Punjab State Board PSEB 12th Class English Book Solutions English Reading Comprehension Unseen Passages Type-II Exercise Questions and Answers, Notes.
PSEB 12th Class English Reading Comprehension Unseen Passages Type-II
Comprehension means understanding. At the learner s level comprehension is a fairly good exercise for ability enhancement and confidence building. It involves deriving or getting the meaning of reading material. It means the understanding of what is written or heard or spoken.
A passage given for comprehension is a tool to test ability to understand it. In order to acquire efficiency in understanding a passage, practice supplemented by reading books written by eminent authors, acts like the benefits of comprehension in the real sense. You could be asked different types of questions in order to find out if your knowledge is sound. Some of these questions may be:
- Multiple Choice Questions.
- You should read the passage again slowly so as to know all the details.
- Read the passage after reading all the questions.
- Answer the question in a complete sentence.
- Read the words in a group, not one by one.
- Try to get the meaning of unknown or unfamiliar words.
- Do not feel nervous if you do not know the meanings of one or two words. Sometimes two or three readings are quite helpful.
- Revise your answer to correct mistakes.
- Every passage embodies a viewpoint.
- As far as possible, use your own words in answering one line questions. You should not try to lift the words of the passage.
- You should try to create the impression that you are the master and you have thorough understanding of the passage given in the question paper.
Question No. 1 (b) in the question paper will be based on comprehension of an unseen passage.
Unseen passage for comprehension (passage of 150-200 words) followed by two Multiple Choice Questions, two single line comprehension questions, one question on fill in the blanks (two), one question on matching the words (two). There will be six questions in all carrying 6 marks.
Sample Paragraphs for Comprehension
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
There are in our country, as in other countries of the world, thousands of handicapped persons, such as those who are blind or deaf and dumb. In some cases these persons may have been born blind or deaf while in others they may have gone blind or deaf as a result of some illness or accident.
You sometimes hear people say of such handicapped persons : “It is the work of fate” or “It is the will of God.” Some even say, “They suffer the fruits of their own actions in the past.” Even parents of handicapped children often express such feelings and opinions, and they scarcely ever think of how they can help these unfortunate ones. This certainly is not the way to look at the problems of the handicapped.
Whatever may be the cause of their suffering, we have got to treat the handicapped with sympathy and understanding. In many instances physically handicapped children suffer neglect and are left to themselves in their homes. This makes their life extremely sad and lonely. Our first duty is to make these children happier and less lonely. Secondly, we have got to educate these children and help them to live useful lives. We should secure for them benefits of education in schools intended for them. We have got to make them useful citizens by creating for them suitable opportunities to be employed. They will then have a sense of achievement, and we can be happy that we have done our duty for them.
Question 1.
How must we treat the handicapped children ?
(a) Strictly.
(b) With loneliness.
(c) With sympathy and understanding.
(d) With neglect, carelessness and loneliness.
Answer:
(c) With sympathy and understanding.
Question 2.
According to the author, what is our first duty towards the handicapped ?
(a) It is to leave them alone.
(b) It is to make them do hard work.
(c) It is to make them happier and less lonely.
(d) It is to get them employed.
Answer:
(c) It is to make them happier and less lonely.
Question 3.
How do some children become handicapped ?
Answer:
They become handicapped by being deaf or blind.
Question 4.
What do some people say about the blind and deaf being handicapped ? You may give one of the opinions expressed in the passage.
Answer:
Some children are handicapped because of the will of God.
Question 5.
Handicapped children suffer and are left to themselves their own homes.
Answer:
neglect, in
Question 6.
Match words in column A with their meanings in column B:
| A | B |
| Handicapped | physically unfit |
| Sympathy | not brave |
| feeling of pity and |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Handicapped | physically unfit |
| Sympathy | feeling of pity and |
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
Penicillin is one of the most useful drugs invented by man. With its help we can heal wounds caused by bacteria which cannot be otherwise healed. To begin with, very few people knew of this wonderful discovery or its uses. First scientists and then ministers of governments were interested in it. Since penicillin could save the wounded soldiers, it could be helpful in war. And so they decided to encourage the process of manufacture. Vast factories were set up for preparing it.
Lives of hundreds and thousands of soldiers were saved with its help. Most people benefited from it. Penicillin when introduced into the stream of the human blood, acts as an aid to those parts which are always fighting the deadly germs. It has not power over every kind of bacteria, but certain kinds are destroyed by penicillin in the great majority of cases.
Question 1.
Choose the correct statement:
(a) Penicillin is harmful like other drugs used by drug addicts.
(b) With the help of penicillin we can heal many wounds caused by bacteria.
(c) In the beginning many people knew the use of the wonderful penicillin.
(d) Nobody was first interested in penicillin.
Answer:
(b) With the help of penicillin we can heal many wounds caused by bacteria.
Question 2.
Who were interested in the-discovery of penicillin in the beginning ?
(a) Ministers of governments and scientists.
(b) Smugglers.
(c) Researchers.
(d) Students studying science in Colleges.
Answer:
(a) Ministers of governments and scientists.
Question 3.
How was penicillin helpful in war ?
Answer:
It was helpful in war because it saved many wounded soldiers.
Question 4.
Who benefited from the use of penicillin ?
Answer:
Thousands of people benefited from the use of penicillin.
Question 5.
The water level dips …………… the streams ………….. the winter season.
Answer:
in, in
Question 6.
Match the following words in column A with their meanings in column B:
| A | B |
| Aid | method |
| Process | help |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Aid | help |
| Process | method |
3. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
Brain drain, also referred to as human capital flight, is the action of having highly skilled and educated people leaving their country to work abroad. It has actually become one of the serious concerns for the developing nations. While many people believe that immigration is a personal choice that must be understood and respected, others look at the phenomenon from a different perspective. What makes those people leave their country, their own people, should be seriously considered and a distinction between pull and push factors must be made. The push factors include low wages and lack of satisfactory working and living conditions.
Social unrest, political conflicts and wars may also be determining causes. The pull factors, however, include intellectual freedom and substantial funds for research. Brain drain has negative impact on the economic prospects and competitive skills of sending countries. It reduces the number of dynamic and creative people who can contribute to the development of their country. Likewise, with more entrepreneurs taking their investments abroad, developing countries are missing opporunity of wealth citation.
Question 1.
The term brain drain is also referred to as:
(a) Human capital flight
(b) Capital flight
(c) Pull factors
(d) Push factors.
Answer:
(a) Human capital flight
(b) Capital flight
Question 2.
Brain drain has terrible consequences on the economic development of:
(a) Sending countries
(b) Receiving countries
Answer:
(a) Sending countries
(b) Receiving countries
Question 3.
What do you mean by the term brain drain ?
Answer:
It means the departure of skilled and educated people to other countries for better opportunities.
Question 4.
Give the push factors that lead to brain drain.
Answer:
Push factors are low wages, lack of satisfactory working and living conditions and some determining causes.
Question 5.
Fill in the two blanks in the given sentence with suitable words from the passage:
Every citizen must …………. to the development of the …………….. whole-heartedly.
Answer:
contribute, nation
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings under column B:
| A | B |
| Conflicts | decrease |
| Reduce | increase |
| disputes. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Conflicts | disputes. |
| Reduce | decrease |
4. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
Health and hygiene go hand in hand. Health refers to a state of sound mind and physically fit body, free from any form of sickness, disorder or ailment. Hygiene refers to the good practices that prevent disease and leads to good health through cleanliness, proper sewage disposal, balanced and nutritious food, regular exericse, proper sleep, pure and fresh air and supply of safe drinking water. The proverb, ‘Health is Wealth’ is truly said of all things in the world.
Good health is the most valuable that one can possess. Money is undoubtedly a prized possession, but can it provide pleasure to a ruined health ? As body and mind are closely related, the mind can never be sound and cheerful without sound health. An unhealthy man may have intelligence, merit and wealth but he cannot put them to use and reap their benefits. We must, therefore, adopt proper hygienic measures to preserve and maintain good health. Too much work or exercise, eating or drinking are injurious to health. A regulated life coupled with clear and pure mind makes life worth living.
Question 1.
Choose the factors that refer to health:
(a) sound mind
(b) physically fit body
(c) freedom from sickness
(d) drunkenness
Answer:
(a) sound mind
(b) physically fit body
(c) freedom from sickness
Question 2.
Life can be worth living through:
(a) smoking and drinking
(b) taking drugs
(c) regulated life
(d) healthy body.
Answer:
(c) regulated life
(d) healthy body.
Question 3.
Which is most valuable thing that one can possess ?
Answer:
Good health is the most valuable thing.
Question 4.
How can we preserve and maintain good health ?
Answer:
We can preserve and maintain good health by adopting proper hygienic measures.
Question 5.
Drinking and smoking are injurious ………….. health and ruinous ………….. our economy.
Answer:
to, for
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings under column B:
| A | B |
| Injurious | to prevent from |
| Preserve | harmful for |
| beneficial to. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Injurious | harmful for |
| Preserve | to prevent from |
5. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
More than 150 years ago after the death of John Dalton, whose atomic thoery is the basis of chemistry, a scientist has established the cause of his colour blindness, Dalton could not distinguish red from green. In 1784 English chemist was the first to describe colour blindness which became known as Daltonism. The word is still used in French, Spanish and Russian.
Scientists from London and Cambridge have examined DNA from fragments of Dalton’s eyes preserved at his request by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and have shown that he lacked the gene for making green pigment in the retina.
Dalton who lived from 1766 to 1844 gave instructions for his eyes to be examined after his death. He had believed that the vitreous humour, the clear substance in the inner chamber of the eyes must in his case be tinted blue so that it absorbed red light. At the autopsy no such blue tint was found. But from Daltons perception of how he perceived light, historians have concluded that he must have lacked the pigment in the retina that is sensitive to red light.
That is now showing to be wrong after work by a team led by Dr. David Hut of the institute of Ophthalmology of London and Dr. John Milton from Cambridge University.
Question 1.
What colours Dalton could not distinguish ?
(a) Red from blue.
(b) Red from brown.
(c) Red from green.
(d) Red from purple.
Answer:
(c) Red from green.
Question 2.
What instructions did Dalton give regarding his eyes ?
(a) To be preserved at home.
(b) To be examined after death.
(c) To be checked without delay.
(d) To be kept in museum.
Answer:
(b) To be examined after death.
Question 3.
Which languages still use the word ‘Daltonism’?
Answer:
French, Spanish and Russian languages still use the word Daltonism.
Question 4.
What did Dalton believe about his own blindness ?
Answer:
He believed that the clear substance in the inner chamber of the eyes must be tinted blue so that it absorbed red light.
Question 5.
Historians came to the ………… that he …………….. a pigment in his retina.
Answer:
conclusion, lacked
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings in column B :
| A | B |
| Tinted | assimilate |
| Absorb | coloured |
| blackened. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Tinted | coloured |
| Absorb | assimilate. |
6. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
One night a man came to our house and told me, “There is a family with eight children. They have not eaten for days.” I took some food and went out. When I finally came to the family, I saw the faces of those little children disfigured by hunger. There was no sorrow or sadness in their faces, just the deep pain of hunger. I gave the rice to the mother. She divided it in two and went out, carrying half the rice with her. When she came back, I asked her, “Where did you go ?” She gave me this simple answer, “To my neighbours. They are also hungry.” I was not surprised because poor people are generous but I was surprised that she knew they were hungry.
As a rule, when we are suffering, we are so focused on ourselves ; we have no time for others. We become selfish and self-centred. Having experienced the pangs of sufferings, we should, rather extend a helping hand to the poor and the needy.
Question 1.
The faces of the little children showed :
(a) hunger.
(b) sorrow.
(c) sadness.
(d) patience.
Answer:
(a) hunger.
Question 2.
The action of the mother shows:
(a) sympathy.
(b) generosity.
(c) love.
(d) hatred.
Answer:
(a) sympathy.
Question 3.
Where did the mother go ?
Answer:
She went to hungry neighbours.
Question 4.
Why was the gendeman surprised ?
Answer:
He was surprised because the mother knew that her neighbours were hungry.
Question 5.
Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the passage :
Generally those who are suffering, are …………. on themselves and have no …………….. for others.
Answer:
focussed, time
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings under column B:
| A | B |
| Generous | give attention to one particular thing |
| Focussed | inattentive |
| large-hearted. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Generus | large-hearted |
| Focussed | give attention to one particular thing. |
7. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
Less obviously, but just as significant, are the social reasons behind the modern urge to travel. Foreign journeys were at one time expensive and difficult for most people to organize, in fact a luxury for the wealthy. Today cheap airfares and package holidays have made foreign travel fashionable for many, especially for those who spend their working lives in crowded cities and in industry. Travel to foreign countries is now within reach of families who only thirty years ago would have hardly dreamt of such a thing.
Indeed, for some it has become a matter of personal pride to boast of time spent abroad, and the more glamorous and far- flung the destination, the better. Indians are now looking beyond the beaches of Goa to Miami beaches or to the mountains of Alps or the Niagara Falls or even the safaris of Africa for a new and vastly different experience. Travel companies have been quick to advertise the cultural and educational advantages of such holidays, selling wildlife exploration trips of the Amazon or the ancient temples of the east just as earnestly as they once did the ‘magic of Rome’ or the ‘splendours of ancient Athens’.
Question 1.
What was once a luxury for the wealthy ?
(a) Betting on horse-races.
(b) Gambling in a Cassino.
(c) Foreign travel
(d) Keeping a stable of horses.
Answer:
(c) Foreign travel
Question 2.
What has made foreign travel fashionable now ?
(a) Cheap airfares and package holidays.
(b) Attraction of glamorous and far-flung destinations.
(c) Peoples longing to go abroad.
(d) People’s yearning to see the panorama of foreign countries.
Answer:
(a) Cheap airfares and package holidays.
(b) Attraction of glamorous and far-flung destinations.
Question 3.
Why do people look forward to go to foreign locations now ?
Answer:
People’s yearning to see the panorama of foreign countries.
Question 4.
Name four cities in the East which you would like to visit.
Answer:
Singapore, Dubai, Flongkong, Abu Dhabi.
Question 5.
Fill up the two blanks in the following sentence :
The pull …………….. our country remains with us even when we go to far-flung beaches of Gold Coast and Miami …………… America.
Answer:
of, in
Question 6.
Match the words given under column A with their meanings under column B :
| A | B |
| Splendours | beautiful features of a place |
| Earnestly | seriously |
| insincerely. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Splendours | beautiful features of a place |
| Earnestly | seriously |
8. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that are given at the end:
Water and soil are two other important factors in the environment of plants. All the chemical processes that take place in living things depend on water, without water all living things die. The only plants that can survive in a desert where there is very little water, are those that can retain water in their tissues. The amount of water in any place on land depends first on the rainfall. But the kind of soil is also important. If it lets water through too quickly none is left- for plants. And even if the soil does hold water, wind and sun may dry out the surface. Wind, sun and rainfall are the main influences of climate. Different combinations of these three produce different climates, and in turn different plants are adapted to these climates. Animals follow the plants or other herbivorous animals which they need for food so that animal distribution also is tied closely to climate.
Question 1.
Choose the correct statements:
(a) Water and soil are two important factors in the environment of plants.
(b) All chemical processes taking place in living things depend on water.
(c) Without water all livings die.
(d) Only plants that can survive in a desert are those having water in their tissues.
Answer:
(a) Water and soil are two important factors in the environment of plants.
(b) All chemical processes taking place in living things depend on water.
(c) Without water all livings die.
(d) Only plants that can survive in a desert are those having water in their tissues.
Question 2.
Choose the correct statement:
(a) Wind, sun and rainfall are the main influences of climate.
(b) Different combinations of wind, sun and rainfall produce different climates.
(c) Animals follow the plants or other herbivorous animals which they need for food.
(d) Animal distribution also is tied closely to climate,
Answer:
(a) Wind, sun and rainfall are the main influences of climate.
Question 3.
Give the names of two important factors in the environment of plants.
Answer:
Water and Soil are the two important factors.
Question 4.
Name the three main influences of climate.
Answer:
Wnd, sun and rainfall.
Question 5.
Fill up the two blanks in the sentence below by taking words from the passage:
Wind, …………. and rainfall are the main …………… of climate.
Answer:
sun, influences
Question 6.
Match the words given under column A with their meanings in column B:
| A | B |
| Tied | surroundings |
| Environment | barricade |
| linked to. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Tied | linked to |
| Environment | surroundings. |
9. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
In a reversal of the norm elsewhere, in India policymakers and economists have become optimists while bosses do the worrying. The country’s Central Bank has predicted that India’s economy is likely to grow at a double digit rate during the next 20-30 years. India has the capability with its vast labour and lauded entrepreneurial spirit. But the private sector which is supposed to do the heavy lifting that turns India from the tenth largest economy to the third largest by 2030 has become fed up.
Business people often carp about India’s problems but their irritation this time has a nervous edge. In the first quarter of 2011, GDP grew at an annual rate of 7-8 percent; in 2005-07 it managed 9-10 percent. The economy may be slowing naturally as the low interest rates and public spending that got India through the global crisis are belatedly withdrawn. At the same time the surge in inflation caused by exorbitant food prices has spread more widely, casting doubts over whether India can grow at 8-10 percent in the medium term without over heating.
Question 1.
What rate of growth does the Central Bank predict for the Indian economy for the next 20-30 years ?
(a) Double digit percent.
(b) Eight percent.
(c) Seven percent.
(d) Five percent.
Answer:
(a) Double digit percent.
Question 2.
Who is presumed to do the heavy lifting to convert India into third largest economy ?
(a) Private sector.
(b) Public sector.
(c) Government agencies.
(d) Exorbitant food prices.
Answer:
(a) Private sector.
Question 3.
On what is India’s capability to grow based ?
Answer:
It is based on the predictions of Central Bank.
Question 4.
What is casting doubts over India’s growth rate ?
Answer:
Exorbitant food prices are casting doubts about India’s growth rate.
Question 5.
Fill up the two blanks by using your own words or words from the passage:
He suffered heavy ……………… in his business and he had a …………….. breakdown.
Answer:
losses, nervous
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings in column B:
| A | B |
| Lauded | starting own business seeing a new opportunity |
| Entrepreneurial | speculative |
| highly praised. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Lauded | highly praised |
| Entrepreneurial | starting own business seeing a new opportunity. |
10. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it:
He was a funny-looking man with a high, bald, dome-shaped head, a face very small in comparison, a round upturned nose and a long wavy beard that didn’t seem to belong to such a perky face. His ugliness was a standing joke among his friends and he helped them to enjoy the joke. He was a poor man and something of an idler-a stone-cutter by trade, a sort of semi-skilled sculptor. But he didn’t work any more than was necessary to keep his wife and three boys alive. He preferred to talk. And since his wife was a complaining woman who used her tongue as an irate wagon driver uses a horse-whip, he loved above all things to be away from home.
He would get up before dawn, eat a hasty breakfast of bread dipped in wine, slip on a tunic and throw a coarse mantle over it, and be off in search of a shop, or a temple, or a friend’s house, or the public baths, or perhaps just a familiar street corner, where he could get into an argument. The whole city he lived in was seething with argumentation. The city was Athens, and the man we are talking about was Socrates.
Question 1.
Choose the correct name of the person whose important physical features are given under (a), (b), (c) and (d):
(a) He was a funny looking man with a high bald, dome-shaped head. He was very ugly.
(b) He did not work very hard to earn more than required to feed his wife and children.
(c) His wife was a complaining woman, so he often kept away from home.
(d) Was he one of these-Aristotle, Plato, Socrates ?
Answer:
Socrates.
Question 2.
Identify the individual who followed his daily routine through the following activities:
(a) He got up before dawn and had his breakfast.
(b) He reached one of the places-a street corner, a public bath, a temple to get into an argument.
(c) It was the city of Athens.
(d) The whole city was seething with argumentation.
Answer:
Socrates.
Question 3.
Whose ugliness was a standing joke among the people ?
Answer:
It was the ugliness of Socrates.
Question 4.
Give a brief description of the ugly man.
Answer:
He was funny-looking, with a high bald, dome-shaped head, a small face, with an upturned nose, happy and energetic face etc.
Question 5.
Fill up the two blanks in the given sentence using your own words or words from the passage :
Socrates loved to stay ……………. from ……………
Answer:
away, home.
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings under column B:
| A | B |
| Coarse | happy and foil of energy |
| Perky | angry |
| rough. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Coarse | rough |
| Perky | happy and full of energy. |
11. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
In the eighteenth century, one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country provide revenue to three different orders of people; those who live by rent, those who live by wages and those who live by profit. Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however, made the social structure more complicated.
Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth century between the upper middle class and the working class. There are small scale industrialists as well as the large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continue in all countries as independent groups.
In spite of this development, one of the most famous writers on social class in the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, thought that there was tendency for society to split into huge class camps, the capitalists and the workers. Influential as Marx’s theory of social class, it was much over-simplified. The social make-up of modern societies is much more complex than he suggested.
Question 1.
According to passage, doctors and teachers belong to the:
(a) Upper class.
(b) Upper middle class.
(c) Working class.
(d) Middle class.
Answer:
(b) Upper middle class.
Question 2.
What effect did each stage of the industrial revolution have on social structure ?
(a) Made it easier to learn.
(b) Made it simple.
(c) Made it complicated.
(d) Made it flexible.
Answer:
(b) Made it simple.
Question 3.
Who developed the two-class theory ?
Answer:
Karl Marx developed the two-class theory.
Question 4.
Who are considered as intermediate group ?
Answer:
The small shopkeepers and tradesmen are considered as intermediate group.
Question 5.
Fill up the blanks (two) in the following sentence :
The new country of Pakistan was created ………….. 14th August, 1947 though the partition
of United India was declared a day ………….. on 15th August, 1947.
Answer:
on, later
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings in column B
| A | B |
| Split | big |
| Huge | not heavy |
| broken | |
| undivided. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Split | broken |
| Huge | big. |
12. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
Named after former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral’s mother, Pushpa Gujral Science City located on Jalandhar-Kapurthala Road, just west of Jalandhar is extremely thrilling. Almost every branch of science is exhibited, right from physical, applied, natural and social sciences. Similarly health sciences, human evolution and civilization, engineering, technology, agriculture, the environment, ecosystems and Jurassic Park are presented in great details and show the various aspects of Science. In the Dome theatre, large format films are projected on 23 meter-tilted dome. Semi-circular giant dome screen produces huge images that soar and swoop above, beside and behind you, to give you a spectacular, immiscible experience.
The light-speed 3D Digital Theatre presents three dimensional computer graphics, videos and the most advanced animation. Amazing Living Machine Gallery presents the intricate structures and functions of the human body using large human models. The flight simulator provides the visitors a sense of adventure. The laser theatre presents laser shows that carry the visitors to a wonderland to experience a mind boggling mix of sound and laser beams. The Dinosaur Park displays the evolution of dinosaurs and the probable reasons for their extinction. There is also a kids’ park containing tunnels, rides, bouncers etc. and an artificial lake that allows the visitors to indulge in boating. With all the wonderful attractions, a visit to the Science City would be highly informative and enjoyable.
Question 1.
Choose on? of the following facilities which provides a sense of adventure :
(a) Laser Theatre.
(b) Dome Theatre.
(c) Kids’ Park.
(d) Flight Simulator.
Answer:
(d) Flight Simulator.
Question 2.
Large human models are found in :
(a) Dinosaur Park.
(b) Amazing Living Machine Gallery.
(c) Digital Theatre.
(d) Laser Theatre.
Answer:
(b) Amazing Living Machine Gallery.
Question 3.
Where is the science city situated ?
Answer:
It is situated on Jalandhar-Kapurthala Road.
Question 4.
What is displayed in the Dinosaur Park ?
Answer:
The Dinosaur Park displays the evolution of the dinosaurs and the probable reason of their disappearence.
Question 5.
Fill up the two blanks in the sentence given below with the words used in the passage above:
Our visit to Pushpa Gujral Science City was very ……………. and …………….
Answer:
thrilling, mind boggling.
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings under column B :
| A | B |
| Located | shown |
| Exhibited | situated. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Located | situated |
| Exhibited | shown. |
13. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it:
In the pleasant valley of a country which was called Thessaly, there lived a man whose name was Orpheus. Everyday he made soft music with his golden harp and sang beautiful songs such as no one had ever heard before. And whenever Orpheus sang, everything came to listen to him. It was strange to watch the beasts that came and stood all around him. Cows came, and sheep and dogs, and horses and with them came bears and wolves; but the wild beasts did not hurt the cows and sheep, for they forgot their cruel ways as they heard the songs of Orpheus. The high hills listened to him also and even clouds sailed along more gently and brightly in the sky when he sang; and the stream which ran close to his feet made a softer noise to show how glad his music made it.
Question 1.
Identify the man :
(a) Who lived in the pleasant valley of a country.
(b) Who made soft music with his golden harp.
(c) Who sang beautiful songs.
(d) Who sang songs which had never been heard by anyone before.
Answer:
Orpheus.
Question 2.
State the event :
(a) Everything came to listen ……………..
(b) Beasts stood all around ……………..
(c) The high hills listened ……………..
(d) Horses, wolves and bears came ……………..
Answer:
when Orpheus sang.
Question 3.
How did the beasts behave towards sheep and cows ?
Answer:
They forgot their cruel ways.
Question 4.
What was the effect of the singers songs on the animals ?
Answer:
They came and stood around the singer.
Question 5.
Fill up the two blanks in the given sentence with your own words or words from the passage:
The stream a noise to show its gladness.
Answer:
made, softer
Question 6.
Match the words under column A with their meanings under column B:
| A | B |
| Harp | musical instrument |
| softer | gentler. |
Answer:
| A | B |
| Harp | musical instrument |
| softer | gentler. |