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To win her in a contest of martial arts.

Bushi learnt a lesson ‘Never to underestimate anybody, especially a woman.

The table lamp of Mukesh’s room was not working. To repair it, the mother called the electrician.

Bushi disguised himself as a bandit to scare Yonamine who dared to travel in the dark. Also he wanted to teach her a lesson for her own good.

Bushi Kiyo was an expert Karate player and the personal guard of Shoka, the King of Okinawa.

Kojo broke the rules of the games by throwing a punch at Yonamine. She twisted his arm so powerfully that he fell down and he was defeated.

Yonamine decided to visit her parents. She told Bushi that she would leave in the evening and return the next day in time to cook dinner. Bushi told her not to travel during the night because there were bandits roaming about and it was not safe for a woman to go out alone after dark.

Kiyo was tall and slim, with dark piercing eyes and appeared fearless.

Bushi opined that Yonamine was overconfident of her strength and skill.

Yes, I have won a couple of contests in singing and drawing. Winning a contest makes me feel very confident and a feeling of pride too. I put in my best and try not to be overconfident.

According the poet we should remember that whenever we are told to hate our brothers, it is ourselves that we shall hate, dispossess, betray and condemn.

Yonamine was kind and loving. She cooked and cleaned and kept the house spick and span.

Lord Wellesley signed Subsidiary Alliance with many Indian rulers in 1798. 

Its conditions were :

1. Indian rulers should keep the British army in their Court. 

2. They have to pay the company towards the maintenance of these forces in cash or a part of their territory of equivalent amount of revenue. 

3. Without the intervention of the British, they would not have any alliance or declare war with any power. 

4. They should keep the British resident in their court.

1. Capitalist economy prevailed in England due to the Industrial Revolution. 

2. This system was brought to India to nurture the British economy. 

3. It resulted in the economic gains for England but exploitation and impoverishment of India.

1. There was a need of bureaucrats to strengthen the British rule in India. 

2. Lord Cornwallis introduced Civil Services which became an important part of the British government. 

3. The territories occupied by the British were divided into districts for administrative convenience. The district administration was headed by Collector. 

4. The officers appointed through the Civil Services (ICS) were taken into administrative services.

Samudragupta was a great ruler, general, diplomat and a personality having multifaceted talents and pragmatic outlook. His court poet Harisena has described the valour and conquests of his patron, Samudragupta, in the Prayag Prashasti. His victorious campaigns can be described as follows:

Aryavrata conquest – Samudragupta initially carried out military campaign in Aryavrata or the Ganga-Yamuna plains which was completed in two stages. He defeated nine kings : Rudradeva, Matil, Nagadutta, Chandravarman, Ganapati, Naga, Nagasena, Achyut, Nandi and Balvarma and annexed their territories to his kingdom

South Conquest – Samudragupta defeated 12 kingdoms in the south-Kosala, Mahakantar, Korala, Kottur, Pishtapur, Aronpalli, Kanchi, Avamukta, Vengi, Pallak, Devarashtra, Kusthalpur etc. but later freed them under the treaty of sovereignty over enemy territory and Moksha (freeing the enemy). He knew that direct rule over such distant lands was difficult.

Central India and the Frontier reigons, conquest – He defeated the Attvikas of central India and made them his vassals. The frontier regions of Monarchic and republican kingdoms also accepted his sovereignty out of fear. These included Samtat Dabak, Kamrupa, Nepal, Kartapur and nine republics of Western India.

Friendly relations with foreign rulers – Foreign rulers Devaputra, Shahi Shahanushashi, Shaka Murund, and singla etc. pleaded for friendly relations with Samudra gupta out of fear. He adopted the policy of ‘Aatma Nivedan’, ‘Kanyapayan’, ‘Gurutmandakit ‘Swavishay’, ‘Bhukti’ and ‘Shaasan Yachana’ with them.

In this way Samudragupta conquered a large part of India and united it under one rule. He was feared in far bigger regions which was a symbol of his pragmatism. Hence Smith called him the ‘Napolean of India’ due to his valour and war skills.

Constitutiion is the supreme law of the land.

True

Correct option is (a) Max Mueller

Correct answer is (c) regeneration

Correct option is (d) Chhatrapati Pratapsingh

Correct answer is (c) synthesis of testosterone

Disruptive selection:

1. The natural selection that disrupts the mean characters of the population, is called disruptive selection. 

2. Greater number of individuals acquire peripheral character value at both ends of the distribution curve. E.g. Finches with large size or small size, both will be selected.

3. Extreme phenotypes are selected in evolutionary process and intermediate forms are eliminated. 

4. When distribution curve is plotted it shows two peaks for two extremes. 

5. Disruptive selection is rare because, nature always tries to balance the characters. 

6. It ensures the effect on the entire gene pool of a population, considering all mating types or systems.

Example of disruptive selection: African seed cracker finches are types of seedfeeder birds which have different sizes of beak. The seeds available to them were of small and large sized. Large beak sized birds feeds on large seeds while small beak sized birds feed on small seeds.

Such large and small birds thus thrive well. However, intermediate beak sized birds are unable to feed on either type of seeds so they starve and their population was decreased gradually. Natural selection eliminated them and thus the population of finches appear disrupted.

Correct option is (b) Dutch

Termination of polypeptide 

▪ When the A-site of ribosome reaches a termination codon which does not code for any amino acid, no charged tRNA binds to the A-site. 

▪ Dissociation of polypeptide from ribosome takes place, which is catalysed by a ‘release factor’. 

▪ There are three termination codons namely UGA, UAG and UAA.

Della had the habit of saying little silent prayers about the simplest everyday things. She was praying to God to make Jim think that she was still pretty even without her long hair.

डेला की आदत थी कि वह रोजमर्रा की सभी चीजों के सामान्यरूप से होने की चुपचाप प्रार्थना किया करती थी। डेला भगवान से यह प्रार्थना कर रही थी कि भगवान जिम में ऐसा विचार भर दें कि वह (जिम) उसे उसके लम्बे बालों के बिना अब भी सुन्दर समझे।

Alternate monsoon and dry seasons

Sateyandra Nath Bose was born on 1st January, 1894. He was known as the father of statistical engineering. Research of S.N. Bose and Anarico Fermi made possible to differentiate particles of physics into two parts Boson and Fermions. National Science Council awarded S.N. Bose with Meghnad Saha Smarak gold medal, in 1954, he was awarded with Padma Vibhushan. The principle propounded by Bose was published by the eminent scientist Einstein.

This principle is named as Bose Einstein statistics. With the help of Einstein, S.N. Bose discovered fifth state of matter as Bose Einstein Condensation which is scientifically proved. That is why, he is also called Indian Einstein.

Pr. S.N. Bose make a chemical by changing the internal structure of the sulphonamide molecule, which is now used as an eye drop.

(b) Dhanvantari

In the past, it was believed that India had no relations with other nations in ancient times, but historical and archaeological facts show that ancient India had deep relations and cultural contacts with other nations from Indus-Sarsawati civilization to 10th century BC. India’s trade and cultural were closely related to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and the European countries. After Harshvardhana, Chola dynasty came into existence in South India to the 10th century BC. India was recognized as Greater India (Vrihattar Bharat).

Under the term Greater India, those countries were included with India where India had its political, cultural’ and geographical impact. Geographical and political boundaries of India were vast. Afghanistan was the part of ancient India which is presently situated in north-west direction of India. In whole central Asia the lifestyle and culture was spread. In the east of India, its geographical boundaries were spread up to Burma (Myanmar) in South-east of India, from Bay of Bengal, Malaya, Java, Borneo, Burma, Sumatra, Bali, Champa, Indonesia, Siam, Cambodia. Surinam Islands and Sri Lanka were parts of India. People living in these islands led the life like Indians.

(a) Science: Ancient India’s advancement in metallurgy and technology has its great evidence in Iron Pillar situated in Delhi from last 1600 years, which is a great attraction for tourists all over the world.

(b) Arithmatic: Invention of zero is the greatest contribution of India in the field of arithmatic which was used by the Aryabhatta in 5th century. To express whole number with fraction use of a decimal is a revolutionary base of the presentation of decimal system to develop arithmatic. In fact decimal system invented in India, and spread in whole world through the medium of scriptures. After 7th century these were translated in Arabian language from Sanskrit.

(c) The two scriptures Leelavati and Sid- dhant Shiromani of Bhaskarachaiya are Amulya Nidhi (treasure) of the world. In arithmatic, at present use of Pythagorus theorem was propounded by ‘Bodhayan’ 2500 years ago which is known as Chitti Prameya.

(d) Astrology and Astronomy: Astrology was progressed in ancient times on the basis of Arithmatic. Aryabhatta was an astrologer as well as mathematician. He propounded the principle “The earth rotates on its axis around the sun from west to east, by finding planets and satellite. He explained the phenomenon of solar and lunar eclipse. Varahmihir, Kannad, Nagarjuna, Banbhatta were some other main ancient Indian astrologers and astronomers.

Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali

(a) It was also a colony of India in ancient times. The first king of Champas was a Hindu king named Shrimar. Many Hindu kings ruled over here for a long period. Among them Gangraj, Pandurang, Bhrigu and Hari Verma were main. By seeing historical remains of ancient Champa, it is proved that as Indian varna system prevailed there. The marriage ceremony was also like India and there was a tradition of wearing Yagyopaveet.

In Rajkuls, Sati Pratha existed. Widows lived a simple life. Indian festivals were celebrated there. The state language of Champa was Sanskrit. Indian Grammar, philosophy, and literature were studied there. Shaiv cult was more in tradition. In Combodian temples, Chalukyan, a style of architecture, was followed.

(b) Malaya Islands which is now called as Malaysia. Many Hindu states were developed here in ancient times. Among them Karmrang, Kalashpur Katah and Pahang were main. In many parts of this island, remains of ancient temples, idols, and inscriptions engraved in Sanskrit are found.

It proves that this state had influence of Indian culture. Here names of kings like Gautam, Samudra Vijayavarman, etc. were similar to Buddhism was spread and stupas were built. Still here Brahamin families are existing whose ancestors went there from India and settled. Rajendra Chola-I, a brave king of Chola dynasty of southern India, had trade control over this island.

Invention of zero is the greatest contribution of India in the field of arithmatic which was used by the Aryabhatta in 5th century. To express whole number with fraction use of decimal is a revolutionary base of the presentation of decimal system to develop arithmatic. In fact, decimal system invented in India and then spread in whole world through the medium of scriptures. After 7th century these were translated in Arabic language from Sanskrit.

Arybhatta has given the knowledge of square root, cube root, triangle, circumference of a circle, formulas to find out area, diagonals, perpendicular and their use, parallel, etc. Knowledge about all these was described in Aryabhatta. In the 7th century, the text of Aryabhatta had been translated into Latin language. In ancient time, Bhaskaracharya, an Indian scholar, had given the knowledge that any positive number divided by zero gives the remainder of ‘infinity’. The books such as Lilawati and Siddhant Siromani are world famous, which were written by him. In 500 BC, Acharya Ladadev had made the first to determine the date and time of the world. The Pythagoras theorem, which is at present very famous in the field of mathematics, was discovered by Baudhayan, 2700 years ago, which was known as ‘Chiti Parimaiy.’ Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna of Puri discovered Vedic mathematics after deep study. Therefore, India’s contribution is important in the field of mathematics.

The ancient name of Vietnam is Champa.

Correct Answer is : (b) Pali

Jim and Della’s economic condition was very bad. Even after close dealing with the grocer, the vegetable seller and the butcher, Della could save just one dollar and eighty-seven cents which shows that they were very poor. The shabby little couch and an electric bell which produced no sound also hint at their poverty. And above all, the way they bought Christmas gifts for each-other shows their weak economic state. They had to sell their most valuable possessions for buying gifts for each other. Della had to sell her beautiful hair and Jim had to sell his gold watch. But they did not know that their presence would become useless after selling their possessions.

जिम और डेला की आर्थिक स्थिति बहुत खराब थी। किराना-व्यापारी, सब्जी विक्रेता और मांस-विक्रेता से सतर्कता के साथ मोल-भाव के बावजूद डेली मात्र एक डॉलर और सत्तासी सेन्ट बचा सकी जिससे प्रकट होता है कि वे बहुत गरीब थे। गन्दा छोटा सोफा और विद्युत घण्टी जिससे कोई आवाज नहीं निकलती थी, भी उनकी गरीबी की ओर संकेत करते हैं और सर्वोपरि, जिस तरह उन्होंने एक-दूसरे के लिए क्रिसमस-उपहार खरीदे उससे उनकी कमजोर आर्थिक स्थिति प्रकट होती है। उन्हें एक-दूसरे के लिए उपहार खरीदने के लिए अपनी अत्यन्त मूल्यवान वस्तुएँ बेचनी पड़ीं। डेला को अपने सुन्दर बाल और जिम को अपनी सोने की घडी बेचनी पड़ी। लेकिन वे नहीं जानते थे कि उनके ये उपहार, सम्पत्ति बेचे जाने के उपरान्त बेकार हो जाएँगे।

1. (i) The speaker is 3ari Singh. He is a thief who robs people of money and is always looking for his next prey.

2. (ii) The speaker says so because he is a thief and he has not robbed anyone recently.

3. (iii) Hari thought that the owner would waste the money on his friends and will not pay him the salary.

4. (i) Real work means stealing. He wants to steal Anil’s money, as he thought that Anil will carelessly spend his money.

5. (ii) Habit is a synonym of 'practice’.

1. The heart shows auto rhythmicity because the impulse for its rhythmic movement develops inside the heart. Such heart is called myogenic.

2. Some of the cardiac muscle fibres become auto rhythmic (self-excitable) and start generating impulse during development. 

3. These autorhythmic fibres perform two important function, viz. acting as a pacemaker and setting the rhythm for heart. 

4. They also form conducting system for conduction of nerve impulses throughout the heart muscles.

When the initiation and further regulation of heartbeats take place in the muscles then such a heart is called myogenic.

Anemia is disorder caused due to the deficiency of heaemo globin while leukemia is blood cancer in which there is abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells.

The faster heart rate over 100 beats per minute is called tachycardia, while the slower heart rate below 60 beats per minute is called bradycardia.

Lower heart rate which is lesser than 60 per minute is called bradycardia.

(d) All of the above

Lord Mayo implemented in 1870 The Walter Plan 1869.

In 1836 the first government school for Modern Education set up in Ajmer.

Water Plan and its Implementation: 

Sir Walter had written to the Secretary of state for India to open the British Public schools as the separate institutions for the rulers so as to be relieved of any future danger to the British Empire and to alleniate the rulers from the masses. In 1870 Lord Mayo in his capacity as a viceroy enforced Walter plan of 1869 by opening the first college in Rajkot. After his murder in Andaman, the Mayo College was opened in Ajmer, and in 1886 Achison College, Lahore and Daily College, Indore were set up for the ruling families.