Q. 11. The underlined words in the following passage have been used inappropriately. Replace them with their appropriate forms. Write your answers in your answer sheet with correct numbers. Do not copy the whole passage. 1/2 x 4=2
Food is necessary for children to grow and be (a) health. Their needs for food differ (b) wide from those of adults. Proper nutrition at the (c) rightly time is responsible for good mental, physical and emotional health. A child needs a (d) balance diet to prevent problems like obesity.
Ans. (a) healthy (b) widely (c) right (d) balanced.
SECTION D—Literature 45
Q. 12. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. 5
One of the employees, who was a postman and also helped at the post offi ce, went to his boss laughing heartily and showed him the letter to God. Never in his career as a postman had he known that address. The postmaster—a fat, amiable fellow—also broke out laughing, but almost immediately he turned serious and, tapping the letter on his desk, commented, “What faith! I wish I had the faith of the man who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God!”
(a) Why did the postman laugh heartily? 1
(b) Which address had the postman never known? 1
(c) What type of man was the postmaster? 1
(d) Why did the postmaster become serious all of a sudden? 1
(e) Which word in the passage means the same as ‘letter-writing’? 1
Ans. (a) The postman laughed heartily on seeing a letter addressed to ‘God’.
(b) The postman had never known God’s address.
(c) The postmaster was a fat and amiable fellow.
(d) On refl ecting upon the writer’s immense faith in God the postmaster, all of a sudden became serious.
(e) The word ‘correspondence’ in the passage means the same as ‘letter-writing’.
Q. 13. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow. Write the answers in your answer sheet in one or two lines only. Remember to number the answers correctly. 5
The first period was a study period. Maddie tried to prepare her lessons, but she could not put her mind on her work. She had a very sick feeling in the bottom of her stomach. True, she had not enjoyed listening to Peggy ask Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet, but she had said nothing. She had stood by silently, and that was just as bad as what Peggy had done. Worse. She was a coward. At least Peggy hadn’t considered they were being mean but she, Maddie, had thought they were doing wrong. She could put herself in Wanda’s shoes.
(a) Why could Maddie not prepare her lessons? 1
(b) What had Peggy asked Wanda. 1
(c) What was her cowardly act? 1
(d) How was Maddie’s attitude towards Wanda different from that of Peggy? 1
(e) Which word or phrase in the passage means the same as ‘pay attention to’? 1
Ans. (a) Maddie could not prepare her lessons because she could not put her mind on her work as she was thinking about what Peggy had said to Wanda.
(b) Peggy had asked Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet. (c) Her cowardly act was to stand by silently.
(d) Maddie had thought they were doing wrong with Wanda and Peggy had not considered that they were being mean.
(e) The phrase ‘put her mind’ means the same as ‘pay attention to’.
