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UNIT 9 English - UNIT 9

Gujarat Board (GSEB) - कक्षा 11 साइन्स - English (GSEB - हिन्दी माध्यम). 34 questions in this chapter.

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Q 6answer the questions - Extracts2 Marks
                   Water is the basis of all life. Every animal and every plant contains a substantial proportion of free or combined water in its body, and fluid is an essential part in all physiological activities. Moisture in the soil is equally necessary for the life and growth of plants and trees. Thus, although water is the commonest of liquids, it is the most uncommon of liquids with amazing properties which are responsible for its unique power of maintaining animal and plant life.
Questions:
Q.1. ‘Water is the basic of all life' explain it.
Q.2. Why is water called common as well as un common ?
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Q 7answer the questions - Extracts2 Marks
                   The conservation and utilization of water is fundamental for human welfare. Much of Indian agriculture depends on seasonal rainfall and is therefore very sensitive to any failure or irregularity of the same. The problems of soil erosion and of inadequate (not enough) or irregular rainfall are closely connected with each other. It is clear that the adoption of techniques preventing soil erosion would also help to conserve and keep the water where it is wanted.
Questions :
Q.1. What should we do for 'water - discipline' ?
Q.2. The solution of soil erosion is also the solution of water conservation. How?
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Q 8answer the questions - Extracts2 Marks
                   The rainfed tanks are a cheering sight when they are full. These tanks play a vital role in South Indian agriculture. In Mysore, for example, much of the rice is grown under them. Some of these tanks are surprisingly large and it is a beautiful sight to see the sun rise or set over them. Water in a landscape may be compared to the eyes in a human face. It reflects the mood of the hour, being bright and gay when the sun shines, turning to dark and gloomy when the sky is overcast.
Questions:
Q.1. How are rain fed tanks useful ?
Q.2. Water in a landscape be compared to the eyes on a human face. Why?
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Q 9answer the questions - Extracts2 Marks
                    Man has through the ages craved in vain for an imaginary elixir of life, the divine amrit. But the true elixir of life lies near our hands. For it is the commonest of all liquids, plain water! I remember one day standing on the line which separates the Libyan Desert from the Valley of the Nile in Egypt.
Questions:
Q.1. What is the commonest of all liquids ?
Q.2. What is called here as ‘Amrit’?
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Q 10answer the questions - Extracts2 Marks
                   Man has through the ages craved in vain for an imaginary elixir of life, the divine amrit. But the true elixir of life lies near our hands. For it is the commonest of all liquids, plain water! I remember one day standing on the line which separates the Libyan Desert from the Valley of the Nile in Egypt.
Questions:
Q.1. What has human being ever desired for ?
Q.2. 'Amrit’ means ....
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Q 14Blanks (Complete the Para)3 Marks
$($control , contain ,source, made$)$
The pump unit takes water from the $............$ and provides the right pressure for delivery into the pipe system. The control head consists of valves to $............$ the discharge and pressure in the entire system. Some control head units $............$ a filter and fertilizer or nutrient tank.
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Q 15Blanks (Complete the Para)3 Marks
$($onto, diameter, so that, too$)$
Drip irrigation involves dripping water $............$ the soil at very low rates $(2-20$ litreslhour$)$ from a system of small $............$ plastic pipes fitted with outlets called emitters. Water is applied dose to plants $............$ only that part of the soil in which the roots grow is wetted, unlike surface and sprinkler irrigation, which involves wetting the whole soil.
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Q 16Blanks (Complete the Para)3 Marks
$($practice , history, earth, substance$)$
This common $............$ which we take for granted in our everyday life is the most potent and the most wonderful thing on the face of our $............$ It has played a role of vast significance in shaping the course of the earth's $............$ and continues to play the leading role in the drama of life on the surface of our planet.
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Q 17Blanks (Complete the Para)3 Marks
$($rails, more, possible, transport$)$
The cheapest form of internal $............$ in a country is by boats and barges through canals and rivers. We hear much about programmes of $............$ and road construction, but far too little about the development of waterways in India. Then, again, the harnessing of water supplies makes $............$ the development of hydroelectric power.
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Q 18Blanks (Complete the Para)3 Marks
$($water, soil seasonal, send$)$
The conservation and utilisation of $............$ is fundamental for human welfare. Much oflndian agriculture depends on $............$ rainfall and is therefore very sensitive to any failure or irregularity of the same. The problems of $............$ erosion and of inadequate $($not enough$)$ or irregular rainfall are closely connected with each other.
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Q 19answer the questions - stanza (3 marks)3 Marks
In the pond in the park all things are doubled: Long buildings hang and wriggle gently, Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on clouds below. A flag wags like a fishhook down there in the sky.  
Questions:
$Q.1.$ What things are reflected in the pond?
$Q.2.$ How does a flag wag?
$Q.3.$ Where is the Pond?  
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Q 20answer the questions - stanza (3 marks)3 Marks
The arched stone bridge is an eye, with underlid in the water. In its lens dip crinkled heads with hats that don't fall off Dogs go by, barking on their backs. A baby, taken to feed the ducks, dangles upside$-$down, a pink balloon for a buoy.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ What is compared to an eye?
$Q.2.$ What is seen in the lens of the stone bridge?
$Q.3.$ What things are reflected?  
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Q 21answer the questions - stanza (2 marks)2 Marks
The arched stone bridge is an eye, with underlid in the water. In its lens dip crinkled heads with hats that don't fall off Dogs go by, barking on their backs. A baby, taken to feed the ducks, dangles upside$-$down, a pink balloon for a buoy.
 Questions:
$Q.1.$ What is compared to an eye?
$Q.2.$ What is seen in the lens of the stone bridge?
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Q 22answer the questions - stanza (2 marks)2 Marks
In the pond in the park all things are doubled: Long buildings hang and wriggle gently, Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on clouds below. A flag wags like a fishhook down there in the sky.
Questions:
$Q.1.$ What things are reflected in the pond?
$Q.2.$ How does a flag wag?
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