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1. We’ve just left dinner table, when I hear music coming from my daughter’s computer. It surprises me that me daughter Ida is listening to music from a time she refers to as the very old days. “What are you playing?”. I ask, “Its Phil Collins”, is her prompt reply, while she shows how, with a few strokes she can download almost any song from the internet. Times have certainly been changing since I scratched my first Beatles record. Tactfully I do not mention that I had bought the record belongs to a bygone age and I do not want to spoil the pleasure she will get from discovering her “own” new favourite musician.
2. The music bring memories flooding back. I have a sudden urge to bring my record collection from the attic, where it has mouldered for almost a decade. Only one thing stops me: turntable succumbed to the damp air in a cellar where I stored it for a good ten years. No, I do not care if turntables are ancient technology: I will find one. And I will restore my long lost record collection-which took up a good amount of shelf apace-to its former glory. Buying something as un cool as a turntable takes courage and planning. I find a promising TV and radio store in the phone book but I am expecting a mountain of question from the clerk, who will most certainly have been born and raised after the demise of the turntable.
3. “A turntable? Coming fright up!” says the young man behind the counter. He disappears into the stroreroom and before I can say long-playing record, he’s back with a small cardboard under the arm. It’s too good be true. An hour later my new acquisition is in the living room and a respectful atmosphere descends. I’ve sorted my records into piles all over the floor. I find a Beatles album.
4. Behind the wonderful musich now flowing through the loud speaker is the unmistakable sound of vinyl. It doesn’t take long for my twelve year old son’s eagle eye to spot the turntable and he has to try it out. Jonas is technically mined, a child of the computer age, yet I sense a certain reverence as he picks up the tone arm and tries to pace it in the middle of the record. Brought up in the CD age how could he know what’s wrong? I say in a soothing voice: “The starting groove is on the record”/ “Does it matter which side is up?” queried my daughter. “it does matter, “ I replied. Soon we were listening to a Phil Collins number we both like. The generation gap vanishes as the music takes over. I relish the moment to the full and cast a glance at Ida. She’s relaxed and smiling.

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1. Legends will tell you that flamingoes are no ordinary visitors to Kutch. They were the honoured guests of King Lakho and he had forbidden the hunting of flamingoes, which came to Kutch form various parts of the world every year to breed. For centuries the region has been a haven for the migratory bird. Today, Flamingo city, an island in the middle of the Rann of Kutch, known the world over as one of the biggest breeding ground of the Greater Flamingo, is strewn with bodies of hundreds of flamingo chicks. The parents of these chicks have fled the island due to lack of food. Zooplanktons, algae and small fish that these birds survive on are dying due to sudden increase in the salinity of the Rann waters. One can even see dead fish floating. 
2. Flamingoes need salt encrusted damp mud to build nests. The place where they build their nests has to be inaccessible to predatory cats and birds. It should also have sufficient food. The right mix of sweet and brackish water in the Rann is crucial for the proliferation of planktons and algae that the flamingoes feed on. Faced with starvation, flamingoes have fled the island leaving their chicks to fend for themselves. Till date around a thousand flamingoes have died.
3. Maharaj Kumarshre Himmatssinghji, a member of the royal family of Kutch and an expert on the bird of Kutch, traces the problems of increased salinity in the Rann waters to the construction of dams on rivers that flow in to the region. He emphasizes that efforts shuld be made to ensure that, at least some water flows into the Rann. In fact over the years, the number flamingoes coming to the island have decreased because of the change in the salinity of the Rann water, In 1945, Salim Ali the late ornithologist, had found 5 laks. However, the studies carried out on the flamingo city so far can not be taken as 100 percent accurate because very few ornithologist have conducted regular studies on flamingoes in the area. The reason: the terrain is so inholpitable that it is simply not possible to visit the place every year.
4. Says Himmatsinghji,” The ringing of flamingoes is mandarory to conduct accurate and logn term studies on the bird.” Unfortunately, every since flamingo city was discovered in 1893, not a single bird has ringed. No wonder questions like from where these birds migrate every year remain only partially answered.

 On the basis of your reading of the passage given above, complete the following sentences
Write the answers in your answers in your answer sheet.

(a)Planktons and algae, which from the food the flamingoes, requires……..
(b)Ornithologists find it difficult to conduct regular studies on flamingoes in the Rann as…….
(c)To conduct long term studies on the bird………..
(d)The increase in salinity in the Rann waters is due to …………
(e)Kutch was referred to as haven for flamingoes as ……….
(f)Lack of food in Rann has caused …….
(g)The conditions necessary for the flamingoes to build their nests are:
(i)……….    (ii)………..    (iii)………..    (iv)………….

Find words from the passage, which mean the same as the following from the paragraphs indicated. Write the answers in your answer sheet

(a)Increase in number (para-2)
(b)Scattered over a surface (para-1)

D6.