Q3 of 24 Page 1

Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that


follows.


Beena: Mini, where were you yesterday?


Mini: I went to see the book fair.


Beena: Why didn’t you tell me before going? I also wanted to go.


Mini: I am sorry. I did not know that.


Beena asked Mini where _______(i) . Mini replied that ____(ii) . Beena ____(iii)___ because ___(iv) _____ Mini felt sorry and said that ____(v) .



Beena asked Mini where __(i) she had been the day before . Mini replied that __(ii) she had gone to see the book fair . Beena (iii) asked her why she didn’t tell her before going because (iv) she too wanted to go. Mini felt sorry and said that (v) she did not know that.






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(a) (i) Prepare a speech in 80 - 100 words on the topic, ‘Only hard work pays in life’.

(ii) ‘Indian Railways is one of the largest public sector enterprises in


India. The condition of our railway stations and our trains is not world class. Write an article in 80 - 100 words on ‘How can we improve our railway system’?


(b) Write a debate in 150 - 200 words either for or against the topic, ‘Heavy school bags are a physical as well as mental burden’.


OR


We believe that rivers are holy and yet we pollute them. Individuals, industry and even government agencies are responsible for this pollution. Write an article in 150 - 200 words on ‘River Pollution’.


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The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one word missing in each line. Write the missing word along with the words that come before and after. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.











































































Word before



Missing word



Word after



Now that Ram the blue



Ram



has



the



Umbrella - a gift Bina, as



he tells everyone - he often



(ii)



asked to go out into sun,



(iii)



or the rain, and a result



(iv)



he looks much better. uses



(v)



the umbrella chase away



(vi)



pigs or goats. It always



(vii)



left open outside shop



(viii)



and anyone wants to



(ix)



borrow it have it.



(x)



 4

Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions


that follow in 50 - 60 words each:


(I) How well she remembered the first time she had seen him; he was lodging in a house on the main road where she used to visit. It seemed a few weeks ago.


(i) Who are ‘she’ and ‘he’? What did ‘she’ rememberabouttheir


first meeting?


(ii) What had happened during the last few weeks?


(II) As the first were made to blind others; these which came behind will work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes. If our loves faint, and westwardly decline;


To me thou, falsely thine;


And I to thee mine actions shall disguise.


(i) What does the poet mean by ‘the first’? How are ‘the first’


different from those which come behind?


(ii) What happens when the loves decline westwardly?


(III) Only once did he cup his hands, to take the water from mine. Such a little water, yet that water grew to a fathomless, boundless sea. In it flowed all the seven seas in one, and my caste was drowned, and my birth washed clean.


(i) Who is talking to whom? Which event is the speaker referring to?


(ii) What effect did it have on the speaker?



 4

Answer any two of the following questions in 80 - 100 words each:

(i) What happened, when the narrator in ‘I Cell my Dreams’ washaving breakfast on the terrace of Riviera Hotel?


(ii) What did the people of Golebrook observe in Hagberd?


(iii) Describe the pleasure dome Kubla Khan ordered to be built in Xanadu.