You are Arpita or Ashwin. You came across the following extract in a magazine. 5

After reading this extract you realized that awareness has to be created among the people on the need for health care and the consequences of a sedentary life. Taking ideas from the unit on ‘Health and Medicine’ along with your own ideas, write an article for your school magazine in 100-120 words.

Read the following passage carefully:

1. Although everybody has a creative spark, the potential is not always fully utilized. How does one recognize those who are developing their creative energies to the fullest? Mad painters and tormented poets are only comic stereotypes of the creative personality. The essential traits of creativity are found among a wide variety of less conspicuous creators, people in all walks of life. Unfortunately, the structure of our social and educational environment does not always promote its growth.

2. Generally speaking, creative people often believe their purpose in life is to discover and implement the interrelatedness of things, to make order out of disorder. They also see problems where others see none and question the validity of even the most widely accepted answers. Creative persons are compulsive problem seekers, not so much because they thrive on problems, but because their senses are attuned to a world that demands to be put together, like a jigsaw puzzle scattered on a table.

3. Several tests now in use reveal that highly creative people are much more open and receptive to the complexities of experience than are less creative people. The creative temperament has a tendency to break problems down into their most basic elements and then reconstruct them into whole new problems, thereby discovering new relationships and new solutions.

4. Highly creative people aren’t afraid to ask what may seem to be naive or silly questions. They ask questions like, “why spiders don’t get tangled up in their own webs?” and “why dogs turn in circles before lying down?”. Such questions may seem childlike, and in a way, they are. Children have not yet had their innate creative energies channelled into culturally acceptable directions and can give full rein to their curiosity—the absolute prerequisite for full creative functioning, in both children and adults.

5. Unlike children, creative people appear to have vast stores of patience to draw upon. Months, years, even decades can be devoted to a single problem.

6. The home that encourages inquisitiveness contributes to creative development. The

teacher who stresses questions rather than answers and rewards curiosity rather than restricting is teaching a child to be creative.

7. To be extremely intelligent is not the same as to be gifted in creative work. Tire Quiz Kids are often referred to as geniuses. They would undoubtedly score high in memory functions but it is doubtful whether they are also fluent in producing ideas.

8. Contrary to popular myths that glorify youth, more creative achievements are likely to occur when people grow older. While memory may falter with age, creativity is ageless.

Choose the most appropriate meaning of the given word from the options provided:

(a) The word ‘conspicuous’ means

(i) notify (ii) noticeable (iii) missing (iv) conspiracy

(b) The word ‘innate’ means

(i) fake (ii) inherent (iii) natural and instinctive (iv) obvious

(c) The word ‘naive’ means

(i) immature (ii) simple and innocent (iii) childish (iv) very mature

(d) The word ‘fluent’ means

(i) to be able to express oneself articulately (ii) to be able to work efficiently (iii) to be a good orator (iv) to be able to speak well

You happened to overhear a conversation:

Rahul: Where have you planned to go during the summer holidays?

Jeevan: I wish I could go boating on Dal Lake.

Rahul: Is it safe to go to Kashmir now? Don’t you hear a lot about terrorism in the newspapers?

You are the newly appointed Tourism Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. On hearing this dialogue, you decide to write a letter in about 100-120 words to the Tourism Minister on how you propose to bring more tourists to the state. 5

Develop the following into a short story in about 150-200 words:

One night as I was returning back from work, I saw a thief breaking into my neighbour’s house. Instead of raising an alarm, I decided 10

Develop the following outline into a short story in about 150-200 words:

An old lady on road—a biker with a pillion-rider—pulls her gold chain—chased by a young man—chain snatchers caught—beaten and handed over to the police.