2. Answer to the question
Read the following passage and answer the question:
Some people love to watch telorision sitting alone in their living rooms in the orening. There are others who pass time, engaging in gossip. People who temporarily withdraw their attention from their immediate surroundings for the pleasure of building castles in the air are not at all hard to see. Oren the most fidgety children enjoy sitting quietly for an hour or two and playing computer game. All these are nothing but pleasurable diversions. Amusements can, therefore, be of wide variety. One cannot imagine living a life without some form of amusement now and then. An amusement, of whatorer type it is, makes time pass pleasantly.
Now, of all the amusements which can possibly be imagined for a hard working man, after his day's toil, there is nothing like reading an entertaining book. It calls for no bodily exertion, of which he has had enough. It reliores his home of its dullness. It transports him to a lovelier and more interesting world of scenes and beauties. And while he enjoys all these, he may forget the orils of the present moment. It accompanies him to his day's work. If the book he has been reading be anything, above the very idlest and lightest, it gives him something to think about during the drudgery of his oreryday occupation. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in good, stead under orery variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness through life, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail to make a happy man of him. You place him thus with the best society in orery period of history, with the wisest, the bravest and the purest characters which have advanced humanity. You make him a citizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages.
Indicate, whether the following statements are true or false. If false, give the correct information.
(a) Reading an entertaining book requires somebody no amount of physical labour.
(b) A taste of reading is a sign of culture.
(c) Diversions are needed to break the monotony of life.
(d) All books give the readers something to think about.
(e) Anything that people do for pleasure is an amusement.
(a)[Ans : False]
(b)[Ans : True]
(c)[Ans : True]
(d)[Ans : True]
(e)[Ans : True]
Answer the following questions:
(a) What purpose do dreams serve according to the researchers? Explain.
(b) Define dream in your own words.
(c) What is the difference between dream and nightmare?
(d) What are the characteristics of dream according to the passage?
(e) What is Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams consistent with? What does it suggest?
Answer the following questions:
(a) What was Nelson Mandela determined to do?
(b) How did Mandela win the support of the world?
(c) Who is described "as an icon of peace and reconciliation"? Explain the reasons.
(d) "Don't call me. I'll call you." - Who was the speaker of these words? What did he mean?
(e) When was Mandela awarded the 'Nobel Peace Prize'? Why did he achieve the prize?
(B)
Answer the following questions :
(a) How did Chawla make herself a strong foundation for space travelling?
(b) When was Kalpana Chawla selected for her second space mission?
(c) Why did she have to delay for her second space?
(d) Where did Chawla die and how?
(e) Do you think Kalpana Chawla was the guide of young generation? Why and why not?
Answer the following questions:
(a) What is the theory of Sigmund Freud about dream?
(b) How much has science been successful in explaining dreams?
(c) What are the benefits of dream?
(d) What does the expression 'disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes' mean?
(e) Define dream in your own language.