Extract No. 03
Page No. 68 / 69 [Line, “By
now…………………from home”]
Read the extract and do all the activities that follow:
SOURCE: SCERT UPDATED QUESTION BANK
By now all of us have
heard (too often) the old Proust line about how the real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeing new places but in seeing with new eyes. Yet
one of the subtler beauties of travel is that it enables you to bring
new eyes to the people you encounter. Thus even as holidays help you appreciate
your own home more not least by seeing it through a distant admirer’s eyes they
help you bring newly appreciative-distant-eyes to the places you visit. You can
teach them what they have to celebrate as much as you celebrate what they have
to teach. This, I think, is how tourism, which so obviously destroys cultures,
can also resuscitate or revive them, how it has created new
“traditional” dances in Bali, and caused craftsmen in India to pay new attention
to their works.
Thus travel spins us
round in two ways at once : It shows us the sights and values and issues that
we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the
parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in travelling to a
truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and
hidden inward passages that we’d otherwise seldom have cause to visit.
On the most basic
level, when I’m in Tibet, though not a real Buddhist, I spend days on end in temples,
listening to the chants of sutras. I go to Iceland to visit the lunar spaces
within me, and, in the uncanny quietude and emptiness of that vast and treeless
world, to tap parts of myself generally obscured by chatter and routine.
We travel, then, in
search of both self and anonymity-and, of course, in finding the one we
apprehend the other. Abroad, we are wonderfully free of caste and job and
standing; we are, as Hazlitt puts it, just the “gentlemen in the
parlour,” and people cannot put a name or tag to us. And precisely because we
are clarified in this way, and freed of inessential labels, we have the
opportunity to come into contact with more essential parts of ourselves (which
may begin to explain why we may feel most alive when far from home).
A1. Complete : (02)
Complete the following sentences using the information given in the extract.
a) The beauties of travel is that..It enables you to bring new eyes to the people you encounter.
b) Tourism can revive or activate cultures.
c) The writer spends his days in temples when he was in Tibet.
d) We travel in search of self and anonymity.
A2. Describe : (02)
Describe how Tourism can revive or
reactivate cultures with reference to the places mentioned in the extract.
Tourism encourages travelling.
Dances in Bali, craftsmen in India have to pay attention to their works as they
represent our country and culture. When the writer was in Tibet even though he
was not a real Buddhist, he used to spend days in temples; listening to the
chants of sutras .whenever he visited Iceland he used to visit the lunar spaces
within him.
A3. Interpret : (02)
Interpret the statement,” Abroad we
are just like gentleman in the parlour,”
(This is a Practice Activity for students)
A4 Personal Response : (02)
Do you think Travelling helps us to improve our personality? Justify your answer with suitable examples.
This is a Practice Activity for students
A5. Language study : (02)
I) All of us have heard the old Proust
line.
(Rewrite the sentence beginning with,”
The old..”)
The old Proust line has been heard
by all of us.
II) You can teach them what they have to
celebrate.
(Replace the modal auxiliary by
another showing Advice/suggestion)
You should teach them what they
have to celebrate.
III) I go to Iceland to visit the lunar
spaces within me.
(Rewrite the sentence using the ,”
Gerund form of the underlined word)
I go to Iceland for visiting the
lunar spaces within me.
IV) People cannot put a name or tag to us.
(Use be able to and rewrite)
People are not able to / unable to put a name or tag to us.
A6. Vocabulary : (02)
Find out words from the extract which
mean the following.
a) Long journey = Voyage
b) rarely
= seldom
c) very strange = uncanny
d) calm and peaceful = quietude
e) unknown = anonymity
f) to understand = to apprehend
Activities prepared and compiled by
TUSHAR J BAGWE
K J SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF
SCIENCE AND COMMERCE
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