Q. 10. Read the conversation between a master and his servant, Raju given below. Then complete the passage reporting the conversation. Write the correct answer in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentence. (4×1=4 marks).
Master : Raju, where is my radio?
Raju : I threw it out. Master : Why?
Raju : Because the radio is a liar.
Master : How?
Raju : Because it is a Philips radio but all the time it keeps on saying, “This is All India Radio.”
The master called his servant Raju and asked him (a) ...................... . Raju replied (b) ...................... . The master was shocked and asked him why he had done so. Raju said that (c) ...................... . The master was just surprised and asked how it was. Raju explained that it was a Philips radio but all the time (d) ......................
Ans. (a) where his radio was. (b) that he had thrown it out. (c) the radio was a liar. (d) it kept on saying that it was All India Radio.
Q. 11. Look at the newspaper items given below. Then use the information in the headlines to complete the paragraphs. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentence. (3×1=3 marks)
(a) APPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS – LAST DATE EXTENDED
The last date for submission of applications for professional courses (a) .................................. 15th of August 2007 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi.
(b) HELMET SALE BRISK
With the Government ordering the wearing of helmet compulsory from July 1, there (b) .................................. in Chennai and other leading towns of Tamil Nadu.
(c) INDIA SIGNS TRANS-ASIAN RAILWAY NETWORK ACCORD India on Friday (c) .................................. the inter governmental agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network that proposes to connect 28 nations.
Ans. (a) has been extended to
(b) has been a brisk sale of helmet
(c) signed
SECTION D (LITERATURE) (30 marks)
Q. 12. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write each answer in your answer sheet in one or two sentences only. (4 marks)
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
(a) Which figure of speech is used in the first line? (1)
(b) Where were the mariner and the sailors stuck? Why? (2)
(c) Explain—“As idle as a painted ship.” (1)
Ans. (a) The poet uses the repetitive speech to describe each passing day.
(b) The mariner and the sailors were stuck in the middle of the ocean because the sea had become motionless and their ship was not moving.
(c) The ship was as static as a painting of a ship on a painted ocean. It conveys the absolutely still and motionless state of the ship.
Q. 13. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write each answer in your answer sheet in one or two sentences only. (4 marks)
A woman bends over me. Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
(a) What is the woman bending over? (1)
(b) What is she searching for? (1)
(c) Why have the candles and the moon been called liars? (2)
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