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B. the women could feel safe.

Palakkad’s district library stands tall as a beacon to encourage women’s empowerment through classes, clubs, workshops and reading rooms.

The library opened its halls for film screening, workshops in home economics or gardening, child care or the arts, and for women to get help in managing family conflicts, legal disputes and professional problems.

People can use Palakkad’s District Library for information, knowledge, wisdom, cultural activities, research and reference.

The roof of a sturdy, brick-walled house in each village was chosen to install the panels and the battery. The panels are installed in a southerly direction to capture as much sunlight as possible.

False statements: 

3. The writer spent many days in Bali in temples. 

4. The writer finds Iceland full of chatter and routine. 

Corrected statements: 

3. The writer spent many days in Tibet in temples. 

4. The writer finds Iceland quiet and empty.

True statements: 

1. The posters at McDonald’s outlet in Kyoto have pictures of places in San Francisco. 

4. Cities like Sydney and Toronto are a mix of many cultures. 

False statements: 

2. The young people in Kyoto McDonald’s outlet look very American. 

3. The writer was born in America.

Corrected statements: 

2. The young people in Kyoto McDonald’s outlet look very Japanese. 

3. The writer was born in England.

Quickly Prem Chopra disappeared around the corner and spoke into the remote control – softly and clearly. “Pick up a necklace and hide.”

“Two kilograms of mangoes-ripe and juicy,” commanded Prem Chopra from a distance, seeing a huge pile of mangoes.

B. there were lots of big trees, plants and greenery around his school and college.

Arun’s parents were very supportive and understood that he was interested in environment.

Arun keeps on learning so much from the ‘ environment and his work to protect the environment. So he believes that he is an environmentalist and not an activist.

School-going children should devote two hours on Saturday and two hours on Sunday for an environmental cause.

How often do you meet your friends ?

How often do the children visit the garden ?

How often do you go to bed at 9 o’clock ?

B. to think and understand about the importance of life form like birds and animals.

A beautiful lake next to his house was heavily polluted, leading to spread of mosquitoes and had turned it into an ugly place. This hurt Arun badly. He decided to clean the lake with a couple of his friends.

Arun and his team wear nose masks and sanitary gloves to protect themselves from dust.

According to Arun, we should ensure that / lakes and water bodies are free of garbage so that birds and animals (frogs and snakes) can live in peace.

Arun founded the Environmentalist Foundation of India at the age of 17.

B. all living beings need water to grow and live.

A. never to stop learning.

D. he was the owner of the robot.

B. Prem Chopra does not harm people.

A. women members.

An NGO called MGP is building a network of low cost solar micro-grids that provide two LED lights and a mobile charging point to all paying households at a cost of twenty-five rupees per week.

The next day, the court was overcrowded with people keen to watch a robot in the witness box.

“No noise. Information not to be revealed. Top secret. Otherwise I will defuse your system,” he threatened.

The right corner appeared to be crowded with robots in metallic silver, electric blue and green.

“Robots do not disobey masters.”

Never would this machine man betray his / master.

D. follow the command

The burning desire of the people of Taj Nagar was to have a railway station in their village. And to do this, everyone in the village contributed according to their capacity and collected twenty-one lakh rupees.

The main problem in Uttar Pradesh is that more than 60 % of the houses are without power.

C. solar power

The people of the village had to either go to Halimandi or Patli to catch a train. Both the stations were six kilometres away from Taj Nagar. The railway lines also passed through the village and so the people demanded a station there. The authorities said that they did not have funds.

In just one year’s time, the MGP has connected more than 3,500 customers to s solar power mini-grids at the village level.

Names of the litterateurs: Sir John Mandeville, Emerson, Thoreau and Sir Thomas Browne. 

Quotations: Emerson said, “Travelling is a fool’s paradise.” Thoreau said, “I have travelled a good deal in Concord.” 

Sir Thomas Browne sagely put it, “We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. There is Africa and her prodigies in us.”

Name of the litterateur – George Santayana. 

Quotation: 

George Santayana writes, “We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

The secretary of the library pointed out that through reading, women would realize their own strength and forge a unity.

C. helping in robbery

B. on the roof of a strong-walled house.

I tend not to believe as much at home as I do abroad.

A. lack of funds.

According to a village farmer, the main advantage of solar light is that it saves the environment because there is no pollution.

The villagers had to go to Gurugram, Delhi and Rewar to board a train.

The people of Taj Nagar tried to persuade s the railway authorities for twenty-five years; for a railway station.

The library launched a women’s unit in February, 2014. The unit formulated plans on opening separate reading rooms for women. It encouraged women’s empowerment through classes, clubs, workshops and reading rooms.

‘Many-tongued’ means that he knows many languages; ‘mongrel’ here means someone who has a mixed upbringing, someone of mixed cultures. The writer knows many languages. He was born of Indian parents, in England, and he moved to America when he was 7 years old. Hence, he says that he cannot really call himself an Indian, an American or an Englishman.