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An eco-warrior is a person who engages in some sort of activity to save the ecology or environment. The word was coined in the 1990s by the British media. All over the world, there have been groups or people who sound the alarm bells when the environment is struck indiscriminately. Eco-warriors have a flag that is used internationally. It has a green background with a red oval shape in the centre. In the middle of this are three yellow coloured sticks tied to form a tripod.
You too can be an eco-warrior by adopting simple activities like bird watching or tree-hugging. Gather your friends and form an Eco Warriors club. Get the exact reference of the flag from the internet and make flags or badges for everyone in the club.
Make sure everyone wears them to all meetings. Have a meeting once every two weeks. Keep a notebook and pen for taking notes and setting goals. Elect a leader for the Club.
To help you get started with your club activities, here's a bit of history for inspiration. Our very own eco-warriors came to light with the Chipko movement of the 1970s. It was a historic event that took place in present-day Uttarakhand, to exercise the right over forests. The women farmers of village Reni, in Chamoli district, hugged trees to protest against the deforestation of the Garhwali forests.
These days tree cutting is such a common sight - for road widening and building of flyovers and urban rail transport systems. If you are witnessing this in your area, meet your area's welfare association and insist that the authorities plant an equal number of trees in the locality wherever possible to make up for the trees that have been cut. Take it upon yourself to see that these trees are watered regularly and nurtured well till they grow.
The simple activities adopted normally by an eco-warrior are:
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Important Questions on Reading Comprehension
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
My father was passionate about two things: education and socialism. He was himself a born teacher. Indeed, he could never restrain himself from teaching and as a small boy, I was frequently embarrassed by his desire to instruct everybody- people in railway carriages. I realised even then it was an innocent desire, quite free from vanity. He was equally ready to receive instruction. Education, to men of his generation and temperament, was something it has largely ceased to be now-a-days. It was the great golden gateway to the enchanted realms of the mind.
To the generation of the writer's father, education was-
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The spectacle of a dying animal affects us painfully; we can see its struggles and, sympathetically something of its pain. The unseen agony of a plant leaves us indifferent. To a being with eyes a million times more sensitive than ours, the struggles of a dying plant would be visible and therefore distressing. Bose's instrument endows us with this more than microscopical acuteness of vision. The poisoned flower manifestly writhes before us. The last moments are so distressingly like those of a man that we are shocked by the newly-revealed spectacle of them into a hitherto unfelt sympathy.
In this passage, the author's central point is that-
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Harold, a professional man who had worked in an office for many years, had a fearful dream. In it, he found himself in a land where small slug-like animals with slimy tentacles lived on people's bodies. The people tolerated the loathsome creatures because after many years they grew into elephants which then became the nation's system of transport, carrying everyone wherever he wanted to go. Harold suddenly realized that he himself was covered with these things, and he woke up screaming. In a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatized for Harold what he had never been able to put into words; he was himself as letting society feed on his body in his early years so that it would carry him when he retired. he later threw off the "security bug" and took up freelance work.
In his dream, Harold found the loathsome creatures
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Of the many aspects of public administration, the ethical aspect is perhaps the most important but the least codified. While administrative rules and procedures have been codified in various public documents and manuals, there is no manual for the ethics of public servants.
While organisational behaviour analyses the factors which influence the behaviour of individuals in an organisation, ethics refers to those norms and standards which behaviour of the people in an organisation must conform to. While behaviour analysis deals with factual aspects, ethics relates to the normative aspects of administration. The normative aspects are of the greatest significance. Just as for an individual if character is lost, everything is lost, so also for an administration if the ethics is lost, everything is lost. Neither efficiency nor loyalty could be substituted for high ethical standards. In India, though there is no ethical code for public administrators, there are what are called, the Government Servants' Conduct Rules. These rules lay down what constitutes misconduct for the public servants. It is apparently implied that such misconduct, which is not permitted, is also unethical conduct.
As per the passage, organisational behaviour is
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Of the many aspects of public administration, the ethical aspect is perhaps the most important but the least codified. While administrative rules and procedures have been codified in various public documents and manuals, there is no manual for the ethics of public servants.
While organisational behaviour analyses the factors which influence the behaviour of individuals in an organisation, ethics refers to those norms and standards to which behaviour of the people in an organisation must conform to. While behaviour analysis deals with factual aspects, ethics relates to the normative aspects of administration. The normative aspects are of the greatest significance. Just as for an individual if the character is lost, everything is lost, so also for an administration if the ethics are lost, everything is lost. Neither efficiency nor loyalty could be substituted for high ethical standards. In India, though there is no ethical code for public administrators, there are what are called, the Government Servants' Conduct Rules. These rules lay down what constitutes misconduct for the public servants. It is apparently implied that such misconduct, which is not permitted, is also unethical conduct.
Government Servants Conduct Rules are meant for:
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it.
During summer, I was introduced to the game of cricket, and I felt my inherent foreignness for the first time. The bail is far too hard for my taste. Even during my last games at the school, angry spectators would shout, 'Butterfingers!' But I smiled. Everyone knew in their hearts that I was going to drop the ball anyway, and nobody expected me to be able to play the game.
'Felt my inherent foreignness' means-
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This question has a text portion followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
Popular thinking, propelled by mass hysteria and surge of emotions, cannot challenge organized, planned rational decision-making in a democratic system. Popular opinion can be suggestive or even mobilizing, but cannot become a diktat. Organized democratic systems have a very vital role to play. If such systems were not in place, people would be relegated into anarchy. Popular opinion can be justified but mobocracy and radical measures cannot be an answer to a few ills of a thriving democracy.
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Read the passage carefully and select the best answer from among the given choices for the question. The question is to be answered on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
The strength of the electronics industry in Japan is the Japanese ability to organise production and marketing, rather than their achievements in original research. The British are generally recognised as a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent. There are many examples, from the TSR 2 hovercraft, high-speed train, and Sinclair scooter to the Triumph, BSA and Norton motorbikes, which all prove this sad rule. The Japanese were able to exploit their strengths in marketing and development many years ago, and their success was at first either not understood in the west or was dismissed as something which could only have been produced at their low price, so far from where they were sold because they were cheap copies of other peoples' ideas churned out by a work-house which was dedicated to hard grind above all else.
The main theme of this passage is:
