Friday, February 28, 2025

A Journey To The End Of The Earth 12th Eng

A Journey to the End of the Earth by Tishani Doshi 

Question 1.

What kind of indications do we get while visiting Antarctica to save Earth? 

Ans.The future of humankind can get in danger if the emission of carbon- dioxide and other poisonous gases go on in the same manner. These gases deplete the ozone layer and allow the ultra-violet rays of the sun to enter the earth's environment. This causes the rise in temperature of the earth and giving rise to the phenomenon called global warming. Increased temperature can melt the ice of the Antarctica, and cause other environmental problems, The lives of the marine animals and birds of the region will be affected.

प्रश्न 1

अंटार्कटिका जाते समय पृथ्वी को बचाने के लिए हमें किस प्रकार के संकेत मिलते हैं?

उत्तर। कार्बन डाइऑक्साइड और अन्य जहरीली गैसों का उत्सर्जन इसी तरह जारी रहा तो मानव जाति का भविष्य खतरे में पड़ सकता है। ये गैसें ओजोन परत को समाप्त कर देती हैं और सूर्य की अल्ट्रा-वायलेट किरणों को पृथ्वी के वातावरण में प्रवेश करने देती हैं। यह पृथ्वी के तापमान में वृद्धि का कारण बनता है और ग्लोबल वार्मिंग नामक घटना को जन्म देता है। बढ़ा हुआ तापमान अंटार्कटिका की बर्फ को पिघला सकता है, और अन्य पर्यावरणीय समस्याओं का कारण बन सकता है, इस क्षेत्र के समुद्री जानवरों और पक्षियों का जीवन प्रभावित होगा।

Question 2.

Why is a visit to Antarctica important to realise the effect of global warming? 

Ans. Antarctica is the perfect place to study the effects that global warming is causing. It is here that one can see the effect of melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves and how this is likely to raise the water levels in the sea and the ocean, as a result of which many low lying regions will be submerged under water.


Q2.ग्लोबल वार्मिंग के प्रभाव को समझने के लिए अंटार्कटिका की यात्रा क्यों महत्वपूर्ण है?


उत्तर। ग्लोबल वार्मिंग के कारण होने वाले प्रभावों का अध्ययन करने के लिए अंटार्कटिका एक आदर्श स्थान है। यहीं पर ग्लेशियरों के पिघलने और बर्फ की अलमारियों के ढहने के प्रभाव को देखा जा सकता है और इससे समुद्र और समुद्र में जल स्तर बढ़ने की संभावना है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कई निचले क्षेत्र पानी में डूब जाएंगे।

Q3.What are phytoplanktons? How are they important for the earth's survival? What does the parable of phytoplankton teach us?

Ans. Phytoplankton is a single-celled grass that feed the entire southern ocean's marine life. These micro organisms require a low degree of temperature for their survival. But due to the overheating and the depletion of ozone layers, their existence is threatened. The message for the humans is to take care of the small things so that the bigger things will also fall in place.


Q3. फाइटोप्लांकटन क्या हैं? वे पृथ्वी के अस्तित्व के लिए कैसे महत्वपूर्ण हैं? फाइटोप्लांकटन का दृष्टांत हमें क्या सिखाता है?

उत्तर। फाइटोप्लांकटन एक एकल-कोशिका वाली घास है जो पूरे दक्षिणी महासागर के समुद्री जीवन को खिलाती है। इन सूक्ष्म जीवों को अपने अस्तित्व के लिए कम तापमान की आवश्यकता होती है। लेकिन ओजोन परत के अधिक गर्म होने और घटने से इनके अस्तित्व पर खतरा मंडरा रहा है। इंसानों के लिए संदेश है कि छोटी-छोटी बातों का ध्यान रखें ताकि बड़ी चीजें भी अपने स्थान पर आ जाएं।

Q4.Why did Geoff Green decide to take high school students to Antarctica?

Ans.The youngesrs are called the future policy makers because it is they who will steer the government.

Geoff Green didn't find anything good in taking curious celebrities to Antarctica until he thought of taking high school students. He believed the young enthusiasm in them would easily understand the seriousness of the threat that poses the earth by visiting Antarctica and they would act their bit to save the planet from further deterioration.

Q4.ज्योफ ग्रीन ने हाई स्कूल के छात्रों को अंटार्कटिका ले जाने का फैसला क्यों किया?

उत्तर। युवाओं को भविष्य के नीति निर्माता कहा जाता है क्योंकि यह वही हैं जो सरकार चलाएंगे। ज्योफ ग्रीन ने जिज्ञासु हस्तियों को अंटार्कटिका ले जाने में कुछ भी अच्छा नहीं पाया जब तक कि उन्होंने हाई स्कूल के छात्रों को लेने के बारे में नहीं सोचा। उनका मानना ​​​​था कि उनमें युवा उत्साह अंटार्कटिका का दौरा करके पृथ्वी के सामने आने वाले खतरे की गंभीरता को आसानी से समझ जाएगा और वे ग्रह को और बिगड़ने से बचाने के लिए अपनी ओर से कार्य करेंगे।

Question 5.

‘Take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselves.’ What is the relevance of the statement in the context of the Antarctica environment?

Ans. This statement means that if small things are taken care of, big things will take their own care. There are tall grasses, called phytoplankton, in the southern oceans that use the sun’s energy to assimilate carbon and synthesize organic compounds by photosynthesis. Marine life and birds in the region sustain themselves on these tall grasses. Any disturbance in the environment in Antarctica might affect the activities of the phytoplankton, which, in turn, might affect the existence of the other life forms that depend on them. Small things like the phytoplankton are important in the food chain.


प्रश्न 5.

'छोटी-छोटी बातों का ध्यान रखें और बड़ी चीजें अपने आप संभाल लेंगी।' के संदर्भ में कथन की क्या प्रासंगिकता है?

उत्तर। इस कथन का अर्थ है कि यदि छोटी-छोटी बातों का ध्यान रखा जाए, तो बड़ी-बड़ी बातें अपना-अपना ध्यान रख लेंगी। लंबी घासें होती हैं, जिन्हें कहा जाता है

अंटार्कटिका का वातावरण? फाइटोप्लांकटन, दक्षिणी महासागरों में जो सूर्य की ऊर्जा का उपयोग कार्बन को आत्मसात करने और प्रकाश संश्लेषण द्वारा कार्बनिक यौगिकों को संश्लेषित करने के लिए करते हैं। इस क्षेत्र में समुद्री जीवन और पक्षी इन लंबी घासों पर अपना भरण-पोषण करते हैं। अंटार्कटिका में पर्यावरण में कोई भी गड़बड़ी फाइटोप्लांकटन की गतिविधियों को प्रभावित कर सकती है, जो बदले में, उन पर निर्भर अन्य जीवन रूपों के अस्तित्व को प्रभावित कर सकती है। खाद्य श्रृंखला में फाइटोप्लांकटन जैसी छोटी चीजें महत्वपूर्ण हैं।

Question 6.

‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica’. How is the study of this region useful to us?

Answer:

Antarctica holds half a million-year-old carbon track records in its layers of ice. It gives us an understanding of evolution and extinction, ozone and carbon. A visit to Antarctica, around which Gondwana once existed, is like going back to the past. Witnessing the geological phenomena, such as the drifting of land masses and their spreading into countries, help us to know about the history of humankind. These are visible signs of where humankind came from and it gives us a clear understanding of where human life is headed if we do not take care of the environment. Actually seeing with our own eyes all these changes, make us understand that global warming is a real threat.

प्रश्न 6

'दुनिया का भूवैज्ञानिक इतिहास अंटार्कटिका में फंसा हुआ है'। इस क्षेत्र का अध्ययन हमारे लिए किस प्रकार उपयोगी है?

 उत्तर: अंटार्कटिका में बर्फ की परतों में आधा मिलियन वर्ष पुराना कार्बन ट्रैक रिकॉर्ड है। यह हमें विकास और विलुप्त होने, ओजोन और कार्बन की समझ देता है। अंटार्कटिका की यात्रा, जिसके आसपास कभी गोंडवाना मौजूद था, अतीत में वापस जाने जैसा है। भूगर्भीय परिघटनाओं, जैसे कि भू-भागों का बहना और उनका देशों में प्रसार, हमें मानव जाति के इतिहास के बारे में जानने में मदद करता है। ये स्पष्ट संकेत हैं कि मानव जाति कहाँ से आई है और यह हमें स्पष्ट समझ देती है कि यदि हम पर्यावरण की देखभाल नहीं करते हैं तो मानव जीवन किस ओर जा रहा है। वास्तव में अपने और इन परिवर्तनों को देखकर हमें उस ग्लोबल वार्मिंग के तहत बनाना एक वास्तविक खतरा है।

Question 7.

Why is Antarctica the place to go to understand the Earth’s present, past and future?

Answer:

The author states that to understand the earth’s present, past and future, Antarctica is the right place to go. Antarctica is relatively untouched in this respect as it has never had human population. It is relatively pristine. It holds in its ice cores half a million-year-old carbon records, trapped in the layers of ice. It embodies all that is pre-historic: cordilleran folds, pre-Cambrian granite shields ozone and carbon: evolution and extinction. The simple eco system and lack of biodiversity indicate how little changes in the environment can have big repercussions.


प्रश्न 7..

पृथ्वी के वर्तमान, भूतकाल और भविष्य को समझने के लिए अंटार्कटिका जाने का स्थान क्यों है? 

उत्तर: लेखक कहता है कि पृथ्वी के वर्तमान, भूत और भविष्य को समझने के लिए अंटार्कटिका जाने का सही स्थान है। अंटार्कटिका इस संबंध में अपेक्षाकृत अछूता है क्योंकि इसमें कभी मानव आबादी नहीं रही है। यह अपेक्षाकृत प्राचीन है। यह बर्फ की परतों में फंसे आधा मिलियन साल पुराने कार्बन रिकॉर्ड अपने बर्फ के कोर में रखता है। इसमें वह सब शामिल है जो पूर्व-ऐतिहासिक है: कॉर्डिलरन फोल्ड, प्री-कैम्ब्रियन ग्रेनाइट शील्ड ओजोन और कार्बन: विकास और विलुप्ति। सरल पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र और जैव विविधता की कमी से संकेत मिलता है कि पर्यावरण में थोड़े से बदलाव के बड़े परिणाम हो सकते हैं।

8. How do geological phenomena help us to know about the history of humankind?

Answer

The geological phenomenon of separating various continents and water bodies from one compact landmass tells us about the age of existence of human race on the earth. Six hundred and fifty million years ago, no human race existed on the earth because the environment was not favourable. After the time

when the dinosaurs were wiped out, the Mammals started existing and after the separation of landmass, the human race started flourishing on the earth.Geologists say about 650 million years ago a giant ‘amalgamated’ super continent, Gondwana existed in the South. At that time India and Antarctica were parts of the same landmass.


Q8.भूवैज्ञानिक घटनाएं मानव जाति के इतिहास के बारे में जानने में हमारी मदद कैसे करती हैं?

उत्तर

विभिन्न महाद्वीपों और जल निकायों को एक सघन भूभाग से अलग करने की भूवैज्ञानिक घटना हमें पृथ्वी पर मानव जाति के अस्तित्व की उम्र के बारे में बताती है। साढ़े छह करोड़ साल पहले, पर्यावरण के अनुकूल नहीं होने के कारण पृथ्वी पर कोई मानव जाति मौजूद नहीं थी। उस समय के बाद जब डायनासोर का सफाया हो गया, स्तनधारियों का अस्तित्व शुरू हो गया और भू-भाग के अलग होने के बाद, मानव जाति पृथ्वी पर फलने-फूलने लगी। भूवैज्ञानिकों का कहना है कि लगभग 650 मिलियन वर्ष पहले एक विशाल 'सम्मेलित' सुपर महाद्वीप, गोंडवाना दक्षिण में मौजूद था। . उस समय भारत और अंटार्कटिका एक ही भूभाग के हिस्से थे।





MCQ

Question 1.

How does visit to Antartica help to understand the effect of global warming?

Ans.here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves

Question 2.

What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’?

Ans.a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization

Question 3.

The name of the programme that takes high school students to the end of the earth is

Ans.Students on Ice

Question 4.

What does the author mean by “In that short amount of time, we’ve managed to create quite a ruckus”?

Ans.destruction and disturbance caused by human race

Question 5.

The synonym of ‘ubiquitous’ is __________.

Ans.omnipresent

Question 6.

The Drake Passage was created because of _________.

Ans.South America drifting off to join North America

Question 7.

Gondwana existed roughly around ___________.

Ans.650 million years ago

Question 8.

The narrator was aboard on the ship named ______

Ans.Akademik Shokalskiy

Question 9.

What was the name of the Southern Super continent

Ans.Gondwana

Question 10.

Which program was the author a part of?

Ans.Students on Ice Program

Question 11.

Why is Antarctica completely pure?

Ans.because of non-existence of humans

Question 12.

What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?

Ans.coldest

(b) driest

(c) windiest

Question 13.

How were the Himalayas formed?

Ans.by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent

Question 14.

What disturbed the silence of the continent?

Ans.Avalanches

Question 15.

What was Gondwana?

Ans.An ancient super continent

Question 16.

Who was Geoff Green?

Ans.Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.

Question 17..

Why has the author called her journey as Journey to the End of the Earth’?

Ans.crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach there


Important Links 

The Rattrap Question Answer 

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My Mother At Sixty Six Questions and answers 

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Keeping Quiet Question Answer 

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A Thing Of Beauty Question Answer 

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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Question Answer 

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A Roadside Stand Question Answer 

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Thursday, February 27, 2025

On The Face Of It Question Answer 12th English

Ch-6

On The Face of It by Susan Hill

Q1. Who is Mr Lamb? How does Derry get into his garden?

Ans. Mr Lamb is an old man with a tin leg.He is retired from the army. 

 His real leg was blown off years ago during the war. He lives all alone in his house. There is a garden near the house. It has ripe crab apples looking orange and golden in colour.Kids call him Lamey Lamb.Mr Lamb is sitting in his garden when Derry climbs over the garden wall to get into his garden. Though the gate is open, the boy does not use it.


Q2. Do you think all this will change Derry’s attitude towards Mr Lamb?

Ans.Yes, Mr Lamb's kind behaviour will change Derry's attitude towards Mr Lamb. Derry's face got burned with acid. It looks ugly. People dislike him and avoid him. So Derry also avoids people and likes to remain lonely. But Lamb talks to him in a kind manner. He tells Derry that outer appearance is  not much importance. The real beauty is within man's spirit. Handsome is  he who does handsome.Man is known by his actions and reactions. This pleases Derry. So he is drawn towards Mr Lamb.


Q3. What is it that draws Derry towards Mr Lamb in spite of himself?

Ans.Mr Lamb advises Derry that he should also not mind what others say about his face. Mr Lamb tells Derry that beauty is not merely in the physical body. Real beauty lies within our spirits. Handsome is he who does handsome. He tells Derry never to think of his burnt face. He has two arms, two legs, eyes, ears tongue and a brain. He can do better than others. It is by such words of encouragement that Mr Lamb draws Derry to himself



Q4. In which section of the play does Mr Lamb display signs of loneliness and disappointment? What are the ways in which Mr Lamb tries to overcome these feelings?


Ans.It is midway in the first scene of the story that Mr. Lamb displays signs of loneliness and disappointment. When Derry goes away saying that he will come back, Mr Lamb says to himself: " Everyone says, I will come back but they never do. None of them ever comes back." These words show Mr lamb's loneliness and disappointment. But he tries to overcome the feelings by watching, listening and thinking.He has no curtains on his window. He loves to see the natural lights and darkness. He loves to hear the winds blowing. He finds no difference between flowers and trees, birds and weeds. To him they all are growing living things. It is by such positive thinking that he tries to overcome his loneliness and disappointment.


Q5. The actual pain or inconvenience caused by a physical impairment is often much less than the sense of alienation felt by the person with disabilities. What is the kind of behaviour that the person expects from others?

Ans.A disabled person is generally considered an object of pity, He is considered incapable of doing anything useful. People keep reminding him of his disability through their behaviour towards him

He thinks that he is not a part of the normal society..

 This gives the disabled person a deep mental pain. He feels himself alienated from society. A disabled person never wants others to pity him. He only wants that he should be treated as a human being. He expects people to give him an opportunity to show his potential. He is prepared to put in extra labour to make up for his physical impairment. But he wants that his efforts should be recognized and he should be given proper respect.


Q6. Will Derry get back to his old seclusion or will Mr Lamb’s brief association effect a change in the kind of life he will lead in the future?

Ans.When Derry comes to Mr Lamb's garden, he is afraid. He avoids people and wants to spend some time in a lonely place. His face is burned with acid and people are afraid of him. So he also hates them. But his meeting with Mr Lamb changes his outlook. Mr Lamb tells him not to avoid people or to hate them. He is deeply influenced by Mr Lamb. So, it is expected that his brief association with Lamb will bring a change in the kind of life that he will lead in the future.

Q7.What did Derry overhear from the conversation of two women at the bus stop?


Ans. Once, Derry was standing at the bus stop when two women crossed him. One woman looked at him and told the other about Derry's burnt face. She said "Look at that, that's a terrible thing. That's a face only a mother could love. "Derry tells this incident to Mr Lamb who advises him not to pay attention towards such ordinary things.

Q.8. How did Derry get his face burnt? 

Ans. One side of Derry's face was totally burnt. Mr Lamb guessed that Derry's face got burned in a fire. Derry corrected him. He got acid all down on that side of his face. The acid burned it all the way. It ate his face up.


Question 9.

Why had Derry come to the garden?

Answer:

Derry had thought it was an empty place and no one lived there. He wanted to see what kind of place it was. He had no mind to steal any apple.


Question 10.

How does Mr Lamb try to remove the baseless fears of Derry?

Answer:

Mr Lamb tells Derry that he, like others, has two eyes, two ears, two legs, two arms, brain and a tongue. He can do or achieve whatever he likes.Je can better than others.In this way Mr Lamb tries to remove baseless fears of Derry.



Q11.What did Derry’s mother think of Mr Lamb?

Answer:

Derry’s mother did not have any good opinion about Mr Lamb. She considered him to be a worthless man. She thought that Mr Lamb’s talk was all nonsense. She did not want Derry to go there.


Q12.What is the moral of the story on the Face of it?

The moral of the play is very loud and clear. The physically disabled should focus on the brighter side of life and not to brood over the shortcomings. The society should accept them as they are and expand their social interactions . In this way they can fight out the loneliness, depression and disappointment.

Q13. Who is Derry?

Ans.Derry is a fourteen-year-old boy who is disfigured and ugly because half of his face was burnt due to spilling of acid on one side of his face. He is conscious of the fact that his ugliness is revolting to others and so everybody wants to ignore him or pity him. He suffers from inferiority complex. He becomes too arrogant and usually avoids any social interaction. He heard people using nasty comments about him and so bears a grudge towards the entire society.

 Q14.How does Derry interpret the fairy story 'Beauty and the Beast"? What does he feel about himself? Ans. Derry says that he has been told that story before. It teaches us that outward appearance does not matter. It is what one is inside that is important. Handsome is that handsome does. Beauty loved the monstrous beast for himself. When she kissed him, he changed into a handsome prince. No one except Derry's mother kisses him. She too kisses him on  the other of the face.He has developed a negative attitude and says he doesn't care "if anybody ever kissed" him.



Q15.Which fears did the man suffer from? What is the common factor in all of them?

 Ans. The man feared that a bus might run him over, or a man might breathe deadly germs onto him, or a donkey might kick him to death or lightning might strike him down, or he might love a girl and the girl would leave him, and he might slip on a banana skin and fall and people who saw him would laugh their heads off. Most of these fears are imaginary.



Q16. What other ending would you suggest to the above story? 

Ans. I would like the play to end on a happy note. Derry's efforts will revive the old man. After regaining his consciousness, Mr Lamb will grant permission to Derry to live with him and see,hear and learn things.



Q17.How should people be judged?


Ans. People should not be judged by what they look like. They must be judged by their actions and reactions. Appearances may be deceptive. On the other hand, people with physical impairments overcome their disabilities and perform wonderful feats in different spheres.


Q18."I'm not afraid. People are afraid of me," says Derry. What do people think on seeing his face? How do they react then?

 Ans. On looking at Derry's face they find it bad and frightful. They think that it is the ugliest thing they have ever seen. They call him a poor boy as one side of his face has been burnt by acid. Some of them are afraid of his ugly and horrible face. 


 MCQ TYPE ANSWER

Q1How far is Derry’s house from Mr Lamb’s?

Ans.3 miles

Q2.The boy’s name is __ but he prefers

Ans. Derek

Q3.Mr. Lamb claimed he had ______ friends

Ans.hundreds of

Q4.Derry didn’t like people

Ans.being afraid of him

Q5.The gate to Mr Lamb’s house is…

Ans.always open

Q6.The terrible woman said about Derry that it was a face———-

Ans.only a mother could love

Q7.What ate Derry’s face away?

Ans.Acid

Q8.How old is Derry?

Ans.14 years

Q9.Why did Derry enter Mr Lamb’s garden?

Ans.Out of curiosity

Q10.Derry entered Mr Lamb’s garden by __

Ans.climbing over the wall

Q11.What kind of a garden did Mr. Lamb have ?

Ans.Apple garden

Q12.Why did Mr. Lamb call Derry blessed?

Ans.because except a burnt face he had a perfectly healthy body

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