1.1 On the basis of your understanding of the above assage,complete the following sentences. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers.(5 × 1 = 5 marks)
(a) A smile is ..........................
(b) Laughter is a language by itself for .......................... .
(c) Laughter is an indicator of .......................... .
(d) Massive doses of fun are found in .......................... .
(e) Comedians are very popular and in great demand because .......................... .
Ans. (a) called silent laughter.
(b) it can convey messages without being backed by spoken words.
(c) mirth, amusement or an expression of happiness.
(d) plays, movies and TV programmes.
(e) they provide laughter to people who seek it as an escape or diversion.
1.2 Complete the diagram below on the variants of laughter. (4 × 1/2 = 2 marks)
Ans. (a) a giggle (b) a snigger (c) a guffaw (d) a belly laugh.
1.3 Complete the table on various sources to generate laughter. (4 × 1/2 = 2 marks)
Ans. (a) movies (b) TV programmes (c) clubs (d) comics and joke books.
1.4 Find words/phrases from the passage which mean the same as the following from the
paragraphs indicated. Write the answers in your answer sheet. (3 × 1 = 3 marks)
(a) rouse (para 1)
(b) scornful (para 3)
(c) large and heavy (para 5)
Ans. (a) evoke (b) contemptuous (c) massive.
Q. 2. Read the following poem carefully: (8 marks)
Ans. My grandmother was a genius. You’d like to know why?
Because she could climb trees. Spreading or high,
She’d be up their branches in a trice. And mind you,
When last she climbed a tree, she was sixty-two.
Ever since childhood, she’d had this gift
For being happier in a tree than in a lift;
And though, as years went by, she would be told
That climbing trees should stop when one grew old—
And that growing old should be gone about gracefully—
She’d laugh and say, ‘Well, I’ll grow old disgracefully.
I can do it better.’ And we had to agree;
For in all the garden there wasn’t a tree
She hadn’t been up, at one time or another
(Having learned to climb from a loving brother
When she was six)—but it was feared by all
That one day she’d have a terrible fall.
The outcome was different—while we were in town
She climbed a tree and couldn’t come down.
We went to rescue, and then
The doctor took Granny’s temperature and said,
‘I strongly recommend a quiet week in bed.’
We sighed with relief and tucked her up well.
Poor Granny! For her, it was like a brief season in hell. - Ruskin Bond
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