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    Read the Extract and complete the activities given below: (12 Marks)

    This is what Camus meant when he said that “what gives value to travel is fear”- disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide. And that is why many of us travel not in search of answers, but of better questions. I, like many people, tend to ask questions of the places I visit, and relish most the ones that ask the most searching questions back of me: “The ideal travel book,” Christopher Isherwood once said, “should be perhaps a little like a crime story in which you’re in search of something.” And it’s the best kind of something, I would add, if it’s one that you can never quite find.

    I remember, in fact, after my first trips to Southeast Asia, more than a decade ago, how I would come back to my apartment in New York, and lie in my bed, kept up by something more than jet lag, playing back, in my memory, over and over, all that I had experienced, and paging wistfully though my photographs and reading and re-reading my diaries, as if to extract some mystery from them. Anyone witnessing this strange scene would have drawn the right conclusion: I was in love.

    When we go abroad is that we are objects of scrutiny as much as the people we scrutinize, and we are being consumed by the cultures we consume, as much on the road as when we are at home. At the very least, we are objects of speculation (and even desire) who can seem as exotic to the people around us as they do to us.
    All, in that sense, believed in “being moved” as one of the points of taking trips, and “being transported” by
    private as well as public means; all saw that “ecstasy” (“ex-stasis”) tells us that our highest moments come when we’re not stationary, and that epiphany can follow movement as much as it precipitates it.

    1] Write true or false
    (a) A traveller may sink in love with his travel memories.
    (b) One gets inspected as he inspects the world around him
    (c) Quest in something may end in more mystery.
    (d) Staying in comfort at home give more happiness than travelling

    2] Match the following.

    A
    B
    1) Narrator
    b) In love with his memories
    2) Camus
    d) Fear gives value to travel
    3) Isherwood
    a) Ideal story should be like a crime story
    4) Traveler
    c) More happy when on the move

    3] What does the Oliver Sacks says in his travel book?
    4] Travelling is the best teacher " write your view in 3 to 4 sentences
    5] Grammar
    a) I like to ask questions of the places I, Visit Cwrite the cortec tonse)
    b) I would come back to my apartment in New York. (Use another modal auxiliary)

    6] Write the words from the passage which mean:
    a) New / Stranger - -------
    b) Turning the page -------

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