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
Renuka : Our new servant has a tendency to steal things.
Anand : Oh ! Is anything missing again?
Renuka : Yes, he has stolen one of my new saris and the gold watch which you presented me on our anniversary.
Renuka told her husband Anand that (a) _________ . Anand expressed surprise and asked (b) _________ . She replied that there was and said (c) _________ and the gold watch which (d) _________ their anniversary.
Ans. (a) their new servant had a tendency to steal things.
(b) if anything was missing again.
(c) that he had stolen one of her new saris
(d) he had presented her on
SECTION D - Textbooks (45)
Q.10. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 5
I finished my poem, and it was beautiful! It was about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings who were bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much. Luckily, Mr. Keesing took the joke the right way. He read the poem to the class, adding his own comments, and to several other classes as well. Since then I’ve been allowed to talk and haven’t been assigned any extra homework. On the contrary, Mr. Keesing’s always making jokes these days.
(a) Who wrote the poem? 1
(b) What did the father swan do to the ducklings and why? 2
(c) How did Mr. Keesing’s taking the joke in the right way affect Anne? 1
(d) Find out the phrase from the passage which means the same as ‘on the other hand’. 1
Ans. (a) Anne Frank wrote the poem.
(b) The father swan bit his ducklings to death because they quacked too much.
(c) Mr. Keesing took the joke in the right way and after that Anne was allowed to talk.
(d) The phrase ‘on the contrary’ means the same as ‘on the other hand’.
Q.11. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 5
His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green fl ooring ahead of him. They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly. He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it. He screamed with fright and attempted to rise again fl apping his wings. But he was tired and weak with hunger and he could not rise, exhausted by the strange exercise. His feet sank into the green sea, and then his belly touched it and he sank no farther. He was fl oating on it, and around him his family was screaming, praising him and their beaks were offering him scraps of dog-fish.
