Short Answer Type Questions: Class Xi, English Questions and Answers (Sample)

CLASS XI ,ENGLISH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SAMPLE)

Short Answer Type Questions
Q1. What is the significance of Green Movement in the modern
world?

Ans. The Green Movement that was found in New Zealand in the year 1972
brought a great awareness to the humanity. It taught us that we are just
partners on the earth having equal rights to inhabit this planet as any other
living organism has. Having learnt this, human beings worldwide stopped
large amount of destruction that it used to cause upon the earth. People
realized that the earth’s existence was threatened and began to do whatever
was possible by each individual and each nation.
Q2. What was the question raised by the First Brandt Commission?
What does it suggest? What is the significance of this question?

Ans. The first Brandt Report raised the question, “Are we going to leave
behind for our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts,
impoverished landscapes and ailing planet?” This question finds an answer in
our minds but we quite conveniently forget this answer. It has been proved
in the recent years that the earth is becoming a hotter place. If we do not
care about all health related issues of the earth, we won’t be able to save it.
Q3. Why is it said that forest precedes mankind?

Ans. No animal on the planet earth ever caused damage to it but humans
have been causing serious destruction upon the earth ever since he had
evolved. By cutting down trees for his survival and development humans
have established their monopoly over the other species. Thus, with the
coming of humans, the existence of forest was threatened.
Q4. How is human population explosion the biggest threat to the

existence of the ailing earth?

Ans. Human population is the biggest threat to the existence of the earth.
Though it reached a billion in a million years, another billion was added to
the world population in just another hundred years. Every four or five days
the world population increases by one million. The effects of this dangerous
increase in world population are endless yet the most catastrophic one is our
present struggle for existence.
Q5. What are the four principal biological systems? How are they the
foundation of the global economic system?

Ans. The four principal biological systems of the earth are fisheries, forests,
grasslands and croplands. In addition to supplying our food, these four
systems provide virtually all the raw materials for industry except minerals
and petroleum-derived synthetics.
Q6. How is population responsible for the environment degradation?

Ans. With rising population, space that nature assigned for forests and
animals. More population means less forests and animals. Unfortunately
man’s first choice is nature and it is sadly vulnerable and an easy prey. When
cities and megacities occupy the major portion of the earth, the ecological
balance is said to be lost.
Q7. What does Mr. Edgar S Woolard mean by assuming the post of
his company’s Chief Environment Officer?

Ans. Mr. Edgar S Woolard, chairman of DuPont, an international
manufacturer, by co-assuming the post of the company’s Chief
Environmental Officer (CEO), stands a model for the owners and
chairpersons of all the industries worldwide. He implies that the chief motive
of an industry is to preserve the stability and life of the earth and profit
comes next.
Q8. What are our ethical obligation to the ailing planet?

Ans. Human beings have the greatest obligation to the earth to safeguard
this planet from all advancing deterioration and keeping it safe so that it can
be handed over to the coming generations to inhabit here peacefully and in
the midst of abundance.
Q9. How do you explain the concept of sustainable development?

Ans. Sustainable development is the kind development activities that meet
the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs. This kind of development is expected to be
undertaken without stripping the natural world of resources that the future
generations would need.
Q10. How do fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands form the

foundation of global economic system?

Ans. A majority of the world population depends on sea food for their
survival while forests provide firewood, raw materials for production and
timber for construction. Grasslands are the destination of cattle and herds of
animals and without them, domestic and wild animals, the global economic
system cannot survive. Each one is depending on the other while it help the
other to survive. There are nations, except the gulf countries that depend on
petroleum, that solely depend on forests and fisheries and croplands for
trade and sustenance.
Long Answer Questions

Q1. How has the growth of world population affected the
environment? Support your answer with suitable arguments?

Ans. The author Nani Palkhivala enumerates some alarming statistics to
suggest how the growth of world population has tremendously affected the
environment. The population which took a million years to reach the first
billion took just another hundred years to reach the second billion. Another
century passed it and reached the alarming figure of 3.7 million. Presently it
is over 6 million and there is a huge demand on resources, natural or man-
made. The resources worldwide are under a lot of stress and pressure. The
four principal biological systems i.e. fisheries, forests, grasslands and
croplands which form the foundation of the global economic system and
provide raw materials to the industry are facing a lot of stress. The human
demands on these systems are increasing at a rapid speed. Hence,
sustainability and productivity are both hampered. When this happens,
fisheries collapse, forests disappear, grasslands become wastelands and
croplands deteriorate. The need of the hour is to become sensitive towards
the needs of the environment to get affected; we will leave behind nothing
but an ailing planet for our future generations.
Q2. We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have
borrowed it from our children. Discuss.

Ans. Earth’s resources are limited and will not last forever. In the twentieth
century, there has been a revolutionary change in human perception. We
cannot take the planet for granted. We are mere custodians. We have to take
a holistic view of the very basis of our existence. The earth is a living
organism of which we are parts. It has its own metabolic needs to stay alive
and must be respected and preserved for the future generation. What is
required is sustainable development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the destiny of future generation. There are four
biological systems, namely fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands. They
form the foundation of the global economic system. They supply us food and
raw materials for industry. In larger areas of the world, these systems are
reaching unsustainable levels. Their productivity is being damaged. The
growth of world population is another factor distorting the future of our
children. Development is not possible if population increases. In this era of
responsibility towards our future generation, population must be controlled.
Industries must become environmental friendly. Now many industrialists,
politicians and writers have realized their responsibility in preserving the
non-renewable natural resources for the future generation.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SAMPLE)

Q3. Why is it said that forest precedes mankind?

Q4. How is human population explosion the biggest threat to the

Q6. How is population responsible for the environment degradation?

Q8. What are our ethical obligation to the ailing planet?

Q9. How do you explain the concept of sustainable development?

Q10. How do fisheries, forests, grasslands and croplands form the

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