In the passage 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 in your answer sheet. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined. The first one has been done as an example for you:

Write a story in about 150-200 words beginning with the following:

You are sitting with your friends on a log near a stream. One of your friends looks up at the sky and says ______

Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below. Write the answer in your answer sheet against the correct blanks. Do not copy the whole passage.

Thinking negatively will get negative results because your thoughts create a negative atmosphere which is hospitable (a) ____negative results. On the contrary, (b) ____ thinking positively you can create a positive atmosphere which makes positive results a certainty. To cultivate positive thinking, you should speak hopefully (c) _____ everything.

(a) (i) of (ii) on (iii) to (iv) in

(b) (i) at (ii) by (iii) on (iv) of

(c) (i) among (ii) over (iii) across (iv) about

Rearrange the following words / phrases to form meaningful sentences:

1. 12,000 species / all over / there are / of ants / the world / more than

2. or groups / who live in / social insects / they are/ small colonies

3. of millions / ant colonies / of ants / can consist

Read the extract and answer the following questions briefly:

And I had done a hellish thing,

And it would work’em woe;

For all averred, I had killed the bird

That made the breeze to blow.

(a) What ‘hellish thing’ had ‘I’ done?

(b) What made the other mariners contradict themselves?

(c) Explain the meaning of ‘averred’.