Ans. (a) The annual rainfall there is less than 25 cms.
(b) Deserts like Sahara remain dry for years.
(c) Such deserts are burning hot during the day.
Q.8. In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined as shown. 8 x1/2=4
There was once a boy would never e.g. boy who would
devote any attention his studies. (a) ___________
His parents sent to school, (b) ___________
but he took playing on the road (c) ___________
and did not care the opinion (d) ___________
of even those friends helped him (e) ___________
in danger. In end he found himself (f) ___________
all alone and a job. He had no (g) ___________
option but to get himself employed a servant. (h) ___________
Ans. (a) attention to his (b) sent him to (c) took to playing (d) care for the (e) friends who helped (f) In the end (g) and without a (h) employed as a
SECTION C- Grammar 15
Q.9. Read the dialogue given below and complete the passage that follows. Write the correct answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentences. 4x1=4
Mother : Why don’t you clean up your study table, dear?
Daughter : I don’t have time.
Mama. Mother : How can you study in this mess? Always keep your desk neat and tidy before you sit down for work.
The mother lovingly asked her daughter (a) _________ study table. The daughter replied (b) _________. Expressing her surprise the mother asked her (c) _________ in that mess and advised her (d) _________ before she sat down for work.
Ans. (a) why she didn’t clean up her (b) that she did not have time (c) how she could study (d) to always keep her desk neat and tidy
SECTION D - Textbooks (45)
Q.10. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 5
But when she asked, “Did a son or daughter, a father or mother, die in your family?” they answered her, “Alas! the living are few, but the dead are many. Do not remind us of our deepest grief.” And there was no house but some beloved one had died in it. Kisa Gotami became weary and hopeless, and sat down at the wayside watching the lights of the city, as they fl ickered up and were extinguished again. At last the darkness of the night reigned everywhere. And she considered the fate of men, that their lives fl icker up and are extinguished again.
(a) What did Kisa Gotami ask the villagers? 1
(b) What reply did she get? 1
(c) How did the villagers react at the questions asked by her? 1
(d) What did Kisa Gotami think after watching the lights of the city? 1
(e) Find a word from the passage which means the same as ‘to keep going on and off as a light shines’. 1
Ans. (a) Kisa Gotami asked the villagers if they had lost a loved one in their family.
(b) The reply she got was that the living were few but the dead were many.
(c) The villagers requested her not to remind them of their deepest grief.
(d) After watching the fl ickering and then extinguishing lights of the city she could now relate the fate of men to a similar pattern, their lives fl icker up and are extinguished again.
(e) The word ‘fl icker’ means the same as ‘to keep going on and off as a light shines.’
