Important Questions English Book-II, Part-I

 Important Short Questions Inter Part-2, Book-2 (Part-1)

Questions Based on Exercise

1.      How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it? (The Dying Sun)

2.     What happened when, according to Sir James Jeans, a wandering star, wandering through the space, came near the sun? (The Dying Sun)

3.      Why is there no life on stars?(The Dying Sun)

4.      Why is the universe frightening? (The Dying Sun)

5.      How has the scientific method helped us in our fight against diseases? (Using the Scientific Method)

6.      What are the sanitary conditions in our villages today? (Using the Scientific Method)

7.      How has the scientific method helped us in the production and preservation of foods?   (Using the Scientific Method)

8.      We are generally less fearful than our ancestors. What were our ancestors afraid of? (Using the Scientific Method)

9.      How does a mistaken ambition on the part of the boys and their parents lead to the failure of the boys? (Using the Scientific Method)

10.  How does financial pressure lead to failure of students described in the lesson? (Why Boys Fail in Colleges?)

11.  What place would you accord to the sportsmen in college? (Why Boys Fail in Colleges?)           

12.  Who are lazy bluffers? What should be done with lazy bluffers? (Why Boys Fail in Colleges?)

13.  The writer liked holidays for their freedom – freedom of what? (End of Term)

14.  Wishes don’t come true in this life. What are the things he longed for but could not have?  (End of Term)

15.  What did he do with his pocket money? (End of Term)

16.  Why should bad books be destroyed? (On Destroying Books)

17.  Why is it difficult to destroy books? (On Destroying Books)

18.  Why could not the writer burn the unwanted books? (On Destroying Books)

19.  What was the disease he discovered he discovered he didn’t have? OR Was he pleased to find he didn’t have it?     (The Man Who Was a Hospital)

20.  Why should he be an acquisition to the medical class? (The Man Who Was a Hospital)

21.  He thought he was doing the good turn by going to him. Why? (The Man Who Was a Hospital)

22.  Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal? (My Financial Career)

23.  What was attitude of the manager towards the writer on learning that he only wished to deposit 56 dollars? (My Financial Career)                                        

24.  After misadventure in the bank where did Leacock keep his money? (My Financial Career)

25.  Why has the world changed its attitude towards china? (China's Way to Progress)

26.  How does China rely on its own resources? (China's Way to Progress)

27.  Describe a day in the life of a Chinese student? OR How does Je Sui, a Chinese girl student, spend her way?      (China's Way to Progress)

28.  What are the social security benefits provided to the Chinese workers? (China's Way to Progress)

29.  What does the writer mean hunger mean on large scale as viewed by the writer? (The Hunger and Population Explosion)

30.  How do famines occur? (The Hunger and Population Explosion)

31.  What is the main reason for increase in population today?  (The Hunger and Population Explosion)        

32.  What have public health measures to do with increase in population? (The Hunger and Population Explosion)

33.  What did Abbasid caliph say on receiving the head of hid governor? (The Jewel of the World)

34. What did Al-Hakam do to promote Learning and scholarship in his kingdom? OR Who was Al-Hakam? (The Jewel of the World)

Additional Questions (Past Papers)

1. The Dying Sun

Q.No.1: What, according to Sir James Jeans, are the main characteristics of human beings? OR For what qualities does the writer distinguish humankind from other creatures?                                                                                  

Q.No.2: What are temperature belts and what has the existence of life to do with them?        

2. Using the Scientific Method

Q.No.1: Why do we eat a variety of food?

Q.No.2: Where are the babies born these days?                                       

Q.No.3: How is water supplied to cities and towns today?                      

Q.No.4: How is water supplied to Los Angeles?  
                                                  
3. Why Boys Fail in College? 

Q.No.1: What are the two main groups of the boys who fail to get through? 

Q.No.2: How do the poor students meet their expenses?                                 

4. End of Term

Q. No. 1: When did the writer get his first bicycle?

Q.NO. 2: How did David Daiches wish whenever he saw sweet shops or some ice-cream barrow?                                                                                        
On Destroying Books

Q.No.1: What did the writer think when he saw a policeman?                  

Q.No.2: What sort of books did the writer get accumulated in J.C. Squire’s flat? OR What sort of books had piled up in J.C. Squire’s room?
                       
6. The Man Who Was a Hospital? 

Q.No.1: Why did the writer call himself a hospital?                                         

Q.No.2: How had the writer walked into the reading room of the British Museum and how had he returned?                                                                        

Q.No.3: What is the moral lesson of “The Man Who Was a Hospital? 
    

7. My Financial Career

Q.No.1: What kind of man manager was? OR How did the manager try to look? 

Q.No.2: Why did the writer go to bank? OR How much was the writer’s salary raised? OR What was the writer’s reaction at the increase of salary?             

Q. No.3: What mistake did the writer commit when he wanted to withdraw his money? OR Why did Leacock want to draw out money?    

8. China's Way to Progress                                   

Q.No.1: Who Was Chou En-Lai?                                                                                Q.No.2: Who was Mao Tse-tung?

9. The Hunger and Population Explosion

Q.No.1: How was the wide-spread disease averted during the seven years of famine in Egypt?   

         

10. The Jewel of the World

Q.No.1: Write a brief note on the mosque of Cordova.                            

Q.No.2: How did Cordova deserve to be titled as the Jewel of the World? 

Q.No.3: How old was Abd-al-Rehman when he died?

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