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Her hands reached for the steel railing above, but finding only air. The clattering roar of the train muffled the thud of her fall on to the ground.

They had come with high hopes in the miracles of modern science. They told themselves that Anant would be cured and he would play the sitar and perhaps would be a great sitarist one day.

1. Very few persons know how to read.

2. Considerable experience with literature is needed for that.

3. Some rare men with inherited literary instinct can read very well.

4. You will find yourself reading words while your attention is occupied with a totally different subject.

5. To read a book ‘for the story’ just to get a vague idea. Most of the reading is done in this way.

6. A reader who can produce the thoughts worth hearing about what he has read is a good reader.

7. The author is speaking about the average reader, not the exceptional reader.

8. (i) amusement

(ii) vague.

1. The poem opens with a flattering question. The poet compares his beloved with a summer’s day. He finds his beloved more lovely and more temperate. Diurnal activities affect summer day but the summer of the beloved is eternal. The poet has enshrined her in the poem so she will live forever.

2. The poet asks his beloved if he should compare her with a summer day. He tells her that she is more lovely and more temperate than the summer day. Rough winds have impact on the vegetation. The summer season is very short,

3. (i) The allotted time to summer season is very short while the beloved is eternal.

(ii) The sun is the eye of the sky.

(iii) The golden rays of the sun gives the summer day golden colour.

4. (i) complexion

(ii) possession

(i) ‘Dear’ can either be used as an affectionate term, or as a synonym of ‘expensive’.

(ii) A jumper.

(iii) That words with the same spelling and pronunciation sometimes have different meanings. 

(i) The two meanings referred to here are, a short journey, and a fall.

(ii) A ball is an event where people gather to dance.

(iii) They often form a band.

(iv) A band.

1. The poet says that if anybody can prove his assertions wrong, he can admit it to be a fact that noone has loved truly in the past.

2. Shakespeare asserts that true love is constant. It does not change to convenience. It is firms as sea-mark or pole-star. Time can’t affect it. The poet is ready to stop writing poems if he is proved wrong about the constancy of true love.

3. (i) The love which changes to convenience is not a true love.

(ii) Time can’t affect the true love but physical beauty.

(iii) True love remains firm and constant even after death.

4. (i) alter

(ii) admit

(i) Summer

(ii) ‘Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought is referred to here.

(iii) He loves to ruminate on the sweet memories of his childhood days.

(iv) The joy which the sweet memories of his childhood days give him make him feel nearest to heaven.

(v) Here summer represent youth.

(i) Four.

(ii) Lusty.

(iii) During Spring, fancy takes in all beauty with an easy span.

(iv) Here Spring represent childhood.

1. The poet visualises the whole of human life in terms of four seasons. The youthful years are his spring, the mature age is summer, the declining years are autumn and old age is winter. He is subject to decay. Hence, he has to face this change.

2. As four seasons characterise a year so also four seasons characterise the life of a man. The youthful years are his spring. He has strength and imagination. He understands beauty with little effort.

3. (i) four seasons complete the year and the human life

(ii) small stream that flows past the house

(iii) destined to die.

4. (i) lusty

(ii) youthful

(i) Patience.

(ii) God does not need man’s labour or his gifts.

(iii) The person who bears patiently the burden God has placed on him.

(iv) Thousands at God’s bidding travel over land and sea without rest, in order to carry out his commands.

(d) Those who stand and wait.

(vi) ‘They’ in the last line refers to people like Milton who suffer from some affliction.

(i) Four

(ii) Spring

(iii) (a)very short and happy.

(i) Bare foot.

(ii) The paths boil in midday sun.

(iii) The speaker wants to lie down beneath a mango tree.

(i) God does not need man’s labour or his gifts.

(ii) God’s.

(iii) They serve God by bearing patiently the burden God has placed on them.

(i) Yellow

(ii) (b)Two roads diverging in a forest

(iii) Only the speaker

(i) They study the weather because they love studying it.

(ii) Wireless engineers do the transmission of information.

(iii) A storm at sea is described as a terrible white malice.

(iv) The scientists who study the weather for its own sake indirectly help the fishermen.

(v) (b) the fury of the sea during the storm.

(i) The speaker feels that it is a precious and remarkable thing that we still put ourselves in each other’s care and that we trust others.

(ii) On the dark green swell (the sea).

(iii) The sea.

(iv) Warnings of storms fly to them like gulls.

(v) The dark green swell’ refers to the sea in high tide when there is a storm.

(i) We put ourselves in one another’s care.

(ii) (a)human goodness.

(i) The speaker feels that it is a precious and remarkable thing that we still put ourselves in each other’s care and that we trust others.

(ii) On the dark green swell (the sea).

(iii) The sea.

(iv) Warnings of storms fly to them like gulls.

(v) The dark green swell’ refers to the sea in high tide when there is a storm

(i) He was able to walk.

(ii) Laughter.

(iii) He walks worse for a few hours.

(iv) Because he is reminded of his crutches.

Correct option is C) a few

Correct option is D) There’s

(i) The poet goes to the physician to get his lameness cured.

(ii)  Seven years.

(iii) The great physician.

(iv) The speaker uses crutches because he is lame.

(v) The physician asked the speaker why he used crutches.

(i) The great physician.

(ii) He laughed with a fiend’s grimace.

(iv) It refers to the pair of crutches that belonged to the speaker.

(v) After breaking them, the physician threw the crutches in the fireplace.

(iv) (c) he may be tempted to use them again.

Correct option is  C) up

Correct option is D) Still, a great deal of research on the subject is being carried out

(i) The great physician.

(ii) (a) the poet is lame because he is using crutches.

(iii) The physician asked the speaker to try walking without crutches once more.

(iv) The contraptions.

The Financial statements prepared under final accounts are: 

1. Trading account 

2. Profit and Loss a/c 

3. Profit and loss appropriation a/c 

4. Balance sheet

Any errors affects only one side, either debit or credit aspects of transaction it is called one side error. 

Example: Pasting Rs. 500 as Rs. 50.

It is a current a/c. Where bank provide opportunity to withdraw more than deposit called (B.O.D.) Bank Over Draft.

Accounting concepts means assumptions upon which accounting is based and recorded.

Shares is the example for Revenue or income.

The person who represents the artificial person called representative person. Example: Debtors account, creditors account, capital account.

The nominal a/c rule is – “DEBIT ALL EXPENSES AND LOSSES CREDIT ALL INCOMES AND GAINS” 

Trade discount is a reduction in the catalogue price or invoice price of the goods sold.

1. Money measurement concepts 

2. Dual concepts 

3. Business entity concept 

4. Continuity concept.

The principle of preparation of trial balance is debit entry have automatic credit on some other account.

External users of accounting informations are 

• Investors. 
• Suppliers & creditors 
• Customers 
• Government 
• Common man or society

The different types of software are: 

1. Operating system 

2. Utility program 

3. Application software 

4. Language processors 

5. System software 

6. Connectivity software.

1. General acceptance: If the drawee of the bills accepts the bill without any condition then it is called general acceptance. 

2. Qualified acceptance: If the drawee of the bill accepts the bill by adding some conditions called qualified acceptance of bills. 

The financial statement prepared at the period and to show how the profit of a company appropriate or the internal profit of the company allocation called ‘profit and loss appropriation’ account. 

Two unite of CPU are:

1. Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) 

2. Memory unit 

3. Control unit

Profit = Closing capital + Drawings – (Additional capital + Opening capital)

Profit = 90,000 + 5,000 – (10,000 + 60,000) Profit = 25,000.

Personal Barriers:

1. Fear of Challenge to Authority: A superior always aims to maintain a higher position and prestige in the organization. If he fears that a particular communication may adversely affect his authority, then he may withhold such communication. 

2. Lack of Confidence of superior on his Subordinates: Communication process of hampered when superiors do not have faith or confidence on the competence of their subordinates.

Organizational Barriers:

1. Rules and Regulations: Rigid rules and cumbersome procedures adversely affect the process of communication. Similarly, communications through prescribed channel may result in delays. 

2. Status: Status relationships create psychological distance between superior and his subordinates. A status conscious manager also may not allow his subordinates to express their feelings freely.

Disadvantage of Information Technology:

1. Job Elimination- Technology has replaces many positions humans used to occupy. Software is now doing complete accounting so trained accountants have fewer opportunities, robots can cut the lawn or clean the pools, no need for a handyman. 

2. Security Breaches- Since businesses store their data on remote cloud servers which can be accessed online with a username and password, they risk potentially losing that data to hackers or viruses.

Advantages of information technology (IT) in a business: 

a. Office automation: Information technology has paved way for automating various business processes. 

b. Communication: IT has improved the way for communicating by emails. 

c. Business Analysis: IT has lots of tools for analysis of lots of business data. 

d. Better organized data: Due to IT, the data can be compiled and organized for better presentation.

The Consumer Protection Act was enacted in the year 1986.