You are Hardik or Hina, staying at 101, Green Park, Hisar, Haryana.

Write a letter in about 100 words, to your grandfather greeting him on his birthday mentioning at least two of his qualities or principles which you have learnt from his life and that you feel proud of having such a noble grandpa.

Read the poem given below and choose the most appropriate answer to complete each sentence out of the options that follow:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

(a) The poem talks about a place where____

(i) there is peace and harmony

(ii) people live in fear

(iii) people fight with one another

(iv) there is no freedom

(b) 'Knowledge is free' means _

(i) education for all

(ii) education free of cost

(iii) education for the rich

(iv) education for the poor

(c) The phrase, 'narrow domestic walls' refers to ____

(i) houses with narrow walls

(ii) divisions of the world

(iii) country divided on the lines of caste and religion

(iv) thin walls of a house

(d) The people of this country should be guided by _

(i) logic

(ii) traditions

(iii) habits

(iv) customs

(e) Who is being addressed in this poem?

(i) People

(ii) Poet

(iii) God

(iv) Country

Read the passage given below:

One day a rich father took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to .show him how .poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, ''How was the trip ?" ''Very good, Dad!". "Did you see how poor people can be? The father asked. ''Yeah!" "And what did you learn”?

The son answered, "I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden, they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden, they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon."

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless.

His son added, "Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are!" Isn't it true that it all depends on the way you look at things? If you have love, friends, family, health, good humour and a positive attitude towards life, you've got everything!

You can't buy any of these things. You can have all the material possessions you can imagine, but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing!

Complete the following sentences based on your reading of the passage above in your own words.

(a) In the eyes of the boy ……… were poor.

(b) The author's purpose in the passage is to show that …………..

(c) The father took his son on a trip to the country because ……………

(d) The boy's father was speechless because…………..

(e) The word in the passage which means the same as 'a short journey' is …………………

You are Akash or Akanksha, resident of Sector 13-A/231, Dwarka, N.Delhi. Write a letter in about 100 words to the Health Officer, Najafgarh Zone, N.Delhi, requesting- biro to open a new dispensary in your locality. Give at least two reasons for the same, using the hints given below.

(Hints: newly developed sector, rising population, no dispensary, private clinics expensive)

You are Meenakshi or Manoj, the Head Girl I Head Boy of your school.

You have to speak in a debate in support of the topic, 'Country life is better than life in the city'. You can use the hints given below. Write the debate in about 120 words.

Hints:

Country life - people peaceful life, fresh air, green fields around, helpful

City life - noise and air pollution, streets and roads always overcrowded, people in a hurry, no peace