Briefly explain the role of vitamin A in maintaining normal vision .

Define the terms nutrition and malnutrition.

Write a composition of 250-300 words based on any one of the pictures given below:

Write a report in 250 words of an interview you had with a Sports Star

You are the President of the Students Union in your college. Write a report in 250 words of a meeting held to discuss the forthcoming Annual Sports Function

Write a paragraph of 100-150 words on any one of the following topics:

a) Digital world-a boon or a bane?

b) Online Education

1. Read the following passage and make notes in an appropriate format:

The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter which it delivered. It gave a message to the country that it needed greatly. It brought to the common people a realization of their duty to concern themselves with their affairs. The common, people were made to take an interest in the manner in which they were governed in the taxes they paid in the return they got from those taxes. This interest in public affairs - politics as you may call it - was to be the concern no longer of the highly educated few but of the many - the poor, the propertyless, the workingmen in town and country. Politics was not to be the concern of a small aristocracy of intellect property of the masses. And with the change in the subjects of politics that Voice bought about also a change in the objects of polities. Till then politics had busied itself mainly with the machinery of Government towards making its personnel more and more native, with proposals for a better distribution of political power, with protests against the sins of omission and of commission of the administration. This Voice switched politics on to concern for the needs of the common people. The improvement of the lot of the poor was to be the main concern of politics and the politician. The improvement, especially of the lives of the people of the neglected villages, was to be Placed before Governments and political organizations as the goal of all political endeavour. The raising of the standard of living of the people of the villages, the finding of subsidiary occupations which would give the agricultural poor work for their enforced leisure during the off season and an addition to (heir exiguous income, the improvement of the housing of the poor, the sanitation, of the villages – these were to be the objectives to be kept in view. In the towns, the slums and cherries were to receive especial attention. There was especially a class of the poor for which that compassionate Voice pleaded and protested. This was for the so-called depressed class, the outcastes of Hindu society. The denial of elementary human rights to this class of people it considered the greatest blot on Hindu society and history. It raised itself in passionate protest against the ageold wrongs of this class and forced those that listened to it to endeavour to remove the most outrageous of them like untouchability. It caused a revolution in Hindu religious practice by having Hindu temples thrown open to these people. It made the care of them a religious duty of the Hindus by re-naming them Harijans. -Mr. Ruthnasami

2. Write a summary of the passage and give it an appropriate title.

In about 200 words, write a conversation between: 
i You and your younger brother where you are suggesting him what subject he should go
for after completing class 10.
OR
ii You and your superstar about a situation where you are asking him 10 questions and he is
answering those 10 questions.

In about 200 words, write a conversation between: 
i You and your younger brother where you are suggesting him what subject he should go
for after completing class 10.
OR
ii You and your superstar about a situation where you are asking him 10 questions and he is
answering those 10 questions.

Write a about 300 words on any one of the following topics: 
i New Education Policy 2020
ii The impact of digital tools on children’s education.

Frame questions to which the following statements are answers. Use the question word given in brackets. e.g., The door leads to the balcony. (Where?) 
 Where does the door lead?
1. I arrived at ten this morning. (When)
2. 1 didn't write a letter because there was no time. (Why)
3. Miss La1 came with me. (Who)
4. We came by train. (How)
5. We travelled by train because we couldn't get seats on the plane. (Why).
6. We took the night train. (Which)
7. We left home around seven in the evening. (When)
8. I rang you up at the office. (Where)
9. A derailment delayed us. (What)
10. We took a taxi from the station. (How)

Fill in the blanks using who, which or that: 
i) The man is standing at the door is an actor.
ii) The policy the government is following these days is praiseworthy.
iii) Teachers generally like students are punctual and hardworking.
iv) The play we saw last night was hilarious.
 v)You are telling a story is unbelievable.

Supply the appropriate particles from those given below: 
up, out, after, to, down.
i) I can't start the car; the battery has run-----
ii) Look------- the baby while I am away.
iii) The price of fruit usually goes ------- in summer in Delhi; even melons cost a lot.
iv) I am looking forward --------meeting my cousin next week.
v) Long sideburns went-----years ago

Put the verbs given in brackets in the present perfect or the present perfect continuous tense: 
1) I not (see) a film since December.
2) Which book you (read) since this morning?
3) I (try) to swim for years but I not (succeed) yet.
4) The judge (examine) three witnesses since morning.
5) The servant (wait) for an hour now. Your mother not (give) him any work yet.
6) I (read) this essay five times but I can't understand it.
7) The old man (sleep) in the garden all day.
8) You (eat) four ice creams already.
9) What you (do) since I saw you last?
10) The lions in the zoo (roar) for a quarter of an hour; they will soon be given food

Put the verbs given in brackets in the present perfect or the present perfect continuous tense: 
1) I not (see) a film since December.
2) Which book you (read) since this morning?
3) I (try) to swim for years but I not (succeed) yet.
4) The judge (examine) three witnesses since morning.
5) The servant (wait) for an hour now. Your mother not (give) him any work yet.
6) I (read) this essay five times but I can't understand it.
7) The old man (sleep) in the garden all day.
8) You (eat) four ice creams already.
9) What you (do) since I saw you last?
10) The lions in the zoo (roar) for a quarter of an hour; they will soon be given food

Choose the correct form of the verb from within the brackets so as to make it agree with the subject.

10 A famous Irish banister, who. .......... (be) a very witty person, .......... (appear) before a judge who ............. (not like) him and. ............. (not try) to hide the fact. While the barrister. ............ (argue) his case, the judge. ............. (not seem) to be paying any attention to him. He. ............. (pat) his huge dog, which ............. (sit) beside him, and ............... (say) something to it. The barrister.............. (stop)

Choose the correct form of the verb from within the brackets so as to make it agree with the subject.

10 A famous Irish banister, who. .......... (be) a very witty person, .......... (appear) before a judge who ............. (not like) him and. ............. (not try) to hide the fact. While the barrister. ............ (argue) his case, the judge. ............. (not seem) to be paying any attention to him. He. ............. (pat) his huge dog, which ............. (sit) beside him, and ............... (say) something to it. The barrister.............. (stop)

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
You seemed at first to take no notice of your schoolfellows, or rather to set yourself against them because they were strangers to you. They knew as little of you as you did of them; so that this would have been the reason for their keeping aloof from you as well, which you would have felt as a hardship. Learn never to conceive a prejudice against other because you know nothing of them. It is bad reasoning and makes enemies of half the world. Do not think ill of them till they behave ill to you; and then strive to avoid the faults which you see in them. This will disarm their hostility sooner than pique or resentment or complaint. I thought you were disposed to criticize the dress of some of the boys as not so good as your own. Never despise any one for anything that he cannot help - least of all, for his poverty. I would wish you to keep up appearances yourself as a defence against the idle sneers of the world, but I would not have you value yourself upon them. I hope you will neither be the dupe nor victim of vulgar prejudices.
Instead of saying above "Never despise anyone for anything that he cannot help," I might have said, "Never despise anyone at all"; for contempt implies a triumph over and pleasure in the ill of another. It means that you are glad and congratulate yourself on their failings or misfortunes.

You have hitherto been a spoilt child, and have been used to have your own way a good
deal, both in the house and among your playfellows, with whom you were too fond of being a leader; but you have good nature and good sense and will get the better of this in time. You have now got among other boys who are your equals, or bigger and stronger than yourself and who have something else to attend to besides humouring your whims and fancies, and you feel this as a repulse or piece of injustice. But the first lesson to learn is that there are other people in the world besides yourself. The more airs of childish self-importance you. give yourself, you will only expose yourself to be the more thwarted and laughed at. True equality is the only true morality or wisdom.
Remember always that you are but one among others and you can hardly mistake your place in society. In your father's house you might do as you pleased; in the world you will find competitors at every turn. You are not born a king's son, to destroy or dictate to millions; you can only expect to share their fate or settle your differences amicably with them. You already find it so at school, and I wish you to be reconciled to your situation as soon and with as little pain as you can.
- William Hazlitt
1a Who were strangers to you in your school? 1
1b How much did you know about them? 1
1c What was the reason for keeping your schoolfellows aloof from you? 2
1d Describe in detail as to what the writer wants you to learn? 4
1e What is the message that we get? 1
1f Give a suitable title to the passage. 1
1g Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following: 10
i appear

ii classmates

iii detached
iv suffering

v bias

vi rivals
vii antagonism

viii guard

ix applaud
x contender

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
You seemed at first to take no notice of your schoolfellows, or rather to set yourself against them because they were strangers to you. They knew as little of you as you did of them; so that this would have been the reason for their keeping aloof from you as well, which you would have felt as a hardship. Learn never to conceive a prejudice against other because you know nothing of them. It is bad reasoning and makes enemies of half the world. Do not think ill of them till they behave ill to you; and then strive to avoid the faults which you see in them. This will disarm their hostility sooner than pique or resentment or complaint. I thought you were disposed to criticize the dress of some of the boys as not so good as your own. Never despise any one for anything that he cannot help - least of all, for his poverty. I would wish you to keep up appearances yourself as a defence against the idle sneers of the world, but I would not have you value yourself upon them. I hope you will neither be the dupe nor victim of vulgar prejudices.
Instead of saying above "Never despise anyone for anything that he cannot help," I might have said, "Never despise anyone at all"; for contempt implies a triumph over and pleasure in the ill of another. It means that you are glad and congratulate yourself on their failings or misfortunes.

You have hitherto been a spoilt child, and have been used to have your own way a good
deal, both in the house and among your playfellows, with whom you were too fond of being a leader; but you have good nature and good sense and will get the better of this in time. You have now got among other boys who are your equals, or bigger and stronger than yourself and who have something else to attend to besides humouring your whims and fancies, and you feel this as a repulse or piece of injustice. But the first lesson to learn is that there are other people in the world besides yourself. The more airs of childish self-importance you. give yourself, you will only expose yourself to be the more thwarted and laughed at. True equality is the only true morality or wisdom.
Remember always that you are but one among others and you can hardly mistake your place in society. In your father's house you might do as you pleased; in the world you will find competitors at every turn. You are not born a king's son, to destroy or dictate to millions; you can only expect to share their fate or settle your differences amicably with them. You already find it so at school, and I wish you to be reconciled to your situation as soon and with as little pain as you can.
- William Hazlitt
1a Who were strangers to you in your school? 1
1b How much did you know about them? 1
1c What was the reason for keeping your schoolfellows aloof from you? 2
1d Describe in detail as to what the writer wants you to learn? 4
1e What is the message that we get? 1
1f Give a suitable title to the passage. 1
1g Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following: 10
i appear

ii classmates

iii detached
iv suffering

v bias

vi rivals
vii antagonism

viii guard

ix applaud
x contender

Explain the importance of film studies and digital and new media studies from a gender perspective.