Question

a. 1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow it:
Engineers seldom get the praise they deserve from the ordinary netán.
Interesting stories for young people have been written about famous
inventors, doctors, travellers and other notable people, but the names of
famous engineers remain largely unknown except to students of technical
Institutions. This is not because engineers have contributed less than those
others to the progress of mankind, but because the details of their
achievements are usually too technical to be understood by the ordinary
reader. A layman without some knowledge of technical terms, as well as some
knowledge of physics and mathematics, would find it difficult to fully
appreciate the greatness of I.K. Brunel and the other famous engineers who
worked on the problems of the early railways - deciding on points like the basic
boiler, the best type of rails, whether the sleepers should be of wood or metal
and whether the rails should be 7 it apart (broad gauge) or 4 ft. 8 % in
(standard gauge) or even less (narrow gauge). The result is that apart from one
or two people like James Watt and George Stephenson, who have been given
the credit accorded to inventors, very little popular appreciation has gone to
other engineers. Even less known or rather, less wondered at, are other feats
of engineering such as the building of tunnels and bridges. We all know about
tunnels especially the railway tunnels which carry railways through hills, but
not many people realise that it is a very difficult task, demanding a lot of
thinking on the part of the engineers, to construct a tunnel in exactly the right
place, going in exactly the right direction, and so strong that there is no danger
of tons of earth falling and burying the people using the tunnel. Bridges, which
we use practically every day, are better known - so well known that it hardly
ever occurs to us that each bridge is a challenge to the skill of the engineer,
who has to study the nature of the site and the soil, the volume of water in the
river to be bridged, etc., before he finally sits down at his desk to work out
technical problems such as the type of bridge
to be used, the precise design and weight of the arches and pillars, and the
kind and amount of steel reinforcement to be used in the concrete, to name a
few
(A) Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the passage.
i) Railway tunnels carry railways
hills.
(i) The names of famous engineers remain largely
and
(iii) Two well-known engineers associated with railways are
and
(iv) Feats of engineering include the building of
(v) Broad gauge rails are
apart
(B) On the basis of the given passage, answer the following questions in brief
(30 - 40 words each), in your own words as far as possible:
(1) Why do ordinary people not appreciate the contribution of engineers?
(it) What did the engineers have to keep in mind while working on the
problems of the early railways?
(ill) What special difficulties are mentioned in connection with the making of
tunnels?
(iv) What sorts of facts does the bridge-builder need to know before he can
build the bridge?
(v) What is the main idea in the passage above?​

Answer 1

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