Read the following passage carefully
Nehru said,’ I like being with children and talking to them and, even more, playing with them. If
you were with me, I would love to talk to you about this beautiful world of ours, about flowers,
trees, birds, animals, stars, mountains, glaciers and all the other beautiful things that surround us in
the world. We have all this beauty all around us and yet, we, who are grown-ups, often forget about
it and lose ourselves in our arguments or in our quarrels. We sit in our offices and imagine that we
are doing very important work. I hope you will be more sensible and open your eyes and ears to
this beauty and life that surrounds you. Can you recognize the flowers by their names and the birds
by their singing? How easy it is to make friends with them and with everything in nature, if you go
to them affectionately and with friendship. Grown-ups have a strange way of putting themselves in
compartments and groups. They build barriers of religion, caste, colour, party, nation, province,
language, customs of rich and poor. Thus they live in prisons of their own making. Fortunately,
children do not know much about these barriers, which separate. They play and work with eachother and it is only when they grow up that they begin to learn about these barriers from their
elders. I hope you will take a long time in growing up.’
Chacha Nehru loved flowers as much as he loved children. In his most familiar photograph he is
always wearing a red rose close to his heart. The story goes that he started to and eventually got
accustomed to tucking the flower to his jacket, when a little girl courageously came too close and
tucked it on his jacket at a function. In fact, he often compared the two saying that children were
like the buds in a garden who needed to be cared, nurtured and loved, as they were the future and
foundation of a nation.
Read the questions given below and write the option you consider the most appropriate in your
answer sheet.
i) The barriers that adults build are-
a) Barriers of knowledge c) barriers of ego
b) Colour, religion and caste d) all of the above.
ii) Adults live in-
a) Prisons of their own making c) the ego spaces they create
b) Their homes d) houses made of glass
iii) What do ‘Grown-ups’ do?
a) Grown-ups lose themselves in arguments or in quarrels.
b) They think they know everything
c) They don’t think like children
d) They do not appreciate things around
iv) He started wearing a red rose in his coat-
a) Because he liked red roses c) a child put it for him in a party
b) His family wanted him to wear it d) it made him look smart
v) Nehru compares children to-
a) Flowers c) birds
b) Buds d) everything nice that is around
vi) Where does he wear a red rose?
a) Daily routine b) in most familiar picture
vii) Make a sentence of the word “Tucked”
viii) Make a sentence of the word “Nurtured”
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answer 1:- b) colour, religion and caste.
answer2:-a) prisons of their own making
answer3:- a) grown-ups lose themselves in arguments Or in quarrals .
answer4:- c) a child put it for him in the party
answer5:- b) buds
answer6:-b) in the most familiar photo
answer7:- A girl tucked a flower in her hair which she plucked from my garden.
answer8:- I nurtured my sister from being kidnapped.
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