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Neha Jain
Subject: English
, asked on 3/12/21
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
You are wel", Sadao agreed. He lowered his voice. "You are so well that I
think if I put my boat on the shore tonight, with food and extra clothing in
it, you might be able to row to that little island not far from the coast. It is
so near the coast that it has not been worth fortifying. Nobody lives on it
because in storm it is submerged. But this is not the season of storm. You
could live there until you saw a Korean fishing boat pass by. They pass
quite near the island because the water is many fathoms deep there'
The young man stared at him, slowly comprehending. Do I have to ? he
asked.'
"I think so", "Sadao said gently. "you understand - it is not hidden that
you are here."
What is Dr. Sadao's intention with the statement "... it is not hidden you are here."?
(a) to explain why he cannot stay there anymore.
(b) to remind him that he has tried to hide his presence.
(c) to explain that it is necessary and good for both of them.
(d) to assert that his house is not a hiding place.
Answer
1
Neha Jain
Subject: English
, asked on 3/12/21
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
What I want should not be
confused
with total inactivity
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving-
and for once could do nothing
Perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.
Select the option that aptly describes the tone of the poet in the
expression "If we were not so single minded'.
(a) regretful
(b) critical
(c) encouraging
(d)friendly
Answer
1
Neha Jain
Subject: English
, asked on 3/12/21
Read the extract given below to attempt the follwoing question:
Mukesh insists on being his own master. "I will be a motor mechanic', he announces. Do you know anything about cars ?' I ask. I will learn to drive a car." he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is the centre of India's glass blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seem Mukesh's family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures
What does the author try to convey by the expression 'being his own master'?
Answer
1
Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Keeping quiet extract 3
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Meenu
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 3 days ago
BBC compacta class 12 solutions english assignment 1
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Solve extract 3
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Solve extract 5
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Keeping quite extract
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Solve extract pleased
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Solve these all.
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Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Deep waters extract
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Deep water extract
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Vishakha Sethi
Subject: English
, asked 4 weeks ago
you are Suman aur Ramesh write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your concern over the Rapid increase in almost incurable diseases like coronavirus swine flu and dengue
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Beverly
Subject: English
, asked on 29/5/22
One social issue during Covid 19 pandemic??
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1
Chahat Dogra
Subject: English
, asked on 24/5/22
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows:
1. New Delhi: It seems the common house sparrow has disappeared from the city. But omnithologists maintain that while sparrow numbers are dwindling, the bird has not disappeared entirely from the city and only shifted to more inhabitable parts. Conservationists are now trying to understand why some areas have managed to hold back sparrows and what has driven them away from others.
2. A recent countrywide survey initiative called Citizen Sparrow is now roping in want to report about experience with sparrows. far unique sparrow survey organized by the Bombay National History Society (BNHS) and ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) has received close to 410 responses from Delhi. Of these, 86 have claimed they have not seen any sparrows at all. But the majority seems to have sighted the bird, which gives new hope to conservationists.
3. I have seen lots of sparrows in Ghaziabad, in Sheikh Sarai where I live but hardly any in say the Greater Kailash area. What is different in GK and other parts is still a mystery. But certain factors drawing the birds have become clearer, such as they nest more around old buildings, houses or may be in houses where there are old electricity meters, kitchen gardens, shrubs, says co-in-vestigator, BNHS Citizen Sparrow Project, Koustubh Sharma
4. Another conservationist and birder, Ananda Banerjee says she has seen lots of sparrows in parts of Lutyens Delhi, Mayur Vihar, parts of old Delhi and parts of Noida. He cites urban landscape to be the reason behind the decline in the sparrow population.
5. "Urban architecture, tall glass buildings that lack nesting spaces for the sparrow, pesticides used in farming that kill the worms that sparrows feed on are some of the reasons. Even our markets have changed. There are not many open markets where they can get grains. But you can see lots of sparrows in Khari Baoli open grain market," he says.
6. But there is no doubt among conservationists that sparrows are fast disappearing. Declining number of sparrows and their complete absence from some parts of the city isn't just about missing the tiny bird. It is an indicator of something much graver.
7. Ecologist and forestry expert, Neeraj Khera, who has been studying the sparrow population in Delhi, feels that sparrows are an important indicator species. There is always a threshold level. Big changes like an epidemic outbreak for instance will not happen overnight, but when we cross the buffer line then changes take place in our ecosystem. Sparrows as an indicator species very sensitive to change. So it's obvious that a lo Khera. must changed our ecology to have driven them away." Says
8. Some of the important factors responsible are air and water pollution, loss of native herbs and shrubs,
9. Another trend being noticed by experts is the increase of rock pigeons in most parts f Delhi. They seem to have almost replaced the sparrows that used to nest in the same places,
10. "Rock pigeons have almost grown out of proportion and taken up the space of sparrows. They can be seen nesting in houses and other buildings. Studies have shown that it is not a welcome change as the excreta of rock pigeon carries a lot bacterial pathogens," said Khera.
11. She says that sparrow population is moderate in places where there are old government buildings, water bodies or green spaces. Saving the sparrow, she says is not a lost cause yet. It is the right time to intervene and check further decline. It will take Citizen Sparrow survey a couple of more months to come up with the preliminary analysis of the results from their survey and may offer a stronger argument on why the sparrows are disappearing from the city
A. (a) What is Citizens Sparrow and who has initiated it? ( 2)
(b) What has increased the hope of conservationists? (2)
(c) According to survey study, which type of house is sparrows first choice Of nesting? (2)
(d) How use of pesticides in farming responsible for decrease in sparrows (2)
(e) What did the ecologist Neeraj Khera observe? (1)
B. Find out words from the passage which means the same as the following (1x3) = 3
Becoming less or smaller (Para 1)
Secret/observe/impossible to understand (Para 3)
picture of inland scenery (Para 4)
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What are you looking for?
You are wel", Sadao agreed. He lowered his voice. "You are so well that I
think if I put my boat on the shore tonight, with food and extra clothing in
it, you might be able to row to that little island not far from the coast. It is
so near the coast that it has not been worth fortifying. Nobody lives on it
because in storm it is submerged. But this is not the season of storm. You
could live there until you saw a Korean fishing boat pass by. They pass
quite near the island because the water is many fathoms deep there'
The young man stared at him, slowly comprehending. Do I have to ? he
asked.'
"I think so", "Sadao said gently. "you understand - it is not hidden that
you are here."
What is Dr. Sadao's intention with the statement "... it is not hidden you are here."?
(a) to explain why he cannot stay there anymore.
(b) to remind him that he has tried to hide his presence.
(c) to explain that it is necessary and good for both of them.
(d) to assert that his house is not a hiding place.
What I want should not be
confused
with total inactivity
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving-
and for once could do nothing
Perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.
Select the option that aptly describes the tone of the poet in the
expression "If we were not so single minded'.
(a) regretful
(b) critical
(c) encouraging
(d)friendly
Mukesh insists on being his own master. "I will be a motor mechanic', he announces. Do you know anything about cars ?' I ask. I will learn to drive a car." he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is the centre of India's glass blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seem Mukesh's family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures
What does the author try to convey by the expression 'being his own master'?
1. New Delhi: It seems the common house sparrow has disappeared from the city. But omnithologists maintain that while sparrow numbers are dwindling, the bird has not disappeared entirely from the city and only shifted to more inhabitable parts. Conservationists are now trying to understand why some areas have managed to hold back sparrows and what has driven them away from others.
2. A recent countrywide survey initiative called Citizen Sparrow is now roping in want to report about experience with sparrows. far unique sparrow survey organized by the Bombay National History Society (BNHS) and ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) has received close to 410 responses from Delhi. Of these, 86 have claimed they have not seen any sparrows at all. But the majority seems to have sighted the bird, which gives new hope to conservationists.
3. I have seen lots of sparrows in Ghaziabad, in Sheikh Sarai where I live but hardly any in say the Greater Kailash area. What is different in GK and other parts is still a mystery. But certain factors drawing the birds have become clearer, such as they nest more around old buildings, houses or may be in houses where there are old electricity meters, kitchen gardens, shrubs, says co-in-vestigator, BNHS Citizen Sparrow Project, Koustubh Sharma
4. Another conservationist and birder, Ananda Banerjee says she has seen lots of sparrows in parts of Lutyens Delhi, Mayur Vihar, parts of old Delhi and parts of Noida. He cites urban landscape to be the reason behind the decline in the sparrow population.
5. "Urban architecture, tall glass buildings that lack nesting spaces for the sparrow, pesticides used in farming that kill the worms that sparrows feed on are some of the reasons. Even our markets have changed. There are not many open markets where they can get grains. But you can see lots of sparrows in Khari Baoli open grain market," he says.
6. But there is no doubt among conservationists that sparrows are fast disappearing. Declining number of sparrows and their complete absence from some parts of the city isn't just about missing the tiny bird. It is an indicator of something much graver.
7. Ecologist and forestry expert, Neeraj Khera, who has been studying the sparrow population in Delhi, feels that sparrows are an important indicator species. There is always a threshold level. Big changes like an epidemic outbreak for instance will not happen overnight, but when we cross the buffer line then changes take place in our ecosystem. Sparrows as an indicator species very sensitive to change. So it's obvious that a lo Khera. must changed our ecology to have driven them away." Says
8. Some of the important factors responsible are air and water pollution, loss of native herbs and shrubs,
9. Another trend being noticed by experts is the increase of rock pigeons in most parts f Delhi. They seem to have almost replaced the sparrows that used to nest in the same places,
10. "Rock pigeons have almost grown out of proportion and taken up the space of sparrows. They can be seen nesting in houses and other buildings. Studies have shown that it is not a welcome change as the excreta of rock pigeon carries a lot bacterial pathogens," said Khera.
11. She says that sparrow population is moderate in places where there are old government buildings, water bodies or green spaces. Saving the sparrow, she says is not a lost cause yet. It is the right time to intervene and check further decline. It will take Citizen Sparrow survey a couple of more months to come up with the preliminary analysis of the results from their survey and may offer a stronger argument on why the sparrows are disappearing from the city
A. (a) What is Citizens Sparrow and who has initiated it? ( 2)
(b) What has increased the hope of conservationists? (2)
(c) According to survey study, which type of house is sparrows first choice Of nesting? (2)
(d) How use of pesticides in farming responsible for decrease in sparrows (2)
(e) What did the ecologist Neeraj Khera observe? (1)
B. Find out words from the passage which means the same as the following (1x3) = 3
Becoming less or smaller (Para 1)
Secret/observe/impossible to understand (Para 3)
picture of inland scenery (Para 4)