Read the following passage carefully :- (12 marks)

Choked gateway and paucity of rooms in the preferred destinations mark the scenario on the tourism front.The need to get more tourists is clear to all, but how to do it has become a million dollar question. Hotel rooms are justnot available in Delhi and Mumbai. While the hotel owners, pleased with the situation are raising the tariff, tour operators and travel agents are dismayed at having to turn down prospective clients.

Since 70 to 80 per cent of tourists coming to India land at Delhi or Mumbai, the trend of high occupancy is limited to these metropolitan centres. The picture is quite different in other tourist destinations like Agra, Varanasi and Jaipur , which are not doing very well as the traffic has declined while the number of rooms has gone up. Agra is facing a particularly bad situation as, with the establishment of fast means of communication like Shatabdi trains, more and more tourists prefer to make only day trips to Agra instead of the earlier overnight stay.

To cope with the problems of room shortage in Delhi in Mumbai several proposals have been made, but no meaningful action has been taken so far. In Mumbai there is a talk of having luxury ships along the coast as substitute for hotels. They could be linked with land through fast boats. The rough weather and choppy seas along the Bombay coast particularly during the monsoon months could be a problem but they could serve us well during winter months when the rush is the maximum.

In Delhi, the idea of providing some new sites for hotels close to the airport and some in the heart of the city has not progressed beyond the proposal stage. Work has not started on the
few sites allotted earlier because of bureaucratic delays and interdepartmental wrangling. The
result is that tariff in Delhi and Mumbai is going up very fast, with hotel rooms selling for 150 to 300 dollars a night. This has made India an expensive destination when compared to South-East Asia

The high tariff does not hurt as long as the rooms are occupied by business groups who demand very high standards and are willing topay for them. This however, is not true of tourist who calculate the cost of total package and are very keen to get the best value for their money. The tourism department has today some ideas like paying guest accommodation to meet the shortage, but there is little to show for it on the ground. Even if some new sites are made avialable for building hotels, no additional rooms could be expected in the near future as new hotels will require at least three to five years as gestation period.

The situation is so bad that even properties far away on Delhi Jaipur highway are getting filled up fast.To meet the demand, the Federation of Hotels and Restaurants has suggested that existing hotels be allowed to add new rooms be permitting them more built in area. They could do it fast by either going up, that, is adding extra floors.or by building on vacant land. Either way they could add only a few hundred rooms even if the incresed capacity allowed was ten to twenty per cent of the existing strength.

A better solution is to divert some of the tourist flow towards the South where airports like Bangalore, Chennai or Thiruvanthapuram could be developed as entry points for tourists coming to India. Goa in any case is fast emerging as an entry point, thanks to charter traffic. Ahmeddabad is another destination in the West which can be developed as an entry point for tourists, thanks to the strong Gujarati presence in the United States and South Africa, the newly emerging market.

India is getting only a miserly share of tourists in the world market because we have neither the infrastructure nor the inclination to deal with large volume of traffic which require budget class hotels ; good coaches and fast means of traffic.

(a)
(i) What is the most important worry of the tourism industry of the country? What is the immediate cause? (2)

(ii) Why is Agra losing its clientage of tourist ? (2)

(iii) What is the problem faced in Mumbai ? What has been suggested to solve it? (2)

(iv) What possible problems are being faced by the addition of new sites for hotels close to airports (2)

(v) Why is India getting a poor share of tourists in the International Scenario of tourist inflow? (2)

(b) Find words in the passage which convey similar meaning as the following :

(i) Shortage (para 1)

(ii) Moving in short broken waves, Slightly rough (para 3) (2)

Read the following passage carefully : (8 mks)

The early decades of the present century saw a great transformation on the highways of Europe. The motor car which first appeared at the close of the last century was gradually displacing other forms of trarnsport. The horse drawn carriages could not compete with the new machine. There were implicit signals in their appearance to the effect that the former would soon disappear from the roads. It did't take much time. Their doom was clear when the rich man began to look upon the private motor-car as a necessary symbol of this status. However, not every one even among the rich could aford the luxury of a private car. Those who were young, could go in for the cheaper motor bike and tear through the streets like a peal of thunder.

Naturally, with vehicles equipped with petrol engines, speed became an important consideration. All watned to feel the thrill of speed. Young men wanted to go faster and faster, defying the law that imposed a limit of twenty miles an hour on the speed for a motor car. But the thrill was partly in the fact that it was a machine that moved by itself, an automobile hinits literal sense. it had its own excitement and those capable of owning one looked forward to enjoying the thrill.

The pressure on the road began to increase. The existing roads could not bear the heavier and faster traffic of the automobile age. Trucks carrying loads weighing several tons required better roads. The surface of the roads which was dusty and uneven had to be improved. The use of tar on road surface began in the early years of the century. Macdemising of road surface solved many of the difficulties. Where trafic was particularly heavy, concrete surfaces were provided. When the density of traffic increased still further, the roads were widened and separate lanes provided for traffic in each direction.

Speed of movement was not an unmixed blessing. Indeed there will be many today who do not consider it a blessing at all. Men have had to pay a price for the quicker pace of their life. The speed of motor-car causes a great strain on the nerves of the other users of the road, and
paradoxically, of the driver of the car himself. Pedestrains find the car too fast for their reflexes and get knocked down. Cars collide with cars too fast resulting in gruesome deaths. The roads have, thus become death traps for the rash as well as the cautious. One can understand why some prople want to escape from it all, and get back to the age of horses and leisurely living.

(i) On the basis of the passage make notes on it using recognisable abbreviatious, wherever necessary. Supply an appropriate tittle for it. (5)

(ii) Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words. (3)

a) You are Remo D'Souza, Secretary of the Adventure Club of your school. Your club is organising a 10- days trip to Goa in the winter vacatious. Write a notice in about 50 words to inform the students about the trip which includes activities like trekking,parasailing, water skiing , etc. Invent other necessary details. (5)

(b) You are Sohan Kapoor. You lost your briefcase in a train on 30th August. Write an advertisement for the `Lost And Found' column of a naional daily giving necessary details ot the briefcase and the train. Write the advertisement. within 35-50 words. (5)

You are Sameer Bhatia, a staff reporter of a well known newspaper. Recently you visited the Delhi Zoo and were shocked to see the conditions some of the animals were kept in. You also spoke to the Director of Delhi zoo. Mr.R.S.Aggarwal but was not convinced about his reasons. Write a report for your newspaper in about 100 words about the conditions in Delhi Zoo and the reasons. (5)

Write a letter to the Editor of the Times of India about the traffic problems in Delhi including the increase in the number of vehicles, digging of roads, construction of the fly overs and narrow roads. Give Concrete suggestion to improve the situation. Your are Harish Kumar of J 13/14, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi- 27. (10)

Information Technology has become a major industry in India and is growing rapidly with states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu taking the lead. Write an article for a well known newspaper giving your views on the present state of the I.T industry and its potential trals. Write in about 200 words. (10)

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow briefly. (9)
Louisa Mebbia's pretty weekend cottage
Christened by her "Les Fauves" and gay
in summer time with it garden borders of tiger lilies
is the wonder and admiration of her friends.

(a) Who is Louisa Mebbin ? (1)

(b) How did she acquire the weekend cottage (2)

(c) Why did she name it 'Les Fauves' and what is the significance of the 'tiger lilies'? (2)

(d) What effect did it have on Mrs.Packletide ? (2)

(e) What do you come to know about Miss Mebbin's Character from this passage.? (2)

Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. (16 mks)

(a) Why did Mrs Packletide decide to shoot a tiger? (2)

(b) Why did Gunga Ram feed Kala Nag?(2)

(c) Why did Gafur leave for fulbare?(2)

(d) Why did Mr. Patch choose to go to Maddu? (2)

(e) Why was Pincini's widow angry with Heuri Deplis ? What did she do later? (2)

(f) Why was Zaman angry with Najab for crossing the border? (2)

(g) What was Duttada's secret ambition? what did he do to fulfil it? (2)

(h) Why was Mikali Chased away by his own community people? (2)

Suffering brings out the best and worst in man'. Discuss in about 150 words with reference to the characters of Gafur and Amina in the chapter `Drought'. (10)

How was Najab's last journey across the desert difficult from his earlier owns. What difficulties did he face while crossing the border? Answer in about 150 words. (10)