Q. 9. In the passage given below, fill in each blank with one word only. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentences. (8 × ½= 4 marks)
After Pandit Nehru (a) .............. sworn in as the first Prime Minister of India, he supported (b) .............. technological advancement which brought about (c) ............... Indian Transformation. The construction (d) .............. large dams (e) .............. produce hydroelectricity, (f) .............. known to have done immense good. His interest (g) .............. Science and Technology helped steer the country to (h) .............. it is today.
Ans. (a) was (b) all/the (c) an (d) of (e) to (f) is (g) in (h) where/what.
Q. 10. Look at the words and phrases given below. Rearrange them to form meaningful sentences. The first one is done as an example. (4 × 1 = 4 marks)
Example : lived / a very / and / king / powerful / there / great. There lived a very great and powerful king. (a) had / a / he / and / they / noble wife / were happy. (b) of the Kingdom / happy / people / the / were / also. (c) of their subjects / royal couple / attention / to all the / paid / the / needs. (d) they / their / tried / their woes / remove / to / best.
Ans. (a) He had a noble wife and they were happy. (b) The people of the Kingdom were also happy. (c) The royal couple paid attention to all the needs of their subjects. (d) They tried their best to remove their woes.
Q. 11. Read the following conversation and complete the given paragraph with suitable words. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentences.
(4 marks)
Rajat : Pal, give me your phone number.
Pal : It is in my father’s name. Look it up in the directory.
Rajat : What is your father’s name?
Pal : It is also in the directory.
Rajat asked Pal (a) ...................... . Pal told (b) ...................... and advised him to look that up in the directory. Rajat asked (c) ...................... . Pal replied (d) ...................... .
Ans. (a) to give him his phone number.
(b) him it was in his father’s name
(c) Pal what his father’s name was.
(d) that was also in the directory.
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 lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. (4 marks)
The peasants came like swarms of flies
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyze the Evil One.
(a) Who is referred to as the Evil One? Why? (2)
(b) Why did the peasants wish that he might be paralysed? (1)
(c) What do these lines tell us about the peasants? (1)
Ans. (a) The Scorpion is referred to as the Evil One because his sting had resulted in poison being spread in the mother‘s blood.
(b) The peasants wished that he might be paralysed because they felt that with every movement the Scorpion made, his poison moved in the mother’s blood.
(c) Through these lines we come to know that the peasants were a group of superstitious people.
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