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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?

A. ‘I’ is a junior assistant clerk in a very good law firm.

B. ‘I’ didn’t prepare legal briefs but had to serve summons during the training period. He had to seek people from the shadowy parts of the city and was even beaten up sometimes.


C. The word ‘fleeing’ means to run away from something.


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7

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

 7

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.’

 9

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?

 10

Answer the following question in 80-100 words:

“The life of mortals in this world is troubled and brief and combined with pain.....” With this statement of the Buddha, find out the moral value that Kisa Gotami learnt after the death of her child.