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Rearrange any four of the following words / phrases to make meaning sentences.

1. that life began / centuries ago / scientists think / twenty


2. endless process / the plants and animals / of evolution/ are the products / of an


3. are / their / animals / products of / all the / environment


4. lose / habitat / human / due to/ their / the animals / encroachment


5. the / habitat / regrowth / rate of / is / very slow / of


1. Scientists think that life began twenty centuries ago.

We start with the segment which contains the main basis of the sentence i.e. ‘scientists think’ followed by ‘that life began’ which further describes their thinking. Then we use ‘twenty’ followed by ‘centuries ago’ that forms a complete and meaningful sentence.


2. The plants and animals are the products of an endless process of evolution.


The sentence starts with ‘the plants and animals’ which are the main subjects of the sentence. This is followed by ‘are the products’ which elaborates on the subject. Then we use ‘of an’ followed by ‘endless process’ and finally ‘of evolution’. The segments follow this order because after ‘an’ the word must be starting with a vowel and evolution is a process so it makes it a meaningful sentence.


3. All the animals are products of their environment.


The first segment is ‘all the’ followed by the subject ‘animals’. Since the last word is plural we use ‘are’ followed by ‘products of’. Then we use ‘their’ because it justifies which ‘environment’ they belong to. This makes it a complete and meaningful sentence.


4. The animals lose their habitat due to human encroachment.


This sentence starts with ‘the animals’ which makes it clear that we are referring to animals which is followed by ‘lose’. To clarify what they have lost, we use ‘their’ followed by ‘habitat’. The reason behind this loss is given by ‘due to’ and then ‘to human encroachment’. It makes it a complete sentence by giving the reason for loss.


5. The rate of re-growth of habitat is very slow.


This sentence talks about ‘the rate of’ followed by ‘re-growth’. Then it states what rate of re-growth is it talking of i.e. ‘of habitat’. It also specifies that it has a very slow rate thereby making it a complete sentence.


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Fill in any four of the following blanks choosing the most appropriate option from the ones given below. Write the answers in your answer – sheet against the correct black numbers.

Delhi (a) _____ the capital of India. People from all parts (b) _____ the capital and world come to visit Delhi. There (c) _____ many historical building here. Last year I, (d) _____ Delhi. I also watched (e) _____ Commonwealth Games 2010.


(a) (i) was (ii) is (iii) are (iv) being


(b) (i) of (ii) from (iii) for (iv) at


(c) (i) being (ii) are (iii) been (iv) were


(d) (i) visit (ii) visiting (iii) visited (v) some


(e) (i) a (ii) an (iii) the (iv) some

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The following paragraph has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the error along with its correction in the space provided. Do any four.

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Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:

When I casually mentioned this to a friend, the casually replied that I had better get one in the Tigris marshes, for there they were as common as mosquitoes, and were often tamed by the Arabs. We were going to Basra to the Consulate – General to collect and answer our mail from Europe. At the Consulate – General we found that my friend’s mail had arrived but that mine had not.


Questions:


(a) What was ‘they’?


(b) Where could the author get ‘one’?


(c) Find the exact word from the extract which means ‘domesticated.’


(d) What did the author find at the Consulate-General?


OR


(There is a languid, emerald sea,


Where the sole inhabitant is me-


A mermaid drifting blissfully.)


Questions:


(a) Who does ‘me’ stand for?


(b) How does ‘me’ feel?


(c) Who is ‘me’ compared to?


(d) Which word in the extract means opposite of ‘’Sorrowfully’?


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Answer any four of the following question in 30-40 words each:

i. How did Kisa Gotami realise that life and death is a normal process?


ii. Why did Maddie write a note to Peggy and tore it?


iii. How can you say that Horace Danby was good and responsible but not completely honest?


iv. What difficulty do the crew of the space probe face on the Earth?


V. What was the most fascinating thing that Valli saw on the street?