CBSE Board Paper Solution-2020

Class : XII Subject : English Core Set : 1 Code No : 1/1/1 Time Allowed : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 80

Section A

(Reading Skills)

1. Read the passage given below: (12)

Donated Organs and their Transportation

1.Once an organ donor's family gives its consent and the organs are matched to a recipient, medical professionals are faced with the onerous challenge of transporting organs while ensuring that the harvested organ reaches its destination in the shortest possible time. This is done in order to preserve the harvested organs and involves the police and especially the traffic

department.

1. The traditional method of transporting organs by road is referred to as a 'green

corridor'. This process entails police

escorting an ambulance, so is chosen and all signals on the route stay green to ensure it reaches its destination in the shortest possible time. A green corridor is a route cleared and cordoned off by the traffic police to ensure the smooth and steady

transportation of harvested organs, on most occasions, to those awaiting a life saying transplant. Organs tend to have a very short preservation time, such as the heart, which has to be harvested and transplanted within four hours or the lungs, which can be preserved for only six hours once they are harvested.

1. The first green corridor in India was created by the Chennai Traffic Police in September 2008 when they accomplished their task of

enabling an ambulance to reach its

destination within 11 minutes during peak hour traffic. That organ saved a nine-year-old girl whose life depends on the transplant.

1. Similarly, such green corridors have been created by traffic police of various cities such as Pune, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, etc. Personnel are stationed at selected point to divert, control and clear the traffic giving way to the ambulance. Apart from this, a motorcade of