14. The Angel of Peace
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Word Meanings -
Merry (मेरी) = आनंदित, प्रसन्न
Atmosphere (एटमॉस्फियर) = वातावरण, माहौल
Charity (चैरिटी) = दान
Crisis (क्राइसिस) = संकट, मुसीबत
Occasion (ऑकेजन) = अवसर
Envelope (एनवलप) = लिफाफा
Destitute (डेस्टिट्युड) = बेसहारा, निराश्रित
Sick (सिक) = बीमार
Refuse(रिफ्युज़) = इन्कार करना
Authorities (अथॉरिटीज) = प्राधिकारी वर्ग
Shelter (शेल्टर) = आश्रय, शरणस्थल
Dignity (डिग्निटी) = मर्यादा, गरिमा
Ill (इल) = बीमार
Hygiene (हाइजीन) = स्वच्छता
Appoint (अपॉइंट) = नियुक्त करना
Darn (डार्न) = कपड़े के छेड़ को धागे से भरना, पैबंद
लगाना
Humour (ह्यूमर)= हास्य, विनोद
Honesty (आनेस्टी) = ईमानदारी
Courage (करेज) = साहस
Anxious (एन्कशस) = चिंतित
Property (प्रॉपर्टी) = संपत्ति
Wealth (वेल्थ) = धन-संपदा
Patient (पेशेंट) = रोगी, मरीज
Dispensary (डिस्पेंसरी) = दवाखाना, अस्पताल
Victim (विक्टिम) = शिकार
Leprosy (लेप्रोसी) = कुष्ठ रोग
Commitment (कमिटमेंट) = वादा, प्रतिबद्धता
Transcend (ट्रांसेंड) = सीमा के पार, अतिक्रमण
करना
Reading Comprehension
A. Answer the following questions.
1. How did the charity home celebrate
Christmas every year?
Answer – The charity home used to arrange Christmas party every
year for the children.
2. What did the man hand over to the Mother?
Answer – The man handed over an envelope to the Mother in which
there were new hundred rupee notes.
3. What does it mean by “when the door-bell
did not ring.”?
Answer – The term “When the door-bell did not ring” means that
they did not get any help or support from anyone.
4. What did the admirer say?
Answer – The admirer said that Mother Teresa had no idea where the
money would come from. But if a project was needed she would go ahead.
5. What is ‘Nirmal Hriday’?
Answer – ‘Nirmal Hriday’ is a shelter for those people who are
seriously ill and unacceptable elsewhere. These people are washed, fed and
sheltered in this home.
6. What did Mother do on the streets of
Kolkata?
Answer – Mother collected children on the streets of Kolkata to
teach them hygiene.
7. How was the ‘Missionaries of Charity’
formed?
Answer – Mother was looking for a centre for her work of teaching
the street children hygiene, when a family offered her rooms in their house.
She appointed about 26 assistants and the ‘Missionaries of Charity’ was formed.
8. Find out words that describe Mother’s
simplicity?
Answer – “She lived a simple life, travelled by second-class on
train, got down on hands and knees to scrub floors. She cherished simplicity
and wore a shawl more darned than knitted”. These words describe her
simplicity.
9. What did she want the people to know about
the poor?
Answer – She wanted the people to know about of the greatness of
the poor.
10. What was Mother Teresa’s real wealth?
Answer – Mother Teresa’s real wealth was Himalayan in size- 60
schools, 213 dispensaries, victims of leprosy in 54 clinics; orphaned children
in 20 homes and destitute or dying people in 23 homes, all these in 35 cities
and towns in India and in a dozen other countries.
11. How do people remember Mother Teresa?
Answer – People remember Mother Teresa for life-long commitment to
the poor that excels all barriers.
B. Write True or False for each of the
sentences given below.
a. The children of charity-home used to enjoy
Christmas party
every year. (True)
b. The envelope contained new thousand (1000)
rupee notes. (False)
c. Many times the inmates of the charity home
had no Christmas party. (False)
d. Mother knew from where the money would
come for a project. (True)
e. The municipal authorities refused to
provide her a place for the poor. (False)
f. Most of the members of ‘The Missionaries
of Charity’ are Indians. (True)
g. Mother Teresa knew the greatness of the
poor. (True)
Vocabulary
1. Form sentences using the following words
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crisis, project, dignity, hygiene, starving, property, hungry
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Answer –
(i) Crisis – We should be strong enough to face
any crisis.
(ii) Project – The teacher gave projects to the students to help them learn better.
(iii) Dignity – We should always maintain our dignity.
(iv) Hygiene – Hygiene is the key to avoid many diseases.
(v) Starving – Ravi was starving as he got lost in the jungle.
(vi) Property – The rich people have big properties.
(vii) Hungry - The children are feeling hungry.
2. Find out the words from the puzzle which
come from the clues given below the puzzle.
Clues
1. road (street)
2. suffering from illness (sick)
3. a place to live in (shelter)
4. one who is not rich (poor)
5. kindness, pity (mercy)
6. ability to behave in a calm and
respectable way (dignity)
7. son or daughter of a person (child)
8. having no money, no food and no shelter (destitute)
9. a house or an area of a city that is in a
very bad condition (slum)
10. to collect money or things to help the
poor (charity)
Grammar
Look at the following sentence.
Mother Teresa said, “ I am anxious for people
to know of
the greatness of the poor.”
In this sentence, the exact words of Mother Teresa are used
and they are put in inverted commas.
We can also write the same sentence in a way
that the same meaning is conveyed. We do so when we report someone’s speech in
our language.
Example: Mother Teresa said that she was anxious for
people to know of the greatness of the poor.
Rewrite the following sentences as given in
the example.
1. Mother Teresa said, “I believe we need the
poor as much as they need us.”
Answer - Mother Teresa said that she believed we need the poor as much as they need
us.
2. She said, “They are just as hungry as we
are.”
Answer - She said that they were just as hungry as we were.
3. An admirer said, “She has no idea where
the money will come from.”
Answer - An admirer said that she had no idea where the money would come from.
4. Sister Franklin said. “This is a real
sacrifice.”
Answer - Sister Franklin said that, that was a real sacrifice.
5. Mother replied, “I love the people of
Kolkata.”
Answer - Mother replied that she loved the people of Kolkata.
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