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Note making: Cycles – advantage over cars and bikes – popular – no petrol or diesel – small – no parking issue –Traffic jam – no issue – no pollution – tones up muscles – a good exercise.

Summary of the passage: Rough draft 

The cycle’s popularity is on the high. It doesn’t need petrol or diesel. Due to fuel shortage, cycle is a definite advantage. It is small, light, convenient. No parking problems and traffic jams. Moreover cycle causes no pollution, noise or smoke. Cycling is a good exercise that tones up muscles.

Fair draft: 

Cycle has many advantages over other modes of transport. Its popularity is on the increase. It doesn’t need petrol or diesel. Cycle is a definite advantage. It is small, light, convenient.

Parking problems and traffic jams do not affect the cyclist’s progress. Moreover, cycle causes no pollution such. Cycling keeps one fit, tones up one’s muscles.

6 Aug. 20XX

NOTICE 

PICNIC AT VANDALUR ZOO

A Picnic at Mahabalipuram is being organized on Sunday, the 20th Nov 20XX for class XII.

Departure : 8 a.m. (School bus) 

Arrival : 6 p.m. 

Fees : Rs 250 per head 

Attraction : Fun Rides/Games/Animals 

Guidance : Mr. J.P. Thilagan & Ms. S. Pushpa, class teachers.

Those interested may give their names to the undersigned by 29th October 20XX 

Harini/Deepak 

School Captain

Note making: Mystical Pleasure 

Children happy – waiting for train – not bored – cavern of wonder – poetic pleasure – red and green signals – sun and moon – wooden signal staff- akin to king’s scepter – controlling the flow – tournament of trains – The author like Milton – waits and serves – purple hours of youth – Railway station – now under water gets lost – waist deep in water – undergo same mystical pleasures.

OR

Summary: Rough draft 

A small boy never complains to wait for a train. To him, a railway station is a place of wonder and a palace of poetical pleasure. The red light and green light are like a new sun and a moon.

The wooden arm is like a staff of king. The author also has the same feeling. He spent many of his purple hours at Clapham Junction. He visits the shot remembering the past.

Fair draft: 

A small boy never complains to wait for a train. To him, a railway station is a place of wonder and a palace of poetical pleasure. The red light .and green light are like a new sun and a moon. The wooden arm is like a staff of a king. The author also has the same feeling. He spent many of his purple hours at Clapham Junction which is now under water. Under nostalgia, the author is lost in mystical thoughts in waist-deep water.

(d) She said to me, "Thank you"

(c) He said that he had got a Toothache.

The correct answer is Chaitra.

• Saka Era:
  • The national calendar of India based on the Saka era was adopted on 22nd March 1957.
  • The Saka Era is believed to have been founded by King Kanishka of the Kushan dynasty in 78 AD.
  • The Saka calendar is based on the lunisolar reckoning of time.
  • Chaitra is the first month of the year beginning on March 22 which is the day after the Spring equinox.

  • Thus, the first month of the Saka Era is Chaitra.

I have always been interested in metaphysics. 

The Janapadas were the realms, republics and kingdoms of the Vedic period on the Indian subcontinent — late Bronze Age into the Iron Age — from about 1200 BCE to the 6th century BCE.

The meaning of word ‘Janapada’ is the place where people put their pad or feet. The Janapada consisted of many villages and towns.

 Would you mind standing up for a moment.

(d) She ran out of the room Screaming 

You must be very tired.

Pressure groups are important in the functioning of a democratic government as they provide an opportunity for marginalised people to voice their opinions. In some cases, the government’s opinion might be biased by a small group of rich and powerful people. It is here that pressure groups step in and force the government to make policies which will benefit certain other sections of society as well.

I have been waiting here since morning.

have been waiting

• Tangible /immovable resources 
• Tangible / movable resources 
• Intangible resources

(a) Mr. Singh teaches us grammar.

Entrepreneurs make profits through activities that benefit society. Some entrepreneurs work towards saving the environment, some give money to build schools and hospitals. This way, the people and area around them becomes better.

Scale: It is an expression of ratio of distance in the map. It corresponds to the distance on the earth’s surface. When maps are prepared according to scales, it represents the accuracy of the distribution of space.

Values are basically the beliefs about what matters the most, how to behave and which goals are important.

1. It requires a warm and humid climate but flowering is profuse under a mild climate. It the temperature increases beyond 40° C or reduced low that the spike length as well as also the quality of blossom is badly affected. A temperature range from 20° C to 32° C is considered best for tuberose cultivation. 

2. Sandy and well drained loamy soils are considered good for tuberose cultivation. Soil should be rich in organic matter. The soil PH should be 6.5 to 7.5. Before cultivation soil testing is strongly recommended.

The correct answer is Subhas Chandra Bose.

• Subhas Chandra Bose founded the Forward Bloc in 1939.

• Subhash Chandra Bose
  • He founded the Independence for India League with Jawaharlal Nehru. 
  • He was elected as the President of INC at its Haripura Session (1938) and Tripuri Session (1939) but resigned from Tripuri due to differences with Gandhiji.
  • He founded the Forward Bloc (1939) at Calcutta.
  • He took the charge of Indian Army (Azad Hind Fauj) in 1943 in Singapore and set up an Indian Provisional government there.
  • He addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.
  • He gave the famous slogans–Dilli Chalo and Jai Hind.
  • The Indian Struggle was his autobiography.

Correct option is D) What's on tonight?

1. Production of disease-free transplants 

2. Produce flowers all year round. 

3. Higher crop yield and productivity 

4. Promotes quality and high value produce 

5. Minimizes the use of pesticides 

6. Efficient use of water 

7. Better management of biotic and abiotic stresses.

The correct answer is 12.

• The territorial jurisdiction extends to territorial water up to 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.
• Beyond territorial waters, there is the Contiguous Zone which extends up to 24 nautical miles.
• And beyond that up to 200 nautical miles, there is the Exclusive Economic Zone of India. 

• Territorial waters are the area of the sea immediately adjacent to the shores of a state and subject to the territorial jurisdiction of that state.
  • They are thus to be distinguished on the one hand from the high seas, which are common to all countries, and on the other from internal or inland waters, such as lakes wholly surrounded by the national territory or certain bays or estuaries. 

Attitude is defined as a set of beliefs, emotions and behaviours towards a particular place, object, person, situation, event, ideas or thing.

Escorts: The tour escort is a qualified person who accompanies people travelling through different destinations, countries and abroad to assure the regular running of the planned trips. He provides the necessary support services for its entire duration.

Patterns are small images used for filling regions of original images or for changing the background of an image.

The price of product goes down.

These are,

 Four Rs’ –Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and 

One U – Upcycle.

Motels : Motels was meant for local motorist and foreign tourists travelling by road. 

•  Motels were primarily designed to cater the needs of motorists and exclusively meet the demand for transit accommodation. 
•  They are mostly located outside the city limits in the countryside along the main highways on important road junction.

The Maharaja Express, Palace on Wheels, Golden Chariot

Indian sovereignity in sea extends upto 12 nautical miles.

1. Making decisions. 

2. Managing the business. 

3. Divide income. 

4. Taking risk.

5. Create a new product/idea/method.

These are: 

1 .Renewable Energy 

2. Green Buildings 

3. Green Transport 

4. Water Management & 

5. Waste Management

Components of Green Economy 

•  Renewable energy 
•  Green buildings 
•  Green transport 
•  Water management 
•  Waste management

Two components are : 

Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy is the energy produced by the renewable sources. 

Green Transport: With the advancement in technology, there are now alternates to conventional transportation that used to run on petrol or diesel.

We can reduce inequality by being:

A. Helpful to one another. 

B. Friendly with everyone. 

C. Including everyone while working or playing. 

D. Helping others by including everyone whether they are small or big, girl or boy, belonging to any class or caste.

Components of a Green Economy : 

A green economy includes the following components  

• Renewable energy 
• Green building 
• Well-managed (Sustainable) transport 
• Water management  
• Waste management 
• Land management

It is one of the commonly used classic floral arrangement styles that are used by various florists around the world. Here, the flowers and leaves are arranged in the shape of a fan. We can easily use the same or different type of flowers for the arrangement and the empty spaces are filled with the help of fillers

Targeted year is 2030.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015.

Correct option is C) terms

(a) Lymphoid organs 

(i) Bone marrow 

• It is the main lymphoid organ, whose all types of blood cells are formed.
• It provides the micro environment for the development and maturation of B-lymphocytes. 

(ii) Thymus 

• It is located beneath the chest bone near the heart.
• This gland keeps reducing in size with age. 
• It provides the micro environment for the development and maturation of T-lymphocytes. 

(iii) Spleen 

• It contains mainly lymphocytes and phagocytes.
• It acts as a filter of blood by trapping the blood-borne pathogens. 

(iv) Lymph nodes

• Lymph nodes are small, solid structures, found at different points along the lymphatic system.
• They act as filters and trap the microbes that have entered the lymph. 
• Antigens trapped in them activate the lymphocytes present in the lymph nodes and produce an immune response. 

(b) Bone marrow and thymus are the primary lymphoid organs, where the immature lymphocytes undergo differentiation into antigen-sensitive lymphocytes.

Spleen and lymph nodes are secondary lymphoid organs, where the lymphocytes interact with the antigen and proliferate to form a clone (effector and memory cells).

Correct option is C) expression

Correct option is B) inscription