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प्रश्न
Give reasons for the following statement.
The author was disappointed with Darchen.
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उत्तर
It was dark already when the author and Tsetan reached Darchen. They pulled up in a guest house and it turned out to be another troubled night. The author's blocked nostril had been causing much inconvenience. Though he tried to get accustomed to breathing by single nostril, it was not providing him with enough oxygen. Tired, he started breathing through mouth. There was some difficulty in his chest and received a sinus attack and so he sat up the night. The next day on visiting the local medical college, the author was a bit relieved. The medicines the doctor gave were helpful and that night he had a sound sleep.
Few days passed, the author was roaming the town. The life seemed mundane and no visitors or pilgrims were at the sight. The few rudimentary general stores were selling Chinese cigarettes, soap and other basic provisions and the prayer fags. Few gathered men played pool at a battered table while near by women washed their hair in the icy water. This all was not exactly what the author had expected. He was told that in the season of Korathere lot of pilgrims visiting. All this came as a significant drawback to the author. It seemed that he had arrived a bit too early. It all disappointed the author.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Answer any four of the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) Why was the peddler amused at the idea of the world being a rattrap?
(b) Why did Gandhiji agree to a settlement of mere 25 percent?
(c) Aunt Jennifer's efforts to get rid of her fear proved to be futile. Comment.
(d) What does Stephen Spender want to be done for the children of the school in a slum?
(e) How did the ten-day-old baby (the future Tiger King) react to the prediction about his future made by the astrologers?
(f) Why was Dr. Sadao not sent abroad along with the troops?
Read the extract and do the activities that follow:
The duke senior and his follower were sitting down to a meal one day when Orlando rushed out from among the trees, his sword in his hand. ‘Stop, and cat no more!’ he cried. The Duke and his friends asked him what he wanted.
‘Food,’ said Orlando. ‘I am almost dying of hunger’. They asked him to sit down and eat, but he would not do so. He told them that his old servant was in the woods, dying of hunger. ‘I will not eat a bite until he has been fed,’ Orlando said.
So the good Duke and his followers helped him to bring Adam to their hiding-place, and Orlando and the old man were fed and taken care of. When the Duke learned that Orlando was a son of his old friend sir Rowland de Boys, he welcomed him gladly to his forest court.
Orlando lived happily with the Duke and his friends, but he had not forgotten the lovely Rosalind. She was always in his thoughts andevery day he wrote poetry about her pinning it on the trees in the forest. ‘These trees shall be my books,’ he said, ‘so that everyone who looks in the forest will be able to read how sweet and good Rosalind is’.
Rosalind and Celia found some of these poems pinned on the trees. At first they were puzzled, wondering who could have written them; but one day Celia came in from a walk with the news that she had seen Orlando sleeping under a tree, and she and Rosalind guessed that he must be the poet. Rosalind was happy to think that Orlando had not forggoten her, because she loved him as much as he loved her.
A1. Complete - (2)
Complete the following sentences:
(i) Rosalind was happy to think _______
(ii) The Duke and his followers helped Orlando to bring _________
(iii) Orlando pinned the poems written about Rosalind on ______
(iv) When the Duke cam to know that Orlando was a son of his old friend, he _________
A2. Write a gist: (2)
Write a gist of the above given extract in about 50 words.
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(a) crushing/destructive (pars 1)
(b) used to (pare 2)
(c) searching (pare 4)
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Briefly explain the following statement from the text.
Gangadharpant could not help comparing the country he knew with what he was witnessing around him.
Briefly explain the following statement from the text.
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The episode has been narrated in a light vein. What social mores does the author seem to ridicule?
Examine the communication channels in the story between Paul's mother and his uncle.
Identify some of the improbable images the author has used to effect greater humour.
Why do you think the poet has used so many 'negatives' to make his statement?
What is the emphasis placed by Ruskin on accuracy?
Notice these expressions in the poem and guess their meaning from the context:
| rancid breath | squelching tar |
| spectroscopic flight of fancy | |
| rearing on the thunderclap | brunette |
| peroxide blonde | clinical assent |
| raven black |
Why does the poet prefer to be a primitive Pagan rather than a member of civilised society?
Answer in your own words.
How did Revathi prove to the organisers of the competition, that the plants truly belonged to her?
Add the appropriate Prefix to make the following word opposite in meaning.
continue
Go through the text again and find the reasons that forced Peter to shoot down a person.
- The keepers spotted him.
- _________________________
- _________________________
Find evidence from the lesson and write in your own words.
In Israel, the media have a positive outlook and self-respect.
Think and answer in your own words.
Which line proves that in our busy lives we do not even have a fraction of a second to enjoy nature’s beauty?
Go through the poem and state whether the following statement is true or false.
Planners plan to construct buildings wherever they find a place.
Expand the idea inherent in the following proverb :
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Shelley
Discuss the following questions after you have seen a presentation of the ‘ad’.
Can you become fair in five days? How long will the effect of the cream last?
Write a conversation between a donkey and a horse.
Find four words ending with ‘-ous’ from the story.
Can you add three more words ending with ‘-ous’ to this list?
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage:
For six years did Gautama practise ____________.
What does the poet want to do?
List the various things that the Lethargarians do or want to do. Can you sum up all of it in one word or phrase?
Answer in your own words.
Why does a mother tell Neel about his Grandpa?
Find the words that mean the following from the first stanza.
- Gold hammered into a flat, thin shape: ______
- show off proudly: ______
- tilt, move at an angle: ______
- across, especially in a slanting direction: ______
Often the brook speaks of itself as if it is human.
For example, 'I bicker down a valley.'
Find two other examples of the human activities of the brook.
Which season would you say is the hardest in your locality? What help would the poor and homeless people need in that season?
List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
You should try to talk most of the time whenever there is a discussion.
List the polite expressions we use such as ‘Pardon’.
Look at the speaker in each picture. Say whether each one is a good speaker. Give reasons for your answer.
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Do you agree with the poet’s thoughts? Why?
What is a website?
Have you ever been on an adventurous journey? If yes, share your experience.
Read the line and answer the question.
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying
Why does the poet ask for a windy day?
What did mother ask Raj to buy?
Work in pair, find answer for the question and share in the class.
Which word refers to ‘rain’?.
How did Santhosh spend his time in the river?
What is Amar Jawan Jyoti?
Which place was the last stand of the Indian army?
What does it sing?
Write the rhyming word.
Nature - ______.
The bird catcher’s clothes were dry.
The pigeon flew away for dry twigs.
How did he win the match?
The official visited the rehabilitation centre daily.
Find and write the clues.
Clue for the load on the camel ______
Try your own.
Choose the correct one.
Elephant
Match the rhyming words.
| strokes | floor |
| shore | rush |
| brush | chokes |
What happen to a child who shuts his ears?
What are the details not to be revealed in public domain?
Bertha was very good but very proud too.
Read the following sentence.
‘A very wise man once remarked that of the unspoken word, you are a master; of the spoken word, you are a slave.’
The sentence has two pairs of opposites - spoken and unspoken, and master and slave. The contrasting ideas make the sentence more effective. Putting together opposite or contrasting ideas in one sentence is a literary device. It is called antithesis.
Read the following examples of antithesis.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
- Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
