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The fear among villagers and environmentalists was of ecological and economic exploitation of the region. The villagers demanded that no contracts to exploit forest resources should be given to outsiders. They argued that the locals were dependent on these resources and therefore local communities should have effective control over natural resources like land, water, trees and other resources.

(d) All of these

When India got independence the task of nation building had to be undertaken and for this new policies had to be drawn up.

देश का संविधान यह देश का मूलभूत कानून है ।

• यदि कानुन संविधान के साथ सुसंगत नहीं हो तो न्यायपालिका असंवैधानिक घोषित कर उन्हें रद्द करने की सत्ता रखता है ।
• राज्य तथा केन्द्र सरकार अपने-अपने निर्धारित कार्यक्षेत्र में रहकर ही काम करें तथा दूसरे के कार्यक्षेत्र में हस्तक्षेप न करें यह देखना न्यायपालिका का कार्य है ।
• प्रत्येक घटक केन्द्र तथा राज्य अपने-अपने दायरे में रहकर काम करते हैं ।
• न्यायपालिका, कार्यपालिका और व्यवस्थापिका से स्वतंत्र है तथा उसकी दृष्टि से सभी समान होते है ।
• समान अपराध के लिए समान दण्ड की व्यवस्था की गयी है । इस दृष्टि से वह निष्पक्ष है ।

Establishing order, carrying out smooth administration.

सही विकल्प है (B) 3

Right: It is our Fundamental Duty to respect the National Flag.

भारतीय संसदीय लोकतंत्रवाला प्रजातंत्रात्मक राज्य है । संघ में संसद जनता का प्रतिनिधित्व करता है ।

• इस प्रकार देश की सबसे महत्त्वपूर्ण और सर्वोपरी संस्था संसद है ।
• लेकिन संसद की कार्यवाही संवैधानिक प्रक्रिया द्वारा होती है ।
• सरकार के तीनों ही अंग संविधान की व्यवस्थानुसार कार्य करते हैं ।
• इसलिए संसद नहीं संविधान सर्वोपरि होता है ।

संसद के दोनों सदनों में कुल सदस्यों की बहुमती या उपस्थित तथा मतदान में भाग लेनेवाले दो तृतीयांश सदस्यों की बहुमति आवश्यक होती है ।

Wrong: It is our Fundamental Duty to value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture.

Right: It is our Fundamental Duty to safeguard public property.

Right: It is our Fundamental Duty to respect our National Anthem.

State should secure equal pay for equal work for both men and women.

Right: It is our Fundamental Duty .to defend the country, and to render national service when called upon to do so.

Scientific temper, Humanism, Spirit of inquiry and reform.

National Flag, National Anthem.

Opposites:

(a) coward

(b) ugly

(c) artificial

(d) impolite

(e) irregular

(f) hate

The poem ends with the message to go forward in spite of the problems. The obstacles should not stop us from going ahead.

No, it wasn’t. Life for her was not a crystal stair. It had tacks and splinters. Boards were torn up and not carpeted.

I don’t think the poem can convey the right idea without this metaphor in the poem. The narrator is the poem is a Black American woman. Life for the Blacks was very hard in the America of the past. Things have changed for the better and we even see the first Black President in Barak Obama. But when Langston Hughes was writing this poem, it was impossible to even imagine that a Black man would become the President one day. The Blacks had to struggle even for their existence.

It was with great difficulty they found even decent livelihood. So the mother is telling her son that she had been working hand to reach even where she has reached. Life is a journey, an upward journey and we use stairs. But here the stairs are full of tacks and splinters. There are dark comers and there are no carpets. Every turn there are problems and obstacles. So it needs courage to go on. Such an idea could be conveyed only through the metaphor of the non crystal stairs.

1. d. life

2. b. a life with many difficulties and challenges

3. c. compassionate forces in her life.

4. c. to emphasize how difficult and ‘bare’ of luxuries the mother’s life had been.

5. a. phases in her life where she tried to solve problems on her own.

6. c. Don’t give up reach out to the goals you have set for yourself.

7. d. You can almost see through a crystal.

8. c. One requires steady persistence to go up and down a stairway.

9. d. teenage

10. b. dialect

In the poem we see how a Black person suffers in a White-dominated society. The poem is a dramatic monologue. Only the mother is speaking and the son is just listening. The mother tells her son that her life had not been very smooth. The steps she had to climb were broken here and there and she had to be careful not to fall down. The floor is not carpeted showing that life had been very rough for her. But in spite of all the problems she faced, she had been steadily climbing and reaching landings. Sometimes she had been walking in darkness without any light at all. She had to negotiate dangerous bends.

She is telling her son never to feel disappointed and turn back. He should not sit down on the steps even though he might find them hard to climb on. He should be careful not to fall down. In the end she tells her son that all her life she had been climbing in spite of all the problems and she is still climbing.

(a) Because oleic acid dissolves in alcohol but does not dissolve in water.

(b) When lycopodium powder is spread on water, it spreads on the entire surface. When a drop of the prepared solution is dropped on water, oleic acid does not dissolve in water. On the other hand, it spreads on the water surface pushing the lycopodium powder away to clear a circular area where the drop falls. This allows measuring the area where oleic acid spreads.

(c) In each mL of solution prepared, volume =\([\frac{1}{20}mL\times\frac{1}{20}=\frac{1}{400}mL]\)

(d) By means of a burette and measuring cylinder and measuring the number of drops.

(e) If n drops of the solution make 1 mL, the volume of oleic acid in one drop will be (1/400) n mL.

By this story the feeling of pathos and sympathy for Mahmood is created in us. Moreover, we feel that man also is like a kite to fly away forever at any time.

Correct option: (b) serpent

Now the people had no interest in flying kites. Mahmood had closed down his shop also. Most of his old friends had died. So, no one visited Mahmood.

The boy heard a faint sound, like the rubbing of marbles in his pocket. 

The torn kite in the banyan tree was blown away in the sky by a gust of wind and disappeared. In the same way Mahmood also left for his heavenly abode. So, the writer also ends the story with this description.

Moreover, there were few open spaces left for flying kites. 

Context: Mahmood was a famous kite maker. But now he has become old. So, the people do not come to him so often as they used to come in his young age. Mahmood had a grandson named Ali, and he was glad to watch the boy playing and growing. under his eyes. 

Explanation: In these lines the writer compares trees with men. He says that there is a great similarity between them. Both of them grow slowly if they are not hurt in any way and are supplied with proper food. When they are young, they look very bright. But as they advance in their age, they bend and become weak. In old age the limbs of men and the branches of trees become hard and can easily be broken. Ultimately they die.

Mahmood made a wonderful kite. 

Dragon kite was a clumsy plan. This kite was like a crawling serpent. It had some coloured discs, a fantastic painted face and two eyes made of mirror. A small twig was tied to it to keep it balanced.

Yes, humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago. They worship their ancestors like God and pray by kneeling in front of their portraits. They also hold religious sermons and ceremonies in their memory.

1. No, I never support Rahul. 

2. Insects on the flowers helps in pollination and there by fertilization.

3. Catching and killing such insects effects the fertilization. 

4. This leads to decrease the productivity of plants. 

5. This hampers the propagation of that plants also. 

6. All the organisms on this planet have the equal right live. 

7. Killing of other organisms just for fun is a cruel act Which leads to imbalance in the nature. 

8. “Live and let live” should be out motive.

A spinning ball displaces air. The ball moves formed and relative to it, the air moves backward. Hence, the velocity of air above the ball relative to it is larger and below it is smaller. This difference in the velocities of air results in a pressure difference between the lower and upper faces leading to a net upward force on the ball. Therefore the ball does not follow a parabolic trajectory.

In their two years of married life, Nancy was greatly inspired by Michael’s passion for “modern methods” and his denigration of the old and superannuated people in the teaching field.

उनके शादीशुदा जीवन के दो वर्षों में नैंसी माइकल के “आधुनिक तरीकों” के जोश से तथा शिक्षण-क्षेत्र में लगे बूढ़े और पुरातनपंथी लोगों की भर्त्सना (बदनामी) से बहुत प्रेरित हुई थी।

Sindhu returned home with a flute and three goats with him which made his mother sad. She thought her son had been cheated by the wicked market folk or he had lost his sense.

सिन्धु अपने साथ एक बांसुरी और तीन बकरें लेकर घर लौटा जिससे उसकी माँ उदास हो गई। उसने सोचा कि उसका लड़का बाजार के दुष्ट लोगों द्वारा ठग लिया गया है या फिर वह अपनी समझदारी खो चुका है।

Sindhu wore a beautiful livery with a silk turban in order to enter into the house of the landowner.

सिन्धु ने नौकरों की एक बहुत सुन्दर पोशाक एक रेशमी साफे के साथ पहनी ताकि वह जमींदार के मकान में प्रवेश कर सके।

Sindhu asked her to tell him the meaning of the three different coloured stones set in the gold ring she had given him when she proposed to buy his flute.

जब उसने उसकी बांसुरी खरीदने का प्रस्ताव रखा तो सिन्धु ने उससे कहा कि वह उसे उन तीन विभिन्न रंगों के पत्थरों का मतलब बताए जो उस लड़की द्वारा दी गई सोने की अंगूठी में जड़े थे।

Sindhu had one great ambition in his life and that was to marry the beautiful daughter of the landowner. He sold her his three dancing goats and a flute and managed to know the secret of the three strands of hair hidden among her black silken tresses. Sindhu revealed this secret in the ‘Swayamvar’ organised by the landowner for the marriage of his daughter. Thus, he succeeded in winning the hand of the girl and realising his great ambition.

सिन्धु के जीवन में एक ही बड़ी आकांक्षा थी और वह थी जमींदार की खूबसूरत कन्या से विवाह। उसने उसे अपने तीन नाचने वाले बकरे और बांसुरी बेच दी और उसकी काली रेशमी जुल्फों में छिपे तीन बालों का रहस्य जान लिया सिन्धु ने इस रहस्य को उस स्वयंवर में उजागर कर दिया जो जमींदार ने अपनी बेटी की शादी के लिये आयोजित किया था। इस तरह वह लड़की का हाथ पाने और अपनी बड़ी आकांक्षा को पूरा करने में सफल हो गया।

Correct answer is (b) unhappy

Rasheed was upset because he had high hopes of winning a big prize and he continued trying his luck again and again. But every time he got a trifle. People were looking at him and laughing at his bad luck, but no one showed any sympathy. He played till he finished all his money.

The three stones set in the gold ring given by the landowner’s daughter to Sindhu had a secret which even Sindhu could not understand. The girl told that she had three strange strands of hair hidden among her black silken tresses. One was pure white, it resembled the colour of a diamond; one was dark red, the colour of a ruby; and the third strand was bright green which resembled the colour of an emerald. The three stones set in the ring represented those three colours of the strand of her hair.

तीन पत्थर जो उस अंगूठी में जड़े हुए थे जो जमींदार की लड़की ने सिन्धु को दी थी उनमें एक रहस्य था जिसको सिन्धु भी नहीं समझ सका था। लड़की ने बताया कि उसकी काली रेशमी जुल्फों में तीन अजीब। बाल, छिपे हुए हैं। एक बिल्कुल सफेद था जो किसी हीरे के रंग के समान था; एक गहरा लाल था, जो माणिक्य के रंग का था; और तीसरा बाल चमकदार हरा था जो पन्ने के रंग से मेल खाता था। अंगूठी में जड़े . हुए तीन पत्थर उसकी जुल्फों के तीन बालों के रंगों का प्रतिनिधित्व करते थे।

The shopkeeper played tricks to tempt to try his luck by making him believe that it was luck that got the old man and the boy their prizes.But actually,they were friends of the shopkeeper trying to tempt Rasheed to play. Rasheed tried his luck again and again but every time he got trifles.He sold back those things to the shopkeeper and lost all his money.

Because she had heard of his dancing goats and she wanted to see them with her own eyes.

जमींदार की पुत्री अपने पिता द्वारा सिन्धु को बुलवाना चाहती थी क्योंकि उसने सिन्धु के नाचने वाले बकरों के बारे में सुन रखा था और वह उन्हें अपनी आँखों से देखना चाहती थी।

The beautiful and rich daughter of the landlord, was eager to have the three dancing goats from Sindhu.

जमींदार की सुन्दर और धनवान पुत्री, सिन्धु से तीन नाचने वाले बकरे लेने के लिए उत्सुक थी।

Sindhu was happy to work as a labourer on the landlord’s farm because he could thus catch just a moment’s glimpse of his daughter.

सिन्धु जमींदार के खेत पर एक मजदूर के रूप में कार्य करने से खुश था क्योंकि इस तरह वह एक पल के लिए उसकी पुत्री की झलक पा सकता था।