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Q. 11. Use the information in the headlines to complete the news items given below. Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers. Do not copy the whole sentences. 1×4=4
(a) PEOPLE WADE THROUGH CHEST DEEP WATER AFTER DELUGE IN MUMBAI
People in Mumbai (a) ........................................ after continuously heavy rains.
(b) VEGETABLES AND FRUITS COST MORE
The prices of vegetables and fruits (b) ........................................ .
(c) UNLIT STREETS GIVE RISE TO CRIME
Due to lack of proper street lights (c) ........................................ .
(d) NEW TEXT BOOKS FROM 2009
New text books (d) ........................................ .

Ans. (a) had to wade through chest deep water (b) have risen. (c) crime has risen. (d) will be introduced from 2009.

SECTION D (LITERATURE)

Q. 12. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write each answer in in one or two lines only. 3
and they sat around
on the floor with my mother in the centre,
the peace of understanding on each face.
(a) Why was mother lying on the floor? 1
(b) Explain: ‘the peace of understanding on each face’. 2

Ans. (a) Mother was lying on the floor because she had been stung by a scorpion.
(b) The peasants firmly believed that one’s sufferings purified one’s past sins. So, their faces had an expression of ‘understanding’ as the mother underwent her share of suffering and agony to purify her past sins.

Q. 13. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write each answer in one or two lines only. 3
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, How wherefore
stopp’st thou me?’
(a) Whom did the mariner stop? 1
(b) Why did he stop him? 1
(c) How did the mariner look? 1

Ans. (a) The mariner stopped one of the wedding guests.
(b) He stopped him to relate his story to him. This incident had been plaguing the mariner ever since it had happened.
(c) The mariner looked old with a long grey beard and sparkling eyes.

Or

I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Ans. (a) ‘I’ is the mirror.
(b) It has been looking at the opposite wall.
(c) Faces during the day and darkness during night separate the mirror and the wall over and over again.

English Communicative 2009 Question Papers Class X
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