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प्रश्न
Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against the following sentence.
The king lost his temper easily.
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उत्तर
This statement is true.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Thinking about the Poem
What should we do to make friends with the wind?
What does he plant who plants a tree? a
He plants a friend of sun and sky;b
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high;
He plants a home to heaven anigh;
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard____
The treble of heaven's harmony_____
These things he plants who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
"My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
And he was forced to fly;
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
"With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then,
And new-born baby died;
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory;
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Explain the lines:
“With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,’
There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. 1 will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward. But let us hope that the hostilities between us may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What does Chief Seattle tell about the condition of his people earlier?
What do you think of Antonio and of Shylock 1vi' regard to the signing of the bond?
“...Mr. Purcell heard it no more than he would have heard the monotonous ticking of a familiar clock.” (Read para beginning with “It was a rough day...”)
(i)What does ‘it’ refer to?
(ii) Why does Mr. Purcell not hear ‘it’ clearly?
Whose advice did the king finally think of seeking?
Plan C was success. What went wrong then?
Make noun from the word given below by adding –ness, ity, ty or y
honest ___________.
Make noun from the word given below by adding –ness, ity, ty or y
Sad ___________.
Why did the Dog decide to lose his freedom?
What does he want to know about his teacher? Why?
What is meant by a ‘game of chance’? What lesson did the narrator learn from his experience at the fair?
Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.
courtier
"Since I don’t know when" suggests ...
Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box.
| how, what, when, where, which |
You don’t know the way to my school. Ask the policeman ______ to get there.
Why did the author visit the shop so infrequently?
In each of the following words ‘ch’ represents the same consonant sound as in ‘chair’. The words on the left have this sound initially. Those on the right have it finally. Speak each word clearly.
choose bench
child march
cheese peach
chair wretch
charming research
Underline the letters representing this sound in each of the following words.
- feature
- reaching
- riches
- archery
- nature
- batch
- picture
- matches
- church
In the poem “Birches,” the poet observes that the birches are bent because ______.
The Medicine Bag traces the narrator’s attitude to his Sioux Grandfather, from mild embarrassment to appreciation. Summarise the reasons for this embarrassment and the change. Write your answer in 100-150 words incorporating the following details.
- Reasons for embarrassment
- Specific reasons for the change in attitude
