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प्रश्न
What did Aunt Jane like about Jack’s ‘little nest’?
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उत्तर
Aunt Jane liked the furniture, the car, the piano, the refrigerator, and the radio in the house.
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Read the following extract and answer the questions given below :
They whisper like drizzle
as they roam the streets
with a lost gaze as though
something they had thrown up
never returned to earth.
They shiver like December nights
in their dreamless sleep
on shop verandahs.
(1) Why do the old women in this extract roam the streets?
(2) What would you like to do for the betterment of the old people?
(3) Find out an example of 'onomatopoeia' from the first stanza of the extract.
(4) Pick out the expressions from the extract showing the sad situation of the old women.
Later, too, the old man uses the expression famous victory? Why?
Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
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Me? "....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.
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He had plenty of wealth but he was not happy.
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(ii)Asian art tries to capture the essence of inner life and spirit.
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smile |
grin |
grimace |
sneer |
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As they flew ______ the tree they were trapped.
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| dis ______ in______ |
| respect | |
| able | |
| efficient | |
| own | |
| capable | |
| secure |
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