A Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular
role. Whatever I have achieved is through his help, an expression of his will. He showered his
grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues. All these missiles and rockets
are his work through a small man called Kalam, in order to tell several million Indians to
never feel small or helpless. We are all bom with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to
give wings to these and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
My science teacher Sivasubram aniam lyer, though an orthodox brahmin, with a very
conservative wife, was something of a rebel.He did his best to break social barriers so that
people from various backgrounds could mingle freely. One day he invited me home for
lunch. His wife was homified at the idea of serving me at her spiritually pure kitchen, but Iyer
was not perturbed Nor did he get angry with his wife, instead served me with his own hands
I wondered whether she observed any difference in the way I ate or drank.He invited me to
lunch again over the next weekend. Observing my besitation, he said, “Once you decide to
change the system, such problems have to be confronted. "When I visited the next weekend.
Iyer's wife took me into her kitchen and served me with her own hands.
1. Answer the following questions.
a) What qualities of Dr. Kalam are reflected in the passage?
b) What is the difference between Kalam's Science teacher's and his wife's
attitude?
c) How did Mrs lyer feel when Kalam came to their house for lunch?
d) What advice did Mr Iyer give to Kalam?
2. Find the synonym of the following words from the passage.
a) revolutionary b) righteousness c)conservative d) troubled
3. Find the antonym of the following words from the passage.
a) unexceptional b) powerful c) impure d) mortal
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Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June, 1953 in Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty was the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. 3.
An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the system through photosynthesis and is incorporated into plant tissue. By feeding on plants and on one another, animals play an important role in the movement of matter and energy through the system. They also influence the quantity of plant and microbial biomass present. By breaking down dead organic matter, decomposers release carbon back to the atmosphere and facilitate nutrient cycling by converting nutrients stored in dead biomass back to a form that can be readily used by plants and other microbes.