RC Ans:

Answer:
Discussing the relationship between the size of mammals and the
nature of vegetation in their habitats
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False ideas about animals in Africa
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(c) To contrast with the habits of the antelope
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(d) To illustrate a well-known phenomenon
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(c) South American vegetation contrasted with that of South Africa
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The prejudice that large animals require luxuriant vegetation has
vitiated the reasoning of geologists.
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Dr Smith refers to Africa as a sterile country. Here, the traveller may
pass for days together through open plains, covered by a poor and
scanty vegetation.
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Dr Smith refers to the number of prey animals killed by predators as
carnage.
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Darwin’s remark indicates that comparison of the weights of
herbivores is largely speculative.
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carnage

(a) Who was Robert Clive?

Ans: Major-General Robert Clive was the commander who established
the military supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India
and Bengal.
(b) What was his connection with the Gemini Studios?
Ans: Gemini Studios was in a building that was believed to have been
Robert Clive’s stables.
(c) What was his connection with Madras?
Ans: He had lived in many buildings in the city and also married in St.
Mary’s Church in Fort St. George in Madras.
(a) Who is the ‘I’? What was his job?
Ans: He is the narrator/ writer. His job was to extract the relevant
newspaper clippings and file them.
(b) What did the ‘boy’ talk to him about?
Ans: He told him how his ‘great literary talent’ was being allowed to go
waste.
(c) Why did ‘I’ wish for crowd shooting?
Ans: That was the only time that the ‘boy’ was occupied and so the
writer was saved from his lectures.

(a) An interview is a one-on-one conservation between an interviewer

and an interviewee. It has a commonplace in journalism.
(b) Though, according to the text, most of the celebrities despise from
interview but several thousand times, celebrities have been interviewed
over the years, some of them repeatedly.
(c) For a literate person, an interview is an exciting content through
which he comes to know about their idols.

(a) What does the American publisher say to Umberto Eco ?

(b) How many copies of that book were sold ?
(c) What Umberto Eco says about the success of the book?
(d) What is a mystery according to Umberto Eco ?
Answers :
(a) American publisher says that in a country where nobody has seen a
cathedral or studies Latin, sale will not more than 3,000 copies of the
book.
(b) Two or three million copies of that book were sold.
(c) Umberto Eco says that the success of the book is a mystery.
(d) According to Umberto Eco, ‘why it worked at that time is a
mystery’. The sale and success of the book was a mystery.

(a) Who is the person being talked about?

Ans: The legal adviser is being talked about.
(b) Why was he a misfit in the studio?
Ans: Unlike the rest, he was logical, while the others were
poets/dreamers. He wore a pant, coat, and a tie in an assembly of
Gandhiites and khadiites.
(c) Why did he lose his job?
Ans: He lost his job because the Boss decided to close down the story
department.
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(d) Both (b) and ©
(c) Its small area and small population
(d) Both (a) and ©
(b) Because most of its people were competent
(c) Vijaya Stambha
The earliest king of Mewar mentioned in the passage is Bappa Rawal.
Rana Kumbha gave new stature through victories and development work. The literature
and art progressed. His writing is revered even today.
According to the writer, the people of Mewar are of a pleasant nature and liberal
character.They are cheerful, gallant and brilliant.
As there was peace and prosperity in Mewar over a long period of time, so the rulers had
a liberal attitude. They were also more inclined towards art and literature.
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(b) For its traditional, music, art, literature

(a) Because they use oratorical weapons
(c) Nightingale of the South
(d) All of these
(c) Because they are pure as well as sensuous
The breeze soothes the body, refreshes the mind, sharpens the tongue and
brightens the intellect.
Music concerts draw packed houses. Thousands of people flock to the temple
‘maidans’ and sit through the gruelling heat of the night to enjoy the music of their
favourite singers.
The common connection between language, music and dance of South India is their
pure, divine and enchanting nature.
Music of Karnataka is charming because of its soft beauty and pace.
Mellifluous

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(a) The news of Gandhi’s advent and of the nature of his mission was the news at Muzzafarpur.
(b) Sharecroppers from Champaran reached on foot and by Conveyance to see their Champion.
(c) Muzzafarpur’s lawyers were frequently representating peasant groups in court.
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(a) She was remembering about the scene of the arcade where he stood. She remembered the soft melodious voice and
the shimmer of green eyes.
(b) She titled Danny Casey “No taller than you’, the prodigy, the innocent genius, the great Danny Casey.
(c) Last Saturday, she saw him ghost past the lumbering defenders, heard the fifty thousand catch their breath as he
hovered momentarily over the balk
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(a) City dwellers have enough money but they go along without spending it.
(b) ‘They have made their roadside stands far from the city.
(c) The farmers need some city money to feel in hand to make their being expand and to live life like their ideals/heroes.
Answers:
(a) Once on the sets, the actress with extremely tempera-mental blew over.
(b) In the mid of the shot, the lawyer said to the actress, “One minute, please,” and played back the recording.
(c) No, nothing was special and mentionable about the actress’s tirade.
(d) The actress struck dumb when she heard her own voice again through the sound equipment.
Answers :
(b) Through interviews, we get most vivid impressions of our contemporaries.
(c) According to Denis Brian, almost everything of moment reaches us through one man asking questions to another.
(d) Because of interviews the interviewer holds a position of unprecedented power and influence.