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Topic: My Childhood
Marks: 30
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Q1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (5 marks):
(1) The funding crisis at many zoos has reopened the debate over the value of zoos and whether they should be allowed to
exist at all.
(2) People who are in favour of zoos argue that they perform an essential role in conserving rare animal species.
Conservationists estimate that today at least 1,000 species of animals are threatened. Over the past 20 years, zoos have
developed programmes designed to help preserve endangered species. This involves breeding animals in captivity in
‘captive breeding programmes’ and then reintroducing them into their natural habitats, to replenish the number living in
the wild.
(3) Zoos cooperate with each other in order to ensure the success of their breeding programmes. Animals are passed from
one zoo to another in order to prevent inbreeding. If animals that are closely related to one another mate, there is a danger
that they will produce deformed offspring.
(4) If zoos were forced to close, it would be disastrous for world conservation, say zoo supporters, adding that most animals
in captivity would have to be killed.
(5) According to the National Federation of Zoos, it does not take much imagination to realise that the closure of all zoos
would mean the deliberate destruction of wildlife on a scale never before witnessed.
(6) Opponents of zoos accept that some species have been saved from extinction by the captive breeding programmes, but
they argue that this offers no solution to the worldwide conservation crisis.
(7) The number of animals protected by zoos is tiny compared with the overall problem. It costs millions to save the Arabian
oryx from dying out; but could that amount be available for every species that is endangered? The value of zoo-breeding
programmes is also questioned as some species, such as the African elephant, do not reproduce well in captivity.
(8) Captive animals are often kept in poor and inhumane conditions, the opponents say. In the worst zoos, animals are still
displayed for the purpose of public entertainment. When animals are placed in impoverished and unsuitable surroundings,
they often behave in abnormal and neurotic ways. It is common for polar bears to constantly pace up and down or twist
their heads. This behaviour is now recognised by scientists as a sign of stress and frustration.
(9) When children visit zoos where animals are acting in neurotic and abnormal ways, they are not being educated. Instead,
opponents say, they are being given information that is inaccurate.
Questions:
1. Which of the following explains the word ‘opponent’?
(a) A person who advises others
(b) A person who engages in a fight
(c) A person who supports something or someone (d) A person who disagrees with something or someone
2. Based on your reading of the passage, choose the incorrect statement from the following.
(a) The number of animals protected by zoos is tiny compared with the overall problem.
(b) It is common for polar bears to constantly pace up and down or twist their head.
(c) Conservationists estimate that today at least 1,000 species of animals are threatened.
(d) Animals are passed from one zoo to another in order to prevent infection.
3. Why do opponents say that the children are not being educated by visiting zoos?
(a) Because animals are displayed only for the purpose of public entertainment
(b) Because animals are placed in impoverished and suitable surroundings
(c) Because the children are provided with inaccurate information about the way animals act
(d) All of these
4. What has reopened the debate over the values of zoos?
(a) Existence of many zoos
(b) Funding crisis at many zoos
(c) Cruelty towards animals
(d) None of these
5. Why do zoos cooperate with each other?
(a) To help preserve endangered species
(b) To ensure the success of their breeding programmes
(c) To conserve rare animal species
(d) None of these
Q2. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow (8 marks):
A. I do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day, but I am quite certain that far more outsiders ate with us
than all the members of our own family put together.
Questions:
1. Who is speaker of these lines?
(a) Jainulabdeen, Kalam's father
(b) Kalam's mother
(c) Kalam himself
(d) Kalam's cousin
Address: D/4, Old Ashok Nagar, Opp. Ganesh Mandir Lane, Vazira Naka, Borivali (West), Mumbai – 400091.
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2. Who is "she" in these lines?
(a) Kalam's sister
(b) Kalam's mother Ashiamma
(c) A maid-servant at Kalam's house
(d) A woman from Kalam's neighbourhood
3. What do these lines tell us about "she"?
(a) She was a very kind-hearted and generous woman.
(b) She didn't pay any attention to the outsiders.
(c) She took care of only her own family.
(d) She was neither kind-hearted nor generous.
4. What did the speaker learn from this habit of 'she'?
(a) The speaker learnt nothing from this habit of 'she'.
(b) The speaker learnt to have faith in goodness and have innate kindness.
(c) The speaker learnt how to work hard without complaining.
(d) The speaker learnt the importance of dignity of labour.
B.
After school, we went home and told our respective parents about the incident. Lakshmana Sastry summoned the
teacher, and in our presence, told the teacher that he should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal
intolerance in the minds of innocent children. He bluntly asked the teacher to either apologise or quit the school and
the island.
Questions:
1. Who are "We" in the first line?
(a) Kalam and his father
(b) Kalam and Ramanandha Sastry
(c) Kalam and his class-mates
(d) Kalam and his neighbours
2. Why did Lakshmana Sastry summon the teacher?
(a) The teacher was not teaching sincerely and didn't have the subject knowledge also.
(b) He was punishing the children by beating them up.
(c) He was very rude and harsh with the students.
(d) He had tried to create a divide in the children on the basis of social status and religion.
3. What do these lines tell us about Lakshmana Sastry?
(a) He was a great scholar.
(b) He did not believe in communalism and social inequality.
(c) He didn't respect teachers.
(d) He was biased towards his son.
4. What was the effect of this incident on the teacher?
(a) He left the school.
(b) He was not affected by this incident.
(c) He continued his habit of discriminating against the children.
(d) He reformed himself and became a changed person.
Q3. Answer the following in 40 – 50 words (3 marks):
1. Right from his childhood Kalam was very enterprising. Comment.
Q4. Answer the following in 100 – 120 words (6 marks):
1. When Sivasubramania told Kalam, “Once, you decide to change the system, such problems have to be
confronted”. What system was he referring to? What are “such problems”? What values did he want to teach
Kalam?
Q5. Attempt the following questions (3 marks):
i. The higher you go, the more difficult it _____ to breathe.
(a) had become
(b) becomes
(c) is becoming
(d) became
(c) shall
(d) can
ii. I _____ go on with the work, cause what may.
(a) may
(b) will
iii. Had the police not reached there in time, the bandits _____ him.
(a) did have killed
(b) will have killed
(c) would kill
(d) would have killed
Q6. Write a short story based on the given outline or cue/s in about 150-200 words. (5 marks):
Meena could hear her mother calling her to the kitchen. But she was too lazy to leave her warm bed on a rainy Sunday
morning. Meena was left mouth-gaped when she saw her mother from the threshold of the kitchen. “Oh! Mother ...”
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