Question

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 THE QUESTION

Answer 1

Do It yourself

it is very easy

Answer 2

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.

It was hard to find the answers, so I hope that it will help you.