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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

At least, that was what I thought then. Now I knew that Sebastian Shultz, the boy from the game, really did exist. I’d seen the proof in the newspaper.


(a) What had Michael thought earlier?


(b) Why is Sebastian Shultz called ‘the boy from the game’?


(c) What had Michael seen in the newspaper?

(a) Michael had thought that Sebastian Shultz did not exist in real world. It is a part of virtual world i.e. of game.


(b) Sebastian is called ‘the boy from the game’ because he was Michael’s companion in the psycho-drive game. The real Sebastian and the one in the game were actually one person.


(c) According to the article “MIRACLE RECOVERY,” the Sebastian Shultz survived after the comma and this was the same Sebastian with whom Michael had saved the Psycho drive game and even he exist in the real world.


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The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Identify the error and write it along the correction in the answer sheet. The first one has been done for you as an example. Incorrect one Correct some

One morning I finished one business at the bank (a)


and was returning in pick my motorbike which I had left(b)


in the parking lot outside. Suddenly he realized that I had(c)


lost the bike key. Upset I searched about it in the bank. (d)


A bank employee tried to help me find it, and in vain.

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Rearrange the following word phrases to form meaningful sentences. The first one has been done for you.

watching TV/on exercise/while you are/the following ways/The American Council/suggests/to exercise/


The American Council on exercise suggests the following ways to exercise while you are watching TV.


(a) the remote / the channel / to change / get up / from the couch / instead of using /


(b) the room during / Walk up / the stairs / or around / and down / commercial breaks/


(c) a treadmill / use / you watch / while / you can /TV /

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

‘Shall Caesar send a lie?


Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,


To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?


Decius, go and tell them Caesar will not come’.


(a) Why has Decius come to Caesar’s place?


(b) What message does Caesar give him?


(c) Who are the ‘graybeards’ referred to here?

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

(a) Why had Michael and his father gone to the computer fair?


(b) Why does Lavinia feel that the Ouija board would help her husband?


(c) How did the mariners reach the land of ice and snow?


(d) How does Brutus convince the Romans that Caesar deserved his death?


(e) Why does the poet decide to stand and wait till the snake has finished drinking? What


does this tell you about the poet?