Chapter 15: Reading with Understanding (Thimmakka & Biomedical Waste Management)

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