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Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows:
Money plays an important role in fulfilling the basic needs of human life. It helps pave the way to various pleasures of life. But one of the most inexplicable mysteries that has puzzled the selfish rich is their failure to find happiness where they expected to find it. The bitterest disappointment that comes to people who had made fortunes is that their hard-earned wealth could not bring happiness which it promised. They find that love and affection do not feed on material things and the heart would starve in the midst of the greatest luxuries of the world. They find that money can buy all the worldly pleasures, power and pelf but has little power to satisfy the yearnings and hunger of the heart and mind. There are a number of women, living in palatial homes in this country who are starving for happiness and peace in their life. They would be ready to exchange all their luxuries for the love of a good man, without a dollar. One finds love, affection and peace in common, simple and greedless life.

(e)(iii) Rewrite the underlined segment 'the yearnings and hunger of the heart' after replacing the word 'yearnings' with another similar meaning word.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows:
Money plays an important role in fulfilling the basic needs of human life. It helps pave the way to various pleasures of life. But one of the most inexplicable mysteries that has puzzled the selfish rich is their failure to find happiness where they expected to find it. The bitterest disappointment that comes to people who had made fortunes is that their hard-earned wealth could not bring happiness which it promised. They find that love and affection do not feed on material things and the heart would starve in the midst of the greatest luxuries of the world. They find that money can buy all the worldly pleasures, power and pelf but has little power to satisfy the yearnings and hunger of the heart and mind. There are a number of women, living in palatial homes in this country who are starving for happiness and peace in their life. They would be ready to exchange all their luxuries for the love of a good man, without a dollar. One finds love, affection and peace in common, simple and greedless life.

(c) How does money fail to bring happiness in life?
Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows:
Money plays an important role in fulfilling the basic needs of human life. It helps pave the way to various pleasures of life. But one of the most inexplicable mysteries that has puzzled the selfish rich is their failure to find happiness where they expected to find it. The bitterest disappointment that comes to people who had made fortunes is that their hard-earned wealth could not bring happiness which it promised. They find that love and affection do not feed on material things and the heart would starve in the midst of the greatest luxuries of the world. They find that money can buy all the worldly pleasures, power and pelf but has little power to satisfy the yearnings and hunger of the heart and mind. There are a number of women, living in palatial homes in this country who are starving for happiness and peace in their life. They would be ready to exchange all their luxuries for the love of a good man, without a dollar. One finds love, affection and peace in common, simple and greedless life.

(d) Where does one find love, affection and peace?
Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows:
Money plays an important role in fulfilling the basic needs of human life. It helps pave the way to various pleasures of life. But one of the most inexplicable mysteries that has puzzled the selfish rich is their failure to find happiness where they expected to find it. The bitterest disappointment that comes to people who had made fortunes is that their hard-earned wealth could not bring happiness which it promised. They find that love and affection do not feed on material things and the heart would starve in the midst of the greatest luxuries of the world. They find that money can buy all the worldly pleasures, power and pelf but has little power to satisfy the yearnings and hunger of the heart and mind. There are a number of women, living in palatial homes in this country who are starving for happiness and peace in their life. They would be ready to exchange all their luxuries for the love of a good man, without a dollar. One finds love, affection and peace in common, simple and greedless life.

(a) Where and how does money play an important role?
“The battle of Champaran is won.” Explain the statement on the basis of the lesson Indigo.
“The Story Rattrap” is a mixture of entertainment and philosophy. Explain.
What prediction was made at the Tiger King's birth? (about 40 words)
Why was Sadao sent to America? (about 40 words)
Why do the people in the modern world want to escape? (about 40 words)
How is Antarctica the perfect place to study environmental changes? (about 40 words)
Write the central idea of the poem: A Roadside Stand
Write the central idea of the poem: A Thing of Beauty
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

(a) What lesson can the earth teach us?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

(c) What remains alive when everything seems to be dead?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

(b) How does the poet interpret the inaction and action on the Earth?
How did Gandhiji reach Champaran and what did he do there? (about 80 words)
Write the central idea of the poem: My Mother at Sixty-six
What do the inhabitants of Seemapuri do for their survival? (about 40 words)
What did Douglas do to overcome his fear of water? (about 80 words)
Why is Sophie jealous of Geoff's silence? (about 40 words)
What did Rajkumar Shukla do to bring Gandhiji to Champaran? (about 40 words)
Translate the following passage into English: भारतवर्ष एक महान देश है। इसका अतीत बहुत ही शानदार रहा है। विदेशी आक्रमणकारियों ने इसे लूटने का प्रयास किया। इसकी संस्कृति तथा ज्ञान-विज्ञान को मिटाने का प्रयास किया परन्तु देशप्रेमियों के बलिदान और बहादुरी के कारण वे सफल नहीं हुए। आज भी देश में किसी चीज की कमी नहीं है। यदि दिन दूनी रात चौगुनी बढ़ती हुई जनसंख्या पर नियंत्रण हो जाय, तो देश फिर समृद्ध हो जाएगा। पर्यावरण देश की दूसरी बड़ी समस्या है।
Why did Rudyard Kipling refuse to be interviewed? (about 40 words)
Use the following pair of words in sentences of your own to make the difference in their meanings clear: Wait — Weight
Transform as directed (into Superlative degree): Bombay is bigger than any other city in India.