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Identify the error/errors if any and rewrite Ans- The ashvamedha or horse sacrifice was an
2. Apply this cream in your face. Ans- The iron pillar at Mehrauli, Delhi, is a
Ans- Apply this cream over your face. remarkable example of the skill of Indian crafts
Ans- I sat at my desk. 13. The blood have white blood cells which
4. I walk to school each morning. Today I am fight against germs that may enter our body.
taking a bus. Ans- The blood has white blood cells which fight
Ans-I walk to school every morning. Today I am against germs that may enter our body.
Ans- “Kavya, send that dog away.” 15. Can you suggest which type of soil will be
7. Then I was begin writing. the best for making pots, toys and statues?
Ans- Then I began writing. Ans- Can you suggest which type of soil would
8. I am not interested by this movie. be the best for making pots, toys and statues?
Ans- I am not interested in this movie. 16. He run fast and reached the bus-stop in a
coins had a long history. Ans- He ran fast and reached the bus-stop in a
Ans- The lions that we see on our notes and few minutes.
10. The Puranas was written in simple Ans- Breathing is a part of respiration.
Sanskrit verse and were meant to be heard 18. Magadha had two very powerful rulers,
Ans-The Puranas were written in simple possible means to conquer other janapadas.
Sanskrit verse, and were meant to be heard Ans- Magadha had two very powerful rulers,
11. The ashvamedha or horse sacrifice was a possible means to conquer other janapadas.
ancient ritual.
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19. Epics is grand, long compositions, about 26. Use the following idiom in your sentence:
heroic men and women, and include stories Beat around the bush
heroic men and women, and include stories ‘Stop beating around the bush, and tell me
20. He was known by me. 27. Point out the difference between the
Antonym for malicious is good. (Q No. 28-30) Use the words in your own
(Q. No. 23 & 24) Correct the phrasal verbs: investments is to lessen the risk of loss.
23. They need to put their own economic Lesson- You must read the lesson thoroughly to
Ans- Put the house in order- They need to put 29. pray, prey
24. We must abide to the rules. Pray- I’ll pray for your speedy recovery.
Ans- Abide by- We must abide by the rules. Prey- Deer are the natural prey of the mountain
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Read the following passage and answer the ability to think abstractly or logically. The
questions that follow: (Q no. 31-35) authors suggest that fluid intelligence is a much
Brain training is big business. From online better indicator of abilities such as problem-
websites to video games to mobile apps, it solving ability, abstract thinking skills, memory
seems like there are plenty of ways to give your capacity, and processing speed. While the study
brain a bit of a boost. But does all this brain found no indication that test preparation
training really work? Can it increase your improved IQ that does not mean that this
few recent studies, while these brain training 31. What Is Cognitive Training?
tools might help sharpen your abilities to retain Also known as brain training, cognitive training
your intelligence or improve your ability to involves following a series of regular mental
reason and think abstractly. The parent activities designed to help maintain or even
company of one of the most prominent "brain increase a person's cognitive (thinking)
deceptive advertising. Earlier studies have 32. What are the potential benefits of brain
and brain training exercises. The same is the ANS - The focus of these activities is to help
case with standardized tests. Students today people become better at things like learning,
take a wide variety of standardized tests, from solving problems, and reasoning.
evaluations required for college admission. and fluid intelligence it is found that
While test preparation for such assessments ANS - Crystallized intelligence includes facts
can increase factual knowledge, one study and information, while fluid intelligence
suggests that this preparation does little to involves the ability to think abstractly or
increase overall IQ. Why is it so? While test logically and gives a learner skills such as–
to as crystallized intelligence, it does not 34. From the passage one can arrive at the
increase what is known as fluid intelligence. conclusion that both brain training and
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ANS - Do not really increase overall IQ and Gangetic Plains, home to around 900 million
35. In the passage, ‘give your brain a bit of a human health. While dust storms are a regular
ANS – Sharpen the brain November, densely populated cities like Delhi
Read the following passage and answer the and Kanpur in the Indo-Gangetic Plains are
Dust storms of May 2018, in Northern India, pollution from crop residue burning in the
contributed to the deteriorating air quality in North, and now this study shows the effect of
the region and the capital city of Delhi, with dust storms during the March-May time frame.
implications for human health, a study found. This really puts the Indo-Gangetic valley in a
The high death toll from the severe dust storms unique spot in terms of it being targeted by
that lashed the region was mainly attributed to these different hazardous conditions which are
the intense winds, which surprised even mostly outsourced from other areas.
scientists and meteorologists. But apart from 36. Why are dust storms in Delhi a cause of
drastic changes in air quality from the dust The dust tends to worsen air quality over the
engulfing the region affected far more people Indo-Gangetic Plains, home to around 900
with potential implications for human health million people, which can have far-reaching
impact of the spell of dust storms that struck 37. Where do the dust storms frequently
Dust storms commonly occur in the Indo- Dust storms commonly occur in the Indo-
Gangetic Plains – the fertile plains in northern Gangetic Plains – the fertile plains in northern
India that stretch all the way to the East – from India that stretch all the way to the East.
March to May, the pre-monsoon season. 38. How does a dust storm form in India?
Westerly winds typically bring loose sand and Westerly winds typically bring loose sand and
soil particles, picked up from the Arabian soil particles, picked up from the Arabian
Peninsula or the Thar Desert in North-Western Peninsula or the Thar Desert in North-Western
India, to the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The dust India, to the Indo-Gangetic Plains.
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39. By saying, ‘This really puts the Indo- 42. The outbreak of the second wave of covid
refers to the fact that 43. The concept of social security has gained
The Indo- Gangetic valley receives its pollution momentum across the world.
from other areas or factors. 44. The principles and values of life of the Father
40. Find the word/words in the passage that of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi are a heritage
have the same meaning as the following: for the entire world.
(i) worsen (ii) carried by the wind 45. The world's largest solar park has been
English: (Q no. 41-50) 47. The power of concentration is the only key
41. सुशासन राज्य सरकार का मुख्य ध्येय रहा है। to the treasure trove of knowledge.
42. कोविड की दूसरी लहर का प्रकोप भयानक था। 48. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
43. दुवनयाभर में सामाजिक सुरक्षा की अिधारण को बल ममला 49. The President of India, Shri Ram Nath
44. महात्मा गाांधी के ससद्ाांत और िीिन मूल्य पूरी दुवनया के सलए Rashtrapati Bhavan.
45. भड़ला में विश्व का सबसे बड़ा सोलर पाकक स्थावपत वकया गया mentions three types of justice (social,
46. विद्याथी की आिश्यकतानुसार सशक्षा में पररितकन होना 51. Make a precis of the following passage in
47. एकाग्रता की शसि ही ज्ञान के खिाने की एकमात्र कुांिी है। We all know what we mean by a "good" man.
48. एक विनम्र तरीके से, आप दुवनया को वहला सकते हैं। The ideally good man does not drink or smoke,
49. भारत के राष्ट्रपवत राम नाथ कोवििंद ने राष्ट्रपवत भिन में भारत avoids bad language, converses in the presence
रत्न पुरस्कार प्रदान वकए। of men only exactly as he would if there were
50. भारतीय सांविधान की प्रस्तािना में तीन प्रकार के न्याय ladies present, attends church regularly and
(सामाजिक, आर्थिंक और रािनीवतक) का उल्लेख है। holds the correct opinion on all subjects. He has
41. Good governance has been the main motto realizes that it is our painful duty to castigate
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thinking, and considers it the business of the (i) Women Empowerment
those who question the wisdom of the views (iii) Importance of Good Reading Habits
which he is assiduous, he spends much time in Women empowerment is a concept that has
good works: he may encourage patriotism and been subjected to a lot of questions over the
military training; he may promote industry, years. There will always be a section of the
sobriety and virtue among wage–earners and society who will consider women inferior to
their children by seeing to it that failures in men and thus oppose the movements to uplift
these respects receive due punishment; he may them. However, liberals have raised the
judged respect for learning from allowing the empowered. According to them, women are
employment of professors with subversive already empowered; they are strong and equal
ideas. Above all, of course, his "morals" in the to men, and what we need is to reform the
narrow sense must be irreproachable. society that makes them feel weak.
According to the author, an ideally good man is that must be discussed and reflected upon by
intensely religious and avoids bad habits such us. Women have been receiving lower wages
as smoking and drinking. He does not use than men in the employment sectors for a long
obscene or indecent language and has a fear of time. It was the second wave of the Feminist
wrong doing and wrong thinking. He is Movement in the USA that fought against
professionally dutiful and takes active interest economic discrimination and demanded that
in promoting virtues such as patriotism, women receive equal pay for equal work along
industry and sobriety among workers and their with vacations and maternity benefits.
children. If possible he prevents the The process of empowerment does not happen
employment of professors with subversive overnight. People have been protesting against
52. Write a paragraph on any one of the century, and they have come a long way.
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have the right to vote, equal representation in Since the residential segment utilizes the force
political forums, and the right to education. in an assortment of utilizations, this is a likely
There is a wide hole in the grace and intensity At this stage, reading habit helps students to be
of India, and overcoming any issues by putting prepared for the broader aspects of life. It is the
in force new stations won’t happen in not so stage that creates their future. Students score
distant future. The other option is to preserve better marks in exams if they have the habit of
each watt of energy. Energy conservation in the reading. It is because they don’t write
residential division is a valid statement to begin depending on a single book. But they read
as about 20% of the total energy created is used multiple books on a particular subject and write
for a household reconstruction, which is an their version of that which creates the
Local force utilization in India takes about students sometimes lose their mental peace or
one/fifth of the all-out force utilization, which is become frustrated. Reading a good book can
sponsored in all the conditions of India, and Reading helps in thinking critically. Reading
without agonizing over the proficiency of the unknown world full of knowledge. Practice
On account of the economic changes, the can make you smarter than before. It will
endowment is being pulled back in power part enhance your experience to make you ready
in a staged way all through India, and the force and confident enough to participate in a
started to understand the requirement for Reading improves communication and writing
Indeed, even the Government of India made a speaker and a good writer. Most of the
represent energy conservation in 2001, which successful people spend some time on reading
shows the reality of the force circumstance. every day. It is the most beautiful way to spend
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your free time while using it for your paying off their debts. The trafficked children
betterment. There are different kinds of books are forced to live in unsafe conditions and trade
available. When a person reads stories of sex or work for traffickers to meet their
works hard and tries to achieve the goal. Also, Child marriage is one of the main issues in the
s/he gets to know how people faced different rural parts of the country. Young girls are
difficult situations before getting successful. So, forced to marry, at times, even to men much
s/he doesn’t get upset while facing difficult older to them. The female folks are sexually
situations. Reading good books can make good exploited, abused, treated as slaves, and are
citizens who think rationally and critically on forced to work in unhealthy conditions.
circumstances and decides accordingly. One of the leading causes of child trafficking,
53. Write a paragraph on any one of the especially in the rural areas, is the lack of
following in approximately 200 words: education and awareness. People are unaware
Child trafficking is currently a global crime CRY or Child Rights and You is an NGO that
increasing at an alarming rate. Many factors works towards ensuring happier childhoods for
give exponential rise to child trafficking. all children. CRY’s mission focuses not only on
UNICEF estimates that in 2011 about 150 million the prevention of child trafficking but also on
children were involved in child labor in most other aspects such as the rescue mission of
Child trafficking demands more girls to exploit process of the victims. CRY is an organization
them for sexual activities. Sometimes girls are that works for the overall well-being of child
improve their economic conditions or for rainwater for its future use. Rainwater
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harvesting is vital as it meets the local municipal ● Rainwater harvesting is an alternative to
water demands and reduces the overall capital reduce the stress of public water supply
expenditure. sources.
Rainwater harvesting meets a lot of purposes-
● Construction of deeper wells can
it can be used for industrial, domestic, and
damage the natural environment as
agricultural purposes. Rainwater can be
well as the groundwater table level.
purified before using it for drinking purposes
Therefore, the source of rainwater is
and other routine activities.
highly effective and dependable. Stored
Benefits of Rainwater harvesting:
harvested rainwater can be used as an
● Rainwater harvesting positively affects
alternative to municipal water and used
underground water quality. It dilutes the during the water crisis.
number of nitrates, fluorides, and the
● Rainwater harvesting holds vast
salinity of the underground water.
benefits. To function well, rainwater
● It contains zero hardness and almost
harvesting systems have to be
neutral pH, making it highly suitable for designed performed and maintained
industries, homes, institutions, to ensure and maintain the
industries, and other commercial quality of water. The harvested
establishments. water needs to be purified and
● Rainwater Harvesting reduces water filtered before consumption or
water shortage crisis and lessens the The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic
particularly vulnerable because the majority developing world. Only together can we
lack social protection and access to quality overcome the intertwined health and social and
health care and have lost access to productive economic impacts of the pandemic and prevent
The pandemic has been affecting the entire and food security catastrophe, with the
food system and has laid bare its fragility. potential loss of already achieved development
confinement measures have been preventing We must rethink the future of our environment
farmers from accessing markets, including for and tackle climate change and environmental
buying inputs and selling their produce, and degradation with ambition and urgency. Only
agricultural workers from harvesting crops, then can we protect the health, livelihoods, food
thus disrupting domestic and international security and nutrition of all people, and ensure
food supply chains and reducing access to that our ‘new normal’ is a better one.
healthy, safe and diverse diets. The pandemic 54. Elaborate any one of the following
has decimated jobs and placed millions of themes in approximately 150 words:
Millions of agricultural workers – waged and (ii) Pen is Mightier than the Sword
self-employed – while feeding the world, (iii) United We Stand Divided We Fall
malnutrition and poor health, and suffer from a (i) Be the change you want to see
lack of safety and labour protection as well as We must change ourselves first in order to
other types of abuse. change the thoughts of society. But only a few
Countries dealing with existing humanitarian are seen contributing towards it. Changing
crises or emergencies are particularly exposed society’s thinking is a herculean task. It cannot
to the effects of COVID-19. Responding swiftly be done single-handedly. But if winter comes,
to the pandemic, while ensuring that can spring be left far behind? If one person is
humanitarian and recovery assistance reaches successful in changing the thoughts of others
those most in need, is critical. for good, then he can bring about a revolution.
Now is the time for global solidarity and This inspiring thought of Mahatma Gandhi itself
support, especially with the most vulnerable in stands as an example. Gandhiji molded the
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views of the society towards justice and non- a sword. This indicates that the power of writing
violence. He loved his nation. He changed is infinite, while the power of the sword is
follow other ideals. A good leader can change (iii) United We Stand Divided We Fall
the entire nation. One person cannot perform all activities alone.
Similarly, in today’s world, we need to mind our He/ she requires a team to achieve goals. When
ways of looking towards the degrading a group gets separated, each of its members
environment. Let us take a step forward and falls. Hence, unity is crucial to carry out tasks.
throw our wrappers in dustbins, conserve the The short essay on united we stand divided
environment, turn off the tap while brushing when we fall, tells why it is vital to stay united.
and be a change ourselves. Let’s work for And why we should not fight with each other.
‘Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan’ and other social Several reasons don’t allow people to stay
movements, spread awareness and change the united such as jealously, envy, which can take
(ii) Pen is Mightier than the Sword racism, or any other factor that forms a gap
Ideas have a more significant impact than between people. The feeling of staying together
violence. Force is hardly capable of swiftly imparts in our peace and harmony. If we are
changing the ideas and beliefs of the people. unified, we can achieve success sooner or later.
When new ideas influence people, changes Unity is the most significant aspect of every
occur in society. For example, the great single circle of our lives. From the united we
victories of Napoleon, Alexander and other stand divided we fall paragraph, it can be
rulers ended up in the void. Nevertheless, the concluded that strength lies in harmony, and
excellent teaching and writings of authors and disunity can lead to conflict. The feeling of
philosophers have permanent impacts that live togetherness provides moral support and
eternally in the minds of people. This is the peace in tough lives. So, instead of being
reason why a scholar is believed to rule the disunited, one should always think of staying
world with his writings, while a king can only united so that no misfortune can befall us.
rule his kingdom. 55. Write a letter to the editor of the Tribune
The "pen is mightier than the sword" is a well- in order to protest against the recent hike in
known proverb speaking about the power of school fees. (150 words)
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House No. 921, As more and more schools focus on the profit
Date families.
nation.
group of 6-14 years have the right to Write a report describing a railway accident
parents and/or guardian in Part IVA Article 51A. Railway accidents have become so frequent in
However, owing to the rising cost of education recent times that hardly a month passes when
and the increasing inability of parents to pay there is no accident. There occurred a terrible
such exorbitant fees charged by various railway accident last night at Dungarpur station
schools, a large number of deserving students on Jaipur-Delhi track. The Jaipur-Delhi superfast
are being deprived of their fundamental right express bound for Delhi had run smoothly for
to compulsory education. This attitude of the two hours, after it left Jaipur Junction at 11 am.
schools is almost a mockery of our own Most of the passengers were dozing in jam-
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terrible shock and the train came to a sudden of honour was presented by the President’s
loud shrieking halt. Amid the brisk rush, guards. Mr. Biden was then led to the platform
passengers were heard bewailing. The train specially erected for the purpose. In his speech,
had collided with a goods train due to a wrong Mr. Major thanked the Prime Minister of India
signaling by the pointsman. The engine and the for his warm and hearty welcome. He spoke of
two compartments has derailed and the deep relations between India and the USA
overturned. It was a horrible site to see the and expressed his desire to strengthen them
human bodies entangled into the twisted iron further. He commended India’s role in world
rubble of those compartments. Luggage was geopolitics as well as in promoting peace and
scattered all over. Dead bodies were lying harmony at international level. He reiterated
scattered amid blood and human limbs. A few his country’s concerns at the growing terrorism
living passengers were groaning; some were and to suggested means to curb it.
undertaken and the surviving passengers were Write a letter to the chairman, Punjab State
56. You are a journalist, write a report on the power failure during your examinations.
arrival of an important guest at the airport. Request him to restore normalcy in the
New Delhi, January 20, Mr. Joe Biden, President First floor,
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Sub: Bringing your kind attention towards Yet, the authorities concerned do not seem to
frequent power failures in Mohali. have taken my complaint seriously the last time
I, a resident of sector 14, Mohali, am currently Finally, I request you to take immediate steps in
preparing for my 12th Pre-board Examinations order to deal with the problem at the earliest.
which are to be held from 1st March, 2022. I am In view of the fact that poor preparation can
finding it very difficult to cope with the frequent affect the future of students adversely, kindly
outages of power supply in our locality. These treat this matter with utmost urgency.
power failures are over and above the usual Hoping you will ensure immediate and
study in the poor light and high heat conditions. Yours faithfully,
long.
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