Real purpose of education
See Answer →You have finished school and you are yet to decide the course(s) you want to study at the University. Have a dialogue with a school teacher who is trying to help you arrive at a decision. Write in about 200 words
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In today’s competitive environment what is vital for a child’s growth is self-esteem. Examining the causes of aggression, bullying, withdrawal and failure we discover lack of self-esteem to be the root of anti-social behavior. As parents and teachers we are responsible for the mental development and confidence levels of a child. If a child is constantly rebuked and told that he’s a failure, his self-worth hits rock bottom. Unthinkingly we call our children “stupid”, “idiotic” and “irresponsible” and this has a significant impact on their tender psyches. If we have a positive view of our children, they are likely to feel the same about themselves. Help children feel good about themselves, and think highly of themselves. Children will value themselves if their parents value them. Parents are the most influential role models children have. Whatever values and beliefs we want our children to learn, those are the beliefs and values we have to live our lives by. When you understand and accept yourself, it helps you understand and accept others. As a parent or a teacher, you have a great influence over the self-esteem of your child. For the first four or five years, parents are the most important contributors. When children start school, teachers and friends become important. Once they reach adolescence, peer groups play a greater role in steering a child’s self-esteem. As Thomas D. Yarnell, a Clinical Psychologist says: “Self-esteem refers to how you feel about yourself. It includes such things as your self-confidence, self-respect, your independence and your self-reliance. All the ways you feel about yourself and your abilities are wrapped up in the term self-esteem.” Self-esteem has to be nurtured during infancy. If the infant feels well taken care of s/he will feel that the world is a loving place and s/he is an important being. One must avoid expecting too much or too little from children, criticizing, (especially in front of people) not showing appreciation, calling children clumsy, thoughtless, stupid or lazy, telling them that they are failures, overprotecting or neglecting them. To improve their self-esteem, we must praise successes, show affection, show interest in their activities, projects, or problems, we must tell children what to do instead of what not to do
See Answer →Fill in the blanks with appropriate modals given below. You may use these modals more than once.
shouldn’t might would
needn’t should could
i It’s surprising that the teacher only scolded Rina, she have been punished more severely for doing what she did.
ii Why didn’t you tell me that you were eating at your friend’s house,------------------ I have cooked so much food.
iii You are silly to go to the deep end of the swimming pool, you ---------------------have drowned.
iv I --------------------------have got up so early in the morning.
v You have shouted at him, he is really upset.
vi I----------------------------- have reached the party on time, nobody arrived for a long time.
vii Why didn’t you come by the Metro. It--------------------------- have been easy for me to pick you from the station.
viii-------------------------- You have taken shelter under a tree, you have been struck by lightening.
ix ---------------------------You have borrowed my book without asking me.
x you mind passing the salt, please?
See Answer →Pick out the sentences where the subject does not agree with the verb and correct them.
i Politics play an important part in our lives.
ii Neither she nor her sister are to blame.
iii Dombey and Son is an interesting novel by Dickens.
iv During difficult times the poor suffers more than the rich
. v Renu and her friends has decided to study through the night.
vi Nobody has any objections about the new rules.
vii Either the accused or his cronies have the diamonds
. viii The committee have unanimously voted for the resolution.
ix A lot of milk have been wasted in preparing the new recipe.
x All the books by the author have been sold.
See Answer →Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow: Death of the Dinosaurs 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suddenly became extinct, together with a large number of other species. But why did it happen? Many scientists believe that the cause was a large asteroid crashing into the Earth. According to this theory, the asteroid threw huge amounts of dust and water vapour into the atmosphere, blocking out the light of the sun, the vegetation died off, and the dinosaurs starved to death. Evidence for the theory came in 1992 when scientists in Mexico uncovered an underground crater 175 kilometers wide, which turned out to be exactly 65 million years old. The crater was probably caused by an asteroid 10 km in diameter hitting the Earth at thousands of miles an hour, with the force of 70 million one-megaton bombs. According to David Raup of the University of Chicago, this was just one of many such cases. He says that asteroids have caused more than half of species extinctions since life on Earth began 600 million years ago. If he’s right, it seems likely that Homo sapiens will end its days in the same way. NASA to the Rescue As we can’t predict when a really big asteroid will arrive, is there really any point in worrying about it? NASA thinks there is. It estimates that there are between 1,000 and 4,000 asteroids at least 1 kilometre in diameter which regularly cross Earth’s orbit. If such an asteroid hits the Earth once every 300,000 years, this gives the average person roughly a one in 4,000 chance of being around when it happens. A small risk, maybe, but much bigger than the risk of dying in an air crash, which is one in 20,000. NASA aims to set up new telescopes and spend the next 25 years working out which large asteroids are likely to arrive within the next century or two. The idea is that once they’ve identified an asteroid heading straight for us, they can move it out of the way by hitting it with powerful nuclear bombs.
1a Why did the dinosaurs starve to death?
1b What is the evidence given by scientists to support that an asteroid caused mass extinction of plant and animal life?
1c What does the author say will be the fate of human beings? Why?
1d NASA thinks that we should be concerned about being hit by an asteroid. Why?
1e What technology do you think would be used to prevent an asteroid from hitting the earth?
1f Make sentences of your own with the following words/phrases from the passage:
i. extent ii. species iii. crashing iv. blocking out v. homo sapiens vi. estimates
1g Find opposites of the following words from the passage.
i. suddenly ii. huge iii. crashing iv. arrive
1h Nasa has found a large asteroid that will hit the earth in a month’s time. Would you be confident that it would be intercepted? Are you concerned about the debris that might fall on earth and its repercussions? Express your feelings and say how you will protect yourself and your family
See Answer →A well-known hospital in your town has started a regular health-check camp for the economically weaker sections of society, free of cost. In six months’ time the project has received tremendous response – especially from old people and young mothers. You are Anita Sharma, a doctor working at the hospital. A newspaper journalist wants to know details about the project and how many people have benefitted from it. Write a dialogue between the two in about ten turns.
See Answer →Imagine that a new person has come to your classroom. Using What, Why, How, Where, When, etc. ask information about the following points:
Example: Name
Ans. What is your name?
1. age
2. come from which city
3. speaks which mother tongue
4. residence at present
5. hobbies and interests
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See Answer →Here is some information on how tea is grown, prepared and drunk. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct verb forms from the brackets in each case.
Tea is a popular drink all over the world. It (is made/made) from the leaves of the tea plant, which………….(grow/grows) in very warm countries. The leaves ………….. (are dried/dried) and then are put in boiling water and allowed to stand for a few minutes. This………….(makes/make) a hot drink having a reddish brown colour, and a pleasant flavour. Most of the world’s tea…………..(is grown/has grown) in India, Sri Lanka, Japan and Indonesia. The tea leaves……………..(is picked/are picked) by hand or cut off with scissors. The quality of tea…............ (depend/depends) on the soil in which it is grown, the age of leaves at the time of picking. It also………………..(depend/depends) on how it ………..(made/is made). Tea is not a good drink for children, but it… ....(is/are) harmless for grown ups if they do not drink too much of it.
See Answer →Fill in the blanks with a, an or the. The first one is done for you. 10 I immediately went round to the Boma to make ..................... complaint about……….way I had been treated. There was……….young district Officer there whom I knew well. He took me into his office. He listened with sympathy to my story and began thumping…………… table in his indignation. He said, ‘Look here, Kenneth, if ever you want anything just come along to me and I will give you………..note.’ ‘But,’ I said, ‘that is not… point, what about all the thousands of others who want to be treated like reasonable human beings in…............shops? Have they got to come to you every time for………. note?’ He promised to write…………. letter to…................ chemist and I let the matter drop.
See Answer →Add the prefixes un-, dis-, in-, ir-, il-, im-, mis- to the following words. There are two extra prefixes.
Inform , audible, logical, kind, reverence
See Answer →Match the words in Column A with their meanings in Column B. The meanings are based on the passage.
Column A Column B
1. bandit a. saying something very quietly almost in a whisper
2. truculence b. useless action
3. ambush c. looking dull and unpleasant
4. ruffian d. become less violent or intense
5. sullen e. a person who is violent and often involved in criminal activities
6. undertones f. an action that is exaggerated to draw another person’s attention to you.
7. futile g. a device or a piece of machinery
8. ostentation h. attacking people after hiding and waiting for them
9. contraption i. acting in an angry and aggressive manner
10. subsided j. an armed robber
See Answer →Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow: At the time of my visit, before the Chinese walked into Tibet, the Mansarovar area was known to be dangerously bandit-ridden. Helpless pilgrims from India were frequently waylaid by gangs and robbed and beaten up, and sometimes even killed. I had been warned by Gelong repeatedly of the risk of moving around unarmed and alone, but had thought it was only his way of making the trip a little more exciting for us. However, one morning, attended by Gelong while hunting for nests among a patch of furze bushes, I fancied I noticed a slight movement some distance ahead but paid no heed to it. When we got closer to the spot there suddenly popped up from his ambush a grimy ferocious-looking ruffian with an ugly dagger in his belt and matchlock slung over his shoulder. He promptly started shouting and gesticulating with alarming truculence which it was perhaps just as well I didn’t understand. I have never seen a living human turn so pale as Gelong did upon the bandit’s challenge; the expression ‘white as a sheet’ seems no wild exaggeration. He was visibly shivering with fright and begged me again and again in terrified undertones to flee from this ‘kharab admi’. I realized that it was now too late to think of any such action, and in any case it would have been futile as we had an endless open plain before us and no help within thirty miles. Luckily at that moment I suddenly remembered my shooting-stick (a seat, as used by cricket umpires) which Gelong was carrying. In a loud voice I ordered him to hand it to me quickly. I pretended it was a gun and mimicked loading it with a cartridge drawn from my pocket with deliberate ostentation. I take it that the bandit was unfamiliar with a contraption of this kind with its shining metal parts. He looked visibly concerned when I opened and closed the seat with a noisy klickklacking, loaded the ‘gun’ and sloped it over my shoulder like the real thing. It was now my turn to shout back sentiments which I am glad (for his own sake) the ruffian did not understand! Fortunately the bluff worked: the man’s truculence subsided at once; he turned away sullenly and made off. I marched back to the camp with mock bravado, apprehensive all the time of a bullet following us behind, and thankful for a happy ending to a most uncomfortable situation.
Was the writer a traveler in the Mansarover area or a permanent resident there? Pick out the sentence which indicates your answer.
The writer used to move about alone, unarmed and often hunting for bird nests. This indicates that he was: (Tick one )
(a) a hunter
(b) a pilgrim
(c) a birdwatcher
1c Who do you think is Gelong? Give evidence in support of your answer.
1d What actions of Gelong suggest that he was terribly frightened of the bandit?
1e Why did the writer decide not to run away?
1f What did the writer do to make the bandit believe that he (the writer) had a gun?
1g The expression ‘grimy and ferocious looking’ means: (Tick one)
a) very strange and ugly looking
b) dirty and dangerous looking
c) cruel and brave looking
1h ‘Gesticulating with alarming truculence’ means: (Tick one)
a) moving hands and shouting
b) moving arms and hands aggressively
c) moving arms and hands to draw attention
1i ‘Marched back to the camp with mock bravado’ means: (Tick one)
(a) returned to the camp with a sense of achievement
(b) returned to the camp posing as a brave man
(c) returned to the camp to find people laughing at his bravery
1j Give a title to the passage
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Consider the system of equations
A feasible solution is x1 = ,2 x2 = ,3 x3 = .1 Reduce this feasible solution to a basic feasible solution.
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A manufacturer has two products P1 and , P2 both of which are produced in two steps by machines M1 and . M2 The process time per hundred for the products on the machines
The manufacturer can sell as much as he can produce of both products. Formulate the problem as LP model. Determine optimum solution, using simplex method.
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