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प्रश्न
What does Dr. Barnard compare this entertainment to?
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उत्तर
Dr. Barnard compared the trolley race as much better entertainment than anything anyone puts on at the Indianapolis 500 car race.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Life is full of ups and downs. It has pleasant surprises as well as rude shocks. Nevertheless, every incident offers a lesson for us to learn and evolve into better individuals.
Why did the driver not approve of the narrator buying fruits from the boys?
Describe the girl with whom the boys were talking to in the cubicle.
Recount the untold sufferings undergone by the siblings after they were rendered homeless.
What was the driving force that made the boys do various jobs?
Why does the author say that it is important to include a tea recipe in cookery books?
What is the second golden rule in the preparation of tea?
Why does the author prefer the cylindrical cup to a flat cup?
Why does the author advise removing cream from the milk?
Does the author like drinking tea with sugar? Give reasons.
Who encouraged them and how?
Why does Dr. Barnard find suffering of children heartbreaking?
Why does Dr. Barnard describe the blind boy as a ‘walking horror’?
What did Tenzing and Edmund Hillary gift to the Gods of lofty Summit? How did they do it?
What did the photograph portray?
The soft snow was difficult and dangerous. Why?
Describe the stool that the narrator’s family had.
How did Maamanaar handle the chair at home?
What happened to the visitor when he sat on the stool?
Why did the family find it difficult to make a chair?
What was grandmother’s suggestion of wood? Why?
From the pictures given below, identity the actions that may cause inconvenience and discomfort to others. Discuss.
Why did the lady think she was entitled to walk down the middle of the road?
How would a reasonable person react when his actions affect other person’s liberty?
Define ‘liberty’ as perceived by the author.
‘Curtailment of private liberty is done to establish social order’ – Do you agree?
Para 18
My first feelings were of relief–
relief that there were no more steps to
cut, no more ridges to traverse, and no
more humps to tantalize us with hopes
of success. I looked at Tenzing. In spite of
the balaclava helmet, goggles, and oxygen
mask – all encrusted with long icicles–that
concealed his face, there was no disguising
his grin of delight as he looked all around
him. We shook hands, and then Tenzing
threw his arm around my shoulders and
we thumped each other on the back until
we were almost breathless. It was 11.30
a.m. The ridge had taken us two and a
half hours, but it seemed like a lifetime
To the east was our giant
Describe the feelings of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing as they reached the top of the Summit. (Para 18)
