Rearrange the following words / phrases to form meaningful sentences:

(a) more than / are child workers / the Indian population / five per cent of /

(b) engaged / in agriculture / tens of thousands / are chiefly /

(c) work / in urban areas / many/of industries / in a variety /

Complete the paragraph given below by filling in the blanks with one word only with the help of options that follow:

While peeling the sweet lime and oranges (a)……… careful so that the segments are not mashed.

The lettuce leaves are (b)……… into pieces.

They are kept in ice-cold water (c)………ten minutes.

(a) (i) was (ii) is (iii) be (iv) will

(b) (i) broken (ii) break (iii) breaks (iv) broke

(c) (i) with (ii) for (iii) on (iv) during

In the following passage, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing words along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after in your answer sheet against the correct blank number.

(a) The days global warming a very hot

(b) topic, seeing as the earth grows hotter each passing

(c) year. The effect of man’s industrialization quietly

(d) yet continuously eked away at the delicate balance the

(e) planet’s atmosphere and ecosystem, but within last

(f) 30 years the damage markedly increased.

(g) The cruel perspective of global warming a phenomenon

(h) of increase the average temperature of an atmosphere.

Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:

“……. its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.

(a) What do “lifeless things” refer to?

(b) How do we know that he was a good sculptor?

(c) How did the heart feed the passions?

Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:

“I hadn’t the shade of an idea, but at the time that didn’t worry me in the least. You see, 1 had often been like that before “

(a) Who is ‘I’? What did he not have an idea about?

(b) Why was he not worried?

(c) What had actually happened earlier to make things right for him?