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Q1 I. Answer these questions in one or two sentences each. (The paragraph numbers within brackets provide clues to the answers.) 1. Why was the ‘holy man’ who gave Santosh’s mother his blessings surprised? (1) 2. Give an example to show that even as a young girl Santosh was not ready to accept anything unreasonable. (2) 3. Why was Santosh sent to the local school? (3) top honours: highest awards the enormity of the moment: a very great moment sink in: be understood held it aloft: held it up high fervent: having strong and sincere feelings 4. When did she leave home for Delhi, and why? (4) 5. Why did Santosh’s parents agree to pay for her schooling in Delhi? What mental qualities of Santosh are brought into light by this incident? (4) Ans: 1. The holy man was surprised to know this because he had thought that Santosh’s mother wanted a son but the grandmother told him that they were not too much curious to have a son.
2. Santosh, from the very starting lived life as exactly she wanted. She was not restricted with the traditional way of life and was not ready to accept anything unreasonable. Where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses but she always preferred shorts.
3. Due to the prevailing custom in the family, Santosh was sent to the local village's school even though her parents could afford to send their children to the best schools.
4. When she turned sixteen and was under pressure to get married, she gave warning to her parents that she would never marry without getting proper education. Therefore, she left home and got herself enrolled in a school of Delhi.
5. When santosh’s parents refused to pay money for her education she politely inform them of her plansto earn money by her own by doing part time so that she could pay her school fees.Then finally her parents agreed to pay for her school fees in Delhi which shows that Santosh as a mentally strong girl and was very foccused to work hard towards getting herself properly educated before getting married like any other girl in the village.
Q2 II. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words). 1. How did Santosh begin to climb mountains? 2. What incidents during the Everest expedition show Santosh’s concern for her team-mates? 3. What shows her concern for the environment? 4. How does she describe her feelings at the summit of the Everest? 5. Santosh Yadav got into the record books both times she scaled Mt Everest. What were the reasons for this? Ans: 1. Santosh saw the people from her room kasturba hostel was going up the aravalli hills and got vanished soon. On investigating, she found a few mountaineers, and asked if she could join them together. They showed the consent and agreed and even motivated her to climb up on hills. She later gave a company to them on their climbing adventure. This was, how she started climbing mountain.
2. During the everest mission, Santosh showed great concern towards the fellow climbers. Though she was not able to save the life of one of them, she somehow managed to save the life of another climber through artificial respiration technique.
3. Santosh was a passionate environmentalist. Her concern towards the environment was very evident from the fact that she made an effort to collect and bring down 500 k.g of garbage from the Himalayas.
4. Santosh asserted that her feeling at the summit of the everest was not descriable. unfurling the Indian flag on the top of the world was a spiritual moment for her and she felt proud as an Indian.
5. When santosh yadav first scaled Mt everest, she had became the youngest women in the world to achieve that feat, when she scaled everest for the second time, then became the only women in the history to have scaled it two times.
Q3 III. Complete the following statements. 1. From her room in Kasturba Hostel, Santosh used to______ 2. When she finished college, Santosh had to write a letter of apology to her father because___ 3. During the Everest expedition, her seniors in the team admired her___ while ___endeared her to fellow climbers. Ans: 1. From her room in kasturba hostels, santosh used to watch the villagers going up on the hills and suddenly got disappeared after a while.
2. When the finished college santosh had to write a apology letter to her father because she had got herself enrolled at uttarkashi‘s Nehru institute of mountaineering without her father's permission.
3. During the everest expedition her seniors in the team admired her climbing skills, physical fitness and mental strength with climbing with her.
Q4 IV. Pick out words from the text that mean the same as the following words or expressions. (Look in the paragraphs indicated.) 1. took to be true without proof (1):____ 2. based on reason; sensible; reasonable (2):_______ 3. the usual way of doing things (3):_____ 4. a strong desire arising from within (5):________ 5. the power to endure, without falling ill (7):________ Ans: 1. Took to be true without proof : Assumed
2. Based on reason; sensible; reasonable : Rational
3. The usual way of doing things : Custom4. A strong desire arising from within : Urge
5. The power to endure, without falling ill :Resistance