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Q.7. You are Suraj/Sandhya of Gargi Senior Secondary School Delhi. Games and Sports should be made compulsory in schools. Write a speech for morning assembly on the Importance of Games and Sports in Personality Development in about 150-200 words. (10 Marks)
a. the elderly woman's old husband
b. Mukesh's grandfather
C. bangle factory owner
D. Mukesh's elder brother
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1 India is surrounded by waterbodies on three sides yet we face water shortage every year! Consider this-
the per capita water availability in India was 3,450 cu m in 1951. By 2025 the annual per capita availability of
water is expected to fall drastically from the current 1800 cu m per person to 1200-1500 cu m.
2 Mumbai?s demand for water is expected to rise to 7,950 MLD by 2011.the current supply is around 3100
MLD ?already a substantial shortfall as the city receives only 2,500 MLD, the balance lost on account of
leakages and pilferage .Delhi Jal Board is able to supply only around 650 million gallons of water per day
against the demand of 750.
3 According to a World Bank study of 27 Asian cities with population of over 1,000,000, Kolkata is the fourth
worst performing metro in terms of water availability per day.
4 The quality of available water is also fast deteriorating. In 1982 it was reported that 70 percent of all
available water in India polluted. The situation is much worse today. The over ?extraction of groundwater
has led to salt intrusion into coastal aquifers. It has also resulted in problems of excessive fluoride, iron,
arsenic and salinity in water affecting about 44 million people in India. Groundwater is facing an equally
serious threat from contamination
By industrial effluent and faecal matter as well as pesticides and fertilisers from farm run-offs.
5 Unless priority is given quickly to creating an infrastructure to assure availability of water, there may be no
water to meet the agriculture, domestic and industrial needs of a population that has tripled in 50 years to
one billion.
6 Water management is therefore a major challenge for town for planners, builders and architects today,
not just I terms of availability of water ,but, most importantly, in terms of its quality.
7 As water shortage increases, alternative sources of water supply are gaining importance. These include
sewage recycle, rainwater harvesting, generating water from humidity in the atmosphere, etc. Water for
uses such as drinking, bathing, cooking and laundry,
8 Rajesh Sharma, managing director, Ion Exchange Ltd, opines,? population, industrialisation and pollution
are putting pressure on our limited fresh water resources. There is a limit to increasing water supply because
we are running out of sources and the cost of additional facilities is prohibitive .Moreover, as industry which
pays heavily for the water it uses, recycles more and more of it, it will be increasingly difficult for
municipalities to find the money for subsidy. Sewage recycle would help reduce infrastructural costs on
public supply pipelines. The best way to solve water scarcity, therefore, is conserving water and recycle it
wherever possible. Recycling must be made mandatory for all new projects ? industrial or domestic. It
should be promoted for existing buildings also.
9 ?Apart from priority to watershed development, rainwater harvesting and water recycle, another area we
need to address is optimising use of water through drip irrigation.
(a) Make notes on the passage in a suitable format. Use recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary. Give a
suitable title.
(b) Write a summary of the passage based on yours notes.
Everyone knows that smoking and chewing tobacco is bad for health, yet 250 million people in India- almost one fourth of the country?s population consume some form of tobacco. ?People think they can give up tobacco use whenever they want. But it?s not that easy. Nicotine is an addictive drug,? health minister Dr. Ambumani Ramadoss told the Hindustan Times.
The World Health Organization links smoking to 25 cancers of head and neck, urinary bladder, kidneys, cervix, pancreas and colon, to name just a few. Smoking is also a major risk factor for several other diseases such as chronic bronchitis, heart disease, stroke, impotence and premature death.
?Most people link smoking to cancers, but it is the biggest cause of heart disease. Smoking increases the risk of clot formation in the blood, which can block arteries and cause heart attack even in healthy people,? says Dr. R.R. Kashiwal, Director, Cardiology, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre. ?Lifestyle changes don?t help much if a person continues smoking,? he adds.
Smoking causes about 30 percent of all cancer deaths (including 90 percent of lung cancer deaths). According to Indian Council of Medical Research, one million die of tobacco use in India every year. Reducing tobacco use is naturally a big priority for the health minister.
Despite the cigarette and other tobacco products (packaging and labeling) rules banning smoking in public places and sale to minors in India, the number of smokers is going up each year. ?About ten million children under the age of 15 are addicted to tobacco in India,? says Ramadoss.
The WHO estimates that of every 1,000 tobacco users today, 500 will die of a tobacco related disease, 250 of them in their middle age. The current tobacco consumption trend in India indicates a shoot up from 1.4 percent of deaths in 1990 to 13.3 percent in 2020.
A proposal to carry graphic and direct health warnings such as ?Tobacco Kills? _ on all packages has been postponed indefinitely because of pressure from the food industry, which claims farmers and poor workers will lose jobs. But thousands of lives will be saved if the new warnings drive home the health hazards of tobacco use more effectively. ?The statutory warning currently carried on tobacco products is in English, a language that a majority of the population cannot read or understand,? says Ramadoss, who will start a campaign to make workplaces smoke-free this year to protect non-smokers from second hand smoke.
Most people would stop tobacco if they knew what goes into making a cigarette. It has formaldehyde, the chemical used to pressure animals in chemistry labs, cynamide found in rat poison; and nicotine, which is a powerful insecticide. Studies have shown that bidis are even more harmful than cigarettes.
?Tobacco is the second biggest cause of death in the world and kills 5 million people- one in 10 adult deaths each year. If that is not reason enough to stop its use, I don?t know what is,? says Ramadoss.
a. On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it in points using headings and subheadings. Use recognizable abbreviations (minimum four). Also suggest a suitable title.
(b) Give a summary of the passage in about 80 words.
Q.7. Yoga unites the body, mind and soul. When you are in harmony, the journey through life is calmer, happier and more fulfilling.. Write a speech in 150-200 words to be delivered in the morning assembly on the topic ' Yoga- a way of life'. You are Karan/Kajal, Head Boy/Head Girl of D.A.V. Public School, Delhi. (10)