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MMARKS SECTION-A(RADING) Q.1 Read the passage and on the basis of your understanding of the passage answer the ques given below: Chocolate diamonds are actually brown diamonds and compared to the well-known white diamond they aren't much worth. Diamonds are produced in mines. The best known diamond mines are in Australia South Africa and Russia. The largest diamond mine was discovered in 1976 in the desert of Australia little creek named Lake Argyle Diamonds are created under very extreme conditions of pressure and High temperature. It is a general misunderstanding that there is only white colourless diamonds. Actually diamonds exist in many different colours or all the diamond mines in the world, almost 80% of all diamonds produced are brownish in colour Because they were found in such large quantities compared to the other coloured diamonds, they were considered as low-valued diamonds, only good for the industrial sector, But, a famous man called Levin came with a marketing campaign to increase the popularity of the chocolate diamond. Instead of calling ire brown diamond, he gave it popular names like caramel chocolate, cinnamon and cognac. Since his marketing campaign, chocolate diamonds are becoming very popular The value of a diamond is based on its shape, brightness and colour Because white diamonds are ture, the value is based on the fact that there are not many white diamonds around. But if you look at the shape and brightness, then the brightest diamond in this world known to men is a brown diamond. Before the development of the Argyle Diamond Mine in Australia in 1986, most brown diamonds were considered. worthless for jewellery: they were not even assessed on the diamond colour scale, and were predominant used for industrial purposes. However, marketing strategies changed in the 1980s and brown diamonds have become popular gems. change was mostly due to the supply: the Argyle mine, with its 35 million carats (7.000 kg) of diamonds year, makes about one third of global production of natural diamonds: 80% of Argyle diamonds are bros The percentage of brown diamonds is lower in other mines, but it is almost always a significant part of total production. Consequently, scientific research on causes of brown colour in diamond and ways to it has intensified Questions: (a) The wrong notion about diamonds is that b) Brown diamonds were considered low in value because (c) Brown diamonds became popular owing to (d) The value of a diamond is based on its (e) Why are the white diamonds rare? (1) Name the popular names given to brown diamonds by Le Vian (g) Based on shape and brightness, which is the brightest diamond known to the mankind? (In Find the word from the passage that means a planned set of actions aimed at achieving a partir nesult' Para 2)​

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