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(a) (i) Prepare a speech in 80–120 words on the topic ‘Cleanliness is essential for a healthy environment.’

(ii) Stray animals are a menace. They are a health hazard and often cause accidents. Write an article in 80 – 120 words on, ‘The problem of stray animals in cities.’ You are Jasprit /Jaspal.


(b) Choosing a career is indeed a tough task. There are so many options and so many suggestions that one feels confused. Career counsellors advise one to choose the career in which one is interested. Write an article in 150 – 200 words on, ‘Choice of Career’. You are Rohan / Rohini.


OR


‘‘Unruly students should be expelled from school.’’ Write a debate in 150 – 200 words either for or against the motion.


(a) (i) CLEANLINESS IS ESSENTIAL FOR A HEALTHY ENVIORNMENT


Respected jury, principal sir, worthy teachers and all my dear friends, a very good morning to all of you. I am Rohan from class 12th and I am going to deliver a speech on topic “Cleanliness is essential for a healthy environment.”


Cleanliness is the basic and a foremost need of a healthy environment. For healthy living clean and green surroundings is essential which can add many years to a human life. Our environment should always exist and remain in its natural form to provide us its worth sources. Cleanliness does play a vital role in providing the proper and germ-free lifestyle to live longer.


As Water, air, plants should be polluted free and must be purified for a living in the same way, our surroundings should be kept clean for a healthy living. Littering, dumping and wasting the essential resources all lead to an unhygienic environment which gives birth to various diseases and harmful germs. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are the ultimate measures to keep the environment clean and healthy.


Thank you and have a good day!


(ii) The problem of stray animals in cities


The condition of Stray animals in cities is very miserable and highly insensible. The hygiene and safety of these poor animals are not in either governments’ or in human’s priority list. They are being left wandered lonely to survive on their own. In the big metro cities, where it is just way too difficult for people to get food and shelter, these stray animals are too far to get any care and desirable attention.


Polluted environment and unhygienic places have led a lot of animals to fall sick every day and due to less resources, there are not even proper hospitals and vaccination for animals which can be provided to them to live a healthy life. People behavior towards animals have been better now as compared to previous time but not that much to be praised for.


Stray cats and dogs are mistreated and even get beaten whenever these are proved to be bothering people. Weaker by hunger and unwell by diseases, stray animals are seldom given food and any treatment. Cities population have captured almost lands and other resources by which there is almost no good place left for these animals to stay.


Either these are found in any dump yard, littering through wastes, or lying on roads during heavy rains and in high winters. Indeed, the condition of stray animals is terrifying and government should take some better actions in the sake of their living.


By Jasprit.


(B)


CHOICE OF CAREER


One of the most important and challenging situations in any individual’s life is definitely the choice of career. All the education and knowledge that has been taught to a student or a random person to develop his/her character play a vital role while choosing a wise career for them for a lifetime. In the time of high competitions and the world of unemployment, achieving your preferred career is not less than a dream.


Most of the young generations are going through a rough confusion thinking of what profession will suits them better because the kind of education they get from schools and colleges don’t seem enough to let them know about their career clearly. Confusions result in frustrations and followed by depressions have been a normal trauma in our society.


From a very young age, students are not provided proper guidance and counseling through which they can think about their future more specially. Either they are bound by the social pressure or their economic condition doesn’t let them to attain the wishful career for them.


A right choice of career is the foremost responsibility of a student including the best guidance of their parents as well as teachers because it depends for one’s success and failure in life.


By Rohini.


OR


IN FAVOUR:


UNRULY STUDENTS SHOULD BE EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL


School is a medium of education and discipline. It is the primary stage to develop a character of a child in a positive way to serve the society as well as nation a good human being. But it is a bitter truth that some students are not really eligible for this education as they think it’s all wastage of time and money.


Many unruly students have been found a great number in schools and colleges that it seems really shameful to talk upon.


Nowadays teachers have been instructed to not to punish and scold any of their students even on being mistreated but that is something should not be tolerated at all. Those students who have been continuously misbehaving with teachers and other students in class should be get expelled right away.


School and colleges don’t need such anti-social humans who have no kindness towards mankind and are not sincere towards their career in life. The responsibility of a teacher towards its student is to make him a better person and teaches him/her better lessons in life but if the student is not wishful and in fact behave rudely by giving the bluff of his/her parents reputation and wealth, the school authority without any fear should get them expelled as it will lead good students to focus on their future and will keep away from these such bad elements of society.


IN AGAINST:


UNRULY STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL


School is a temple of knowledge where every child comes to learn better things to become a good human in his/her life. The education system of our country has been a wonderful experience for every student who has become successful in their life and it is definitely a fundamental right of every student to get full education.


But on the other hand, there is massive count of people who has involved themselves in such anti-social deeds which is indeed a worrisome problem. This is either because of the lack of education or due to lack of opportunities. Students who get expelled from any school and college have eventually got a black mark on their certificates for the whole life. They don’t get any admission in further college due to their previous records and eventually remain unemployed and become a burden on their family as well as society.


During school or college period a student is in various transitions of characters of a human and if that time he/she doesn’t get the proper counseling and education, the result can be very dangerous. Instead of throwing them out of school for some misbehaved acts, they should be punished and get even more detention to make them realize their mistakes but should not be expelled as this will not be the solution of teaching him/her the learning lessons from their mistakes.


Unruly students should be given more attention and proper counseling classes as their minds requires it more and should be taken further to the brighter end of their career.


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1

Read the passage given below and complete the statements that follow:

1. Elephants are prone to many diseases. In the Ramayana there are references to elephants gripped by fever. They are susceptible to enteric fever, pox and foot-and-mouth disease. They also may get rabies when bitten by rabid dogs. The intense heat of north India does not suit elephants. In February 1962, a party of sadhus camped with their elephant outside a city. They could not provide either covering or shelter for the night and the animal just froze to death.


2. If an elephant catches a chill, he may get pneumonia or pleuropneumonia. When the body of an elephant is heated up through exertion in kheda, it is not wise to let him drink cold water or to bathe him. He may catch pneumonia or get colic pain. However, the practice in South India is just the opposite of this. There they give a newly-captured elephant plenty of water to drink so that he may cooldown.


3. When wild elephants invade human habitations, they eat up anything they come across flour, jaggery, even tobacco. Sometimes from overeating or from eating things that do not agree with them, they become ill with digestive disorders. Elephants have been known to have become so sick asto remain sprawled on the ground for days, being unable to move. In the Khara forest in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, once a Lone bull invaded the huts of the timber workers. It was the summer of 1966. The contractor had kept a provision of 200 kg of tobacco and 40 kg of jaggery to be distributed among the workmen. The tusker ate as much as he could of the tobacco and jaggery and then washed it down with four pitchers full of water kept there. Then the tobacco began to do its work. The elephant became giddy and collapsed. He was seized with an attack of diarrhea. For full 15 days he lay there as if in coma. After the tobacco had all come out with the dung that he had constantly been passing, he was alright again and he walked off into the forest.


4. Frequently the digestive tract of an elephant becomes infested with parasitic organisms. To rid himself of these the animal has recourse to some natural remedies, primarily mineral salts contained in earth and water. An elephant knows where such earth is to be found. These places are known as salt-licks.


5. There is a sickness in which the elephant begins to wear away. He becomes thin and emaciated and water accumulates in the pores of his body. When an elephant is in this state, he is usually allowed to go at large and to graze at will.


6. In May 1967, I saw an elephant-cow in the Terai forests of Uttar Pradesh which had a great bump on her left hind leg. She walked with a limp and was always left behind when the other elephant soft the herd had to run from some possible Danger. The bump could have originated either from a fracture that had now healed or from some abscess or tumor. Elephants are also subject to gout, which gives them a limp.


7. Elephants, when they are first caught in the jungle, often sustain manifold injuries. These may be caused by their falling into pits dug for them or from the ropes which are used to secure them. Some of the cuts are so deep in appearance that an inexperienced person may become shocked to look at them. They are in fact not very serious and heal very quickly. Wounds caused by the ropes are often more serious. Great care has to be taken that ropes do not cut into the tendons and nerves of the elephants and as soon as the animal is secure in the camp, the ropes are loosened.


8. The very strength of a large tusker acts against him in a kheda. The more he struggles, the wider and deeper the injuries that he may sustain. Much force and severity are needed to bring him under control.


9. Wounds caused by ropes on the neck and feet are common. After the elephant has been captured, it is necessary to see that these parts are kept free of ropes.


10. As far as possible an elephant should be kept from falling. He may get injuries on the elbow which may become septic or the tusks or tushes may get broken and cause troublesome wounds in the jaw or on the trunk. Sometimes the friction from the rope causes deep cuts on the neck. And when wounds on the legs and feet become septic, the smell is so foul that it is difficult to stand near the animal. Flies begin laying eggs in the open wound and the condition of the animal worsens from day to day. He cannot even lie down; he cannot sleep. When there are signs of gangrene setting in, it is best to set the elephant at liberty.


(a) Elephants may get rabies _________.


(b) An elephant may get pneumonia or ________ if he catches a chill.


(c) He may suffer from digestive disorders if ______.


(d) Mineral salts found in the earth help an elephant to rid himself of _____.


(e) An elephant is allowed to graze at will when ______.


(f) Injuries suffered by elephants when they are first caught are caused by ______.


(g) To bring a captured elephant under control ______.


(h) When an injured elephant shows signs of gangrene he


______.


(i) Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following:


(i) severe (Para1)


(ii) attack (Para3)


 1

Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow:

Hasana’s Lover


You girls who cast your eyes about


To catch a handsome man.


Come, hear the tale of Hasana


And how her love began.


She stepped into the market place


And held her head up high:


While others smiled with downcast eyes,


She stared about the sky.


She levelled her eyes about the place


But sought no husband there:


Rather than marry one of you I’d shave off half my hair.


I’d rather live in prison bonds


Or rot inside my grave,


Than marry a single one of you,


And live and die a slave.


Her father whipped her on the back.


Her mother groaned aloud. Yet never a man Hasana took


Hasana was so proud.


But pride’s a sin, old time will win,


And walking through the town,


Hasana saw a man so fine


He might have worn a crown.


He might have sat upon a throne.


And ruled the lives of men.


And he cast his eyes on Hasana.


And she never looked up again.


(a) To whom is the poem addressed? Why do the girls cast their eyes about?


(b) How is ‘she’ different from other girls?


(c) What did her parents expect from her?


(d) How did they react when she refused to listen to them?


(e) How did Hasana respond when a handsome man cast a glance on her?


 3

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one word missing in each line. Write the missing word along with the words that come before and after. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.


 3

Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows:

Mohan: I am a stranger in this town. Could you suggest a reasonably priced hotel?


Old Man: Ashok Hotel will suit you the most.


Mohan: How can I get there?


Old Man: Take a rickshaw.


Mohan: Thank you.


Mohan met an old man and told him that ____(i) ____ and asked him ____(ii) ____. The old man replied that Ashok Hotel ____(iii) ____. When Mohan asked him ____(iv) ____, he replied that he should take a rickshaw. Mohan ____(v) ____.