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Q1 Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions given below:
10 marks
Since ancient times, the pearl has been a symbol of unblemished perfection. It is the oldest gem and for
centuries it was considered the most beautiful. The Latin word for pearl literally means 'unique', stating
that no two pearls are identical. Pearls have been considered as ideal wedding gifts because they
symbolize purity and innocence. Most gems like sapphire, topaz, ruby, diamond etc are minerals that
are mined from beneath the earth, but pearl is formed inside the shell of an oyster. Mineral gems are
hard but pearl soft other gems need to be coated and polished to bring out their beauty but pearl looks
beautiful even in its original form in the form it is extracted from the oyster from the sea or from the
mussel from the river. How are pearls formed? The formation of pearl is an interesting phenomenon
Oysters and other mollusks live in water. They have two shells, joined together with a hinge. These sells
keep opening and closing, allowing water to pass in and out of them so that the oyster inside can eat
and breathe. Sometimes a foreign particle like a sand grain or a tiny parasite or a bit of broken shell
enters the oyster's shell and lodges itself in the soft body, causing it irritation. When the oyster is unable
to get, rid of this irritant, it secretes a substance called nacre, which forms a coating over the foreign
particle to make it less dangerous to the soft tissues of the oyster. Gradually successive layers of nacre
are deposited over the foreign particle until it is fully enclosed in the substance, thus forming the pearl.
It is the quality of the lustre and the colour of the nacre that decides the value of the pearl because the
pearl also has the same lustre and colour as the lining of the shell of the mollusc. Rare and valuable
pearls come from some species of oysters and other molluscs that live in the sea.
Thousands of oysters have to be collected to produce a handful of pearls. This is the reason natural
pearls are extraordinary expensive. Until the 1940s pearl oysters were mainly found int he Persian Gulf
near the Island of Bahrain. Some of the natural pearl oyster beds were located in the South Pacific
Ocean. Must of the pearls used in jewellery are cultured pearls and not natural pearls. A cultured pearl is
a biological product of the pearl oyster as the natural pearl in women all over the world are fond of pearl
jewellery. answer answer the following question question number 1 how are perilous different from gems and why are perilous considerate and the the idle wedding wedding gift question number 2 what decide the the value of pearls व्हाई आर नेचुरल पार्क एक्सपेंसिव ​

Answer 1

Answer:

What is this bhai bol na please bhai