“Of course, money is a motivation. Tennis is a business and a sport”, says Maria Sharapova.
Based on what Maria Sharapova says write a paragraph on the topic:Today’s Sports are More About Making Money Than Entertainment’.
Today’s Sports are More About Making Money Than Entertainment
In ancient times, Athens games were started as a means to entertain as well as celebrate human excellence. Sports persons or the athletes enjoyed a position of high eminence in the society. They did not play to win; but they participated in true spirit of a sportsman. Today all sports activities have been commercialized and sports persons are among then highly paid people in the world. At the time of any sports-event, they make crores of rupees by advertising products. Today, all sports activities are organized as a means to make money. There is much less to celebrate about victory, but more about making money.
‘Also a fervent environmentalist, Santosh collected and brought down 500 kilograms of garbage from the Himalayas’.
Taking inspiration from Santosh Yadav, write a paragraph to be published in your school magazine as to what steps the students must take to maintain the school campus clean.
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
Therefore keeping our environment clean is a divine virtue. Often we are so careless that we throw waste all over the area. This not only damages the environment, but also effects our health. There are many ways in which we can keep our school campus clean. Students should deposit all the paper bits, wrappers, empty water-bottles etc., in the dustbins which are kept at different corners of the campus. The campus should be declared a plastic-free area and no one should bring their tiffins covered in plastic bags which are often thrown all over the campus afterwards. We must make the maximum use of things so that we don’t have to throw them away very often. Thus through a joint effort, we can keep our school campus clean.
(a) Why did she leave home?
(b) What condition did she put before her parents?
(c) Find a word from the passage which means the same as ‘in danger’.
(a) She left home because she wanted to get proper education.
(b) She said that she won’t marry till she gets proper education.
(c) threatened.
(i) Why was Santosh not satisfied with the kind of education she received in village?
(ii) How did she decide to fight the system?
(iii) Find words from the passage which have meaning similar to that of the given words :
(a) rich, prosperous, (b) in accordance with.
(i) Santosh wanted to get better and higher education while as per the tradition she had to go to the local village school. So she was not satisfied with the kind of education she received in the village school.
(ii) She decided to fight the system in her own quiet way by revolting against it at the right moment.
(iii) (a) rich, prosperous — affluent.
(b) in accordance with — in line with.
(a) Why was the girl often discontented?
(b) How did she dress herself differently from other girls?
(c) Write down the opposite of the following words:
(i) correct,
(ii) rational.
(a) The girl was often discontented due to her place in a traditional way of life.
(b) She wore shorts whereas the other girls wore traditional Indian dresses.
(c) (i) incorrect.
(ii) irrational.
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