NIOS Class 12 English Chapter 15 Question Answers
INTEXT QUESTIONS 15.1
1. Choose and tick the correct answer:
a) The couple look after the saplings because:
i. they earned money from it
ii. it gave them happiness and satisfaction
iii. it would get them an award
Ans: ii) it gave them happiness and satisfaction
b) The trees provided:
i. employment to some people
ii. food for the animals
iii. shade along the 3 km stretch of road.
Ans: iii. Shade along the 3 k.m. stretch of road
2. Select the correct information from the box and write it in the blanks:
| 1950s | 10 | 284 |
| 3 km | 300 | 85 |
a) Trees were planted along a _________ stretch of road.
Ans: 3 km
b) The trees were planted in the _______.
Ans: 1950s
c) Thimmakka planted ________ saplings.
Ans: 300
d) They looked after the trees for _________years.
Ans: 10
e) _______ trees grew along the National Highway.
Ans: 284
f) The approximate cost of the trees are __________ crores.
Ans: 85
3. Answer the following questions:
a) Why did Thimakka receive the National Citizens Award?
Ans: For planting 284 banyan trees along a 3 km stretch of a National Highway.
b) What made Thimmakka and her husband decide to plant banyan trees along the highway?
Ans: They didn’t have children, so they decided to adopt trees as their children.
c) What did Thimmakka do to ensure the safety of the plants?
Ans: Put thorny bushes.
4. Complete the sentences:
a) To take good care of the saplings after ensuring their safety Thimmakka had to:
Ans:
i. bring pots of water from a long distance
ii. poked at the roots during the rainy season.
iii. kept constant vigil/nursed them for 10 years.
b) Thimmakka’s banyan trees have benefited the environment by:
Ans:
i. providing a green canopy for 3 km.
ii. providing nests for birds.
iii. preventing soil erosion.
5. Find a word in the passage which means ‘a cover’.
Ans: Canopy
INTEXT QUESTIONS 15.2
1. Tick True (T) or False (F) against the following statements:
a) Nearly 25 human diseases are caused by accumulating garbage.
Ans: True
b) Preventive steps can be taken to reduce accumulating garbage.
Ans: False
c) Recycling and reusing of garbage can bring revenue.
Ans: True
d) Flies are carriers of bio-organisms which cause plague.
Ans: False.
2. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using the information given in the passage:
a) Heaps of garbage can cause the breeding of ___________.
Ans: disease-carrying vectors.
b) One cubic metre of garbage can have ____________flies.
Ans: 8,00,000
c) Diseases like _________ are caused by pathogenic organisms.
Ans: dysentery and diarrhoea
d) Fire hazard leading to accidents can be due to ___
Ans: accumulation of litter, refuse and junk.
3. a) What does biomedical waste consist of?
Ans: anatomical waste, syringes, gauze, absorbents, glass.
b) Who is more likely to be affected by the biomedical waste?
Ans: Rag pickers.
c) A suitable title for the passage can be:
i. Garbage
ii. Garbage mountains-a nuisance.
iii. Protection from medical waste.
iv. Pathogenic organisms.
Ans: ii) Garbage mountains -a nuisance.
4. There is a serious concern about solid wastes because: (Tick all the correct answers)
a) They cause a lot of expenditure.
b) They spoil the beauty of the city.
c) They are a threat to health.
d) They bring revenue.
Ans: b, c
Additional Study Materials
- NIOS Class 12 English Sample Paper
- Chapter 10: Of Studies
- Chapter 11: Night of the Scorpion
- Chapter 12: Where the Mind is without Fear
- Chapter 13: If
- Chapter 14: The Bazaars of Hyderabad
