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In the paragraph 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. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.


(i) Movies a different impact on people


Word before: movies


Missing word: create


Word after: A


The sentence I talking about the impact of movies on people. So, ‘create’ is the correct form of the verb to be used in the sentence. This is because ‘movies’ is plural and hence will take a plural verb.


(ii) Viewers spend 3 hours the


Word before: hours


Missing word: in


Word after: the


The sentence is talking about viewers spending 3 hours somewhere. So, the correct form of the preposition to be used is ‘in’.


(iii) Cinema hall. And they come out


Word before: and


Missing word: when


Word after: they


The sentence is talking about the reaction of the viewer’s when they come out of the cinema hall. So, ‘when’ should be used.


(iv) Their minds often blank. They


Word before: minds


Missing word: are


Word after: often


‘Are’ is the correct form of the verb to be used in the sentence. This is because the sentence is talking about the state of mind of the viewer’s when they come out of the cinema hall.


(v) Don’t even remember they saw


Word before: remember


Missing word: what


Word after: they


‘What’ is the correct form of connector to be used in the sentence to make it grammatically and contextually correct


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(i) You are Sumant /Sumedha of Aryan Public School, Mathura. Write a speech to be delivered in morning assembly by the head boy/girl on “Importance of Self Discipline in Student’s life in about 80 -100 words.

(ii) You are Sumant /Sumedha of 186-E, Ekta Apartment, Jaisalmer. Write an article to be printed in local Newspaper on “Cleanliness is a Habit Reflected by the City” in about 80-100 words.


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You are Arpit /Arpita of Tejaswi Public School, Udaipur. You observed that small children who should be going to school are engaged in begging at different traffic signals in your city. Spread a message against such inhuman conditions which deprive these kids of their innocent childhood. Write an article on Beggary: a stigma on society in about 150-200 words.

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You are Nirwan /Nisha of B.P.L. Public School, Patna. Write a debate in favour or against the motion on ‘Mobile should be allowed in Educational Institutes’ in about 150-200 words.


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Read the conversation given below and complete the paragraph that follows.

Man: Don’t hand me over to the police. Was not born a thief but circumstance forced me to become one. I was left an orphan when I was only four years old.


Priest: Will you promise not to steal again?


Man: Certainly I will never steal again.


The man requested the priest (i)__________. He added that he was not born a thief but circumstances (ii)______________. He further said that (iii)____________only four years old. The priest asked him if (iv)____________. The man promised (v ) __________


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Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions, that follow, in 50-60 words each:

(I) “I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night”, she said “you must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years”


(i) Who is the speaker? Why did she come there?


(ii) What suggestion was given by the speaker to the narrator?


(II) Could I survive within me


Her symphony and song,


To such a deep delight, twould win me,


That with music loud and long,


I would build that dome in air,


That sunny dome! those caves of ice!


(i) What does the poet wish about the song?


(ii) What can the poet achieve through music and how?


(III) Prakriti "There has been a curse upon me all my life. Poison kills poison, they say-so one curse another. Not another word".


i. Name the other character Prakriti is talking to and Why?


ii. What curse she has faced throughout her life?