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1. Hospitals – then and now
All of us have seen the inside of a Hospital sometime or the other. Hospitals have a special smell of their own and seem very busy all the time. But how did the idea of setting up a special place ever come about?
The ancient Greeks used the temples of their Gods of healing, as resting places for the sick. So too, did the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the ancient Indians. The Romans especially, began to realize the need for hospitals. They were always at war, and their soldiers needed care and treatment.
The idea of hospitals caught on, slowly, then passed into the church. By the 4th century, Church Hospitals had begun.
Centuries passed. By the 17th century, public hospitals were founded in Britain by rich citizens who wished to serve the public.
The Hospital, as we see today, began to evolve only around 19th century. People began to live .in better conditions. They felt the need for more cleanliness and better, expert care. In the past, nuns and other members of the church had done the nursing.
It was Florence Nightingale who began to feel the need for trained nurses to care for the sick. She began the St.Thomas’s Hospital in England. This was the first training college for nurses ever.
Hospitals soon began to have public wards and private rooms.
Today, any Hospital is a vast, complex organization. There are doctors (physicians and surgeons] and nurses. There are other staff like receptionists, records staff, hospital managers, etc. They even have pharmacy.
Big Hospitals could have porters, orderlies, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, security…. whew! Doesn’t that sound like a small town in itself?
Question 1.
What did the ancient Greeks use as a resting place for the sick?
Answer:
The ancient Greeks used the temples of their Gods of healing.
Question 2.
Why did the Romans realize the need for hospitals?
Answer:
Because their soldiers were always at war, and they needed care and treatment for those wounded at war.
Question 3.
When did the church hospitals begin?
Answer:
By the 4th century
Question 4.
Ri h citizens in Britain founded Hospitals, because they
(a) wished to serve the public.
(b) wanted to make money.
(c) wanted business.
Answer:
(a) wished to serve the public.
Question 5.
Name the first training college for nurses.
Answer:
St. Thomas’s Hospital in England, set up by Florence Nightingale.
Question 6.
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words/ phrases
| ERA | PLACE FOR THE SICK |
| _______________ | Temples of Gods of healing |
| 4th century | ______________________ |
| 17th century | ______________________ |
| 19th century | _____________________ |
Answer:
Ancient; Church Hospitals; Public Hospitals; Public wards and private rooms.
Question 7.
Find synonyms from the passage for the following word.s.
(a) understand [paral]
(b) established [para4]
(c) dispensary [para8]
Answer:
(a) come about;
(b) founded;
(c) pharmacy
Question 8.
Find antonyms from the passage for the following words
(a) layman – (para5)
(b) personal – (para7)
Answer:
(a) expert;
(b) public
2. The Moth and the Star
A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a star. He told his mother about this and-she counselled him to set his heart on a bridge lamp instead, “Stars aren’t the things to hang around”, she said, “Lamps are things to hang around”. “You get somewhere that way”, said the moth’s father. “You don’t get anywhere chasing stars”. But the moth would not heed the words of either parent. Every evening at dusk when the star came out he would start flying towards it and every morning at dawn he would crawl back home worn out with his vain endeavor.
One day his father said to him, “You haven’t burned a wing in months, boy, and it looks to me as if you are never going to. All your brothers have been badly burned flying around street lamps and your sisters have been terribly burnt flying around house lamps. Come on, now get out of here and get yourself scorched! A big strapping moth like you- without a mark on him!”
The moth left his father’s house, but he would not fly around street lamps and he would not fly aroun’d house lamps. He went right on trying to reach the star, which was four and one third light years, or twenty five trillion miles away. The moth thought it was just caught in the top branches of an elm. He never did reach the star, but he went right on trying, night after night, and when he was a very, very old moth he began to think that he really had reached the star and he went around saying so. This gave him a deep and lasting pleasure, and he lived to a great old age. His parents and brothers and sisters had all been burned to death when they were quite young.
Answer the following questions in a phrase or a sentence.
Question 1.
A young and impressionable moth once set his heart on a
(a) bridge
(b) star
(c) tree
Answer:
(b) star
Question 2.
What advice did the mother give to the moth?
Answer:
The mother adviced him to set his heart on a bridge.
Question 3.
What did the moth do every evening?
Answer:
He would start flying towards the star.
Question 4.
How did the moth return home every morning?
Answer:
He would crawl back home in vain and worn out
Question 5.
How far was the star from the earth?
Answer:
Four and one third light years or twenty five trillion miles away.
Question 6.
What did the moth do after leaving his father’s house?
Answer:
He went right on trying to reach the star.
Question 7.
What feeling gave the moth a deep and lasting pleasure?
Answer:
When he was very old the moth began to think that he had really reached the star.
Question 8.
The idiom “To set one’s heart” means
(a) desire a thing without joy
(b) desire a thing with joy
(c) desire a thing unknowingly
Answer:
(b) desire a thing with joy
Question 9.
Find the antonym to ‘Dawn’ in the passage.
Answer:
Dusk
Question 10.
Give the noun form of’deep’.
Answer:
Depth
3. Mankind is one Family
Half the world does not have enough to eat. Each year, as a result, many millions die young. The bodies and minds of many more are permanently damaged by hunger.
We say to you this suffering can be and must be stopped. When all of us, in the rich and poor countries, make up our minds to stop it, we can stop it.
The earth is ruled mainly by people out of touch with the young world. They know that men starve and die in millions, but they think it more important to make guns and bombs, to send us to fight one another, than to provide food and water, schools and hospitals, so that we might feed and serve one another
If you live in a poor country, demand enough food for your countrymen. Do not turn your backs on the people who provide food: instead, work with them for rural development.
If you are educated in special knowledge and skills, remember that science and technology that can send men into space, need only to be released into poor countries to work even greater miracles.
If you are a parent, resolve to end the sufferings of children. Know, too, how to plan the size of your family, so that the progress of all is not endangered.
Let us make it plain to the rulers that the division of the world into rich and poor must end. The many billions spent on armaments must be spent to develop the world. Let them know, too, that if political or financial systems prevent a just distribution of food and wealth, these systems must be replaced.
Above all we must show our willingness to work for world development.
Mankind is one family in which each of us has a duty to help others.
Answer the following in a word or a sentence each.
Question 1.
Why do many millions of people die young?
Answer:
They do not have enough to eat.
Question 2.
What kind of people rule the earth?
Answer:
The earth is ruled mainly by people out of touch with the young world.
Question 3.
What do the rulers think is more important?
Answer:
Thy think that it is more important to make guns and bombs.
Question 4.
What are the basic things the rulers are supposed to provide to the people?
Answer:
food, water, schools and Hospitals.
Question 5.
A parent should know how to end the sufferings of his children by
(a) planning the size of his family
(b) earning plenty of money
(c) employing them in some occupations.
Answer:
(a) planning the size of his family
Question 6.
What should you make plain to the rulers?
Answer:
That the division of the world into rich and poor must end.
Question 7.
According to the speaker, the many billions spent on armaments must be spent to
a. make guns
b. fight with each other
c. develop the world Answer:c. develop the world
Question 8.
Add a prefix to the word ‘willing’ to make its antonym.
Answer:
Unwilling.
Question 9.
The rulers wish to (possess/possession) bombs and guns.
Answer:
possess.
Question 10.
How should mankind be?
Answer:
As one family in which each of us has a duty to help others.
The following pages can be used for further reading practice.
Students may be encouraged to frame questions on them.
1. Catch the rain where it falls
Catch the rain where it falls was the rationale behind the construction of several thousand tanks in Karnataka by our fore fathers. They have been the life-line of the people and were protected as their main source of water supply for drinking and irrigation.
Apart from meeting water supply and recharging underground water, these water bodies have served as excellent habitats for plants, fishes, frogs, etc. Some of them also support thousands of birds in certain seasons of the year including migratory ones from distant lands.
Things have changed over the years. Bad planning and mismanagement have turned these water bodies into reservoirs of wastes. Tanks have been used for dumping garbage, Waste construction materials, discharge of municipal sewage and industrial effluents. They are also drained to convert the land into housing sites, commercial complexes, bus stands and stadiums.
A recent study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science shows that Bangalore has lost about 40% of its yvater bodies over a period of 25 years. Of the remaining, 40% water bodies are polluted due to the inlet of sewage. The«famous Dharmambudhi tank of Bangalore has been drained to make Majestic Bus Stand while the Sampangi tank has given way to the Kanteerava Stadium.
The same has been the case with several of the twenty thousand or more tanks in the other parts of the state. It is time we reverse this trend and make efforts to conserve this life saving resource.
2. Alternative fuel
At a time when the use of fossil fuels to power vehicles is making environmentalists angry, an alternative fuel -the bio-diesel has emerged as a useful solution. Additionally, its use solves a disposal problem.
The fuel is nothing but used vegetable oil which has been tested satisfactorily. It has made a vehicle called the Veggie Van (a motor home) run more than 16,000 km across the United States. Also it has visited 20 major cities causing absolutely no harm to the environment. Vegetable oil from various restaurants in America was all that was used along the entire journey. The novel experiment was started as college project by two students Joshna and Kaia. It eventually ended in a massive public awareness programme.
The idea of using vegetable oil as fuel for a diesel engine first occurred to them when , they visited a traditional farm in the picturesque southern Germany where vehicles fuelled by vegetable oil were in use. While studying agriculture and living on these farms, they noticed that farmers were always filling tanks with a yellow liquid. “This fuel comes from the canola plants which grow on our farms and nearby areas. We add it in the diesel and it smells good,” farmers said.
The process of converting vegetable oil into bio-diesel fuel is cheap and easyto find. Any vegetable oil, such as used cooking oil, methanol or clear alcohol can be used as fuel.
The diesel engine which is being used, however, can run on altered vegetable oil or biodiesel without any modification. Not only does bio- diesel require zero modifications to the engine, this fuel works either by itself or blended with petroleum diesel.
Bio-diesel has since been recognised as an official alternative fuel in the U.S. Its use by the bus and truck fleet has soared by more than 1000 percent.
3. Remembering Gandhi’s Simplicity
– Sundar Sarukkai
Gandhi’s secretary Pyarelal in 1947 notes that Gandhi had said ‘Earth provides enough . for everyman’s need but not for everyman’s greed’.
According to Gandhi, greed was the cause of poverty; he also saw greed as the root of all . evil among humAnswer:Rejection of greed is possible in all of us. Gandhi suggests that if we examine our own accumulative instincts, we will ourselves realize the ‘fewness of things’ we require.
This opposition between need and greed becomes the central problem of today’s society and is very well exemplified by the comment in the movie ‘Wall Street’ that ‘Greed is good’. Modern consumerist society builds itself on the necessity of greed. Without sometimes explicitly calling it by. this word, it is, nevertheless, the case that greed continues to. playa major role in contemporary culture through the use of other terms like competition, merit, profit, margins and so on.
Our obsession with variety and difference in our personal lives has led to a situation where we do not like to eat the same food items every day. The most damaging illustration of this attitude is seen in what they have done to the most innocent of all items: idli. Today, restautants do not sell just idlis. These have become passe and boring. Instead, you have ’fried idlis’,’idli manchurian’ ’idli masala’ and so on. The menu card has become the modern face of India where our daily desire for variety is reflected.
One way to understand the difference between need and greed is through the notion of simplicity. Gandhi embodied simplicity in many ways: his dress, his commitment to a few principles such as truth and non- violence, his controlled food habits, his spartan living quarters, his ashrams.