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What happened in the grand finale?

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What happened in the grand finale?

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There was a grand finale of scattered plates and silverware before the nurse and ward sister caught up with them.

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पाठ 3.1: In Celebration of Being Alive - Exercise [पृष्ठ ७१]

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पाठ 3.1 In Celebration of Being Alive
Exercise | Q 1. k. | पृष्ठ ७१

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Who did the narrator meet at the outskirts of Verona?


Why did the driver not approve of the narrator buying fruits from the boys?


How did the narrator help the boys on Sunday?


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.


The narrator did not utter a word and preferred to keep the secret to himself. Why? Substantiate the statement with reference to the story


Which character do you like the most in the story and why?


Which tea does the author prefer– China tea or Indian tea?


Why should tea be directly added to the pot?


How was Dr. Barnard’s attitude to suffering different from that of his father’s?


Why does Dr. Barnard describe the blind boy as a ‘walking horror’?


Life is unjust and cruel to certain people. Do they all resign themselves to their fate? Can you think of some who have fought their disabilities heroically and remained a stellar example for others? (for e.g. the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, a paraplegic). Give an account of one such person and his/her struggle to live a fruitful life.


What did Hillary do with his wet boots?


What did Hillary find in a tiny hollow?


When did Hillary feel a sense of freedom and well being?


What did Tenzing and Edmund Hillary gift to the Gods of lofty Summit? How did they do it?


What did the photograph portray?


How did Maamanaar handle the chair at home?


When did the children get over the fear of sitting on the chair?


Why did Maamanaar hand over the chair to the villagers to retain it?


What would be the consequence of the old lady’s action?


Why should individual liberty be curtailed?


What is the foundation of social conduct?


How would ‘liberty’ cause universal chaos?


What do you infer from Gardiner’s essay ‘On the rule of the Road'?


Para 1

We started up our cooker and
drank large quantities of lemon juice and
sugar, and followed this with our last tin of
sardines on biscuits. I dragged our oxygen
sets into the tent, cleaned the ice off them,
and then rechecked and tested them.

Para 2

I had removed my boots, which
had become wet the day before, and they
were now frozen solid. So I cooked them
over the fierce flame of the Primus and
managed to soften them up. Over our
down clothing, we donned our windproof
and onto our hands, we pulled three pairs
of gloves – silk, woollen, and windproof.

Para 3

At 6.30 a.m. we crawled out of that
tent into the snow, hoisted our 30 lb. of
oxygen gear on to our backs, connected
up our masks and turned on the valves to
bring life-giving oxygen into our lungs. A
few good deep breaths and we were ready
to go. Still a little worried about my cold
feet, I asked Tenzing to move off.

How did Hillary and Tenzing prepare themselves before they set off to the summit? (Para 1, 2, and 3)


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)


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