Q. 9.Given below is a conversation. Complete the dialogue in any suitable way. Write the correct answer on your answer sheet against the correct blank number. Do not copy the whole sentence. (4 marks)
Kamala : You have a long vacation ahead. What do you intend to do?
Vimala : (a) ...................... .
Kamala : Nice, everyone likes spending a vacation on a tour. How many days will it be ?
Vimala : (b) ......................
Kamala : Where do you plan to go?
Vimala : (c) .......................
Kamala : Why only Agra and Delhi?
Vimala : We are particular that (d) .......................
Ans. (a) We plan to go on a tour.
(b) I think it will be for about ten days.
(c) We will be visiting Agra and Delhi.
(d) we should visit all the important historical monuments in both these cities.
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 between a customer and a waitress and complete the passage given below. Write the correct answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. (4 marks)
Customer : Do you call this a full meal? You served me twice as much yesterday.
Waitress : Where did you sit yesterday?
Customer : By the window.
Waitress : Oh! We do that for advertising purposes. It gives the passers-by the impression that ours is a good restaurant.
A customer who was served a meal asked the waitress if (a) .............. and added that she (b) .............. . The waitress asked him (c) .............. . The customer said that he had sat by the window. The waitress very casually remarked that (d) .............. as that gave the passers-by an impression that theirs was a good restaurant.
Ans. (a) She called that a full meal
(b) served him twice as much the day before.
(c) where he had been seated the day before.
(d) they did that for advertising purposes
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)
Nor dim or red, like God’s own head,
The glorious Sun uprist :
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
(a) Name the bird that the Ancient Mariner had killed. (1)
(b) Why has the Sun been described as ‘glorious’ at this point in the poem? (1)
(c) These lines indicate a change in the sailors’ attitude. What is the change? (2)
Ans. (a) The Ancient Mariner had killed an albatross.
(b) The sun is shining brightly and because of its brightness it is described as ‘glorious’.
(c) The sailors change their attitude towards the mariner and feel he had done the right thing by killing the bird which had resulted in the bad weather. Earlier they had condemned the mariner for killing the bird.
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