In Celebration of Being Alive NOTES

SUMMARY Dr. Christian Barnard, a South Africa surgeon, designed artificial heart valves, and wrote extensively on the subject. In this essay Dr. Barnard ruminates on why people suffer.
One day after a meal Dr. Barnard and his wife were crossing the road. A car hit him and knocked him into his wife. She was thrown on the other line and was hit by a car from the opposite direction. Barnard suffered from eleven broken ribs and a perforated lung. His wife had a fractured shoulder.
As he recuperates in the hospital, Barnard reflects on what his father would have said. "Suffering is God 's was of testing, refining, purifying, and ennobling us . "Barnard did not see anything noble about a patient in pain and anguish, or a child wailing in the ward.
On day his father showed him a half- eaten biscuit. It was the last one his brother had before he died with a congenital heart problem. He found the suffering of children pathetic. Children implicitly trust doctors and nurses believing that they can help them. Even if they can't help them, they accept their fate.
Several years earlier, one day Dr. Barnard had witnessed what he called a "Grand Prix". Two boys, a driver, and a mechanic drive the hospital's breakfast trolley . The blind mechanic provided the motor power, and the driver steered with one arm. The other patients joined in the fun and frolic, till the plates were scattered. The mechanic was a seven year old boy. His mother flung a lantern at his father. The lantern missed its mark and broke on the boy's head, resulting in the third degree burns, and loss of eyesight. At that time of Grand Prix, he was a sight to look at. He had been earlier operated upon by Dr. Barnard for a hole in his heart. He was in the hospital now, for a malignant tumour of the bone . His shoulder and arm had been amputated. There was little hope of his recovery.
Dr. Barnard learnt an important lesson about life from these boys . "The business of living, is the celebration of being alive". Dr Barnard realized that it is not what you have lost that is important, but what you have been left with . Light can't be appreciated without knowing darkness, nor can warmth, without knowing cold.

.Choose the correct meaning of the word given.

1. Intrepid : fearless/ clever / cheerful / skilful
2. Sophisticated : soft / new / advanced / improved
3. Perforate : pierce / make a hole through / Make it necessary /be unfaithful
4. Mutilate : make painful / operate / Cut off a part of the body / disfigure
5. Stem(v) : a part of the plant coming up from the roots / stop / check / has as its origin
6. Malignant : harmful to life / of a helpful nature / Causing anger / bad alignment
7. Ennoble : not noble / make one noble / to make better / of low birth
8. Mutilate : to make one route / disfigure / Cut off a part / remove
9. Solace : having to do with the sun / Comfort or relief in pain or anxiety / that which causes pain / that which causes anxiety
10. Steer(v) : bullock / to direct the course / avoid / a wheel
11. Finale : fine ale / the last item / the money paid as fine / the end of anything
12. Profound : instead of found / showing great knowledge / Very plentiful / profitable

III.Select the best option that conveys the meaning of the underlined word and write it.

1. The spot of accident was commandeered by the police. [ ]
   a) checked b) inspected  c) seized d) verified
2. The magistrate ordered firing as the situation was quite abnormal. [ ]
   a) violent b) uncontrollable
   c) depressing d) different from the normal
3. He has no inclination to study medicine [ ]
   a)desire         b)need       c) intention          d) idea
4. Now a days it is easy to correct the heart problem. [ ]
   a) study b) rectify c) know well d) spread

IV.Fill in the blanks in the following passage with the appropriate word given in the brackets.

1. The younger actor is the ____________ of many a college girl.
   (heartthrob, heartfelt, heartstrings)
2. It is ____________ to see a small child suffering on a hospital bed.
   (heartily, heartening, heartburn)
3. They put on ____________ show that day
   (quite, quiet, grand)
4. The wound ____________ in a short time.
   (cured, healed, dried)
5. As a doctor, Dr. Barnard has always found the suffering of children particularly ____________
   (heartbreaking, heartfelt, heartwarming)
6. All the boys laughed ____________ at merry jokes.
   (Heartrendingly, heartily, heart- rendingly)

V. Find the wrongly spelt word in each set and write it correctly:

1. relieve receive conceive believe
2. prevalent transparent parmanent prevent
3. surgery forgery perjury injery
4. moldy boldly scold told
5. tumor stupor armour rumour
6. appearancc experience tolerance performance

VI. In each of the following groups of words, find the word in which the underlined part is pronounced in the same way as in the key word.

1. Leisure : ease measure tree pavement
2. Important : import portable thought
3. Shoulder : pound holder bound
4. Amputate : pulse punish compute

VII. In each set find the word that rhymes with the key word. 
1. Poor : four door tour
2. Steer : pear peer stair
3. Tumour : honour horror rumour
4. Sign : main brain reign dine

VIII.Sentence endings in the following passages are not indicated. Decide where each sentence ends and write the last word followed by a proper mark. (!) or (?) or (.)

1. Let me tell you about these two the mechanics was all of seven years old one night his mother threw a lantern at his father the lantern missed and broke over the child's head and the shoulders he suffered third degree burns and lost both his eyes 
2. Everyone was shocked what a strange sight how could this happen they couldn't believe what they saw 
3. After the grand prix he proudly informed me that the race was a success 
4. Do you know what made her say I'm going home now 

IX.Read the sentence given below. Rewrite the sentence carrying in given instructions.

1. a) She suffered form serious injuries. She recovered well.
   b) Though _________________________
2. a) She was struck by a car coming form the opposite direction.
   b) A car coming _________________________
3. a) I see nothing noble in a patient's suffering.
   b) Nothing noble _________________________
4. a) This trolley was commandeered by an intrepid crew of two.
   b) An intrepid crew of two _________________
5. a) We can't appreciate light if we haven't known darkness
   b) We can appreciate light _________________
6. a) It was much better entertainment than anything else.
   b) Nothing else ______________________
7. a) I experienced not only agony but also anger.
   b) As well as _________________________
8. a) suffering makes you a better person
   b) you are made _________________________

X. Identify the part of speech of each underlined word below. Write the word and the parts of speech. 
1. An intrepid crew of two soon commandeered the trolley.
2. Let me tell you about these two.
3. We are members of one human family and must stand or fall together.

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Bit Answers:-II.
1. fearless
2. advanced
3. make a hole through
4. cut off a part of the today
5. has as its origin
6. harnful to noble
7. make one noble
8. cut off a part
9. comfort or relief in pain or anxiety
10. to direct the course
11. the last item
12. showing great knowledge

III.
1. Seized
2. Uncontrollable
3. Intension

4. Rectify
IV.
1. Heart throb
2. Heartening
3. Quite
4. Healed
5. Heart breaking
6. Heartily

V.
1. None (all are right)
2. None (all are right)
3. Injury
4. Mouldy
5. Tumour

VI1. Tree
2. Portable
3. Holder
4. Compute

VII1. Tour
2. Peer
3. Rumour
4. Dine

VIII
1. two. old. father. shoulders. eyes.
2. sight! Happen? Saw.
3. Prix, success.
4. Now.

IX1. Though suffered form serious injuries, she recovered well.
2. A car coming from the opposite direction struck her
3. Nothing noble in a patients’ suffering can be seen.
4. An intrepid crew of two commandeered this trolley
5. We can appreciate light if we have known darkness
6. Nothing else was much better than entertainment
7. As well as agony I experienced anger
8. you are made better person with suffering

X
1. of - Preposition
2. these - pronoun
3. and – conjunction