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प्रश्न
Discuss with your partner and choose the correct alternative.
A system where the government is elected and ruled by people is called - ________________.
विकल्प
Bureaucracy
Aristocracy
Democracy
Autocracy
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उत्तर
A system where the government is elected and ruled by people is called - Democracy.
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Write an original short story in which two children and their Grandfather are the main characters.
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What do you think is the message of the poem?
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Who is reminded of his past? Why?
There's nobody on the house-tops now...
Just a palsied few at the windows set;
For the best of the sight is, all allow,
At the Shambles' Gate-or, better yet,
By the very scaffold's foot, I trow.
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Distinguish between the following pairs of sentences.
Green and black stripes were used alternately.
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| 5. centre | ______ |
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The most difficult task of maintaining the hold on Tiger Hill was achieved in this way:
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Why...
Where...
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