- Pico Iyer
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About the Writer :
Siddarth Pico Raghavan Iyer , is known as Pico Iyer . He is a British born American Essayist and Novelist . He is best known for his travel writing .He has authored several books.He has won and awarded many prizes .
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' Why We Travel ,' is an classic essay , written by Pico Iyer . In this essay he explores the reasons for his passion to travel . He shares his experience with the readers . This extract inspires the readers who are looking for the adventures in their lives .
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A1 Read the first two paragraphs and discuss the need to travel .
Answer ----
We travel , to loose ourselves ; to find ourselves ; to open our hearts and eyes ; to learn more about the world ; to remove the ignorance ; to get the knowledge ; and to remain young in the whole life.
Travel guides us in maintaining a better balance between wisdom and compassion of seeing the world .
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A2 (i) Read the sentence ' If a diploma can famously ............ in
cultural relativism .' Pick the sentence which gives the meaning of the above statement from the alternatives given below .
a) A diploma certificate can be used as a passport and a passport can be used as a diploma certificate .
b) If one has a diploma , he does not need a passport and if he has a passport , he does not need a diploma .
c) Once can acquire permission to travel to foreign countries for educational purposes based on her academic achievements and traveling to foreign countries enriches one the most regarding the knowledge and wisdom of the world .
Answer ----. ( C )
The meaning of the above statement is the alternative , ( C)
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(ii) Prepare a list of the litterateurs and their quotations mentioned by the writer in the essay .
Answer -
The litterateures and their quotations are as below :
Hazlitt : " gentlemen in the parlour "
Oliver Cromwell : " A man never goes so far as when he doesn't know where he is going ."
Christopher Isherwood : " The ideal travel book , should be perhaps a little like a crime story in which you're in a search of something ."
Emerson : " Traveling is a fool's paradise ."
Thoreau : " traveled a good deal in Concord ."
Sir Thomas Browne :
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us . There is Africa and her prodigies in us . "
George Santayana :
" There is wisdom in turing as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar ; it keeps the mind nimble ; it kills prejudice ,and it fosters humour . "
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(iv) Read the third paragraph and find the difference between tourist and a traveller as revealed through the complaints made by them .
Answer:
A tourist is just someone who complains , " Nothing here is the way it is at home ," while a traveler is one who grumbles , " Everything
here is the same as it is in Cairo - or
Cuzco or Kathmandu's ." It is all very much the same .
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A3 - ( i )
Read carefully the following sentences from the text and underline the phrasal verb .
a)We travel , then ,in part just
to shake up our complacencies.
Answer :- Shake up
b) Abroad is the place where we stay up late .
Answer :- Stay up
c) I remember , in fact , after my first trip to Southeast Asia ,more than a decade ago. how I would come back to my apartment in New York .
Answer:- Come back
d) All , in that sense , believed in ,
"being moved "......
Answer :- believed in
c) But there is , for the traveller at least ,the sense that learning about home and ..........
Answer:- learning about
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A 4 (i) Read the following sentences carefully from the text and find out the infinitives .
a) We travel , initially , to lose ourselves ; and we travel , next , to find ourselves .
Answer :- to lose ; to find
b) We travel to bring what little we can .......
Answer :- to bring
c) Yet one of the subtler beauties of travel is that it enables you. to bring new eyes to the people you encounter .
Answer :- to bring
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ii) Combine two sentences into one.
You may use the word given in the brackets .
a) I go to Iceland .I visit the lunar spaces within me . ( to)
Answer :-
I go to Iceland to visit the lunar spaces within me .
b) We have the opportunity. We
come into contact with more essential parts of ourselves .(of)
Answer :-
We have the opportunity of coming into contact with more essential parts of ourselves .
c) Romantic poets inaugurated an era of travel .They were great apostles of open eyes . ( being )
Answer :-
Being great apostles of open eyes ,
Romantic poets inaugurated an era of travel .
d) The travel spins us around .It shows us the sights and values ordinarily ignored . ( showing )
Answer:-
Showing us the sights and values ordinarily ignored , The travel spins us around .
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iii) Read the sentences given below and state whether the underlined words are gerunds or present participles .
a) As it's a hot day , many people are swimming .
Answer :- Gerund .
b) This is a swimming pool .
Answer:- Present participle
c) It's very bad that children are begging .
Answer :- Gerund
d) Begging is a curse on humanity .
Answer :- Gerund
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A7 Find information about :
a) Fa Hien :- A Chinese buddhist Monk who traveled on foot from China to India .
b) Huen Tsang :- The Chinese traveller visited India during the period of emperor Harsha
c) Ibn Batua :- A Moroccan muslim scholar and traveler .
d) Marco Polo :- A Venetian merchant ( Venice ,Italy )
e) Sir Richard Burton :- a British traveler , explorer , translator ,spy ,
Poet ,diplomat and soldier .
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