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(b) enjoyed the tastiest apples from the tree

(a) to build a new room in his house

(5. 4, 3, 2,1) 

5. The farmer felt the space could be used to grow some vegetables.

4. He also felt he could use the wood to build a new room in his house. 

3. Therefore, he decided to cut the tree. 

2. He did not think about the wonderful times he and his friends had playing around the tree or the delicious apples they ate. 

1. Rather he felt the tree had outlived its usefulness and should be cut down.

a. Suddenly, the farmer noticed a small fruit hanging from a branch.

b. The apple looked delicious like the ones the farmer had eaten when he was a boy.

c. The farmer plucked the apple and bit into the juicy fruit; The memories of the fun he had had as a boy came rushing back.

a. The small animals and birds started living in the tree.

b. The apple tree grew old and was bearing fewer and fewer fruits.

c. The Farmer felt he could use the wood of the apple tree to build a new room in his house. So decided to cut the tree.

(3, 5,1, 2, 4) 

3. The farmer’s daughter and her friends began to plead with him. 

5. They gathered around the farmer and said, “Please don’t cut the tree.

1. We play here just like you did. These small animals live here. 

2. If you cut the tree, where will they go? You can enjoy the shade when you become old. 

4. It is a beautiful tree.”

(6, 8, 4, 7, 1, 2, 5, 3) 

6. The farmer had an old apple tree in his garden. 

8. He spent all his childhood playing under the apple tree. 

4. He decided to cut the tree thinking that it was useless. 

7. All the little animals in the tree pleaded with him. 

1. He did not listen to their cries. 

2. The farmer continued cutting the tree. 

5. The taste of the apple brought back his childhood memories. 

3. His childhood memories made him realize his mistake.

a. The farmer put down the axe

b. The farmer promised his daughter that he will never cut the tree.

c. The moral of the story is we should not cut down the tree. We should try to grow more trees and preserve the trees for future generations to come.

The memories of the fun, he had had as a boy came rushing back, when the farmer ate a juicy apple, which was hanging from a branch. This made the farmer realise his mistakes.

(b) memories of the fun he had as a boy came rushing back

a. Farmer lived in a village, up in the hills, beside a forest.

b. The farmer grew many kinds of vegetables and also had an apple tree in his farm.

c. As a boy, the farmer and his friends played hide and seek around the tree. They climbed the tree and swung on it and in season they plucked and ate the apples.

The large and the shady apple tree grew old and w’as bearing fewer and fewer fruits. It gave them shade but nothing grew under it. The farmer felt that the space could be used to grow some vegetables. He also felt that he could use the wood to build a new room in his house. Therefore, he decided to cut the tree. He did not think about the wonderful times, he and his friends had, playing around the tree or the delicious apples, they ate. Rather, he felt that the tree had outlived its usefulness and should be cut down.

They will become desperate, suffer and sometimes die.

The farmer lived in a village, up in the hills, beside a forest. In his farm, he grew many kinds of vegetables and an apple tree. For many years, the farmer his family had enjoyed the tastiest apples from the tree. As a boy, he played under the apple tree with his friends. They played hide and seek, climbed the tree, swung on it and ate the tasty apples.

1. (b) 3,5,1,4,21

2. (c) 3,4,5,1,21

3. (b) 5,1,3,2,4

4. (a) 5,1,3,4,21

5. (c) 5,2,4,1,3

1. (b) bough

2. (d) still

3. (a) violent

4. (b) sour

5. (c) fruit

In the beginning of the poem the tree is calm and silent and in the ending it ends with motionless and empty level.

In Gujarati, it is called ‘Garmalo’.

‘Indian Lutino Ringneck’ is local bird like the goldfinch.

The goldfinch’s movement is compared to that of a lizard. The basis of the comparison is the sleek, abrupt and alert movements of a lizard. The same kinds of movements are observed when the goldfinch arrives on the laburnum tree.

The poem ‘The Laburnum Top’ has – begun with an immense solitude. The very top of the laburnum tree is calm and silent with the fading yellowish sunlight in a solemn afternoon of September. The tree is standing with the remaining few dull yellow leaves and bereft of any seed.

The late-twentieth-century poet Ted Hughes draws a very clear symbolism through this very figure of laburnum tree in the poem, ‘The Laburnum Top’. Actually, the laburnum symbolizes the hardships in life of every living being. It stands for the upheavals survival requirement all throughout one’s life.

Correct option is C. Alliteration

A very noteworthy similarity has been perceived regarding the beginning and the ending of the poem. In the very beginning of the poem the tree is calm and silent and in the ending, it again is getting subsided with motionless and empty level.

In the poem, ‘The Laburnum Top’ by the poet Ted Hughes, ‘laburnum’ is the golden chain tree which is a commonly found tree with golden flowers that hang in the bunches.

In the poem ‘The Laburnum Top’ the aforementioned phrase has been placed in order to represent the bird goldfinch itself. It means that the bird’s barred or covered face becomes its identity mask for recognition.

In this quoted phrase from Ted Hughes’ poem ‘The Laburnum Top’, ‘she’ refers to the goldfinch which acts as an engine to its entire family. ‘Strokes’ means adding fuel. In this very context of the poem, the goldfinch feeds its family, providing the fuel that is nutrition what the machine or the bird’s family needs to be energetic.

Correct option is D. Simile

A date palm seed discovered during archeological investigation retained viability even after 10000 years. The retention of viability is due to the state of inactivity of embryo called Dormancy.

Formation of more than one embryo in a seed is called polyembryony.

The answer is (a) Cleavage polyembryony

The answer is (d) Gymnosperms

• Gymnosperms are flowerless plants that produce cones and seeds. 
• The term gymnosperm literally means "naked seed," as gymnosperm seeds are not encased within an ovary. 
• Rather, they sit exposed on the surface of leaf-like structures called bracts

(a) When off spring is produced without fertilization of diploid egg cell

A method of reproduction of plants, in which normal sexual reproduction is replaced by a form of reproduction in which meiosis and fertilization do not take place, is called apomixis.

The answer is (a) Haploid parthenogenesis

• In animal reproductive system Parthenogenesis develop into haploid males (haploid parthenogenesis), which then participate in bisexual reproduction.
• Bisexually produced eggs are often referred to as winter eggs since they have a thick covering that protects the embryo during adverse environmental conditions.

(b) streamlined flow of incompressible fluids

(a) flow of liquids

(a) Copper.

(b) The impure metal is heated in the sloping floor. The low meting metal melts and flows down leaving behind the impurities. Thus method is known as liquation.

(c) This method is based on the principle that the impurities are more soluble in molten state. The impure metal, in the form of a rod, is melted over a very narrow region at one end. The impurities get accumulated in the molten region and the molten region is gradually transferred to one end by moving the heat source. The impurities collected in the molten region are swept at one end of the metal and are discarded.

(i) The naturally occurring chemical substances in form of which the metal occur in the earth along with impurities are called minerals. The minerals from which the metal can be extracted conveniently and economically is called an ore. Thus, all ores are minerals but all minerals are not ores. For example iron is found in the earth’s crust an oxides, carbonates and sulphides. Out of these minerals of iron, the oxides of iron are employed for extraction of the metal. Therefore, oxides of iron are the ores of iron. Similarly, aluminium occurs in earth’s crust in form of two minerals, i.e, bauxite (Al₂O₃. x H₂O) and clay (Al₂O₃.2SiO. 2H₂O). Out of these two minerals, Al can be conveniently and economically extracted from bauxite the ore of alluminium.

(ii) Gold, silver and platinum.

(iii) Generally ores are contaminated with earthy, impurities and these impurities are called gangue or substance added is called flux. The flux combines with the impurities present in the ore to form an easily fusible material called slag.

Ores in which one of the components (either the impurity or the ore) is magnetic can be concentrated by magnetic separation method, e.g. Hematite (Fe₂O₂), magnetite (Fe₃O₄), siderite (FeCO₃), iron pyrites (FeS) and copper pyrites (CuFeS₂) can be concentrated by magnetic separation method.

1. Payroll Accounting 

2. Asset Management 

3. Loan Repayment Schedule

1. DA → C2 =B2 * 20% 

HRA → D2 = B2 * 5% 

GP → E2 = B2 + C2+ D2 

TDS → F2 = E2 * 10% 

NP → G2 = E2 – F2 

2. Fill the calculation for the remaining ‘10’ employees in the rm.

\(\frac{Amount\, of\, Depreciation (yearly \,Depriciation)}{Total\, Depreciable \,Amount (Cost)}\times 100\)

1 → c; 

2 → a; 

3 → d; 

4 → b

Fill down the calculation to remaining 4 employees

1. Basic Pay 

2. Dearness Allowance 

3. House Rent Allowance 

4. Provident Fund 

5. Professional Tax 

6. ESI

Written Down Value Method (WDV): 

This method is also known as Diminishing balance method or Reducing balance method. Under this method, a xed percentage is written o every year on the book value of the asset at the beginning of the year. 

Here the amount of depreciation goes on decreasing and therefore, the book value of asset will not become zero after its working life. 

Amount of depreciation = Written Down Value of asset x Rate of depreciation 

Straight Line Method: 

Under this method a fixed amount is deducted from the value of an asset year after year on account of depreciation and debited to profit and loss account. This method is also called Fixed Instalment method, or Original Cost method. Under this method value of asset will be reduced to zero.

Depreciation = \(\cfrac {\text{Cost of the asset - scrap value}}{\text{Life of the asset}}\)

Net Salary Calculation: 

Step 1 – Calculate Gross salary by using the given formula. 

Gross salary /Gross Pay = Basic Pay + Grade Pay + Dearness Pay+ Dearness Allowance + House Rent Allowance + Any other Earnings. 

Step 2 – Calculate Total Deduction by using the following formula. 

Total Deduction = Professional Tax+ Provident Fund + Tax deducted at source + Loan Recovery + Any other deductions 

Step 3- Calculate net salary by the given formula. 

Net Salary = Gross salary – Total Deduction