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प्रश्न
Discuss in groups, reasons/ consequences/ effects:
The cherry blossomed.
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उत्तर
- Reasons:
The cherry blossomed in due time and also because of the rain. - Consequences:
It grew into a big tree with flowers and fruits and filled the poet with joy. - Effects:
The tree attracted and became a home for the birds and insects.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. Air pollution is an issue which concerns us all alike. One can willingly choose or reject a food, a drink or a life comfort, but unfortunately there is little choice for the air we breathe. All, what is there in the air is inhaled by one and all living in those surroundings.
2. Air pollutant is defined as a substance which is present while normally it is not there or present in an amount exceeding the normal concentrations. It could either be gaseous or a particulate matter. The important and harmful polluting gases are carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ozone and oxides of sulphur and nitrogen. The common particulate pollutants are the dusts of various inorganic or organic origins. Although we often talk of the outdoor air pollutions caused by industrial and vehicular exhausts, the indoor pollution may prove to be as or a more important cause of health problems.
3. Recognition of air pollution is relatively recent. It is not uncommon to experience a feeling of 'suffocation' in a closed environment. It is often ascribed to the lack of oxygen. Fortunately, however, the composition of air is remarkably constant all over the world. There is about 79 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen in the air − the other gases forming a very small fraction. It is true that carbon dioxide exhaled out of lungs may accumulate in a closed and over-crowded place. But such an increase is usually small and temporary unless the room is really air-tight. Exposure to poisonous gases such as carbon monoxide may occur in a closed room, heated by burning coal inside. This may also prove to be fatal.
4. What is more common in a poorly ventilated home is a vague constellation of symptoms described as the sick-building syndrome. It is characterized by a general feeling of malaise, head-ache, dizziness and irritation of mucous membranes. It may also be accompanied by nausea, itching, aches, pains and depression. Sick building syndrome is getting commoner in big cities with the small houses, which are generally over-furnished. Some of the important pollutants whose indoor concentrations exceed those of the outdoors include gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and organic substances like spores, formaldehydes, hydrocarbon aerosols and allergens. The sources are attributed to a variety of construction materials, insulations, furnishings, adhesives, cosmetics, house dusts, fungi and other indoor products.
5. By-products of fuel combustion are important in houses with indoor kitchens. It is not only the brining of dried dung and fuelwood which is responsible, but also kerosene and liquid petroleum gas. Oxides of both nitrogen and sulphur are released from their combustion.
6. Smoking of tobacco in the closed environment is an important source of indoor pollution. It may not be high quantitatively, but significantly hazardous for health. It is because of the fact that there are over 3000 chemical constituents in tobacco smoke, which have been identified. These are harmful for human health.
7. Micro-organisms and allergens are of special significance in the causation and spread of diseases. Most of the infective illnesses may involve more persons of a family living in common indoor environment. These include viral and bacterial diseases like tuberculosis.
8. Besides infections, allergic and hypersensitivity disorders are spreading fast. Although asthma is the most common form of respiratory allergic disorders, pneumonias are not uncommon, but more persistent and serious. These are attributed to exposures to allergens from various fungi, molds, hay and other organic materials. Indoor air ventilation systems, coolers, air-conditioners, dampness, decay, pet animals, production or handling of the causative items are responsible for these hypersensitivity − diseases.
9. Obviously, the spectrum of pollution is very wide and our options are limited. Indoor pollution may be handled relatively easily by an individual. Moreover, the good work must start from one’s own house
(Extracted from the Tribune)
(a) (i) What is an air pollutant? (1)
(ii) In what forms are the air pollutants present? (2)
(iii) Why do we feel suffocated in a closed environment? (1)
(iv) What is sick building syndrome? How is it increasing? (2)
(v) How is indoor smoking very hazardous? (1)
(vi) How can one overcome the dangers of indoor air pollution? (2)
(b) Find the words from the above passage which mean the same as the following: (3)
(i) giddiness (para 4)
(ii) constant (para 8)
(iii) humidity (para 8)
Attempt in 120‒150 words a character sketch of Miss Sullivan.
What do the following utterance indicate?
(i)“I told her, through Daniel ...”
(ii)“It’s a cold,” he said finally through Tsetan.
What were the voices that Paul heard? Did they lead him to success in the real sense?
How does G. N. Devy bring out the importance of the oral literary tradition?
How is the idyllic juxtaposed with the pedestrian in the poem?
The poem has a literal level and a figurative level. Why has the poet chosen 'tigers' and 'sheep' to convey his message?
Arrange the following set of words in the alphabetical order in your notebook.
ship, small, successful, scoldings, stone, saving, someone, stood, streets, still, screamed, sat, seemed, saint, share.
Read the story and complete the following.
At first, Revathi’s plants did not look normal and healthy because, ____________.
Read the story and complete the following.
Revathi’s grief knew no bounds because, ____________.
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
(tall / quiet / humble / merry / busy / slippery / fast / sly / slow / big)
as ______ as a deer
Visit a library:
This story is a fable. Find two more fables. Share them with your friends.
Compare the features of a comedy and tragedy.
Discuss in groups and think about it.
Mention three occasions on which you have made someone else angry. What made that person angry? Can you avoid such things in the future?
Explain the term plot.
Give reasons :
Oberon and Titania fight for the custody of the Indian boy because - Titania wants ______________________.
Discuss the following question after you have seen a presentation of the ‘ad’.
What would happen if you never ate Krispy Krunchy?
Present the information in the box ‘My Teacher says’. Translate the box ‘My Teacher says’ into your mother tongue.
Read the following chains of words:
- fortune - fortunate - fortunately - unfortunately
- know - knowing - knowingly - unknowingly
- amaze - amazing - amazingly
- possible - impossible - impossibly
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage:
Gautama, the Buddha, was born over two thousand five hundred years ago, as ______.
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage:
He realised that making the body suffer was not ____________.
Write a short note on the following:
Sujata’s offering
Visit a library:
Read the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Which other things in nature can say –
'For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.'
Say whether you agree or disagree.
The youngest child was most irritating.
Summarise this poem in your own words in 8 to 10 lines, highlighting only the main points.
Listen carefully and guess how the sentence would end.
When the teacher read the answer papers, she was ______.
Name the following.
Did not let the passes go waste.
WWW is a short form of World Wide Web.
Find ten other short forms related to ICT (Information and Communication Technology).
Find out the difference between the fingerspelling method, sign language and Braille.
How did the bird try to reach its parents without having to fly?
Identify the character or speaker.
He was the chief of all spirits.
What woke up the mother?
We should learn to ______questions.
- ask
- answer
- discard
Take a stanza from the poem. Write it in the blanks and find the rhyme scheme.
| Lines from the poem | Rhyme scheme (a/b/c/d) |
Which mode of transport did Fogg choose?
When did the garden become a happy place for the author?
The author did not want to plant saplings in the forest because______.
What does ‘charges along like troops in a battle’ mean?
Discuss in groups. Retell the story in your own words. Each one should say one sentence.
You can begin like this:
Gulliver was travelling in a ship. One stormy night, the ship was wrecked...
What is the setting of the story?
"I think it would be nice if we moved quickly from here.”
- Who does ‘I’ refer to?
- Why did they want to move quickly from there?
Who shattered the windows?
Match the following.
| treat everyone | love each of her child |
| nation | no inner boundaries |
| kind | not divided as people |
| country | alike |
Name the character or speaker.
"Play me a pleasant song."
How does it welcome all?
_______ is our culture.
Who will be the fortunate?
They would rest on the tree.
Akilan learnt Judo for ______.
Why did she pick up her pace?
The old man is _____.
Write the rhyming word.
gale
Choose the correct answer.
Anbu was a ________ old boy.
What are things that we can save? Why should we save them?
When do you feel proud?
Rani and Divya informed the happening to the ______.
Pencil asked him to draw ______.
