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in Class 12 by kratos

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.

The scientists study the weather for love of studying it,

And not specially for love of the fishermen,

And the wireless engineers do the transmission for love of wireless,

But how it adds up is that when the terrible white malice

Of the waves high as cliffs is let loose to seek a victim,

The fishermen are somewhere else and so not drowned.

(i) Why do scientists study the weather, according to the speak ?

(ii) What do wireless engineers do?

(iii) What is described as the ‘terrible white malice’?

(iv) Who, according to the poet, help the fishermen directly?

(v) ‘The terrible white malice of the waves’ describes

(a) the white foam on the rising sea

(b) the fury of the sea during the storm

(c) the ***** hatred of the sea towards fishermen.

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by kratos
 
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(i) They study the weather because they love studying it.

(ii) Wireless engineers do the transmission of information.

(iii) A storm at sea is described as a terrible white malice.

(iv) The scientists who study the weather for its own sake indirectly help the fishermen.

(v) (b) the fury of the sea during the storm.

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