SSC Papers for Practice English Maharashtra Board
Marks 100
Q.1. (A) Read the passage carefully and
complete the activities: 10
But when he wanted to grow the plants, he found that the greatest difficulty was in
identifying the plants. Their Sanskrit
names had about ten synonyms each. He
had to consult many scholars. As far
as locating them physically, he found almost
all, barring two or
three. In his words, ”interestingly, some of
them were very common to everyday plants we are very familiar with. For instance, Sage
Valmiki mentions about 48 varieties of
plants in describing the Ashoka
forest, including the Shimshuka tree on
which Ivlaruti sat. lt turns out, this is actually well- known rosewood!" Reddy succeeded in creating a Pavitra
\/ana at Ramnagaram S0kms from
Bengaluru to Mysore. Today, more than
120 trees and plants mentioned in our
Puranas are grown in this garden. it took
him a year to research on ancient texts and correlate the plants’ ancient Sanskrit names with
modern botanical names. Finding the
plants and trees took another year and
a half. By 1989, with the help of
Vedic scholars, he had published a book, Sacred Plants, through the forestry Department
in Dehradun. All this resulted in
setting up the gardens.
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1. Choose the alternative: 2
a) The greatest difficulty was in__________
the plants.
i) Describing
ii) Including
iii) Identifying
iv) Barring
b) Sage Valmiki mentions about 48
varieties in __________ the Ashoka forest.
i) Describing
ii) Creating
iii) Identifying
iv) Locating
c) The ‘Sacred Plants’ was
published with the help of the Forestry Department in __________.
i) Ramnagaram
ii) Dehradun
iii) Bengaluru
iv) Ashoka
d) The English equivalent of the
Shimushka tree is __________.
i) Vedic
ii) Botanical
iii) Ashoka
iv) Rosewood
2) Arrange the following in order
of occurrence to describe Reddy’s efforts in creating PavitraVana: 2
i) Reddy identified the plants.
ii) Reddy tried locating the plants
physically.
iii) Reddy created PavitraVana.
iv) Reddy consulted Sanskrit
scholars.
3) Complete the following sentences using suitable phrases from the
passage: 2
i) The heroine sets out to meet
her father but it __________ that he is already dead.
ii) They took a long time for
__________ the stage for the programme.
4) Grammar: 2
i) He had to consult many
scholars. (Frame a ‘Wh-‘type question to get the underlined part as answer.)
ii) Sage Valmiki mentions about 48
varieties of plants in describing the Ashoka forest. (Rewrite using the
infinitive form of the underlined word.)
5) Personal Response: 2
What
are the various qualities for the accomplishment of a task?
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