I know poverty and misery and I quite appreciate by personal experience what it is to be
poor, what it is to have no clothes, what it is to have no books, what it is to struggle through
life, what it is to walk through the streets without an umbrella, without conveyance along
miles on dusty roads. I have been through it all and I can understand the difficulties that most
of you graduates have to face today. I am speaking from a long experience of 60 years. Please
do not imagine that all the 60 years are milk and roses. To be able to accomplish something, I
want to tell you that you have to go through such experiences.
I admit success in life is not always to be intelligent or be strong, and it is to some extent a bit
of a gamble, but those who got their minds right and those who know their job sooner or
later, will sooner perhaps than later make their way in life. But they should not be
disappointed if they do not, they have to face up life and take it as they find it.
What I say is that the great things in life are not really great things in life. What I love is to
enjoy the common things of life. I am happy that I am still able to sleep at night provided I
have three miles walk in the evening. I am still able to enjoy a good lunch or a good dinner. I
am still able to look at the blue sky and like it. I still like to walk in the open fields and like
the smell of the Ragi or the Jowar.
We think that happiness consists of going to pictures and seeing thrilling films and
technicolor dramas. Not at all, the great things in life are the God-given things which cost
nothing. What you need is the desire to appreciate them. If you have your minds and hearts
open, you have around your things which give you joy. There is the butterfly jumping about
in flourishing colors on all sides. Look at the wonderful thing that God has given for our
enjoyment.
We have to love nature and appreciate nature and appreciate her wonderful gifts, of nature’s
marvelous ingenuity, its resourcefulness, and infinite variety. It is the same thing that has
inspired me all my life. 1. How had C.V. Raman’s childhood been difficult? 1X10=10
1. He had lived life as a poor
2. He had access to books only
3. He had to run on the streets
4. He never drank milk as a child
2. Why has life been termed as a gamble?
1. It disappoints you always
2. Life is good to only hardworking people
3. Even an intelligent or strong person is unsure of success
4. CV Raman has lost money in this gamble
3. How does C.V. Raman’s speech inspire us?
1. He told us easy ways to enjoy life
2. He told us one needs to be poor to succeed in life
3. He told us to work day and night
4. He told us that life is never easy
4. What according to C.V Raman consists of happiness?
1. Seeing thrilling films and technicolor dramas
2. Things that cost money
3. God-given gifts which cost nothing
4. A graduate student’s life
5. According to the text, what should we love?
1. Life
2. Gamble
3. C.V Raman
4. Nature
6. Which smell did he like in the fields?
1. Butterflies in fields
2. Ragi and Jowar
3. Dinner
4. Dusty Roads
7. What has inspired C.V Raman all his life?
1. Gamble
2. Family3. Nature
4. Films
8. How many years of experience does C.V Raman have?
1. 6 years
2. 60 years
3. 16 years
4. 66 years
Choose the best option from the words given below which mean the same:
9. despair
1. disappointment
2. hopelessness
3. misery
4. distress
10. endless
1. unlimited
2. continuous
3. infinite
4. unreachable
11. prosperous
1. rich
2. flourishing
3. wealthy
4. fortunate
12. exciting
1. joyful
2. funny
3. exhilarating
4. thrillin
Answers
Answer:
(A)
(a) During his childhood, C. V. Raman had no clothes, no books, no conveyance. He had to walk along miles even without an umbrella.
(b) Life has been termed as a gamble as it is not sure that the intelligent or the strong would certainly succeed in life.
(c) In his speech, C. V. Raman told us the easiest way to enjoy life, i.e., we should enjoy the common things of life, love and appreciate nature, appreciate her wonderful gifts, her marvelous ingenuity, her resourcefulness, her infinite variety.
(d) There is the butterfly jumping about in flourishing colours on all sides, look at this wonderful thing that god has given for our enjoyment.
(B)
(a) (i) Disappointment
(b) (iii) infinite
(c) (ii) flourishing
(d) (iv) thrilling
Plse mark me in brainliest
Explanation:
1 he had lived as a poor
2 even an integer or strong person is an sure of success
3 he told us no need to people work to success in life
4 seeing thrilling films and technicolor dramas
