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Gujarat Board (GSEB) - STD 11 Science - English - FL (GSEB - English Medium). 220 questions in this chapter.

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Q 1Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [5 M] [Final Exam]5 Marks
India Vision 2020 demands from the young that they start a great mission of connecting rivers cutting across the state. I personally feel the young have the most powerful minds. They can overcome the negativity of the bureaucracy and some self- centered policies of the state governments to enrich the people of the country. They can even improve coordination between the State and the Center. And they surely will! Role models can help us focus on what is correct for us as individuals, as groups and, of course, as a nation. They can also lead us to great success. We seem to have got carried away with the success of a few in the field of information technology. But that is indeed nothing compared to what we can and should achieve. Ancient India was a knowledge society and a leader in many intellectual pursuits, particularly in the fields of mathematics, medicine and astronomy. A renaissance is imperative for us to once again become a knowledge superpower rather than simply provide cheap labour in areas of high technology.
Questions:
Q.1. What according to the writer should be the mission of the youth?
Q.2. What qualities shine out in children according to the writer?
Q.3. How can role models help the children today?
Q.4. What does the writer feel is the need of the day?
Q.5. Give the noun forms of: intellectual, high
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Q 2Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [5 M] [Final Exam]5 Marks
The space race is not simply meant to be the main search for knowledge as it is often Made out to be. It is just an extension of the race for power on earth. Only the wealthiest nations can compete and they do so in the name of pure scientific research. But in reality, all they are interested in is power and prestige. They want to impress us, their spectators with a magnificent show of strength. Man has played the power game ever since he appeared on earth. Now he is playing it as it has never been played before. The space race is just another aspect of the age-old argument that ‘might is right’. We are often told that technological knowhow, acquired in attempting to get us into orbit, will be utilized to make life better on earth. But what has the space race done to relieve the suffering of the earth’s starving millions ? In what way has it raised the standard of living of any one of us ? As far as the layman is concerned, the practical results of all this expenditure, of money and effort, are negligible. Thanks to space research, we can now see television pictures transmitted live half-way across the globe and the house-wife can use non-stick frying pans in the kitchen.
Questions:
Q.1. What is the main reason for the space race?
Q.2. Why does the layman feel that space research is not practical?
Q.3. What are the advantages of space research?
Q.4. Why is space research being questioned today?
Q.5. Give the adjective forms of: ‘race’; ‘money’
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Q 3Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [5 M] [Final Exam]5 Marks
That science has become one of the most powerful factors in modern life is a generally accepted and indeed an obvious fact. The proper role of the scientist himself is however a point on which there is no general agreement. On the one hand are those diehards, who ignoring the changed circumstances of the outside, contend that, outside the laboratory, the personal influence of scientist should be no more than any other citizen. On the other hand are extremists who advocate a state verging on a technocracy in which scientists would have special privileges and large measures of control. Those who tend towards the latter view are much more vociferous than their more conservative and much more numerous colleagues, with the unfortunate result that there is a widespread impression that scientists generally share these views and wish to claim, a far larger share in the control of world affairs than they possess at present. It is, therefore timely to attempt an assessment of the proper status of the scientist in modern societY.Questions:
Q.1. What is the obvious fact of science today?
Q.2. What according to diehards is the role of a scientist?
Q.3. Who do the extremists want for the scientists?
Q.4. Which view is generally shared by scientist and what is the result?
Q.5. Give other words for from the paragraph for: ‘loud’, ‘review’
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Q 4Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [5 M] [Final Exam]5 Marks
Education is not an end but a means to an end. In other words we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; the purpose is to make them fit for life. As soon as we realise this fact, we will understand that it is important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. In many modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all- whether rich and poor, clever and stupid – one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough: we can find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees they refuse to do what they think ‘low’ work; and in fact work with the hands is thought dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think for a moment to understand that the work of completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away, we would get terrible diseases. In fact when we say that all of us must be educated in such a way that first, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain.Secondly we should realise that all jobs are necessary for society and it is very bad to be ashamed of one’s work or to scorn someone else’s. Only such type of education can be called valuable to society.
Questions:
Q.1. Why is education important for children?
Q.2. Why is free education not right?
Q.3. What happens when there are a large number of people with University degrees?
Q.4. Which kind of education is valuable to society?
Q.5. Give the verb forms of: ‘valuable’ and ‘rich’.
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Q 5Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [5 M] [Final Exam]5 Marks
The clearest sign of growing intelligence and an increase of the quality is what we call curiosity. Throughout history there have always been men and women who were not content to know what they were told; they wanted to find out more, they wanted to see, if things could be done in a different way; a better way. Without this curiosity, this desire to see more, there would be no progress. People would simply go on thinking the same thoughts, and having the same ideas as their forefathers. The people who think differently and act differently are very important people but they are nearly always the people who get into trouble. There is another quality in all of us that fights against our curiosity. It is the quality of laziness or the desire to go on doing things in the ways to which we have become accustomed. As we grow older, we form habits of thought, as well as habits of action, and it is a nuisance to change them. So we persuade ourselves that it is wrong to change, and when someone comes along with different ideas, we do not like it. This is called conservatism that is, the desire to keep things as they are.Questions:
Q.1. What does history tell us?
Q.2. What would happen to people if they didn’t have curiosity?
Q.3. What happens to people when they think differently?
Q.4. What does laziness lead to?
Q.5. Give the adjective forms of: ‘habit’, ‘action’
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Q 6Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [4 M] [Second Exam]4 Marks
Hariya busily scrambled amongst the mud and stones and wrapped all our tools and vessels in one large cloth. When packed it looked like a swollen pillow that he expertly loaded onto his head. “Let’s go, master,” he said, “The air doesn’t smell good to me. Looks like thunder and storms. We’d better be home before they strike.”
I nodded and pulled at the rope attached to the neck of our bullock. “If it rains,” I was thinking, “the fields are not ploughed, and the mud Mil become sticky.”
“Hariya,” I said, “Did you and Mauliya milk the cow this morning?”
“Oh, yes,” said Hariya. “We woke up before dawn. You were snoring away and got up just in time for tea. You had a tiring day yesterday.”
“Yes,” I admitted. I could still feel my shoulders aching with the effort spent in building the mud bunds all around the field. I was grateful to the Reddy boys who had come to help me in the work. Alone I would never have been able to put up the mud embankment all around the field in just one day. “At least that is done, and I ought to be grateful,” I thought to myself. “Even if it rains, they will protect the good soil of the farmland.”
Questions:
Q.1. Who were working in the field?
Q.2. Why did they get ready to go home so suddenly?
Q.3. Why was the writer tired?
Q.4. Which works done by a farmer are mentioned in this extract?
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Q 7Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [4 M] [Second Exam]4 Marks
Over 400 years ago English was spoken by only one out of every hundred persons in the world, all of them living in a small part of Great Britain. Today, roughly one out of every eight persons speak English. English is the mother tongue of roughly 300 million people worldwide. It is the official language of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, besides England and Ireland. Amongst other countries, India has given English the status of second official language. The number of people who use English as their second language equals the number of the native speakers of English. Terms from English are used throughout the world in science, commerce, politics, scholarship, science, aviation and music.
Over 10 per cent of the world’s mail is written in English and more than 60 per cent of the world’s radio and TV programmes are in English. Where possible, nearly every student of higher education worldwide is required to learn some English, and knowledge of English is absolutely a necessary condition for working in many fields and occupations. English has thus come a long way to becoming the world’s most common language for communication.
Questions :
Q.1. Which is the world’s leading international language?
Q.2. Which country mentioned in the passage recognizes English as the second official language?
Q.3. What does the number of people who use English as their second language equal to?
Q.4. What is knowledge of English a necessary condition for?
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Q 8Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [4 M] [Second Exam]4 Marks
He sat completely covering the top and went on shooting his paws in my direction. He would have scooped portions out of me for his use, but fortunately, I sat right in the corner, a hair’s-breadth out of his reach on any side. He made vicious sounds and wriggled over my head. He could have knocked the chair to one side and dragged me out if he had come down, but somehow the sight of the chair seemed to worry him for a time. He preferred to be out of its reach. This battle went on for a while, I cannot say how long: Time had come to a dead stop in my world. He jumped down and walked about the table, looking for a gap: I rattled the chair a couple of times, but very soon it lost all its terror for him; he patted the chair and found that it was inoffensive. At this discovery, he tried to hurl it aside. But I was too quick for him. I swiftly drew it towards me and wedged it tight into the arch of the table, and the stool protected me on another side. I was more or less in a stockade made of the legs of furniture. He sat upon his haunches in front of me, wondering how best to get me.
Questions :
Q.1. Explain why the comment is made… ‘Time had come to a dead stop in my world.’
Q.2. At this discovery he tried to hurl it aside. What was the ‘discovery’?
Q.3. Describe the stockade that the narrator had made for himself.
Q.4. Give words from the paragraph which mean – ‘wall’ and ‘cruel’
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Q 9Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [4 M] [Second Exam]4 Marks
The earth upon which we live is one of the known planets that circle the sun. In ancient times men who studied the stars noticed that while certain heavenly bodies seemed fixed in the sky, others seemed to move about. The latter they named as planets or wanderers.
Modern astronomers tell us that the four planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which are much bigger than the others, are surrounded by poisonous gases and are so cold that any living thing attempting to land on them would immediately be frozen to death.
Of the remaining planets, Venus most closely resembles the earth in size, but it is a world devoid of moisture, swept unceasingly by storms and lacking in its atmosphere the life-giving oxygen by which all life is made possible on its nearest neighbour in space-the Earth. Mars is the only planet on which there is any sign of life. Most of Mars is desert but there are green areas on its surface, which change according to the seasons, suggesting that some form of plant life is possible. It is known that the surface temperature of Mercury, the hottest and nearest planet to the sun, is sufficient to melt lead.
Questions:
Q.1. Mention the characteristics of the planet Jupiter.
Q.2. Write the order of the planets in the solar system.
Q.3. Write from the passage phrases that are the opposite of:
(i) abundant with
(ii) coldest.
Q.4. Which is the planet you find most interesting? Give your reasons.
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Q 10Answer The Questions: [Unseen Passage] [4 M] [Second Exam]4 Marks
A man without education is like a man locked in a room. Such a man lives in darkness, trying to pass his days with whatever he manages to find available around him. On the other hand, the educated man lives in a room with all its windows open to the world. He can take ideas from anywhere and make his living more useful and comfortable. When a window is open, breeze comes in and goes out. There is a free exchange of air. So it is with an educated man. He can take from the world as well as give to it.
More than two centuries ago, the French revolutionary Dalton said, “After bread, education.” In other words, he considered education as a basic necessity – even more vital than clothing or shelter. The educationist, Mr Glenn Jones, has said, “Education is the great hope for the survival of humankind and for the forward progress of civilization.” It is learning and knowledge alone that have helped man to come this far and to achieve high levels of civilization. It is when people stop thinking reasonably that warring groups are formed and much of what we have built we destroy. It is only when we stop thinking rationally that we lose our levels of civilization and do things that only make the lot of the poor even poorer. Hence if we are to survive as a race, we should educate ourselves and use the wisdom and good sense that comes with it. As Lyndon Johnson said during the War on Poverty in the 1960s, “Poverty has many roots, but the taproot is ignorance.”
Questions:
Q.1. How does the educated man live in a room with all its windows open to the world?
Q.2. Explain Glenn Jones’ view about education.
Q.3. Write from the passage one word for :
(i) a person who tries to cause an important change in the way that people do things
(ii) a person who has a special knowledge of the principles or methods of teaching.
Q.4. Why, do you think, is education necessary?
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Q 11Read the poem and give suitable paraphrase to it.5 Marks
Man's life is laid in the loom of time,
To a pattern he does not see,
While the weavers work and the shuttles fly,
Till the dawn of eternity
Some shuttles are filled with silver threads,
And some with threads of gold.
While often but the darker hives
Are all that they may hold
But the weaver watches with skillful eyes,
Each shuttle fly to and fro
And sees the pattern so deftly wrought
As the looms move sure and slow.
Not till each loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God reveal the pattern?
And explain the reason why
The dark threads were as needful
In the weavers skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
For the pattern which he planned.
Question :
1. With which the life of s man is compared in this poem ?
2. What is the meaning of silver thread ?
3. Why shall
4. Give suitable title to the poem.
OR
Paraphrase the above poem.
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Q 12Read the poem and give suitable paraphrase to it.5 Marks
Two tough old mules said, ‘Get this dope!
We're tied together with a piece of rope.’
Said one to the other, ‘You come my way,
While I take a nibble of that new mown hay.’
“I won't,’ said the other, ‘you come with me,
I have some hay over this way, you see.’
So they got nowhere, just pawed up the dirt,
Pulling each on, how that rope did hurt!
Then face they about, those stubborn mules,
And said, “We're acting just like human fools!
Let’s pull together, I'll go your way,
Then you come with me, and we'll both eat hay.’
So they ate their hay, and liked it, too,
And said, ‘Let’s be comrades, good and true.’
At the sun went down they were heard to bray,
‘Ah this is the end of a perfect day!’
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Q 13Read the poem and give suitable paraphrase to it.5 Marks
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land;
Whose heart, hath ne’er within him burn’d
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go mark him well;
For him no minstrel rapture swell.
High though his title, proud his name
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim.
Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentrated all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renown
And doubly dying, shall go down
To vile dust, from whence he sprung
Unwept, honoured and unsung.
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Q 14Read the poem and give suitable paraphrase to it.5 Marks
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true;
Rid your mind of selfish motives
Let your thoughts be clean and high:
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn and learn to live
If you want to give me knowledge
You must get it ere you give.
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Q 15Read the poem and give suitable paraphrase to it.5 Marks
Man's life is laid in the loom of time,
To a pattern he does not see,
While the weavers work and the shuttles fly,
Till the dawn of eternity
Some shuttles are filled with silver threads,
And some with threads of gold.
While often but the darker hives
Are all that they may hold
But the weaver watches with skillful eyes,
Each shuttle fly to and fro
And sees the pattern so deftly wrought
As the looms move sure and slow.
Not till each loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God reveal the pattern?
And explain the reason why
The dark threads were as needful
In the weavers skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
For the pattern which he planned.
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Q 16Advertisement Writing4 Marks
You are the Director of Fontana Marketing Organization that deals in computer software and peripherals. Draft an advertisement to be given in the Economic Times seeking Franchisees, Distributors for Western India.
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Q 24Data analysis [Final Exam]4 Marks
Study the different fielding positions of different players in a match against Australia and write seven to eight sentences based on it:

1.Bowler, 2. wicket-keeper, 3.umpire, 4. long-on, 5. long-off, 6. Slip, 7. third-man, 8. short extra cover, 9. short mid-wicket, 10. Square-leg, 11. short fine-leg.

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Q 26Prepare Notes [Final Exam]5 Marks
(3) Read the following passage and prepare notes for the same.

Pheasants are shy, charming birds known Dup for their brilliant plumage. These beautiful birds occupy an important niche in nature's scheme of things. Of the 900 bird species and 155 families, the pheasants belong to the order Galliformes and family Phasinidae. The Galliformes are known as game birds and this includes, pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, francolins, turkeys and megapodes

There are 51 species of pheasants in the world and these are shown in the identification chart brought out by the Environment Society of India (ESI). The purpose of this chart is to create awareness among members of the school ecoclubs under the National Green Corps (NGC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.

Except for the Congo Peafowl, all the other pheasants are from Asia. Scientists believe that all pheasants originated from the Himalayas, and then scattered into Tibet, China, Myanmar, South and South East Asian countries as well as the Caucasus Mountains.The jungle fowl and the peafowl spread to South India and Sri Lanka long before the early settlers established themselves in the Indo-Gangetic plain.

About a third of all the pheasants in the world are found in India. The male blue peafowl (the peacock) is the best known member of the pheasant family and is India's national-bird It occupies a prominent place in India's art, culture and folklore.

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Q 27Prepare Notes [Final Exam]5 Marks
(2) Read the following passage and prepare notes for the same.

The energy stored in coal and petroleum originally came to the earth from the sun. The bulk of the present-day supplies was laid down Osome 200 to 600 million years ago, when tropical conditions were widespread. Lush, swampy forests produced huge trees; warm coastal seas swarmed with microscopic forms of life. When these organisms died, much of their tissue was recycled as it is today through scavenging and decay. But a significant amount of dead plant and animal material was covered with mud, which prevented complete decomposition.

With the passage of time, layer upon layer of the fine sediment was deposited over the once-living material; the sheer weight turned the sediments to rock. Sandwiched between the layers, both coal and petroleum were produced and preserved under pressure. Coal was formed mostly of giant fern-like plants that have only small counterparts today. Coal may still be forming here and there on earth, but conditions are not right for the production

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Q 28Prepare Notes [Final Exam]5 Marks
The epidemic of heart attacks has been attaining alarming proportion in recent times causing grave concern specially to the medical fraternity.

To control the increasing death and disability from heart attacks and to focus on public awareness and their involvement at global level, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Heart Federation observed September 24th as the World Heart Day.

What causes heart attacks? Dr H.S. Wasir, Chief Cardiologist and Medical Director, Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre lists four main habits which adversely affect the heart health. These are lack of physical exercise, wrong eating habits, cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, and stressful lifestyle.
The importance of physical exercise in minimising the incidence of heart attacks cannot be underestimated. "Physical exercise," says Dr Wasir, "plays a major role in achieving a long and healthy life in general and prevention of heart attacks in particular.

" What type of physical exercise and how much, one may ask. It is the isotonic (dynamic) exercise that is beneficial for the heart and not the isometric (static) exercise which should be avoided by heart patients. Weight lifting, carrying heavy suitcases while travelling, pushing a car are some of the examples of isometric exercises. Examples of the beneficial type of physical activity (dynamic exercise) are brisk walking, swimming, golf without power carts, badminton and tennis (doubles for those with old heart attacks but fully recovered, to be started only after physician's advice)

There are several studies showing that physically active people have higher longevity than those sedentary or physically inactive.

"Before starting any physical exercise programmes for the first time, one must get fully evaluated by a cardiologist so as to avoid any harm being done by exercise if there is serious underlying heart disease needing treatment," warns Dr Wasir.

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Q 29Prepare Notes [Final Exam]5 Marks
Speech by Sojourner Truth :
“I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what’s this they call it? [member of audience whispers, ‘intellect’] That’s it, honey. What’s that got to do with women’s rights or Negroes’ rights? If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they are asking to do it, the men better let them.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.”
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Q 30Prepare Notes [Final Exam]5 Marks
A Speech by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Venue : Shantiniketan, April 1941
Today I complete eighty years of my life. As I look back on the vast stretch of years that lie behind me and see in clear perspective the history of my early ‘ development, I am struck by the change that has taken place both in my own attitude and in the psychology of my countrymen-a change that carries within it a cause of profound tragedy.
Our direct contact with the larger world of men was linked up with the contemporary history of the English people whom we came to know in those earlier days. It was mainly through their mighty literature that we formed our ideas with regard to these newcomers to our Indian shores. In those days the type of learning that was served out to us was neither plentiful nor diverse, nor was the spirit of scientific enquiry very much in evidence. Thus their scope being strictly limited, the educated of those days had recourse to English language and literature. Their days and nights were eloquent with the stately declamations of Burke, with Macaulay’s long-rolling sentences; discussions centred upon Shakespeare’s drama and Byron’s poetry and above all upon the large-hearted liberalism of the nineteenth-century English politics.
At the time though tentative attempts were being made to gain our national independence, at heart we had not lost faith in the generosity of the English race. This belief was so firmly rooted in the sentiments of our leaders as to lead them to hope that the victor would of his own grace pave the path of freedom for the vanquished. This belief was based upon the fact that England at the time provided a shelter to all those who had to flee from persecution in their own country. Political martyrs who had suffered for the honour of their people were accorded unreserved welcome at the hands of the English.
I was impressed by this evidence of liberal humanity in the character of the English and thus I was led to set them on the pedestal of my highest respect. This generosity in their national character had not yet been vitiated by imperialist pride. About this time, as a boy in England, I had the opportunity of listening to the speeches of John Bright, both in and outside Parliament. The large-hearted, radical liberalism of those speeches, overflowing all narrow national bounds, had made so deep an impression on my mind that something of it lingers even today, even in these days of graceless disillusionment.
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Q 31Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][4M](Final Exam)4 Marks
"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a
fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.

Q.1. After reading the poem, what image do you gather about the woman ?
Q.2. Where does the poet think the woman's secret lies?
Q.3. How do mwn react to her persnality?
Q.4. What are the 'honey bees' compared with ?
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Q 32Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][4M](Final Exam)4 Marks
No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course, they’re ‘longing to go out again,’-
These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk
They’ll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,-
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they’ll be proud
Of glorious war that shatters all their pride…
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.

(c) Why are the survivors called ‘boys?’
(d) Why are their nights ‘haunted’?
(e) What has the war-shattered?
(f) What is the contrast in their condition before and after the war?
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Q 33Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][4M](Final Exam)4 Marks
The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still
in the afternoon yellow September sunlight,
A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fell
Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddeness, a startlement, at a branch end
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings, and trillings–
The whole tree trembles and thrills
It is the engine of her family.
She stokes it fully, then flirts out to a branch-end
Showing her barred face identity mask
Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum subsides to empty

Q.1. What is the similarity between the beginning and end of the poem?
Q.2. How does the coming of the goldfinch change the situation?
Q.3. How has the poet described the Laburnum Top?
Q.4. Why has the goldfinch been compared to a lizard?
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Q 34Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][4M](Final Exam)4 Marks
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; 5
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune,
It moves us not.–Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; 10
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

Q.1. According to the narrator, how do we waste our powers?
Q.2. What does the narrator mean by saying that ‘little we see in nature that is ours’?
Q.3. What according to the narrator have the human’s given their hearts to?
Q.4. What does the narrator prefer to do?
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Q 35Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][4M](Final Exam)4 Marks
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a - flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a - getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer:
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times will succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For hailing lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.

Q.1. Which is the most suitable age for the enjoyment of life?
Q.2. What is the glorious lamp of heaven? What does it signify?
Q.3. What is the main characteristic of time?
Q.4. Suggest a suitable title for the poem.
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Q 38E-Mail Writing [Final Exam]4 Marks
Madhuben Patel (madhuben_patel@2mail.com) writes an email to Ahmedabad MUNICIPAL Corporation (complaint_ amc@ymail.com) complaining about the insufficient roadlights in her locality. Draft an e-mail on her behalf.
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Q 39E-Mail Writing [Final Exam]4 Marks
Minaz Mansuri (minaz_mansuri@kmail.com) is the Head Girl of Anshul High School, Surat. She writes an email to the Managing Director of Amul Dairy (md_admin@ amul.com) for getting permission to visit the dairy with her classmates. Draft an e-mail on her behalf.
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Q 40E-Mail Writing [Final Exam]4 Marks
Mr. Bhavesh Dave writes an e-mail to flyshop.com requesting to replace the mobile phone, he has purchased during mega sale as it is damaged and not working properly. Draft an e-mail on flyshop.com@ymail.com on behalf of him in about 100 words.
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Q 41Data analysis [4M]4 Marks
Your friend is planning to start a business. Study the following chart and suggest him/her in five to six sentences whether he/she should have franchisee of Tea or Coffee point.
Beverage preferences among the people in their middle ages.
Iced tea Cold-drinks Cold coffee Coffee Tea 
$06\%$$02\%$$12\%$$24\%$$56\%$
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Q 42Data analysis [4M]4 Marks
Study the following columns showing temperature recorded at different places in Gujarat and write seven to eight sentences based on it: 
Temperature recorded on April 6, 2019
Ahmedabad
42.4°
Vadodara
42.4°
Rajkot
40.7°
Surat
39.6૦
Bhuj
41.0°
Deesa
42.7૦
Idar
44.0°
Gandhinagar
41.8°
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Q 44Data analysis [4M]4 Marks
Study the following table showing World’s tallest buildings and write seven to eight sentences based on it:
World's Tallest Buildings
RankTower /CityYearStoreysHeight
(m)(ft)
1.Taipei 101. Taipei. Taiwan20041015091,670
2.(i) Petronas Tower 1. Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia (ii) Petronas Tower 2. Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia(i) 1998 , (ii) 1998(i) 88. (ii) 88(i) 452, (ii) 452(i) 1483, (ii) 1483
3.Sears Tower,Terabyte19741104421,450
4.Jin Mao Building. Shanghai1999884211,380
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Q 45Data analysis [4M]4 Marks
Study the following information about your Old School and New School and write seven to eight sentences based on it:
Old SchoolNew School
BigVery big
30 classes40 classes
3 mediumsOne medium
60 teachers80 teachers
PlaygroundPlayground
Science labsScience labs
UniformsUniforms
Close to your homeFar from your home
FriendsFew Friends
DisciplineDiscipline
AtmosphereAtmosphere
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Q 46Answer The Questions: [Unseen-PROSE][2M]2 Marks
       It is a curious and significant fact that, in spite of all modern scientific progress and talk of internationalism, racialism and other separating factors are at least as much in evidence today, if not more so, than at any previous time in history.
There is something lacking in all this progress, which can neither produce harmony between nations nor within the spirit of man. Perhaps more synthesis and a little humility towards the wisdom of the past, which after all is the accumulated experience of the human race, would help us to gain a new perspective and greater harmony.
Q.1. What is a curious and significant fact mentioned in the passage?
Q.2. What does the passage suggest could help us gain a new perspective and greater harmony?
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Q 47Answer The Questions: [Unseen-PROSE][2M]2 Marks
       There is a myth. There is something magical about computers and those who run them. The legend has got about that the computers are electronic brains and that programmers are some sort of supermen. The facts are that computers are very stupid and that people who programme them are normal human beings. Anyone who can count from 0 to 7 on his or her fingers and make eight can learn to be a programmer. The business is not difficult, just tricky.
Q.1. What is the myth about computers and programmers?
Q.2. According to the passage, what is required to become a programmer?
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Q 48Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][2M]2 Marks

       Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth;
your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise.
You live in this and dwell in lovers’ eyes.

Q.1. What will your praise find even in the eyes of posterity?
Q.2. What does the passage suggest will allow you to live on?

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Q 49Answer The Questions: [Unseen-POEM][2M]2 Marks

       “Across the years he could recall His father one way best of all.”
“In the stillest hour of night The boy awakened to a light.”
“Half in dreams, he saw his sire With his great hands full of fire.”
“The man had struck a match to see If his son slept peacefully.”

Q.1. What could the boy recall about his father?
Q.2. Why had the man struck a match in the stillest hour of night?

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