Passage- 21
Read the passage given below:
1. Ideas rained from across the world. Teaching science from comics, framing questions using students’ examples, recording on mobile phones to encourage English speech, working on multimedia to craft lesson plans can he Amazonian exercises. But painstakingly, they made it possible. Six Indians were among four hundred teachers from 60 countries who participated in the Fifth Annual Worldwide Innovative Education Forum organised by Microsoft in Salvador, Brazil.
2. Santosh Bisen, science teacher and cartoonist at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Durg. Chhattisgarh used his drawing skills to convert chapters into comic strips. “Convincing authorities to turn textbooks into comics was difficult. I spent my own money to design textbooks. I also used cartoons in question papers: he says. “Students were thrilled with how simple science became and their performance improved?’ he adds.
3. Both Vijay Gupta from Fazilka and Ganesan Sankar from Vellore realised that the state sponsored TVs, DVDs and school computers could be used to attract students to school. Attendance is a major problem as most kids work to augment family income. “School was never a priority,” says Sankar. With the state government’s help, Vijay digitised lessons. “No books and all DVD shows suddenly made school cool. Attendance has gone up. It’s interactive and has greater impact: adds Vijay. Apart from power point presentations, Gupta recorded students speaking in English on his mobile and played it back to them to improve pronunciation.
4. M. Kohila from Kanyakumari Vadascry, who has uploaded multimedia lesson plans on her website to help students says, “I want to make classroom a recreational centre for students to learn at ease:
5. Bengaluru’s Prabha Diwakar converted 21 environmental science chapters into slide shows which the state department is perusing to use as sample texts. ‘Technology has given life to my work: she said.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the given questions:
1.Participants at the forum learnt to make learning fun with the help of:
(i) colourful and glossy textbooks
(ii) online teaching materials
(iii) Innovative techniques of teaching
(iv) comic strips on lessons
2.Turning textbooks into comic books improved learning. This implies that:
(i) textbooks are rather dull and bpi ing
(ii) comics can be very effective in learning
(iii) children love reading comics
(iv)textbooks should be replaced by comics
3.No books and alt DVD shows suddenly made school cool: This is evident from which of the following?
(i) School was never a priority
(ii) Attendance hasn’t gone up
(iii) Their performance improved
(iv) Its interactive and has greater impact
4.From the teachers’ experience at the forum it is evident that:
(i) technological innovations in teaching learning are the need of the hour
(ii) some subjects like English and Science are better taught with the help of technology
(iii) conventional methods of teaching are no longer effective
(iv)students are fed up with the existing textbooks and methods
5.What does the author mean when he uses the word ‘augment’ in para 3?
(i) Like
(ii) increase
(iii) Decrease
(iv) Change
6.Which of the following teachers used the method of recording on mobile phones to encourage English speech?
(i) Vijay Gupta
(ii) Ganesan Sankar
(iii) Both (i) and (ii)
(iv) None of these
7.What innovation was devised by M. Kohila?
(i) Uploading multimedia lesson plans on her website to facilitate learning
(ii) Teaching content from comics
(iii) Framing questions using students’ examples
(iv)All of the above
8.Which teacher says that teaching through slide shows gave a new life to her work?
(i) Santosh Bisen from Durg
(ii) Prabha Diwakar from Bengaluru
(iii) Ganesan Sankar from Vellore
(iv)M. Kohila from Kanyakumari
9.Why were 6 Indian teachers invited for participation in the Fifth Annual Worldwide Innovative Education Forum?
(i) To give their ideas about education
(ii) To give their ideas about transforming education
(iii) To give their ideas on how education can be revolutIonatised by using technological innovations
(iv)All of the above
10.Which word means ‘connective’ In pars 3?
(i) Impact
(ii) Interactive
(iii) Augment
(iv) Presentation
11.Which word in para 1 has been used as an opposite of ‘suppress’?
(i) Multimedia
(ii) Participated
(iii) Encourage
(iv) Painstakingly
12.Which word in para 1 has been used as an opposite of ‘withhold’?
(i) Painstakingly
(ii) Framing
(iii) Rained
(iv) Participated
ANSWERS:-
| 1. (iii) innovative techniques of teaching |
| 2. (ii) comics can be very effective in learning |
| 3. (iv) It’s interactive and has greater impact |
| 4. (i) technological innovations in teaching learning are the need of the hour |
| 5. (ii) Increase |
| 6. (i) Vijay Gupta |
| 7. (i) Uploading multimedia lesson plans on her website to facilitate learning |
| 8.(i) Prabha Diwakar from Bengaluru |
| 9. (iii) To give their Ideas on how education can be revolution eased by using technological Innovations |
| 10. (ii) Interactive |
| 11. (iii) Encourage |
| 12. (iii) Rained |
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Passage- 22
Read the passage given below:
1. The seasonal problem of water taps running dry is plaguing most of our major cities. With the bigger rivers flowing in trickles and ponds and wells reduced to clay pits, village women in remote areas have to fetch every drop of water for drinking, cooking, washing, and so on, across large distances. This has only worsened a perennial problem, that of widespread pollution of water, rendering it unfit for human consumption. The monsoons and the attendant floods will not solve this problem.
2. The Delhi Administration is seriously worried about the threat to civic health posed by the polluted waters of the Yamuna. Two main tanks arc to be set up to treat sewage. At present, only 60 percent of the 200 million gallons of the city’s sewage receives any kind of treatment before it is dumped into the river which supplies water not only to this city but to innumerable towns and villages downstream. The Ganga. the Yamuna, the Kaveri. in fact all our important rivers serving many urban conglomerations. are fast becoming a major source of diseases.
3. A comprehensive bill was introduced in Parliament recently. envisages the setting up of central and state boards for the prevention and control of water pollution. But it will obviously take some time before legislation is passed and effectively implemented. Meanwhile, the problem continues to swell. According to a survey of eight dwelling countries conducted a couple of years ago. 90 percent of all child deaths were due to water-borne diseases. It is the same unchanged story today.
4. In a country like India, a burgeoning population continuing to use the open countryside as a lavatory means that with every dust storm and rain, human excreta laden with genus and parasites find their way to ponds, shallow wells and even the streams and rivers. Only 18 percent of the rural folk have access to potable water.
5. A new threat that has already assumed alarming proportions is from industrial waste which is generally dumped untreated into the nearest river. For instance, for every kilogram of process hide, 30-40 litres of foul-smelling wastewater has to be disposed off. There are at least 900 licensed tanneries in the organized sector. Putrefied paper and jute waste, metallic waste from straw board and textile mills, sulphur, ammonia, urea, metallic salts and corrosive acids all find their way to the rivets of India.
6. It is important not only to make new laws to ensure the purity of water, but also to realise the urgency of implementing them ruthlessly, if we are to avoid a national health disaster cutting across the barrier hem cot towns and countryside.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the given questions:
1.The most appropriate title for the passage is:
(i) The Inevitable Evil of Pollution
(ii) Water Scarcity
(iii) Pollution
(iv) Tackling Water Pollution
2.The bill mentioned in the passage:
(i) creates financial scope for water treatment facilities
(ii) creates Central and State Boards for control of water pollution
(iii) looks into the effective implementation of legislation
(iv)looks into the proper treatment of water bodies
3.According to the passage, what can cut through the barrier between towns and villages?
(i) Number of child deaths
(ii) Water pollution
(iii) Decreasing potable water
(iv)Civic health problems
4.“…………….. is passed and effectively implemented” refers to the implementation of:
(i) Amendment laws
(ii) Legislation
(iii) Legal punishments
(iv) None of these
5.’Plaguing’ in the passage, means:
(i) causing trouble
(ii) inviting
(iii) avoiding
(iv) encouraging
6.Which problem is highlighted in the given passage?
(i) Reduction of groundwater
(ii) Droughts
(iii) Water pollution
(iv) All of the above
7.According to the passage, women in remote areas:
(i) try to obtain little water
(ii) have to travel long distances to get water
(iii) cause water pollution
(iv) die due to thirst
8.Choose the option that correctly states the meaning of ‘dumped; as used in the passage.
(i) Garbage
(ii)Threw
(iii) Wasted
(iv) Sold
9.Which of the following is a threat to the residents of Delhi?
1.Zero groundwater level
2.Lack of potable water
3.Lack of the treatment of sewage
4.Yamuna is over-polluted
5.Open untreated water
(i) 1, 3 and 5
(ii) 3 and 4
(iii) 1. 2 and 5
(iv) None of these
10.The Delhi Administration is worried about………….
(i)threat to civic health posed by polluted waters of Yamuna
(ii)the rivers are becoming a major source of diseases
(iii)lack of money ‘
(iv)Both (i) and (ii)
11.Most of the child deaths in India are due to:
(i) the lack of potable water
(ii) water borne diseases
(iii) lack of proper sanitation
(iv) chemicals found in water
12.The industrial waste dumped in the river is/are:
(i)putrefied paper
(ii) metallic waste
(iii) corrosive acids
(iv) All of these
ANSWERS:-
| 1.(iv) Tackling Water Pollution |
| 2.(ii) creates Central and State Boards for control of water pollution |
| 3.(ii) Water pollution |
| 4.(ii) Legislation |
| 5.(i) causing trouble |
| 6.(iii) Water pollution |
| 7.(ii) have to travel long distances to get water |
| 8.(ii) Threw |
| 9.(ii)3 and 4 |
| 10.(i) threat to civic health posed by polluted waters of Yamuna |
| 11.(ii) water borne diseases |
| 12.(iv) All of these |
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Passage- 23
Read the passage given below:
1. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment and sustain the well-being of local people.”
2. Responsible tourism observes basic eco-ethical tenets. Fundamental rights like the right to exist or to live in peace, right to pure air and pure water are basic rights even for wildlife. indigenous people as well as for nature as a whole.
3. Nature tourism and wildlife tourism are top priority for most foreign tourists, but in the Indian context, all picnics, nature walks, nature camps. trekking. hiking. safaris. jungle trails, mountaineering, cultural tours. pilgrimages, beaching, water sports, canoeing, boating and game-fishing should all observe eco-ethics. One step forward in ecotourism is to get involved in eco-restoration. biodiversity restoration and cco-development of local people in any degraded tourist ecosystem.
4. India, with her kaleidoscopic ecosystems and a wealth of cultural heritage of great antiquity has immense scope for ecotourism. Constant research to identify newer areas and spots for eco-tourism, preparing brochures on them and on the eco-ethics relevant to each. organising environmental trails and training knowledgeable guides, preferably using the services of local people are the obligations of the tourism department.
5. This novel concept of ecotourism is so visionary that in the long run, it would be much more viable economically, sustainable ecologically, acceptable socially and ideal philosophically than traditional tourism.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the given questions:
1.Responsible tourism or ecotourism means:
(i) tourism as defined by TIES
(ii) tourism respecting the rights of nature animals and people
(iii) tourism to study local wildlife, people and economies
(iv)tourism to area of ecological unbalance
2.’One step forward’ in para 3 refers to:
(i) switching over from traditional tourism to ecotourism
(ii) shifting from nature tourism to wildlife tourism
(iii) restoring balance in local ecosystem
(iv)studying local ecosystem
3.In the author’s opinion most Indian tourists:
(i) observe ecotourism ethics
(ii) lack ecotourism ethics
(iii) are aware of ecotourism ethics
(iv) should observe ecotourism ethics
4.According to the author the tourism department should:
(i) preserve the cultural heritage of great antiquity
(ii) exploit scope of ecotourism for profit
(iii) explore and develop newer opportunities and avenues of ecotourism
(iv)use the services of local people
5.The author calls ecotourism visionary because:
(i) it is a novel concept
(ii) it will be beneficial in the long run
(iii) it will be responsible, viable, sustainable and acceptable
(iv)it is opposed to traditional tourism
6.Which of the following is the prior choice for foreign tourists?
(i) Nature tourism
(ii) Wildlife tourism
(iii) Mountaineering
(iv) All of these
7.Why does India have more scope for ecotourism?
(i) Wealth of great cultural heritage
(ii) Antique biodiversity
(iii) Kaleidoscopic ecosystem
(iv) Both (i) and (iii)
8.Which of the following pairs are complementary aspects of each other as per TIES for ecotourism?
(i) Natural tourism and wildlife tourism
(ii) Responsible tourism and eco-ethical tenets
(iii) India’s kaleidoscopic ecosystem and wealthy cultural heritage
(iv) Concept of ecotourism as a visionary approach
9.What is the main topic of the passage?
(i) Comparison between traditional tourism and eco-tourism
(ii) Prospects of ecotourism in India
(iii) Follow up of ecotourism as an alternate form of tourism that is safe and harmless: and its global prospects
(iv) Both (ii) and (iii)
10.Which of the following words means ‘returning to former condition’ In para 3?
(i) Degraded
(ii) Restoration
(iii) Priority
(iv) Observe
11.Which word in para 5 means ‘able to maintain’?
(i) Viable
(ii) Sustainable
(iii) Economically
(iv) Visionary
12.Which word in para 2 has been used as an opposite of exotic’?
(i) Ethical
(ii) Indigenous
(iii) Exist
(iv) Fundamental
ANSWERS:-
| 1.(ii) tourism respecting the rights of nature animals and people |
| 2.(iii) restoring balance in local ecosystem |
| 3.(ii) lack ecotourism ethics |
| 4.(iii) explore and develop newer opportunities and avenues of ecotourism |
| 5.(iii) it will be responsible, viable, sustainable and acceptable |
| 6.(iv) All of these |
| 7.(iv) Both (i) and (iii) |
| 8.(ii) Responsible tourism and eco-ethical tenets |
| 9.(iii) Follow up of ecotourism as an alternate form of tourism that is safe and harmless: and its global prospects |
| 10.(ii) Restoration |
| 11.(ii) Sustainable |
| 12.(ii) Indigenous |
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Passage- 24
Read the passage given below:
1. The difference in the ways Id thinking and perception in people of two different generations, which results in behavioural difference, and sometimes, conflict any nig them is y called generation gap.
2. Generation gap is generally seen in the family and their children. It is not only because of the gap also because of the way parents react to a particular Children being very young and immature do not understand way of thinking of their parents. In many cases, the parents, even if they are matured do not empathise with the changing values and thinking patterns of the modern world. This creates a communication gap between these two generations.
3. Generation gap between parents and children is mostly caused by parents themselves. They do not talk openly to their children and do not take part in solving their problems. This behaviour gives the impression about parents being authoritative persons, because they only dictate without understanding the problems faced by their children. As a result, the children become mentally isolated from their parents. Some parents become so busy with their work that they don’t spend quality time with their family. which makes them completely unaware of how their children are growing what kind of mentality is being developed in them and so on. This ultimately creates a gap between them. They only realise it when it is too late.
4. Changes in technology have led to the generation gap in this modem world. Children tend to spend most of their time with their digital devices and arc so busy with social media, that they do not discuss their problems with their parents. The intemet provides solutions to most of the worldly problems. So children, instead of contacting their own parents seek the help of intemet in case of any problem, thus again reducing the communication, leading to a generation gap between them.
5. The generation gap has greatly increased these days because the time is changing fast and people find it difficult to cope up with his change. The overcome this problem, parents should show interest in all matters of their children and deal with them positively instead of just scolding them and leaving them alone to deal with their problems. Giving time to the children, having open communication, and allowing the child to feel free and not in any kind of pressure, will eventually reduce the generation gap to a tolerable extent.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the given questions:
1. Children are also responsible for generation gap because:
(i) they do things which parents don’t like.
(ii) they don’t discuss their problems with their parents.
(iii) they solve the problems with the help of social media
(iv) Both (i) and (iii)
2. What has also led to the generation gap in the modem world?
(i) Social media
(ii) Age group
(iii) Work load on parents
(iv) Change in technology
3. Different ways of………….. leads to generation gap.
(i) thinking
(ii) behaviour
(iii) solving a problem
(iv) creating problem
4. The correct way(s) to reduce generation gap Is/are:
1.by being authoritative
2.spending quality time with children
3.by having an open discussion about life and the problem involved
4.by doing work all the time
(i) Option 2 (ii) Both options 2 and 3
(iii) Both options 1 and 4
(iv) Option 3
5. Generation gap is usually created by:
(i) time
(ii) parents
(iii) children
(iv)Both (ii) and (iii)
6.The main reason of generation gap is:
1.difference in ages
2.different thinking
3.lack of time
4.different ways of solving problem
(i) Both 1 and 3
(ii) Both 2 and 3
(iii) Both 1 and 2
(iv)Both 2 and 4
7.Parents have been described as ………… in the above passage.
(i) timid
(ii) authoritative
(iii) reliable
(iv)honest
8.The antonym of the word, ‘solutions’ is:
(i) difficult
(ii) irritations
(iii) problems
(iv)decisions
9.The synonym of the word, ‘reduce’ is:
(i) increase
(ii) expand
(iii) open
(iv)abridge
10.The meaning or particular in para 2 Is:
(i)specific
(ii) usual
(iii) normal
(iv)instant
11.The word, ‘isolated’ in para 3 means:
(i) bound
(ii) grown
(iii) separated
(iv)concerned
12.Some parents become so busy that they don’t:
(i) have leisure
(ii) feel free
(iii) spend quality time with their family
(iv)meet other people
Ans:-
| 1.(iv) Both (ii) and (iii) |
| 2.(iv) Change in technology |
| 3.(i) thinking |
| 4.(ii) Both options 2 and 3 |
| 5.(ii) parents |
| 6.(iii) Both I and 2 |
| 7.(ii) authoritative |
| 8.(iii) problems |
| 9.(iv) abridge |
| 10.(i) specific |
| 11.(iii) separated |
| 12.(iii) spend quality time with their family |
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Passage- 25
Read the passage given below:
1. Today’s kids can identify with none of the traditional toys. If it’s a girl, she’s busy adding to her Barbie collection, if it’s a boy there’s Tartan or Superman or even Sony’s Play station for him. Toy carts have made way for black and gold Ferraris and Lamborghinis. As for the cartwheels and windmills, few kids would know what you art talking of.
2. Many parents feel that children cannot even differentiate between toys that are Indian and foreign. All that matters is that they should be familiar figures or trendy playthings, as seen on television. In a market-driven economy, toy manufacturers arc only cashing on this trend.
3. The fallout from this is two-fold: one, the death of India’s toy-making tradition, and two, the influences of an alien culture on a child’s mind. That is why some social activists have begun campaigning for a ban on what they describe as ‘western toys’.
4. “Indian toys are not only part of an art tradition but also contribute to the well-rounded growth of an individual’s personality;’ explains Vaidchi Thakkar, a child specialist. “Besides, they are environment-friendly since we have a custom of making toys from biodegradable material.”
5. Makers of toys from wood, paper and cloth are also complaining about diminishing clientele and the gradual extinction of an an form, but they find themselves completely powerless in countering the popularity of machine-made toys.
6. “They are backed by big companies with big money. Where as we are artists struggling to make ends meet.” says Udham Singh, who sells trinkets and balloons on Bombeys powerments. “what can we do it people are determined corrupt their children’s tastes’?”
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the given questions:
- The author’s main argument in the passage is:
(i) western toys are better than traditional Indian toys
(ii) Indian toys are superior to western toys
(iii) traditional Indian toys are no longer popular
(iv)so called “western toys’ should be banned
2. Indian toys help:
(i) keep children occupied
(ii) develop children’s all round personality
(iii) children become sensitive to environment degradation
(iv)children learn to respect their traditions
3. The phrase ‘this trend’ paragraph 2 refers to:
(i) the declining popularity of Indian toys
(ii) craze for familiar figures and trendy playthings
(iii) the increasing popularity of western toys
(iv)advertisements of toys on television
4. Which of the following is a feature of traditional toys?
(i) Indian toys have observed diminishing clientele than western toys
(ii) Western toys have corrupted children’s tastes
(iii) Indian toys are environment friendly
(iv)Western toys have led to gradual extinction of our art form
5. One argument seeking ban on ‘western toys” is they have harmed the toy-making tradition in India. The other argument is:
(i) western toys are machine made
(ii) western toys are very expensive
(iii) western toys are not eco-friendly
(iv)western toys represent an alien culture
6.It becomes a confusion for ………….. to identify Indian toys amongst the similar-looking western toys.
(i) manufacturers
(ii) parents
(iii) children
(iv)All of these
Directions for the questions (g) to (i): In each of the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A)and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per the code provided below (i-iv):
(i)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(ii)Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(iii)A is true but R is false.
(iv)Both A and R are false.
7.Assertion (A): Indian market of traditional toys is diminishing drastically.
Reason (R): Western toys have countered the major space in Indian market.
8.Which of the following words is a synonym of ‘trendy in para 2?
(i)Fashionable
(ii)Obsolete
(iii)Neglected
(iv)Abortive
9.Which of the following words is an antonym of’ withdraw’?
(i)Complaining
(ii)Extinction
(iii)Gradual
(iv)Contribute
10.……………have corrupted the tastes of Indian buyers.
(i)Balloon sellers
(ii)Trendy toys
(iii)Diminishing traditional toys
(iv)Western toys
Answers:-
| 1.(ii) Indian toys are superior to western toys |
| 2.(ii) develop children’s all round personality |
| 3.(iii) the increasing popularity of western toys |
| 4.(iii) Indian toys are environment friendly |
| 5.(iv) western toys represent an alien culture |
| 6.(ii) parents |
| 7.(i) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A |
| 8.(i) Fashionable |
| 9.(iv) Contribute |
| 10.(iv) Western toys |
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