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Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, the UScorporation, says, When legacy firms fail to________(1)______, start-ups jump into themarket and ______(2)_______ at theestablishments expense. Thats disruption. TheFuture of Making aims to study and analyse thisdisruption, albeit as a positive concept, in theworld of design and technology. Tom Wujec hasput together a vast collection of examples fromdifferent industries such as architecture andconstruction, engineering, automotive, medicineand sports, where this movement of creativedestruction is changing how design______(3)______. He looks at the way objects arebeing reinvented by large firms such as Tesla,Nike, Procter & Gamble, Arup and others as wellas by small start-ups and ______(4)______individuals who have taken tinkering to the nextlevel. Different industries and people areconnecting to improve efficiency, increaseflexibility, and generate fresh business models.

1. (a) register (b) produce(c) innovate (d) start

2. (a) run (b) funded(c) thrive (d) flourishes

3. (a) works (b) stays(c) relates (d) dictates

4. (a) right (b) able(c) deserved (d) zealous

5. (a) routes (b) ways(c) models (d) path

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Parajumble SE423A. the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

(TRAI), published a definitive set of rulingson Net neutrality.

B. with user-driven information transactions,minimal proprietary controls, and openaccess to all who pay a basic charge.

C. Late-November, after a process thatstretched over months of wide consultations,

D. this was a detailed statement of principlesand procedures to preserve the internet asan open domain,

E. Since the February 2016 decision orderingan end to any kind of discriminatorypricing of data services,

Basic Fillers21. There is a ________ on the suitcase, but ithas no name on it.A) paper B) ticket C) signD) stamp E) label

22. The air hostess told the passengers to________ their seat belts.A) tie B) attach C) fastenD) fix E) set

23. My sister works at a home for the deaf and________.A) mute B) dumb C) silentD) speechless E) voiceless

24. The price of this TV set is not listed in the________.A) catalogue B) guidebook C) directoryD) record E) schedule

25. The police were able to trace the criminalbecause he left his ________ on the door handle.A) fingerprints B) finger-nails C) fingertipsD) ringer ends E) finger-marks

26. Ann refused to take _______ in thepreparations for the school concert.A) place B) part C) noticeD) leave E) offence

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27. Any candidate caught ______ in theexamination will be disqualified.A) deceiving B) deluding C) conjuringD) swindling E) cheating

28. The farmer put a ________ in his field tofrighten the birds away from his crops.A) scarecrow B) monster C) demonD) goblin E) corpse

29. He has been making money ______ since hestarted his new business.A) head over heels B) hand over fistC) head to foot D) ear to earE) top to toe

30. It was so cold my fingers were quite ________.A) senseless B) numb C) insensibleD) unconscious E) paralyzed

Idioms Theory

1.Be in front lineTo be in an important and influencingposition, easy to be attackedMany social workers are in the front line ofracial tension.

2.Put the frighteners on sbTo threaten sbHe said he wouldnt pay up so I sent mybrothers to put frighteners on him.

3.Up frontTo pay in advanceDid you pay up front or are you waiting tilltheyve finished the job?

4.At full pelt/steam/tiltAs fast as possibleHe was going full pelt down the motorwaybut he still didnt make it to the airport intime.

5.Be full of beansTo have a lot of energy and enthusiasmIve never met anyone so full of beans beforebreakfast.

Choose the Right Word10. Many students acquire/ derive a great dealof enjoyment and satisfaction from their time at

university.

11. Although the world is getting warmer slowly,

the increase in temperature varies / fluctuatesfrom country to country.

12. Following the bank raid, the police followed/ pursued the robbers but were unable to catchthem.

13. Assessment on this course includes /consists of coursework (30%) and examinations(70%).

Answers:

Cloze Test CCADCParajumble - CAEDB

Basic Fillers - 21-E 22-C 23-A 24-A 25-A 26-B27-E 28-A 29-B 30-BChoose the correct word: 10. Derive, 11. Varies,12. Pursued, 13. Consists





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Worried that his two-and-a-half-year-old sonsimagination was being curtailed by the walls andceilings of urban life, and bribed by photographsof the place on the internet, my brother took usto a forest resort a few years ago. The forest wasto be a pill. The little boy was attracted andrepelled by the forest in equal measure hisexcitement was annotated by the fear ofdarkness inside the forest reserve.

At day-end, after his tiny heels could no longerkeep up with his unregimented curiosity, I tookhim to The Honey Hunter, a childrens book onthe Sunderbans by Karthika Nair withillustrations by Joelle Jolivet. Set in theSunderbans, literally the beautiful forest, amangrove forest shared by Bengal andBangladesh, it is the story of little Shonu. Son ofa shrimp-farmer mother and a honey-collectorfather, Shonu loved honey. Though it was a lifeof hardship, Shonu, like the Sunderbans itself,was content and happy. Until the year theseasons turned topsy-turvy. Cyclones ravagedthe forests, uprooting trees and drowninganimals, and Shonu and his family movedhome three times in two months, rowing fromone island to another as the waters rose. Therewas very little to eat dry rotis or boiled ricewith only salt and chillies. When such foodbecame difficult to swallow, Shonu imagined thetaste of honey, honey with everything, honeywith roti. Honey with rice and milk like kheer.Honey with hilsa fish yummm. Honey scoopedout of a jar with a golpata leaf spoon, the wayyou eat jam, but there was no honey to be had.

For honey is a distillation of the natural cyclesinside a forest, it is the taste of tree-time. Unlikesugar granules, the ready-made sweetnessavailable to us through industrial production,the taste of honey is a parable about patienceand natures time. Shonus father warned himabout the follies and danger of untimeliness incollecting honey, about bees building houses,gathering food, and generally living their lives

attuned to the seasons, that disobedience to thisrhythm of time angered even He-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Be-Taken, Dakkhin Rai. All this mynephew heard patiently, and when I eventuallyturned to the page where there was a full-pageillustration of Bonbibi, literally the woman ofthe forest, the little boy watched agape. Inglorious spring-pink and end-of-night-blue,Bonbibi stood with her weapons in hand, herfeet on a half-man-half-animal enemy.

Who was this woman, this most powerful spiritof the Sunderbans? Daughter of Fakir Ibrahim,Sister of Shah Jongali, Bonbibi is the GuardianDeity of the Sundarban. But the little boy hadfound a new love where was Shonu, he asked.I turned the pages to show him a hungry andgreedy Shonu hed entered the forest and wasnow plundering the beehives for honey. Andthere was Dakkhin Rai, in his favourite disguiseas a Royal Bengal Tiger, about to swallow littleShonu. My nephew was worried. The tigerwanted to kill the little boy, but Bonbibi wasarguing on his behalf.

Daily Vocab 14th Dec BLink MagazinePlant a personCurtail to limit sth or make it last for a shortertime Repel to puch away Annotate to add notes to a book givingexplanations Topsy-turvy in a state of great confusionRavage to damage sth badly Uproot to pull a tree out of the ground Parable a short moral story Agape surprised or shocked Plunder to steal things from a place Disguise to change your appearance so thatpeople cannot recognize you Kaleidoscope a continuously changingsituation Slender slim -





Bonbibi punishes him with something far moredifficult than death Shonu must try andreverse the harm he has caused the bees andthe ecosystem of the forest.

There, in the clearing, amidst all the hives, sheasked him to stand with his arms outstretchedtowards the sky, and promised to take him homewhen the rains came. Then Bonbibi touched hisfeet and his forehead with her silver trident andleant down and whispered to the earth.

Shonu saw tiger ferns and mud swirl up allaround him, faster and faster, until he wasnothing but a kaleidoscope of green and brown.His feet began drilling into the soil, deeper andwider, seeing water, pushing pebbles out of theway, wrapping themselves around stones, andsprouting curly root hair. It was a little ticklish.He became heavier as his legs fused togetherinto a trunk; then his chest shot upward, up,high above his head, which was tucked safelyaway around his tummy, now a slender, woodytummy lined with bark.

Shonu is turned into a hibiscus plant, afavourite of the bees. Weary of feeding honey tothe bees, he couldnt even put his feet up andrest, only tuck in the leaves, fold up the flowersand doze as best as he could, standing up.

A few months ago, when I tried to introduce himto the taste of the sleeping hibiscus, teachinghim to suck its sweetness, my nephew refused.This is for the bees, he said, reminding me ofShonus mistake. Before I could make outwhether the morality of Nairs story had had itseffect on him, he gave me another reason: Idont want to be a tree.

It hadnt ever occurred to me that that desire toomight save the world.

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