The Ailing Planet

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NCERT Class 11 English Core Chapter-wise Solutions

English core Part I (Hornbill)

• 1 :  The Portrait Of A Lady Summary
• 2 :  A Photograph Summary
• 3 :  We’re Not Afraid To Die…If We Can All Be Together Summary
• 4 : Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues Summary
• 5 : The Voice Of The Rain Summary
• 6 : The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role Summary
• 7 : The Browning Version Summary
• 8 : Childhood Summary
• 9 : Father To Son Summary

English core Part II (Snapshot)

• 1- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
• 2- The Address
• 3- Ranga’s Marriage
• 4- Albert Einstein at School
• 5- Mother’s Day
• 6- The Ghat of the only World
• 7- Birth
• 8- The Tale of Melon City

NCERT Solutions for class 11 English Core Hornbill The Ailing Planet

1. Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
i) a holistic and ecological view
ii) inter alia
iii) sustainable development
iv) decimated
v) languish
vi) catastrophic depletion
vii) ignominious darkness
viii) transcending concern

Page No: 47 Understanding the Text

1. Locate the lines in 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 not 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 over population that directly affect our everyday life.

Page No: 48 Thinking about the Language

1. The phrase ‘inter alia’ meaning ‘among other things’ is one of the many Latin expression commonly used in English.
Find out what these Latin phrases mean.
i.Prima face
ii. ad hoc
iii. in camera
iv. ad infinitum
v. mutatis multanis
vi. tabula rasa

Working with Words

1. Locate the following words in the text and study their connotation.
i). gripped the imagination of
ii). dawned upon
iii). ushered in
iv). passed into current coin
v). passport of the future

2. The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’. ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’ have a literal as well as a figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using each word in the literal as well as figurative sense.