1. Education is no longer restricted to bookish knowledge and the four walls of the classrooms. Apart from the activities in the classrooms, laboratories and libraries, a student has an opportunity to find out and express his or her hidden potential in the form of various extra-curricular activities. Youth festivals are the best platform for such activities. 2. It is essential for the all-round development of a student. There are many extra-curricular activities such as declamation, debate, painting, music dance, singing, recitation and so on. 3. Mere classroom studies make it boring and monotonous. Students need some outlets for their energies. They need opportunities for entertainment also. When students prepare for various activities, they have a sense of achievement, a sense of doing something useful. Preparing the stage for the show, receiving the guests or the participants from the other institutions and looking after them inculcate in them a sense of responsibility, co-operation and tolerance. 4. As the competitions of the youth festivals are organized among the students of almost the same age, they get rid of stage phobia. They no longer feel shy to face the audience too and learn to face them. Thus they cultivate self-confidence. 5. Youth festivals are the best means to search the talent among the youth. These budding artists will become the singers, actors and orators of tomorrow. Youth festivals prove to be the stepping stones for the students’ future life. Absence of youth festivals makes a student’s life insipid and boring. As such, students take to subversive activities. If they remain busy in preparing for competitions in youth festivals, their time is used in a productive and fruitful way. Choose the most appropriate options:- (Any Five) a) Students should take part in extra-curricular activities for i) scoring extra marks, ii) an all -round development , iii) for adding extra spice to academic life, iv) both ii and iii b) Youth festivals inculcate in the students i)a sense of responsibility , ii a sense of importance, iii) a sense of cooperation and tolerance, iv) both i and iii c) Absence of youth festivals makes a student’s life i)full of activities, ii) full of fun, iii) insipid and boring, iv) overburdened d) Youth festivals help the students to get rid of the i)Mathematics phobia, ii) stage phobia , iii) shyness to face the audience, iv) both ii and iii e) Which word in the passage is an antonym of ‘tasteful’ i)boring, ii) subversive, iii) insipid, iv) budding f) Youth festivals are the i)Building blocks of the students’ future life, ii) stepping stones of the students’ future life, iii) guiding force of the students’ future life, iv) all of these