Based on your reading "The making of a scientist" Suggest two ways by which scientific temprament can be developed in a child ?
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Answer:
following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Question 1.
So he did, and did he ever! Beginning in kindergarten, Ebright collected butterflies with same determination that has marked all his activities.
(a) What does ‘he did’ in the extract refer to?
(b) What else did he collect other than butterflies?
(c) Find a word from the extract which means ‘resolutenesss’.
(d) What is the opposite of ‘Beginning’?
Answer:
(a) ‘he did’ refers to Richard’s habit of collecting various things.
(b) He collected fossils, coins and rocks other than butterflies.
(c) ‘Determination’ is a word from the extract which means ‘resoluteness’.
(d) Its opposite is ‘Ending’
Question 2.
He would catch a female monarch, take her eggs, and raise them in his basement through their life cycle
(a) Who is ‘he’ in this extract?
(b) Why does he raise butterflies?
(c) Find a synonym for the word ‘rear’ from the extract given above.
(d) What part of speech is ‘them’?
Answer:
(a) Richard Ebright is ‘he’ in this extract.
(b) He raised butterflies to study their migration pattern.
(c) ‘Raise’ is the synonym of‘rear’ from the extract.
(d) It is a pronoun
Question 3.
“It was really a sad feeling to sit there and not get anything while everybody else had won something.”
(a) Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(b) Where was he competing at?
(c) Find a word from the extract which is the opposite of ‘nobody’.
(d) Write a synonym of ‘sad’.
Answer:
(a) Richard Ebright is the speaker of the above lines.
(b) He was competing at a county science fair.
(c) ‘Everybody’ is the opposite of ‘nobody’ from the extract.
(d) Its synonym is ‘Gloomy’.
Question 4.
If the theory proves correct, it will be a big step towards understanding the processes of life. [CBSE 2012]
(a) What is the theory about?
(b) Who proposed the theory?
(c) Which part of speech is ‘life’ as used in the given extract?
(d) Give a synonym of ‘correct’.
Answer:
(a) The theory is about how cells read their DNA.
(b) The theory was proposed by Richard Ebright and his friend James R. Wong.
(c) It is used as a noun.
(d) Its synonym is ‘right’.
Short Answer Type Questions [2 Marks each]
Question 1.
What rare achievement did Richard manage at the age of twenty-two?
Answer:
Richard had a rare honour at the age of twenty-two. He wrote an article with his friend about a theory of how cells work. The article was published in the scientific journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.’ No one had this achievement at such a young age before him.
Question 2.
Richard became a collector at an early age. How?
Answer:
Richard was the only child of his parents. He had no company at home to play with. So, he started collecting things in his spare time. He would collect coins, fossils, rocks and butterflies as a hobby.
Question 3.
Comment on the role played by Richard’s mother in his success.
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How did Ebright’s mother help him in becoming a scientist? [CBSE 2015]
Answer:
Richard’s mother made Richard the centre of her life. She would buy microscopes, telescopes and books for him. She arranged trips for him and would also prepare difficult tasks for him. This helped him to learn a lot.
Question 4.
How did ‘The Travels of Monarch X’ prove a turning point in his life?
Answer:
Richard was bored with collecting butterflies. At this time, his mother got the book ‘The Travels of Monarch X’ for him. After reading the book, he studied the migration of butterflies and it opened the world of science to him.
Question 5.
Why did Richard lose interest in tagging butterflies?
Answer:
Richard raised thousands of butterflies, tagged them and released them to study their migration. But soon, he lost interest because only two of his tagged butterflies were returned to him and they had travelled only seventy-five miles.
Question 6.
Which project did Richard undertake in the eighth grade?
Answer:
Richard undertook the project to find the cause of a viral fever that had killed thousands of butterflies. He thought that a beetle might carry the virus although he was not able to prove it.
Answer: Every child is born with more or less scientific temperament inside. This temperament can be further developed by providing him with related toys and games and supporting his experiments like Ebrights mother had done . Besides parents can encourage their children by asking questions and replying with satisfactory answers.