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1. Using internet, access to required information is easy, economical, reliable and fast.

2. With E-mail, messages reach destination with in minutes.

3. E-mail can be sent and received from any place.

4. Using E-mail, message can be sent to several persons simultaneously.

1. The frequency spectrum is utilized to the maximum by multiplexing methods.

2. It is more reliable.

3. The handsets become more compact with enhanced features.

Transponder is a receiver-transmitter combination located on a satellite that takes an uplink signal and converts it into a downlink signal.

1. TCP- Transmission control protocol.

2. IP- Internet protocol.

3. FTP- File transfer protocol.

4. HTTP- Hyper text transfer protocol.

ISP is Internet service provider. ISP provides the software for communication over Internet. The ISP has one or more towers to which thousands of cables, modems are connected for the use of subscribers.

Optical fibre communication uses light as the carrier of information to be transmitted.

Glass or plastic.

Pinconet refers to the linking of one Bluetooth device that serves as a master controller to a maximum of seven other Bluetooth slave services.

The cells are in hexagon shape because hexagonal shape approximates the circular pattern while eliminating the gaps present between adjacent cells.

World wide web.

Internet is worldwide interconnection of millions of computers by means of complex network which serves as an inexpensive communication medium.

Cell splitting is dividing the entire geographical area into hexagonal shaped cells that fit together to form a honeycomb pattern.

DNA is the source of information for making proteins in the ceil. The section of DNA is called gene. For example, the height of a plant depends on the hormone. The amount of hormone depends on the process of its formation. A protein is important for this process. If this protein works efficiently a lot of hormones will be made. If the gene responsible for that protein has an alteration, this will make the protein less efficient. The amount of hormone will be less and the plant will be short. Thus, traits get expressed.

Allergy is the exaggerated response of the immune system to certain antigens present in the environment. In metropolitan cities life style is responsible in lowering of immunity and sensitivity to allergens. More polluted environment increases the chances of allergy in children. Some symptoms of allergic reactions are sneezing, watery eyes, running nose and difficulty in breathing.

Children of metro cities of India suffer from allergies and asthma because of their sensitivity to the environment. This may be due to the protected environment provided early in life.

(a) Yes 

(b) Absence of previous encounter with the allergies in the over protected environment reduces immunity and children become more prone to allergy/ over exposure to allergens or pollutants in the metro cities can be considered.

During windstorm, the speed of the wind above the roof is more than the speed below the roof. According to Bernoulli's theorem, therefore, the pressure above the roof is less than the pressure below it. The higher pressure below the roof lifts the roof up and hence, it is blown off.

(1) The air stream over the top surface travels faster than the air stream below the paper strip. This decreases the air pressure above the strip relative o that below. This produces an aerodynamic lift in accordance with Bernoulli’s principle and the paper strip will lift up.

(2) Air passing between the paper strips flows in a narrower channel and, in accordance with Be rnoulli’s principle, must increase its speed, causing the pressure between them to drop. This will pinch the two strips together.

A cyclonic high wind blowing over a roof creates a low pressure above it, in accordance with Bernoulli’s principle. The pressure below the roof is equal to the atmospheric pressure which is now greater than the pressure above the roof. This pressure difference causes an aerodynamic lift that lifts the roof up. Once the roof is lifted up, it blows off in the direction of the wind.

Wind speeds in a tornado may be much higher and thus create much greater pressure differences. Sometimes, wooden houses hit by a tornado explode.

The Narrator met Nicola and Jacopo at the outskirts of Verona.

It is a queer thing about many detectives that they often deviate from the original question. It may seem surprising to anyone. Same was the case with Sherlock Holmes, when on a case visit, he seemed to digress from the objective. For example, he would ask a person to be interrogated about his plans, however he would ask him about his nationality and talk about his attire. Little the person would come to know what Holmes is progressing at. While he is solving the mystery in his mind. He would never run a background check on a person by directly asking him his whereabouts. He would pretend to know a person from the suspect's vicinity and call out his name to check if the person is honest about his background. However, the suspect would not realise and will fall to the bait by exclaiming how well he knows the person, while in reality the person does not even exist in reality. This way Holmes does his inspection of the matter and does not bring it to the suspect's notice as well.

It is so true that even the cleverest of criminals leave behind clues to their plan. See how hard John Garrideb tried to work things out and made such a fool proof plan that anybody would have fallen to it. Yet Holmes was able to sort it out with his applied intelligence. He looked for loose ends and caught Garrideb at various points where he got assured of his fake identity and the loop holes in his plans were visible. First when he pretended to be a American, though he was actually, he was caught due to his British look. Then, when Holmes pointed out Dr. Starr, it was clear that Garrideb had not done his homework that he responded with such conviction as if there was a Dr. Starr in real. Even the advertisement he got published was not edited properly and the language in it was easily recognised to be American English. Thus, though Killer Evans had a well knit plan, he could not fool Holmes.

1. The princes had to shoot a real bird sitting on the branch of a tree. False 

2. Arjuna said he could see only the bird’s eye. False 

3. Bhima succeeded in shooting the bird. False 

4. Arjuna drove the crocodile away. True.

Correct option is (b) Sangham

Because production of auxin is stopped by leaves.

The grandmother was always dressed in spotless white. She had silvery hair. Her white locks spread untidily over her pale and wrinkled face. She looked like an expanse of pure white Serenity. The stretch of snow over the mountains looks equally white and peaceful. So her silvery locks and white dress made her look like the winter landscape in the mountains.

She was terribly old to appear pretty. Her face was a criss-cross of wrinkles. She was short, fat and slightly bent. She didn’t create any physical appeal or attraction. However, In her spotless white dress and grey hair she was a picture of serenity, peace, sobriety and beauty.

Correct answer is (c) Abroad

Being settled in the city with the author’s parents was the turning point in their friendship. Now his grandmother could not go to school with him and help him in his studies.

अपने माता-पिता के साथ लेखक व उनकी दादी का शहर में बसना उनकी मित्रता में निर्णायक मोड़ था। अब दादी माँ उसके साथ विद्यालय नहीं जा सकती थीं और उसके अध्ययन में उसकी मदद नहीं कर सकती थीं।

In the city the writer started going to an English school in a motor bus. He learnt English and things of western science there. She could not understand them. It made her unhappy that she could not help him with his lessons. She also did not believe in the things they taught. They did not teach about God and the scriptures. This made her unhappy.

The writer and the grandmother were separated when he went to university, because he was given a room of his own. Earlier, he shared one with his grandmother. She accepted her seclusion with resignation. She rarely left her spinning wheel to talk to anyone. From sunrise to sunset she sat by her wheel spinning and reciting prayers.

1. B. Because the temple, she used to visit, was attached to the school.

2. C. singing them.

3. A. For the writer, his studies and for the grand-mother, reading the scriptures.

4. C. the chapatis the writer and his grandmother threw to them.

He thought that his grandmother would be upset about his decision to go abroad. At her age, he was not sure what would happen, as he was going away for five years. When she kissed him good-bye on his forehead, he thought that perhaps it was the last sign of physical contact between them.

When the author was going abroad, she came to see him off at the railway station. But she was not even sentimental. She did not talk or show any emotion. She went on telling the beads of her rosary and kissed the author’s forehead silently.

जब लेखक विदेश जा रहा था तो वह उसे विदा करने के लिए रेलवे स्टेशन तक आईं। लेकिन वह बिल्कुल भी भावुक नहीं हुई। उन्होंने बातचीत नहीं की या कोई भावना प्रकट नहीं की। वह अपनी माला जपती रहीं और चुपचाप लेखक के माथे को चूमा।

The first stage of the author’s relationship with his grandmother started when he was still a child. The old lady used to tell him and other children of the games she used to play as a child. Her stories not only looked quite funny, they also seemed quite strange and exaggerated. The author did not take them seriously.

The second stage of this relationship began when the narrator started going to school. His parents left him with her and they went to live in the city. They were constantly together. She used to wake him up in the morning and get him ready for school. Then she would fetch his wooden slate, a tiny earthen inkpot, and a red pen. After a breakfast of a thick, stale chapatti, they went to school. She carried several chapattis for the village dogs. The school was attached to the temple where she would sit and pray. They would walk back together after school.

The third stage of their relationship began when the narrator’s parents sent for them in the city. That was a turning point in their friendship. He used to go to an English school in a motor bus. As the years rolled by they saw less of each other. She didn’t like the English school as there was no teaching about God and scriptures there. She hated western science and music. When he went up to university he was given a room of his own. The common link of their friendship was snapped. His grandmother accepted her seclusion with resignation.

The school was attached to the temple. The priest taught the alphabet and the morning prayer. When the school went on, the grandmother sat inside the temple reading the scriptures.

She collected the women of the neighbourhood, got an old drum and started to sing. For several hours she thumped the sagging skins of the dilapidated drum and sang of the homecoming of warriors.

उन्होंने अपने पड़ोस की महिलाओं को एकत्रित किया, एक पुराना सा ढोल लिया और गाने लगीं। कई घण्टों तक वह लटकते हुए टूटे ढोल के चमड़े पर थाप देती रहीं और (उन्होंने) योद्धाओं के घर वापसी के गीत भी गाये।

The grandmother accompanied the author to the school because the school was attached to the temple. She would sit there to say her prayers and read the scriptures.

The grandmother and the writer fully enjoyed each other’s company as long as they lived by themselves. After some time, his parents, who had comfortably settled in the city, sent for them. Their moving to the city was the turning point. She could no longer accompany him to school nor help him with his studies.

The grandmother was laying peacefully in bed praying and telling her beads. Suddenly her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers. A peaceful pallor spread on her face.

दादी प्रार्थना करते हुए व माला जपते हुए शांतिपूर्वक लेटी हुई थीं। अचानक उनके होठ रुक गए और उनकी निर्जीव अंगुलियों से माला गिर गई। एक शांत पीलापन उनके चेहरे पर फैल गया।

The author was going abroad for five years. His grandmother was very old and nothing could be said about her survival. He had doubts that she would die before he returned from abroad.

लेखक पाँच वर्ष के लिये विदेश जा रहा था। उसकी दादी बहुत ही वृद्ध थीं और उनके जीवित रहने के विषय में नहीं कहा जा सकता था। उसे संदेह था कि उसके विदेश से वापस आने के पहले ही वह मर जाएँगी।

She used to say her prayers before the author while she bathed and dressed him. She sang it in the hope that the author would listen and get to know it by heart.

जब दादी लेखक को नहलातीं व कपड़े पहनातीं उस समय वह प्रार्थनाएं किया करती थीं। वह उन्हें इस आशा के साथ गाया करती थीं कि लेखक उन्हें सुनकर कंठस्थ कर लेगा।

Three, Cobbler, Ali and a man with a parcel.

A street. A door with curtain hanging on it which appears to open into a row house.

The location is shifted to a footpath outside the bakery.

They are in close up because they emphasize the work they are doing. It will show what kinds of people are expected in the film. Such shots establish the ground work for the story to take off.

The grandmother had a mild fever and the doctor said that it would go. But she said that she was not going to waste any more time in talking just before the close of the first chapter of her life. And she really died. So we can say so.

दादी को हल्का बुखार था तथा डॉक्टर ने कहा था कि यह सही हो जाएगा। लेकिन उन्होंने कहा कि वह अपने जीवन के प्रथम अध्याय के बंद होने से पहले और अधिक समय बातचीत में बर्बाद नहीं करना चाहती थीं। और वह वास्तव में मर गईं। इसलिए हम ऐसा कह सकते हैं।

Ali goes to the vegetable shop. He takes potatoes and asks the shopkeeper to write it in the account. A junk collector comes and collects the junk. He thinks the bundle of shoes is also part of the junk, he throws it into his cart. In his eagerness to locate the bundle, Ali scatters vegetables on the ground. The shop keeper is angry and tells Ali to get lost.

Boom/Crane shot. To show that the junk collector is taking away the bundle of shoes.

The turning point in their friendship came when they shifted to the city. Now the narrator went to an English school in a bus. Grandmother could no longer accompany him to school. Although they shared the same room, they saw less of each other.