| Read the following passage carefully: |
| I should be the last person to be telling school and college students to take their studies seriously. I never did so myself and scraped through my exams with an unbroken record of third divisions. In successive years at school, I distinguished myself by getting zeroes in arithmetic and just managed to get by with algebra and geometry. It was almost the same in college and for higher studies in law in England. |
| Most students did their L. L. B. and Bar-at-Law in three years. I took five years to pass the same exams. |
| When I returned home, my father quite rightly belittled my performances. When any of his friends asked him "What did your son pass in England?" he would reply, "I am not sure what he passed except that he passed a lot of time. Students who take their studies seriously do well in their exams and get a head start in life. You will notice that most of those who get into the best services like administrative, foreign, revenue education, engineering, police and other posts of the bureaucracy were among the toppers in their classes. Other who do equally well or better in professions like law or medicine, have to make up by studying and working harder in later life. There are no shortcuts to success. |
| Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: |
| Six years ago, Kaikondrahalli Lake in Bangalore was a marshy/ polluted cesspool. When Priya Ramasubban, a filmmaker, saw its condition, she immediately wanted to intervene and revive it. |
| "One day I was taking a walk near that lake and I saw the most amazing thing ever - hundreds of beautiful dragonflies so close to my face. I just knew I wanted to do something for the lake," she exclaims. "But/' she adds, "I needed a team to support me in this." Priya then contacted her friend Ramesh Sivaram who helped her in drawing the people's attention to the condition of the lake. Armed with the official copy of the report on the lake/ Priya collected a team of people and started visiting officials in government departments. Gradually, many environmentalists joined hands and the work of lake revival began. |
| The team went from one government department to another to garner support. By then the government had already made a plan to rejuvenate the lake but Priya had different plans. |
| "They had a pure engineering approach while we wanted more space for the water body and bio diverse, rejuvenating project," she says. |
| The team went back to BBMP's office and presented the new plan. The municipal authorities responded positively. |
| The rejuvenation project started by first fixing the boundaries, then diverting the sewage line that contaminated the lake. By this time an architect, Vasu, was also brought into the team before actual on-ground work could start. |
| The team members worked in shifts to supervise the progress of the work to ensure that everything went as per plan. They spent two years in dewatering, desilting and constructing the area around the lake. |
| After the rejuvenation process was over, the team waited for the monsoon. The first two months of the season passed with hardly any rain and so no water in the lake. Just when disappointment was beginning to set in, the heavens, opened up in the third month and water came gushing in from an upstream lake. |
| Gradually more and more people, including birds started visiting this revived water body. Motivated by Priya's efforts, many people volunteered to take care of the lake. Today the lake hosts fish, frogs, over 40 species of birds, and even snakes. An amphitheater has also been built near the lake for cultural events. |
| The once dead lake is now a living body. Thanks to the dedicated work and persistence of many Bengaloreans?a perfect example of community engagement. |
| (i) Answer the following questions: |
| (a) How did the writer get an idea to revive the lake? |
| (b) How was Priya's approach drastically different from that prepared by the Government? |
| (c) Why was it necessary to create awareness amongst local people? |
| (d) What evidence is there to prove that the lake is now a living and bustling body? |
| Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: |
| Six years ago, Kaikondrahalli Lake in Bangalore was a marshy/ polluted cesspool. When Priya Ramasubban, a filmmaker, saw its condition, she immediately wanted to intervene and revive it. |
| "One day I was taking a walk near that lake and I saw the most amazing thing ever - hundreds of beautiful dragonflies so close to my face. I just knew I wanted to do something for the lake," she exclaims. "But/' she adds, "I needed a team to support me in this." Priya then contacted her friend Ramesh Sivaram who helped her in drawing the people's attention to the condition of the lake. Armed with the official copy of the report on the lake/ Priya collected a team of people and started visiting officials in government departments. Gradually, many environmentalists joined hands and the work of lake revival began. |
| The team went from one government department to another to garner support. By then the government had already made a plan to rejuvenate the lake but Priya had different plans. |
| "They had a pure engineering approach while we wanted more space for the water body and bio diverse, rejuvenating project," she says. |
| The team went back to BBMP's office and presented the new plan. The municipal authorities responded positively. |
| The rejuvenation project started by first fixing the boundaries, then diverting the sewage line that contaminated the lake. By this time an architect, Vasu, was also brought into the team before actual on-ground work could start. |
| The team members worked in shifts to supervise the progress of the work to ensure that everything went as per plan. They spent two years in dewatering, desilting and constructing the area around the lake. |
| After the rejuvenation process was over, the team waited for the monsoon. The first two months of the season passed with hardly any rain and so no water in the lake. Just when disappointment was beginning to set in, the heavens, opened up in the third month and water came gushing in from an upstream lake. |
| Gradually more and more people, including birds started visiting this revived water body. Motivated by Priya's efforts, many people volunteered to take care of the lake. Today the lake hosts fish, frogs, over 40 species of birds, and even snakes. An amphitheater has also been built near the lake for cultural events. |
| The once dead lake is now a living body. Thanks to the dedicated work and persistence of many Bengaloreans?a perfect example of community engagement. |
| (ii) Complete the statements below in one word or phrase. |
| (a) It took ___ for the project to get completed. |
| (b) Heaven's rewarded Priya's hard work by sending down ____. |
| (c) To ___ is to bring back something to life. |
| (d) To ___ something is to make it impure and dirty. |
| You are Lalit of St. Martin's School, Bengaluru. Write a speech in about 150 words on the topic |
| 'Growing violence among children'. |
| OR |
| You have seen many children working in glass and other hazardous factories. You are sad to see this. |
| As Jai, write an article for you school magazine. |
| Read the outlines of a story given below. Write it in full using these outlines and your own ideas. |
| Assign a suitable title to it: |
| Outlines:-A man'pet dog'man meets with an accident'becomes crippled'dog helps to recover' proves faithfulness. |
| OR |
| Develop a story in about 150-200 words with the help of the following hints: |
| A foolish crow-found a piece of bread-a clever fox-felt greedy-praise the crow-bean tiful body-sweet voice-opened mouth-piece of bread fell down. |
| Re-arrange the following words and phrases to make meaningful sentences: |
| (i) the/body/sleep is/essential/a good night s/f or |
| (ii) to/catch/people/get/sleep/cold/7 hours/who/less than/of/are/likely |
| (iii) loss of/may also/appetite/they/experience |
| (iv) Sleep deeply/comfortable/hence to/clothes/relax/and/wear/one must |
| Consuming peanuts regularly help reduce risk of cardiovascular diseases without weight gain. Peanuts are rich source mono-saturated fatty acids, magnesium copper, arginine and fibre, all of have risk reducing properties. Peanuts are rich the type of fats actually reduce cardiovascular disease risk and its strong satiating properties. | e.g. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) (viii) | Before .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. | Word .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. | after .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. |
| Read the following stanza carefully and answer the questions that follows : |
| Said the Kangaroo, I'm ready! |
| All in the moonlight pale, |
| But to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady! |
| And quiet at the end of my tail!' |
| So away they went with a hop and a bound |
| And they hopped the whole world three times round; |
| And who so happy 0 who, |
| As the Duck and the Kangaroo? |
| (i) What was the Kangaroo ready for? |
| (ii) How did the kangaroo ask the Duck to sit and where? |
| (iii) How many times did they hop round the world? |
| (iv) What character trait about the kangaroo is revealed in the above lines? |
| Read the following extract and answer the questions that follows: |
| He dipped his fingers in the milk and thrust them into the fawn's soft wet mouth. It sucked greedily. |
| When he withdrew them, it bleated frantically and butted him. He dipped his fingers again and as the fawn sucked, he lowered them slowly into the milk. The fawn blew and sucked and snorted. |
| (i) Who is 'He' in the above lines? |
| (ii) Why did the fawn suck milk greedily? |
| (iii) How did (he) feed the fawn? |
| (iv) Name the author of the above chapter? |
| Answer any one of the following: |
| Narrate the story that Ernest's mother told him. |
| Begin like this: My mother and I were sitting at the door of our cottage. We were looking at the Great Stone Face. I asked her if she had ever seen anyone who looked like the Stone Face. Then she told me this story. |
| OR |
| Why do some of us find it necessary to prove that we are better than others? |
| Will you be amused or annoyed to read the following sign at the back of the car in front of you? |
| 'I may be going slow but I am ahead of you'. |
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