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 Page No. 81 / 82  [Lines, “ At IIT………  in my life.”  Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow. A1. Complete :           Complete the following sentences choosing the information from the extract. a) The writer used to see Nobel Laureates at the dining Table at MIT during lunch time. b) Vincent Cerf invented the basic protocol of (TCP/ IP)  Internet. c) The writer came in contact with 15/20 brilliant students/researchers/ professors when he was in his 3rd year. d) After Mr.Narayan Murthy left Patni, Writer started heading Patni’s Software division. At IIT I got fairly good marks in my first 2 years. However, a very important thing happened while I was in my 3rd year. I came in contact with about 15-20 extremely brilliant students / researchers / professors from IIT, TIFR and BARC. They included top ranking students from IIT, visiting professors in American Universities, and very renowned mathematicians in the world and so on. I

 Extract No. 04 Page No. 81 [Lines, “As I climbed up ………  companies” ] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow. A1. Complete :           Complete the diagram by writing down the tendency of vernacular medium students while speaking English language.   (This is a practice Activity for students)     As I climbed the stairs of my hostel room, my plan was ready in my mind. Normally most of us who are educated in vernacular languages such as Marathi, think in Marathi, before speaking in English, translate it in English and then somehow try to speak out these translated English sentences in an extremely awkward fashion. I had decided that I would do nothing of this sort. I wanted to achieve excellence. This urge to excel in anything that you try to do has been with me since the childhood. Whether I would succeed in this or not, I always set my aims high. In this case too, I wanted to speak excellent, elegant and fluent English.  The fir

  1. Arrange the following incidents in a proper sequential order as they have occurred in Part - 1: (a) Writer realised that he was lost in the woods. (b) The  Langurs  saw the leopard. (c) The author was moving from the jungle as quietly as possible , finding his way through the thicket. (d) The author met a villager.  Ans :  (c) The author was moving from the jungle as quietly as possible , finding his way through the thicket. (b) The Langurs saw the leopard. (d) The author met a villager.  (a) Writer realised that he was lost in the woods. 2. State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statements.  (a) Earlier Shaaz was in the field of finance. (b) BCRTI was founded out of the genuine urge to conserve the habitat of the wild life. (c) Shaaz failed to utilize the finance incurred out of tourism. (d) According to the local agriculturist seeing is more essential than listening  Ans:  a) Earlier Shaaz was in the field of finance.  True  (b) BCRTI was fou

    Extract No. 03 PageNo. 80  [Lines, “I Was quite………  to fight back”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all activities that follow. A1.     True or false :             State whether the following statements are True or false. Correct the false statements. a)     The writer studied in convent school and was very fluent in English. (F)     Correct statement - The writer had his entire education in Marathi.His spoken English was quite pathetic. b)     The writer wanted to run away back to solapur from Mumbai.(T) c)     The writer’s joy to join IIT Mumbai did not last for more days.(T) d)     The senior student, a convent educated boy was very polite with the writer.(F)     Correct statement. -  The senior student, a convent educated boy was very arrogant and wanted to pull his leg.     I was quite happy getting into IIT, but my joy was shortlived . At Solapur I had not seen any building which was more than three storeyed. Mumbai however was full of skyscrapers . A

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  Voyaging Towards Excellence 2  Extract No. 02 [Line, “This is not………  The same”] Read the first activity, read the extract and do all the activities that follow. A1. Complete :            Complete the following sentences choosing the information given in the extract. 1) The writer developed a  problem  – solving attitude . 2) If you had secured 1st Rank in the university,   you could get an admission into IIT without entrance Exam like JEE. 3) JEE Exam is based on the  ability to think logically quickly and rapidly. 4) The writer used to get 100% Marks in  Mathematics . This is not to say that I did not like Science or Mathematics. In fact, I loved these subjects. However, I did not study them only for scoring maximum marks in the examinations. I used to study these subjects or any subject for that matter for its inherent beauty. I found Newton’s law of motion beautiful and Pythagorean Theorem elegant. I loved solving problems of Physics and Mathematics of the 9th s