Question

4. Rote learning has its own advantages as
(a) it promotes learning without understanding
(b) it does not add pressure to the mental faculties
(c) mugging up can be aural as well as visual
(d) it expands areas of the mind to greater possibilities​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Read the extracts carefully and answer the questions with the help of the given options :

The ceremonies took place in the lovely sandstone amphi theatre formed by Union Buildings in Pretoria. For

decades this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different

colours and nations for the installations of south Africa's first democratic, non racial government.

The ceremonies referred in the first line are the ceremonies held on the occasion of

Nelson Mandela's marriage.

installation of the non-racial government

installation of the racial govemment

inaugration of lovely sandstoneamphi theatre

Rainhhuraathenna manna1. Given the standing of some of its institutions of higher learning, the IITs and IIMs, India is a potential knowledge power. Realising the potential, however, is not going to be easy. The impressive strides made by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) notwithstanding, universal access to quality school education- a minimum necessary condition for any progress towards making India a knowledge society’, as the 2006 report of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) puts it-remains a distant goal

Answer 2

Answer:

.1

.......and felt that old

familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,

but all I said was, see you soon, Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and smile

(a) What was the childhood fear that now troubled the poet?

(b) What do the poet’s parting words suggest?

(c) Why did the poet smile and smile?

(d) Explain, “that old familiar ache.”

Q. 2

.....but soon

put that thought away and

looked out at young

trees sprinting, the merry children spilling

out of their homes……………

(a) What thought did the poet drive away from her mind?

(b) What did she see when she looked out of the car?

(c) How do you know that the joyful scene didn’t help her drive away the painful thought from her mind?

(d) What are the merry children symbolic of?

Q. 3

With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal….

For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes From fog to endless night?”

(a) Who are ‘them’ referred to in the first line? “