Question

Q.1. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions
properly:
My journey from the great land of Lord Buddha, Guru Nanak and
Mahatma Gandhi, India to Norway is a connect between the two
centres of global peace and brotherhood, ancient and modern.
Friends, the Nobel Committee has generously invited me to present a
"lecture." Respectfully, I am unable to do that. Because, I am
representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And,
the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are
left behind and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a
reminder. I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our
children - because they are all our children - (gesture to everyone in
the audience). I have looked into their frightened and exhausted eyes.
I have held their injured bodies and felt their broken spirits. Twenty
years ago, in the foothills of the
Himalayas, I met a small, skinny child labourer. He asked me: "Is the
world so poor that it cannot give me a toy and a book, instead of
forcing me to take a gun or a tool?" I met with a Sudanese child-
soldier. He was kidnapped by an extremist militia. As his first training
lesson, he was forced to kill his friends and family. He asked me:
"What is my fault?" Friends, all the great religions teach us to care for
our children. Jesus said: "Let the children come to me; do not hinder
them, for the kingdom of God
belongs to them." The Holy Quran says: "Kill not your children because
of poverty."
1. Explain the term 'the sound of silence'.
Ans.
(1)​

Answer 1

representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And,

the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are

left behind and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a

reminder.

Answer 2

Answer:

the term ' the sound of silence ' means the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."