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Tick the item which best answers the following.

His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this means


The boy is


(i) full of hope in the future


(ii) mentally ill


(iii) distracted from the lesson

(i) full of hope in the future.

Explanation: The boy was full of hope in his future and has a passionate towards the playing games as described as a squirrel game. His eyes were full of dreams in achieving victory besides the awful and irritating habitat.


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Tick the item which best answers the following.

The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means


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(i) sly and secretive


(ii) thin, hungry and weak


(iii) unpleasant looking

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Tick the item which best answers the following.

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The boy


(i) has an inherited disability


(ii) was short and bony

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Tick the item which best answers the following.

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This means they


(i) are insecure


(ii) are ill-fed


(iii) are wasters

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