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(Prose section-A)

QA.Read the passage carefully and answer the following question 5*2=10
His parents and his brother and his sister had landed on this green flooring ahead of him. They were
beckoning him calling shrilly. He dropped his leg to stand on the green sea. His legs sank into it. He
screamed with fright and attempted to rise again flapping his wings, but he was tired and weak with
hunger, and he could not rise, exhausted by the strange exercise. His feet sank into the green sea,
and then his belly changed it and he sank no farther .He was floating on it and around him his family
was screaming praising him and their beaks were offering him scrap of fish.
Question:
a) What had been called the green flooring?
b) What had the seagull’s parents and brother and sister had done?
c) Why did he screamed with fright?
d) Did the seagull drown in the sea?
e) Find word from the passage which means the same as i)terror ii)tired
B )It was during the meal that just had predicated ,big drop of rain began to fall. In the north east
huge mountain of clouds could be seen approaching .The air was fresh and sweet. The man went out
for no other reason then to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body.
Question:
a)What had Lencho predicted ?
b) What happened at meal time ?
C) what was the change in weather?
d) why did Lencho go out?
e) Name the lesson and it’s author?
Q. Answer in about 100 words. 5
Write a character sketch of Anne Frank?
Or
What was the importance of the baker in the village? What kind of dress he wear?
Q. Answer any three of the following questions . 2*3=6
I) What is Coorg famous for ? what is the best season to visit coorg?
II) Where was the tea first drunk? When did tea come to Europe?
III) Was the pilot of Dakota able to meet the pilot of black aeroplane?
IV) What ideals he set out for the future of South Africa?
V)Why was Lencho angry when he received the letter?
(Poetry section)
Read the stanza, carefully and answer the following questions. 5
Some say the world will end in fire
some say in ice
from what I have tasted of desire.
I hold with those who favour fire.
Question:
I)Name the poem .
a)Dust of snow. B)Fire and ice
C) A tiger in the zoo D)none
II) Name the poet.
a)Leslie Norris b)John Berryman
c)Robert Frost. d)Robin Klein
III)What is ice a symbol of?
a)endless desires. b) cold c) hatred. d)hot
IV)What is a fire symbol of?
a) endless desires. B) hatred. c) cold. D)hot
V) what is the rhyming scheme of this stanza?
a).aaaa b) ababa c) abba d) abaa
Or
If ever you should go by chance
To jungle in the east,
and if there should to you advance
A large and tawny beast
If he roars at you as you’re dyin
You’ll know it is the Asian Lion…….
Question.
I)Where should you go by chance?
II)How does the the animal look?
III)How will the animal react seeing you?
IV)What do you mean by ‘the East’?
V)Name the poem and the poet.
Q.Answer in about 40-50 words. 4
What is the central idea of the poem“Fire and ice”.
Or
Write a brief summary of the poem” the ball poem”.
Q.Answer any two of the following . 2*2=4
I) What are the ideas about how the world will end?
II)How does the tiger walk in the cage?
III)Where was the poet and what happened to him?
(Supplementary Reader)
Q.Answer in about 100 Words. 5
“The Thief’s story” is in depth study of human mind. Discuss.
Or
How did Griffin the scientist become invisible.
Q Answer any three of the following2*3=6 question in about 30 to 40 words each:
I)What was the real disease that Tricki was suffering from?
II) How has Max got in?
III) why did he rob every year? Was he a typical thief? If so, why?
IV)What did Griffin do in the house of the clergyman?
Q. Multiple choice questions.1*10=10
I) which tree did the Crow shake?
A)Mango. B)Apple C)Hemlock. D) Oak
II)Money is an ………….thing.
A)Internal B) External C)Useless D)all of above
III)Which animal has black spots on his hide?
A) Leopard B) Tiger. C)Lion D)Bear
IV)At his surgery the doctor gave Tricki no food for …………. Days.
A) Three. B) Two. C) Five D) four
V)Anil lived in the room on a shop named:
A) Jumna sweet shop B)Ganesh sweet shop
C)Ganga sweet shop. D)Shah sweet shop
VI)Who knocked at Ausable’s door?
A)a police man. B)Max. C)the waiter D)Fowler
Vii)Horace Danby was suffering from:
A)Cold B)Cough C)Hay-fever D)teeth ache
VIII)What name does Anne give to her diary?
A) Margot B)Sanne C)Kitty D)Edith
IX)Which country did the pilot belong to?
A) England. B)France C)India D)Italy
X)What changed Mandela’s life?
A) hunger for power B)hunger for money
C)hunger for family. D)hunger for freedom

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