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Correct option is A) managed

Correct answer is (c) His captors found him to be of the right size.

Correct answer is (d) Assertion and reasoning both are correct

1. Correct answer is: C. Remodelling the Future by Peaceful Co-existence

2. Correct answer is: D. Option 4 (Visually Impaired Candidates—B. Animal activists)

3. Correct answer is: A. Expressing concern about several cases of cruelty to animals—Exploring the reasons—Stating the effects—Providing suggestions for peaceful co-existence— Presenting conclusive outlook

4. Correct answer is: C. Strengthening execution of animal rights’ laws, Increasing awareness, Reducing human-wildlife conflict

5. Correct answer is: D. (i) fear (ii) disastrous results

6. Correct answer is: B. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi

7. Correct answer is: B. Option (2)

C. Remodelling the Future by Peaceful Co-existence

The poet wants that the children of the slums should break free from the rut of their dreary existence. They should experience nature at its best, as well as frolic around in a carefree manner. They should be educated and be able to transform themselves.

The pictures and maps in the school are meaningless for the slum children because they stand in sharp contrast to the dingy, dismal and gloomy atmosphere in which these slum children live. These things have no meaning for those who are deprived of the basic amenities of life.

The map represents the beautiful and wonderful world outside. However, this world is beyond the reach of the slum children. Their hopes and aspirations are confined to their world of despair and diseases. So Stephen Spender calls the map a bad example.

Correct answer is: D. a sense of hopelessness and despair

Dr. Radhakrishan never lost his faith in the essential humanity of man.

How Free is the Press 

How Free is the Press is an essay written by Dorothy L. Sayers. Free Press is a watch dog of democracy. In order to understand this essay we have to know the meaning of 'Freedom of Press'. Freedom of Press means free from interference or censorship of the government. Truly speaking the press is not as free as it should be. Actually press is controlled by two factors the advertisers and the owner of the press. No newspaper dares to go against them. Sometimes a press does not express the public opinion but tries to manufacture it. Sometimes it misrepresents the fact. To my mind press should be completely free in normal times but there should be censorship during emergency and war period.

Correct answer is: B. (3), (4) and (5)

Dr. Radhakrishnan never lost his faith in the essential humanity of man.

(a) Dr. Radhakrishnan never lost his faith in the essential humanity of man.

(b) In many traditional societies in Africa and India, the biological family is deliberately weakened by enforced abstinence or actual separation of parents.

2. The novel originated as the literary form in England. 4. Many stalwart novelists such as Charles Dickens, Walter Scott became famous. 1. Mulkraj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao were the major trio who prevailed in the period after that. 3. Indian novelists like Arvind Adiga, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai have dazzled with their writing.

Correct answer is: B. Both (1) and (2) are true.

The correct option is C. tempted. 

Correct answer is: C. tempted

(i) D. introspection 

(ii) C. tempted 

(iii) B. Both (1) and (2) are true. 

(iv) B. (3), (4) and (5) 

(v) D. a sense of hopelessness and despair 

(vi) A. The servants were urged to leave due to a sense of patriotism and self-preservation but their love and loyalty to Sadao compelled them to keep the secret safe. 

(vii) A. F-1,3,4; O-2 

(viii) D. Uncertain, yet hopeful about the possibility. 

(ix) C. ironical 

(x) B. in sharp contrast to

Correct answer is: D. introspection

(i) wore;

(ii) smelt;

(iii) got up;

(iv)cried, was;

(v) were traveling;

(vi) was running;

(vii) were going;

(viii) was repairing;

(ix) was wondering;

(x) was, had worked;

(xi) began, had filled;

(xii) arrived, had died;

(xiii) understood, had explained;

(xiv) would submit;

(xv) had hoped, got.

Heeralal, the driver, first offered a silken blouse (frock) for the child, then a sari to Lakshmi. He also gave her a packet of delicious halwa to persuade her and take some liberty with her. Lakshmi was confused whether to take it to the mistress or to tear it into shreds. As she looked at the pink sari and touched the cloth she threw it on the ground and stamped on it. She also threw the packet of delicious halwa.

हीरालाल ड्राईवर ने पहले तो लक्ष्मी की उसकी बच्ची के लिये एक रेशमी फ्रॉक दिया। उसके पश्चात् उसे एक साड़ी दी। उसने उसे स्वादिष्ट हलवे का पैकेट भी दिया उसे फाँसने और उसके साथ कुछ खुला समय बिताने के लिये। लक्ष्मी अनिश्चितता में थी कि क्या इन वस्तुओं को मालकिन के पास ले जाये या फाड़ कर तार-तार कर दे। जैसे उसने गुलाबी साड़ी को देखा और उसके कपड़े को स्पर्श किया तो उसने उसे जमीन पर फेंक दिया और पैर से कुचल दिया। उसने स्वादिष्ट हलवे के पैकिट को भी फेंक दिया।

1. Correct answer is: B. It seemed to suggest to her that she was the cause of Charley’s unhappiness.

2. Correct answer is: C. clarifying

3. Correct answer is: D. (1), (4) and (5)

4. Correct answer is: D

5. Correct answer is: C. He lived in peaceful times.

1. Correct answer is:  A. malnutrition

2. Correct answer is: C. He is considered the black sheep of the family.

3. Correct answer is: D. burdens of poverty

4. Correct answer is: B. Carrying his father’s disease

5. Correct answer is: A. He appears to be in a world of dreams.

Correct option is  C) a bitter pill

Correct option is A) wear/have put

Correct option is B) is/doing/is signing

Correct option is D) for

Correct option is E) about/at

Correct option is E) at

I feel that the poet is a strong-willed person. He can keep his secrets. He does not want people’s sympathies. He has fortitude and courage to suffer his adversities without sharing them with others.

I fully agree with the poet’s views on these aspects. Success comes from self-control and a true sense of the value of things. We should know that all that glitters is not gold. Without self-control we will go astray. Unless we know the true value of things, we may spend our time and energy trying to get things that have no true value. Appearances can be deceptive.

Helen Keller : She was an American lecturer and writer who overcame severe physical disabilities, inspiring many other people to similar accomplishments. Deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, Keller learned to communicate with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller to read Braille and to “listen” by feeling a speaker’s face. Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904 and authored a number of books about her experiences.

Helen Keller (1880-1968 was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of well-to-do parents: Arthur Keller, a former officer in the Confederate army, and Kate Adams. When 19 months old, Helen was stricken with an acute illness that left her deaf and blind. In a short time, she forgot the few words she knew and became silent. She made use of signs to get what she wanted, but when her parents or the family servants did not understand her, her frustration found an outlet in screaming and tantrums. In the 1880s people who were both deaf and blind were classified in law as idiots.

A doctor who examined Keller, however, thought that her intelligence could be developed. On the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, who was also a teacher of deaf people, Keller’s parents got a teacher for the Blind. The teacher’s name was Anne Mansfield Sullivan (later Macy). Thus began an association that lasted until Sullivan’s death in 1936.

Sullivan’s first task was to break through the barrier of darkness and silence that surrounded the child.

She succeeded in that. Two years later she was reading and writing fluently using the Braille system. When Keller was tert, she begged to relearn how to speak. At first this seemed impossible, but Sullivan discovered that Keller could learn sounds by placing her fingers on her teacher’s larynx and sensing the vibrations. The moving account of how Sullivan taught her to speak is told in Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life (1902).

In 1900, Keller entered Radcliffe College. Four years later she graduated with honors to worldwide acclaim and decided to devote her life to helping blind and deaf people. Through her essays and articles in major magazines and newspapers, Keller explained the problems encountered by people who are deaf and blind and the responsibilities of society. In addition to The Story of My Life, she published Optimism, or My Key to Life (1903), The World I Live In (1908), and Out of the Dark (1913). 

In her desire to help people like her, Keller also began to travel and lecture throughout the world, enlisting the aid of many famous people she met. Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie gave her an annual income, writers Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson sang her praises, and nearly every U.S. president of her time invited her to the White House. She received many honors. Helen Keller is one of the best examples of people who have overcome severe handicaps and become world famous.

1. Otherwise 

2. However 

3. Moreover 

4. Furthermore 

5. As a result

The valley is rich. The water that flows in the river gets darkened at times by the shade of the forest, but in the cascade it glistens. The bittern is flying upward spirally making noise as the dawn is softly and smoothly turning into morning.

By raising any one of the warp or weft set of yarns above the surface level of the fabric. This raising is done mostly during weaving, after shedding and before beat up.

Spring-beard, latch, or compound.

According to the poet one’s attitude to unexpected loss should be one of indifference. Triumphs and Tragedies are part of life. Don’t be overjoyed at the successes and don’t be dejected at the failures. If you happen to have a loss, don’t tell anyone. Accept it with fortitude

Knaves represent dishonest people.

Brilliant, cheerful, sociable, hardworking, well read, sensitive, generous, sociable, humble, cultured, has initiative, humorous, optimistic My friend John is liked by all the students in the class. He is brilliant and he always gets the top marks and the teacher is never tired of praising him.

John comes from a wealthy family. His father is a magistrate and his mother is a lecturer in a college. But he is very humble and he never shows off to others. He is always cheerful and has a smiling face. He is well-read and hardworking. His general knowledge is great. He is a voracious reader and he seems to know about all things under the sun, and even beyond! He is very generous and is always willing to help the weak.

He is very sociable. He is polite and respectful to teachers and elders. He always greets them when he meets them. He is cultured in his behaviour. He is very humorous and he has the knack of telling very amusing stories. He is optimistic and a strong believer in God. He has many leadership qualities and he takes initiatives in many things. John is an ideal student.

They are compared to the army defeated in battle, ready to flee from the conqueror.

The speaker here is a father. He is speaking to his son about the qualities that are needed to become a successful man, a perfect man. The theme is the attainment of perfection. To make his ideas clear, the speaker has used many symbols. There are symbols like ‘pitch and toss’ (suggesting gambling), ‘force heart, nerve and sinew’ (suggesting gathering of strength) and ‘sixty seconds worth of distance run’ (suggesting delayed reaction). There are fine contrasts in ‘triumph and disaster’, ‘kings and common people’ and ‘friends and foes’. There are conflicts in ‘risking it on one turn of pitch-and-loss’ and ‘loving friends hurting you’.

Pick out other expressions where the poet uses personification. 

a) Triumph and disaster treated as impostors. 

b) Will which says ‘Hold on’. ‘

Unforgiving minutes’ is a metaphoric expression as it refers to time that waits for no man; it is like a race where every second is important. 

Now, identify other metaphoric expressions used in the poem. 

Deal in lies, twisted by knaves, one heap of all your winnings, breathe a word, unforgiving minute, sixty second’s worth of distance

The rising sun makes the glory of the clouds fade. The mist melts away and the glory fades.

The poet describes here the sky and the return of the sun in the morning. It reminds me of a king returning after a long absence  or even my own returning to life in the morning after the night’s sleep.

It is a lyrical poem with four stanzas consisting of four octaves (a group of eight lines). The poem is in rhyme although the rhyming scheme is different in various stanzas. In the first stanza it is aaaa, bcbc. The poet has figurative language with a lot of metaphors, personification, parallelisms, climaxes, etc. It is a didactic poem telling us what to do and what not to do to enjoy life and to be a perfect man.

This is the poetic way of describing the early morning breeze.

It tells us that he is a very adventurous person. He wants to have a first-hand experience of everything – the weather, the smells, the sights, and the people of different countries. He wants to learn about the different customs people have in the countries he visits.

Audit

The inventory management process of regular tracking of equipment procurement, availability and consumption of sports equipment is known as