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प्रश्न
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mission? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
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उत्तर
No, Bill could never manage to be suave in his ways. He would rise from a dinner table without looking as if he had just experienced “an extremely localized seismic event”. He would get in a car and close the door leaving fourteen inches of coat outside. He would wear light-coloured trousers discovering at the end of the day that he had at various times sat on chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrup and motor oil. He tried to be suave, but it was not to be.
संबंधित प्रश्न
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The last man of this forlorn group
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So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set-----
Or better still, just don't install
The Idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
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They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
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Until they're absolutely drunk
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Read the lines given above and answer the question given below.
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Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
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- Why did the shepherd always carry it?
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What was Tansen famous for?
Why did the crocodile agree to fulfil his wife’s demand?
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Mark the right item.
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Fill in the blank to name a different kind of intelligence. One has been done for you.
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