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Chapter 4 Solutions — The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role

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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role (Chapter 4, NCERT Class 11 English) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role textbook chapter.

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All 16 questions in The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:

Understanding the Text

  1. Locate the lines in the text that support the title 'The Ailing Planet'.
  2. What does the notice 'The world's most dangerous animal' at a cage in the zoo at Lusaka, Zambia, signify?
  3. How are the earth's principal biological systems being depleted?
  4. Why does the author aver that the growth of world population is one of the strongest factors distorting the future of human society?

Talking about the Text

  1. Laws are never respected nor enforced in India.
  2. "Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and an ailing environment?"
  3. "We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children."
  4. The problems of overpopulation that directly affect our everyday life.

Thinking about Language

  1. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 1. prima facie
  2. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 2. ad hoc
  3. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 3. in camera
  4. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 4. ad infinitum
  5. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 5. mutatis mutandis
  6. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 6. caveat
  7. Find out what these Latin phrases mean. 7. tabula rasa

Working with Words

  1. Locate the following phrases in the text and study their connotation. Then write pairs of sentences using each of the words 'grip', 'dawn', 'usher', 'coin', 'passport' in the literal as well as the figurative sense. (Phrases: gripped the imagination of / dawned upon / ushered in / passed into current coin / passport of the future)
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