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Complete the passage given below by choosing the correct alternatives from those given. 3

Looking over the books I bought last year, it is difficult (a)………… pick out books that are ‘the best’. I generally (b) ………….. four or five books going (c) a time, with several shelves of unread ones and I might drop (d) …………… all to pick up an old favourite which suits my mood. I still buy children’s books (e)…………… myself. Beyond Enid Blyton and J.K. Rowling that seem to dominate children’s reading lists, (f) ………………


(a) (i) at (ii) to (iii) in (iv) for


(b) (i) are (ii) had (iii) have (iv) am


(c) (i) for (ii) from. (iii) at (iv) in


(d) (i) these (ii) them (iii) it (iv) some


(e) (i) to (ii) for (iii) by (iv) from


(f) (i) these (ii) where (iii) there (iv) here

(a) (ii) to (connecting word)


(b) (iii) have (used in present tense)


(c) (iii) at (specify place)


(d) (ii) them (to refer books)


(e) (ii) for (connecting word with person)


(f) (iii) there (a particular area)


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Complete the passage given below by choosing the correct alternatives. 3

The argument is that computers are (a) ……….us into lazy writers, ruining our spelling and grammar and reducing our attention (b)……………..It is also said that we are losing our social skills and (c) ……………. a communication crisis. Yet one thing is undeniable. Social


networking sites, blogs, and e-mail (d)…………….. improving our ability to reach (e)………………… to our fellow men. In fact, technology is (f)…………. killing our ability to write.


(a) (i) making (ii) turn (iii) turning (iv) taking


(b) (i) drive (ii) speed (iii) now (iv) span


(c) (i) having (ii) facing (iii) seeing (iv) suffering


(d) (i) have (ii) are (iii) was (iv) is


(e) (i) away (ii) in (iii) out (iv) on


(f) (i) only (ii) surely (iii) now (iv) not

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

(a) Under what condition does Brutus allow Mark Antony to make the funeral speech?


(b) How does Jyoti explain the crucial shot to PatolBabu?


(c) Why did Michael and his father go to the computer fair? What did they buy?


(d) Why couldn’t the wedding guest attend the wedding?


(e) Bring out the irony in the poem ‘Ozymandias’.

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Very often parents interfere in the choice of career of their children. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in about 100-120 words justifying that students should be given the opportunity to choose their own career. You are Peeyusty Preeti living at 19, Krishna Colony, Delhi. 5

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Answer any four of the following in 30-40 words each. 8

(a) Why did Metellus Cimber kneel before Caesar?


(b) Why was John not worried when Jenkins asked him for a ghost story?


(c) How does D.H. Lawrence describe the snake as it drank from the water-trough?


(d) Describe the circumstances under which the mariner reached the South Pole?


(e) Bring out the irony in the poem ‘Ozymandias’.