Q. 1 Read the following passage and
answer the questions that follow: 7M
It is agreed that disasters have become a way of life. We simply can’t
wish them away. Be it earthquakes, cyclones, floods, landslides,
seaerosion or fires. But, we are definitely in a stage to marginalize
their effects. Because these calamities by themselves do not kill
people, it is the structurally deficient buildings that give way burying
within themselves the hapless many.
The recent earthquake in Gujarat has indeed shaken all of us.
Whereas Bhuj, at the epicenter of the quake, has turned into debris,
many a building in Ahmedabad, 400km away, also simply collapsed.
Surprising was the fact that the lower floors of many buildings sank
into the soil. In the cyclone affected coastal Andhra and Orissa,
majority of the houses were razed to the ground due to inadequate
structural provisions. Stories of major fires in buildings in urban
areas are too frequent to be missed by any of us. Why is it that the
same intensity of earthquake in Gujarat killed over 30,000 people and
destroyed over 3.5 lakh houses, and in Seattle with the same
earthquake two weeks later, only one died, that too of heart attack
with no damage to buildings?
The designs without soundness, execution with inferior quality of
material and workmanship and scant attention to safety norms and
disaster resistant features in construction, are all fraught with serious
risk and hazard to both life and property. It is indeed heartening to
note that large number of discerning home owners have already started asking searching questions to the builders if the building is
structurally safe for all situations. This never used to happen earlier.
We need to make safety a movement encompassing all aspects of
structural safety, fire safety, health safety, construction safety and
public safety. We have learnt lessons in a number of places. I do not
think we need any more. It is time we wake up. Let us all join together
to build safer habitat. .
a. On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes using
headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations, wherever
necessary(minimum 4) Also supply an appropriate title to it. 4 m b.
Write a summary of the passage within 80 words 3m
Answers
Answer:
Unseen passage
1. Right from Childhood a human being starts enjoying the pleasure of reading. As a chte
Searns the ways of life through reading and writing. He is thrilled by going through new winte
things and learning through them. Any new lesson that comes his way excites tas emotions by
Eiving his te mand freshness of knowledge Ametle poem about an animal a wide prose about
the toys and a little sentence about society he lives in give him strange pleasure.
2. The pleasure ane derives from reading is indeed recreatives as well as instructive. The mental
effects of reading create a strange sense of pleasure. Reading provides an ecstasy and
intellectual exertion Reading of novels or interesting terature makes a person forget the
womes and cares of we. The reading of a newspaper, a periodical, journal etc. which is light
reading gives the reader knowledge about human we around and solves his curiosity for
knowledge about the world. Newspaper and journals give information about the events taking
place in the world and happenings in the state and the locality a person lives in. The newspaper
also publishes important news and views in the field of economics, politics and science
Reading of newspaper is indispensable for even a little educated citizen in modern society.
3. The reading of novels is the most popular pastime of a large number of people. The attraction
of the novel lies in its ability to create interest, to sustain it and take the reader to the heights
of imagination and luxurious fiction. All fictions are somewhat connected with life and give in
words the pictures drawn from real life or imagination. As such, of all forms of literature novels
are the most popular and interesting. They portray pen pictures from our real life and society
and present the character of the people we see around or wish to see. A novel inspires the
interest and intention of a reader because in it scenes rapidly shift and change and there are
unexpected turns of events giving shocks and shakes to the mind.
A On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the following questions briefly.
a. How does the child learn the ways of his life?
b. What are the two salient feature of reading?
c. How does the reading of a novel inculcate the interest of a reader?
B. Find words from the passage which mean the following.
i Excited with joy
il Essential
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