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Given below are some words that are spelt differently in British and American English. Fill in the blanks accordingly.
| British | American |
| 1. colour | ______ |
| 2. ______ | labor |
| 3. ______ | traveler |
| 4. counsellor | ______ |
| 5. centre | ______ |
| 6. ______ | theater |
| 7. ______ | organize |
| 8. realise | ______ |
| 9. ______ | defense |
| 10. offence | ______ |
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What was Kalpana Chawla’s great achievement?
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What is a space shuttle? Name the shuttle which took Kalpana in space.
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How did Kalpana Chawla meet her end? When did this tragedy in space take place?
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What do you know about Kalpana Chawla’s education? How did she become an American citizen?
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What do you learn about Columbia from the lesson you have read? What was its final fate?
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‘Kalpana Chawla was a heroine’. How did a journalist support his statement?
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What do you know about Kalpana Chawla’s birth, education, a great achievement, and tragic end?
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The story of Kalpana Chawla has become an inspiration for millions of young Indians. How? What message did she send from the space shuttle to students of her college?
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The poet says, “Beauty is heard in …”
Can you hear beauty? Add a sound that you think is beautiful to the sounds the poet thinks are beautiful.
The poet, Keats, said:
Heard melodies are Sweet,
But those unheard are sweeter.
What do you think this means? Have you ever heard a song in your head, long after the song was sung or played?
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Write a paragraph about beauty. Use your own ideas along with the ideas in the poem. (You may discuss your ideas with your partner.)
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What is beauty? Where can, in the poet’s opinion, beauty be seen, heard, and experienced?
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Answer the following question:
“It was to be a battle of champions.” (8)
(i) What qualities did the two champions have? Pick out words and phrases from the paragraph above this line in the text and write them down.
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Mongoose |
Cobra |
| (a) ________ | (a) ________ |
| (b) ________ | (b) ________ |
| (c) ________ | (c) ________ |
(ii) What did the cobra and the mongoose do, to show their readiness for the fight?
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Who were the other two spectators? What did they do? (Did they watch, or did they join in the fight?
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Read the descriptions below of what the snake did and what the mongoose did. Arrange their actions in the proper order
| (i) ceased to struggle |
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| (ii) tried to mesmerised the mongoose |
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| (iii) coiled itself around the mongoose |
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| (iv) struck the crow |
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| (v) struck again and missed |
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| (vi) struck on the side that the mongoose pretended to attack |
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What happened to the crow in the end?
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What did the myna do finally?
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The word ‘round’ usually means a kind of shape. What is its meaning in the story?
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Find five words in the following paragraph, which are generally associated with trees. But here, they have been used differently. Underline the words.
Hari leaves for work at nine every morning. He works in the local branch of the firm of which his uncle is the owner. Hari’s success is really the fruit of his own labour. He is happy, but he has a small problem. The root cause of his problem is a stray dog near his office. The dog welcomes Hari with a loud bark every day.
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The words in the box are all words that describe movement. Use them to fill in the blank in the sentence below.
When he began to trust me, the squirrel began ____________ into my pockets for morsels of cake.
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