Jumbled Sentences

(a)love / of others / good manners / and / win the / respect

(b) when / best / they can / one is / be learnt / young
(c)saves us / turns away / soft answer / anger and / a / a pitfall / from many
(d)who is / stranger / respectful / a person / even / like
(e) sure / in life / they / passport / are a / for success
(a) in / we / of / science / the age / live
(b) and space / conquered / air time / we have / help of / with the / scientific inventions
(c) inventions / armed / which are / has / miracles / science / man with / not less than
(d) deadly weapons / but / science has / of warfare / also given / man

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1.

Vitamin tablets has been around forever, but antioxidants are the
the last miracle cure. Do they really work?
If the hype is true, then that the antioxidants do is
work for neutralise the free radicals in our bodies
and latter excrete them. Free radicals are atoms or molecules
that have at least one unpaired electron and is therefore
unstable and highly reactive. In animal tissue they are believing to accelerate the
progression of cardiovascular and age-related diseases as dementia and cancer.

2.

The use for bottled supplements with your diet is a practice

that need to be discouraged. It is also essential to keep abreast
off new developments in research. Ironically those health-conscious individuals
who already eats large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables,
who diet does not include junk food and who get plenty of regular
exercise and have least need for dietary supplements tend to be the ones
whom are most likely to use them.

3.
More of the fun and excitement in our life
comes (a) …………………………………
from the use for our senses. Senses open up a (b) …………………………………
world which and full of sights, sounds, smells. (c) ………………………………….
tastes and things to touch. The sharp your senses and (d) ………………………………….
the more you use it, more enjoyable each (e) ……………………………………
of these world becomes for you. (f) …………………………………….
For instant, a painter can see shades (g) …………………………………..
and shapes which little gifted (h) ……………………………………
people could not see. (i)……………………………...

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1.A culture takes its form after it has undergone a process of growth over a period of time. This
time may extend over centuries or over millennia. As the waves from rivulets or a river deposit the
fine and rich alluvial matter alongside its banks and make the bank-side land fertile, so also the
surge of wisdom from the family, the religion, the philosophy and many more sources, deposits
layer upon layer and makes the family or the social soil rich and fertile for the growth of the
succeeding generations. This social and family soil, formed of fine deposits of reflections,
observations, experiences, reforms and practices, of great people is congenial for growth and is
called Culture.
2. As bees from a honey-comb move and flit from flower to flower, take essence from them and
form tasteful and nourishing honey, even so, do the sages, the seers, the thinkers, the philosophers
and men of wisdom or ordinary people, who have a developed and keen sense of observation.
They leave some nourishing honey of utterances, experiences, useful practices and understanding
of many a natural phenomenon and these together make a Culture.
3. The Culture is a treasure of collected gems of experiences and wisdom of the ages, gifted by a
lot many earlier generations. It is the essence of the distilled experiences of so many people,
carried over from the past. It is a reservoir of tried and tested values, norms, observances and
principles that have taken the form of lifestyles, manners, etiquette, folklore, celebrations,
quotations, festivals and visual and performing arts, such, like dance, drama, songs, conventions,
traditions and even rituals. How the youngsters should meet, greet and treat the elders and vice-
versa, how one should treat a guest, neighbour or friend and how one should respect one’s teacher
or a sage, what and how one should cat and drink or what one should not eat and not drink; at
what hour in the morning should one get up and at what hour should one sleep; what kind or form
of dress one should wear: how agents should treat ladies or what manners should each gender
observe in the presence of the other— all these and thousand more things are included in the term
‘Culture’.
4. Culture has a very’ wide connotation. It enjoins upon people certain norms to be observed on
various occasions, in various relationships and various situations. The older the culture, the wider
is its expanse and richer are its contents. Its observances start from the time of the birth and last
till the time of one’s last breath. In fact, there is no moment in life for which Culture does not ask
us to observe a particular rule or follow a particular way and to refrain from certain doings.

5. Most of the conventions, traditions, norms and practices — which are part of a culture – have
some rationale behind them and have the support of the experiences of a large number of people
who observed them over a period of time or who, by violating them saw the negative results. So,
every point in a Culture is not a dogma or a set of whims and fancies or a collection of
superstitions or meaningless rituals It is based on some sound laws of good living, told by the
ancestors and predecessors. Some of the cultural norms may be necessary for a particular
section of humankind, living in a particular geophysical setting or in a particular climatic region
and some or any of the conventions and practices may be useful for all and may, therefore, be of
universal nature.

Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:

(c) What effect does culture have on us?
(d) Why does the writer use the example of the bees?
(e) What does the writer mean by the phrase ‘tried and tested values’?
(f) What is the relationship between culture and civilization?
(g) Why do cultural norms differ from region to region?
(h) By saying that there is a rationale behind traditions and norms what does the writer want to
say?
Find words from the passage which mean the same as each of the following:
(i) going against (para 5)
(j) ancestors (para 5)
(a) According to the writer, the main source of wisdom is
(b) (i) the family (ii) philosophy
(c) (iii) religion (iv) all the above
(b) Wisdom does not include
(i) reflection (ii) observation
(iii) learning from others’ experiences (iv) superstitions

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1. Residents of the BhirungRaut Ki Gali, where Ustad Bismillah Khan was born on March 21, 1916,
were in shock. His cousin, 94-year —old MohdIdrish Khan had tears in his eyes. Shubhan Khan,
the care-taker of Bismillah’s land, recalled: “Whenever in Dumbarton, he would give rupees two to
the boys and rupees five to the girls of the locality”.
2. He was very keen to play shehnai again in the local Bihariji’s Temple where he had started
playing shehnai with his father, Bachai Khan, at the age of six. His original name was Quamaruddin
and became Bishmillah only after he became famous as shehnai player in Varanasi.
3. His father Bachai Khan was the official shehnai player of Keshav Prasad Singh, the Maharaja
of the erstwhile Dumaraon estate. Bismillah used to accompany him. For Bishmillah Khan, the
connection to music began at a very early age. By his teens, he had already become a master of
the shehnai. On the day India gained freedom, Bismillah Khan, then a sprightly 31-year-old had
the rare honour of playing from Red Fort.
4. But Bismillah Khan won’t just be remembered for elevating the shehnai from an instrument heard
only in weddings and naubatkhanas to one that was appreciated in concert halls across the world.
His life was a testimony to the plurality that is India. A Practicing Muslim, he would take a daily dip
in the Ganga in his younger days after a bout of Kasti in BeniaBagaAkhada. Every morning,
Bishmillah Khan would do riyaaz at the Balaji temple on the banks of the river. Even during his
final hours in a Varanasi hospital, music didn’t desert BismillahKhan. A few hours before he passed
away early on Monday, the shehnai wizard hummed a thumri to show that he was feeling better.
This was typical of a man for whom life revolved around music.
5. Throughout his life, he abided by the principle that all religions are one. What marked Bishmillah
Khan was his simplicity and disregard for the riches that come with musical fame. Till the very end,
he used a cycle rickshaw to travel around Varanasi. But the pressure of providing for some 60
family members took its toll during his later years.

Choose the correct alternatives from the options given below:

(a) Bismillah Khan celebrated his sixth birthday on
(i) 21 of March 1923 (ii) 21″ of March 1922
(iii) 21″ of March 1921 (iv) 2P’ of March 1920

(b) Bismillah Khan’s father was

(i) Mohd. Idris Kahn (ii)Shubhan Khan
(iii) Bachai Khan (iv) Quamaruddin

Answer the following questions briefly in your own words:

(c) Pick up an example from the text that shows that Bismillah Khan was secular in his outlook.
(d) Why do you think Bismillah Khan gave more money to the girls than to the boys whenever he
visited Dumbarton?
the
(e) What is your opinion was responsible for motivating Bismillah to learn how to play the shehnai?
(f) Why was Bismillah chosen to play the shehnai on the day India gained its freedom?
(g) Pick up an example from the text that illustrates Bismillah’s deep love for music.
(h) How does the writer prove that all the fame that he acquired did not touch Bismillah at all?

Find words from the passage which mean the same as each of the following:
(i) former (para 3)
(j) an expert (para 4)
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1. Plants have it tough: they’re on the menu of nearly every living creature—from leaf mining grubs
to voracious goats to broccoli-chomping vegans. To survive, they have no choice but to stand and
fight. Tactical retreat is not an option. They are now involved in an ever-escalating arms race with
their enemies.
2. The most visible weapons in their armoury are thorns, spikes and stinging hair. Every rose grows
between vicious thorns. Cacti make legendary pincushions. Grass has silica-serrated edges that
can draw blood. Acacias are fearsomely armed. (I got caught in a thorn-bush once, and it took 20
minutes of struggle and half a pint of blood to free myself.) It’s not really about pinpricks, it’s about
chemical and biological. warfare; about poisons that can make you sneeze, itch, convulse and
writhe in pain; ones that can devilishly re-program life-cycles. Ah, yes and there’s cyanide
poisoning too!
3. No visitor to the hills would have been spared the attention of the `bichchubooti, that notorious
stinging nettle whose hair-like hypodermic barbs cause horrible inflammation. (They say a plant
belonging to the spinach family usually grows next to it and is an antidote, but I’ve never checked.)
4. Have you watched a bug gets caught in pine resin? It’s the sticky ending to end all sticky endings
and the beginnings of a fossil a million years down the line. The latex of rubber plants turns sticky
on contact with air and gums up the mouthparts of insects: the ultimate anti-chewing-gum weapon
if you like. The infamous “milkweed” family of plants produces “milk” so poisonous it can give cows
a heart attack. Some plants give off hydrogen cyanide when bitten — the rest, as they say, is
history. Others release bitter which jam up digestion.
5. But some plants are even more diabolical—they’re into biological warfare which can turn their
enemies into time-warp freaks. Some contain large amounts of the juvenile (larval) hormones of
predator insects, which cause these to remain frozen in the larval stage and die without
reproducing. Others contain hormones, which fast-forward the development of the insect skipping
out important larval stages and causing them to become adults too quickly.

Choose the correct alternatives from the options given below:

(a) The fact that plants can devilishly re-program life-cycles is an example of
(i) biological warfare (ii) chemical warfare
(iii) physical warfare (iv) none of the above
(b) Plants stand and fight by
(i) having spikes/thorns and stinging hair
(ii) poisoning people who eat them
(iii) making people sneeze/itch/convulse/writhe in pain
(iv) all of the above

Answer the following questions briefly in your own words :

(c) Why does a plant need to have a defence mechanism?
(d) Mention any two examples of chemical warfare used by a plant.
(e) Why does the writer expect a visitor to the hills to have an encounter with
the bichchobooti plant?
(f) What was the writer’s experience with the acacia plant?
(g) What does the writer mean by the phrase ‘beginning of a fossil a million years down the line’?
(h) What does the phrase `time-warp’ freaks refer to?

Find words from the passage which mean the same as each of the following:
(i) insatiable (para 1)
(j) notorious (para 4)

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