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ESAF was setup to augment the availability to concessional resources to low Income countries.

IDA the soft loan window of the bank provides loans to UDC at very low rate of interest.

IBRD was established to provide long term financial assistance to member countries.

World Bank advances loans out of its own Fund.

ASEAN meetings are held once in every 3 years.

(d) World bank

Correct option is D) 2, 4

Water Pollination: 

• Water pollinated flowers are not very colorful and do not produce nectar. 
• In Vallisneria, the male flowers are released on water surface where as female flowers with long coiled stalk reaches the surface of water for pollination. 
• In Hyacinth and Waterlilly flowers , flowers emerge above the level of water and are pollinated by insects or wind. 
• In sea grasses, the female flowers remain submerged and pollen grains are released inside the water. 
• In many acquatic species pollen grains are long, ribbon like and sticky.

Insect Pollination:

• Insect pollinated flowers are large brightly coloured , fragnant and rich in nectar. 
• The flowers pollinated by flies and beetles secrete foul odours to attract them. E.g Amorphophallus, Lotus.etc.

(a) The 3 regions of human brain are 

(i) Forebrain 

(ii) Midbrain and 

(iii) Hindbrain. 

(b) Cranium is a bony box in the skull in which the brain is present. Its function is to protect the brain.

D) Scheme that guarantees minimum days of employment

A) Physical capital

A) They can secure loan from bank easily

B) Uttar Pradesh

C) Work of a teacher in the school

Correct option is C) Farming

B) Maintenances of shop

LAB produces acids that coagulate and partially digest the milk proteins.

Alexander Fleming.

Prions are proteinaceous infectious agents

Fermentors are very large vessel used for growing microbes for the production of microbial products on an industrial scale.

Borges looks upon blindness as a way of life.

An English version of ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ was Borges’ first literary reading.

keep it in mind; set a project.

if; But; which; even though.

(a) resource.

According to Borges, blindness is a way of life that is not entirely unhappy.

(c)  actually a resource.

According to Borges, he was educated by his father’s library more than by high school or the university.

Borges defines ‘blindness’ as a way of life that is not entirely unhappy. He also calls it a resource because he believes that all things have been given to us for a purpose and an artist must feel this more intensely. He believes that all that happens to us including humiliations, our misfortunes and our embarrassments are given to us as raw material, as clay so that we may shape our art, eternal work or work that aspires to be so. Therefore, he has taken blindness as a way of life, which is not entirely unhappy. He believes that it is his duty to accept it as far as possible and enjoy it.

According to Borges, his mother was an extraordinary person.

Borges says that his mother was an extraordinary person who showed him a great deal of kindness in his life. Then he confesses in a remorseful tone that he could not make his mother happy because he himself was not a happy man. He also confesses that he should have shown a better understanding of his mother.

This experience can be generalized because what Borges says is true of all children. It is not surprising to know, when their mothers die, most children express that they had taken their mother for granted while they were alive like they do with the moon or the sun or the seasons and are guilty that they had abused their mothers.

(a)  dreams.

According to Borges, of the many inventions of man, only the book is an extension of our imagination and memory.

According to Borges, though a book is only an extension of our imagination and memory, a book goes beyond its author’s intention. He opines that the author’s intention is a meagre thing – a fallible thing. In every book, there is a need for something more, which is always mysterious. When we read an ancient book we feel as though we are reading all time that has passed from the day it was written to our present-day because the book always retains something sacred, something mortal and something magical which brings happiness. That is why he endorses the opinion of Bernard Shaw, who made the statement, “Every book worth being re-read has been written by the spirit”.

According to Borges, ‘Literature’ is a controlled dream.

While giving his views about ‘poetry’, Borges calls poetry as the aesthetic act. He opines that the poetic act takes place when the poet writes it and when the reader reads it. At this point, Alifano says that finding the precise words is very important in the art of poetry because it is the precise words that elicit the emotion. Such precise words exist naturally in the form of metaphors. According to Borges, true metaphors have been in existence from the beginning of time. Then he says that all the existing metaphors can be grouped under five or six essential metaphors, like time and a river, life and dreams, death and sleep, stars and eyes, and flowers and women. But it is the poet who has to discover metaphors though they may already exist.

Worm control provides physical and mental strength in children and they do not fall ill frequently. Due to this, they can concentrate on their studies. It helps in faster development in children.

In the children, there can be deficiency of iron in the body and physical development hampers due to the growth of worms.

When children do not use clean toilets, do not wash their hands with soap after defecation and before eating food, do not drink pure water and do not wash fruits and vegetables with clean water, then they fall ill.

• An antioxidant is a substance that delays the onset of oxidant or slows down the rate of oxidation of foodstuff.
• It is used to extend the shelf life of food.
• Antioxidants react with oxygen-containing free radicals and thereby prevent oxidative rancidity. 

e.g. Vitamin E is a very effective natural antioxidant.

Worm control provides physical and mental strength in children and they do not fall ill frequently. Due to this, they can concentrate on their studies.

a. 1. imaginary 

2. educational 

Sentence: Just try to imagine that you are a rich person.

b. The person cried for help because he was caught in the big fire.

a. 1. motion – motionless 

2. faith – faithful.

Sentence: My grandmother was sitting without any motion in her chair.

b. Add a clause to expand the sentence meaningfully: 

The people realized ………

1. confidence 

2. absence. 

Sentence: Ramesh was very confident when he began to give his speech.

1. (i) The crow was on a hemlock tree.

2. (ii) The poet was in a sad, depressed and hopeless state of mind.

3. (iii) The crow shaking the dust of snow on the poet from a tree on the poet changed his state of mind.

4. (iv) The crow signifies the poet's sad and depressive mood.

5. (i) It shook dust of snow on the poet.

Option : c. paracetamol

The dust of snow means the fine particles of snow. The falling of snow on the poet changes his mood. The soft and cold touch of snow changed the poet’s mood from sad to happy. Now he feels revived and obliged to the beauty of nature.

Tincture of iodine is a 2-3 percent solution of iodine in alcohol-water mixture It is applied to wounds as an antiseptic.