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All are requested to strictly adhere to the time and submit the paper within the given time.
Students have to use ruled sheets of any register for answer sheets.
Write down the answers only on the answers sheets.
Students have to keep the answer sheets safely with them. The answer sheets will be submitted
in the school when exams will get over. All the answer sheets are to be signed by the parents.
The students will write page no, on each page and take the photograph after completing the
paper. The page nos are to be marked as:- Ir 4 pages are used, then each will be marked as
1/4, 274,3/4, 4/4
Take clear picture of each page and send the answer sheet in pdf form (with your name written
on it)or in simple image form.
All are hereby instructed to recheck all the answer before sending on WhatsApp to the Sub-
Teacher as once the pdr is received by the teacher, the other copy of the pdf will not be
accepted.
Read the question paper carefully. All questions are compulsory. Write correct number of the
questions.
Read the passage given below and answers the questions that follow
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A newborn baby appears to be sleeping almost all the time. But as it grows up, its pattern of
sleep changes. It sleeps less and less and awake longer. Well, our sleep habits have changed
over the last century or so and we do not get as much sleep as we ought to have.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, people went to bed early soon after it was dark. They had
nothing to do in the evenings, and their sleep habits were fixed by the alternation of day and
night, light and darkness. They woke up by daybreak, and thus they could get nine hours of
sleep on an average.
Today, the situation has changed. People , especially in industrialised countries, get less than
eight hours of sleep per day, many of them believe that six hours of sleep is enough for them.
According to biologists and specialists in sleep disorders, a large number of people are not
sleeping enough and thus sleep deficit affects their health and their performance.
How did this change in our sleep habits come about ? one cause was the introduction of the
light bulb. When the electric bulb came into common use people could work till late in the
evening or even till midnight. As the life of a civilised community became more complex,
people began to deprive themselves of sleep in order to squeeze their busy schedule into the late
evening hours. Many factories introduced the shift system, by which people work in 8 hour
cycles by rotation. A worker who has been working 8am to 4pm during one month is asked to
work from midnight till 8am during the next month. The human brain cannot adopt easily to
such a different sleep time and as a result, the worker loses his sleep till the new pattem is
established.
Experiments, where people have stayed awake for days at a time show that they soon become
tired, confused, irritable and eventually ill, with headaches and increased risk of infections and
accidents. Many people who suffer from sleeplessness (insomnia) are worried or anxious or
depressed.
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Research has shown that the performance of people suffers if they are deprived of sleep. They
cannot concentrate, they cannot absorb what they are reading, they cannot make calculations,
they make mistakes, some traffic accidents can be traced to drivers falling asleep while at the
wheel Sleep deprived people cannot be alert, and this lead to accidents in factories when such
people lose their concentration while monitoring machines.
6. People should learn to sleep more. One way is to take siesta in the afternoon, as people often do
in tropical countries. Extra sleep during weekends, can help, but where there has been severe
deprivation it may take a long time to make up for lost sleep. The most sensible thing to do
would be to go back to our old time habit and sleep an hour longer every night.
On tho hosis of your understanding of the passage answer the following questions. (1x4-4)

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