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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?

(a) Decius had come to Caesar’s palace to fetch him (Caesar) to the senate-house.


(b) Caesar tells him to bear his greetings to the senators and also tell them that he will not come to the senate-house on that day.


(c) The ‘graybeards’ are the old men, the senators whom Caesar was to go and meet on that particular day in the senate house.


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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 /

 8

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?

 9

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?

 10

Patol Babu always remembered the words of his mentor that one has to accept whatever is offered and make the best of any opportunity. Write a letter to a friend telling him about the value of hard work and the art of putting in your best. Write the answer in 80-100 words.