IRA VIKANANDA VIEDYALAYA IR.

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YCETST-I(CIST) AR K20

1. Although poliution of land, sea, and air has been well documented, the
Iatest and the loast recognised version is the swelling tide of noise which iS
enguling a n a s well as rural aroas. This has long-term implications on the
CCologyiealth, and productivity of a fast developing country like India.
2.Unlike olher pollutants, noise lacks visibility, seldom registering on the
consciousness, except as a trifling irritant to be dismissed at will and therefore
less likely to be perceived as a threat. Available data indicate that noise does
pose a threat to health and is known to have caused a number of
complications. Declining productivity among workers in certain industries has
been directly correlated with noise levels, particularly those under constant
exposure to the menace.
3. The first-ever survey of the impact of noise on health, conducted by All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, has established
that noise not only impairs
the physical and psychological functioning of the human organism but also
causes nausea, vomiting, pain, hypertension, and lot of other
a
complications,
including cardio-vascular complaints.)
4. A study by Post Graduate School of Basic Medical
Sciences, in Chennai,
confirms such conclusions. In 50 percent of industries, it was found that
Workmen exposed to higher intensities of noise in
were often irritated,
occupational capacities,
short-tempered, and impatient and more likely to resort to
agitation and disrupt production. This was true of units in heavy industrial
pockets in and around the four metropolitan centres.
5. Recreational noise, another ugly facet, is becoming more widespread in
cities and towns.
Loudspeakers are turned at full volume during marriages, festivals, jagrans,
musical programmes, particularly at night, without the least consideration for
others. Even at 50 dB, sound can awaken a person from a deep slumber. As
experiments have shown, loudspeakers with output from 60 to 80 dB cause
the pupils of a slumbering person to dilate, with increasingintake of
oxygen,
resulting in palpitation. The effect is more pronounced in narrow lanes. Tv
sets are played at full volume at prime time, invariably disturbing neighbours.
Noise making seems to have become thelatest status symbol, be it an
election campaign or slogan shouting or advertising ownership of a TV set.

1.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following
questions by choosing the best of the given choices.
 noise and other pollutanis
VVnat is the dilfercnce betlween
Noiso is notresented. dismissed.
as a small iritant and
ANOISe is regarded
as a pollutant.
(I1) People are not aware of noise
rural we!l as urban areas.
NOiSe can be found in as

the impact of noise :

2.VVhat are the diseases connected with

) hypertension and cardio-vascular problems.

(i) nausea, vomiting, pain.
functioning.
n) impaired physical and psychological
( all of the above.

3.Recreational noise is created during

excursions.
i) public speeches. ()revelries and
festivals and jagrans at night.
ii) sports' events. v)weddings,
a status symbol?
4.In what way creating noise be considered
can sound.
by showing off one's TV with a loud
i) by playing loud music. Gi)
talking loudly.
(in) by making speeches. i )by

5.Inyariably in paragraph 5
means

often. (i) sometimes. (i)almost always. (iv) rarely.

1 means
6.Engulfing in paragraph surrounded.
(i) completely
drown. (i)
i i ) covered. (iv) divided by a gulf.
implications on the,
tide of noise pollution has long-term
7. The swelling
health like India.
of fast developing country
a
and productivity d,morphology
b.technology c.metrology
a.ecology
the human organism,
the physical and functioning of
Noise not only impairs and other complications.
8, and hypertension
but also nausea
causes d,terminology
C.cardiology
a.phylosophy
bpsychology

means the s a m e as 'recorded' (para 1)

which
9.Find a word
b.immplication C.engulfing d.documented.
a,recognized
blood pressure' (para 3).
s a m e as 'high
which means the
10. Finda word b.hypertension C.nausea d.psychological
a. complication
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Social studies hhanan icne
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2years B).years many
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yea had the author tausht
years D) 55laught
C) 33ycarS in high school in
13. Yalkina?
Yaana
After the years
years
Medical dunor author was fed up with
B) Gardening teaching, he decided to opt for which
C) Engineering career?
14,Where did Alegal
D)Alegal care
career
A) the writer go
when he was
Washington B) New Zealand 3 or 4 years old in the story?
15, Where
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california D) Canada
is Yakima located?
A)In Newzealand
B)In California Cln
Cln Washington D)None of these
16. What did
the author realize
Terror fear of death B) while drowning
in in the pool?
C) The Swimming was fun
lifeguard did not come to his rescue D) All of these
17. Deep water is an
excerpt
A) Fear of water B) Of
from
which book?
Men and Mountains C) How to Swim D) Fearless
18. After
swimming across to the other shore of Warm Lake,
Voice was returned as an
echo by Douglas shouted with joy and his
(a) Gilbert peak (b) Everest peak
(e) Alps (d) Blue Mountain
19. Douglas swam the lake to Stamp Act Island covering a distance of
(a) five miles (b) seven miles two miles (d) one mile

20. Douglas' tension started slackening after

a) four months (b) three months (c) five months
(d) one month