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1. Read the passage given below and answer any ten questions that follow - (10 X 1 = 10) I know poverty and misery and I quite appreciate by personal experience what it is to be poor, what it is to have no clothes, what it is to have no books, what it is to struggle through life, what it is to walk through the streets without an umbrella, without conveyance along miles on dusty roads. I have been through it all and I can understand the difficulties that most of you graduates have to face today. I am speaking from a long experience of 60 years. Please do not imagine that all the 60 years are milk and roses. To be able to accomplish something, I want to tell you that you have to go through such experiences. I admit success in life is not always to be intelligent or be strong, and it is to some extent a bit of a gamble, but those who got their minds right and those who know their job sooner or later, will sooner perhaps than later make their way in life. But they should not be disappointed if they do not, they have to face up life and take it as they find it. What I say is that the great things in life are not really great things in life. What I love is to enjoy the common things of life. I am happy that I am still able to sleep at night provided I have three miles walk in the evening. I am still able to enjoy a good lunch or a good dinner. I am still able to look at the blue sky and like it. I still like to walk in the open fields and like the smell of the Ragi or the Jowar. We think that happiness consists of going to pictures and seeing thrilling films and technicolur dramas. Not at all, the
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Q. 1 Answer any four of the following questions briefly:

  1. How had C.V. Raman’s childhood been difficult?
  2. Why has life been termed as a gamble?
  3. How does C.V. Raman’s speech inspire us?
  4. What instances, quoted by C.V. Raman in his speech, show that he was a nature lover?
  5. According to C.V. Raman, where can we seek real happiness and where can it not be found?

Answer

  1. During his childhood, C.V. Raman had no clothes, no books, no conveyance. He had to walk along miles even without an umbrella.
  2. Life has been termed as a gamble as it is not sure that the intelligent or the strong would certainly succeed in life.
  3. In his speech, C.V. Raman told us the easiest way to enjoy life, we should enjoy the common things of life, love and appreciate nature, appreciate its wonderful gifts, marvellous ingenuity, resourcefulness, and infinite variety.
  4. There is the butterfly jumping about in flourishing colors on all sides, look at this wonderful thing that God has given for our enjoyment.
  5. We can seek happiness in all the God-given things which cost nothing. Happiness can never be found in artificial things like going to pictures and seeing thrilling films.

Q. 2 Choose the best option from the words given below which mean the same as:

  1. despair
    1. disappointment
    2. hopelessness
    3. misery
    4. distress
  2. endless
    1. unlimited
    2. continuous
    3. infinite
    4. unreachable
  3. prosperous
    1. rich
    2. flourishing
    3. wealthy
    4. fortunate
  4. exciting
    1. joyful
    2. funny
    3. exhilarating
    4. thrilling
  5. nonetheless
    1. but
    2. and
    3. still
    4. although

Answer

  1. disappointment
  2. infinite
  3. flourishing
  4. thrilling
  5. still
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