Read the following passage and answer the questions:Like most doctors’ children, I had from my earliest schooldays come to look upon a medical qualification like a hereditary title. Graduating from the medical college seemed a future occurrence over which I had no control. In fact, neither my parents nor myself contemplated my earning a living by any other means. Long ago, my father had abandoned his hope of becoming a great surgeon. The large and completely unused set of surgical instruments that my father kept in his consulting-room had been stowed away at the bottom of a tall cupboard in the corner. There it had become silted over with old medical journals, out-of-date diaries and bright advertisements from the big drug firmsthat he had slung in there from time to time. Occasionally, rummaging his way through the dusty papers, he would uncover the box and feel a faint glow of frustration. The surgical instruments were an expensive gift from his admiring mother the day he qualified as a doctor. My father sometimes wondered timidlyif I might fulfil his own surgical hopes, but experience had made him guarded in predicting his son’s future. I had certainly not demonstrated in adolescence any aptitude for my already settled career. Up to the age of six, I had a habit of pulling to pieces birds and small mammals ingeniously trapped in our garden. This was thought by my parents indicative of a natural inclination towards the biological sciences. The practice of medicine was to me no more than a succession of mysterious people coming twice a day through the frontdoor of our house, and the faint tang of antiseptic which hung about the air in my father’s chamber. As long as I could remember, the smell of antiseptic had been in my nostrils like the scent of the sea to a fisherman’s son.I did qualify as a doctor andit wasa terribly exciting experience. Before my medical diploma had uncurled from its cardboard wrapper, I was prancing through the streets. I scattered prescriptions like snowflakes, and squandered my now precious opinion on relatives, friends and even people not looking very well who happened to sit opposite me in trains. An appeal for a doctor at a restaurant or theatre would have brought me from my seat like a kangaroo. (FROM DOCTOR IN THE HOUSEAND DOCTOR AT LARGEBY RICHARD GORDON)A.Provide evidence from the passage to show that the narrator’s father only rarely dwelt on his own failure to become a surgeon. (3)
B.As a child, the narrator had a rather vague and simplistic idea about the medical profession. Would you agree? Justify your answer by referring to the passage. (2)C.Choose the correct option: (1x3=3)i.‘Like most doctors’ children, I had from my earliest schooldays come to look upon a medical qualification like a hereditary title.’ This statement implies that a.mostdoctors’ children inherited the title ‘Doctor’.b.it was believed that most doctors’ children became doctors when they grew up.c.the doctor’s job is like that of a hereditary ruler. ii.‘In fact, neither my parents nor myself contemplated my earning a living by any other means.’ In the passage this statement implies that a.it was a foregone conclusion in the narrator’s family that the narrator would become a doctor.b.the narrator and his parents were not confident that he would be able to earn a living.c.the narrator’s parents had given up the hope that their son would qualify as a doctor.iii.‘An appeal for a doctor at a restaurant or theatre would have brought me from my seat like a kangaroo.’ This statement suggests that the narrator a.was unable to walk normally.b.hopped like a kangaroo.c.was too eager to show off his freshly acquired medical skills.D.State whether the following statements are Trueor False and QUOTE an ENTIRE SENTENCE from the passage in support of your answer. (1.5x2=3) i.The narrator’s grandmother had harboured the hope that her son would become a surgeon.ii.The narrator’s father was cautious about anticipating his son’s future. E.Find a word in the third paragraph of the passage which means ‘in a clever and original way’. (1)
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ಪರಿಸರವು ಭೂಮಿಯ ಮೇಲಿನ ನಮ್ಮ ಸುತ್ತಲಿನ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ವಸ್ತುಗಳು. ನಾವು ನೋಡುವುದು, ಅನುಭವಿಸುವುದು, ಉಸಿರಾಡುವುದು, ತಿನ್ನುವುದು ಪರಿಸರವನ್ನು ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಮರಗಳು, ಗಾಳಿ, ಆಹಾರ, ಜಲಮಾರ್ಗಗಳು, ಬೀದಿಗಳು, ಸಸ್ಯ ಜೀವನ, ಅರಣ್ಯನಾಶವಾದ ನೆಲದ ತೇಪೆಗಳು ಇವೆಲ್ಲವೂ ಸೇರಿ ಪರಿಸರ ರೂಪುಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ.
ಪರಿಸರವು ನಮ್ಮ ದಿನನಿತ್ಯದ ದಿನಚರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ವಿವಿಧ ಮೂಲಗಳ ಅಸ್ತಿತ್ವವನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಹಿಡಿಯುತ್ತದೆ. ಪರಿಸರವು ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಜಾತಿಗಳ ಸಹಿಷ್ಣುತೆಯನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ, ನಾವು ಒಟ್ಟಾರೆಯಾಗಿ ಅವಲಂಬಿಸಿರುವ ಪರಿಸರವನ್ನು ಅರ್ಥಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆಯಿದೆ. ನೈಸರ್ಗಿಕ ಜೀವನ ವಿಧಾನ, ದ್ಯುತಿಸಂಶ್ಲೇಷಣೆಯ ಚಕ್ರ, ಹೀಗೆ ಸಸ್ಯಗಳ ಸಹಿಷ್ಣುತೆಯ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಚಕ್ರಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುಗುಣವಾಗಿ, ಸಸ್ಯಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಸಹಿಷ್ಣುತೆಯ ಉದ್ದೇಶಗಳಾಗಿವೆ.
ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯವು ನಾವು ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಪರಿಸರವನ್ನು ಕಲುಷಿತಗೊಳಿಸುವುದರ ಕುರಿತಾಗಿದೆ, ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಬಹುಮುಖ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಮಾನವ ಜಾತಿಯು ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಸರಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾನಿಯನ್ನು ಉಂಟುಮಾಡುವ ಕೆಲಸದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಪರಿಸರವನ್ನು ಸರಿಯಾದ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳದೆ ಇರುವುದು ಹಾಗೂ ಅತಿಯಾದ ಬಳಕೆ ಅಭಾವವನ್ನು ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡಿದೆ. ಉದಾಹರಣೆಗೆ ವ್ಯರ್ಥವಾಗಿ ನೀರನ್ನು ಪೋಲು ಮಾಡುವುದರಿಂದ ನೀರಿನ ಅಭಾವವು ಸೃಷ್ಠಿಯಾಗಿದೆ.
ಉತ್ಪಾದನಾ ಕಾರ್ಖಾನೆಗಳು, ವಾಹನಗಳು, ಕಾರುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಮುಂತಾದವುಗಳಿಂದ ಹೊಗೆಯು ವಾಯು ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಗಮನಾರ್ಹ ಉದಾಹರಣೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲದೆ, ಶಬ್ಧ ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯ, ನೀರಿನ ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯ, ಓಝೋನ್ ಪದರದ ಹಾನಿ , ನೀರಿನ ಸೋರಿಕೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಮುಂತಾದ ಕಾಯಿಲೆಗಳು ಈ ಹಂತದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಸಾಧಾರಣವಾಗಿ ತುರ್ತಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆ ಕೊಡಬೇಕಾದ ಅಂಶಗಳಾಗಿವೆ.
ಪರಿಸರವು ಅನುಭವಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ದುಷ್ಪರಿಣಾಮಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಹೊರತರುವ ಅವಶ್ಯಕತೆಯಿದೆ. ಪರಿಸರ