there is a fashion of return gifts also. When somebody gives us gifts we feel obliged and sometimes we have to work under pressure in return for the gift that we have received or promised by someone. This was the reason Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam never took a gift from anybody. He really set an example with such habits and his uncountable skills.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Which word is more frequent in use ?
(A) Gift
(B) Present
(C) Both
(D) None
(ii) What is more concrete ?
(A) Gifts
(B) Presents
(C) Talents
(D) All of the above
(iii) What is considered a proper way to congratulate someone ?
(A) sending message
(B) visiting someone
(C) giving a gift
(D) inviting someone
(iv) What is the fashion now a days ?
(A) return the gift
(B) receive the gift
(C) give a gift
(D) giving a return gift
(v) Which example did Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam set ?
(A) returning a gift
(B) never taking a gift
(C) promising a gift
(D) giving a gift
Earth is the only planet where life is possible. Though many people say that there are hundreds of earths in the universe but there is no solid proof yet. Some essential substances like air, water and land support life on earth. About 70% of the earth is covered by water and rest of it is covered by land. Similar to other planets earth also moves around the Sun in its fixed path. It takes 364 days and 6 hours to complete its round around the Sun. While taking a round around the Sun, the earth also rotates on its own axis. It completes its round on its axis in 24 hours which we call a solar day. When it is day time in our area, there is night time in the area opposite to us. So, with the rotation of earth on its own axis, we experience day and night with human beings on earth, there are millions of other creatures on earth. So it is our prime duty to save our lovely planet earth from every type of wrong practice. If we save earth, we shall save our life only.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Life is possible on earth only because of :
(A) air
(B) water
(C) land
(D) all of them
(ii) How much of the earth is covered by land ?
(A) 70%
(B) 30%
(C) 40%
(D) 100%
(iii) How much time does the earth take to complete a round around the Sun ?
(A) 364 days
(B) 364¼ days
(C) 364 ½days
(D) 365 days
(iv) How are days and nights formed ?
(A) When the earth rotates on its own axis
(B) When the earth takes a round around the Sun
(C) When the earth stops taking rounds
(D) All of the above
(v) What is our prime duty ?
(A) To save human beings
(B) To save the Sun
(C) To save the water
(D) To save the earth
A city of ants is a teeming hive where work is unending, as anyone will know who has studied even the common yellow ant of the English fields. The homes of these tiny creatures are underneath small mounds, raised a little above the surrounding fields, and inside the mounds there are chambers and galleries filled with thousands of hurrying little creatures. The centre of an ant community is the queen. She alone lays the eggs which will become the whole of the next generation in the ant city, and as the queen lays her eggs, the busy worker ants carry them away to the nursery. There they are carefully watched over by the nurse ants who, as soon as the grubs are hatched out of the eggs, feed them with a special food, keep them clean, and do everything they can to make them grow. So the grubs flourish, and as soon as they are full-grown, the nurse ants carry them to the cocoon chamber where the grubs change into cocoons. Even at this stage, when the baby ants are sleeping, the nurse ants are as watchful as ever. At regular intervals the cocoons are carried from the cocoon chamber to the top of the mound, so that the warmth of the sun may help them to develop. Presently the cocoons burst open, and the young ants crawl out ready to take their share in the life of the community. There are no unemployed, no slackers, in an ant community. Whilst the nurse ants are looking after the young. sentinel ants are mounting guard to give warning of the approach of an enemy, Meanwhile other ants will be hard at work collecting food, repairing the nest, or milking the ants’s cows. Yes, ants keep cows, and some ants even make stalls of leaves and silk in which to house their cows, and covered galleries along which the milkers can go to and fro from the stalls in safety. Of course, an ant’s cow in not like a real cow. The ants’s cows are greenfly or aphides such as are found on rose trees in the garden. The milk of these tiny creatures is honeydew and an ant at work on a greenfly will stroke it with its antennae, first on one side, then on the other, until tiny drops of honey are exuded through two pores in the back of the greenfly and carried away by the ant.
Questions:
(i) Where is the home of these tiny creatures?
(ii) Who lays eggs and who nurses them?
(iii) What do the nurse ants do when the grubs flourish ?
(iv) What do the sentinel ants do?
It is not difficult to prove for ourselves that it is we who are moving round under the stars, and not the stars that are moving round above our heads. Now that we all drive cars, we are all familiar with the property of matter that we describe as “inertia”. About a century after Christ, Plutarch explained it in the words “Everything is carried along by the motion natural to it, if it is not deflected by something else.” Fifteen hundred years later, Issac Newton described the same property of matter by saying that everybody perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed on it. When our car is running freely, stopping the engine does not stop the car; the momentum of the car still carries it forward, and to stop it we must either put on the brakes, or wait until friction and air-resistance brake the motion in a more leisurely manner. Not only every object, but every part of an object, seems to want to continue its present motion, and will only make a change if something pulls on it and compels it to do so. If we turn the steering-wheel of our car, we can make the lower part of the car follow the front wheels, but the upper part will seem to want to continue on its old course; if we turn the wheel too abruptly, there is danger, as we know, that the car will overturn. Or, if the road is icy or muddy, so that the wheels get no grip on the road, the whole back part of the car will tend to follow its old course, so that the car may skid. We shall encounter this property of inertia very often on our journey through time and space. It is important to us at the moment because it provides us with the simplest and most convincing proof that the earth actually is rotating. If we swing a heavy ball or weight, pendulum-wise, at the end of string, we shall find that it keeps on swinging in the same direction in space, no matter how much the top of the string is twisted or turned about: we can no more steer the swing of the pendulum in space by turning the top of the string than we can steer a car on ice by turning the steering- wheel.
Questions: 1 x 4 = 4
(i) What is the definition of inertia’ given by Plutarch ?
(ii) What does Newton say about inertia ?
(ii) What will happen if there is no inertia ?
(iv) What does Inertia provide us with the simplest and convincing proof?
Ride, work, ride, repeat. It’s a scientifically proven system that describes some unexpected benefits of cycling. In a recent study in the ‘Journal of clinical and Diagnostic Research’, scientists found that people scored higher on tests of memory, reasoning and planning after 30 minutes of spinning on a stationary bike than they did before they rode the bike. They also completed the tests faster after pedalling. Exercise is like fertilizer for your brain. All those hours spent on exercising your muscles, create rich capillary beds not only in leg and hip muscles, but also in your brain. More blood vessels in your brain and muscles mean more oxygen and nutrients to help them work. When you pedal, you also force more nerve cells to fire. The result : you double or triple the production of these cells – literally building your brain. You also release neurotransmitters (the messengers between your brain cells) so all those cells, new and old, can communicate with each other for better, faster functioning. That’s a pretty profound benefit to cyclists. This Kind of growth is especially important with each passing birthday, because as we age, our brains shrink and those connections weaken. Exercise restores and protects the brain cells. Neuroscientists say, “Adults who exercise display sharper memory skills, higher concentration levels more fluid thinking, and greater problem-solving ability than those who are sedentary.” Cycling also elevates your mood, relieves anxiety, increases stress resistance, and even banishes the blues. “Exercise works in the same way as psychotherapy and antidepressants in the treatment of depression, may be better,” says Dr. Manjari. A recent study, analysing 26 years of research, finds that even some exercise – as little as 20 to 30 minutes a day – can prevent depression over the long term.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) In which tests did people score higher after spinning on a stationary bike ?
(A) Memory
(B) Reasoning
(C) Planning
(D) All of the above
(ii) What is like fertilizer for our brain?
(A) Green manure
(B) Compost
(C) Exercise
(D) None of these
(iii) What creates rich capillary beds in our brain?
(A) Reading
(B) Writing
(C) Speaking
(D) Exercising our muscles
(iv) What does adults display who exercise?
(A) Sharper memory skills
(B) Higher concentration skills
(C) Greater problem-solving ability
(D) All of these
(v) What relieves anxiety and elevates our mood?
(A) Cycling
(B) Thinking
(C) Concentration
(D) None of these
Stress is a body reaction to any demands or changes in its internal and external environment. Whenever there is a change in the external environment such as temperature, pollutants, humidity and working conditions, it leads to stress. In these days of competition, when a person makes up his mind to surpass what has been achieved by others, leading to an imbalance between demands and resources, it causes psycho-social stress. It is a part and parcel of everyday life. Stress has a different meaning, depending on the stage of life you are in. The loss of a toy or a reprimand from the parents might create a stress shock in a child. An adolescent who fails an examination may feel as if everything has been lost and life has no further meaning. In adult, the loss of his or her companion, job or her companion, job or professional failure may appear as if there were nothing more to be achieved. Such signs appear in the attitude and behaviour of the individual as muscle tension in various parts of the body, palpitation and high blood pressure, indigestion and hyper-acidity. Ultimately, the result is self-destructive behaviour such as eating and drinking too much, smoking excessively or relying on tranquillisers. There are other signs of stress such as trembling, shaking, nervous blinking, dryness of throat and mouth and difficulty in swallowing. A professional under stress behaves as if he were a perfectionist. It leads to depression, lethargy and weakness. Periodic mood shifts also indicate the stress status of the students, executives and professionals. A person under stress reacts in different ways and the common ones are flight or fight depending upon the nature of the stress and capabilities of the person. Responses can be elegantly chosen to cope with the stress so that stress does not damage the system and become distress. When a stress crosses the limit, peculiar to an individual, it lowers his performance capacity. Frequent crossings of the limit may result in chronic fatigue in which a person feels lethargic, disinterested and is not easily motivated to achieve anything. This may make the person mentally undecided, confused and accident prone as well.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What is body reaction to any demands in internal and external environment ?
(A) Pollutants
(B) Humidity
(C) Stress
(D) All of these
(ii) What causes psycho-social stress?
(A) Imbalance between demands and resources
(B) Temperature
(C) Balance between demands and resources
(D) All of these
(iii) When does adolescent feel as if everything has been lost and life has no further meaning ?
(A) Loss of companion
(B) Loss of youth
(C) Fails an examination
(D) None of these
(iv) Who behaves as if he were a perfectionist?
(A) a child
(B) a professional
(C) an adult
(D) All of these
(v) What lowers once performance capacity ?
(A) When stress crosses the limit
(B) Peculiar to an individual
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of these