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प्रश्न
There are several physically-challenged people who have lived successful and meaningful lives. Here are a few personalities who have fought great odds and lived a life of blazing achievements. Let’s share what we know about each of them and complete the table below.
| Name of the personality | Nature of challenge | Field of achievement |
| e.g. Beethoven | Hearing impairment | Music |
| Demosthenes | ||
| Helen Keller | ||
| Mariyappan Thangavelu | ||
| Mozart | ||
| John Milton | ||
| Sudha Chandran |

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उत्तर
| Name of the personality | Nature of challenge | Field of achievement |
| e.g. Beethoven | Hearing impairment | Music |
| Demosthenes | Speech impaired | Oration |
| Helen Keller | Vision and multiple disorders | Writing, Public Service |
| Mariyappan Thangavelu | Physically handicapped | High Jump |
| Mozart | Hearing impairment | Music |
| John Milton | Hearing impairment | Poetry |
| Sudha Chandran | Physically handicapped | Dancing |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What was Lucia suffering from?
What made the boys join the resistance movement against the Germans?
Who took the author to the cubicle?
Recount the untold sufferings undergone by the siblings after they were rendered homeless.
The narrator did not utter a word and preferred to keep the secret to himself. Why? Substantiate the statement with reference to the story
How was the family affected by the war?
Adversity brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Elucidate this statement with reference to the story
Which character do you like the most in the story and why?
Why does the author say that it is important to include a tea recipe in cookery books?
According to the author, what does the phrase ‘a nice cup of tea’ refer to?
How does army tea taste?
Why does the author refer to himself as being in ‘a minority’?
Discuss how the essay reveals the factual points and the author’s personal opinions on the preparation of tea.
How was the unattended trolley put to use?
Why did the choice of roles prove to be easy for them?
Dr. Barnard couldn’t find any nobility in suffering. Why?
Why does Dr. Barnard describe the blind boy as a ‘walking horror’?
When did Hillary feel a sense of freedom and well being?
What did Hillary mean by saying “We had had enough to do the job, but by no means too much”?
What did Tenzing and Edmund Hillary gift to the Gods of lofty Summit? How did they do it?
How did the firm snow at the higher regions fill them with hope?
Why did the family find it difficult to make a chair?
Narrate the humorous incidents that happened in the author’s home before and after the arrival of the chair.
What does the ‘rule of the road’ mean?
Define ‘liberty’ as perceived by the author.
What does the traffic policeman symbolize?
"My right to swing my fist ends, where your nose begins." Elucidate with reference to, ‘On the Rule of the Road’.
Para 4
Tenzing kicked steps in a long
traverse back towards the ridge, and we
reached its crest where it forms a great
snow bump at about 28000 feet. From
here the ridge narrowed to a knife-edge
and, as my feet were now warm, I took
over the lead.
Para 5
The soft snow made a route on top
of the ridge both difficult and dangerous,
which sometimes held my weight but often
gave way suddenly. After several hundred
feet, we came to a tiny hollow and found
there the two oxygen bottles left on the
an earlier attempt by Evans and Bourdillon.
I scraped the ice off the gauges and was
relieved to find that they still contained
several hundred liters of oxygen-enough
to get us down to the South Col if used sparingly
Para 6
I continued making the trail on up
the ridge, leading up for the last 400 feet
to the southern summit. The snow on this
the face was dangerous, but we persisted in
our efforts to beat a trail up it.
We made frequent changes of
lead. As I was stamping a trail in the deep
snow, a section around me gave way and
Para 7
I slipped back through three or four of
my steps. I discussed with Tenzing the
the advisability of going on, and he, although
admitting that he felt unhappy about the
snow conditions, and finished with his
the familiar phrase “Just as you wish”.
Para 8
I decided to go on, and we finally
reached firmer snow higher up, and then
chipped steps up the last steep slopes and
crampon onto the South Peak. It was now 9 a.m.
Give an account of the journey to the South Col from 28,000 feet. (Para 4 to 8)
How responsible and capable are you at home?
