Question

Part B: Subjective Questions
140 Marks
(5 Marks
Reading
8. Read the passage given below
You may never want to fly kites to keep away evil spirits, as the Chinese have done for
centuries, or to make rain, as the Tibetans did, but some more modern and Western uses may
tempt you to try experimenting yourself along similar lines. The kite has been claimed as the
invention of 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By AD 549. paper kites
were certainly being flown, as it was recorded that in that year a paper kite was used as a
message for a rescue mission. The most widespread use of kites in modern times has been for
meteorological investigations. Everybody knows about how Benjamin Franklin, the great
American scholar and statesman, sent a kite up in 1752 during a thunderstorm to prove that
lightening was caused by electricity. He produced sparks at ground level from a key hung on
the wet line as the current flowed down it. (Do not under any circumstances think of trying
this yourself. A second investigator repeated Franklin's experiment shortly afterwards and
was killed. By sending up instruments on kites, it has been possible to make readings of air
pressure, temperature speed. direction and humidity
Although thermometers had been sent up long before, it was not until 1894 that a
self-reading thermometer-a thermograph-was sent up by a kite. The army, navy and air force
have used kites in various ways for decades. Kites have been used by the army to fly flags, for
aerial photography over enemy trenches, for suspending ares over targets during
night-fighting for carrying men over enemy lines, for dragging torpedos to a target area etc.
They have been used by both military and civil authorities for raising, transmitting and
receiving aerials to obtain improved wireless reception. As a matter of fact, the first long
distance short wave transmission of all made use of an aerial flown on a kite. When Marconi
made the famous transatlantic transmission he raised his receiving aerial some 400 feet on
a kite. But, never fly an aerial in stormy weather or when there are cumulus clouds about.
During the last war, the RAF developed a kite flare' as part of survival equipment for airmen
forced down at sea. When airborce, the lite was attached to a special shock absorber which
was fixed to the dinghy. It was stated that provided there was a 6 miles per hour wind, the
kite would stay aloft indefinitely.
) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and
sub-headings. Use recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary (minimum 4).
Supply an approprate title to it
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(u) Write a summary of the above passage in 80-100 words
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Answer 1

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