F.A part 2 second year English notes Book 2 Prose and Heroes short Questions and Answers 2018 guess English
: INTER PART TWO (MODERN PROS AND HEROES) PART ONE
QUESTIONS
Q1. What happened when the wandering star came nearer the sun?
Ans. A wandering star came near the sun. It raised a big wave on the surface of the sun. The nearer the star came, the higher the wave rose. Then the wave broke in to pieces. These pieces fell off the sun. They began to move round the sun. They came to be known as planets. Our earth is one of them.
Q2. Why is there no life on the stars?
Ans. The stars are big burning balls of fire. Life would melt away there. Therefore, there is no life on the stars.
Q3. Write a note on the beginning of life on earth?
Ans. Life began in the form of a living organism. Then it changed to a human being. In this way life began on earth.
Q4. What methods are used by us now to preserve food?
Ans. To preserve food, we use the methods of freezing, dehydration, pickling, grading, drying and canning.
Q5. What were superstitious beliefs practiced by people in the past?
Ans. They were afraid of black cats, broken mirrors and the number 13.
: Q6. How has the science changed the life of human beings?
Ans. Science has changed our ways of thinking, ways of curing diseases, preserving food and sanitary conditions. We have become more critical in our thinking than our ancestors.
Q7. How was food preserved in the past?
Ans. In the past women preserved vegetables and fruits by canning, pickling and drying.
Q8. What is the common cause of the failure of the students?
Ans. Nervous habits, bad health, a mistaken ambition, over confidence, financial difficulties and non serious attitudes are the causes of failure of boys in colleges.
Q9. How does mistaken ambition on the part of boys and their parents leads to failure of the boys?
Ans. A mistaken ambition leads to failure. The student wants to study one thing, while his parents ask him to study another thing. So, he can't pay heed to studies and fails.
Q10. How is health another cause of the failure of the boys?
Ans. The student suffering from bad health cannot pay heed to their studies. As a result they fail.
: Q11. Daiches liked holidays for their freedom _freedom from what?
Ans. Daiches did not like the dull school life. On holidays, he felt to be free from the dry work at school. So, holidays brought him freedom from the boring routine of school life.
Q12. Wishes do not come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but could not have?
Ans. Daiches longed for a tricycle and later for a bicycle. He wished for sweets and ice-cream but he couldn't have these things.
Q13. What did the writer feel on Friday and Friday night?
Ans. On that day, he walked home from school like an escaped prisoner. He felt very happy on Friday night. It was the best night of the week as it was followed by two holidays.
Q14. Why should the bad books be destroyed?
Ans. Bad books should be destroyed to make room for the good and new books.
Q15. What was the disease the writer discovered he didn't have?
Ans. The writer found that he was not suffering from one disease only. And it was housemaid, s knee.
[Q16. What was the prescription given to him by the doctor?
Ans. The prescription was :
“1 Ib. Beefsteak,
Every six hours.
Ten mile walk every morning,
Bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things
You don't understand. "
Q17.Why did the writer went to the British Museum?
Ans. The writer went to the British Museum to study the cure of hay fever.
Q18. Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal?
Ans. The writer talked in a funny way. His face gave an odd look. By observing all this, the manager thought that the writer would tell him an awful secret.
Q19. What mistake did the writer make while writing on the cheque?
Ans. He had written fifty six instead of six in confusion.
Q20. After mis adventure in the bank, where did Leacock keep his money?
Ans. After the mis adventure of the bank, the writer began to keep his money in his socks.
[: Q21. What are temperature belts?
Ans. These are the temperature zones at certain distances from a star. The space near the star is comparatively hotter than the belts away from them.
Q22. Why has the world changed its attitude towards China?
Ans. China is the third largest country of the world. One fourth of the world population lives there. The Chinese made their social system a success. Thus the world has to change its attitude towards China.
Q23. How does China rely on its own resources?
Ans. They use the locally made machines. Such machines are very cheap. They can be got easily. They also give better results.
Q24. Write a note on the Chinese women?
Ans. The Chinese women use no beauty products. They enjoy many social benefits. They work 8 hours a day. They enjoy free medical facilities. They get 56 paid holidays before child birth.
Q25. What is decentralized economy? Does it really exist in China?
Ans. The decentralized economy means the development of the cities and the villages at the same level. This system exists in China in the true sense of the word.
Q26. Describe some great famines of the past.
Ans. One of the first famines came in the reign of Pharoah. In the reign of Joseph the famine lasted for 7 years. China faced 90 famines in one century.
Q27. How do famines occur?
Ans. The failure of food crops causes famines. Some times, crops fail due to some disease. Sometimes, the crops fail due to the lack of rain.
Q28.What is the main reason for population increase today?
Ans. If the birth rate is higher than the death rate the population increases.
Q29. What is meant by birth rate and death rate?
Ans. Birth rate shows the speed with which babies are born. Death_rate shows the speed with which people die.
Q30. What did a Saxon nun say about moslem capital Cordova?
Ans. When the fame of Cordova penetrated to the distant Germany, a Saxon nun there styled it "the jewel of the world".
[: Q31. What did Abd _al_Rahman do with the governor?
Ans. Abd _al _Rahman killed the Abbasid governor and sent his head as a gift to the Abbasid caliph.
Q32 How did Abd _al _Rahman 3 strengthen his state?
Ans. He recaptured the lost areas, maintained law and order there and ruled with wisdom and skill.
Q33. Who was Al_Hakam?
Ans. Al _Hakam was the successor of Abd _al _Rahman3.
Q34. Describe the library of Cordova?
Ans. The capital housed a big library. It contained 400,000 books. Only the catalogue consisted of forty four volumes.
QUESTIONS from book 2 Part one ENDED
.
INTER PART TWO
BOOK 2 PART TWO
SHORT QUESTIONS
Q1. Why did Churchill not do well in examination?
Ans. He could not answer the questions about Latin and Mathematics. Therefore he could not do well in the examination.
Q2. How did Churchill do his Latin paper?
Ans. He just wrote his name, question "1" and put a bracket round it thus (“1").Then unknowingly he put a blot and many dirty marks on the paper.
Q3. Churchill was taught English at Harrow and not Latin and Greek. Was it a gain or loss?
Ans. Churchill did not learn Latin and Greek. But it proved to be no loss for him. Learning English proved to be a gain in his practical life.
Q4. Why did Christopher want to visit Sahara?
Ans. Christopher was a naughty boy. His foster mother used to threaten him to send him to Timbuktu. But, this threat instead of alarming him aroused in him a keen desire to visit this far off city.
Q5. Why was the area named as the land of thirst and death?
Ans. It was an area of dry wells. There was not a drop of water. Therefore this area was named as the land of thirst and death.
[: Q6. Describe El _Golea?
Ans. It was really a true oasis with plenty of water. Every day, Christopher spent hours either bathing in a little pool or lying on the cool grass watching the birds.
Q7. Why did Christopher and his companions kill a camel?
Ans. They had left neither food nor water and the next waterhole was two days away. So, they killed a camel and got water from its stomach to drink.
Q8. How did Christopher manage to get water in Abbangarit?
Ans. He drew the water up with the teapot. He spent the whole morning drawing up potful after potful and was able to collect five gallons.
Q9. What is aseptic method?
Ans. Aseptic method is the use of heat to kill germs. It is used to sterlize instruments, clothing and other operating theater equipments.
Q10. What did Fleming say about the discovery of Penicillin?
Ans. Fleming never felt proud of his discovery. He said that penicillin was not a man made drug.
: Q11. What are antiseptics and what is the antiseptic method?
Ans. The antiseptics are the substances that kill germs. The use of these substances to kill germs is called an antiseptic method.
Q12. What is Lysozyme?and how Fleming discovered it?
Ans. Fleming was suffering from catarrh. He was examining his nasal secretions. In them he found a substance that killed germs on the plate. He called Lysozyme.
Q13. Give an account of the early life of Fleming.
Ans. Fleming was born on a farm near Darvel on August 6,1881. He got his early education in the village school. At ten he went to Darvel school. At fourteen he went to London and studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic. At twenty he joined st. Mary, a medical school.
Q14. What do you know of the Oxford team?
Ans. At Oxford a team headed by professor Howard Florey and Dr. E. B Chain worked for the concentration of penicillin. This team is called Oxford team.
Q15. How was penicillin discovered?
Ans. Fleming was growing colonies of germs on plates. A piece of fungus came flying from the window. It dropped on the plate. At once the germs around the fungus began to disappear. Fleming called it penicillin.
: Q16. Why could not penicillin have been discovered in the research laboratories of America?
Ans. The American laboratories were dust less. Penicillin could not be discovered there because there was no way for a mold spore to come in and drop on the culture plate.
[: Q17. How did Pasteur show the way to other scientists?
Ans. Pasteur, s work urged scientists to find the cures for other diseases. From 1880 to 1890, they discovered the germs of consumption, diphtheria, typhoid, lock_jaw, cholera and Malta fever.
Q18. Show that Pasteur was a great patriot.
Ans. Pasteur was a true patriot. He enrolled himself in the National Guard. Once he gave all his wealth _150 francs at an altar.
Q19. What did Pasteur advise people to do to prevent the silkworm disease?
Ans. He asked people to keep only those eggs laid by healthy worms. He asked them to avoid over crowding, unclaenliness, over heating and unhealthy conditions.
Q20. When was first human being treated of Rabies?
Ans. In 1885, a boy Joseph was brought to Paris for treatment. He had been bitten by a mad dog two days before. Pasteur undertook the treatment by inoculating him for ten days. The boy was cured.
: Q21. What is the method of making vaccines?
Ans. Vaccine is made by developing a weak form of bacteria or virus of a certain disease. This substance, containing a weak form of the bacteria or virus, causes a slight disease and is used to protect people from that disease.
: Q22. Write a note on Mustafa Kamal, s activities in Anatolia.
Ans. In Anatolia, Mustafa Kamal started a guerrilla war against the Greeks. He urged the patriots to build up a National Army. He suggested the establishment of government at Anatolia.
Q23. Why did Mehmet order Mustafa Kamal to return to Constantinople?
Ans. Mustafa Kamal started a guerrilla war against the Greeks in Anatolia. He suggested the establishment of government at Anatolia. When the sultan heard of these activities of Mustafa Kamal, he ordered him to return to Istanbul.
Q24. What was Mustafa Kamal, s reply?
Ans. Mustafa Kamal sent a telegram to sultan. He asked him to come over to Anatolia to lead his people against the Allies.
Q25. Why did Mehmet, s plan fail?
Ans. Mustafa Kamal saw through the plot of Mehmet. He did not come to Istanbul. Thus Mehmet, s plan to trap Mustafa Kamal failed.
[ Q26. What were the terms offered to Turkey by the Allies?
Ans. It was said that all the Arab provinces were to be Mandated Territories. The Eastern Anatolia would go to Armenia, Izmir to Greeks, Cicilia to France and Istanbul to Britain, France and Italy.
Q27. Describe Mustafa Kamal, s educational reforms.
Ans. Mustafa Kamal, s first object was to educate the people. State education was unknown in turkey. Women education was made compulsory by him. He trained as many teachers as possible.
Q28. Describe the economic reforms of Mustafa Kamal.
Ans. He build new roads and railways. He increased the number of factories. He encouraged heavy industries. The banking system was organized.
Q29. Describe the social reforms of Mustafa Kamal?
Ans. He educated the people. He introduced the Roman script. He made language easy. He abolished old titles and nobilities. Fez was replaced by hat. He abolished veil. He urged women to get higher education.
QUESTIONS FROM BOOK 2 PART TWO ENDED
QUESTIONS
Q1. What happened when the wandering star came nearer the sun?
Ans. A wandering star came near the sun. It raised a big wave on the surface of the sun. The nearer the star came, the higher the wave rose. Then the wave broke in to pieces. These pieces fell off the sun. They began to move round the sun. They came to be known as planets. Our earth is one of them.
Q2. Why is there no life on the stars?
Ans. The stars are big burning balls of fire. Life would melt away there. Therefore, there is no life on the stars.
Q3. Write a note on the beginning of life on earth?
Ans. Life began in the form of a living organism. Then it changed to a human being. In this way life began on earth.
Q4. What methods are used by us now to preserve food?
Ans. To preserve food, we use the methods of freezing, dehydration, pickling, grading, drying and canning.
Q5. What were superstitious beliefs practiced by people in the past?
Ans. They were afraid of black cats, broken mirrors and the number 13.
: Q6. How has the science changed the life of human beings?
Ans. Science has changed our ways of thinking, ways of curing diseases, preserving food and sanitary conditions. We have become more critical in our thinking than our ancestors.
Q7. How was food preserved in the past?
Ans. In the past women preserved vegetables and fruits by canning, pickling and drying.
Q8. What is the common cause of the failure of the students?
Ans. Nervous habits, bad health, a mistaken ambition, over confidence, financial difficulties and non serious attitudes are the causes of failure of boys in colleges.
Q9. How does mistaken ambition on the part of boys and their parents leads to failure of the boys?
Ans. A mistaken ambition leads to failure. The student wants to study one thing, while his parents ask him to study another thing. So, he can't pay heed to studies and fails.
Q10. How is health another cause of the failure of the boys?
Ans. The student suffering from bad health cannot pay heed to their studies. As a result they fail.
: Q11. Daiches liked holidays for their freedom _freedom from what?
Ans. Daiches did not like the dull school life. On holidays, he felt to be free from the dry work at school. So, holidays brought him freedom from the boring routine of school life.
Q12. Wishes do not come true in this life, writes Daiches. What are the things he longed for but could not have?
Ans. Daiches longed for a tricycle and later for a bicycle. He wished for sweets and ice-cream but he couldn't have these things.
Q13. What did the writer feel on Friday and Friday night?
Ans. On that day, he walked home from school like an escaped prisoner. He felt very happy on Friday night. It was the best night of the week as it was followed by two holidays.
Q14. Why should the bad books be destroyed?
Ans. Bad books should be destroyed to make room for the good and new books.
Q15. What was the disease the writer discovered he didn't have?
Ans. The writer found that he was not suffering from one disease only. And it was housemaid, s knee.
[Q16. What was the prescription given to him by the doctor?
Ans. The prescription was :
“1 Ib. Beefsteak,
Every six hours.
Ten mile walk every morning,
Bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things
You don't understand. "
Q17.Why did the writer went to the British Museum?
Ans. The writer went to the British Museum to study the cure of hay fever.
Q18. Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal?
Ans. The writer talked in a funny way. His face gave an odd look. By observing all this, the manager thought that the writer would tell him an awful secret.
Q19. What mistake did the writer make while writing on the cheque?
Ans. He had written fifty six instead of six in confusion.
Q20. After mis adventure in the bank, where did Leacock keep his money?
Ans. After the mis adventure of the bank, the writer began to keep his money in his socks.
[: Q21. What are temperature belts?
Ans. These are the temperature zones at certain distances from a star. The space near the star is comparatively hotter than the belts away from them.
Q22. Why has the world changed its attitude towards China?
Ans. China is the third largest country of the world. One fourth of the world population lives there. The Chinese made their social system a success. Thus the world has to change its attitude towards China.
Q23. How does China rely on its own resources?
Ans. They use the locally made machines. Such machines are very cheap. They can be got easily. They also give better results.
Q24. Write a note on the Chinese women?
Ans. The Chinese women use no beauty products. They enjoy many social benefits. They work 8 hours a day. They enjoy free medical facilities. They get 56 paid holidays before child birth.
Q25. What is decentralized economy? Does it really exist in China?
Ans. The decentralized economy means the development of the cities and the villages at the same level. This system exists in China in the true sense of the word.
Q26. Describe some great famines of the past.
Ans. One of the first famines came in the reign of Pharoah. In the reign of Joseph the famine lasted for 7 years. China faced 90 famines in one century.
Q27. How do famines occur?
Ans. The failure of food crops causes famines. Some times, crops fail due to some disease. Sometimes, the crops fail due to the lack of rain.
Q28.What is the main reason for population increase today?
Ans. If the birth rate is higher than the death rate the population increases.
Q29. What is meant by birth rate and death rate?
Ans. Birth rate shows the speed with which babies are born. Death_rate shows the speed with which people die.
Q30. What did a Saxon nun say about moslem capital Cordova?
Ans. When the fame of Cordova penetrated to the distant Germany, a Saxon nun there styled it "the jewel of the world".
[: Q31. What did Abd _al_Rahman do with the governor?
Ans. Abd _al _Rahman killed the Abbasid governor and sent his head as a gift to the Abbasid caliph.
Q32 How did Abd _al _Rahman 3 strengthen his state?
Ans. He recaptured the lost areas, maintained law and order there and ruled with wisdom and skill.
Q33. Who was Al_Hakam?
Ans. Al _Hakam was the successor of Abd _al _Rahman3.
Q34. Describe the library of Cordova?
Ans. The capital housed a big library. It contained 400,000 books. Only the catalogue consisted of forty four volumes.
QUESTIONS from book 2 Part one ENDED
.
INTER PART TWO
BOOK 2 PART TWO
SHORT QUESTIONS
Q1. Why did Churchill not do well in examination?
Ans. He could not answer the questions about Latin and Mathematics. Therefore he could not do well in the examination.
Q2. How did Churchill do his Latin paper?
Ans. He just wrote his name, question "1" and put a bracket round it thus (“1").Then unknowingly he put a blot and many dirty marks on the paper.
Q3. Churchill was taught English at Harrow and not Latin and Greek. Was it a gain or loss?
Ans. Churchill did not learn Latin and Greek. But it proved to be no loss for him. Learning English proved to be a gain in his practical life.
Q4. Why did Christopher want to visit Sahara?
Ans. Christopher was a naughty boy. His foster mother used to threaten him to send him to Timbuktu. But, this threat instead of alarming him aroused in him a keen desire to visit this far off city.
Q5. Why was the area named as the land of thirst and death?
Ans. It was an area of dry wells. There was not a drop of water. Therefore this area was named as the land of thirst and death.
[: Q6. Describe El _Golea?
Ans. It was really a true oasis with plenty of water. Every day, Christopher spent hours either bathing in a little pool or lying on the cool grass watching the birds.
Q7. Why did Christopher and his companions kill a camel?
Ans. They had left neither food nor water and the next waterhole was two days away. So, they killed a camel and got water from its stomach to drink.
Q8. How did Christopher manage to get water in Abbangarit?
Ans. He drew the water up with the teapot. He spent the whole morning drawing up potful after potful and was able to collect five gallons.
Q9. What is aseptic method?
Ans. Aseptic method is the use of heat to kill germs. It is used to sterlize instruments, clothing and other operating theater equipments.
Q10. What did Fleming say about the discovery of Penicillin?
Ans. Fleming never felt proud of his discovery. He said that penicillin was not a man made drug.
: Q11. What are antiseptics and what is the antiseptic method?
Ans. The antiseptics are the substances that kill germs. The use of these substances to kill germs is called an antiseptic method.
Q12. What is Lysozyme?and how Fleming discovered it?
Ans. Fleming was suffering from catarrh. He was examining his nasal secretions. In them he found a substance that killed germs on the plate. He called Lysozyme.
Q13. Give an account of the early life of Fleming.
Ans. Fleming was born on a farm near Darvel on August 6,1881. He got his early education in the village school. At ten he went to Darvel school. At fourteen he went to London and studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic. At twenty he joined st. Mary, a medical school.
Q14. What do you know of the Oxford team?
Ans. At Oxford a team headed by professor Howard Florey and Dr. E. B Chain worked for the concentration of penicillin. This team is called Oxford team.
Q15. How was penicillin discovered?
Ans. Fleming was growing colonies of germs on plates. A piece of fungus came flying from the window. It dropped on the plate. At once the germs around the fungus began to disappear. Fleming called it penicillin.
: Q16. Why could not penicillin have been discovered in the research laboratories of America?
Ans. The American laboratories were dust less. Penicillin could not be discovered there because there was no way for a mold spore to come in and drop on the culture plate.
[: Q17. How did Pasteur show the way to other scientists?
Ans. Pasteur, s work urged scientists to find the cures for other diseases. From 1880 to 1890, they discovered the germs of consumption, diphtheria, typhoid, lock_jaw, cholera and Malta fever.
Q18. Show that Pasteur was a great patriot.
Ans. Pasteur was a true patriot. He enrolled himself in the National Guard. Once he gave all his wealth _150 francs at an altar.
Q19. What did Pasteur advise people to do to prevent the silkworm disease?
Ans. He asked people to keep only those eggs laid by healthy worms. He asked them to avoid over crowding, unclaenliness, over heating and unhealthy conditions.
Q20. When was first human being treated of Rabies?
Ans. In 1885, a boy Joseph was brought to Paris for treatment. He had been bitten by a mad dog two days before. Pasteur undertook the treatment by inoculating him for ten days. The boy was cured.
: Q21. What is the method of making vaccines?
Ans. Vaccine is made by developing a weak form of bacteria or virus of a certain disease. This substance, containing a weak form of the bacteria or virus, causes a slight disease and is used to protect people from that disease.
: Q22. Write a note on Mustafa Kamal, s activities in Anatolia.
Ans. In Anatolia, Mustafa Kamal started a guerrilla war against the Greeks. He urged the patriots to build up a National Army. He suggested the establishment of government at Anatolia.
Q23. Why did Mehmet order Mustafa Kamal to return to Constantinople?
Ans. Mustafa Kamal started a guerrilla war against the Greeks in Anatolia. He suggested the establishment of government at Anatolia. When the sultan heard of these activities of Mustafa Kamal, he ordered him to return to Istanbul.
Q24. What was Mustafa Kamal, s reply?
Ans. Mustafa Kamal sent a telegram to sultan. He asked him to come over to Anatolia to lead his people against the Allies.
Q25. Why did Mehmet, s plan fail?
Ans. Mustafa Kamal saw through the plot of Mehmet. He did not come to Istanbul. Thus Mehmet, s plan to trap Mustafa Kamal failed.
[ Q26. What were the terms offered to Turkey by the Allies?
Ans. It was said that all the Arab provinces were to be Mandated Territories. The Eastern Anatolia would go to Armenia, Izmir to Greeks, Cicilia to France and Istanbul to Britain, France and Italy.
Q27. Describe Mustafa Kamal, s educational reforms.
Ans. Mustafa Kamal, s first object was to educate the people. State education was unknown in turkey. Women education was made compulsory by him. He trained as many teachers as possible.
Q28. Describe the economic reforms of Mustafa Kamal.
Ans. He build new roads and railways. He increased the number of factories. He encouraged heavy industries. The banking system was organized.
Q29. Describe the social reforms of Mustafa Kamal?
Ans. He educated the people. He introduced the Roman script. He made language easy. He abolished old titles and nobilities. Fez was replaced by hat. He abolished veil. He urged women to get higher education.
QUESTIONS FROM BOOK 2 PART TWO ENDED
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