1. Study the picture given below and answer the questions that follow:
Question:
1. The given cartoon is related to which country?
2. Which two symbols in this cartoon helped in identifying the country?
3. What message does this cartoon convey to the world?
Answer:
1. This cartoon is related to China.
2. The Dragon and the Great Wall helped in identifying the country.
3. This cartoon conveys a message to the world that China is emerging as a great economic power.
2. Study the picture given below and answer the questions that follow:
Questions:
1. What does the cartoon represent?
2. Name the policy that is being represented in the cartoon.
3. What does the ‘Competition’ refer to in the cartoon?
4. “We’ll have to get used to it”. What does it denote?
Answer:
1. India’s policy towards ASEAN.
2. ‘Look East’ Policy since 1991 to interact with ASEAN, China, Japan
and South Korea.3. Competition among various countries to develop potential relations with ASEAN.
4. It denotes India’s strategy towards using free trade areas with ASEAN
.Study the cartoon given below carefully and answer the following questions:
Questions:
(a) Which country does this cartoon refer to?
(b) Evaluate any two changes in the economic policies of this country form ‘then’ to ‘now’.
Or
“China followed its own path in j introducing a market economy”.
Justify this statement with four suitablearguments?(c) Assess any two outcomes of the latest changes that took place in this country.
Answers:(a).This cartoon belongs to China
(b).1.In 1978, Deng Xiaoping adopted the ‘Open Door’ policy and economic reforms in China.2. China started privatisation in the agricultural sector in 1982.3. China started privatisation in the industrial sector in 1998.4. Trade barriers were removed from the Special Economic Zone where foreign investors could set up theirenterprises.
(c).1.The Chinese economy including both industry and agriculture grew at a forte rate.2. China emerged as an economic superpower in Asia.
On a political outline map of world locate and label the following and symbolise them as indicated:
Questions
1. An older member of EU between Portugal and France. Symbolise (A)
2. An older member near Belgium and Netherlands. Symbolise (B)
3. The four new members of EU. Symbolise 1, 2, 3, 4.
4. Four old members of EU. Symbolise 5, 6, 7, 8.
Answer:
1. Spain
2. Germany
3. 1. Estonia 2. Poland
3. Hungary 4. Lithuania
4. 5. Finland 6. Denmark
7. Austria 8. Ireland