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प्रश्न
Why is the quality of pity earth-bound while the other two passions are elevating?
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उत्तर
Bertrand Russell had three passions governing his life all through. The first two being love and knowledge, which elevated him and took him higher to the heavens that great poets and saints have imagined. However, he said that the third one, i.e., pity, brought him back to the Earth, the reality. The pain in the echoing cries reverberated in his heart. All the sorrow in the wide world forced him to return to the Earth; the children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people that become a hated burden to their children. Russell was moved by the loneliness and poverty and pain that mocked human life. He imagined the ideal life of a human without any suffering and sorrow. So, he longed to alleviate the evil, however, he too suffered. He yet respected the human life and found it worth living and fought throughout his life against all evils. Bertrand fought against the Vietnam war and supported suffragists. Throughout his life he fought in favour of mankind to make this world a better place to live.
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Attempt a character sketch of Mr Gilman as a teacher.
Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each:
(a) What did Franz wonder about when he entered the class that day?
(b) What shocking experience did Douglas have at YMCA pool?
(c) Why does Kamala Das compare her mother to 'a pale winter's moon'?
(d) What rich bountry has the heaven given us? (A Thing of Beauty)
(e) Why did the Maharaja have to pay a bill of three lakh rupees to the British jewellers?
(f) What problem did Roger Skunk face when he went to play with his friends. How did he solve it?
Answer the following question in 200-250 words:
What is the main theme of 'The Diary of a Young Girl'?
Do you know of any incident when someone has been brought back to life from the brink of death through medical help. Discuss medical procedures such as organ transplant and organ regeneration that are used to save human life.
What impression would you form of a state where the King was 'just and placid'?
Discuss in pairs or groups of four.
Replacing old machines with new is better than getting them repaired.
How does Shelley's attitude to science differ from that of Wordsworth and Keats?
While tribal communities may not seem to possess the scientific temper,there are many ideas from tribal conventions that could enrich modern societies.
Explain the significance of the lines ‘I tie this Ridin creeper To fasten your soul to your body.’
How does the poet juxtapose the human condition with the behaviour of the political class?
Fill in the blank.
Baban’s father and some elders mentioned the name of __________.
Answer in your own words.
How did the plants react to the fast rhythmic music?
Think and answer in your own words.
How do parents react when they see children soil their clothes in dust and heat?
Make a list of the preparations made for an assault on Tiger Hill.
After confirming the multidirectional assault as the best strategy the commanding officer ________________.
Answer the given question in your own words.
Where was the Happy Prince’s statue located?
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- God helps those, who help themselves.
- God loves those, who love their fellow beings.
- God loves those, who give away their wealth, to please Him.
- Service to mankind is service to God.
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- Proper planning
- ________________
- ________________
- ________________
- ________________
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Make point-wise notes of the same.
Read the expression:
‘the blueprint of our past’s tomorrow’. Consider in a group why the poet has not mentioned ‘the present’. It is because of the planners who have possessed our ‘present’ in order to change ‘our past’ into the ‘future’ they desire. Go through the poem and write the lines which support this thought.
- The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points.
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________.
Apart from the children, no other human beings are mentioned in the poem. However, many natural elements are shown to act like persons. Name them and also write what they do.
Go through the following web that highlights the essential qualities of a compere. Discuss with your partner the essential qualities and also the precautions that a compere should take while compering a program.
Precautions to be taken :
- __________________________
- __________________________
- __________________________
- __________________________
Form pairs. Present in the class, the conversation between Thiruvalluvar and the young man.
Choose the odd one out :
Bottom, Moth, Mustardseed, Cobweb.
What themes did the committee identify?
What did Mr. Gizare appreciate the most?
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If you were to draw a landscape on the basis of this poem, what elements will you show in it? What colours will you use?
Prepare similar word chains using the following ideas.
sunshine - warm ________________.
Using your imagination, write more sentences in the same pattern:
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- Whenever he took a walk, they followed him.
- To be king is good. But to be kind is better.
Answer the following question and write in short, why the parody sounds funny.
Why does the crocodile work?
Write in your own words.
What makes the poet remember his mother?
What is the difference between a 'dream' and a 'daydream'?
Read the word. Write the words that combine to make it.
gentle-hearted
Do you think that the young seagull’s parents were harsh to him? Why?
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
Let me but live my life from year to year, With forward face and unreluctant soul; Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal; Not mourning for the things that disappear.
Identify the rhyme scheme of the given lines.
Why do you think Mrs. Bodwell wanted to sell the house?
Answer the following question based on the reading of the story. Do not forget to go back to the passage whenever necessary to find and confirm the answer.
| Action | Effect |
| While you warm yourself | I will prepare the best tea. |
| I saved enough money | |
| Six hundred and two villages were destroyed. | |
| It was a terrible earthquake and it was felt | |
| I ran back to the village | |
| They lifted the door | |
| I went to thank the Army Officer |
Hamid’s friends are ______
Write the name of the toy against the picture.
Usha took shelter in the ______.
Mithali’s mother tongue is Telugu.
Complete the mind map given below
Gulliver was hailed as a hero because he ______.
Rearrange the story in order.
- Jaswant stayed back in his post.
- He killed 300 chinese soldiers in the battle.
- He fired weapons from separate points.
- Sela and Nura helped him in the battle.
- Jaswant shot himself to death.
- Chinese soldiers caught the man who supplied food.
- He was awarded the Mahavir Chakra.
Choose the odd one out.
Why do we discover a mystery?
Identify the character or the speaker.
“I hope he is safe.”
What will you do if someone ensnares birds?
Fill in the blank
Do you like apple______ orange?
The brown sparrow laid ________eggs.
Name the character or speaker.
"Why does Nandhini look so sad?"
Read the advertisement and answer the question given below.
What is the size of the screen?
Read the advertisement and answer the question given below.
What is the name of the dealer?
Meena went to ______ her father.
The monster tree was protecting the ______.
Read the passage carefully and answer the following question.
What is the main idea of the story?
Why did Bala go to Chennai with his father?
Write the correct word.
| rooster, king, hen, tiger, queen, tigress. |
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow
Humans have long been fascinated by fiction. We experience excitement in assigning supernatural power to imaginary characters in fictional stories – and so we have Spider man, Batman, He–man, Titans and many more. The ‘Cyborg’ was an offshoot of such wild imagination of humans to invest our species with superhuman powers. Today, the Cyborg is no more an imaginary organism. We are living in a world where a sizeable population of humans have merged their bodies with technological implants. The term ‘Cyborg’, short for ‘cybernetic organism’, was coined to describe a man, whose body is implanted with technological devices to supplement and substitute body functions.
Cyborgs include people with cardiac pacemakers, contact lenses, bionic ears and eyes, prosthetics and so on. In other words, a cyborg is partly human and partly machine. The technological innovations in the field of medicine and healthcare augment humans with machines, producing a beta version of the human body. The advent of brain machine interfaces is certain to blur the boundary between humans and machines. Scientists are working hard to find a technique for age reversal too. People do not want to die, so mankind is striving to get to the final frontier, which is development of machines and devices that would accord man immortality.
The needs of humans are not limited. As time passes, food habits change, thinking patterns change, and even appearances change. We are about to travel by driverless, fully automated vehicles. Computers and smart phones have become our masters. The more we depend and merge with technological advancements, the more the humanness in us slowly erodes. Intelligence is sought to be infused into machines and robotics are designed in such a way to give man a virtual human companion. The field of artificial intelligence is overtaking the human brain and many fear that it could even harm the human race. Despite certain limitations and potential threats, many believe that cyborgs will be the next step in the evolution of mankind. The amalgamation of man and machine is sure to add a new dimension to the life of mankind and this will prove to be the ‘biggest evolution in Biology’ since the emergence of life, four billion years ago.
Questions:
a) Account for the popularity of characters with supernatural powers.
b) Who is referred to as a ‘Cyborg’?
c) What is expected to happen with the advent of the brain machine interface?
d) The needs of humans are not limited. How is this statement elaborated in the passage?
e) How can a machine turn into a virtual companion for humans?
f) Explain the flipside of the rapid technological advancement.
g) Identify the word in para 1 which means ‘everlasting life’.
h) Which of the following words is synonymous with ‘amalgamation’?
- recreation
- integration
- exploration
- proposition
i) Which of the following options is the antonym of the word ‘advent’?
- drawback
- dispute
- departure
- danger
j) Find out the word which is the antonym of ‘natural’ in para 3.
