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 ) __________

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.

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.

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?

Answer the following questions in 80-100 words each.

(i) Tao Ying always tried to save money. What were her reasons for buying two tickets?

(ii) The poem is replete with shadows giving different shades to it. What is the idea behind this?

(iii) The presence of Manjula's sister could be felt everywhere although she never appears. Build Malini’s character on the basis of the comments and references.