Science (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Notice the italicized sentence placed at the top of the article which tells us at a glance what the article is about.

Divide the article into four sections based on the shifts in the sub-topics and give a suitable sub-heading for each section. One has been done for you in the article as an example.

There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicate this?

Look for pictures in newspapers and magazines that depict the urban civic problems discussed in the text. Cut them out and pin them to the text at appropriate places.

What does the phrase “strange to tell” mean?

There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.

How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what you have learned in science.

Why are the last two lines put within brackets?

List the pair of opposites found in the poem.

Notice the following sentence patterns.

And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.

Rewrite the above sentences in prose.

Notice the following sentence patterns.

 I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.

Rewrite the above sentences in prose.

Notice the following sentence patterns.

Eternal I rise

Rewrite the above sentences in prose.

Notice the following sentence patterns.

For song…duly with love returns

Rewrite the above sentences in prose.

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Himalayan Quake 2005

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Those who can bear all can dare all

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Fascinating facts about water

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Public Health In Transition

Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.

• a holistic and ecological view 

• inter alia

• sustainable development 

• decimated

• languish 

• catastrophic depletion

• ignominious darkness 

• transcending concern

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Human Population Grows Up