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  NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 5 – Silk Road (Nick Middleton) Extract/Passage based Question Answers Passage 1 We took a short cut to get off the Changtang. Tsetan knew a route that would take us south-west, almost directly towards Mount Kailash. It involved crossing several fairly high mountain passes, he said. ‘But no problem, sir” he assured us, ‘if there is no snbw.’ What was the likelihood of that I asked. “Not knowing, sir, until we get there.” From the gently rolling hills of Ravu, the short cut took us across vast open plains with nothing in them except a few gazelles that would look up from nibbling the arid pastures and frown before bounding away into the void. Further on, where the plains became more stony than grassy, a great herd of wild ass came into view. Tsetan told us we were approaching them long before they appeared. ‘Kyang,’ he said, pointing towards a far-off pall of dust. When we drew near, I could see the herd galloping...

  NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 4 – The Adventure (Jayant Narlikar) Extract/Passage based Question Answers Passage 1 Meanwhile, the racing fund of Professor Gaitonde had arrived at a plan of action in Bombay* Indeed, as a historian he’felt he should have thought of it sooner. He would go to a big library and brow-fee through history books. That was the surest way of finding out how the present state of affairs was reached. He also planned eventually to return to Pune and have a long talk with Rajendra Deshpande, who would surely help him understand what had happened. That is, assuming that in this world there existed someone called Rajendra Deshpande ! The train stopped beyond the long tunnel. It was a small station called Sarhad. An Anglo-Indian in uniform went through the train checking permits. Questions: (i) Who was Professor Gaitonde, and what was his hometown? (ii) What was his destination, and what objective did he have in mind? ...

  NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 3 – Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues (A.R. Williams) Extract/Passage based question Answers Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : Passage 1. He was just a teenager when he died. The last heir of a powerful family that had ruled Egypt and its empire for centuries, he was laid to rest laden with gold and eventually forgotten. Since the discovery of his tomb in 1922, the modem world has speculated about what happened to him, with murder being the most extreme possibility. Now, leaving his tomb for the first time in almost 80 years, Tut has undergone a CT scan that offers new clues about his life and death and provides precise data for an accurate forensic reconstruc¬tion of the boyish pharaoh. Questions : (i) What led to Tut being referred to as the final heir? (ii) When did Tut pass away, and how was his burial conducted? (iii) What speculations has the conte...