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

It all started a month ago. Dad and I had spent the entire Saturday afternoon at the Computer Fair.

(a) Who does I in the extract refer to?

(b) What started a month ago?

(c) What does the speaker have a keen interest in?

In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each marked line. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined. The first one is done as an example.

Kite flying was a popular sport that time

e.g. sport at that

and while the girls knitted and sewed

we boys climbed over the roofs enter

(a) —- —— ——-

the competition. We limited pocket money

(b) —- —— ——-

and was not enough to buy all the

(c) —- —— ——-

material needed make our kites.

(d) —- —— ——-

Rearrange the following words and phrases to form meaningful sentences:

(a) one of / that of reading / known to / is / greatest / the / pleasures / man /

(b) a rich variety / adventure and wisdom / the / world of books / has / of /

(c) own / you / book / convenience / can enjoy / a / at your /

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

Good countrymen, let me depart alone,

And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:

(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines.

(b) When and where were the above lines spoken?

(c) Bring out the irony in the above extract.

Answer any four the following questions in 30-40 words each:

(a) Why did John’s wife get angry with him? What did she decide to do?

(b) Why did the poet throw the log at the snake?

(c) How did nature foretell Caesar’s death?

(d) How did the Albatross save the mariners from the land of ice and snow?

(e) Why did Mr. Mullick turn down Patol Babu’s request for a rehearsal?