Answer the following questions :
(a) What is the condition of the Negro people? -
(b) Where do Dr. King's dreams have their roots?
(c) How can the disputes of the nation be removed?
(d) What will happen if people let freedom ring?
(e) Which one of Dr. King's dream do you appreciate most? Why?
a) The Negro people are still chained to racial discrimination and social injusticE- They are exiled, segnegated and living in extreme poverty. Thus, in the passage their miserable condition is explained.
b) Dr. King's dreams have their roots in the American dream.
c) The disputes of the nation can be removed through uprooting racial discrimination existing in the Amreican society and through creating a beautiful symphony of fraternity among all people and through building equality and justice between the blacks and the whites.
d) If people let freedom ring, all people of America, the black or the white, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last!"
e) I appreciate Dr. King's fourth dream the most. The dream is that his children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but the content of their character. I appreciate it because through the dream Dr. King has given importance to the true identity of human beings and it is for their qualities.
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :The word ‘resource’ stands for-
- What could be the closest meaning for ‘numerous’?
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :What could be the closest meaning of the word ‘constitute’ in the first sentence?
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :Scenic spot' refers to -
- Which of the following statements is false?
- d. The statement 'every valley shall be exalted' means that -.
- What is the synonym of ' Companion'?
- As an advocate of human dignity Mandela's role was
- Meditation has been a part of some religious traditions sincE-.....
- The word 'society' can be synonymous to ............
- The word 'rocket' in the second passage is...
- What does the word ‘picturesque’ in the passage refer to?
- Road no. 32 is a _____
- Answer the following questions :What is the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. expressed in the first four lines of the text?One day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low.' Explain in your own wordsThis is the faith that 1 will go back to the south with.” What is the faith of Martin Luther King Jr.?What, according to Martin Luther King Jr., will be the use of this faith?
- 'Schooling' means-
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.According to some myths and legends, Gazi Pir was a Muslim saint who is said to have spread Islam in the parts of Bengal close to the Sundarbans. He was credited with many miracles. For example, he could supposedly calm dangerous animals and make them docilE- He is usually depicted in paats or scroll paintings riding a fierce-looking Bengal tiger, a snake in his hand, but in no apparent danger. According to some stories, he also fought crocodiles who threatened the people of a region full of canals and creeks, indeed, a kind of watery jungle bordering the Bay of Bengal. Because of his alert and vigilant presence, all predatory animals were said to have been kept within bounds. It was also believed that he enabled villagers to live close to forests and jungles and cultivate their lands. Consequently, people of these regions would pray to him for protection. The story of Gazi Pir has been preserved in folk literature as well as art and has been performed in indigenous theatrE- In fact, some Gazir paat scrolls are part of the collection of the British Museum..
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B. Valentina Tereshkova was born in a village in Central Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. At the age of eight she began her schooling but did not enjoy it much. She left the school within a few years. Afterwards she completed her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aero club, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human being to travel to outer space in April 1961, the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in spacE- On 16 February 1962, "proletaria" Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more than four hundred applicants. Tereshkova had to undergo aseries of training that included weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory, spacecraft engineering, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in MiG-15UTI jet fighters. Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began preparing for her own flight. On the morning of 16 June 1963, Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication and life support checks, she was sealed inside Vostok 6. Finishing a two-hour countdown, Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.The river Buriganga is an example of a dying river. A report published in the Daily Sun describes what has happened to the river Buriganga and why. Its water is polluted and a perpetual stench fills the air around it. But that is not what it was like beforE- The report says that the river had a glorious past. Once it was a tributary of the mighty Ganges and flowed into the Bay of Bengal through the river Dhaleshwari. Gradually, it lost its link with the Ganges and got the name Buriganga. The Mughals marvelled at the tide level of the Buriganga and founded their capital Jahangirnagar on its banks in 1610. The river supplied drinking water and supported trade and commercE- Jahangirnagar was renamed Dhaka which grew into a heavily populated city with a chronic shortage of spacE- The city paid back the bounty of the river by sucking life out of it. According to newspaper report, the Buriganga is dying because of pollution. Huge quantities of toxic chemicals and wastes from mills and factories, hospitals and clinics and households and other establishments are dumped into the river everyday. The city of Dhaka discharges about 4500 tons of solid waste everyday and most of it is directly released into the Buriganga. According to the Department of the Environment (DoE), 20,000 tons of tannery waste, including some highly toxic materials, are released into the river everyday. Experts identified nine industrial areas in and around the capital city as the primary sources of river pollution: Tongi, Tejgaon, Hazaribagh, Tarabo, Narayanganj, Savar, Gazipur, Dhaka Export Processing Zone and Ghorashal. The river would need a monster's stomach to digest all the wastes mentioned abovE- There is a limit up to which it can put up with its cruel and thoughtless treatment. We the humans have successfully killed one of our rivers. There are other rivers in the country, that are being subjected to similar thoughtless treatment. Unless we take care of our rivers, there may come a time when we will cry 'water', water' and find it nowherE-.
- 'The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has comE-'The word 'chasms' indicates here
- What does the word "disguised " mean in the passage?
- Answer the following questions :(a) Why has Valentina Tereshkova been described as 'proletaria'? (b) What do you know about Tereshkova's early life? (c) What led to the selection of Tereshkova as a cosmonaut?(d) Describe the trainings Tereshkova had to undergo to prepare herself for the flight.(e) When and how was Vostok-6 launched?
- Spending money may make us..
- The word 'psychological' in the text could be best replaced by
- The word inspires us to be-
- The word 'appréciate' means---
- The best synonym of 'predatory' is-
- Buriganga is on death-bed due to-
- Answer the following questions :What do you mean by 'etiquette' and ‘manners’?What have we been taught as a child to do when we are in company?Manner can be good or bad. Explain the statement.Where do we learn etiquette and manners from? Why do we have to be careful about etiquette and manners?
- The word 'cognitive' means-
- Kuakata is also a holy place for the-
- Answer the following questions :(a) How could the authoress picture Jerry when he was only four? (b) What is 'integrity'?(c). Why did Jerry refuse to take money when the ax handle broke?(d) What unnecessary gracious things did Jerry do for the authoress?(e) How did Jerry say 'thank you' to the narrator? What do you understand by this kind of expression about Jerry's character?
- Puzzling over the content of a dream' --- What does it imply?
- Answer the following questions :What do you mean by folk music, according to the text?What does folk music reflect?How are mystical songs composed of?What makes the Bhatiyali an important genre?What are the reasons of great variety in folk music
- Emotional health is needed in ____
- The best synonym of 'instinct' is ---
- He had a colourful lifE- Here 'colourful' means----
- The orphanage, half a mile beyond the farm. Here the word 'beyond' is.....
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :What does a man pursue?
- Which of the following is the correct meaning of 'unravel' used in the passage
- Adolescents are in danger of-.