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

Kisa Gotami became weary and hopeless, and sat down at the wayside watching the lights of the .city, as they flickered up and were extinguished again. At last the darkness of the night reigned everywhere. And she considered the fate of men, that their lives flicker up and are extinguished again.


(i) Why did Kisa Goutami lose all hope?


(ii) Why did she sit down at the wayside?


(iii) What did she realize about the fate of men?


(iv) Which word/phrase in the passage means the same as “put out”?

(i) Kisa Goutami felt weary and hopeless at the thought of how the lives of men flicker at one moment and are extinguished at the very next moment. The uncertainty of human life makes her feel lost.

(ii) Kisa Goutami sat down at the wayside to watch the lights of the city, as they flickered up and were extinguished again. She sat to watch the darkness reigning everywhere.


(iii) While watching the flickering and simultaneous extinguishing of city lights, Kisa Goutami realized the fate of men who are doomed to an inevitable darkness. The lives of men too, flicker up and are extinguished in the very next moment.


(iv)The word/phrase in the passage which means the same as “put out” is “extinguished”. In the extract, he city lights are describes to be flickering up and extinguishing at the very next instance.


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11

Read the following dialogue between a child and God. Complete the dialogue by filling in the gaps appropriately.

Child: How am I going to live on Earth being so small and helpless?


God: I have chosen for you an angel. She will be waiting for you and take care of you.


Child: Please tell me my angel’s name.


God: It is of no importance, you will call your angel: Mummy.


A child asked God (a) ______ on Earth being so small and helpless. God told him that she had chosen for him an angel who (b) _______and take care of him. The child then requested God (c) ______ name. God told him that it was of no importance, he would call her angel, “Mummy”.

 12

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

"Do you know that over eighty crore cups of tea are drunk every day throughout the world ?" Rajvir said.


"Whew!" exclaimed Pranjol. ''Tea really is very popular."


The train pulled out of the station. Pranjol buried his nose in his detective book again. Rajvir too was an ardent fan of detective stories, but at the moment he was keener on looking at the beautiful scenery..


(i) What shows the popularity of tea in the world?


(ii) Who liked the detective stories?
(iii) What was Rajvir looking at?


(iv) Which word/phrase in the passage means the same as passionate?

 13

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate options. Attempt any two:

(A) Pistol in his left hand, pistol in his right hand, and he held in his teeth a cutlass bright, His beard was black, one leg was wood;


It was clear that the pirate meant no good.


(a) The word “he" in the second line refers to ____


(i) Belinda


(ii) the pirate


(iii)Custard


(iv) Mustard


(b) The man is equipped with ____


(i) a pistol in his right hand


(ii) a bright sword in his teeth


(iii) a pistol in his left hand


(iv)all of the above


(c) The description shows that his intention was ___


(i) bad


(ii) good


(iii) to help


(iv) to support

 13

I sit inside, doors open to the veranda writing long letters in which I scarcely mention the departure of the forest from the house.

(a) ‘I’ in the above lines is _____


(i) the poet


(ii) a young man


(iii) a young woman


(iv) a boy


(b) He is sitting at a place where he could see ____


(i) the trees


(ii) the veranda


(iii) the inside of the room


(iv) all of the above


(c) The trees are moving ____


(i) inside


(ii) outside


(iii) nowhere


(iv) upward