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

These meadows aren’t worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can’t stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can’t stand unfairness.

A. Who speaks the above lines and to whom?

B. How much are the meadows worth?

C. Find a word in the extract that means ‘not based on what is just.’

The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line against which a blank has been given. Write the error and the correction in your answer sheet against the correct blank number as given in the example. Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.

Rearrange the jumbled words and phrases into meaningful sentences. The first one has been done as an example.

Example: in / the cactus / very hot, / grows / dry places

The cactus grows in very hot, dry places.

A. do not/leaves/have/they/but/spiny needles

B. flowers/and/bloom/some of them/cacti/at night/are big

C. absorb/from fog/water/in the air/cacti can

I even considered fleeing to my hometown, where I could have been a real lawyer right away, without going through this unpleasant training period.

A. Who is ‘I’?

B. How did ‘I’ suffer during the training period?

C. What does the word, ‘fleeing’ mean?

Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each:

A. How did Valli react when she saw the dead cow by the roadside?

B. What legends are associated with the origin of tea?

C. What does Noodle tell Think-Tank about the books?

D. Why did Matilda not want to see her rich friends?